Yorkshire MS Exchange Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Exchange Server skills within the Yorkshire region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited MS Exchange over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Exchange Server
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Andover Ascot Aylesbury Ayrshire Bacup Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Bellshill Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Cirencester City of London Colchester Cornwall Corsham Coventry Cramlington Crawley Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dudley Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Ely England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Greenwich Guildford Hackney Halesowen Hammersmith Hampshire Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huntingdon Ipswich Jersey Kent King's Lynn Knottingley Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northumberland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Pembrokeshire Peterborough Peterlee Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Rochdale Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Scotland Scottish Borders Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Snodland Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Neots Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stourbridge Strathclyde Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thurrock Tonbridge Torpoint Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Drayton West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	60	63
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	68	69
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.087 %	0.078 %
As % of the category below	13.60 %	12.66 %
Daily rates quoted	18	5
Average minimum daily rate	£199	£232
Average daily rate	£215	£254
% change on same period last year	-15.40 %
Average maximum daily rate	£231	£276
UK excluding London average daily rate	£287	£298
% change on same period last year	-3.70 %
Hourly rates quoted	20	16
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.32	£12.53
Average hourly rate	£12.89	£12.74
% change on same period last year	+1.17 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£13.46	£12.94
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.26	£17.22
% change on same period last year	+0.25 %
Application Platforms Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	500	545
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.642 %	0.612 %
Daily rates quoted	95	65
Average minimum daily rate	£287	£289
Average daily rate	£304	£304
% change on same period last year	-0.01 %
Average maximum daily rate	£322	£320
UK excluding London average daily rate	£365	£354
% change on same period last year	+3.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	63	51
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.12	£14.14
Average hourly rate	£17.44	£14.69
% change on same period last year	+18.70 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.77	£15.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.66	£22.76
% change on same period last year	-0.39 %
MS Exchange England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

MS Exchange
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing MS Exchange across the Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

MS Exchange
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing MS Exchange across the Yorkshire region.

MS Exchange
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Exchange across the Yorkshire region over the past 3 months.

MS Exchange
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing MS Exchange across the Yorkshire region.

MS Exchange
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Exchange across the Yorkshire region over the past 3 months.

MS Exchange
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MS Exchange within the Yorkshire region over the past 3 months.

Rank	Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
1	West Yorkshire	+1	36	£261	+2.92 %
2	South Yorkshire	+3	23	£188	-
3	North Yorkshire	-1	6	-	-
4	East Yorkshire	-5	1	-	-

MS Exchange England

MS Exchange
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Yorkshire region citing MS Exchange also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing MS Exchange.

1 86 (72.27 %) Windows 1 86 (72.27 %) Active Directory 2 72 (60.50 %) Microsoft 3 48 (40.34 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 39 (32.77 %) MS Excel 5 38 (31.93 %) MS Office 6 29 (24.37 %) Exchange Server 2000 7 24 (20.17 %) ITIL 7 24 (20.17 %) Windows 2000 8 23 (19.33 %) Microsoft Certification 9 22 (18.49 %) Citrix 10 20 (16.81 %) Lotus 10 20 (16.81 %) Lotus Notes 10 20 (16.81 %) Windows XP 11 19 (15.97 %) MCSE

12 17 (14.29 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 12 17 (14.29 %) SQL Server 13 16 (13.45 %) SQL 13 16 (13.45 %) DNS 14 14 (11.76 %) HP 15 12 (10.08 %) TCP/IP 16 11 (9.244 %) Service Management 16 11 (9.244 %) SAN 16 11 (9.244 %) Windows NT 16 11 (9.244 %) SharePoint 17 10 (8.403 %) Cisco 17 10 (8.403 %) OpenView 17 10 (8.403 %) Telecoms 17 10 (8.403 %) Windows Server 2003 17 10 (8.403 %) Exchange Server 5.5

MS Exchange
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Yorkshire region citing MS Exchange also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing MS Exchange. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (0.840 %) .NET 1 1 (0.840 %) Windows SharePoint Services	Application Platforms 1 48 (40.34 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 29 (24.37 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 20 (16.81 %) Lotus Notes 4 11 (9.244 %) SharePoint 5 10 (8.403 %) Exchange Server 5.5 6 6 (5.042 %) Lotus Domino 7 4 (3.361 %) Exchange Server 2007 8 3 (2.521 %) WorkSite 9 1 (0.840 %) IIS 9 1 (0.840 %) SharePoint Portal Server 9 1 (0.840 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 39 (32.77 %) MS Excel 2 38 (31.93 %) MS Office 3 1 (0.840 %) MS PowerPoint	Communications & Networking 1 16 (13.45 %) DNS 2 12 (10.08 %) TCP/IP 3 11 (9.244 %) SAN 4 8 (6.723 %) DHCP 5 7 (5.882 %) Firewall 5 7 (5.882 %) WINS 5 7 (5.882 %) WAN 6 5 (4.202 %) Internet 7 4 (3.361 %) MPLS 7 4 (3.361 %) VPN 8 2 (1.681 %) LAN 9 1 (0.840 %) PBX 9 1 (0.840 %) VoIP 9 1 (0.840 %) LDAP 9 1 (0.840 %) SNA 9 1 (0.840 %) IMAP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 17 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2 6 (5.042 %) SQL Server 2005 3 5 (4.202 %) SQL Server 2000 3 5 (4.202 %) Informix 3 5 (4.202 %) Oracle 8/8i 4 3 (2.521 %) MS Access 5 2 (1.681 %) SQL Server 7 6 1 (0.840 %) EDRMS 6 1 (0.840 %) RDBMS	General 1 10 (8.403 %) Telecoms 2 7 (5.882 %) Health 3 6 (5.042 %) Finance 4 3 (2.521 %) Legal 4 3 (2.521 %) Banking 5 2 (1.681 %) Law 5 2 (1.681 %) Education 5 2 (1.681 %) Back Office 6 1 (0.840 %) Government
Job Titles 1 36 (30.25 %) Analyst 2 19 (15.97 %) Support Analyst 3 16 (13.45 %) Support Engineer 4 12 (10.08 %) Service Analyst 4 12 (10.08 %) 2nd Line Support 4 12 (10.08 %) Service Desk Analyst 5 10 (8.403 %) Helpdesk Analyst 6 8 (6.723 %) 1st Line Support 7 7 (5.882 %) Technical Support 8 6 (5.042 %) Desktop Support 9 5 (4.202 %) Project Manager 9 5 (4.202 %) Systems Engineer 9 5 (4.202 %) Server Support 10 4 (3.361 %) Consultant 10 4 (3.361 %) Administrator 10 4 (3.361 %) Technical Consultant 10 4 (3.361 %) Technical Support Analyst 10 4 (3.361 %) Technical Analyst 11 3 (2.521 %) Desktop Support Engineer 11 3 (2.521 %) Desktop Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 4 (3.361 %) Clustering 2 3 (2.521 %) NHS 3 2 (1.681 %) PDA 4 1 (0.840 %) French Language 4 1 (0.840 %) Blackberry 4 1 (0.840 %) Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 86 (72.27 %) Windows 2 24 (20.17 %) Windows 2000 3 20 (16.81 %) Windows XP 4 11 (9.244 %) Windows NT 5 10 (8.403 %) Windows Server 2003 6 7 (5.882 %) Solaris 7 5 (4.202 %) Linux 7 5 (4.202 %) AIX 7 5 (4.202 %) HPUX 8 3 (2.521 %) NetWare 9 2 (1.681 %) Unix 10 1 (0.840 %) Windows Vista	Processes & Methodologies 1 24 (20.17 %) ITIL 2 11 (9.244 %) Service Management 3 8 (6.723 %) Project Management 4 7 (5.882 %) PRINCE2 4 7 (5.882 %) ITSM 5 5 (4.202 %) Network Load Balancing 6 3 (2.521 %) Supplier Management 6 3 (2.521 %) Disaster Recovery 7 2 (1.681 %) PRINCE 8 1 (0.840 %) MOF 8 1 (0.840 %) Change Management 8 1 (0.840 %) Problem Management 8 1 (0.840 %) Data Protection 8 1 (0.840 %) Workflow 8 1 (0.840 %) Migration 8 1 (0.840 %) Network Design
Programming Languages 1 16 (13.45 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 23 (19.33 %) Microsoft Certification 2 19 (15.97 %) MCSE 3 8 (6.723 %) MCP 4 6 (5.042 %) MCSA 5 5 (4.202 %) SNIA Certification 6 2 (1.681 %) PRINCE2 Certification 6 2 (1.681 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 6 2 (1.681 %) CCNA 6 2 (1.681 %) CCA 6 2 (1.681 %) Citrix Certification 6 2 (1.681 %) CCEA 6 2 (1.681 %) Cisco Certification 7 1 (0.840 %) CNA 7 1 (0.840 %) CNE 7 1 (0.840 %) Novell Certification 7 1 (0.840 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (2.521 %) SLA	System Software 1 86 (72.27 %) Active Directory 2 8 (6.723 %) Backup Exec 3 7 (5.882 %) NetBackup 4 6 (5.042 %) VMware ESX 5 5 (4.202 %) MetaFrame 6 3 (2.521 %) ISA Server 6 3 (2.521 %) Novell eDirectory 7 2 (1.681 %) Terminal Services
Systems Management 1 17 (14.29 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 10 (8.403 %) OpenView 3 7 (5.882 %) SCOM 3 7 (5.882 %) MOM 4 6 (5.042 %) ARCserve 5 5 (4.202 %) Legato 5 5 (4.202 %) OVPA 5 5 (4.202 %) HP Data Protector 6 3 (2.521 %) SCCM 7 1 (0.840 %) Norton AntiVirus 7 1 (0.840 %) DameWare 7 1 (0.840 %) WSUS	Vendors 1 72 (60.50 %) Microsoft 2 22 (18.49 %) Citrix 3 20 (16.81 %) Lotus 4 14 (11.76 %) HP 5 10 (8.403 %) Cisco 6 9 (7.563 %) VERITAS 7 8 (6.723 %) Remedy 8 6 (5.042 %) VMware 8 6 (5.042 %) Oracle 9 5 (4.202 %) Sun 9 5 (4.202 %) EMC 9 5 (4.202 %) Brocade 10 4 (3.361 %) Symantec 11 3 (2.521 %) Novell 12 2 (1.681 %) Altiris 13 1 (0.840 %) Meridio 13 1 (0.840 %) NetApp