The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Exchange Server 2010 skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Exchange Server 2010 over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Platforms category.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010
Location
3 months to
21 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank205299555
Rank change year-on-year
Up+94Up+256
Matching permanent IT job ads1541953202
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK1.272 %0.781 %0.212 %
As % of the Application Platforms category6.239 %4.102 %1.225 %
Number of salaries quoted1353800154
Average salary£37,500£37,000£42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.35 %-12.94 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£24,000£25,000£28,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£55,000£57,500£70,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£33,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+6.06 %-5.71 %
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryAll Application Platforms
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
246992323116485
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK20.38 %19.04 %17.31 %
Number of salaries quoted214752000213747
Average salary£42,500£42,500£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-+6.25 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£27,500£26,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£67,500£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£37,500£35,500
% change year-on-year
-+5.63 %

Exchange Server 2010
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Exchange Server 2010 within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Exchange Server 2010 Demand Trend

Exchange Server 2010
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Exchange Server 2010 within the UK.

Exchange Server 2010 Salary Trend

Exchange Server 2010
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Exchange Server 2010 over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 within the UK.

Exchange Server 2010 Salary Histogram

Exchange Server 2010
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Exchange Server 2010 within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandUp+901458£37,500+2.73 %
LondonUp+70633£40,000-
South EastUp+49331£37,250+14.61 %
City of LondonUp+64151£45,000-
North WestUp+56141£32,500+6.55 %
SurreyUp+4798£35,000+20.68 %
YorkshireUp+6291£35,000+16.66 %
ManchesterUp+4086£32,500+8.33 %
BerkshireUp+1086£37,250-10.24 %
West YorkshireUp+3975£35,000+16.66 %
East MidlandsUp+4072£36,000+9.09 %
East of EnglandUp+2271£37,500+7.14 %
LeedsUp+3561£35,000+22.80 %
West MidlandsUp+261£35,500-5.33 %
CheshireUp+2640£32,500-7.14 %
ScotlandUp+1236£35,000-5.40 %
BuckinghamshireUp+4132£30,000+13.20 %
ReadingDown-132£33,750-15.62 %
HampshireUp+331£35,000+40.00 %
East SussexDown-531£37,500+38.88 %
South WestDown-2431£27,500-9.09 %
BrightonUp+730£37,500+59.57 %
BirminghamDown-1227£47,500-5.00 %
SuffolkUp+2826£37,500+68.53 %
NottinghamshireUp+2126£35,000-
NorthamptonshireUp+2925£36,000+10.76 %
NottinghamUp+2024£35,000-
HertfordshireUp+1121£43,750+25.00 %
WarringtonNew entry-21£52,500-
IpswichUp+2219£37,500+31.57 %

Exchange Server 2010
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK citing Exchange Server 2010 also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Exchange Server 2010.

13113 (100.00 %)MS Exchange
22762 (88.72 %)Windows
32110 (67.78 %)Active Directory
42075 (66.66 %)Microsoft
52063 (66.27 %)Windows Server 2008
61778 (57.12 %)Exchange Server 2007
71772 (56.92 %)VMware
81401 (45.00 %)Windows Server 2003
91238 (39.77 %)Exchange Server 2003
101166 (37.46 %)VMware Infrastructure
111069 (34.34 %)Citrix
121007 (32.35 %)MS Excel
13932 (29.94 %)Microsoft Certification
14867 (27.85 %)SAN
15839 (26.95 %)Cisco
16719 (23.10 %)MCSE
17717 (23.03 %)DNS
18711 (22.84 %)MCITP
19685 (22.00 %)Windows XP
20680 (21.84 %)SQL Server
21666 (21.39 %)Firewall
22621 (19.95 %)TCP/IP
23600 (19.27 %)Windows 7
24577 (18.54 %)SQL
25565 (18.15 %)vSphere
26545 (17.51 %)Hyper-V
27543 (17.44 %)MS Office
27543 (17.44 %)SharePoint
28532 (17.09 %)DHCP
29503 (16.16 %)HP

Exchange Server 2010
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK citing Exchange Server 2010 also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Exchange Server 2010. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
192 (2.955 %).NET
255 (1.767 %)Web Services
345 (1.446 %)ASP.NET
443 (1.381 %)Forefront TMG
539 (1.253 %)HTML
539 (1.253 %)CSS
630 (0.964 %)XML
723 (0.739 %)jQuery
822 (0.707 %)WSH
921 (0.675 %)Ajax
921 (0.675 %)COM
1020 (0.642 %)ASP
1020 (0.642 %)Application Packaging
1117 (0.546 %)XHTML
1215 (0.482 %)Software Packaging
1313 (0.418 %)Windows SharePoint Services
1412 (0.385 %)WCF
1511 (0.353 %)ADO.NET
1610 (0.321 %)LAMP
177 (0.225 %)HTML5
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
13113 (100.00 %)MS Exchange
21778 (57.12 %)Exchange Server 2007
31238 (39.77 %)Exchange Server 2003
4543 (17.44 %)SharePoint
5301 (9.669 %)Lync
6300 (9.637 %)IIS
7272 (8.738 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
8170 (5.461 %)Office Communications Server
9153 (4.915 %)SharePoint 2010
1077 (2.473 %)Exchange Server 2000
1175 (2.409 %)Apache
1240 (1.285 %)Exchange Server 5.5
1335 (1.124 %)Lotus Notes
1428 (0.899 %)BizTalk Server
1521 (0.675 %)SharePoint Server
1618 (0.578 %)Tomcat
1712 (0.385 %)CMS
1810 (0.321 %)Site Server
1810 (0.321 %)EPiServer CMS
198 (0.257 %)SAS
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
11007 (32.35 %)MS Excel
2543 (17.44 %)MS Office
377 (2.473 %)Office 365
429 (0.932 %)MS PowerPoint
525 (0.803 %)MS Visio
610 (0.321 %)MS Project
79 (0.289 %)Photoshop
86 (0.193 %)Google Apps
95 (0.161 %)Spreadsheet
95 (0.161 %)Fireworks
104 (0.128 %)InfoPath
113 (0.096 %)Acrobat
121 (0.032 %)Final Cut Pro
121 (0.032 %)LightWave 3D
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
130 (0.964 %)Dynamics CRM
218 (0.578 %)Dynamics NAV
37 (0.225 %)Dynamics AX
46 (0.193 %)Agresso
46 (0.193 %)assyst
55 (0.161 %)GoldMine
55 (0.161 %)Line 50
63 (0.096 %)SAP ERP
71 (0.032 %)Oracle iProcurement
71 (0.032 %)Beauchamp
71 (0.032 %)SalesLogix
71 (0.032 %)Oracle ERP
71 (0.032 %)Front Arena
71 (0.032 %)Summit
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1867 (27.85 %)SAN
2717 (23.03 %)DNS
3666 (21.39 %)Firewall
4621 (19.95 %)TCP/IP
5532 (17.09 %)DHCP
6451 (14.49 %)VPN
7406 (13.04 %)LAN
8401 (12.88 %)WAN
9231 (7.420 %)VLAN
10214 (6.874 %)VoIP
11186 (5.975 %)Internet
12162 (5.204 %)NAS
13127 (4.080 %)Wireless
14122 (3.919 %)iSCSI
1588 (2.827 %)Cisco ASA
1682 (2.634 %)Unified Communications
1775 (2.409 %)Fibre Channel
1866 (2.120 %)ADSL
1965 (2.088 %)MPLS
2055 (1.767 %)Network Security
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1680 (21.84 %)SQL Server
2268 (8.609 %)SQL Server 2008
3235 (7.549 %)SQL Server 2005
467 (2.152 %)MySQL
544 (1.413 %)SQL Server 2000
627 (0.867 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
711 (0.353 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
810 (0.321 %)Crystal Reports
97 (0.225 %)RDBMS
97 (0.225 %)Data Mining
97 (0.225 %)Oracle 8/8i
106 (0.193 %)QlikView
115 (0.161 %)FileMaker
124 (0.128 %)SQL Azure
132 (0.064 %)MS Access
132 (0.064 %)SQL Server Integration Services
141 (0.032 %)EDRMS
141 (0.032 %)Data Warehouse
141 (0.032 %)Oracle 10g
141 (0.032 %)Informix
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
125 (0.803 %)Visual Studio
214 (0.450 %)Team Foundation Server
36 (0.193 %)VSS/SourceSafe
45 (0.161 %)Dreamweaver
53 (0.096 %)TortoiseSVN
53 (0.096 %)JIRA
53 (0.096 %)Xcode
62 (0.064 %)Subversion
62 (0.064 %)MSI
62 (0.064 %)VisualSVN
71 (0.032 %)NUnit
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1343 (11.02 %)Finance
2101 (3.244 %)Banking
398 (3.148 %)Telecoms
493 (2.987 %)Law
571 (2.281 %)Legal
660 (1.927 %)Retail
748 (1.542 %)Back Office
837 (1.189 %)German Language
932 (1.028 %)French Language
1031 (0.996 %)Marketing
1031 (0.996 %)Advertising
1127 (0.867 %)Investment Banking
1223 (0.739 %)International Banking
1319 (0.610 %)Manufacturing
1418 (0.578 %)Italian Language
1418 (0.578 %)Spanish Language
1513 (0.418 %)Hebrew Language
1611 (0.353 %)Games
179 (0.289 %)Financial Institution
188 (0.257 %)Arabic Language
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1573 (18.41 %)Analyst
2459 (14.74 %)Support Engineer
3381 (12.24 %)Consultant
4345 (11.08 %)Administrator
5315 (10.12 %)Support Analyst
6312 (10.02 %)3rd Line Support
7248 (7.967 %)Systems Administrator
8202 (6.489 %)IT Support
9201 (6.457 %)Infrastructure Engineer
10176 (5.654 %)2nd Line Support
11155 (4.979 %)Technical Support
12150 (4.819 %)Architect
13149 (4.786 %)Infrastructure Analyst
14128 (4.112 %)Technical Consultant
15119 (3.823 %)Systems Engineer
16114 (3.662 %)Desktop Support
16114 (3.662 %)Technical Analyst
16114 (3.662 %)3rd Line Support Engineer
17109 (3.501 %)Team Leader
1894 (3.020 %)Server Support
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1411 (13.20 %)Blackberry
2264 (8.481 %)Clustering
3101 (3.244 %)Replication
482 (2.634 %)CLARiiON
578 (2.506 %)Computer Science
652 (1.670 %)Video Conferencing
746 (1.478 %)Management Information System
845 (1.446 %)EqualLogic
943 (1.381 %)iPhone
1037 (1.189 %)Smartphone
1135 (1.124 %)Hedge funds
1231 (0.996 %)Cloud Computing
1326 (0.835 %)Thin Client
1326 (0.835 %)Fat Client
1422 (0.707 %)HP StorageWorks
1520 (0.642 %)Client/Server
1616 (0.514 %)Celerra
1714 (0.450 %)Symmetrix
1714 (0.450 %)Symmetrix DMX
1714 (0.450 %)Kindle
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
12762 (88.72 %)Windows
22063 (66.27 %)Windows Server 2008
31401 (45.00 %)Windows Server 2003
4685 (22.00 %)Windows XP
5600 (19.27 %)Windows 7
6307 (9.862 %)Linux
7247 (7.934 %)Windows Vista
8154 (4.947 %)UNIX
9127 (4.080 %)Windows 2000 Server
1064 (2.056 %)Windows 2000
1142 (1.349 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1237 (1.189 %)Mac OS X
1336 (1.156 %)Windows Mobile
1433 (1.060 %)Ubuntu
1433 (1.060 %)Solaris
1527 (0.867 %)Android
1621 (0.675 %)Mac OS
1717 (0.546 %)CentOS
1816 (0.514 %)AIX
1915 (0.482 %)Debian
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1480 (15.42 %)ITIL
2240 (7.710 %)Migration
3203 (6.521 %)Disaster Recovery
4175 (5.622 %)Service Delivery
5163 (5.236 %)Project Management
6109 (3.501 %)Service Management
787 (2.795 %)Incident Management
885 (2.730 %)PRINCE2
971 (2.281 %)Capacity Planning
1069 (2.217 %)CRM
1162 (1.992 %)Problem Management
1261 (1.960 %)Time Management
1353 (1.703 %)Change Management
1353 (1.703 %)Load Balancing
1446 (1.478 %)Business Continuity
1545 (1.446 %)Configuration Management
1642 (1.349 %)High Availability
1741 (1.317 %)Change Control
1840 (1.285 %)Root Cause Analysis
1935 (1.124 %)Network Design
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1577 (18.54 %)SQL
2104 (3.341 %)PowerShell
373 (2.345 %)VBScript
461 (1.960 %)VB
549 (1.574 %)C#
640 (1.285 %)C
736 (1.156 %)Perl
835 (1.124 %)PHP
931 (0.996 %)Bash shell
1029 (0.932 %)JavaScript
1120 (0.642 %)Java
1214 (0.450 %)Shell Script
1311 (0.353 %)T-SQL
149 (0.289 %)VB.NET
158 (0.257 %)VBA
166 (0.193 %)C++
175 (0.161 %)Korn
175 (0.161 %)Python
184 (0.128 %)VB6
184 (0.128 %)Ruby
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1932 (29.94 %)Microsoft Certification
2719 (23.10 %)MCSE
3711 (22.84 %)MCITP
4319 (10.25 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5293 (9.412 %)Cisco Certification
6268 (8.609 %)CCNA
7245 (7.870 %)MCP
8240 (7.710 %)Degree
9200 (6.425 %)Citrix Certification
10194 (6.232 %)MCSA
11181 (5.814 %)MCTS
12161 (5.172 %)CCA
1394 (3.020 %)Security Cleared
1466 (2.120 %)SC Cleared
1565 (2.088 %)CCEE
1565 (2.088 %)CCNP
1657 (1.831 %)NCDA
1747 (1.510 %)ITIL Certification
1846 (1.478 %)JNCIA
1945 (1.446 %)MCDST
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1140 (4.497 %)SLA
237 (1.189 %)ISO/IEC 27001
321 (0.675 %)PCI DSS
414 (0.450 %)BS7799
414 (0.450 %)ISO 9001
57 (0.225 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
62 (0.064 %)QA
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
12110 (67.78 %)Active Directory
21166 (37.46 %)VMware Infrastructure
3565 (18.15 %)vSphere
4545 (17.51 %)Hyper-V
5495 (15.90 %)XenApp
6307 (9.862 %)VMware ESX
7271 (8.705 %)XenDesktop
8204 (6.553 %)Terminal Services
9152 (4.883 %)VMware ESXi
10132 (4.240 %)XenServer
1190 (2.891 %)Citrix Presentation Server
1280 (2.570 %)ISA Server
1350 (1.606 %)UAG
1350 (1.606 %)Terminal Server
1443 (1.381 %)Xen
1537 (1.189 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
1629 (0.932 %)NFS
1719 (0.610 %)VMware Server
1811 (0.353 %)vCloud
1910 (0.321 %)Samba
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1339 (10.89 %)SCCM
2255 (8.191 %)Backup Exec
3248 (7.967 %)SCOM
494 (3.020 %)NetBackup
583 (2.666 %)WSUS
680 (2.570 %)SCVMM
777 (2.473 %)Norton AntiVirus
840 (1.285 %)vCenter
932 (1.028 %)ARCserve
1027 (0.867 %)MOM
1126 (0.835 %)HP Data Protector
1225 (0.803 %)McAfee ePO
1323 (0.739 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
1422 (0.707 %)OpenView
1516 (0.514 %)Tivoli
1610 (0.321 %)Nagios
179 (0.289 %)HP SIM
179 (0.289 %)WMI
188 (0.257 %)EMC NetWorker
196 (0.193 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
12075 (66.66 %)Microsoft
21772 (56.92 %)VMware
31069 (34.34 %)Citrix
4839 (26.95 %)Cisco
5503 (16.16 %)HP
6340 (10.92 %)Symantec
7242 (7.774 %)NetApp
8187 (6.007 %)EMC
9171 (5.493 %)Dell
10117 (3.758 %)CheckPoint
11116 (3.726 %)Juniper
1295 (3.052 %)Avaya
1392 (2.955 %)Red Hat
1467 (2.152 %)IBM
1564 (2.056 %)CommVault
1655 (1.767 %)Mitel
1752 (1.670 %)Veeam
1848 (1.542 %)Oracle
1848 (1.542 %)Veritas
1946 (1.478 %)McAfee