The first part of the table below looks at the demand for MS Exchange skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MS Exchange over the 3 months to 22 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
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank899986
Rank change year-on-year
Up+10Down-13
Matching permanent IT job ads343630212284
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK2.849 %2.464 %2.392 %
As % of the Application Platforms category13.96 %12.96 %13.84 %
Number of salaries quoted305326051919
Average salary£35,000£35,000£32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-+7.69 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£23,000£22,500£22,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£52,500£52,500£50,000
UK excluding London average salary£32,500£32,500£31,500
% change year-on-year
-+3.17 %
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryAll Application Platforms
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
246122331416502
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK20.41 %19.01 %17.28 %
Number of salaries quoted213852008713741
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£36,000
% change year-on-year
-+4.16 %

MS Exchange
Demand Trend

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

MS Exchange Demand Trend

MS Exchange
Salary Trend

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

MS Exchange Salary Trend

MS Exchange
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MS Exchange over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 within the UK.

MS Exchange Salary Histogram

MS Exchange
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MS Exchange within the UK over the 3 months to 22 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+63197£35,000-
LondonUp+101377£37,500-
South EastUp+3763£35,000-
City of LondonUp+18315£41,500+3.75 %
North WestUp+35267£31,500+5.00 %
East of EnglandUp+18239£35,000+7.69 %
SurreyUp+7232£37,250+14.61 %
YorkshireUp+9183£32,500+16.07 %
BerkshireUp+12161£37,250-0.66 %
ManchesterUp+29140£29,750-0.83 %
West YorkshireUp+14132£34,000+18.26 %
West MidlandsDown-29131£32,500-9.72 %
HampshireUp+40123£30,000-
LeedsUp+40103£34,000+15.25 %
East MidlandsDown-6103£35,000+16.66 %
ScotlandUp+37102£32,500-7.14 %
South WestDown-4887£29,500-7.81 %
CheshireUp+1980£32,500-7.14 %
BuckinghamshireUp+476£28,000-25.33 %
BirminghamDown-1464£35,000-6.66 %
WalesUp+2063£33,500+39.58 %
HertfordshireDown-462£40,000+17.30 %
EssexDown-561£31,250-7.40 %
South WalesUp+1957£36,000+46.93 %
ReadingUp+157£35,000-1.40 %
CambridgeshireUp+2251£35,000-
SouthamptonUp+848£31,000-22.50 %
KentUp+3542£35,000+14.75 %
MerseysideUp+1342£37,500+17.18 %
East SussexDown-1339£37,500+31.57 %

MS Exchange
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK citing MS Exchange 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 MS Exchange.

16126 (85.68 %)Windows
24707 (65.83 %)Active Directory
34635 (64.83 %)Microsoft
43872 (54.15 %)Windows Server 2008
53339 (46.70 %)VMware
63232 (45.20 %)Windows Server 2003
73122 (43.66 %)Exchange Server 2010
82948 (41.23 %)Exchange Server 2007
92360 (33.01 %)MS Excel
102277 (31.85 %)Exchange Server 2003
112126 (29.73 %)Citrix
122040 (28.53 %)Microsoft Certification
132023 (28.29 %)VMware Infrastructure
141902 (26.60 %)Cisco
151728 (24.17 %)SQL Server
161722 (24.08 %)Windows XP
171586 (22.18 %)SAN
181564 (21.87 %)MCSE
191540 (21.54 %)SQL
201526 (21.34 %)Firewall
211508 (21.09 %)DNS
221458 (20.39 %)TCP/IP
231382 (19.33 %)MS Office
241336 (18.69 %)Windows 7
251171 (16.38 %)ITIL
261155 (16.15 %)SharePoint
271100 (15.38 %)DHCP
281088 (15.22 %)MCITP
291027 (14.36 %)VPN
301022 (14.29 %)LAN

MS Exchange
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK citing MS Exchange 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 MS Exchange. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1236 (3.301 %).NET
2114 (1.594 %)ASP.NET
3102 (1.427 %)Web Services
4100 (1.399 %)CSS
580 (1.119 %)Forefront TMG
673 (1.021 %)XML
769 (0.965 %)HTML
857 (0.797 %)Application Packaging
940 (0.559 %)WebSphere
1038 (0.531 %)COM
1133 (0.462 %)ASP
1232 (0.448 %)Ajax
1232 (0.448 %)jQuery
1327 (0.378 %).NET Framework
1426 (0.364 %)Software Packaging
1524 (0.336 %)WCF
1622 (0.308 %)WSH
1717 (0.238 %)XHTML
1717 (0.238 %)Windows SharePoint Services
1816 (0.224 %)ODBC
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
13122 (43.66 %)Exchange Server 2010
22948 (41.23 %)Exchange Server 2007
32277 (31.85 %)Exchange Server 2003
41155 (16.15 %)SharePoint
5754 (10.55 %)IIS
6552 (7.720 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
7388 (5.427 %)Lync
8241 (3.371 %)Office Communications Server
9206 (2.881 %)Apache
10201 (2.811 %)SharePoint 2010
11159 (2.224 %)Exchange Server 2000
12120 (1.678 %)Lotus Notes
1376 (1.063 %)SharePoint Server
1461 (0.853 %)Exchange Server 5.5
1549 (0.685 %)Lotus Domino
1643 (0.601 %)BizTalk Server
1726 (0.364 %)CMS
1825 (0.350 %)Tomcat
1917 (0.238 %)Live Communications Server
2015 (0.210 %)GroupWise
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
12360 (33.01 %)MS Excel
21382 (19.33 %)MS Office
3102 (1.427 %)MS Visio
497 (1.357 %)Office 365
589 (1.245 %)MS PowerPoint
646 (0.643 %)Google Apps
726 (0.364 %)MS Project
815 (0.210 %)InfoPath
911 (0.154 %)Photoshop
1010 (0.140 %)Spreadsheet
117 (0.098 %)Acrobat
125 (0.070 %)Fireworks
125 (0.070 %)AutoCAD
132 (0.028 %)QuarkXPress
132 (0.028 %)Adobe Illustrator
132 (0.028 %)InDesign
141 (0.014 %)Vectorworks
141 (0.014 %)Final Cut Pro
141 (0.014 %)Maya
141 (0.014 %)3ds Max
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
168 (0.951 %)Dynamics CRM
233 (0.462 %)Dynamics NAV
317 (0.238 %)Dynamics AX
317 (0.238 %)Summit
414 (0.196 %)Line 100
414 (0.196 %)Sage MMS
59 (0.126 %)Line 500
68 (0.112 %)assyst
77 (0.098 %)Sage 200
86 (0.084 %)Agresso
95 (0.070 %)SoftGrid
95 (0.070 %)Remedy ITSM
95 (0.070 %)GoldMine
95 (0.070 %)Line 50
104 (0.056 %)FLEXCUBE
113 (0.042 %)Dynamics GP
113 (0.042 %)Maximo
113 (0.042 %)BPCS
113 (0.042 %)BusinessWorks
113 (0.042 %)SAP ERP
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11586 (22.18 %)SAN
21526 (21.34 %)Firewall
31508 (21.09 %)DNS
41458 (20.39 %)TCP/IP
51100 (15.38 %)DHCP
61027 (14.36 %)VPN
71022 (14.29 %)LAN
81017 (14.22 %)WAN
9474 (6.629 %)VoIP
10435 (6.084 %)Internet
11352 (4.923 %)VLAN
12300 (4.196 %)NAS
13251 (3.510 %)Wireless
14188 (2.629 %)Cisco ASA
15170 (2.378 %)iSCSI
16165 (2.308 %)MPLS
17155 (2.168 %)Network Security
18136 (1.902 %)SSL
19120 (1.678 %)ADSL
20113 (1.580 %)SMTP
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
11728 (24.17 %)SQL Server
2509 (7.119 %)SQL Server 2005
3452 (6.322 %)SQL Server 2008
4182 (2.545 %)SQL Server 2000
5178 (2.490 %)MySQL
656 (0.783 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
742 (0.587 %)Oracle 8/8i
829 (0.406 %)RDBMS
924 (0.336 %)Crystal Reports
1023 (0.322 %)DB2
1023 (0.322 %)MS Access
1115 (0.210 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
1213 (0.182 %)Data Warehouse
1310 (0.140 %)Oracle 11g
148 (0.112 %)SQL Azure
148 (0.112 %)Data Mining
157 (0.098 %)SQL Server Integration Services
166 (0.084 %)QlikView
166 (0.084 %)GIS
175 (0.070 %)PostgreSQL
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
134 (0.476 %)Visual Studio
218 (0.252 %)WebLOAD
218 (0.252 %)Team Foundation Server
313 (0.182 %)Eclipse
412 (0.168 %)Subversion
511 (0.154 %)MSI
66 (0.084 %)VSS/SourceSafe
66 (0.084 %)Dreamweaver
75 (0.070 %)Xcode
84 (0.056 %)TeamCity
93 (0.042 %)JIRA
93 (0.042 %)TortoiseSVN
102 (0.028 %)VisualSVN
111 (0.014 %)Git (software)
111 (0.014 %)NUnit
111 (0.014 %)Synon
111 (0.014 %)ProC
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1904 (12.64 %)Finance
2256 (3.580 %)Telecoms
3195 (2.727 %)Banking
4181 (2.531 %)Law
5167 (2.336 %)Legal
6150 (2.098 %)Retail
7140 (1.958 %)Back Office
889 (1.245 %)German Language
976 (1.063 %)Advertising
1072 (1.007 %)Marketing
1168 (0.951 %)French Language
1261 (0.853 %)Investment Banking
1360 (0.839 %)Manufacturing
1456 (0.783 %)Financial Institution
1538 (0.531 %)Spanish Language
1637 (0.517 %)Italian Language
1729 (0.406 %)International Banking
1826 (0.364 %)Games
1920 (0.280 %)Arabic Language
2014 (0.196 %)Military
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
11444 (20.20 %)Analyst
21180 (16.50 %)Support Engineer
3879 (12.29 %)Support Analyst
4741 (10.36 %)Administrator
5657 (9.189 %)3rd Line Support
6603 (8.434 %)Consultant
7596 (8.336 %)IT Support
8523 (7.315 %)Systems Administrator
9434 (6.070 %)Technical Support
10417 (5.832 %)Infrastructure Engineer
11410 (5.734 %)2nd Line Support
12332 (4.643 %)Desktop Support
13309 (4.322 %)Architect
14281 (3.930 %)Systems Engineer
15268 (3.748 %)Infrastructure Analyst
16253 (3.538 %)IT Support Engineer
17240 (3.357 %)Technical Analyst
18235 (3.287 %)Network Engineer
19227 (3.175 %)3rd Line Support Engineer
20215 (3.007 %)Infrastructure Manager
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1955 (13.36 %)Blackberry
2425 (5.944 %)Clustering
3150 (2.098 %)Computer Science
4147 (2.056 %)Replication
5137 (1.916 %)Management Information System
6128 (1.790 %)CLARiiON
7106 (1.483 %)iPhone
895 (1.329 %)Hedge funds
985 (1.189 %)Video Conferencing
1073 (1.021 %)PDA
1167 (0.937 %)EqualLogic
1256 (0.783 %)Fat Client
1256 (0.783 %)Client/Server
1256 (0.783 %)Thin Client
1355 (0.769 %)Cloud Computing
1454 (0.755 %)Smartphone
1541 (0.573 %)Kindle
1638 (0.531 %)iPad
1731 (0.434 %)Celerra
1830 (0.420 %)SaaS
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
16126 (85.68 %)Windows
23872 (54.15 %)Windows Server 2008
33232 (45.20 %)Windows Server 2003
41722 (24.08 %)Windows XP
51336 (18.69 %)Windows 7
6838 (11.72 %)Linux
7618 (8.643 %)Windows Vista
8370 (5.175 %)Windows 2000 Server
9289 (4.042 %)UNIX
10261 (3.650 %)Windows 2000
11114 (1.594 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1299 (1.385 %)Mac OS X
1370 (0.979 %)Solaris
1458 (0.811 %)Windows NT
1553 (0.741 %)Mac OS
1651 (0.713 %)Ubuntu
1746 (0.643 %)Windows Mobile
1843 (0.601 %)CentOS
1942 (0.587 %)Android
2033 (0.462 %)Debian
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
11171 (16.38 %)ITIL
2465 (6.503 %)Disaster Recovery
3395 (5.524 %)Project Management
4389 (5.441 %)Migration
5374 (5.231 %)Service Delivery
6227 (3.175 %)Service Management
7156 (2.182 %)PRINCE2
8150 (2.098 %)Problem Management
9149 (2.084 %)CRM
10143 (2.000 %)Incident Management
11138 (1.930 %)Change Management
12129 (1.804 %)Load Balancing
13127 (1.776 %)Time Management
14126 (1.762 %)Business Continuity
15121 (1.692 %)Configuration Management
16113 (1.580 %)Root Cause Analysis
1796 (1.343 %)Capacity Planning
1894 (1.315 %)Change Control
1894 (1.315 %)Network Management
1987 (1.217 %)Network Design
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11540 (21.54 %)SQL
2259 (3.622 %)PowerShell
3145 (2.028 %)Perl
4132 (1.846 %)VB
5111 (1.552 %)VBScript
6102 (1.427 %)C#
790 (1.259 %)Java
888 (1.231 %)PHP
982 (1.147 %)C
1059 (0.825 %)T-SQL
1158 (0.811 %)JavaScript
1257 (0.797 %)Bash shell
1347 (0.657 %)C++
1443 (0.601 %)VBA
1540 (0.559 %)Python
1639 (0.545 %)VB.NET
1727 (0.378 %)Shell Script
1815 (0.210 %)Ruby
198 (0.112 %)Korn
204 (0.056 %)LINC
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
12040 (28.53 %)Microsoft Certification
21564 (21.87 %)MCSE
31088 (15.22 %)MCITP
4692 (9.678 %)Cisco Certification
5627 (8.769 %)CCNA
6608 (8.503 %)Degree
7602 (8.420 %)MCP
8510 (7.133 %)MCSA
9458 (6.406 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10306 (4.280 %)Citrix Certification
11272 (3.804 %)MCTS
12241 (3.371 %)CCA
13181 (2.531 %)CCNP
14177 (2.476 %)Security Cleared
15116 (1.622 %)ITIL Certification
16112 (1.566 %)SC Cleared
17104 (1.455 %)MCDST
1882 (1.147 %)CCEA
1978 (1.091 %)CCEE
2071 (0.993 %)NCDA
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1450 (6.294 %)SLA
271 (0.993 %)ISO 9001
360 (0.839 %)ISO/IEC 27001
457 (0.797 %)QA
535 (0.490 %)PCI DSS
616 (0.224 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
714 (0.196 %)BS7799
85 (0.070 %)ISO/IEC 20000
91 (0.014 %)DICOM
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
14707 (65.83 %)Active Directory
22023 (28.29 %)VMware Infrastructure
3903 (12.63 %)vSphere
4830 (11.61 %)Hyper-V
5751 (10.50 %)XenApp
6573 (8.014 %)VMware ESX
7377 (5.273 %)Terminal Services
8373 (5.217 %)XenDesktop
9277 (3.874 %)VMware ESXi
10228 (3.189 %)Citrix Presentation Server
11205 (2.867 %)ISA Server
12195 (2.727 %)XenServer
13119 (1.664 %)Terminal Server
1487 (1.217 %)MetaFrame
1580 (1.119 %)UAG
1669 (0.965 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
1762 (0.867 %)Xen
1849 (0.685 %)NFS
1944 (0.615 %)VMware Server
2030 (0.420 %)Postfix
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1569 (7.958 %)Backup Exec
2558 (7.804 %)SCCM
3396 (5.538 %)SCOM
4199 (2.783 %)WSUS
5155 (2.168 %)NetBackup
6121 (1.692 %)Norton AntiVirus
786 (1.203 %)SCVMM
884 (1.175 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
983 (1.161 %)vCenter
1063 (0.881 %)MOM
1063 (0.881 %)ARCserve
1158 (0.811 %)McAfee ePO
1243 (0.601 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
1342 (0.587 %)OpenView
1342 (0.587 %)Nagios
1435 (0.490 %)HP SIM
1533 (0.462 %)HP Data Protector
1625 (0.350 %)MIMEsweeper
1721 (0.294 %)Puppet
1820 (0.280 %)Tivoli
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
14635 (64.83 %)Microsoft
23339 (46.70 %)VMware
32126 (29.73 %)Citrix
41902 (26.60 %)Cisco
5966 (13.51 %)HP
6603 (8.434 %)Symantec
7429 (6.000 %)NetApp
8372 (5.203 %)Dell
9349 (4.881 %)EMC
10256 (3.580 %)CheckPoint
11239 (3.343 %)Juniper
12219 (3.063 %)Oracle
13210 (2.937 %)Avaya
14208 (2.909 %)IBM
15198 (2.769 %)Red Hat
16153 (2.140 %)Lotus
17148 (2.070 %)Apple
18127 (1.776 %)McAfee
19124 (1.734 %)Sophos
20114 (1.594 %)Altiris