The first table below looks at the demand for Lync skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Lync over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Platforms category for the Bedfordshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Lync
Rank 29 19 -
Rank change year-on-year
-10 -
Contract jobs citing Lync 2 16 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 1.015% 6.107% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 4.651% 35.56% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 8 0
Average daily rate - £375 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £400 £288
% change year-on-year
-12.50% +39.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.10 £28.94 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-20.19% +15.75%
All Application Platforms
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
43 45 71
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 21.83% 17.18% 28.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 18 30
Average daily rate £325 £375 £213
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% +76.47%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £325 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £427 £401
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Average hourly rate - £12.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -46.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +5.26%
Lync
East of England

Lync
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Lync across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Bedfordshire Lync Jobs Demand Trend

Lync
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Lync across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire Lync Daily Rate Trend

Lync
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lync within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
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Job
Vacancies
Luton -5 1 - -
Dunstable - - - -
Lync
East of England

Lync
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Lync 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited Lync.

1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) MCSE
2 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
2 1 (33.33%) CRM
2 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (33.33%) MS Exchange
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (33.33%) Symantec
2 1 (33.33%) Blackberry
2 1 (33.33%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) Wireless
2 1 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) VMware ESX
2 1 (33.33%) MCITP
2 1 (33.33%) Marketing
2 1 (33.33%) Business Development
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (33.33%) XenApp
2 1 (33.33%) Windows 7
2 1 (33.33%) Unified Communications
2 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010

Lync
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Lync also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Lync. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
1 1 (33.33%) MS Exchange
1 1 (33.33%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
1 1 (33.33%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Wireless
1 1 (33.33%) Unified Communications
General
1 1 (33.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Development Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Business Development Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Rollout Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Business Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Server Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) Windows 7
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) CRM
1 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (33.33%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) MCSE
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (33.33%) MCITP
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) VMware ESX
1 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (33.33%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix
2 1 (33.33%) Symantec
2 1 (33.33%) VMware
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