The first table below looks at the demand for Forefront TMG skills in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Forefront TMG over the 3 months to 18 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 System Software category for the Berkshire 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (Forefront TMG)
Rank 117 - 128
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Forefront TMG 1 0 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.042% - 0.167%
As % of the System Software category 0.319% - 2.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
Average daily rate - - £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £265 £263 £265
% change year-on-year
+0.95% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £27.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £17.50 -
% change year-on-year
+42.85% -
All System Software
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
313 246 245
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 13.25% 7.685% 8.175%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 93 84
Average daily rate £325 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £140 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £324 £310
% change year-on-year
+0.30% +4.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 45 25
Average hourly rate £27.50 £20.00 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+37.50% +17.64%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.90 £15.13 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £31.00 £45.00 £43.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £17.00 £16.75
% change year-on-year
- +1.49%
Forefront TMG
South East

Forefront TMG
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Forefront TMG across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

Berkshire Forefront TMG Jobs Demand Trend

Forefront TMG
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Forefront TMG Daily Rate Trend

Forefront TMG
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Forefront TMG within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 18 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Reading - 1 - -
Bracknell - - - - 1
Maidenhead - - - -
Newbury - - - - 1
Forefront TMG
South East

Forefront TMG
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Forefront TMG 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 Forefront TMG.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) MS Office
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (100.00%) MS Visio
1 1 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) ISA Server
1 1 (100.00%) Websense
1 1 (100.00%) Clearswift
1 1 (100.00%) IDOL
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
1 1 (100.00%) SCOM
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint 2010

Forefront TMG
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Forefront TMG 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 Forefront TMG. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Office
1 1 (100.00%) MS Visio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) IDOL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) ISA Server
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
1 1 (100.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Websense
1 1 (100.00%) Clearswift
1 1 (100.00%) VMware