The first table below looks at the demand for ISA Server 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 ISA Server 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 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server
Rank 118 128 118
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -10
Contract jobs citing ISA Server 3 10 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.128% 0.315% 0.398%
As % of the System Software category 0.968% 4.167% 5.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 7
Average daily rate £165 £500 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-67.00% +53.84%
UK excluding London average daily rate £290 £306 £311
% change year-on-year
-5.30% -1.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £27.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £16.50 £23.36
% change year-on-year
+51.51% -29.36%
All System Software
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
310 240 239
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 13.24% 7.571% 7.924%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 92 80
Average daily rate £325 £315 £345
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.17% -8.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £140 £222 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £318 £305
% change year-on-year
+2.36% +4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 40 28
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 £14.30 £15.13 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.50 £45.00 £43.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £17.00 £16.75
% change year-on-year
- +1.49%
ISA Server
South East

ISA Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire ISA Server Jobs Demand Trend

ISA Server
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire ISA Server Daily Rate Trend

ISA Server
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing ISA Server across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire ISA Server Hourly Rate Trend

ISA Server
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISA Server within the Berkshire 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Reading +3 2 - -
Bracknell - 1 £165 - 1
Newbury - - - - 1
ISA Server
South East

ISA Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing ISA Server 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 ISA Server.

1 6 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (83.33%) MS Exchange
2 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 5 (83.33%) Exchange Server 2007
2 5 (83.33%) SharePoint 2010
3 4 (66.67%) SCOM
3 4 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (66.67%) SQL Server 2005
3 4 (66.67%) SQL Server
4 3 (50.00%) MS Office
4 3 (50.00%) SQL
4 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (50.00%) Internet
4 3 (50.00%) Clearswift
4 3 (50.00%) Hyper-V
4 3 (50.00%) Retail
4 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
5 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (33.33%) UAG
5 2 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (33.33%) System Testing
5 2 (33.33%) XenApp
5 2 (33.33%) MCITP
5 2 (33.33%) VLAN
5 2 (33.33%) SCCM
5 2 (33.33%) Firewall
5 2 (33.33%) IDOL

ISA Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing ISA Server 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 ISA Server. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 6 (100.00%) SharePoint
2 5 (83.33%) MS Exchange
2 5 (83.33%) Exchange Server 2007
2 5 (83.33%) SharePoint 2010
3 2 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (16.67%) IIS
4 1 (16.67%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (50.00%) MS Office
2 2 (33.33%) MS Visio
3 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Internet
2 2 (33.33%) VLAN
2 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) LAN
2 2 (33.33%) WAN
2 2 (33.33%) SSL
3 1 (16.67%) DHCP
3 1 (16.67%) DNS
3 1 (16.67%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
1 4 (66.67%) SQL Server 2005
1 4 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (33.33%) IDOL
3 1 (16.67%) EDRMS
General
1 3 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Support Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Administrator
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Server Support
2 1 (16.67%) Server Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Systems Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Server Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (16.67%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) System Testing
1 2 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) MCITP
1 2 (33.33%) CCNA
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (33.33%) MCSE
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (50.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (33.33%) UAG
3 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (33.33%) XenApp
4 1 (16.67%) vSphere
4 1 (16.67%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) SCOM
2 2 (33.33%) SCCM
2 2 (33.33%) Backup Exec
2 2 (33.33%) MOM
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) Clearswift
3 2 (33.33%) VMware
3 2 (33.33%) Symantec
3 2 (33.33%) Citrix
4 1 (16.67%) Websense