The first table below looks at the demand for Lync skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Lync over the 3 months to 24 May 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 Cambridgeshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Lync
Rank 41 - 50
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Lync 9 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 1.645% - 0.189%
As % of the Application Platforms category 8.036% - 1.351%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
Average daily rate £225 - £338
UK excluding London average daily rate £364 £350 £288
% change year-on-year
+3.92% +21.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.50 £21.44 £26.00
% change year-on-year
-23.03% -17.54%
All Application Platforms
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
112 128 74
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 20.48% 18.66% 13.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 48 36
Average daily rate £290 £303 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.13% -10.37%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £168 £172 £211
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 6 9
Average hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.42% +191.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.65 £35.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £41.25 £16.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
Lync
East of England

Lync
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
Cambridge - 6 £225 -
Peterborough - 1 - -
Lync
East of England

Lync
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 12 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 12 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 11 (91.67%) Windows
3 9 (75.00%) MS Exchange
3 9 (75.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 9 (75.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 8 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2010
5 7 (58.33%) ITIL
6 6 (50.00%) Cisco
6 6 (50.00%) Firewall
6 6 (50.00%) Windows 7
7 5 (41.67%) Riverbed
7 5 (41.67%) Exinda
7 5 (41.67%) Unified Communications
7 5 (41.67%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (41.67%) SQL Server 2008
7 5 (41.67%) Hyper-V
7 5 (41.67%) Altiris
7 5 (41.67%) Exchange Server 2003
7 5 (41.67%) SQL Server
7 5 (41.67%) Intranet
7 5 (41.67%) Internet
7 5 (41.67%) HP
8 4 (33.33%) Citrix
8 4 (33.33%) SQL
8 4 (33.33%) SharePoint
8 4 (33.33%) Wireless
8 4 (33.33%) Migration
8 4 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
9 3 (25.00%) SharePoint 2010

Lync
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 9 (75.00%) MS Exchange
2 8 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2010
3 5 (41.67%) Exchange Server 2003
4 4 (33.33%) SharePoint
5 3 (25.00%) SharePoint 2010
6 2 (16.67%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 2 (16.67%) IIS
6 2 (16.67%) Documentum
Applications
1 1 (8.333%) MS Office
1 1 (8.333%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) Firewall
2 5 (41.67%) Unified Communications
2 5 (41.67%) Intranet
2 5 (41.67%) Internet
3 4 (33.33%) Wireless
3 4 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (16.67%) NetScaler
5 1 (8.333%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (8.333%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (8.333%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (8.333%) VLAN
5 1 (8.333%) LAN
5 1 (8.333%) WAN
5 1 (8.333%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) SQL Server 2008
1 5 (41.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (8.333%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 1 (8.333%) Subversion
General
1 1 (8.333%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Administrator
2 3 (25.00%) Technical Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Consultant
3 2 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (16.67%) SharePoint Administrator
4 1 (8.333%) Network Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) Technical Pre Sales Consultant
4 1 (8.333%) Architect
4 1 (8.333%) Technical Consultant
4 1 (8.333%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Blackberry
1 2 (16.67%) PKI
1 2 (16.67%) Clustering
2 1 (8.333%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 11 (91.67%) Windows
2 9 (75.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 9 (75.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 6 (50.00%) Windows 7
4 3 (25.00%) Linux
5 2 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (8.333%) Windows 8
6 1 (8.333%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) ITIL
2 5 (41.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (33.33%) Migration
4 1 (8.333%) IC Design
4 1 (8.333%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (8.333%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
System Software
1 12 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (41.67%) Hyper-V
3 3 (25.00%) XenApp
4 2 (16.67%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (8.333%) Samba
5 1 (8.333%) VMware ESX
5 1 (8.333%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (8.333%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (8.333%) NFS
5 1 (8.333%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) SCOM
2 1 (8.333%) AppManager
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (50.00%) Cisco
3 5 (41.67%) Riverbed
3 5 (41.67%) Exinda
3 5 (41.67%) Altiris
3 5 (41.67%) HP
4 4 (33.33%) Citrix
5 3 (25.00%) Red Hat
6 2 (16.67%) EMC
6 2 (16.67%) Oracle
7 1 (8.333%) Cadence
7 1 (8.333%) VMware
7 1 (8.333%) Sun
7 1 (8.333%) CommVault
7 1 (8.333%) CheckPoint
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