The first table below looks at the demand for Forefront TMG skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Forefront TMG over the 3 months to 22 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 System Software category for the City of London 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (Forefront TMG)
Rank 203 - 240
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Forefront TMG 2 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.031% - 0.010%
As % of the System Software category 0.382% - 0.189%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
Average daily rate £443 - £275
UK excluding London average daily rate £225 £278 £275
% change year-on-year
-18.91% +0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £14.25 -
% change year-on-year
+75.43% -
All System Software
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
523 617 528
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 8.135% 7.733% 5.463%
Number of daily rates quoted 331 367 314
Average daily rate £400 £365 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.58% -2.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £250 £224
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 62 76
Average hourly rate £22.75 £21.25 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.05% +3.65%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.05 £12.50 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £37.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
Forefront TMG
London

Forefront TMG
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London Forefront TMG Daily Rate Trend

Forefront TMG
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 7 (63.64%) Active Directory
1 7 (63.64%) Migration
2 6 (54.55%) Load Balancing
3 5 (45.45%) Network Security
3 5 (45.45%) UAG
3 5 (45.45%) PKI
3 5 (45.45%) ISA Server
3 5 (45.45%) Firewall
4 4 (36.36%) Identity Management
4 4 (36.36%) Information Security
4 4 (36.36%) Juniper
4 4 (36.36%) Cisco
4 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
4 4 (36.36%) MS Exchange
4 4 (36.36%) LAN
4 4 (36.36%) WAN
4 4 (36.36%) Enterprise Architecture
4 4 (36.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (36.36%) Exchange Server 2010
4 4 (36.36%) Riverbed
5 3 (27.27%) Office Communications Server
5 3 (27.27%) Lync
5 3 (27.27%) Security Architecture
5 3 (27.27%) JNCIE
5 3 (27.27%) MCITP
5 3 (27.27%) Banking
5 3 (27.27%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 3 (27.27%) MS Office
5 3 (27.27%) ITIL
5 3 (27.27%) Windows

Forefront TMG
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 4 (36.36%) MS Exchange
1 4 (36.36%) Exchange Server 2010
2 3 (27.27%) Office Communications Server
2 3 (27.27%) Lync
3 1 (9.091%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (27.27%) MS Office
2 2 (18.18%) MS Excel
3 1 (9.091%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) Network Security
1 5 (45.45%) Firewall
2 4 (36.36%) LAN
2 4 (36.36%) WAN
3 3 (27.27%) SSL
3 3 (27.27%) Wireless
4 2 (18.18%) DNS
4 2 (18.18%) HTTP
4 2 (18.18%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (9.091%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (9.091%) TCP/IP
General
1 3 (27.27%) Banking
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Law
2 2 (18.18%) Legal
2 2 (18.18%) Publishing
3 1 (9.091%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Security Architect
1 5 (45.45%) Architect
2 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Messaging Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Exchange Consultant
4 1 (9.091%) Microsoft Consultant
4 1 (9.091%) Security Specialist
4 1 (9.091%) Messaging Specialist
4 1 (9.091%) Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) PKI
2 3 (27.27%) Blackberry
3 2 (18.18%) Replication
4 1 (9.091%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Windows
2 2 (18.18%) Windows Mobile
3 1 (9.091%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Migration
2 6 (54.55%) Load Balancing
3 4 (36.36%) Identity Management
3 4 (36.36%) Information Security
3 4 (36.36%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (27.27%) Security Architecture
4 3 (27.27%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 3 (27.27%) ITIL
4 3 (27.27%) GAP Analysis
5 1 (9.091%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) JNCIE
1 3 (27.27%) MCITP
1 3 (27.27%) CCIE
1 3 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
3 1 (9.091%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (63.64%) Active Directory
2 5 (45.45%) UAG
2 5 (45.45%) ISA Server
3 1 (9.091%) Squid
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Juniper
1 4 (36.36%) Cisco
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
1 4 (36.36%) Riverbed
2 3 (27.27%) Dell
3 2 (18.18%) Websense
3 2 (18.18%) Blue Coat
3 2 (18.18%) Finjan
4 1 (9.091%) F5
4 1 (9.091%) M86 Security
4 1 (9.091%) Twitter