The first table below looks at the demand for IAG 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 IAG 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 Intelligent Application Gateway (IAG)
Rank - 213 240
Contract jobs citing IAG 0 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London - 0.025% 0.010%
As % of the System Software category - 0.324% 0.189%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £475 - £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
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%
IAG
London

IAG
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London IAG Jobs Demand Trend

IAG
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing IAG across the City of London region.

City of London IAG Daily Rate Trend

IAG
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing IAG 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 IAG.

1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) MCSE
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) CCA
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Thin Client
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Linux+ Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SUSE
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft App-V
1 1 (100.00%) AppSense
1 1 (100.00%) Fat Client
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) UAG
1 1 (100.00%) CCEE

IAG
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing IAG 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 IAG. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Citrix Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Thin Client
1 1 (100.00%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) MCSE
1 1 (100.00%) CCA
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Linux+ Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CCEE
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft App-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) UAG
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) AppSense