The first table below looks at the demand for ISA Server 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 ISA Server 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 Internet Security and Acceleration Server
Rank 199 212 234
Rank change year-on-year
+13 +22
Contract jobs citing ISA Server 6 3 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.093% 0.038% 0.072%
As % of the System Software category 1.147% 0.486% 1.326%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 2
Average daily rate £300 £381 £285
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.31% +33.77%
UK excluding London average daily rate £260 £333 £313
% change year-on-year
-21.80% +6.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
Average hourly rate £28.00 - £20.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £16.50 £23.36
% change year-on-year
+51.51% -29.36%
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%
ISA Server
London

ISA Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London ISA Server Daily Rate Trend

ISA Server
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ISA Server across the City of London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

City of London ISA Server Daily Rate Histogram

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 City of London region.

City of London ISA Server Hourly Rate Trend

ISA Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 7 (77.78%) Windows
1 7 (77.78%) MS Exchange
2 6 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 5 (55.56%) Active Directory
3 5 (55.56%) Blackberry
3 5 (55.56%) PowerShell
3 5 (55.56%) Forefront TMG
3 5 (55.56%) Exchange Server 2010
4 4 (44.44%) Websense
4 4 (44.44%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (44.44%) DNS
5 3 (33.33%) SSL
5 3 (33.33%) Dell
5 3 (33.33%) Symantec
5 3 (33.33%) MS Office
5 3 (33.33%) ITIL
5 3 (33.33%) Replication
5 3 (33.33%) VMware
5 3 (33.33%) MCITP
5 3 (33.33%) Lync
5 3 (33.33%) Office Communications Server
5 3 (33.33%) vSphere
5 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (33.33%) Migration
6 2 (22.22%) Open Text
6 2 (22.22%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (22.22%) Publishing
6 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (22.22%) Windows Mobile
6 2 (22.22%) VMware ESX

ISA Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 Platforms
1 7 (77.78%) MS Exchange
2 5 (55.56%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (33.33%) Lync
3 3 (33.33%) Office Communications Server
4 2 (22.22%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (11.11%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (33.33%) MS Office
2 2 (22.22%) MS Excel
2 2 (22.22%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) DNS
2 3 (33.33%) SSL
3 2 (22.22%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (22.22%) Firewall
3 2 (22.22%) SMTP
3 2 (22.22%) DHCP
3 2 (22.22%) HTTP
4 1 (11.11%) SAN
4 1 (11.11%) DMZ
4 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
4 1 (11.11%) LAN
4 1 (11.11%) WAN
4 1 (11.11%) Wireless
General
1 2 (22.22%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Consultant
1 3 (33.33%) Exchange Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) Messaging Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) Messaging Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Messaging Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Blackberry
2 3 (33.33%) Replication
3 2 (22.22%) Management Information System
4 1 (11.11%) Clustering
4 1 (11.11%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 7 (77.78%) Windows
2 4 (44.44%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (22.22%) Windows Mobile
5 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) ITIL
1 3 (33.33%) Migration
2 2 (22.22%) Change Control
3 1 (11.11%) Change Management
3 1 (11.11%) Load Balancing
3 1 (11.11%) Network Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) PowerShell
2 2 (22.22%) VB
3 1 (11.11%) C
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) MCITP
2 2 (22.22%) MCSE
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (11.11%) CCNA
3 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Active Directory
1 5 (55.56%) Forefront TMG
2 3 (33.33%) vSphere
3 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (22.22%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) MAILsweeper
1 2 (22.22%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (44.44%) Websense
3 3 (33.33%) Dell
3 3 (33.33%) Symantec
3 3 (33.33%) VMware
4 2 (22.22%) Open Text
4 2 (22.22%) Clearswift
4 2 (22.22%) RightFax
5 1 (11.11%) Juniper
5 1 (11.11%) Citrix
5 1 (11.11%) HP
5 1 (11.11%) Cisco
5 1 (11.11%) Blue Coat
5 1 (11.11%) F5
5 1 (11.11%) Finjan
5 1 (11.11%) Veeam