The first table below looks at the demand for UAG 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 UAG over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG)
Rank 197 217 241
Rank change year-on-year
+20 +24
Contract jobs citing UAG 2 2 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.031% 0.025% 0.040%
As % of the System Software category 0.391% 0.329% 0.743%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
Average daily rate £475 - £419
UK excluding London average daily rate £260 £350 £381
% change year-on-year
-25.71% -8.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £20.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £17.00 -
% change year-on-year
+47.05% -
All System Software
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
511 608 538
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 8.045% 7.724% 5.395%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 360 321
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 £218
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 41 62 78
Average hourly rate £21.00 £21.25 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.17% +3.65%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.75 £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%
UAG
London

UAG
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London UAG Jobs Demand Trend

UAG
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London UAG Daily Rate Trend

UAG
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing UAG across the City of London region.

City of London UAG Hourly Rate Trend

UAG
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing UAG 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 UAG.

1 9 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (58.33%) Cisco
2 7 (58.33%) Firewall
3 6 (50.00%) Migration
3 6 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (41.67%) PKI
4 5 (41.67%) Load Balancing
4 5 (41.67%) Network Security
4 5 (41.67%) Forefront TMG
5 4 (33.33%) Riverbed
5 4 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
5 4 (33.33%) Information Security
5 4 (33.33%) Identity Management
5 4 (33.33%) Juniper
5 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
5 4 (33.33%) LAN
5 4 (33.33%) WAN
6 3 (25.00%) VPN
6 3 (25.00%) SSL
6 3 (25.00%) SLA
6 3 (25.00%) SharePoint
6 3 (25.00%) CCIE
6 3 (25.00%) CCNP
6 3 (25.00%) CCNA
6 3 (25.00%) Citrix
6 3 (25.00%) Wireless
6 3 (25.00%) Finance
6 3 (25.00%) GAP Analysis
6 3 (25.00%) VMware

UAG
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing UAG 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 UAG. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 3 (25.00%) SharePoint
1 3 (25.00%) SharePoint 2010
2 2 (16.67%) IIS
3 1 (8.333%) MS Exchange
3 1 (8.333%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (8.333%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (8.333%) Lync
3 1 (8.333%) Exchange Server 2010
Communications & Networking
1 7 (58.33%) Firewall
2 5 (41.67%) Network Security
3 4 (33.33%) LAN
3 4 (33.33%) WAN
4 3 (25.00%) VPN
4 3 (25.00%) SSL
4 3 (25.00%) Wireless
4 3 (25.00%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (8.333%) S/MIME
5 1 (8.333%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Banking
2 2 (16.67%) Law
2 2 (16.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Architect
1 5 (41.67%) Security Architect
2 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Architect
3 3 (25.00%) Network Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) SharePoint Administrator
4 2 (16.67%) Administrator
5 1 (8.333%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (8.333%) Analyst
5 1 (8.333%) Citrix Engineer
5 1 (8.333%) Senior Citrix Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) PKI
2 1 (8.333%) Thin Client
2 1 (8.333%) Blackberry
2 1 (8.333%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (8.333%) Linux
2 1 (8.333%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Migration
2 5 (41.67%) Load Balancing
3 4 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 4 (33.33%) Information Security
3 4 (33.33%) Identity Management
4 3 (25.00%) GAP Analysis
4 3 (25.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 3 (25.00%) Security Architecture
4 3 (25.00%) Network Management
5 2 (16.67%) Change Management
5 2 (16.67%) ITIL
6 1 (8.333%) Configuration Management
6 1 (8.333%) Service Delivery
6 1 (8.333%) High Availability
6 1 (8.333%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (25.00%) CCIE
2 3 (25.00%) CCNP
2 3 (25.00%) CCNA
2 3 (25.00%) JNCIE
3 1 (8.333%) MCSE
3 1 (8.333%) CCA
3 1 (8.333%) Citrix Certification
3 1 (8.333%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (8.333%) Linux+ Certification
3 1 (8.333%) CCEE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (41.67%) Forefront TMG
3 2 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (16.67%) XenApp
3 2 (16.67%) Citrix Presentation Server
4 1 (8.333%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (8.333%) IAG
4 1 (8.333%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) SCCM
2 1 (8.333%) SCOM
2 1 (8.333%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Cisco
2 4 (33.33%) Riverbed
2 4 (33.33%) Juniper
2 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (25.00%) Citrix
3 3 (25.00%) VMware
4 1 (8.333%) HP
4 1 (8.333%) Red Hat
4 1 (8.333%) Symantec
4 1 (8.333%) Websense
4 1 (8.333%) AppSense
4 1 (8.333%) Twitter