The first table below looks at the demand for Forefront TMG skills in IT contracts advertised for the Derbyshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Forefront TMG 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 Derbyshire 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 Threat Management Gateway (Forefront TMG)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Forefront TMG 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Derbyshire - - -
As % of the System Software category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
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
Derbyshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
16 48 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Derbyshire 12.12% 22.02% 6.931%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 27 9
Average daily rate £315 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.07% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £307 £305
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £442 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 14 4
Average hourly rate £15.50 £42.50 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-63.52% +254.16%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
Forefront TMG
East Midlands

Forefront TMG
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Derbyshire 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 Derbyshire region.

Derbyshire Forefront TMG Daily Rate Trend

Forefront TMG
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Derbyshire 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 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 2000
1 2 (100.00%) MCSE
1 2 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) HP
1 2 (100.00%) EMC
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (100.00%) ISA Server
1 2 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 2 (100.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) Clustering
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 2 (100.00%) WSUS
1 2 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 2 (100.00%) SCCM
1 2 (100.00%) SCOM
1 2 (100.00%) Office Communications Server
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 2000 Server
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (100.00%) vSphere
1 2 (100.00%) Lync

Forefront TMG
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Derbyshire 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 2 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 2 (100.00%) Office Communications Server
1 2 (100.00%) Lync
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 2 (100.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 2000
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) MCSE
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) ISA Server
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) WSUS
1 2 (100.00%) SCCM
1 2 (100.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) HP
1 2 (100.00%) EMC
1 2 (100.00%) VMware