The first table below looks at the demand for Office Communications Server 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 Office Communications Server over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Application Platforms 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Office Communications Server 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Derbyshire - - -
As % of the Application Platforms category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £375 £338
% change year-on-year
-9.33% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £16.50
All Application Platforms
Derbyshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
22 33 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Derbyshire 14.10% 18.23% 7.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 14 6
Average daily rate £245 £320 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.43% -1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £111 £215 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £440 £370
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 3
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 £19.00 £20.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +2.56%
Office Communications Server
East Midlands

Office Communications Server
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Office Communications Server across the Derbyshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Derbyshire Office Communications Server Jobs Demand Trend

Office Communications Server
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Office Communications Server across the Derbyshire region.

Derbyshire Office Communications Server Daily Rate Trend

Office Communications Server
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Office Communications Server within the Derbyshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

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on Same Period
Last Year
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Office Communications Server
East Midlands

Office Communications Server
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Derbyshire region citing Office Communications 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 Office Communications Server.

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%) 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%) Forefront TMG
1 2 (100.00%) Lync

Office Communications Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Derbyshire region citing Office Communications 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 Office Communications Server. 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%) 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
1 2 (100.00%) Forefront TMG
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