The first table below looks at the demand for Lync skills in IT contracts advertised for the Docklands, London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Lync over the 3 months to 24 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 Application Platforms category for the Docklands, 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Lync
Rank 29 30 -
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -
Contract jobs citing Lync 1 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Docklands, London 0.585% 0.474% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.226% 2.941% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £400 £510 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.56% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £364 £350 £288
% change year-on-year
+3.92% +21.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.50 £21.44 £26.00
% change year-on-year
-23.03% -17.54%
All Application Platforms
Docklands, London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
31 34 83
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Docklands, London 18.13% 16.11% 13.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 22 17
Average daily rate £400 £505 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.79% +18.82%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £165 £425 £280
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £625 £488
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Average hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% +73.91%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
Lync
London

Lync
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Lync across the Docklands, London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Docklands, London Lync Jobs Demand Trend

Lync
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Lync across the Docklands, London region.

Docklands, London Lync Daily Rate Trend

Lync
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, London region citing Lync 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 Lync.

1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) XML
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) UNIX
1 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (50.00%) PBX
1 1 (50.00%) Symantec
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
1 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Investment Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (50.00%) Release Management
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (50.00%) Aveksa
1 1 (50.00%) Symantec Enterprise Vault

Lync
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, London region citing Lync 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 Lync. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
1 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) PBX
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Support Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Applications Support
1 1 (50.00%) Messaging Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Business Support Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Exchange Specialist
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
1 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (50.00%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Symantec
1 1 (50.00%) Aveksa