The first table below looks at the demand for Forefront TMG skills in IT contracts advertised for the East Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Forefront TMG over the 3 months to 17 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 East Midlands 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (Forefront TMG)
Rank - - 74
Contract jobs citing Forefront TMG 0 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands - - 0.073%
As % of the System Software category - - 0.962%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £225 £278 £288
% change year-on-year
-18.91% -3.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.25 £14.25 -
% change year-on-year
+84.21% -
All System Software
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
165 125 104
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 13.08% 9.158% 7.602%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 59 25
Average daily rate £308 £325 £307
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.38% +6.03%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £224 £175 £191
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £412 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 33 27
Average hourly rate £13.25 £15.00 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.66% -21.05%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £8.50 £11.85
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £57.50 £29.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
Forefront TMG
England

Forefront TMG
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands Forefront TMG Daily Rate Trend

Forefront TMG
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) MCSE
1 3 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) HP
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (100.00%) ISA Server
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) Windows 2000 Server
2 2 (66.67%) Hyper-V
2 2 (66.67%) WSUS
2 2 (66.67%) Load Balancing
2 2 (66.67%) SCCM
2 2 (66.67%) SCOM
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (66.67%) Clustering
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (66.67%) Blackberry
2 2 (66.67%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 2 (66.67%) EMC
2 2 (66.67%) Windows 2000
2 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Office Communications Server
2 2 (66.67%) vSphere
2 2 (66.67%) Lync
3 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure

Forefront TMG
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 3 (100.00%) MS Exchange
2 2 (66.67%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 2 (66.67%) Office Communications Server
2 2 (66.67%) Lync
3 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) SAN
2 1 (33.33%) VoIP
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Server Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Wintel Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Wintel Server Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Blackberry
1 2 (66.67%) Clustering
2 1 (33.33%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) Windows 2000 Server
2 2 (66.67%) Windows 2000
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (33.33%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) MCSE
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (33.33%) MCITP
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) ISA Server
2 2 (66.67%) Hyper-V
2 2 (66.67%) vSphere
3 1 (33.33%) VMware ESX
3 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) WSUS
1 2 (66.67%) SCCM
1 2 (66.67%) SCOM
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) HP
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) EMC
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco