The first table below looks at the demand for UAG 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 UAG over the 3 months to 20 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG)
Rank 82 - 78
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing UAG 1 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 0.079% - 0.074%
As % of the System Software category 0.610% - 0.980%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £475 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £260 £350 £388
% change year-on-year
-25.71% -9.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £17.00 -
% change year-on-year
+47.05% -
All System Software
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
164 127 102
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 13.04% 9.304% 7.561%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 60 24
Average daily rate £315 £325 £301
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.07% +8.15%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £223 £177 £190
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £424 £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 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -3.64%
UAG
England

UAG
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands UAG Daily Rate Trend

UAG
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UAG within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 20 May 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.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Nottinghamshire - 1 £475 -
UAG
England

UAG
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) XenApp
2 1 (50.00%) XenDesktop
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (50.00%) IAG
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Vista
2 1 (50.00%) SCCM
2 1 (50.00%) Windows XP
2 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (50.00%) Symantec
2 1 (50.00%) Norton AntiVirus
2 1 (50.00%) IIS
2 1 (50.00%) Windows

UAG
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (50.00%) IIS
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Support
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Technical Consultant
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows XP
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Vista
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 7
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) XenApp
2 1 (50.00%) XenDesktop
2 1 (50.00%) IAG
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
1 1 (50.00%) Norton AntiVirus
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) Symantec