The first table below looks at the demand for Lync skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England 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 East of England 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 98 105 124
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +19
Contract jobs citing Lync 16 27 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.748% 0.914% 0.113%
As % of the Application Platforms category 4.051% 5.684% 0.609%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 15 1
Average daily rate £225 £375 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-40.00% +11.11%
UK excluding London average daily rate £364 £350 £288
% change year-on-year
+3.92% +21.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
Average hourly rate - £22.88 £26.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -12.01%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.50 £21.44 £26.00
% change year-on-year
-23.03% -17.54%
All Application Platforms
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
395 475 493
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 18.47% 16.07% 18.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 226 230
Average daily rate £315 £375 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.00% +15.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £188 £213 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 42 49
Average hourly rate £23.50 £19.63 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+19.74% +40.17%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.25 £35.00 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
Lync
England

Lync
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England Lync Daily Rate Trend

Lync
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Lync across the East of England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

East of England Lync Daily Rate Histogram

Lync
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Lync across the East of England region.

East of England Lync Hourly Rate Trend

Lync
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lync within the East of England region over the 3 months to 24 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
Cambridgeshire - 9 £225 -
Essex -2 4 £160 -66.31%
Hertfordshire - 2 £325 -
Bedfordshire -15 1 - -
Lync
England

Lync
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 21 (80.77%) Microsoft
2 20 (76.92%) Windows
3 19 (73.08%) Active Directory
4 16 (61.54%) MS Exchange
5 15 (57.69%) Windows Server 2008
5 15 (57.69%) Exchange Server 2010
6 14 (53.85%) Windows Server 2003
7 11 (42.31%) Unified Communications
8 10 (38.46%) Windows 7
8 10 (38.46%) Cisco
9 8 (30.77%) ITIL
9 8 (30.77%) Exchange Server 2003
10 7 (26.92%) Firewall
10 7 (26.92%) Hyper-V
11 6 (23.08%) Riverbed
11 6 (23.08%) Disaster Recovery
11 6 (23.08%) Migration
11 6 (23.08%) SQL Server 2008
11 6 (23.08%) SQL Server
11 6 (23.08%) HP
11 6 (23.08%) Citrix
12 5 (19.23%) Intranet
12 5 (19.23%) Internet
12 5 (19.23%) Blackberry
12 5 (19.23%) SQL
12 5 (19.23%) SharePoint
12 5 (19.23%) XenApp
12 5 (19.23%) Wireless
12 5 (19.23%) Altiris
12 5 (19.23%) Exinda

Lync
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 Platforms
1 16 (61.54%) MS Exchange
2 15 (57.69%) Exchange Server 2010
3 8 (30.77%) Exchange Server 2003
4 5 (19.23%) SharePoint
5 4 (15.38%) IIS
6 3 (11.54%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 3 (11.54%) Office Communications Server
6 3 (11.54%) Exchange Server 2007
6 3 (11.54%) SharePoint 2010
7 2 (7.692%) Documentum
8 1 (3.846%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (3.846%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 3 (11.54%) MS Office
2 2 (7.692%) Office 365
2 2 (7.692%) MS Excel
3 1 (3.846%) AutoCAD
Communications & Networking
1 11 (42.31%) Unified Communications
2 7 (26.92%) Firewall
3 5 (19.23%) Intranet
3 5 (19.23%) Internet
3 5 (19.23%) Wireless
4 4 (15.38%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (15.38%) WAN
5 2 (7.692%) NetScaler
5 2 (7.692%) IP Telephony
5 2 (7.692%) LAN
5 2 (7.692%) VoIP
5 2 (7.692%) MPLS
5 2 (7.692%) DPNSS
5 2 (7.692%) Q.931
5 2 (7.692%) H.323
6 1 (3.846%) DNS
6 1 (3.846%) DHCP
6 1 (3.846%) LDAP
6 1 (3.846%) Network Security
6 1 (3.846%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (23.08%) SQL Server 2008
1 6 (23.08%) SQL Server
2 2 (7.692%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 1 (3.846%) Subversion
General
1 3 (11.54%) Telecoms
2 1 (3.846%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (15.38%) Administrator
1 4 (15.38%) Architect
1 4 (15.38%) Analyst
2 3 (11.54%) Consultant
2 3 (11.54%) Technical Analyst
3 2 (7.692%) Communications Engineer
3 2 (7.692%) SharePoint Administrator
3 2 (7.692%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (7.692%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (7.692%) Support Engineer
3 2 (7.692%) Project Manager
4 1 (3.846%) Desktop Support
4 1 (3.846%) Technical Architect
4 1 (3.846%) Technical Consultant
4 1 (3.846%) Systems Support
4 1 (3.846%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 1 (3.846%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (3.846%) Wintel Engineer
4 1 (3.846%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 1 (3.846%) Network Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Blackberry
2 2 (7.692%) Clustering
2 2 (7.692%) PKI
3 1 (3.846%) iPhone
3 1 (3.846%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 20 (76.92%) Windows
2 15 (57.69%) Windows Server 2008
3 14 (53.85%) Windows Server 2003
4 10 (38.46%) Windows 7
5 3 (11.54%) Linux
6 2 (7.692%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (3.846%) Solaris
7 1 (3.846%) Windows XP
7 1 (3.846%) Windows 8
7 1 (3.846%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (30.77%) ITIL
2 6 (23.08%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (23.08%) Migration
3 2 (7.692%) High Availability
4 1 (3.846%) Project Management
4 1 (3.846%) E-Commerce
4 1 (3.846%) Network Load Balancing
4 1 (3.846%) Resource Management
4 1 (3.846%) Service Management
4 1 (3.846%) Software Engineering
4 1 (3.846%) IC Design
4 1 (3.846%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (3.846%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (3.846%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (19.23%) SQL
2 2 (7.692%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.846%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (11.54%) CCNA
2 2 (7.692%) Degree
2 2 (7.692%) CCDP
2 2 (7.692%) CCNP
2 2 (7.692%) CCIP
2 2 (7.692%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.846%) MCP
3 1 (3.846%) MCSE
3 1 (3.846%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.846%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.846%) MCITP
System Software
1 19 (73.08%) Active Directory
2 7 (26.92%) Hyper-V
3 5 (19.23%) XenApp
4 3 (11.54%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (7.692%) VMware ESX
5 2 (7.692%) Oracle RMAN
5 2 (7.692%) NFS
6 1 (3.846%) Terminal Services
6 1 (3.846%) XenServer
6 1 (3.846%) XenDesktop
6 1 (3.846%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (3.846%) Samba
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
2 2 (7.692%) SCOM
3 1 (3.846%) Tivoli
3 1 (3.846%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 1 (3.846%) AppManager
3 1 (3.846%) WSUS
3 1 (3.846%) SCCM
Vendors
1 21 (80.77%) Microsoft
2 10 (38.46%) Cisco
3 6 (23.08%) Riverbed
3 6 (23.08%) HP
3 6 (23.08%) Citrix
4 5 (19.23%) Altiris
4 5 (19.23%) Exinda
5 4 (15.38%) VMware
5 4 (15.38%) Symantec
6 3 (11.54%) Red Hat
7 2 (7.692%) Siemens
7 2 (7.692%) BT
7 2 (7.692%) Oracle
7 2 (7.692%) EMC
8 1 (3.846%) Avaya
8 1 (3.846%) CommVault
8 1 (3.846%) Apple
8 1 (3.846%) CheckPoint
8 1 (3.846%) Sun
8 1 (3.846%) Nortel
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