The first table below looks at the demand for Office Communications Server 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 Office Communications Server 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 Office Communications Server (OCS)
Rank 112 118 126
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +8
Contract jobs citing Office Communications Server 2 14 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.094% 0.474% 0.038%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.506% 2.947% 0.203%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 7 0
Average daily rate - £375 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £375 £381
% change year-on-year
-9.33% -1.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £25.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £25.38
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%
Office Communications Server
England

Office Communications Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England Office Communications Server Daily Rate Trend

Office Communications Server
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East of England Office Communications Server Hourly 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 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
Essex -1 2 - -
Office Communications Server
England

Office Communications Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 3 (100.00%) Lync
1 3 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Unified Communications
2 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (66.67%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
2 2 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (66.67%) Symantec
2 2 (66.67%) Blackberry
2 2 (66.67%) IIS
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (33.33%) Firewall
3 1 (33.33%) HP
3 1 (33.33%) Citrix
3 1 (33.33%) DHCP
3 1 (33.33%) NFS
3 1 (33.33%) DNS
3 1 (33.33%) WSUS
3 1 (33.33%) Network Load Balancing
3 1 (33.33%) LANDesk
3 1 (33.33%) Network Security

Office Communications Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 3 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 3 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 3 (100.00%) Lync
1 3 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (66.67%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Unified Communications
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) DHCP
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) iSCSI
2 1 (33.33%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Communications Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Support
2 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Wintel Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Wintel Support
2 1 (33.33%) Wintel Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Wintel Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (33.33%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) High Availability
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Network Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) NFS
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (33.33%) XenApp
2 1 (33.33%) XenServer
2 1 (33.33%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
2 1 (33.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Symantec
3 1 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) HP
3 1 (33.33%) Citrix
3 1 (33.33%) LANDesk