The first table below looks at the demand for UAG 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 UAG over the 3 months to 19 June 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 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG)
Rank 112 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing UAG 6 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.271% - -
As % of the System Software category 1.905% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £225 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £305 £450 £300
% change year-on-year
-32.22% +50.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Average hourly rate £25.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £23.00 -
% change year-on-year
+8.69% -
All System Software
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
315 383 289
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 14.25% 12.68% 10.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 148 109
Average daily rate £325 £325 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +44.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £125 £165 £93
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £450 £387
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £318 £305
% change year-on-year
+2.36% +4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 77 71
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.00 £14.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.94% +15.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £10.90 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £38.40 £32.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £17.00 £16.75
% change year-on-year
- +1.49%
UAG
England

UAG
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England 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 of England region.

East of England UAG Daily Rate Trend

UAG
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East of England UAG Hourly 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 of England region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
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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
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Job
Vacancies
Bedfordshire - - - -
UAG
England

UAG
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 15 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (65.00%) Windows
2 13 (65.00%) Active Directory
2 13 (65.00%) VMware
3 10 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
3 10 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 10 (50.00%) Hyper-V
3 10 (50.00%) Forefront TMG
3 10 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 10 (50.00%) MS Exchange
3 10 (50.00%) SQL
3 10 (50.00%) IIS
3 10 (50.00%) DNS
4 8 (40.00%) ITIL
4 8 (40.00%) PRINCE2
4 8 (40.00%) Windows XP
4 8 (40.00%) HP
4 8 (40.00%) ITIL Certification
4 8 (40.00%) PRINCE
4 8 (40.00%) VCP5
4 8 (40.00%) Windows 8
4 8 (40.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 8 (40.00%) MCITP
5 6 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (25.00%) Cisco
6 5 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (15.00%) Wireless
7 3 (15.00%) BGP
7 3 (15.00%) Siemens
7 3 (15.00%) MPLS

UAG
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 10 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 10 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 10 (50.00%) MS Exchange
1 10 (50.00%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (50.00%) DNS
2 3 (15.00%) Wireless
2 3 (15.00%) BGP
2 3 (15.00%) MPLS
2 3 (15.00%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (10.00%) VoIP
4 1 (5.000%) WAN
4 1 (5.000%) LAN
4 1 (5.000%) SAN
4 1 (5.000%) Firewall
4 1 (5.000%) NAS
4 1 (5.000%) WAAS
4 1 (5.000%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 1 (5.000%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (65.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (5.000%) Support Engineer
3 1 (5.000%) Network Support Engineer
3 1 (5.000%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (5.000%) Network Support
3 1 (5.000%) Cisco Specialist
3 1 (5.000%) Network Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.000%) IaaS
1 1 (5.000%) HP StorageWorks
Operating Systems
1 13 (65.00%) Windows
2 10 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 8 (40.00%) Windows XP
3 8 (40.00%) Windows 8
4 3 (15.00%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) ITIL
1 8 (40.00%) PRINCE2
1 8 (40.00%) PRINCE
2 5 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (5.000%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (40.00%) ITIL Certification
1 8 (40.00%) VCP5
1 8 (40.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 8 (40.00%) MCITP
2 3 (15.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (15.00%) CCNP
3 2 (10.00%) Degree
4 1 (5.000%) CCNA
4 1 (5.000%) CCIE
4 1 (5.000%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.000%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (65.00%) Active Directory
2 10 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 10 (50.00%) Forefront TMG
3 6 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (15.00%) VMware ESXi
Vendors
1 15 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (65.00%) VMware
3 8 (40.00%) HP
4 5 (25.00%) Cisco
5 3 (15.00%) Siemens
6 1 (5.000%) Sophos
6 1 (5.000%) Brocade
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