The first table below looks at the demand for Office Communications Server skills in IT contracts advertised for the Essex 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 Essex 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 45 44 -
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -
Contract jobs citing Office Communications Server 2 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 0.498% 0.241% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.778% 1.639% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £475 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £375 £381
% change year-on-year
-9.33% -1.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £25.38
All Application Platforms
Essex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
72 61 81
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 17.91% 14.70% 20.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 28 37
Average daily rate £300 £425 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-29.41% +13.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £162 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £451 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 17
Average hourly rate £25.00 £29.00 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.79% +107.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.66 £18.70 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.02 £32.09 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
Office Communications Server
East of 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 Essex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex Office Communications Server Daily Rate Trend

Office Communications Server
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 2 (100.00%) IIS
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (100.00%) Symantec
1 2 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (100.00%) Lync
1 2 (100.00%) Unified Communications
1 2 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Symantec Enterprise Vault

Office Communications Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 2 (100.00%) IIS
1 2 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 2 (100.00%) Lync
1 2 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Unified Communications
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Communications Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Symantec