The first table below looks at the demand for UAG 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 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 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing UAG 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex - - -
As % of the System Software category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
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
Essex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
61 67 82
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 14.81% 16.38% 20.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 35 29
Average daily rate £350 £265 £100
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+32.07% +165.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £95 £99 £75
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £475 £368
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 27
Average hourly rate £12.50 £20.00 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-37.50% +17.64%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £14.60 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.00 £30.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -3.64%
UAG
East of England

UAG
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex UAG Daily Rate Trend

UAG
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 3 (100.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (100.00%) Siemens
1 3 (100.00%) MPLS
1 3 (100.00%) BGP
1 3 (100.00%) CCNP
1 3 (100.00%) Wireless
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 3 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (33.33%) CCIE
2 1 (33.33%) VoIP
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 1 (33.33%) CCNA
2 1 (33.33%) IaaS

UAG
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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.

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) MPLS
1 3 (100.00%) BGP
1 3 (100.00%) Wireless
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (33.33%) VoIP
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) IaaS
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) CCNP
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (33.33%) CCIE
2 1 (33.33%) CCNA
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) Siemens
1 3 (100.00%) VMware