The first table below looks at the demand for Lync skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Lync over the 3 months to 21 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 Hertfordshire 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Lync
Rank 57 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Lync 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.306% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.942% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £325 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £350 £313
% change year-on-year
+4.28% +12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.60 £22.88 £26.00
% change year-on-year
-14.33% -12.01%
All Application Platforms
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
103 110 128
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 15.75% 11.42% 15.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 47 63
Average daily rate £325 £425 £345
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.52% +23.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £196 £235 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £500 £529
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 18 11
Average hourly rate £17.50 £12.50 £25.38
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+40.00% -50.73%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £11.53 £11.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.75 £25.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
Lync
East of England

Lync
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Hertfordshire Lync Daily Rate Histogram

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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Rickmansworth - 1 £200 -
Lync
East of England

Lync
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 3 (60.00%) Windows
1 3 (60.00%) MS Exchange
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (60.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) Unified Communications
2 2 (40.00%) MS Office
2 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (20.00%) Tivoli
3 1 (20.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Symantec
3 1 (20.00%) AutoCAD
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Service Management
3 1 (20.00%) Wireless
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) 3Com
3 1 (20.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (20.00%) Resource Management
3 1 (20.00%) IronPort
3 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (20.00%) iPhone
3 1 (20.00%) Veeam
3 1 (20.00%) Riverbed
3 1 (20.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (20.00%) Aruba
3 1 (20.00%) Nortel

Lync
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 3 (60.00%) MS Exchange
1 3 (60.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) MS Office
2 1 (20.00%) AutoCAD
2 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (20.00%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Unified Communications
2 1 (20.00%) Wireless
2 1 (20.00%) LAN
2 1 (20.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Team Leader
1 1 (20.00%) Technical Team Leader
1 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Network Specialist
1 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (20.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (20.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Project Management
1 1 (20.00%) Service Management
1 1 (20.00%) Resource Management
1 1 (20.00%) ITIL
1 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (20.00%) Mobile Device Management
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (20.00%) MCP
1 1 (20.00%) CCNA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Tivoli
1 1 (20.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco
3 1 (20.00%) Symantec
3 1 (20.00%) 3Com
3 1 (20.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) IronPort
3 1 (20.00%) Veeam
3 1 (20.00%) Riverbed
3 1 (20.00%) Aruba
3 1 (20.00%) Nortel
3 1 (20.00%) Avaya
3 1 (20.00%) Apple