The first table below looks at the demand for Forefront TMG skills in IT contracts advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Forefront TMG over the 3 months to 22 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 Kent 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (Forefront TMG)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Forefront TMG 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent - - -
As % of the System Software category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £225 £278 £275
% change year-on-year
-18.91% +0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £14.25 -
% change year-on-year
+75.43% -
All System Software
Kent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
64 25 55
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 21.48% 9.328% 18.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 17 37
Average daily rate £425 £265 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+60.37% -11.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £137 £267
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £425 £330
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 2
Average hourly rate £15.50 £47.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-67.36% +150.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £31.50 £14.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.80 £63.50 £23.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
Forefront TMG
South East

Forefront TMG
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent Forefront TMG Jobs Demand Trend

Forefront TMG
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent region citing Forefront TMG 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 Forefront TMG.

1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) HP
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
1 2 (100.00%) NetApp
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) IP Telephony
1 2 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 2 (100.00%) WatchGuard
1 2 (100.00%) iSCSI
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint 2010
1 2 (100.00%) Lync
1 2 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) SCOM
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Management
2 1 (50.00%) VLAN
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server

Forefront TMG
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent region citing Forefront TMG 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 Forefront TMG. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint 2010
1 2 (100.00%) Lync
1 2 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (50.00%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) IP Telephony
1 2 (100.00%) iSCSI
2 1 (50.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) IT Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Management
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (50.00%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) HP
1 2 (100.00%) NetApp
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) WatchGuard