Lync Contracts in Kent
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Lync 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 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 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Lync
Rank 33 - 43
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Lync 5 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 1.661% - 0.319%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.463% - 1.538%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Average daily rate £325 - £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £350 £313
% change year-on-year
+4.28% +12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £22.69 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.60 £22.88 £26.00
% change year-on-year
-14.33% -12.01%
All Application Platforms
Kent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category		 67 44 65
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 22.26% 16.48% 20.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 27 45
Average daily rate £295 £300 £283
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.66% +6.19%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £235 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £368 £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 0
Average hourly rate £14.75 £27.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-46.36% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
Lync
South East

Lync
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent Lync Daily Rate Trend

Lync
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 7 (100.00%) Windows
1 7 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 7 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 7 (100.00%) DHCP
1 7 (100.00%) DNS
1 7 (100.00%) HP
1 7 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 6 (85.71%) SQL Server 2008
2 6 (85.71%) SQL Server
3 5 (71.43%) SQL
3 5 (71.43%) HTTP
3 5 (71.43%) TCP/IP
3 5 (71.43%) Migration
3 5 (71.43%) UNIX
3 5 (71.43%) PowerShell
4 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (28.57%) iSCSI
4 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
4 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (28.57%) Hyper-V
4 2 (28.57%) SharePoint 2010
4 2 (28.57%) Forefront TMG
4 2 (28.57%) Firewall
4 2 (28.57%) IP Telephony
4 2 (28.57%) Mathematics
4 2 (28.57%) Exchange Server 2007
4 2 (28.57%) WatchGuard
4 2 (28.57%) VMware
4 2 (28.57%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 2 (28.57%) C

Lync
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 7 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 7 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 7 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (28.57%) SharePoint 2010
2 2 (28.57%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (28.57%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (14.29%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) DHCP
1 7 (100.00%) DNS
2 5 (71.43%) HTTP
2 5 (71.43%) TCP/IP
3 2 (28.57%) iSCSI
3 2 (28.57%) Firewall
3 2 (28.57%) IP Telephony
3 2 (28.57%) SAN
4 1 (14.29%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) SQL Server 2008
1 6 (85.71%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Support
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (14.29%) IT Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Mathematics
2 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (71.43%) UNIX
3 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Migration
2 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
3 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
1 5 (71.43%) PowerShell
2 2 (28.57%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (28.57%) Hyper-V
1 2 (28.57%) Forefront TMG
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) SCOM
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) HP
2 2 (28.57%) WatchGuard
2 2 (28.57%) VMware
2 2 (28.57%) NetApp
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
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