Leeds ISA Server Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server skills within the Leeds region with a comparison to our System Software category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited ISA Server over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server
Location Berkshire Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheltenham Cheshire Chesterfield Chichester City of London Coventry Cramlington Crawley Derbyshire Devon Dorset Dudley East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Grays Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hove Kent Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northumberland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough South East South West South Yorkshire Surrey Sussex Telford Tyne and Wear UK West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wolverhampton Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	79	76
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching contract IT job ads	1	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	1.087 %	2.128 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£338	£235
% change on same period last year	+43.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.41	£23.33
% change on same period last year	-12.50 %
System Software Leeds
Matching contract IT job ads	92	47
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.123 %	0.047 %
Daily rates quoted	12	10
Average minimum daily rate	£281	£170
Average daily rate	£300	£184
% change on same period last year	+63.58 %
Average maximum daily rate	£320	£197
UK excluding London average daily rate	£321	£325
% change on same period last year	-1.17 %
Hourly rates quoted	21	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.18	£17.42
Average hourly rate	£20.11	£18.15
% change on same period last year	+10.81 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.05	£18.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.21	£21.86
% change on same period last year	-3.00 %
ISA Server West Yorkshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing ISA Server across the Leeds region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ISA Server across the Leeds region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing ISA Server across the Leeds region.

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Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing ISA 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 ISA Server.

1 3 (100.00 %) Active Directory 2 2 (66.67 %) SQL Server 2 2 (66.67 %) SharePoint 2 2 (66.67 %) InfoPath 2 2 (66.67 %) SQL Server 2005 2 2 (66.67 %) Windows SharePoint Services 3 1 (33.33 %) Fat Client 3 1 (33.33 %) Network Security 3 1 (33.33 %) Firewall 3 1 (33.33 %) VPN 3 1 (33.33 %) Cisco 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows 3 1 (33.33 %) Citrix 3 1 (33.33 %) Novell 3 1 (33.33 %) Thin Client

3 1 (33.33 %) Intranet 3 1 (33.33 %) Internet 3 1 (33.33 %) Extranet

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing ISA 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 ISA Server. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (66.67 %) Windows SharePoint Services	Application Platforms 1 2 (66.67 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 2 (66.67 %) InfoPath	Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) VPN 1 1 (33.33 %) Intranet 1 1 (33.33 %) Internet 1 1 (33.33 %) Extranet 1 1 (33.33 %) Firewall 1 1 (33.33 %) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (66.67 %) SQL Server 1 2 (66.67 %) SQL Server 2005	Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Developer 1 2 (66.67 %) SharePoint Developer 2 1 (33.33 %) Security Specialist 2 1 (33.33 %) Network Specialist 2 1 (33.33 %) Network Security Specialist
Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) Thin Client 1 1 (33.33 %) Fat Client	Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows
System Software 1 3 (100.00 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Cisco 1 1 (33.33 %) Citrix 1 1 (33.33 %) Novell