The first table below looks at the demand for Lync skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leicestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Lync over the 3 months to 23 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 Leicestershire 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Lync
Rank 19 25 -
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -
Contract jobs citing Lync 11 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 5.213% 0.465% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 40.74% 4.167% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £350 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £364 £350 £313
% change year-on-year
+3.92% +12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
Average hourly rate £15.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.50 £22.88 £26.00
% change year-on-year
-27.86% -12.01%
All Application Platforms
Leicestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
27 24 39
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 12.80% 11.16% 16.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 8
Average daily rate £408 £330 £390
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.48% -15.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £290 £203 £122
10% offered a daily rate of more than £548 £375 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 2
Average hourly rate £19.00 £18.00 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.55% +5.88%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -2.43%
Lync
East Midlands

Lync
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region.

Leicestershire Lync Daily Rate Trend

Lync
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Lync across the Leicestershire region.

Leicestershire Lync Hourly Rate Trend

Lync
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Lync across the Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Leicestershire Lync Hourly 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 Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Leicester +6 11 - -
Lync
East Midlands

Lync
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 11 (57.89%) MS Exchange
1 11 (57.89%) Unified Communications
2 10 (52.63%) Microsoft
3 9 (47.37%) Active Directory
3 9 (47.37%) Windows
4 8 (42.11%) Migration
5 6 (31.58%) SAN
5 6 (31.58%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (31.58%) SharePoint
5 6 (31.58%) Exchange Server 2010
6 5 (26.32%) MS Office
6 5 (26.32%) Performance Management
7 3 (15.79%) IP Telephony
7 3 (15.79%) PRINCE2
7 3 (15.79%) PBX
7 3 (15.79%) VoIP
7 3 (15.79%) Cisco
7 3 (15.79%) Project Management
7 3 (15.79%) Windows 7
8 2 (10.53%) Exchange Server 2013
8 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
8 2 (10.53%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 2 (10.53%) MS Excel
8 2 (10.53%) Siemens
8 2 (10.53%) Internet
8 2 (10.53%) MS PowerPoint
8 2 (10.53%) Data Protection
8 2 (10.53%) SQL Server 2008
9 1 (5.263%) SharePoint 2013

Lync
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 11 (57.89%) MS Exchange
2 6 (31.58%) SharePoint
2 6 (31.58%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (10.53%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (5.263%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 5 (26.32%) MS Office
2 2 (10.53%) MS Excel
2 2 (10.53%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 11 (57.89%) Unified Communications
2 6 (31.58%) SAN
3 3 (15.79%) IP Telephony
3 3 (15.79%) PBX
3 3 (15.79%) VoIP
4 2 (10.53%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
1 2 (10.53%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Exchange Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Server Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Server Support
3 3 (15.79%) 2nd Line Support
3 3 (15.79%) Project Manager
4 2 (10.53%) Telephony Project Manager
4 2 (10.53%) Trainer
4 2 (10.53%) IT Trainer
4 2 (10.53%) Support Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Server Support Engineer
5 1 (5.263%) Senior Server Engineer
5 1 (5.263%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.263%) Desktop Support
Operating Systems
1 9 (47.37%) Windows
2 6 (31.58%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (15.79%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Migration
2 5 (26.32%) Performance Management
3 3 (15.79%) PRINCE2
3 3 (15.79%) Project Management
4 2 (10.53%) Data Protection
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) PRINCE2 Certification
System Software
1 9 (47.37%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 10 (52.63%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) Cisco
3 2 (10.53%) Siemens