The first table below looks at the demand for UAG skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited UAG 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 London 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 Unified Access Gateway (UAG)
Rank 373 409 418
Rank change year-on-year
+36 +9
Contract jobs citing UAG 14 9 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.064% 0.033% 0.049%
As % of the System Software category 0.828% 0.423% 0.810%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 10
Average daily rate £475 £444 £419
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.04% +5.97%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £445 £432 £386
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £457 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £260 £350 £381
% change year-on-year
-25.71% -8.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Average hourly rate - - £21.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £17.00 -
% change year-on-year
+47.05% -
All System Software
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
1691 2126 1851
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 7.688% 7.776% 6.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 1004 1215 965
Average daily rate £375 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £220 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 184 201
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £12.50 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £46.00 £35.95 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
UAG
England

UAG
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London UAG Jobs Demand Trend

UAG
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing UAG across the London region.

London UAG Daily Rate Trend

UAG
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London UAG Hourly Rate Trend

UAG
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UAG within the London region over the 3 months to 22 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
City of London +9 2 £475 +8.57%
UAG
England

UAG
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing UAG 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 UAG.

1 31 (70.45%) Microsoft
1 31 (70.45%) Active Directory
2 19 (43.18%) Windows
3 16 (36.36%) SharePoint
3 16 (36.36%) SCCM
4 15 (34.09%) Exchange Server 2010
4 15 (34.09%) MS Exchange
5 14 (31.82%) SCOM
6 13 (29.55%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
6 13 (29.55%) Symantec
6 13 (29.55%) Blackberry
6 13 (29.55%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 12 (27.27%) HP
7 12 (27.27%) Migration
7 12 (27.27%) VMware
8 11 (25.00%) Firewall
8 11 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
9 10 (22.73%) Cisco
10 9 (20.45%) Windows Server 2003
10 9 (20.45%) Citrix
11 8 (18.18%) SQL Server
11 8 (18.18%) Banking
11 8 (18.18%) PKI
11 8 (18.18%) SharePoint 2010
11 8 (18.18%) Forefront TMG
11 8 (18.18%) Exchange Server 2007
12 7 (15.91%) DHCP
12 7 (15.91%) VPN
12 7 (15.91%) DNS
12 7 (15.91%) CRM

UAG
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 3 (6.818%) .NET
2 2 (4.545%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 16 (36.36%) SharePoint
2 15 (34.09%) Exchange Server 2010
2 15 (34.09%) MS Exchange
3 13 (29.55%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 8 (18.18%) SharePoint 2010
4 8 (18.18%) Exchange Server 2007
5 6 (13.64%) SharePoint Server
5 6 (13.64%) Lync
6 5 (11.36%) Exchange Server 2003
7 4 (9.091%) IIS
8 1 (2.273%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 6 (13.64%) MS Office
2 2 (4.545%) MS Excel
3 1 (2.273%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (13.64%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 11 (25.00%) Firewall
2 7 (15.91%) DHCP
2 7 (15.91%) VPN
2 7 (15.91%) DNS
3 6 (13.64%) TCP/IP
4 5 (11.36%) Network Security
4 5 (11.36%) S/MIME
5 4 (9.091%) LAN
5 4 (9.091%) WAN
6 3 (6.818%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (6.818%) Wireless
6 3 (6.818%) SSL
7 2 (4.545%) SAN
7 2 (4.545%) NAS
8 1 (2.273%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (2.273%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (2.273%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (2.273%) HTTP
8 1 (2.273%) Kerberos
8 1 (2.273%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 6 (13.64%) SQL Server 2005
2 6 (13.64%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (4.545%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.273%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 8 (18.18%) Banking
2 6 (13.64%) Finance
3 3 (6.818%) Publishing
4 2 (4.545%) Law
4 2 (4.545%) Legal
5 1 (2.273%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 10 (22.73%) Architect
2 7 (15.91%) Administrator
3 6 (13.64%) Security Architect
4 5 (11.36%) Windows Administrator
4 5 (11.36%) Windows Systems Administrator
4 5 (11.36%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 5 (11.36%) Systems Administrator
4 5 (11.36%) Analyst
5 4 (9.091%) Network Engineer
5 4 (9.091%) Active Directory Specialist
5 4 (9.091%) Citrix Engineer
5 4 (9.091%) Infrastructure Architect
5 4 (9.091%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 4 (9.091%) Messaging Specialist
6 3 (6.818%) Consultant
6 3 (6.818%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.545%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.545%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.545%) SharePoint Administrator
7 2 (4.545%) Microsoft Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 13 (29.55%) Blackberry
2 8 (18.18%) PKI
3 6 (13.64%) Hedge funds
4 5 (11.36%) Fat Client
4 5 (11.36%) Thin Client
5 1 (2.273%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.273%) Freedom of Information Act
5 1 (2.273%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 19 (43.18%) Windows
2 11 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 9 (20.45%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (11.36%) SUSE
4 5 (11.36%) Linux
5 2 (4.545%) Windows 8
5 2 (4.545%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (27.27%) Migration
2 7 (15.91%) CRM
3 6 (13.64%) Asset Management
4 5 (11.36%) High Availability
4 5 (11.36%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (11.36%) Load Balancing
4 5 (11.36%) Enterprise Architecture
4 5 (11.36%) Service Delivery
4 5 (11.36%) Configuration Management
5 4 (9.091%) Identity Management
5 4 (9.091%) Information Security
6 3 (6.818%) Security Architecture
6 3 (6.818%) Network Management
6 3 (6.818%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 3 (6.818%) GAP Analysis
6 3 (6.818%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (6.818%) ITIL
7 2 (4.545%) Project Management
7 2 (4.545%) Data Modelling
7 2 (4.545%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.818%) PowerShell
2 2 (4.545%) Shell Script
2 2 (4.545%) C#
2 2 (4.545%) SQL
3 1 (2.273%) VBScript
3 1 (2.273%) VB
Qualifications
1 7 (15.91%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (13.64%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (13.64%) MCSE
3 5 (11.36%) CCEE
3 5 (11.36%) Linux+ Certification
3 5 (11.36%) CCA
3 5 (11.36%) Citrix Certification
4 3 (6.818%) JNCIE
4 3 (6.818%) CCIE
4 3 (6.818%) CCNP
4 3 (6.818%) CCNA
5 1 (2.273%) MCITP
5 1 (2.273%) Degree
5 1 (2.273%) CCSE
5 1 (2.273%) CCSA
5 1 (2.273%) Check Point Certification
5 1 (2.273%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (6.818%) SLA
3 2 (4.545%) Solvency II
System Software
1 31 (70.45%) Active Directory
2 8 (18.18%) Forefront TMG
3 6 (13.64%) ISA Server
3 6 (13.64%) VMware ESX
3 6 (13.64%) vSphere
4 5 (11.36%) IAG
4 5 (11.36%) Microsoft App-V
5 4 (9.091%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (6.818%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (4.545%) Citrix Presentation Server
7 2 (4.545%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 16 (36.36%) SCCM
2 14 (31.82%) SCOM
3 13 (29.55%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
4 6 (13.64%) Norton AntiVirus
4 6 (13.64%) NetBackup
4 6 (13.64%) HP SIM
5 2 (4.545%) MIMEsweeper
5 2 (4.545%) MOM
6 1 (2.273%) WSUS
Vendors
1 31 (70.45%) Microsoft
2 13 (29.55%) Symantec
3 12 (27.27%) HP
3 12 (27.27%) VMware
4 10 (22.73%) Cisco
5 9 (20.45%) Citrix
6 7 (15.91%) Websense
7 6 (13.64%) Sophos
7 6 (13.64%) CA
7 6 (13.64%) NetApp
8 5 (11.36%) AppSense
8 5 (11.36%) Red Hat
9 4 (9.091%) Juniper
9 4 (9.091%) Riverbed
10 2 (4.545%) CheckPoint
11 1 (2.273%) Twitter
11 1 (2.273%) ProCurve
11 1 (2.273%) Salesforce.com
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