Merseyside ISA Server Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server skills within the Merseyside 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 21 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 Chichester City of London Coventry Cramlington Crawley 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 Romford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough South East South West South Yorkshire Surrey Sussex Telford Tyne and Wear UK West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	35	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	1	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	4.167 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£250	-
Average daily rate	£265	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£280	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£334	£271
% change on same period last year	+23.12 %
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	£20.27	£23.41
% change on same period last year	-13.42 %
System Software Merseyside
Matching contract IT job ads	24	60
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.032 %	0.060 %
Daily rates quoted	3	12
Average minimum daily rate	£349	£332
Average daily rate	£356	£343
% change on same period last year	+3.82 %
Average maximum daily rate	£364	£355
UK excluding London average daily rate	£321	£325
% change on same period last year	-1.36 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	11
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.27	£13.41
Average hourly rate	£17.64	£15.91
% change on same period last year	+10.86 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.00	£18.41
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.86	£21.86
% change on same period last year	-4.59 %
ISA Server North West

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 Merseyside 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 Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISA Server within the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Liverpool	-	1	£265	-

ISA Server North West

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Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 %) Windows 2 2 (66.67 %) SharePoint 2 2 (66.67 %) Windows Server 2003 2 2 (66.67 %) Firewall 3 1 (33.33 %) Telecoms 3 1 (33.33 %) CMS 3 1 (33.33 %) IP Telephony 3 1 (33.33 %) InfoPath 3 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (33.33 %) SharePoint Portal Server 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows SharePoint Services 3 1 (33.33 %) MailMarshal 3 1 (33.33 %) Load Balancing

3 1 (33.33 %) SCOM 3 1 (33.33 %) Network Security 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2000 Server 3 1 (33.33 %) Internet 3 1 (33.33 %) MOM 3 1 (33.33 %) Remedy 3 1 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 3 1 (33.33 %) Cisco 3 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft 3 1 (33.33 %) Citrix 3 1 (33.33 %) DMZ 3 1 (33.33 %) .NET 3 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 3 1 (33.33 %) IIS

ISA Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 1 (33.33 %) Windows SharePoint Services 1 1 (33.33 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 2 (66.67 %) SharePoint 2 1 (33.33 %) CMS 2 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (33.33 %) SharePoint Portal Server 2 1 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (33.33 %) IIS
Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) InfoPath	Communications & Networking 1 2 (66.67 %) Firewall 2 1 (33.33 %) IP Telephony 2 1 (33.33 %) Network Security 2 1 (33.33 %) Internet 2 1 (33.33 %) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2005 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server	General 1 1 (33.33 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Network Support 1 1 (33.33 %) Network Specialist 1 1 (33.33 %) Network Support Specialist 1 1 (33.33 %) SharePoint Developer 1 1 (33.33 %) Developer 1 1 (33.33 %) Network Engineer 1 1 (33.33 %) Support Specialist	Operating Systems 1 2 (66.67 %) Windows 1 2 (66.67 %) Windows Server 2003 2 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) Load Balancing	System Software 1 3 (100.00 %) Active Directory 2 1 (33.33 %) MailMarshal
Systems Management 1 1 (33.33 %) SCOM 1 1 (33.33 %) MOM	Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Remedy 1 1 (33.33 %) Cisco 1 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft 1 1 (33.33 %) Citrix