The first table below looks at the demand for Forefront TMG skills in IT contracts advertised for the Nottinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Forefront TMG over the 3 months to 24 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 Nottinghamshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (Forefront TMG)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Forefront TMG 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottinghamshire - - -
As % of the System Software category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £225 £288 £275
% change year-on-year
-21.73% +4.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £14.25 -
% change year-on-year
+75.43% -
All System Software
Nottinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
55 18 38
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottinghamshire 16.77% 6.383% 12.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 10 4
Average daily rate £338 £325 £213
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.84% +52.94%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £236 £205 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £400 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 4 10
Average hourly rate £15.25 £20.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.60% -18.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.87 £10.30 £14.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £30.00 £27.35
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.79 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-4.67% -1.98%
Forefront TMG
East Midlands

Forefront TMG
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottinghamshire Forefront TMG Jobs Demand Trend

Forefront TMG
Daily Rate Trend

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

Nottinghamshire Forefront TMG Daily Rate Trend

Forefront TMG
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottinghamshire region citing Forefront TMG 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 Forefront TMG.

1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) MCSE
1 1 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) ISA Server
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESX
1 1 (100.00%) VLE
1 1 (100.00%) MCITP
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 7
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010

Forefront TMG
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottinghamshire region citing Forefront TMG 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 Forefront TMG. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Server Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Wintel Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Wintel Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 7
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) MCSE
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) MCITP
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) ISA Server
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESX
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) VMware