The first table below looks at the demand for Lync 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 Lync over the 3 months to 19 June 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 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Lync
Rank 39 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Lync 3 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottinghamshire 0.857% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.263% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £225 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £400 £288
% change year-on-year
-12.50% +39.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.10 £28.94 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-20.19% +15.75%
All Application Platforms
Nottinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
57 41 60
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottinghamshire 16.29% 14.64% 19.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 25 23
Average daily rate £293 £310 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.64% -7.46%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £200 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £435 £810
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 4
Average hourly rate £28.25 £20.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+41.25% +14.28%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +5.26%
Lync
East Midlands

Lync
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottinghamshire 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 Nottinghamshire region.

Nottinghamshire Lync Daily Rate Trend

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 Nottinghamshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
Nottingham - 3 £225 -
Lync
East Midlands

Lync
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottinghamshire 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 3 (42.86%) Windows
1 3 (42.86%) MS Office
1 3 (42.86%) MS Excel
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
1 3 (42.86%) Windows 7
2 2 (28.57%) MS PowerPoint
2 2 (28.57%) SharePoint
2 2 (28.57%) Windows XP
2 2 (28.57%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Wireless
3 1 (14.29%) MS Exchange
3 1 (14.29%) DHCP
3 1 (14.29%) VPN
3 1 (14.29%) DNS
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco
3 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (14.29%) Citrix
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (14.29%) Lotus
3 1 (14.29%) Intranet
3 1 (14.29%) Internet
3 1 (14.29%) Extranet
3 1 (14.29%) EDRMS
3 1 (14.29%) CRM
3 1 (14.29%) SAP
3 1 (14.29%) IBM Notes
3 1 (14.29%) Lotus Domino
3 1 (14.29%) MCSE
3 1 (14.29%) VLAN
3 1 (14.29%) Marketing

Lync
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottinghamshire 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 2 (28.57%) SharePoint
2 1 (14.29%) MS Exchange
2 1 (14.29%) IBM Notes
2 1 (14.29%) Lotus Domino
2 1 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 3 (42.86%) MS Office
1 3 (42.86%) MS Excel
2 2 (28.57%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (14.29%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Wireless
1 1 (14.29%) DHCP
1 1 (14.29%) VPN
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) Intranet
1 1 (14.29%) Internet
1 1 (14.29%) Extranet
1 1 (14.29%) VLAN
1 1 (14.29%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) EDRMS
General
1 1 (14.29%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Trainer
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Trainer
2 2 (28.57%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) IT Trainer
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Business Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Business Development Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Support Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Development Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Support Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Support
3 1 (14.29%) Help Desk Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Desktop Support
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
1 3 (42.86%) Windows 7
2 2 (28.57%) Windows XP
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Migration
2 1 (14.29%) CRM
2 1 (14.29%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 1 (14.29%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (14.29%) MCSE
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) Citrix Presentation Server
1 1 (14.29%) XenApp
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) Citrix
2 1 (14.29%) Lotus
2 1 (14.29%) SAP