The first table below looks at the demand for Office Communications Server skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Office Communications Server 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 Oxfordshire 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 Office Communications Server (OCS)
Rank 36 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Office Communications Server 12 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 2.661% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 9.091% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 12 0 0
Average daily rate £360 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £375 £388
% change year-on-year
-9.33% -3.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £25.38
All Application Platforms
Oxfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
132 141 98
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 29.27% 22.67% 21.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 72 51
Average daily rate £335 £378 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.25% +7.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £210 £160
10% offered a daily rate of more than £380 £475 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 14 15
Average hourly rate £23.75 £16.50 £19.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+43.93% -14.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.35 £11.50 £12.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.98 £22.55 £27.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -2.43%
Office Communications Server
South East

Office Communications Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire Office Communications Server Jobs Demand Trend

Office Communications Server
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Office Communications Server across the Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire Office Communications Server Daily Rate Trend

Office Communications Server
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Office Communications Server within the Oxfordshire 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
Oxford - 11 £360 -
Office Communications Server
South East

Office Communications Server
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing Office Communications 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 Office Communications Server.

1 12 (100.00%) MCSE
1 12 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 12 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 12 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 12 (100.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 12 (100.00%) VMware
1 12 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 12 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 12 (100.00%) SCOM
1 12 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 12 (100.00%) vSphere
1 12 (100.00%) Lync
1 12 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 12 (100.00%) MobileIron
2 9 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 9 (75.00%) Migration
2 9 (75.00%) Postini
3 5 (41.67%) Publishing
4 3 (25.00%) Mercator

Office Communications Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing Office Communications 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 Office Communications Server. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 12 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 12 (100.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 12 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 12 (100.00%) Lync
1 12 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
General
1 5 (41.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Messaging Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) Consultant
2 5 (41.67%) Messaging Consultant
3 2 (16.67%) Exchange Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 9 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 9 (75.00%) Migration
Qualifications
1 12 (100.00%) MCSE
1 12 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 12 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 12 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (100.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 12 (100.00%) VMware
1 12 (100.00%) MobileIron
2 9 (75.00%) Postini
3 3 (25.00%) Mercator
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