The first table below looks at the demand for Lync skills in IT contracts advertised for the Peterborough region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Lync 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 Application Platforms category for the Peterborough 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 Lync
Rank 15 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Lync 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Peterborough 1.031% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 8.333% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £364 £350 £288
% change year-on-year
+3.92% +21.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.50 £21.44 £26.00
% change year-on-year
-23.03% -17.54%
All Application Platforms
Peterborough
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
12 13 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Peterborough 12.37% 15.12% 17.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 9
Average daily rate £225 £313 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-28.00% -21.87%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £223 £233 £286
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £449 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £12.00 - £27.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
Lync
Cambridgeshire

Lync
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Peterborough 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 Peterborough region.

Peterborough Lync Daily Rate Trend

Lync
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Peterborough 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 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) HP
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (100.00%) Intranet
1 3 (100.00%) Internet
1 3 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 3 (100.00%) Altiris
1 3 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 3 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (100.00%) Riverbed
1 3 (100.00%) Windows 7
1 3 (100.00%) Unified Communications
1 3 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 3 (100.00%) Exinda
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (66.67%) Wireless
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (33.33%) LAN
3 1 (33.33%) WAN

Lync
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Peterborough 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 3 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 3 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 3 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Intranet
1 3 (100.00%) Internet
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) Unified Communications
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (66.67%) Wireless
3 1 (33.33%) LAN
3 1 (33.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Network Analyst
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 3 (100.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) HP
1 3 (100.00%) Altiris
1 3 (100.00%) Riverbed
1 3 (100.00%) Exinda