The first table below looks at the demand for ISA Server skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ISA Server over the 3 months to 17 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 Reading 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server
Rank 68 77 69
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -8
Contract jobs citing ISA Server 2 4 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.241% 0.376% 1.041%
As % of the System Software category 2.020% 3.306% 6.322%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 7
Average daily rate - - £340
UK excluding London average daily rate £260 £333 £313
% change year-on-year
-21.80% +6.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £27.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.25 £20.75 £23.36
% change year-on-year
+26.50% -11.17%
All System Software
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
99 121 174
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 11.93% 11.37% 16.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 54 76
Average daily rate £325 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £140 £235 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £501 £450 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 16 8
Average hourly rate £19.00 £15.50 £10.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+22.58% +47.61%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
ISA Server
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ISA Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading ISA Server Jobs Demand Trend

ISA Server
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading ISA Server Daily Rate Trend

ISA Server
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing ISA Server across the Reading region.

Reading ISA Server Hourly Rate Trend

ISA Server
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 4 (100.00%) SQL
1 4 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 4 (100.00%) Clearswift
1 4 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 4 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (100.00%) Retail
1 4 (100.00%) SharePoint 2010
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 3 (75.00%) MS Visio
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 3 (75.00%) SCCM
2 3 (75.00%) SCOM
2 3 (75.00%) System Testing
2 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (75.00%) IDOL
2 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (75.00%) MS Office
2 3 (75.00%) Windows
3 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (25.00%) Windows XP
4 1 (25.00%) Websense
4 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (25.00%) vSphere
4 1 (25.00%) Forefront TMG

ISA Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 4 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 4 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 4 (100.00%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 3 (75.00%) MS Office
1 3 (75.00%) MS Visio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (75.00%) IDOL
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 4 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Systems Administrator
1 3 (75.00%) Administrator
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Systems Administrator
3 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) System Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
1 4 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (25.00%) vSphere
3 1 (25.00%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) SCCM
1 3 (75.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) Clearswift
2 3 (75.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) Websense