The first table below looks at the demand for Lync 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 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Lync
Rank 66 81 83
Rank change year-on-year
+15 +2
Contract jobs citing Lync 4 3 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.479% 0.269% 0.192%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.299% 1.852% 1.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
Average daily rate £481 - £600
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
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
174 162 194
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 20.84% 14.53% 18.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 61 84
Average daily rate £400 £325 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.07% -3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £178 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 5 10
Average hourly rate £18.00 £19.00 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.26% +18.75%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.85 £10.00 £10.05
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £37.00 £19.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
Lync
Berkshire

Lync
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading Lync Daily Rate Trend

Lync
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Reading Lync Hourly Rate Trend

Lync
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 2 (50.00%) Project Management
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Quality Management
1 2 (50.00%) Change Management
1 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (50.00%) Project Planning
1 2 (50.00%) Unified Communications
1 2 (50.00%) Mobile Device Management
2 1 (25.00%) Office Communications Server
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Streaming Video
2 1 (25.00%) Avaya
2 1 (25.00%) Siemens
2 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (25.00%) VoIP
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco

Lync
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 1 (25.00%) Office Communications Server
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Unified Communications
2 1 (25.00%) VoIP
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Streaming Video
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Project Management
1 2 (50.00%) Quality Management
1 2 (50.00%) Change Management
1 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (50.00%) Project Planning
1 2 (50.00%) Mobile Device Management
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Avaya
2 1 (25.00%) Siemens
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco