The first table below looks at the demand for Office Communications 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 Office Communications 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS)
Rank 69 80 69
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -11
Contract jobs citing Office Communications Server 1 1 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.120% 0.094% 1.041%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.621% 0.617% 5.759%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £375
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
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
161 162 191
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 19.40% 15.23% 18.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 62 79
Average daily rate £350 £338 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.70% +3.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £193 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £439 £425 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 4 10
Average hourly rate £17.50 £19.00 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.89% +5.55%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.70 £9.80 £10.05
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £37.60 £19.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
Office Communications Server
Berkshire

Office Communications Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading Office Communications Server Daily Rate Trend

Office Communications Server
Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Avaya
1 1 (100.00%) Siemens
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Streaming Video
1 1 (100.00%) Lync
1 1 (100.00%) Unified Communications

Office Communications Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (100.00%) Lync
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) Unified Communications
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Streaming Video
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Avaya
1 1 (100.00%) Siemens