The first table below looks at the demand for Forefront TMG skills in IT contracts advertised for the Renfrewshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Forefront TMG 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 Renfrewshire 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 Forefront Threat Management Gateway (Forefront TMG)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Forefront TMG 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Renfrewshire - - -
As % of the System Software category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £225 £278 £288
% change year-on-year
-18.91% -3.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.25 £14.25 -
% change year-on-year
+84.21% -
All System Software
Renfrewshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
22 5 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Renfrewshire 34.92% 19.23% 60.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 3 2
Average daily rate £371 £375 £238
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.00% +57.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £331 £355 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £375 £275
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
Forefront TMG
Scotland

Forefront TMG
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Renfrewshire region citing Forefront TMG 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 Forefront TMG.

1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Lotus Notes
1 1 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) SMS
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Lotus
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (100.00%) MOM
1 1 (100.00%) ISA Server
1 1 (100.00%) Symantec
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Backup Exec
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
1 1 (100.00%) SCOM
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) XenApp
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010

Forefront TMG
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Renfrewshire region citing Forefront TMG 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 Forefront TMG. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Lotus Notes
1 1 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SMS
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) ISA Server
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) MOM
1 1 (100.00%) Backup Exec
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
1 1 (100.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Lotus
1 1 (100.00%) Symantec
1 1 (100.00%) VMware