The first table below looks at the demand for ISA Server skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ISA Server over the 3 months to 20 June 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 South East 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server
Rank 210 227 218
Rank change year-on-year
+17 -9
Contract jobs citing ISA Server 7 15 30
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.086% 0.153% 0.284%
As % of the System Software category 0.640% 1.840% 3.243%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 13
Average daily rate £130 £375 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-65.31% +20.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £128 £232 £258
10% offered a daily rate of more than £158 £500 £448
UK excluding London average daily rate £290 £280 £320
% change year-on-year
+3.57% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 8
Average hourly rate £27.50 £16.50 £20.68
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+66.66% -20.21%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £16.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+51.51% -17.50%
All System Software
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
1093 815 925
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 13.43% 8.294% 8.750%
Number of daily rates quoted 532 322 323
Average daily rate £340 £330 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.03% +1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £200 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £488 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £315 £310
% change year-on-year
+3.17% +1.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 159 175
Average hourly rate £18.50 £17.50 £16.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.71% +4.47%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.28 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.00 £41.50 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
- +3.03%
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England

ISA Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region.

South East ISA Server Hourly Rate Trend

ISA Server
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISA Server within the South East region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Berkshire +4 3 £165 -67.00% 2
Surrey - 3 £129 -
Buckinghamshire -2 1 - - 1
East Sussex - - - - 1
Hampshire - - - -
Kent - - - - 2
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England

ISA Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 14 (93.33%) Windows
2 13 (86.67%) SharePoint
3 11 (73.33%) MS Office
3 11 (73.33%) VMware
3 11 (73.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (73.33%) Windows Server 2008
4 10 (66.67%) Hyper-V
5 9 (60.00%) ITIL
5 9 (60.00%) MS Excel
6 8 (53.33%) Active Directory
6 8 (53.33%) SAN
6 8 (53.33%) Forefront TMG
6 8 (53.33%) Windows 2000 Server
7 7 (46.67%) CommVault
7 7 (46.67%) Microsoft
8 6 (40.00%) SCOM
9 5 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2007
9 5 (33.33%) SharePoint 2010
9 5 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
9 5 (33.33%) MS Exchange
10 4 (26.67%) SQL Server
10 4 (26.67%) Citrix
10 4 (26.67%) SQL Server 2005
10 4 (26.67%) SQL Server 2008
11 3 (20.00%) PowerShell
11 3 (20.00%) SCCM
11 3 (20.00%) MCSE
11 3 (20.00%) SQL
11 3 (20.00%) Retail
11 3 (20.00%) Backup Exec

ISA Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 Development
1 1 (6.667%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 13 (86.67%) SharePoint
2 5 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2007
2 5 (33.33%) SharePoint 2010
2 5 (33.33%) MS Exchange
3 2 (13.33%) IIS
3 2 (13.33%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (6.667%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (6.667%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 11 (73.33%) MS Office
2 9 (60.00%) MS Excel
3 2 (13.33%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 8 (53.33%) SAN
2 3 (20.00%) Firewall
2 3 (20.00%) Internet
3 2 (13.33%) LAN
3 2 (13.33%) WAN
3 2 (13.33%) SSL
3 2 (13.33%) VLAN
4 1 (6.667%) NAS
4 1 (6.667%) Intranet
4 1 (6.667%) DHCP
4 1 (6.667%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) SQL Server
1 4 (26.67%) SQL Server 2005
1 4 (26.67%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (13.33%) IDOL
3 1 (6.667%) EDRMS
General
1 3 (20.00%) Retail
2 1 (6.667%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Support Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Technical Support
2 5 (33.33%) Technical Support Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Technical Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Server Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Windows Server Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Help Desk Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Server Support
3 3 (20.00%) Administrator
3 3 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (13.33%) Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Support Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) IT Support Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Server Support Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) IT Support
5 1 (6.667%) Windows Support Engineer
5 1 (6.667%) Wintel Server Engineer
5 1 (6.667%) Help Desk Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.667%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 14 (93.33%) Windows
2 11 (73.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 8 (53.33%) Windows 2000 Server
4 5 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (6.667%) Windows NT
5 1 (6.667%) Windows XP
5 1 (6.667%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) ITIL
2 2 (13.33%) System Testing
3 1 (6.667%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) MCSE
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (13.33%) CCNA
2 2 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (13.33%) MCITP
3 1 (6.667%) Security Cleared
3 1 (6.667%) Degree
System Software
1 11 (73.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (66.67%) Hyper-V
3 8 (53.33%) Active Directory
3 8 (53.33%) Forefront TMG
4 2 (13.33%) UAG
4 2 (13.33%) XenApp
5 1 (6.667%) vSphere
5 1 (6.667%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (6.667%) Terminal Services
5 1 (6.667%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) SCOM
2 3 (20.00%) SCCM
2 3 (20.00%) Backup Exec
3 2 (13.33%) MOM
4 1 (6.667%) McAfee ePO
4 1 (6.667%) BladeLogic
4 1 (6.667%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (73.33%) VMware
2 7 (46.67%) CommVault
2 7 (46.67%) Microsoft
3 4 (26.67%) Citrix
4 3 (20.00%) Clearswift
5 2 (13.33%) Symantec
6 1 (6.667%) HP
6 1 (6.667%) Intel
6 1 (6.667%) Cisco
6 1 (6.667%) McAfee
6 1 (6.667%) Websense
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