The first table below looks at the demand for Lync skills in IT contracts advertised for the Watford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Lync over the 3 months to 22 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 Watford 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Lync
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Lync 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Watford - - -
As % of the Application Platforms category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £350 £313
% change year-on-year
+3.57% +12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.60 £22.88 £26.00
% change year-on-year
-14.33% -12.01%
All Application Platforms
Watford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
13 21 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Watford 17.57% 20.00% 16.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 4
Average daily rate £250 £400 £458
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-37.50% -12.56%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £235 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £360 £450 £495
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Average hourly rate - £12.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -2.43%
Lync
Hertfordshire

Lync
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Watford Lync Jobs Demand Trend

Lync
Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Watford 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 1 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Symantec
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (100.00%) IronPort
1 1 (100.00%) Unified Communications
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010

Lync
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Watford 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 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Unified Communications
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Symantec
1 1 (100.00%) IronPort