Lync Contracts in the West Midlands
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Lync skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands 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 West Midlands 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 89 101 -
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -
Contract jobs citing Lync 6 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.367% 0.089% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.372% 0.559% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
Average daily rate £365 £350 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.28% -
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%
Search 6 Lync jobs in the West Midlands
All Application Platforms
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category		 253 358 312
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 15.49% 15.97% 16.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 160 159
Average daily rate £300 £325 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -13.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £135 £205 £252
10% offered a daily rate of more than £403 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 22 23
Average hourly rate £27.50 £17.50 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+57.14% +45.83%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.30 £11.00 £10.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.20 £30.00 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
Lync
England

Lync
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands Lync Daily Rate Trend

Lync
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lync within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
Birmingham +16 5 £370 +5.71%
Lync
England

Lync
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 6 (75.00%) Windows
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (75.00%) SAN
2 5 (62.50%) MS Exchange
3 4 (50.00%) Citrix
3 4 (50.00%) VMware
3 4 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
4 3 (37.50%) VMware Server
4 3 (37.50%) NetApp
5 2 (25.00%) Blackberry
5 2 (25.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
5 2 (25.00%) MCSE
5 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (25.00%) EMC
5 2 (25.00%) MCITP
5 2 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2003
5 2 (25.00%) Hyper-V
5 2 (25.00%) Migration
6 1 (12.50%) NAS
6 1 (12.50%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (12.50%) Application Packaging
6 1 (12.50%) Change Control
6 1 (12.50%) Firewall
6 1 (12.50%) Wireless
6 1 (12.50%) SCCM
6 1 (12.50%) SCOM
6 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (12.50%) Clustering

Lync
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 Development
1 1 (12.50%) Application Packaging
1 1 (12.50%) COM
Application Platforms
1 5 (62.50%) MS Exchange
2 4 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (25.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 2 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2003
4 1 (12.50%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) SAN
2 1 (12.50%) NAS
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) Wireless
2 1 (12.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MSI
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Consultant
2 3 (37.50%) 3rd Line Support
2 3 (37.50%) Technical Consultant
3 2 (25.00%) IT Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Infrastructure Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) Exchange Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Blackberry
2 1 (12.50%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Windows
2 4 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (12.50%) Change Control
2 1 (12.50%) Project Management
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) MCSE
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (25.00%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) VMware Server
2 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (25.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) SCCM
1 1 (12.50%) SCOM
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (50.00%) Citrix
2 4 (50.00%) VMware
3 3 (37.50%) NetApp
4 2 (25.00%) EMC
5 1 (12.50%) Cisco
5 1 (12.50%) HP
5 1 (12.50%) Dell
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