The first table below looks at the demand for Office Communications Server 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 Office Communications Server over the 3 months to 19 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 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS)
Rank 96 - 96
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Office Communications Server 1 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.060% - 0.104%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.379% - 0.623%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Average daily rate £340 - £290
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £400 £338
% change year-on-year
-15.00% +18.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £16.50
All Application Platforms
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
264 356 321
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 15.73% 15.68% 16.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 179 152
Average daily rate £325 £325 £365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.95%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £200 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 26 23
Average hourly rate £27.50 £17.50 £13.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+57.14% +27.27%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £11.50 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.20 £30.00 £29.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +5.26%
Office Communications Server
England

Office Communications Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands Office Communications Server Daily Rate Trend

Office Communications Server
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Office Communications Server within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 19 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
Birmingham - - - - 1
Shropshire - - - -
Office Communications Server
England

Office Communications Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) EMC
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) Veritas
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 1 (100.00%) ISA Server
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Altiris
1 1 (100.00%) MCITP
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (100.00%) EMC NetWorker
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
1 1 (100.00%) SCOM
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) XenApp
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint 2010

Office Communications Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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%) MS Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
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%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) MCITP
1 1 (100.00%) VCP5
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) ISA Server
1 1 (100.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) EMC NetWorker
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
1 1 (100.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) EMC
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Veritas
1 1 (100.00%) Altiris