The first table below looks at the demand for Lync skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Sussex 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 Sussex 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 39 58 -
Rank change year-on-year
+19 -
Contract jobs citing Lync 1 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex 0.270% 0.152% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.429% 1.220% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £285 - -
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%
All Application Platforms
West Sussex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
70 82 67
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex 18.92% 12.46% 15.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 38 16
Average daily rate £425 £413 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.03% +43.47%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £285 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £585 £508 £365
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 14
Average hourly rate £16.50 £37.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-56.00% +87.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £37.50 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.55 £37.50 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
Lync
South East

Lync
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Sussex 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 Sussex region.

West Sussex 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 Sussex 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
Crawley - 1 £285 -
Lync
South East

Lync
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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 3 (75.00%) SharePoint
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) C
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Mathematics
2 2 (50.00%) SharePoint 2010
2 2 (50.00%) MCSE
3 1 (25.00%) Office 365
3 1 (25.00%) VCP5
3 1 (25.00%) vSphere
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (25.00%) 3Com
3 1 (25.00%) Juniper
3 1 (25.00%) SAN
3 1 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (25.00%) HP
3 1 (25.00%) Dell
3 1 (25.00%) Citrix
3 1 (25.00%) ERP
3 1 (25.00%) LAN
3 1 (25.00%) WAN
3 1 (25.00%) VPN

Lync
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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 3 (75.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (50.00%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) SAN
2 1 (25.00%) LAN
2 1 (25.00%) WAN
2 1 (25.00%) VPN
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Support Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) IT Support Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) IT Support
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (50.00%) MCSE
2 1 (25.00%) VCP5
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) vSphere
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) 3Com
3 1 (25.00%) Juniper
3 1 (25.00%) HP
3 1 (25.00%) Dell
3 1 (25.00%) Citrix