The first table below looks at the demand for Office Communications Server skills in IT jobs advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Office Communications Server over the 3 months to 18 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 Berkshire region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS)
Rank 200 213 205
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -8
Permanent jobs citing Office Communications Server 20 10 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.374% 0.161% 0.093%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.887% 1.006% 0.617%
Number of salaries quoted 18 10 4
Average salary £57,500 £62,500 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-8.00% +31.57%
90% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £42,500 £39,750
10% offered a salary of more than £64,000 £64,150 £53,500
UK excluding London average salary £57,500 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year
+21.05% -13.63%
All Application Platforms
Berkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
1060 994 811
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 19.84% 16.03% 15.09%
Number of salaries quoted 859 872 693
Average salary £45,000 £43,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.65% +7.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £28,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £57,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
Office Communications Server
South East

Office Communications Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire Office Communications Server Jobs Demand Trend

Office Communications Server
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Office Communications Server across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire Office Communications Server Salary Trend

Office Communications Server
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Office Communications Server across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Berkshire Office Communications Server Salary Histogram

Office Communications Server
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Office Communications Server within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 18 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Reading +11 14 £60,000 -4.00% 2
Newbury - 7 £57,500 -
Slough - 6 £57,500 -
Wokingham - 5 £57,500 -
Maidenhead - 5 £57,500 -
Bracknell - 2 £45,000 - 1
Office Communications Server
South East

Office Communications Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Office Communications Server.

1 40 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 24 (60.00%) Windows
3 23 (57.50%) Active Directory
4 22 (55.00%) MS Excel
5 20 (50.00%) MS Exchange
5 20 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
5 20 (50.00%) Lync
6 19 (47.50%) Office 365
6 19 (47.50%) Windows Server 2008
6 19 (47.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 19 (47.50%) MCITP
7 18 (45.00%) MS Office
8 17 (42.50%) MCTS
8 17 (42.50%) Exchange Server 2013
9 16 (40.00%) SCCM
9 16 (40.00%) SCOM
10 15 (37.50%) SQL
10 15 (37.50%) SC Cleared
10 15 (37.50%) Security Cleared
11 14 (35.00%) Migration
11 14 (35.00%) Finance
11 14 (35.00%) Retail
12 13 (32.50%) Identity Management
12 13 (32.50%) Telecoms
12 13 (32.50%) Fujitsu
12 13 (32.50%) MCSE
13 10 (25.00%) SharePoint
13 10 (25.00%) ITIL
13 10 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
14 9 (22.50%) SCVMM

Office Communications Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Office Communications Server. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (10.00%) Application Packaging
2 1 (2.500%) Windows SharePoint Services
Application Platforms
1 20 (50.00%) MS Exchange
1 20 (50.00%) Lync
1 20 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 17 (42.50%) Exchange Server 2013
3 10 (25.00%) SharePoint
4 8 (20.00%) SharePoint Server
5 7 (17.50%) Exchange Server 2007
5 7 (17.50%) Exchange Server 2003
6 2 (5.000%) IIS
7 1 (2.500%) IBM Notes
7 1 (2.500%) GroupWise
Applications
1 22 (55.00%) MS Excel
2 19 (47.50%) Office 365
3 18 (45.00%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.000%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 7 (17.50%) Intranet
2 6 (15.00%) DNS
2 6 (15.00%) DHCP
3 4 (10.00%) Unified Communications
4 3 (7.500%) Firewall
5 2 (5.000%) VLAN
5 2 (5.000%) TCP/IP
5 2 (5.000%) SAN
6 1 (2.500%) Internet
6 1 (2.500%) LAN
6 1 (2.500%) WAN
6 1 (2.500%) MGW
6 1 (2.500%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (20.00%) EDRMS
General
1 14 (35.00%) Finance
1 14 (35.00%) Retail
2 13 (32.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (55.00%) Consultant
2 12 (30.00%) Senior Consultant
3 11 (27.50%) Technical Consultant
4 10 (25.00%) Microsoft Consultant
5 8 (20.00%) Senior Technical Consultant
5 8 (20.00%) Architect
6 7 (17.50%) Designer
7 4 (10.00%) SCCM Consultant
8 3 (7.500%) Senior Microsoft Consultant
9 2 (5.000%) Exchange Consultant
10 1 (2.500%) Support Engineer
10 1 (2.500%) Active Directory Consultant
10 1 (2.500%) Windows Support Engineer
10 1 (2.500%) Wintel Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 10 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (17.50%) Streaming Video
3 3 (7.500%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (2.500%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 24 (60.00%) Windows
2 19 (47.50%) Windows Server 2008
3 8 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (10.00%) Windows 7
4 4 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (35.00%) Migration
2 13 (32.50%) Identity Management
3 10 (25.00%) ITIL
4 8 (20.00%) Workflow
5 7 (17.50%) Validation
6 2 (5.000%) CRM
7 1 (2.500%) Service Delivery
7 1 (2.500%) Network Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 15 (37.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (47.50%) Microsoft Certification
1 19 (47.50%) MCITP
2 17 (42.50%) MCTS
3 15 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 15 (37.50%) Security Cleared
4 13 (32.50%) MCSE
5 8 (20.00%) MCSA
System Software
1 23 (57.50%) Active Directory
2 4 (10.00%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (5.000%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.000%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.500%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 16 (40.00%) SCCM
1 16 (40.00%) SCOM
2 9 (22.50%) SCVMM
3 1 (2.500%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 40 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (32.50%) Fujitsu
3 8 (20.00%) Meridio
4 2 (5.000%) Cisco
4 2 (5.000%) VMware
5 1 (2.500%) F5
5 1 (2.500%) Dialogic
5 1 (2.500%) Nortel
5 1 (2.500%) Avaya
5 1 (2.500%) Juniper
5 1 (2.500%) Lotus
5 1 (2.500%) Symantec
Reading, Berkshire
Exchange Server 2010, Exchange Server 2003, Exchange Server 2013, Office 365, Active Directory, MCTS, MCITP, Unified Communications, LYNC, Windows Server, Professional Services, EUC, Virtualisation, Windows 2003, DNS, DHCP,...
Woodrow Mercer Recruitment
Salary: From £55,000 to £60,000 per annum + 10-15% bonus + mileage + benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Excellent understanding of the following: *Exchange 2003 and 2007/2010/2013 (particularly 2007/2010) and DAG experience *Windows Server 2003, 2008 and 2008 R2, 2012 *Active Directory, IIS...
JP Specialist Contracts
Salary: £36000 - £37000 per annum + + Benefits
Posted: 13 June 2013
Bracknell, Berkshire
office365... Windows 7... Virtialisation with Hyper-V, VMWare or Citrix... TOGAF... Key Words: Microsoft, Infrastructure, Technical Architect, Windows 2003 / 2008, Active Directory, SCCM, SCOM, Exchange, Lync, OCS, ISA
Aximis (West) Limited
Salary: Up to £65K basic + 5K Car Allow + Excellent bonus and Benefits
Posted: 16 June 2013