The first table below looks at the demand for UAG skills in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited UAG over the 3 months to 17 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 System Software category for the Birmingham region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG)
Rank 114 91 -
Rank change year-on-year
-23 -
Permanent jobs citing UAG 2 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.119% 0.069% -
As % of the System Software category 0.870% 0.617% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 0
Average salary £45,000 £40,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50% -
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £41,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year
+14.45% -27.82%
All System Software
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
230 162 197
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 13.72% 11.15% 14.81%
Number of salaries quoted 196 148 176
Average salary £42,500 £40,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.93% -4.70%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £26,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £54,000 £59,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +2.63%
UAG
West Midlands

UAG
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing UAG across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

Birmingham UAG Jobs Demand Trend

UAG
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing UAG across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham UAG Salary Trend

UAG
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham region citing UAG 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 UAG.

1 4 (80.00%) Windows
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (40.00%) SharePoint 2010
3 2 (40.00%) Forefront TMG
3 2 (40.00%) MS Excel
3 2 (40.00%) SCOM
3 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (20.00%) Firewall
4 1 (20.00%) Finance
4 1 (20.00%) Replication
4 1 (20.00%) VMware
4 1 (20.00%) Clustering
4 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (20.00%) MCITP
4 1 (20.00%) PKI
4 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (20.00%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) SCCM
4 1 (20.00%) Windows XP
4 1 (20.00%) LAN
4 1 (20.00%) Cisco
4 1 (20.00%) MCSE
4 1 (20.00%) .NET
4 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (20.00%) ITIL
4 1 (20.00%) SCVMM

UAG
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham region citing UAG 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 UAG. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) SharePoint 2010
1 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (20.00%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Lync
2 1 (20.00%) SharePoint 2013
2 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (20.00%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) LAN
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) Support Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Field Service Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Administrator
1 1 (20.00%) Field Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Server Administrator
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Replication
1 1 (20.00%) Clustering
1 1 (20.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (20.00%) Windows 7
4 1 (20.00%) Windows 8
4 1 (20.00%) Windows NT
4 1 (20.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) ITIL
1 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (20.00%) MCITP
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) VTSP
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certified Master
2 1 (20.00%) MCSE
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Forefront TMG
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) SCOM
2 1 (20.00%) SCVMM
2 1 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Citrix
2 1 (20.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (20.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Veeam
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco