The first table below looks at the demand for Lync skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Lync 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Lync
Rank 121 154 -
Rank change year-on-year
+33 -
Permanent jobs citing Lync 19 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 0.773% 0.035% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.808% 0.185% -
Number of salaries quoted 18 1 0
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 -
UK excluding London average salary £45,500 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year
+1.11% -18.18%
All Application Platforms
Cambridgeshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
499 541 473
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 20.30% 18.78% 15.89%
Number of salaries quoted 459 490 403
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,500 £30,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £57,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%
Lync
East of England

Lync
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire Lync Jobs Demand Trend

Lync
Salary Trend

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

Cambridgeshire Lync Salary Trend

Lync
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Lync across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Cambridgeshire Lync Salary Histogram

Lync
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lync within the Cambridgeshire 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Cambridge - 6 £43,750 -
Peterborough - 5 £32,500 -
Huntingdon +10 4 £47,500 +11.76%
St Neots - 3 £40,000 -
Lync
East of England

Lync
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Lync.

1 21 (84.00%) Windows
2 20 (80.00%) Microsoft
3 19 (76.00%) SharePoint
4 15 (60.00%) MCITP
5 13 (52.00%) MS Exchange
6 12 (48.00%) MS Office
6 12 (48.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 12 (48.00%) Exchange Server 2010
7 11 (44.00%) MS Excel
7 11 (44.00%) Active Directory
8 10 (40.00%) Citrix
8 10 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2007
9 8 (32.00%) HP
10 7 (28.00%) SCCM
11 6 (24.00%) SCOM
11 6 (24.00%) MCTS
11 6 (24.00%) VMware
11 6 (24.00%) XenApp
12 5 (20.00%) Hyper-V
12 5 (20.00%) Windows 7
12 5 (20.00%) XenDesktop
12 5 (20.00%) CCEE
12 5 (20.00%) Windows 8
12 5 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 5 (20.00%) SCVMM
12 5 (20.00%) Time Management
12 5 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
12 5 (20.00%) Dell
12 5 (20.00%) ITIL

Lync
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Lync. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 19 (76.00%) SharePoint
2 13 (52.00%) MS Exchange
3 12 (48.00%) Exchange Server 2010
4 10 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2007
5 3 (12.00%) Office Communications Server
6 2 (8.000%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 1 (4.000%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 12 (48.00%) MS Office
2 11 (44.00%) MS Excel
3 1 (4.000%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) Unified Communications
2 2 (8.000%) NetScaler
3 1 (4.000%) SAN
3 1 (4.000%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (4.000%) Telecoms
1 1 (4.000%) Retail
1 1 (4.000%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 17 (68.00%) Consultant
2 4 (16.00%) Service Manager
3 3 (12.00%) Support Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) 3rd Line Support
3 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Consultant
3 3 (12.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (8.000%) SCCM Consultant
4 2 (8.000%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (8.000%) Administrator
5 1 (4.000%) Architect
5 1 (4.000%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (4.000%) Senior Citrix Engineer
5 1 (4.000%) Systems Manager
5 1 (4.000%) Senior Technical Consultant
5 1 (4.000%) Citrix Engineer
5 1 (4.000%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.000%) Technical Consultant
5 1 (4.000%) Solutions Consultant
5 1 (4.000%) Virtualisation Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.000%) Blackberry
2 1 (4.000%) Clustering
2 1 (4.000%) Celerra
2 1 (4.000%) PKI
2 1 (4.000%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.000%) EqualLogic
Operating Systems
1 21 (84.00%) Windows
2 12 (48.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (20.00%) Windows 7
3 5 (20.00%) Windows 8
4 2 (8.000%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (4.000%) Linux
5 1 (4.000%) Windows 2000 Server
5 1 (4.000%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (20.00%) Time Management
1 5 (20.00%) ITIL
2 1 (4.000%) Project Management
2 1 (4.000%) Identity Management
2 1 (4.000%) Business Development
2 1 (4.000%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.000%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (60.00%) MCITP
2 10 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (24.00%) MCTS
4 5 (20.00%) CCEE
4 5 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 5 (20.00%) Citrix Certification
5 2 (8.000%) CCAA
5 2 (8.000%) CCEA
6 1 (4.000%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (4.000%) CCA
6 1 (4.000%) CCIE
6 1 (4.000%) CCDP
6 1 (4.000%) MCSE
6 1 (4.000%) CCIA
6 1 (4.000%) VCDX
6 1 (4.000%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.000%) GxP
1 1 (4.000%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (44.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (24.00%) XenApp
3 5 (20.00%) Hyper-V
3 5 (20.00%) XenDesktop
3 5 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (8.000%) XenServer
5 1 (4.000%) VMware ESX
5 1 (4.000%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (4.000%) vSphere
5 1 (4.000%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (28.00%) SCCM
2 6 (24.00%) SCOM
3 5 (20.00%) SCVMM
4 1 (4.000%) Cisco UCCE
Vendors
1 20 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (40.00%) Citrix
3 8 (32.00%) HP
4 6 (24.00%) VMware
5 5 (20.00%) Dell
6 4 (16.00%) NetApp
7 1 (4.000%) CommVault
7 1 (4.000%) Symantec
7 1 (4.000%) Red Hat
7 1 (4.000%) Oracle
7 1 (4.000%) EMC
7 1 (4.000%) Cisco
7 1 (4.000%) IBM
7 1 (4.000%) AppSense
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