The first table below looks at the demand for Lync skills in IT jobs advertised for the City of London 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 City of London region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Lync
Rank 247 267 312
Rank change year-on-year
+20 +45
Permanent jobs citing Lync 76 56 24
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.633% 0.425% 0.152%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.367% 2.264% 0.952%
Number of salaries quoted 69 53 21
Average salary £64,000 £60,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% +33.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £40,000 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £75,000 £61,500
UK excluding London average salary £45,500 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year
+1.11% -18.18%
All Application Platforms
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
2257 2473 2520
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 18.80% 18.78% 15.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1989 2290 2317
Average salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.00% -
90% offered a salary of more than £34,500 £33,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%
Lync
London

Lync
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London Lync Salary Trend

Lync
Salary Histogram

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

City of London Lync Salary Histogram

Lync
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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 92 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 67 (58.26%) MS Exchange
3 66 (57.39%) Windows
4 52 (45.22%) Active Directory
5 50 (43.48%) Exchange Server 2010
6 44 (38.26%) SharePoint
7 41 (35.65%) Cisco
7 41 (35.65%) Windows Server 2008
8 36 (31.30%) MS Excel
9 35 (30.43%) DNS
9 35 (30.43%) Finance
10 34 (29.57%) VMware
11 33 (28.70%) Microsoft Certification
12 32 (27.83%) Unified Communications
13 28 (24.35%) Exchange Server 2007
13 28 (24.35%) SQL Server
14 25 (21.74%) IIS
14 25 (21.74%) ITIL
15 24 (20.87%) Windows Server 2003
16 22 (19.13%) MS Office
16 22 (19.13%) VMware ESX
16 22 (19.13%) MCITP
17 21 (18.26%) Hyper-V
18 20 (17.39%) Office Communications Server
18 20 (17.39%) MCSE
19 19 (16.52%) PowerShell
20 18 (15.65%) VMware Infrastructure
20 18 (15.65%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
20 18 (15.65%) Linux
20 18 (15.65%) LAN

Lync
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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 Development
1 12 (10.43%) XMPP
2 9 (7.826%) ODBC
3 4 (3.478%) JMS
4 3 (2.609%) ADSI
5 2 (1.739%) COM
Application Platforms
1 67 (58.26%) MS Exchange
2 50 (43.48%) Exchange Server 2010
3 44 (38.26%) SharePoint
4 28 (24.35%) Exchange Server 2007
5 25 (21.74%) IIS
6 20 (17.39%) Office Communications Server
7 18 (15.65%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 14 (12.17%) SharePoint 2010
9 9 (7.826%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
10 8 (6.957%) Exchange Server 2013
11 7 (6.087%) SharePoint Server
12 4 (3.478%) Exchange Server 2003
13 3 (2.609%) MindAlign
13 3 (2.609%) Apache
13 3 (2.609%) Tomcat
14 2 (1.739%) Exchange Server 2000
Applications
1 36 (31.30%) MS Excel
2 22 (19.13%) MS Office
3 13 (11.30%) Office 365
4 2 (1.739%) MS Project
5 1 (0.870%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (3.478%) SAP Business One
Communications & Networking
1 35 (30.43%) DNS
2 32 (27.83%) Unified Communications
3 18 (15.65%) LAN
3 18 (15.65%) TCP/IP
4 12 (10.43%) DHCP
5 11 (9.565%) SAN
6 9 (7.826%) FTP
6 9 (7.826%) HTTP
6 9 (7.826%) Wireless
6 9 (7.826%) ICMP
7 8 (6.957%) Firewall
8 7 (6.087%) VPN
8 7 (6.087%) WAN
9 6 (5.217%) MPLS
9 6 (5.217%) IP Telephony
10 5 (4.348%) Internet
10 5 (4.348%) WLAN
10 5 (4.348%) Ethernet
10 5 (4.348%) SMTP
11 4 (3.478%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (24.35%) SQL Server
2 14 (12.17%) SQL Server 2008
3 9 (7.826%) Oracle 8/8i
4 8 (6.957%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 35 (30.43%) Finance
2 15 (13.04%) Banking
3 6 (5.217%) Law
4 5 (4.348%) Multimedia
5 2 (1.739%) Financial Institution
5 2 (1.739%) Advertising
6 1 (0.870%) Retail
6 1 (0.870%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.870%) Legal
6 1 (0.870%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 34 (29.57%) Consultant
2 20 (17.39%) Architect
3 14 (12.17%) Analyst
4 8 (6.957%) Technical Analyst
5 7 (6.087%) Principal Consultant
5 7 (6.087%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (5.217%) Microsoft Consultant
7 5 (4.348%) Messaging Specialist
7 5 (4.348%) Team Leader
7 5 (4.348%) Exchange Consultant
7 5 (4.348%) Messaging Engineer
7 5 (4.348%) IT Manager
8 4 (3.478%) Support Specialist
8 4 (3.478%) 3rd Line Support
8 4 (3.478%) Cisco Architect
8 4 (3.478%) Technical Specialist
8 4 (3.478%) Communications Engineer
9 3 (2.609%) Pre Sales Consultant
9 3 (2.609%) Cisco Engineer
9 3 (2.609%) Cisco Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 17 (14.78%) Blackberry
2 9 (7.826%) Management Information System
3 8 (6.957%) iPhone
4 7 (6.087%) Clustering
5 5 (4.348%) Digital Media
6 2 (1.739%) MPEG
6 2 (1.739%) Handset
6 2 (1.739%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.739%) IaaS
7 1 (0.870%) PKI
7 1 (0.870%) iPad
7 1 (0.870%) Open Source
7 1 (0.870%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 66 (57.39%) Windows
2 41 (35.65%) Windows Server 2008
3 24 (20.87%) Windows Server 2003
4 18 (15.65%) Linux
5 17 (14.78%) Windows 7
6 16 (13.91%) Windows Server 2012
7 14 (12.17%) UNIX
8 9 (7.826%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (7.826%) AIX
8 9 (7.826%) HPUX
8 9 (7.826%) Windows 8
9 6 (5.217%) Windows Phone
10 5 (4.348%) Debian
11 4 (3.478%) OpenVMS
11 4 (3.478%) Solaris
11 4 (3.478%) Android
12 3 (2.609%) Apple iOS
12 3 (2.609%) Mac OS
12 3 (2.609%) Windows Vista
13 2 (1.739%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (21.74%) ITIL
2 17 (14.78%) Service Delivery
3 15 (13.04%) Project Management
4 11 (9.565%) Disaster Recovery
5 9 (7.826%) Workflow
5 9 (7.826%) Validation
6 8 (6.957%) Load Balancing
7 7 (6.087%) Migration
8 5 (4.348%) Technical Architecture
8 5 (4.348%) Change Control
9 4 (3.478%) PRINCE2
10 3 (2.609%) Asset Management
10 3 (2.609%) Root Cause Analysis
10 3 (2.609%) Capacity Management
10 3 (2.609%) High Availability
10 3 (2.609%) Network Load Balancing
10 3 (2.609%) Change Management
11 2 (1.739%) CRM
11 2 (1.739%) Stakeholder Management
11 2 (1.739%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (16.52%) PowerShell
2 13 (11.30%) SQL
3 9 (7.826%) C
4 5 (4.348%) Scala
5 4 (3.478%) Java
6 1 (0.870%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (28.70%) Microsoft Certification
2 22 (19.13%) MCITP
3 20 (17.39%) MCSE
4 14 (12.17%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (10.43%) Microsoft Certified Master
6 10 (8.696%) MCP
6 10 (8.696%) MCTS
7 9 (7.826%) CCNP
8 8 (6.957%) Degree
9 4 (3.478%) CCIE
10 3 (2.609%) CCVP
10 3 (2.609%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (2.609%) Security Cleared
10 3 (2.609%) CCNA
11 2 (1.739%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 1 (0.870%) VCP5
12 1 (0.870%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.43%) SLA
2 1 (0.870%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 52 (45.22%) Active Directory
2 22 (19.13%) VMware ESX
3 21 (18.26%) Hyper-V
4 18 (15.65%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (4.348%) vSphere
5 5 (4.348%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (2.609%) XenApp
7 2 (1.739%) Terminal Server
8 1 (0.870%) vCloud
8 1 (0.870%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.870%) MetaFrame
Systems Management
1 11 (9.565%) SCCM
1 11 (9.565%) ARCserve
1 11 (9.565%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
2 9 (7.826%) OpenView
2 9 (7.826%) Tivoli
3 6 (5.217%) SCVMM
4 4 (3.478%) SCOM
4 4 (3.478%) Cisco UCCX
4 4 (3.478%) Cisco CUCM
5 3 (2.609%) WMI
6 2 (1.739%) Norton AntiVirus
7 1 (0.870%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.870%) WSUS
7 1 (0.870%) MIMEsweeper
7 1 (0.870%) MOM
Vendors
1 92 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 41 (35.65%) Cisco
3 34 (29.57%) VMware
4 17 (14.78%) HP
5 16 (13.91%) Citrix
6 11 (9.565%) Symantec
7 10 (8.696%) EMC
8 9 (7.826%) Oracle
8 9 (7.826%) IBM
8 9 (7.826%) Veritas
8 9 (7.826%) Red Hat
9 8 (6.957%) Avaya
10 7 (6.087%) Polycom
11 6 (5.217%) Nortel
11 6 (5.217%) Sophos
11 6 (5.217%) Dialogic
11 6 (5.217%) Mitel
11 6 (5.217%) Twitter
12 5 (4.348%) GFI Software
12 5 (4.348%) Blue Coat
City, London
The Microsoft Lync Pre-sales Architect will be responsible for developing and maintaining technology advisory relationships with existing and prospective customers as well as provide though leadership and...
Sanderson
Salary: £65000 - £75000 per annum + bonus
Posted: 18 June 2013
City of London
Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 will be the predominant technology that you will be working with. They offer excellent training and you can gain experience and potentially certification...
ITHR
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + bonus and benefits
Posted: 10 June 2013
City, London
Upgrades, patching and capacity management of the VMware Estate. *Managing and monitoring vCloud Network & Security protected virtual machines... The successful candidate will be certified to MCSE/MCITP: Enterprise...
DGH Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £39000 - £44000 per annum + Company benefits
Posted: 13 June 2013
City, London
Exchange, VMWare, Technical Project Management, DNS, WINS, DHCP, DFS, Lync, SCOM, HP SIMM, vCloud, VCP, VCp5-DCA, Clusters, enclosures, blades, Powershell, Scripting, AD, Virtualisation, Citrix Xen, Hyper-V.
Mortimer Spinks
Salary: £42000 - £45000 per annum + excellent benefits and Bonus
Posted: 18 June 2013