The first table below looks at the demand for Lync skills in IT jobs advertised for the Derbyshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Lync over the 3 months to 22 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 Derbyshire region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Lync
Rank 47 55 53
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -2
Permanent jobs citing Lync 10 5 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Derbyshire 2.320% 1.124% 0.569%
As % of the Application Platforms category 12.50% 7.463% 2.885%
Number of salaries quoted 9 5 3
Average salary £42,500 £50,000 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-15.00% -9.09%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year
- -14.28%
All Application Platforms
Derbyshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
80 67 104
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Derbyshire 18.56% 15.06% 19.73%
Number of salaries quoted 78 66 87
Average salary £35,000 £31,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% -10.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,250 £20,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £46,500 £52,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
Lync
East Midlands

Lync
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Derbyshire 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 Derbyshire region.

Derbyshire Lync Salary Trend

Lync
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Lync across the Derbyshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Derbyshire 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 Derbyshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Chesterfield - 7 £42,500 -
Derby +13 2 £24,500 -53.33%
Lync
East Midlands

Lync
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Derbyshire 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 12 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (58.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (58.33%) Active Directory
2 7 (58.33%) Windows
2 7 (58.33%) MCSE
2 7 (58.33%) VMware
2 7 (58.33%) Windows Server 2012
3 6 (50.00%) Load Balancing
3 6 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 6 (50.00%) HP
4 5 (41.67%) EMC
4 5 (41.67%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (41.67%) CCNP
4 5 (41.67%) CCNA
4 5 (41.67%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (41.67%) ISA Server
4 5 (41.67%) Windows 2000
4 5 (41.67%) SQL
4 5 (41.67%) MS Exchange
4 5 (41.67%) ISDN
4 5 (41.67%) DNS
4 5 (41.67%) Windows 2000 Server
4 5 (41.67%) Hyper-V
4 5 (41.67%) vSphere
4 5 (41.67%) Forefront TMG
4 5 (41.67%) Unified Communications
4 5 (41.67%) Cisco UCCX
4 5 (41.67%) Cisco IOS
4 5 (41.67%) SCCM
4 5 (41.67%) SCOM

Lync
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Derbyshire 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 1 (8.333%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 5 (41.67%) MS Exchange
1 5 (41.67%) Office Communications Server
1 5 (41.67%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Office 365
2 1 (8.333%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) ISDN
1 5 (41.67%) DNS
1 5 (41.67%) Unified Communications
1 5 (41.67%) Cisco IOS
1 5 (41.67%) MGCP
1 5 (41.67%) H.323
2 4 (33.33%) VoIP
3 2 (16.67%) WAN
3 2 (16.67%) Internet
4 1 (8.333%) DMVPN
4 1 (8.333%) FWSM
4 1 (8.333%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (8.333%) Cisco PIX
4 1 (8.333%) EIGRP
4 1 (8.333%) Firewall
4 1 (8.333%) Wireless
4 1 (8.333%) BGP
4 1 (8.333%) MPLS
4 1 (8.333%) OSPF
4 1 (8.333%) 802.11
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Cisco Voice Engineer
1 5 (41.67%) Voice Engineer
1 5 (41.67%) Cisco Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
2 2 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Clustering
1 5 (41.67%) Blackberry
2 1 (8.333%) SecurID
Operating Systems
1 7 (58.33%) Windows
1 7 (58.33%) Windows Server 2012
2 6 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (41.67%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (41.67%) Windows 2000
3 5 (41.67%) Windows 2000 Server
4 1 (8.333%) UNIX
4 1 (8.333%) Solaris
4 1 (8.333%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 7 (58.33%) MCSE
2 5 (41.67%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (41.67%) CCNP
2 5 (41.67%) CCNA
2 5 (41.67%) CCVP
2 5 (41.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (16.67%) MCSA
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) Active Directory
2 5 (41.67%) ISA Server
2 5 (41.67%) Hyper-V
2 5 (41.67%) vSphere
2 5 (41.67%) Forefront TMG
3 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Cisco UCCX
1 5 (41.67%) SCCM
1 5 (41.67%) SCOM
1 5 (41.67%) WSUS
1 5 (41.67%) Cisco CUCM
2 2 (16.67%) Norton AntiVirus
2 2 (16.67%) Backup Exec
2 2 (16.67%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (58.33%) VMware
3 6 (50.00%) HP
4 5 (41.67%) EMC
4 5 (41.67%) Cisco
5 2 (16.67%) Symantec
5 2 (16.67%) Sophos
5 2 (16.67%) Websense
6 1 (8.333%) Foundry
6 1 (8.333%) Nokia
6 1 (8.333%) CheckPoint