The first table below looks at the demand for Lync skills in IT jobs advertised for the Dorset region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Lync over the 3 months to 24 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 Dorset region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Lync
Rank - - -
Permanent jobs citing Lync 0 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Dorset - - -
As % of the Application Platforms category - - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year
+5.55% -14.28%
All Application Platforms
Dorset
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
147 85 100
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Dorset 23.79% 16.93% 16.75%
Number of salaries quoted 122 72 83
Average salary £35,000 £30,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £24,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -
Lync
South West

Lync
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Dorset 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 Dorset region.

Dorset Lync Salary Trend

Lync
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Dorset 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 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Advertising
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (100.00%) Office Communications Server
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (100.00%) Unified Communications

Lync
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Dorset 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 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (100.00%) Office Communications Server
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Unified Communications
General
1 1 (100.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware