The first table below looks at the demand for Lync skills in IT jobs advertised for the Harrogate region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Lync over the 3 months to 23 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 Harrogate region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Lync
Rank 43 30 -
Rank change year-on-year
-13 -
Permanent jobs citing Lync 1 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Harrogate 0.361% 0.637% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.786% 3.030% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Average salary £45,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year
+5.55% -14.28%
All Application Platforms
Harrogate
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
56 33 47
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Harrogate 20.22% 21.02% 17.03%
Number of salaries quoted 48 28 34
Average salary £45,000 £26,000 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+73.07% -5.45%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £30,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
Lync
North Yorkshire

Lync
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Harrogate 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 Harrogate region.

Harrogate Lync Salary Trend

Lync
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Harrogate 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 9 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (88.89%) Active Directory
2 8 (88.89%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (88.89%) Windows
2 8 (88.89%) MCSE
2 8 (88.89%) MS Exchange
2 8 (88.89%) VMware
2 8 (88.89%) MCTS
2 8 (88.89%) MCITP
2 8 (88.89%) Exchange Server 2007
2 8 (88.89%) Windows Server 2008
2 8 (88.89%) Office Communications Server
2 8 (88.89%) Exchange Server 2010
3 7 (77.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (77.78%) WSUS
3 7 (77.78%) Network Load Balancing
3 7 (77.78%) LANDesk
3 7 (77.78%) SQL Server 2008
3 7 (77.78%) Hyper-V
3 7 (77.78%) NAS
3 7 (77.78%) XenApp
3 7 (77.78%) XenServer
3 7 (77.78%) XenDesktop
3 7 (77.78%) Windows 7
3 7 (77.78%) PCI DSS
3 7 (77.78%) Network Security
3 7 (77.78%) iSCSI
3 7 (77.78%) SQL Server 2005
3 7 (77.78%) Microsoft App-V
3 7 (77.78%) MCP

Lync
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Harrogate 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 8 (88.89%) MS Exchange
1 8 (88.89%) Exchange Server 2007
1 8 (88.89%) Office Communications Server
1 8 (88.89%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2013
2 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
2 1 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Office 365
2 1 (11.11%) MS Excel
2 1 (11.11%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 7 (77.78%) NAS
1 7 (77.78%) Network Security
1 7 (77.78%) iSCSI
1 7 (77.78%) Firewall
1 7 (77.78%) DHCP
1 7 (77.78%) DNS
1 7 (77.78%) SAN
2 1 (11.11%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (77.78%) SQL Server 2008
1 7 (77.78%) SQL Server 2005
1 7 (77.78%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (77.78%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Wintel Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) Windows
1 8 (88.89%) Windows Server 2008
2 7 (77.78%) Windows 7
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Network Load Balancing
Qualifications
1 8 (88.89%) Microsoft Certification
1 8 (88.89%) MCSE
1 8 (88.89%) MCTS
1 8 (88.89%) MCITP
2 7 (77.78%) MCP
2 7 (77.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 7 (77.78%) MCSA
2 7 (77.78%) CCA
2 7 (77.78%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (77.78%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (88.89%) Active Directory
2 7 (77.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (77.78%) Hyper-V
2 7 (77.78%) XenApp
2 7 (77.78%) XenServer
2 7 (77.78%) XenDesktop
2 7 (77.78%) Microsoft App-V
2 7 (77.78%) NFS
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) WSUS
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (88.89%) VMware
3 7 (77.78%) LANDesk
3 7 (77.78%) CommVault
3 7 (77.78%) HP
3 7 (77.78%) EMC
3 7 (77.78%) Citrix