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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS)
Rank 504 562 555
Rank change year-on-year
+58 -7
Permanent jobs citing Office Communications Server 80 74 95
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.183% 0.138% 0.164%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.812% 0.643% 0.862%
Number of salaries quoted 63 61 70
Average salary £60,000 £57,500 £46,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.34% +24.32%
90% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £42,500 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £65,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £57,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year
+15.00% -
All Application Platforms
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
9852 11510 11026
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 22.53% 21.46% 19.01%
Number of salaries quoted 8461 10120 9538
Average salary £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% -
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £32,000 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £71,250 £72,500
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -
Office Communications Server
England

Office Communications Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Office Communications Server Jobs Demand Trend

Office Communications Server
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Office Communications Server across the London region.

London Office Communications Server Salary Trend

Office Communications Server
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Office Communications Server across the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London Office Communications Server Salary Histogram

Office Communications Server
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Office Communications Server within the London region over the 3 months to 24 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
City of London +28 33 £65,000 -
Romford +7 4 £55,000 -8.33%
Croydon - 3 £57,500 -
Canary Wharf - 2 - -
Hackney - 1 £75,000 -
Bromley - 1 £76,000 -
Office Communications Server
England

Office Communications Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region citing Office Communications Server 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 Office Communications Server.

1 130 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 95 (73.08%) Lync
3 83 (63.85%) MS Exchange
4 81 (62.31%) Windows
5 73 (56.15%) Active Directory
6 69 (53.08%) Exchange Server 2010
7 54 (41.54%) MS Excel
8 45 (34.62%) Microsoft Certification
8 45 (34.62%) ITIL
8 45 (34.62%) Windows Server 2008
9 41 (31.54%) PowerShell
10 39 (30.00%) MCSE
11 37 (28.46%) TCP/IP
11 37 (28.46%) VMware
12 36 (27.69%) Exchange Server 2003
13 35 (26.92%) Cisco
13 35 (26.92%) SharePoint
14 33 (25.38%) Blackberry
14 33 (25.38%) Exchange Server 2007
14 33 (25.38%) Unified Communications
15 32 (24.62%) VMware Infrastructure
15 32 (24.62%) Migration
16 29 (22.31%) SCOM
17 27 (20.77%) Banking
18 25 (19.23%) Windows Server 2003
18 25 (19.23%) Finance
19 24 (18.46%) Tivoli
19 24 (18.46%) Linux
20 23 (17.69%) DNS
20 23 (17.69%) Blackberry Enterprise Server

Office Communications Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region citing Office Communications Server 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 Office Communications Server. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (10.00%) XMPP
2 9 (6.923%) ODBC
3 7 (5.385%) JMS
4 4 (3.077%) .NET
5 3 (2.308%) COM
5 3 (2.308%) Application Packaging
5 3 (2.308%) Ext JS
6 2 (1.538%) LINQ
7 1 (0.769%) XML
7 1 (0.769%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 95 (73.08%) Lync
2 83 (63.85%) MS Exchange
3 69 (53.08%) Exchange Server 2010
4 36 (27.69%) Exchange Server 2003
5 35 (26.92%) SharePoint
6 33 (25.38%) Exchange Server 2007
7 23 (17.69%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 17 (13.08%) Lotus Notes
9 16 (12.31%) IIS
10 15 (11.54%) Lotus Domino
11 12 (9.231%) MindAlign
12 11 (8.462%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
12 11 (8.462%) SharePoint 2010
13 6 (4.615%) Exchange Server 2013
14 3 (2.308%) Exchange Server 2000
15 2 (1.538%) SharePoint Server
16 1 (0.769%) Apache
Applications
1 54 (41.54%) MS Excel
2 22 (16.92%) MS Office
3 14 (10.77%) Office 365
4 6 (4.615%) MS PowerPoint
5 2 (1.538%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 37 (28.46%) TCP/IP
2 33 (25.38%) Unified Communications
3 23 (17.69%) DNS
4 21 (16.15%) Firewall
5 20 (15.38%) SSL
6 19 (14.62%) SMTP
7 17 (13.08%) POP3
8 16 (12.31%) LDAP
9 12 (9.231%) VoIP
10 11 (8.462%) LAN
11 9 (6.923%) ICMP
11 9 (6.923%) FTP
11 9 (6.923%) HTTP
12 8 (6.154%) VPN
12 8 (6.154%) SAN
13 7 (5.385%) PBX
13 7 (5.385%) Cisco ASA
14 5 (3.846%) Ethernet
14 5 (3.846%) WAN
15 4 (3.077%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 9 (6.923%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (0.769%) MySQL
3 1 (0.769%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (0.769%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (0.769%) AdminStudio
General
1 27 (20.77%) Banking
2 25 (19.23%) Finance
3 11 (8.462%) Advertising
4 6 (4.615%) Telecoms
5 4 (3.077%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.769%) Legal
Job Titles
1 46 (35.38%) Consultant
2 21 (16.15%) Microsoft Consultant
3 19 (14.62%) Architect
4 12 (9.231%) Team Leader
5 10 (7.692%) Technical Consultant
6 8 (6.154%) Exchange Consultant
6 8 (6.154%) Messaging Specialist
7 7 (5.385%) Pre Sales Consultant
7 7 (5.385%) Messaging Consultant
8 5 (3.846%) Administrator
8 5 (3.846%) Exchange Administrator
9 4 (3.077%) Messaging Engineer
10 3 (2.308%) Senior Consultant
10 3 (2.308%) Developer
10 3 (2.308%) Support Engineer
10 3 (2.308%) Solutions Architect
10 3 (2.308%) Sales Consultant
10 3 (2.308%) Technical Team Leader
10 3 (2.308%) Support Team Leader
10 3 (2.308%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 33 (25.38%) Blackberry
2 12 (9.231%) Management Information System
3 9 (6.923%) Video Conferencing
4 8 (6.154%) iPhone
5 7 (5.385%) Handset
6 4 (3.077%) iPad
7 3 (2.308%) Clustering
8 2 (1.538%) Hedge funds
8 2 (1.538%) PKI
8 2 (1.538%) Smartphone
8 2 (1.538%) Statistics
8 2 (1.538%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 81 (62.31%) Windows
2 45 (34.62%) Windows Server 2008
3 25 (19.23%) Windows Server 2003
4 24 (18.46%) Linux
5 12 (9.231%) UNIX
6 9 (6.923%) AIX
6 9 (6.923%) HPUX
6 9 (6.923%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (6.923%) Windows Server 2012
7 8 (6.154%) Windows 7
8 7 (5.385%) Windows Vista
9 6 (4.615%) Windows Phone
10 4 (3.077%) Android
10 4 (3.077%) Windows XP
11 2 (1.538%) Windows Phone 7
11 2 (1.538%) Apple iOS
11 2 (1.538%) MVS
11 2 (1.538%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.769%) Windows 8
12 1 (0.769%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (34.62%) ITIL
2 32 (24.62%) Migration
3 13 (10.00%) Service Delivery
4 12 (9.231%) Change Management
4 12 (9.231%) Project Management
5 11 (8.462%) Disaster Recovery
6 9 (6.923%) Workflow
6 9 (6.923%) Validation
7 8 (6.154%) IT Governance
8 6 (4.615%) Incident Management
8 6 (4.615%) Service Management
9 5 (3.846%) Capacity Planning
9 5 (3.846%) High Availability
10 4 (3.077%) Release Management
10 4 (3.077%) Problem Management
10 4 (3.077%) Asset Management
10 4 (3.077%) Root Cause Analysis
11 3 (2.308%) Infrastructure Management
11 3 (2.308%) ITIL V3
11 3 (2.308%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 41 (31.54%) PowerShell
2 16 (12.31%) C
2 16 (12.31%) SQL
3 8 (6.154%) Java
4 3 (2.308%) C#
4 3 (2.308%) VB
5 2 (1.538%) Perl
5 2 (1.538%) VBScript
5 2 (1.538%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 45 (34.62%) Microsoft Certification
2 39 (30.00%) MCSE
3 15 (11.54%) MCITP
3 15 (11.54%) Microsoft Certified Master
4 10 (7.692%) MCTS
5 9 (6.923%) MCP
6 7 (5.385%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (5.385%) MCSA
6 7 (5.385%) Degree
7 5 (3.846%) CCNA
8 3 (2.308%) Security Cleared
9 2 (1.538%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (1.538%) MCDST
9 2 (1.538%) CCNP
9 2 (1.538%) CISA
9 2 (1.538%) CISSP
10 1 (0.769%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (12.31%) SLA
2 15 (11.54%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.769%) QA
System Software
1 73 (56.15%) Active Directory
2 32 (24.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (16.15%) Hyper-V
4 10 (7.692%) VMware ESX
5 4 (3.077%) XenApp
6 3 (2.308%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (1.538%) vSphere
7 2 (1.538%) Snort
7 2 (1.538%) ProxySG
8 1 (0.769%) vCloud
8 1 (0.769%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.769%) Xen
8 1 (0.769%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.769%) UAG
8 1 (0.769%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 29 (22.31%) SCOM
2 24 (18.46%) Tivoli
3 22 (16.92%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
4 16 (12.31%) SCCM
5 15 (11.54%) Norton AntiVirus
5 15 (11.54%) MAILsweeper
6 9 (6.923%) ARCserve
6 9 (6.923%) OpenView
7 3 (2.308%) Cisco CUCM
8 2 (1.538%) SCVMM
8 2 (1.538%) Backup Exec
8 2 (1.538%) CiscoWorks
8 2 (1.538%) Cisco UCCX
9 1 (0.769%) MIMEsweeper
9 1 (0.769%) MOM
9 1 (0.769%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.769%) Plesk
Vendors
1 130 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 37 (28.46%) VMware
3 35 (26.92%) Cisco
4 22 (16.92%) Symantec
5 17 (13.08%) Lotus
6 15 (11.54%) McAfee
7 13 (10.00%) EMC
8 11 (8.462%) Veritas
8 11 (8.462%) Oracle
8 11 (8.462%) IBM
9 10 (7.692%) Red Hat
9 10 (7.692%) Citrix
10 7 (5.385%) CheckPoint
10 7 (5.385%) JBoss
11 6 (4.615%) Sun
11 6 (4.615%) Dell
12 5 (3.846%) Twitter
12 5 (3.846%) Avaya
12 5 (3.846%) Tandberg
13 4 (3.077%) Juniper
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