The first table below looks at the demand for Lync skills in IT jobs advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Lync over the 3 months to 17 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 Oxford region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Lync
Rank 69 61 -
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -
Permanent jobs citing Lync 12 2 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 1.183% 0.312% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.769% 2.273% -
Number of salaries quoted 10 2 0
Average salary £40,500 £57,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-29.56% -
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year
- -18.18%
All Application Platforms
Oxford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
208 88 131
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 20.51% 13.71% 16.40%
Number of salaries quoted 170 72 113
Average salary £45,000 £35,000 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+28.57% -14.63%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £28,400 £29,600
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £49,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
Lync
Oxfordshire

Lync
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford Lync Salary Trend

Lync
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Lync across the Oxford region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Oxford Lync Salary Histogram

Lync
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 15 (88.24%) VMware
2 14 (82.35%) Windows
2 14 (82.35%) Citrix
2 14 (82.35%) SAN
3 13 (76.47%) MS Exchange
4 12 (70.59%) SCCM
5 11 (64.71%) Exchange Server 2007
5 11 (64.71%) Backup Exec
6 9 (52.94%) ITIL
6 9 (52.94%) vSphere
7 8 (47.06%) Windows Server 2008
8 7 (41.18%) VMware Infrastructure
8 7 (41.18%) Capacity Planning
8 7 (41.18%) Windows Server 2003
9 6 (35.29%) TCP/IP
9 6 (35.29%) Active Directory
10 4 (23.53%) NetBackup
10 4 (23.53%) Operations Management
10 4 (23.53%) WSUS
10 4 (23.53%) DNS
10 4 (23.53%) DHCP
10 4 (23.53%) Client/Server
10 4 (23.53%) MS Office
10 4 (23.53%) McAfee
10 4 (23.53%) Windows 7
11 3 (17.65%) Demand Management
11 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
11 3 (17.65%) Change Management
12 2 (11.76%) Samba
12 2 (11.76%) Firewall

Lync
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 13 (76.47%) MS Exchange
2 11 (64.71%) Exchange Server 2007
3 2 (11.76%) Office Communications Server
3 2 (11.76%) SharePoint 2010
3 2 (11.76%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (11.76%) SharePoint
4 1 (5.882%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (5.882%) Exchange Server 2003
4 1 (5.882%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 4 (23.53%) MS Office
2 2 (11.76%) MS Excel
3 1 (5.882%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 14 (82.35%) SAN
2 6 (35.29%) TCP/IP
3 4 (23.53%) DNS
3 4 (23.53%) DHCP
4 2 (11.76%) LDAP
4 2 (11.76%) Firewall
4 2 (11.76%) Unified Communications
4 2 (11.76%) Fibre Channel
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Subversion
General
1 1 (5.882%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Server Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Senior Server Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) IT Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Administrator
4 2 (11.76%) Consultant
4 2 (11.76%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (11.76%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 2 (11.76%) Linux Administrator
5 1 (5.882%) Business Manager
5 1 (5.882%) Messaging Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) Virtualisation Consultant
5 1 (5.882%) SCCM Consultant
5 1 (5.882%) Development Manager
5 1 (5.882%) Technical Consultant
5 1 (5.882%) Business Development Manager
5 1 (5.882%) Senior Technical Consultant
5 1 (5.882%) Senior Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Client/Server
2 1 (5.882%) Celerra
2 1 (5.882%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (5.882%) EqualLogic
2 1 (5.882%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 14 (82.35%) Windows
2 8 (47.06%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (41.18%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (23.53%) Windows 7
5 2 (11.76%) Solaris
5 2 (11.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) ITIL
2 7 (41.18%) Capacity Planning
3 4 (23.53%) Operations Management
4 3 (17.65%) Demand Management
4 3 (17.65%) Change Management
5 1 (5.882%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (5.882%) Identity Management
5 1 (5.882%) Migration
5 1 (5.882%) Business Development
5 1 (5.882%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) Bash shell
2 1 (5.882%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (11.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 2 (11.76%) MCTS
1 2 (11.76%) MCITP
1 2 (11.76%) MCSE
2 1 (5.882%) Citrix Certification
2 1 (5.882%) CCEA
2 1 (5.882%) HP AIS
2 1 (5.882%) HP MASE
2 1 (5.882%) VCDX
2 1 (5.882%) NCDA
2 1 (5.882%) NCIE
2 1 (5.882%) VCAP
2 1 (5.882%) CCEE
2 1 (5.882%) CCAA
2 1 (5.882%) CCIA
System Software
1 9 (52.94%) vSphere
2 7 (41.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (35.29%) Active Directory
4 2 (11.76%) Samba
4 2 (11.76%) NFS
5 1 (5.882%) VMware ESX
5 1 (5.882%) Hyper-V
5 1 (5.882%) XenApp
5 1 (5.882%) XenServer
5 1 (5.882%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 12 (70.59%) SCCM
2 11 (64.71%) Backup Exec
3 4 (23.53%) WSUS
3 4 (23.53%) NetBackup
4 2 (11.76%) SCOM
5 1 (5.882%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 15 (88.24%) VMware
2 14 (82.35%) Citrix
3 4 (23.53%) McAfee
4 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
5 2 (11.76%) Red Hat
5 2 (11.76%) CheckPoint
5 2 (11.76%) Cisco
5 2 (11.76%) Cadence
6 1 (5.882%) Postini
6 1 (5.882%) MobileIron
6 1 (5.882%) NetApp
6 1 (5.882%) HP
6 1 (5.882%) Dell
6 1 (5.882%) EMC