The first table below looks at the demand for Lync skills in IT jobs advertised for the Sussex 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 Sussex region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Lync
Rank 17 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Lync 2 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sussex 3.030% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 8.333% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year
- -18.18%
All Application Platforms
Sussex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
24 21 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sussex 36.36% 20.19% 8.333%
Number of salaries quoted 21 21 4
Average salary £45,000 £50,000 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.00% +100.00%
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
Lync
South East

Lync
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Sussex Lync Jobs Demand Trend

Lync
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sussex 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 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (60.00%) Citrix
3 3 (60.00%) SAN
3 3 (60.00%) NetApp
3 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (60.00%) HP
3 3 (60.00%) NFS
3 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (60.00%) MS Excel
3 3 (60.00%) MS Exchange
3 3 (60.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (60.00%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (40.00%) Windows 8
4 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (40.00%) SCCM
4 2 (40.00%) SCOM
4 2 (40.00%) vSphere
4 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (40.00%) Brocade
4 2 (40.00%) Windows Vista
4 2 (40.00%) SharePoint 2010
4 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
4 2 (40.00%) Windows XP
4 2 (40.00%) MS Office
4 2 (40.00%) UNIX

Lync
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sussex 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 3 (60.00%) MS Exchange
1 3 (60.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (40.00%) SharePoint 2010
2 2 (40.00%) Lotus Notes
2 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 3 (60.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (40.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) SAN
1 3 (60.00%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (40.00%) DHCP
2 2 (40.00%) DNS
3 1 (20.00%) LAN
3 1 (20.00%) WAN
3 1 (20.00%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Systems Administrator
1 2 (40.00%) Administrator
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Exchange Administrator
1 2 (40.00%) Exchange Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Systems Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) EqualLogic
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Vista
3 2 (40.00%) Windows XP
3 2 (40.00%) Windows 8
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (40.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) VB
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (60.00%) NFS
2 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (40.00%) vSphere
4 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (20.00%) XenApp
4 1 (20.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) NetBackup
1 2 (40.00%) SCCM
1 2 (40.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (60.00%) HP
2 3 (60.00%) Citrix
2 3 (60.00%) NetApp
3 2 (40.00%) Veritas
3 2 (40.00%) Lotus
3 2 (40.00%) Brocade
4 1 (20.00%) Dell
4 1 (20.00%) Cisco
4 1 (20.00%) IBM