The first table below looks at the demand for Lync skills in IT jobs advertised for the Swindon region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Lync over the 3 months to 20 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 Swindon region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Lync
Rank 50 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Lync 3 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Swindon 0.649% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.125% - -
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
Average salary £50,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year
- -18.18%
All Application Platforms
Swindon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
96 106 101
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Swindon 20.78% 20.66% 20.70%
Number of salaries quoted 81 80 94
Average salary £37,250 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.87% +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,088 £27,500 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £45,000 £47,350
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
Lync
Wiltshire

Lync
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon Lync Salary Trend

Lync
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Lync across the Swindon region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Swindon Lync Salary Histogram

Lync
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Swindon 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 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) Unified Communications
2 1 (33.33%) F5
2 1 (33.33%) VCAP
2 1 (33.33%) CCEE
2 1 (33.33%) CCAA
2 1 (33.33%) CCIA
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
2 1 (33.33%) PBX
2 1 (33.33%) VoIP
2 1 (33.33%) B2B
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) CCNP
2 1 (33.33%) CCNA
2 1 (33.33%) HP
2 1 (33.33%) Dell
2 1 (33.33%) EMC
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix Certification
2 1 (33.33%) CCEA
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Juniper
2 1 (33.33%) SAN
2 1 (33.33%) NetApp
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) VMware ESX
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (33.33%) MCTS

Lync
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Swindon 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 (33.33%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Unified Communications
2 1 (33.33%) PBX
2 1 (33.33%) VoIP
2 1 (33.33%) SAN
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Development Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Network Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Business Development Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Business Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Virtualisation Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Celerra
1 1 (33.33%) Video Conferencing
1 1 (33.33%) Open Source
1 1 (33.33%) EqualLogic
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) B2B
1 1 (33.33%) Business Development
1 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
1 1 (33.33%) Network Management
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCNP
1 1 (33.33%) CCNA
1 1 (33.33%) Citrix Certification
1 1 (33.33%) CCEA
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 1 (33.33%) MCTS
1 1 (33.33%) MCITP
1 1 (33.33%) HP AIS
1 1 (33.33%) HP MASE
1 1 (33.33%) VCDX
1 1 (33.33%) NCDA
1 1 (33.33%) NCIE
1 1 (33.33%) VCAP
1 1 (33.33%) CCEE
1 1 (33.33%) CCAA
1 1 (33.33%) CCIA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware ESX
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (33.33%) XenApp
1 1 (33.33%) XenServer
1 1 (33.33%) XenDesktop
1 1 (33.33%) vSphere
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) HP
2 1 (33.33%) Dell
2 1 (33.33%) EMC
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix
2 1 (33.33%) Juniper
2 1 (33.33%) NetApp
2 1 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Barracuda Networks
2 1 (33.33%) F5
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco