The first table below looks at the demand for IAG skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited IAG over the 3 months to 22 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 System Software category for the West Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Intelligent Application Gateway (IAG)
Rank - 186 170
Permanent jobs citing IAG 0 4 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands - 0.087% 0.025%
As % of the System Software category - 0.937% 0.239%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 1
Average salary - - £27,500
UK excluding London average salary £52,500 - £27,500
All System Software
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
574 427 419
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 11.41% 9.252% 10.29%
Number of salaries quoted 498 371 350
Average salary £40,000 £36,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.58% -2.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £61,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +4.00%
IAG
England

IAG
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing IAG across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

West Midlands IAG Jobs Demand Trend

IAG
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing IAG across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands IAG Salary Trend

IAG
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing IAG 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 IAG.

1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) Citrix
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 4 (100.00%) Symantec
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 4 (100.00%) XenApp
2 3 (75.00%) Change Control
2 3 (75.00%) SCCM
2 3 (75.00%) MS Excel
3 2 (50.00%) Windows XP
3 2 (50.00%) MS Exchange
3 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (50.00%) COM
3 2 (50.00%) ITIL
3 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (50.00%) HP
3 2 (50.00%) EMC
3 2 (50.00%) Windows 2000
3 2 (50.00%) MCSE
3 2 (50.00%) DHCP
3 2 (50.00%) DNS
3 2 (50.00%) Remedy
3 2 (50.00%) Firewall
3 2 (50.00%) Advertising
3 2 (50.00%) VMware
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2000
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (50.00%) SAN

IAG
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing IAG 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 IAG. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (50.00%) COM
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (25.00%) Lync
Applications
1 3 (75.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DHCP
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) SAN
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco PIX
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (25.00%) Wireshark
2 1 (25.00%) Internet
2 1 (25.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 2 (50.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Designer
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Designer
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Support Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (50.00%) Windows XP
2 2 (50.00%) Windows 2000
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Vista
2 2 (50.00%) Windows XP Embedded
2 2 (50.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Change Control
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) Build Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Software Deployment
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) VBScript
2 1 (25.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) MCSE
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (25.00%) MCITP
2 1 (25.00%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) XenApp
2 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (50.00%) Forefront TMG
2 2 (50.00%) UAG
2 2 (50.00%) XenServer
2 2 (50.00%) XenDesktop
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (25.00%) ISA Server
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) SCCM
2 2 (50.00%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
2 2 (50.00%) Cacti
3 1 (25.00%) WSUS
3 1 (25.00%) SCOM
3 1 (25.00%) MAILsweeper
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) Citrix
1 4 (100.00%) Symantec
2 2 (50.00%) HP
2 2 (50.00%) EMC
2 2 (50.00%) Remedy
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) NetApp
2 2 (50.00%) CheckPoint
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) AppSense
2 2 (50.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (25.00%) Blue Coat