The first table below looks at the demand for UAG 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 UAG 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 Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG)
Rank 191 189 170
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -19
Permanent jobs citing UAG 8 1 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.159% 0.022% 0.025%
As % of the System Software category 1.394% 0.234% 0.239%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 1
Average salary £50,000 £60,000 £60,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-16.66% -0.82%
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £41,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year
+14.45% -27.82%
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%
UAG
England

UAG
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands UAG Jobs Demand Trend

UAG
Salary Trend

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

West Midlands UAG Salary Trend

UAG
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing UAG within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 22 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
Birmingham - 2 £45,000 -
UAG
England

UAG
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 22 (95.65%) Microsoft
2 21 (91.30%) Windows
3 18 (78.26%) Windows Server 2008
4 17 (73.91%) Lync
4 17 (73.91%) Citrix
4 17 (73.91%) Firewall
4 17 (73.91%) VMware
5 16 (69.57%) Active Directory
5 16 (69.57%) SharePoint
5 16 (69.57%) MS Exchange
5 16 (69.57%) Hyper-V
5 16 (69.57%) XenServer
6 15 (65.22%) VMware Infrastructure
6 15 (65.22%) Exchange Server 2010
6 15 (65.22%) Office 365
6 15 (65.22%) SQL
6 15 (65.22%) DHCP
6 15 (65.22%) DNS
6 15 (65.22%) SAN
7 14 (60.87%) vSphere
7 14 (60.87%) XenDesktop
8 13 (56.52%) NAS
8 13 (56.52%) Windows Server 2012
8 13 (56.52%) Back Office
8 13 (56.52%) MS Office
9 6 (26.09%) Forefront TMG
10 5 (21.74%) CheckPoint
10 5 (21.74%) Cisco
10 5 (21.74%) MS Excel
10 5 (21.74%) Microsoft Certification

UAG
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (8.696%) COM
2 1 (4.348%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 17 (73.91%) Lync
2 16 (69.57%) SharePoint
2 16 (69.57%) MS Exchange
3 15 (65.22%) Exchange Server 2010
4 3 (13.04%) SharePoint 2010
5 2 (8.696%) Windows Azure
5 2 (8.696%) SharePoint 2013
5 2 (8.696%) Exchange Server 2013
5 2 (8.696%) Exchange Server 2003
5 2 (8.696%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (4.348%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 15 (65.22%) Office 365
2 13 (56.52%) MS Office
3 5 (21.74%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 17 (73.91%) Firewall
2 15 (65.22%) DHCP
2 15 (65.22%) DNS
2 15 (65.22%) SAN
3 13 (56.52%) NAS
4 3 (13.04%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (8.696%) Cisco PIX
6 1 (4.348%) Wireshark
6 1 (4.348%) Internet
6 1 (4.348%) LAN
6 1 (4.348%) VoIP
6 1 (4.348%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) SQL Server 2008
1 3 (13.04%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.696%) SQL Server 2000
2 2 (8.696%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 1 (4.348%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 13 (56.52%) Back Office
2 1 (4.348%) Finance
Job Titles
1 14 (60.87%) Architect
2 9 (39.13%) Technical Solutions Architect
2 9 (39.13%) Technical Architect
2 9 (39.13%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (13.04%) Consultant
4 2 (8.696%) Microsoft Consultant
4 2 (8.696%) Support Analyst
4 2 (8.696%) Analyst
5 1 (4.348%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
5 1 (4.348%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (4.348%) Field Service Engineer
5 1 (4.348%) 3rd Line Support
5 1 (4.348%) Administrator
5 1 (4.348%) Field Engineer
5 1 (4.348%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (4.348%) Security Architect
5 1 (4.348%) Infrastructure Consultant
5 1 (4.348%) Server Administrator
5 1 (4.348%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) PKI
2 1 (4.348%) Clustering
2 1 (4.348%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 21 (91.30%) Windows
2 18 (78.26%) Windows Server 2008
3 13 (56.52%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (17.39%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (8.696%) Windows 8
6 1 (4.348%) Windows 7
6 1 (4.348%) Windows NT
6 1 (4.348%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (13.04%) ITIL
2 2 (8.696%) Incident Management
3 1 (4.348%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (4.348%) Change Control
3 1 (4.348%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (4.348%) Service Delivery
3 1 (4.348%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (65.22%) SQL
2 2 (8.696%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.348%) VBScript
3 1 (4.348%) VB
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (17.39%) MCITP
3 3 (13.04%) MCSE
4 2 (8.696%) VTSP
4 2 (8.696%) Microsoft Certified Master
4 2 (8.696%) MCTS
5 1 (4.348%) SC Cleared
5 1 (4.348%) Security Cleared
5 1 (4.348%) HP AIS
5 1 (4.348%) HP ASE
5 1 (4.348%) HP MASE
5 1 (4.348%) CCEE
5 1 (4.348%) CCAA
5 1 (4.348%) CCIA
5 1 (4.348%) NCIE
5 1 (4.348%) CCSE
5 1 (4.348%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (4.348%) CCSA
5 1 (4.348%) CCIE
5 1 (4.348%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.348%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (69.57%) Active Directory
1 16 (69.57%) Hyper-V
1 16 (69.57%) XenServer
2 15 (65.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (60.87%) vSphere
3 14 (60.87%) XenDesktop
4 6 (26.09%) Forefront TMG
5 3 (13.04%) XenApp
6 2 (8.696%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (8.696%) IAG
7 1 (4.348%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) SCOM
2 3 (13.04%) SCCM
3 2 (8.696%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
3 2 (8.696%) Cacti
3 2 (8.696%) SCVMM
4 1 (4.348%) WSUS
4 1 (4.348%) MAILsweeper
Vendors
1 22 (95.65%) Microsoft
2 17 (73.91%) Citrix
2 17 (73.91%) VMware
3 5 (21.74%) CheckPoint
3 5 (21.74%) Cisco
4 3 (13.04%) NetApp
4 3 (13.04%) HP
4 3 (13.04%) EMC
5 2 (8.696%) Symantec
5 2 (8.696%) SolarWinds
6 1 (4.348%) Veeam
6 1 (4.348%) Blue Coat