Office Communications Server Contracts in England

Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Office Communications Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Office Communications Server over the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 498 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Office Communications Server 13 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.047% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.42% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 13 0 0
10th Percentile £533 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £630 - -
UK median daily rate £600 - -

All Application Platform Skills
England

Office Communications Server falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills in England.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,104 3,500 4,470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.26% 10.55% 10.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,044 2,451 3,113
10th Percentile £275 £293 £257
25th Percentile £390 £404 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £850 £750
UK median daily rate £475 £520 £515
% change year-on-year -8.65% +0.97% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 86 143
10th Percentile £17.33 £16.00 £16.13
25th Percentile £26.00 £23.58 £20.50
Median hourly rate £41.45 £38.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +9.08% -17.71% +114.79%
75th Percentile £65.25 £70.00 £72.25
90th Percentile £78.70 £74.44 £78.60
UK median hourly rate £41.26 £33.07 £53.25
% change year-on-year +24.75% -37.90% +142.05%

Office Communications Server
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Office Communications Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Office Communications Server in England

Office Communications Server
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Office Communications Server.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Office Communications Server

Office Communications Server
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Office Communications Server.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Office Communications Server

Office Communications Server
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Office Communications Server within the England region over the 6 months to 28 August 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East - 13 £600 - 1
Office Communications Server
UK

Office Communications Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 13 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 13 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 13 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2013
1 13 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 13 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 13 (100.00%) SharePoint Server
1 13 (100.00%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 13 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 13 (100.00%) DDNS
1 13 (100.00%) DHCP
1 13 (100.00%) DNS
1 13 (100.00%) SAN
1 13 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 5 (38.46%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (100.00%) Exchange Engineer
1 13 (100.00%) Exchange Support
1 13 (100.00%) Support Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) 3rd Line Support
2 5 (38.46%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Windows
1 13 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 13 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 13 (100.00%) Content Management
1 13 (100.00%) Enterprise Content Management
1 13 (100.00%) Enterprise Search
1 13 (100.00%) High Availability
1 13 (100.00%) ITIL
Qualifications
1 13 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (92.31%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 13 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 13 (100.00%) Brightmail
1 13 (100.00%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 13 (100.00%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Microsoft