UAG Contract Job Trends in the South West

Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring UAG skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 - 147
Rank change year-on-year - - +28
Contract jobs citing UAG 1 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.047% - 0.16%
As % of the System Software category 0.35% - 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £390
Median % change year-on-year - - -40.00%
75th Percentile - - £420
90th Percentile - - £438
England median daily rate £488 - £450
% change year-on-year - - -16.28%

All System Software Skills
South West

UAG falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 284 427 439
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 13.34% 17.78% 14.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 281 292
10th Percentile £213 £250 £191
25th Percentile £366 £450 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £548
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -1.83% +6.83%
75th Percentile £649 £625 £632
90th Percentile £706 £675 £700
England median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 44
10th Percentile £60.50 - £13.25
25th Percentile £61.25 £12.50 £17.69
Median hourly rate £66.50 £16.00 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year +315.63% -73.88% +22.50%
75th Percentile £80.00 £58.00 £69.62
90th Percentile £95.00 £78.70 £76.25
England median hourly rate £30.00 £50.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year -40.00% +14.29% +86.17%

UAG
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing UAG relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

UAG job vacancy trend in the South West

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Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing UAG.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing UAG

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing UAG.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing UAG

UAG
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UAG within the South West region over the 6 months to 6 November 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Wiltshire - 1 - -
UAG
England

UAG
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MSI
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft