UAG Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring UAG skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 468 364 378
Rank change year-on-year -104 +14 +33
Contract jobs citing UAG 2 6 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.007% 0.039% 0.006%
As % of the System Software category 0.066% 0.32% 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £660 £466 -
25th Percentile £675 £472 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £488 £650
Median % change year-on-year +48.72% -25.00% +44.44%
75th Percentile £750 £497 £675
90th Percentile - £499 -
UK median daily rate £700 £488 £650
% change year-on-year +43.59% -25.00% +44.44%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 3,009 1,899 2,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.90% 12.45% 12.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,942 1,256 1,518
10th Percentile £200 £200 £192
25th Percentile £356 £313 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year - -2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £643 £654
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 210 66 108
10th Percentile £15.81 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £25.75 £18.03 £15.17
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year - +127.27% -
75th Percentile £74.83 £86.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £89.78 £91.50 £73.78
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £31.39 £24.18
% change year-on-year +91.17% +29.80% -51.64%

UAG
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing UAG relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

UAG job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

UAG
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing UAG.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing UAG

UAG
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing UAG.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing UAG

UAG
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UAG within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 September 2026. 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
South East -65 2 £725 +48.72% 2
UAG
UK

UAG
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) NAS
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Lead
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Protective Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Runbook
1 1 (50.00%) Security Hardening
1 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
2 1 (50.00%) NCSC
2 1 (50.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (50.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 2 (100.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Becrypt