Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring UAG skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 789 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing UAG 3 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.003% - -
As % of the System Software category 0.050% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £77,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 - -
75th Percentile £92,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 - -

All System Software Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 6,039 5,914 8,232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.49% 11.87% 10.12%
Number of salaries quoted 4,379 3,664 5,586
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,875 £51,750
Median % change year-on-year +12.53% -5.56% -6.76%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £69,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +17.65% -10.53% -5.00%

UAG
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing UAG relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

UAG job vacancy trend in the UK

UAG
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing UAG.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing UAG

UAG
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing UAG within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England - 3 £85,000 - 5
UK excluding London - 2 £85,000 - 5
South East - 2 £85,000 - 2

UAG
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Lead
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Change Control
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
1 2 (66.67%) Requirements Gathering
1 2 (66.67%) Runbook
1 2 (66.67%) Security Hardening
1 2 (66.67%) Service Management
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Application Packaging
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Analysis
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) NCSC
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
1 2 (66.67%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 2 (66.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Becrypt
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft