Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for UAG skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited UAG over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 585 715 847
Rank change year-on-year +130 +132 -157
Contract jobs citing UAG 6 3 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.005% 0.008%
As % of the System Software category 0.13% 0.038% 0.058%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £614 - £299
25th Percentile £616 £606 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £613 £406
Median % change year-on-year +4.08% +50.77% -
75th Percentile £666 £619 £419
90th Percentile £671 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 - £263
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 - -

All System Software Skills
UK

UAG is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,663 7,805 12,018
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.81% 13.20% 13.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,191 5,580 8,602
10th Percentile £200 £204 £200
25th Percentile £339 £400 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £480 £450
% change year-on-year -4.17% +6.67% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 277 318
10th Percentile £14.06 £15.23 £13.25
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £54.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.33% +170.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £60.75 £66.00 £45.19
90th Percentile £79.60 £75.20 £60.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.98 £44.93 £18.12
% change year-on-year -53.31% +148.01% +2.93%

UAG
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing UAG as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for UAG in the UK

UAG
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing UAG.

Daily rate trend for UAG in the UK

UAG
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing UAG.

Hourly rate trend for UAG in the UK

UAG
Top 6 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. 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
England +112 5 £650 +6.12% 2
London +103 3 - -
UK excluding London +66 2 £650 - 2
Work from Home +130 1 £625 +2.04%
South West +23 1 - -
South East - 1 £650 - 2

UAG
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Consultant
1 3 (50.00%) VMware Consultant
2 2 (33.33%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Integration Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Operations Manager
3 1 (16.67%) VMware Architect
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (33.33%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (50.00%) vSphere
2 2 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (16.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) Dell
2 1 (16.67%) NetIQ
2 1 (16.67%) Wyse