Aberdeen Active Directory Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Active Directory skills within the Aberdeen region with a comparison to our System Software category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Active Directory over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Active Directory
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Addlestone Aylesbury Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birkenhead Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury Caerphilly Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Cleethorpes Colchester Conwy County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Dartford Deeside Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorking Dorset Dover Dudley Dunbar Dundee Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Ely Enfield England Essex Exeter Falkirk Farnborough Feltham Flintshire Gateshead Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Greenwich Grimsby Guildford Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hartlepool Haslemere Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kegworth Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston Llandudno London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton Lutterworth Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Matlock Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Morecambe Neath Port Talbot Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Shields North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Penrith Pershore Peterborough Plymouth Poole Port Talbot Portsmouth Preston Pudsey Reading Redditch Redhill Renfrewshire Romford Rotherham Rugby Sale Salford Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Scottish Borders Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Asaph St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stourbridge Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Teddington Teesside Telford Thames Valley Thatcham Thirsk Torfaen Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	4	2
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	28	47
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.039 %	0.047 %
As % of the category below	84.85 %	83.93 %
Daily rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum daily rate	£185	£108
Average daily rate	£190	£108
% change on same period last year	+76.74 %
Average maximum daily rate	£195	£108
UK excluding London average daily rate	£303	£299
% change on same period last year	+1.25 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.64	£13.20
Average hourly rate	£20.14	£13.75
% change on same period last year	+46.46 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.64	£14.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.27	£18.68
% change on same period last year	-2.23 %
System Software Aberdeen
Matching contract IT job ads	33	56
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.046 %	0.057 %
Daily rates quoted	3	3
Average minimum daily rate	£220	£155
Average daily rate	£223	£155
% change on same period last year	+43.54 %
Average maximum daily rate	£225	£155
UK excluding London average daily rate	£319	£322
% change on same period last year	-0.98 %
Hourly rates quoted	15	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.25	£14.67
Average hourly rate	£21.68	£15.42
% change on same period last year	+40.65 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.12	£16.17
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.28	£21.36
% change on same period last year	-0.39 %
Active Directory Scotland

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Active Directory
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Active Directory across the Aberdeen region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

Active Directory
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Active Directory across the Aberdeen region.

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Active Directory across the Aberdeen region.

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Active Directory across the Aberdeen region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

Active Directory
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Aberdeen region citing Active Directory also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Active Directory.

1 61 (89.71 %) Windows 2 42 (61.76 %) Microsoft 3 30 (44.12 %) Windows Server 2003 4 22 (32.35 %) Windows XP 5 20 (29.41 %) MS Exchange 6 19 (27.94 %) Citrix 7 17 (25.00 %) Windows 2000 8 15 (22.06 %) Windows 2000 Server 9 13 (19.12 %) VMware 10 12 (17.65 %) Migration 11 10 (14.71 %) Cisco 11 10 (14.71 %) Windows Vista 12 9 (13.24 %) Exchange Server 2003 12 9 (13.24 %) MS Excel 13 8 (11.76 %) ITIL

13 8 (11.76 %) IBM 13 8 (11.76 %) HP 13 8 (11.76 %) Microsoft Certification 14 7 (10.29 %) Dell 14 7 (10.29 %) WAN 14 7 (10.29 %) MCP 14 7 (10.29 %) Backup Exec 15 6 (8.824 %) Clustering 15 6 (8.824 %) MS Office 15 6 (8.824 %) LAN 15 6 (8.824 %) Windows NT 15 6 (8.824 %) SAN 15 6 (8.824 %) Remedy 16 5 (7.353 %) UNIX 16 5 (7.353 %) Internet

Active Directory
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Aberdeen region citing Active Directory also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Active Directory. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (1.471 %) Application Packaging	Application Platforms 1 20 (29.41 %) MS Exchange 2 9 (13.24 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 3 (4.412 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 2 (2.941 %) Lotus Notes 4 2 (2.941 %) Exchange Server 2007 5 1 (1.471 %) Exchange Server 5.5
Applications 1 9 (13.24 %) MS Excel 2 6 (8.824 %) MS Office 3 4 (5.882 %) MS Project	Communications & Networking 1 7 (10.29 %) WAN 2 6 (8.824 %) LAN 2 6 (8.824 %) SAN 3 5 (7.353 %) DNS 3 5 (7.353 %) TCP/IP 3 5 (7.353 %) Internet 4 4 (5.882 %) IP Telephony 4 4 (5.882 %) Cisco IPT 5 3 (4.412 %) DHCP 5 3 (4.412 %) Intranet 6 1 (1.471 %) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (2.941 %) MS Access	Development Applications 1 1 (1.471 %) InstallShield 1 1 (1.471 %) AdminStudio
General 1 4 (5.882 %) Telecoms 2 2 (2.941 %) Education 2 2 (2.941 %) Health 2 2 (2.941 %) Banking 2 2 (2.941 %) Insurance 2 2 (2.941 %) Pharmaceutical 3 1 (1.471 %) Back Office	Job Titles 1 22 (32.35 %) Desktop Support 2 18 (26.47 %) Server Engineer 3 14 (20.59 %) Desktop Engineer 4 13 (19.12 %) Support Engineer 5 12 (17.65 %) Analyst 6 10 (14.71 %) Desktop Support Engineer 7 8 (11.76 %) Server Support 8 4 (5.882 %) Support Analyst 8 4 (5.882 %) Infrastructure Analyst 8 4 (5.882 %) 2nd Line Support 8 4 (5.882 %) Server Support Engineer 9 3 (4.412 %) Windows Server Engineer 9 3 (4.412 %) Service Analyst 9 3 (4.412 %) Service Desk Analyst 9 3 (4.412 %) Network Engineer 9 3 (4.412 %) Junior 10 2 (2.941 %) IT Manager 10 2 (2.941 %) Systems Engineer 10 2 (2.941 %) Network Support Engineer 10 2 (2.941 %) IT Support Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 6 (8.824 %) Clustering 2 3 (4.412 %) Blackberry 3 2 (2.941 %) PDA 3 2 (2.941 %) Video Conferencing 4 1 (1.471 %) French Language 4 1 (1.471 %) Client/Server	Operating Systems 1 61 (89.71 %) Windows 2 30 (44.12 %) Windows Server 2003 3 22 (32.35 %) Windows XP 4 17 (25.00 %) Windows 2000 5 15 (22.06 %) Windows 2000 Server 6 10 (14.71 %) Windows Vista 7 6 (8.824 %) Windows NT 8 5 (7.353 %) UNIX 9 3 (4.412 %) Linux 9 3 (4.412 %) Windows Server 2008 9 3 (4.412 %) NetWare
Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (17.65 %) Migration 2 8 (11.76 %) ITIL 3 3 (4.412 %) Incident Management 4 2 (2.941 %) Asset Management 5 1 (1.471 %) RDF 5 1 (1.471 %) Project Management 5 1 (1.471 %) Service Management 5 1 (1.471 %) Quality Management 5 1 (1.471 %) Service Delivery 5 1 (1.471 %) Workflow	Qualifications 1 8 (11.76 %) Microsoft Certification 2 7 (10.29 %) MCP 3 3 (4.412 %) Degree 4 2 (2.941 %) MCSE 5 1 (1.471 %) CNA 5 1 (1.471 %) Novell Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (7.353 %) SLA	System Software 1 7 (10.29 %) Backup Exec 2 5 (7.353 %) NetBackup 3 4 (5.882 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 3 (4.412 %) MetaFrame 5 2 (2.941 %) Terminal Server 6 1 (1.471 %) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management 1 4 (5.882 %) ARCserve 2 2 (2.941 %) MOM 2 2 (2.941 %) DameWare 3 1 (1.471 %) OpenView Configuration Management 3 1 (1.471 %) Norton AntiVirus	Vendors 1 42 (61.76 %) Microsoft 2 19 (27.94 %) Citrix 3 13 (19.12 %) VMware 4 10 (14.71 %) Cisco 5 8 (11.76 %) IBM 5 8 (11.76 %) HP 6 7 (10.29 %) Dell 7 6 (8.824 %) Remedy 8 5 (7.353 %) VERITAS 9 3 (4.412 %) Novell 9 3 (4.412 %) Symantec 9 3 (4.412 %) SAP 10 2 (2.941 %) Adobe 10 2 (2.941 %) Lotus 11 1 (1.471 %) NetIQ 11 1 (1.471 %) Macrovision 11 1 (1.471 %) Altiris 11 1 (1.471 %) Sun 11 1 (1.471 %) Intel 11 1 (1.471 %) Oracle