The first table below looks at the demand for Active Directory skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bedford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Active Directory over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the System Software category for the Bedford region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Active Directory
Rank 5 - 12
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 2 0 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedford 10.00% - 9.524%
As % of the System Software category 100.00% - 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £158 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £275 £275
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £10.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.16 £15.13 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-6.38% +0.83%
All System Software
Bedford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
2 0 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedford 10.00% - 9.524%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £158 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £10.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
Active Directory
Bedfordshire

Active Directory
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Active Directory across the Bedford region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

Bedford Active Directory Jobs Demand Trend

Active Directory
Daily Rate Trend

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

Bedford Active Directory Daily Rate Trend

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Bedford Active Directory Hourly Rate Trend

Active Directory
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedford 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 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (50.00%) Windows 7
2 2 (50.00%) MS Project
2 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (50.00%) Windows XP
2 2 (50.00%) MS Visio
2 2 (50.00%) MS Exchange
2 2 (50.00%) SAN
3 1 (25.00%) Back Office
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) IIS
3 1 (25.00%) DMZ
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (25.00%) DHCP
3 1 (25.00%) DNS
3 1 (25.00%) Citrix
3 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (25.00%) NAS
3 1 (25.00%) VMware ESX

Active Directory
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedford 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 Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (25.00%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) MS Project
1 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
1 2 (50.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (25.00%) DMZ
2 1 (25.00%) NAS
2 1 (25.00%) DHCP
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
General
1 1 (25.00%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) Project Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Technical Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Project Coordinator
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Coordinator
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Windows XP
2 2 (50.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) VMware ESX
1 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix
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Posted: 17 May 2013