Active Directory Contracts in Belfast
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Active Directory skills in IT contracts advertised for the Belfast region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Active Directory over the 3 months to 24 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 Belfast 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Active Directory
Rank 30 14 33
Rank change year-on-year
-16 +19
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 3 15 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Belfast 1.546% 9.259% 3.364%
As % of the System Software category 42.86% 62.50% 42.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 6
Average daily rate £253 £260 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.88% -20.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £219 £260 £90
10% offered a daily rate of more than £287 £283 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £275 £275
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Average hourly rate - - £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £15.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-9.67% +3.33%
All System Software
Belfast
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category		 7 24 26
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Belfast 3.608% 14.81% 7.951%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 15
Average daily rate £295 £260 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.46% -20.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £261 £260 £247
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £265 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Average hourly rate - - £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.79 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-4.67% -1.98%
Active Directory
County Antrim

Active Directory
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Belfast 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 Belfast region.

Belfast 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 Belfast region.

Belfast Active Directory Hourly Rate Trend

Active Directory
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Belfast 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 6 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (55.56%) MS Exchange
2 5 (55.56%) Exchange Server 2010
3 4 (44.44%) TCP/IP
3 4 (44.44%) Windows
4 3 (33.33%) DNS
4 3 (33.33%) PBX
4 3 (33.33%) DHCP
4 3 (33.33%) Symantec
4 3 (33.33%) Lync
4 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (33.33%) Migration
4 3 (33.33%) VMware
5 2 (22.22%) Telecoms
5 2 (22.22%) Finance
5 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (22.22%) Hyper-V
5 2 (22.22%) Xen
5 2 (22.22%) Citrix Presentation Server
5 2 (22.22%) MS Excel
5 2 (22.22%) HP
5 2 (22.22%) Dell
5 2 (22.22%) Citrix
5 2 (22.22%) SAN
5 2 (22.22%) CommVault
5 2 (22.22%) NetApp
6 1 (11.11%) Change Management
6 1 (11.11%) SQL
6 1 (11.11%) COM
6 1 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2003

Active Directory
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Belfast 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 (11.11%) COM
Application Platforms
1 5 (55.56%) MS Exchange
1 5 (55.56%) Exchange Server 2010
2 3 (33.33%) Lync
3 1 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) TCP/IP
2 3 (33.33%) DNS
2 3 (33.33%) PBX
2 3 (33.33%) DHCP
3 2 (22.22%) SAN
General
1 2 (22.22%) Telecoms
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Citrix Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) Exchange Specialist
2 2 (22.22%) Citrix Technical Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) Technical Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Rollout Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Active Directory Specialist
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (11.11%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (22.22%) Hyper-V
2 2 (22.22%) Xen
2 2 (22.22%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 1 (11.11%) VMware ESX
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) Symantec
2 3 (33.33%) VMware
3 2 (22.22%) HP
3 2 (22.22%) Dell
3 2 (22.22%) Citrix
3 2 (22.22%) CommVault
3 2 (22.22%) NetApp
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