Berkshire Active Directory Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Active Directory skills within the Berkshire 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Active Directory
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Avon Aylesbury Ayrshire Bacup Banbury Barking Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bognor Regis Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Colwyn Bay Conwy County Antrim Coventry Cramlington Crawley Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Douglas Dover Dudley Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Ely Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Fife Fleetwood Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grays Greenwich Guildford Guisborough Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Hartlepool Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Inverurie Ipswich Isle of Man Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Knutsford Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Middlewich Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Redcar Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rochdale Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South Croydon South East South Shields South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Asaph Stafford Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Thurrock Torfaen Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Witham Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	39	32
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching contract IT job ads	117	216
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.156 %	0.219 %
As % of the category below	58.79 %	67.08 %
Daily rates quoted	25	61
Average minimum daily rate	£336	£328
Average daily rate	£351	£362
% change on same period last year	-2.97 %
Average maximum daily rate	£367	£396
UK excluding London average daily rate	£296	£303
% change on same period last year	-2.12 %
Hourly rates quoted	21	44
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.76	£24.01
Average hourly rate	£18.33	£25.12
% change on same period last year	-27.03 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.90	£26.24
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.55	£18.80
% change on same period last year	-6.62 %
System Software Berkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	199	322
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.265 %	0.326 %
Daily rates quoted	41	94
Average minimum daily rate	£345	£331
Average daily rate	£359	£358
% change on same period last year	+0.18 %
Average maximum daily rate	£373	£386
UK excluding London average daily rate	£323	£327
% change on same period last year	-1.33 %
Hourly rates quoted	29	63
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.73	£24.73
Average hourly rate	£18.23	£26.08
% change on same period last year	-30.11 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.72	£27.43
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.00	£22.17
% change on same period last year	-5.27 %
Active Directory South East

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 Berkshire 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 Berkshire region.

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Active Directory across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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 Berkshire region.

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Active Directory across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Active Directory
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Active Directory within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Reading	-3	52	£432	+10.62 %
Maidenhead	+19	8	-	-
Newbury	+5	7	£100	-61.63 %
Slough	-13	5	£160	-47.96 %
Wokingham	+2	3	-	-
Bracknell	+5	3	-	-

Active Directory South East

Active Directory
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire 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.

1 192 (72.18 %) Windows 2 125 (46.99 %) Microsoft 3 87 (32.71 %) MS Exchange 4 63 (23.68 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 58 (21.80 %) TCP/IP 6 49 (18.42 %) VMware 7 48 (18.05 %) Windows Server 2003 8 46 (17.29 %) Microsoft Certification 9 43 (16.17 %) Citrix 9 43 (16.17 %) DNS 10 37 (13.91 %) Windows 2000 10 37 (13.91 %) MCSE 11 36 (13.53 %) ITIL 11 36 (13.53 %) Windows XP 12 35 (13.16 %) DHCP

13 34 (12.78 %) Security Cleared 14 32 (12.03 %) HP 15 31 (11.65 %) SAN 16 30 (11.28 %) MS Excel 17 28 (10.53 %) SQL 18 27 (10.15 %) Clustering 19 26 (9.774 %) SQL Server 19 26 (9.774 %) Exchange Server 2007 20 24 (9.023 %) SC Cleared 20 24 (9.023 %) MS Office 21 20 (7.519 %) WAN 21 20 (7.519 %) Firewall 21 20 (7.519 %) Exchange Server 2000 22 19 (7.143 %) Migration 23 18 (6.767 %) Altiris

Active Directory
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire 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 12 (4.511 %) .NET 2 9 (3.383 %) Application Packaging 3 8 (3.008 %) XML 4 5 (1.880 %) ASP.NET 5 4 (1.504 %) HTML 5 4 (1.504 %) ASP 5 4 (1.504 %) WSH 5 4 (1.504 %) WMI 6 3 (1.128 %) .NET Framework 6 3 (1.128 %) WebServices 7 2 (0.752 %) ADSI 8 1 (0.376 %) MAPI 8 1 (0.376 %) J2EE	Application Platforms 1 87 (32.71 %) MS Exchange 2 63 (23.68 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 26 (9.774 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 20 (7.519 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 17 (6.391 %) IIS 6 14 (5.263 %) SharePoint 7 13 (4.887 %) Lotus Notes 8 12 (4.511 %) SharePoint Server 2007 9 7 (2.632 %) BizTalk Server 9 7 (2.632 %) Exchange Server 5.5 10 6 (2.256 %) GroupWise 10 6 (2.256 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 11 3 (1.128 %) Office Communications Server 12 2 (0.752 %) Site Server 13 1 (0.376 %) Lotus Domino 13 1 (0.376 %) Oracle Application Server
Applications 1 30 (11.28 %) MS Excel 2 24 (9.023 %) MS Office 3 1 (0.376 %) MS Project 3 1 (0.376 %) MS PowerPoint 3 1 (0.376 %) Spreadsheet	Business Applications 1 1 (0.376 %) Microsoft CRM 1 1 (0.376 %) MFGPRO 1 1 (0.376 %) SoftGrid
Communications & Networking 1 58 (21.80 %) TCP/IP 2 43 (16.17 %) DNS 3 35 (13.16 %) DHCP 4 31 (11.65 %) SAN 5 20 (7.519 %) WAN 5 20 (7.519 %) Firewall 6 17 (6.391 %) LAN 6 17 (6.391 %) SMS 7 14 (5.263 %) LDAP 7 14 (5.263 %) VPN 8 6 (2.256 %) Internet 8 6 (2.256 %) Wireless 9 5 (1.880 %) X.500 9 5 (1.880 %) NetScreen 10 3 (1.128 %) Ethernet 11 2 (0.752 %) X.400 12 1 (0.376 %) Fast Ethernet 12 1 (0.376 %) Network Security 12 1 (0.376 %) IPX 12 1 (0.376 %) SMTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 26 (9.774 %) SQL Server 2 6 (2.256 %) SQL Server 2005 3 3 (1.128 %) SQL Server 7 4 2 (0.752 %) SQL Server 2000 5 1 (0.376 %) EDMS
Development Applications 1 8 (3.008 %) MSI 2 4 (1.504 %) InstallShield 2 4 (1.504 %) StarTeam 3 3 (1.128 %) TestDirector 4 1 (0.376 %) Synon 4 1 (0.376 %) PVCS 4 1 (0.376 %) VSS/SourceSafe	General 1 9 (3.383 %) Telecoms 2 7 (2.632 %) Finance 2 7 (2.632 %) Government 3 4 (1.504 %) Pharmaceutical 4 3 (1.128 %) Marketing 4 3 (1.128 %) Military 5 2 (0.752 %) Retail 5 2 (0.752 %) Construction 6 1 (0.376 %) Education 6 1 (0.376 %) Health 6 1 (0.376 %) Legal 6 1 (0.376 %) Advertising
Job Titles 1 51 (19.17 %) Support Engineer 2 43 (16.17 %) Analyst 2 43 (16.17 %) 3rd Line Support 3 29 (10.90 %) Support Analyst 4 23 (8.647 %) Consultant 5 21 (7.895 %) Desktop Support 5 21 (7.895 %) 2nd Line Support 6 19 (7.143 %) Administrator 7 16 (6.015 %) Team Leader 8 13 (4.887 %) Server Support 9 12 (4.511 %) Systems Support 9 12 (4.511 %) 1st Line Support 9 12 (4.511 %) Systems Administrator 10 11 (4.135 %) Systems Engineer 10 11 (4.135 %) Desktop Engineer 10 11 (4.135 %) Desktop Support Engineer 11 10 (3.759 %) Systems Analyst 12 8 (3.008 %) Architect 12 8 (3.008 %) Server Engineer 13 7 (2.632 %) Systems Integrator	Miscellaneous 1 27 (10.15 %) Clustering 2 15 (5.639 %) Blackberry 3 3 (1.128 %) Management Information System 3 3 (1.128 %) Replication 3 3 (1.128 %) Client/Server 4 2 (0.752 %) CLARiiON 4 2 (0.752 %) PKI 5 1 (0.376 %) Taxonomies 5 1 (0.376 %) Spread Betting 5 1 (0.376 %) Computer Science 5 1 (0.376 %) Fat Client 5 1 (0.376 %) Data Conversion 5 1 (0.376 %) Thin Client 5 1 (0.376 %) Smartcard
Operating Systems 1 192 (72.18 %) Windows 2 48 (18.05 %) Windows Server 2003 3 37 (13.91 %) Windows 2000 4 36 (13.53 %) Windows XP 5 13 (4.887 %) Windows NT 6 10 (3.759 %) UNIX 7 8 (3.008 %) Solaris 8 7 (2.632 %) Linux 8 7 (2.632 %) Windows Vista 9 6 (2.256 %) NetWare 10 5 (1.880 %) AIX 11 1 (0.376 %) HPUX	Processes & Methodologies 1 36 (13.53 %) ITIL 2 34 (12.78 %) Security Cleared 3 24 (9.023 %) SC Cleared 4 19 (7.143 %) Migration 5 14 (5.263 %) Project Management 5 14 (5.263 %) Service Management 6 8 (3.008 %) ITSM 6 8 (3.008 %) DV Cleared 7 6 (2.256 %) PRINCE2 8 5 (1.880 %) Disaster Recovery 8 5 (1.880 %) Content Management 9 4 (1.504 %) Validation 10 3 (1.128 %) Data Migration 10 3 (1.128 %) Data Security 11 2 (0.752 %) Workflow 11 2 (0.752 %) Load Balancing 11 2 (0.752 %) MOF 11 2 (0.752 %) CRM 11 2 (0.752 %) Time Management 11 2 (0.752 %) BC Cleared
Programming Languages 1 28 (10.53 %) SQL 2 15 (5.639 %) VBScript 3 9 (3.383 %) C# 4 8 (3.008 %) VB 5 5 (1.880 %) C++ 6 4 (1.504 %) VBA 7 2 (0.752 %) C 8 1 (0.376 %) Perl 8 1 (0.376 %) Shell Script 8 1 (0.376 %) PowerShell	Qualifications 1 46 (17.29 %) Microsoft Certification 2 37 (13.91 %) MCSE 3 15 (5.639 %) MCP 4 14 (5.263 %) Cisco Certification 4 14 (5.263 %) CCNA 5 5 (1.880 %) Citrix Certification 6 4 (1.504 %) CCA 6 4 (1.504 %) MCSA 7 3 (1.128 %) Degree 8 2 (0.752 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 8 2 (0.752 %) CCEA 9 1 (0.376 %) CISSP 9 1 (0.376 %) MCDST 9 1 (0.376 %) ITIL Certification 9 1 (0.376 %) CISA 9 1 (0.376 %) CISM 9 1 (0.376 %) MOS 9 1 (0.376 %) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 7 (2.632 %) SLA 2 1 (0.376 %) QA	System Software 1 16 (6.015 %) VMware Infrastructure 2 15 (5.639 %) ISA Server 3 12 (4.511 %) Novell eDirectory 4 11 (4.135 %) VMware ESX 5 9 (3.383 %) Backup Exec 6 8 (3.008 %) NetBackup 7 5 (1.880 %) NDS 8 4 (1.504 %) Citrix Presentation Server 9 3 (1.128 %) MetaFrame 9 3 (1.128 %) Terminal Server 10 2 (0.752 %) Terminal Services 10 2 (0.752 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 10 2 (0.752 %) VMware Server 11 1 (0.376 %) VMware Workstation
Systems Management 1 10 (3.759 %) MOM 1 10 (3.759 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 1 10 (3.759 %) SCCM 2 6 (2.256 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 2 6 (2.256 %) WSUS 3 4 (1.504 %) OpenView Configuration Management 4 2 (0.752 %) OpenView 5 1 (0.376 %) Unicenter 5 1 (0.376 %) Legato 5 1 (0.376 %) ZENworks 5 1 (0.376 %) Norton AntiVirus 5 1 (0.376 %) EMC Navisphere	Vendors 1 125 (46.99 %) Microsoft 2 49 (18.42 %) VMware 3 43 (16.17 %) Citrix 4 32 (12.03 %) HP 5 18 (6.767 %) Altiris 5 18 (6.767 %) Novell 6 15 (5.639 %) VERITAS 7 14 (5.263 %) Lotus 7 14 (5.263 %) Dell 8 10 (3.759 %) Sun 8 10 (3.759 %) Cisco 9 9 (3.383 %) Oracle 9 9 (3.383 %) EMC 10 8 (3.008 %) Symantec 11 6 (2.256 %) Remedy 11 6 (2.256 %) Compaq 12 5 (1.880 %) IBM 13 4 (1.504 %) Borland 14 3 (1.128 %) McAfee Security 14 3 (1.128 %) LANDesk