Bicester Active Directory Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Active Directory skills within the Bicester 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 7 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 Douglas 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 Grays Great Yarmouth Greenwich Grimsby Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hartlepool Haslemere Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Hove Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man 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 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 Salford Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Scottish Borders Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Asaph St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport 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 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	10	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	9	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	100.00 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum daily rate	£280	-
Average daily rate	£290	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£300	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£303	£301
% change on same period last year	+0.71 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	-
Average hourly rate	£27.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.32	£18.69
% change on same period last year	-1.94 %
System Software Bicester
Matching contract IT job ads	9	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum daily rate	£280	-
Average daily rate	£290	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£300	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£318	£323
% change on same period last year	-1.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	-
Average hourly rate	£27.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.38	£21.38
% change on same period last year	-0.01 %
Active Directory Oxfordshire

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 Bicester 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 Bicester region.

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Active Directory across the Bicester region over the 3 months to 7 October 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 Bicester region.

Active Directory
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bicester 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 14 (100.00 %) Windows 2 6 (42.86 %) Windows Server 2003 3 4 (28.57 %) Cisco 3 4 (28.57 %) Citrix 3 4 (28.57 %) MS Exchange 3 4 (28.57 %) DHCP 3 4 (28.57 %) DNS 4 3 (21.43 %) IP Telephony 4 3 (21.43 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 3 (21.43 %) Auditing 4 3 (21.43 %) VMware 4 3 (21.43 %) TCP/IP 4 3 (21.43 %) SAN 4 3 (21.43 %) NetApp 5 2 (14.29 %) Microsoft Certification

5 2 (14.29 %) Blackberry 5 2 (14.29 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 5 2 (14.29 %) WAN 5 2 (14.29 %) Project Management 5 2 (14.29 %) Ethernet 5 2 (14.29 %) LAN 5 2 (14.29 %) MCSE 5 2 (14.29 %) Windows XP 5 2 (14.29 %) SQL Server 5 2 (14.29 %) Degree 5 2 (14.29 %) Citrix Presentation Server 5 2 (14.29 %) SC Cleared 5 2 (14.29 %) Security Cleared 6 1 (7.143 %) SQL Server 2005 6 1 (7.143 %) Exchange Server 2000

Active Directory
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bicester 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 (7.143 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 4 (28.57 %) MS Exchange 2 3 (21.43 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 2 (14.29 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 4 1 (7.143 %) Exchange Server 2000
Applications 1 1 (7.143 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 4 (28.57 %) DHCP 1 4 (28.57 %) DNS 2 3 (21.43 %) IP Telephony 2 3 (21.43 %) TCP/IP 2 3 (21.43 %) SAN 3 2 (14.29 %) WAN 3 2 (14.29 %) Ethernet 3 2 (14.29 %) LAN 4 1 (7.143 %) Cisco IPT 4 1 (7.143 %) Intrusion Detection 4 1 (7.143 %) VoIP 4 1 (7.143 %) VPN 4 1 (7.143 %) SSL 4 1 (7.143 %) Firewall 4 1 (7.143 %) PPTP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2 1 (7.143 %) SQL Server 2005 2 1 (7.143 %) SQL Server 2000	General 1 3 (21.43 %) Auditing 2 1 (7.143 %) Automotive
Job Titles 1 4 (28.57 %) Analyst 1 4 (28.57 %) Senior Analyst 1 4 (28.57 %) Technical Analyst 1 4 (28.57 %) Senior Technical Analyst 2 3 (21.43 %) Infrastructure Specialist 3 2 (14.29 %) 3rd Line Support 3 2 (14.29 %) Technical Lead 4 1 (7.143 %) Security Specialist 4 1 (7.143 %) IT Administrator 4 1 (7.143 %) IT Manager 4 1 (7.143 %) Systems Administrator 4 1 (7.143 %) Administrator	Miscellaneous 1 2 (14.29 %) Blackberry
Operating Systems 1 14 (100.00 %) Windows 2 6 (42.86 %) Windows Server 2003 3 2 (14.29 %) Windows XP 4 1 (7.143 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (14.29 %) Project Management 1 2 (14.29 %) SC Cleared 1 2 (14.29 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (7.143 %) ITIL
Programming Languages 1 1 (7.143 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 2 (14.29 %) Microsoft Certification 1 2 (14.29 %) MCSE 1 2 (14.29 %) Degree
System Software 1 2 (14.29 %) Citrix Presentation Server	Systems Management 1 1 (7.143 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors 1 4 (28.57 %) Cisco 1 4 (28.57 %) Citrix 2 3 (21.43 %) VMware 2 3 (21.43 %) NetApp 3 1 (7.143 %) Microsoft