Birmingham Active Directory Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Active Directory skills within the Birmingham 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 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Active Directory
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Addlestone Aylesbury Ayrshire Bacup Barking Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Cleethorpes Colchester Colwyn Bay Conwy County Antrim Coventry Cramlington Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester 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 Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Farnborough Feltham Fife Gateshead Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grays Great Yarmouth Greenwich Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hartlepool Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Kegworth Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston Llandudno London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton Lutterworth Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Matlock Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Middlewich Midlands Milton Keynes Morecambe Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Shields South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Asaph Stafford Staffordshire Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex 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 Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	13	25
Rank change on same period last year	+12
Matching contract IT job ads	48	49
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.063 %	0.049 %
As % of the category below	81.36 %	75.38 %
Daily rates quoted	9	2
Average minimum daily rate	£199	£213
Average daily rate	£219	£244
% change on same period last year	-10.19 %
Average maximum daily rate	£239	£275
UK excluding London average daily rate	£296	£304
% change on same period last year	-2.43 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	31
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.89	£11.51
Average hourly rate	£17.83	£12.28
% change on same period last year	+45.27 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.78	£13.04
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.90	£18.93
% change on same period last year	-5.44 %
System Software Birmingham
Matching contract IT job ads	59	65
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.078 %	0.065 %
Daily rates quoted	11	3
Average minimum daily rate	£221	£242
Average daily rate	£240	£262
% change on same period last year	-8.71 %
Average maximum daily rate	£258	£283
UK excluding London average daily rate	£321	£325
% change on same period last year	-1.34 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	37
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.09	£12.80
Average hourly rate	£18.41	£13.67
% change on same period last year	+34.71 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.73	£14.53
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.86	£21.86
% change on same period last year	-4.59 %
Active Directory West Midlands

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 Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Active Directory across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 20 August 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 Birmingham region.

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Active Directory across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

Active Directory
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 81 (73.64 %) Windows 2 47 (42.73 %) Microsoft 3 38 (34.55 %) Windows XP 4 30 (27.27 %) MS Office 5 28 (25.45 %) Windows Server 2003 6 26 (23.64 %) MS Exchange 7 25 (22.73 %) Citrix 8 23 (20.91 %) Windows 2000 9 21 (19.09 %) Migration 10 18 (16.36 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 11 17 (15.45 %) Windows NT 12 16 (14.55 %) Exchange Server 2003 13 15 (13.64 %) VMware 14 13 (11.82 %) MS Excel 14 13 (11.82 %) SQL Server

15 12 (10.91 %) SQL 15 12 (10.91 %) NetWare 15 12 (10.91 %) Microsoft Certification 15 12 (10.91 %) HP 16 11 (10.00 %) TCP/IP 17 10 (9.091 %) SharePoint 17 10 (9.091 %) Windows Vista 18 9 (8.182 %) SQL Server 2005 19 8 (7.273 %) Workflow 19 8 (7.273 %) MCSE 19 8 (7.273 %) SAN 19 8 (7.273 %) Windows SharePoint Services 19 8 (7.273 %) Office Project Server 19 8 (7.273 %) SharePoint Server 2007 19 8 (7.273 %) WF

Active Directory
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 8 (7.273 %) Windows SharePoint Services 1 8 (7.273 %) WF 2 4 (3.636 %) ASP.NET 2 4 (3.636 %) HTML 2 4 (3.636 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 26 (23.64 %) MS Exchange 2 16 (14.55 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 10 (9.091 %) SharePoint 4 8 (7.273 %) Office Project Server 4 8 (7.273 %) SharePoint Server 2007 5 4 (3.636 %) Exchange Server 2007 6 3 (2.727 %) Exchange Server 5.5 7 2 (1.818 %) IIS 8 1 (0.909 %) Lotus Notes 8 1 (0.909 %) Lotus Domino 8 1 (0.909 %) GroupWise
Applications 1 30 (27.27 %) MS Office 2 13 (11.82 %) MS Excel 3 3 (2.727 %) InfoPath 4 1 (0.909 %) Acrobat	Business Applications 1 4 (3.636 %) SoftGrid 2 1 (0.909 %) assyst
Communications & Networking 1 11 (10.00 %) TCP/IP 2 8 (7.273 %) SAN 3 7 (6.364 %) Internet 4 6 (5.455 %) VPN 4 6 (5.455 %) LAN 4 6 (5.455 %) Firewall 5 4 (3.636 %) DNS 6 3 (2.727 %) SMS 6 3 (2.727 %) WAN 6 3 (2.727 %) DHCP 6 3 (2.727 %) Intranet 7 2 (1.818 %) DSL 7 2 (1.818 %) Network Security 8 1 (0.909 %) Ethernet 8 1 (0.909 %) NetScreen 8 1 (0.909 %) Wireless	Database & Business Intelligence 1 13 (11.82 %) SQL Server 2 9 (8.182 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2 (1.818 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (0.909 %) MS Access
Development Applications 1 4 (3.636 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (0.909 %) MSI	General 1 5 (4.545 %) Government 2 3 (2.727 %) Insurance 3 1 (0.909 %) Telecoms 3 1 (0.909 %) Finance 3 1 (0.909 %) Education 3 1 (0.909 %) Health 3 1 (0.909 %) Legal 3 1 (0.909 %) Manufacturing
Job Titles 1 19 (17.27 %) Analyst 2 13 (11.82 %) Applications Packager 2 13 (11.82 %) 3rd Line Support 3 10 (9.091 %) Support Analyst 4 9 (8.182 %) Desktop Support 5 8 (7.273 %) Developer 5 8 (7.273 %) 2nd Line Support 5 8 (7.273 %) SharePoint Developer 6 6 (5.455 %) Project Manager 6 6 (5.455 %) Support Technician 7 5 (4.545 %) Server Support 7 5 (4.545 %) 1st Line Support 8 4 (3.636 %) Administrator 8 4 (3.636 %) Helpdesk Support 8 4 (3.636 %) Desktop Engineer 8 4 (3.636 %) Support Engineer 8 4 (3.636 %) Technical Project Manager 8 4 (3.636 %) Technical Manager 9 3 (2.727 %) 3rd Line Support Analyst 9 3 (2.727 %) Citrix Administrator	Miscellaneous 1 7 (6.364 %) Client/Server 2 4 (3.636 %) Clustering 2 4 (3.636 %) NHS 3 2 (1.818 %) Thin Client 3 2 (1.818 %) Fat Client 4 1 (0.909 %) PDA 4 1 (0.909 %) Blackberry 4 1 (0.909 %) Management Information System
Operating Systems 1 81 (73.64 %) Windows 2 38 (34.55 %) Windows XP 3 28 (25.45 %) Windows Server 2003 4 23 (20.91 %) Windows 2000 5 17 (15.45 %) Windows NT 6 12 (10.91 %) NetWare 7 10 (9.091 %) Windows Vista 8 4 (3.636 %) Windows 2000 Server 9 2 (1.818 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 21 (19.09 %) Migration 2 8 (7.273 %) Workflow 3 7 (6.364 %) ITIL 4 4 (3.636 %) PRINCE2 4 4 (3.636 %) System Testing 5 3 (2.727 %) Data Migration 5 3 (2.727 %) Project Management 6 2 (1.818 %) Network Design 7 1 (0.909 %) Security Cleared 7 1 (0.909 %) Supplier Management 7 1 (0.909 %) CRM 7 1 (0.909 %) Information Security 7 1 (0.909 %) Service Delivery
Programming Languages 1 12 (10.91 %) SQL 2 2 (1.818 %) C 3 1 (0.909 %) VBScript 3 1 (0.909 %) VB	Qualifications 1 12 (10.91 %) Microsoft Certification 2 8 (7.273 %) MCSE 3 4 (3.636 %) MCP 4 3 (2.727 %) MCSA 5 2 (1.818 %) Cisco Certification 5 2 (1.818 %) CCNA 5 2 (1.818 %) MCDST 6 1 (0.909 %) MOS 6 1 (0.909 %) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (2.727 %) SLA 2 1 (0.909 %) ISO27001	System Software 1 7 (6.364 %) Citrix Presentation Server 1 7 (6.364 %) VMware Infrastructure 2 3 (2.727 %) MetaFrame 2 3 (2.727 %) VMware ESX 3 2 (1.818 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 4 1 (0.909 %) VMware Server 4 1 (0.909 %) Terminal Server 4 1 (0.909 %) Terminal Services 4 1 (0.909 %) Backup Exec
Systems Management 1 18 (16.36 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 3 (2.727 %) DameWare 3 2 (1.818 %) Norton AntiVirus 3 2 (1.818 %) MOM 3 2 (1.818 %) ARCserve 4 1 (0.909 %) HP Data Protector 4 1 (0.909 %) SCCM 4 1 (0.909 %) SCOM 4 1 (0.909 %) MAILsweeper	Vendors 1 47 (42.73 %) Microsoft 2 25 (22.73 %) Citrix 3 15 (13.64 %) VMware 4 12 (10.91 %) HP 5 7 (6.364 %) Novell 5 7 (6.364 %) Cisco 6 6 (5.455 %) Symantec 7 3 (2.727 %) Altiris 7 3 (2.727 %) VERITAS 7 3 (2.727 %) Compaq 7 3 (2.727 %) Remedy 8 2 (1.818 %) IBM 8 2 (1.818 %) Lotus 8 2 (1.818 %) LANDesk 9 1 (0.909 %) Blue Coat 9 1 (0.909 %) Oracle 9 1 (0.909 %) SAP 9 1 (0.909 %) JD Edwards 9 1 (0.909 %) Adobe 9 1 (0.909 %) Dell