The first table below looks at the demand for Active Directory skills in IT contracts advertised for the Brighton 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 Brighton 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 24 24 23
Rank change year-on-year
0 -1
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 3 15 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 2.098% 5.814% 1.538%
As % of the System Software category 75.00% 60.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 0
Average daily rate £365 £363 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.68% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £275 £275
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 0
Average hourly rate £14.50 £21.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-32.55% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.16 £15.13 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-6.38% +0.83%
All System Software
Brighton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
4 25 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 2.797% 9.690% 1.538%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 10 0
Average daily rate £358 £425 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.88% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 0
Average hourly rate £14.50 £21.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-32.55% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
Active Directory
East Sussex

Active Directory
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brighton 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 Brighton region.

Brighton 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 Brighton region.

Brighton Active Directory Hourly Rate Trend

Active Directory
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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
2 2 (50.00%) DHCP
2 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (50.00%) DNS
2 2 (50.00%) HP
2 2 (50.00%) Juniper
2 2 (50.00%) SAN
2 2 (50.00%) NetApp
2 2 (50.00%) CheckPoint
2 2 (50.00%) Blackberry
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Clustering
2 2 (50.00%) Backup Exec
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) ProCurve
3 1 (25.00%) HP SIM
3 1 (25.00%) F5
3 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (25.00%) Altiris
3 1 (25.00%) WebSphere
3 1 (25.00%) WSUS
3 1 (25.00%) Release Management
3 1 (25.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) SLA

Active Directory
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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 (25.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (25.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DHCP
1 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) SAN
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) LAN
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Desktop Support
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Desktop Support Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Desktop Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Support Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Blackberry
1 2 (50.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL
1 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (25.00%) Change Management
1 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (25.00%) Release Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Backup Exec
2 1 (25.00%) WSUS
2 1 (25.00%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) HP
1 2 (50.00%) Juniper
1 2 (50.00%) NetApp
1 2 (50.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
1 2 (50.00%) ProCurve
2 1 (25.00%) F5
2 1 (25.00%) Altiris