Bristol Active Directory Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Active Directory skills within the Bristol 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 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Active Directory
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Addlestone Aylesbury Ayrshire 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 Dewsbury 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 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 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 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 Midlothian Milton Keynes Morecambe 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 Paisley Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Shields South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Asaph Stafford Staffordshire Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Thurrock Torfaen Trowbridge Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	36	26
Rank change on same period last year	-10
Matching contract IT job ads	24	55
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.032 %	0.055 %
As % of the category below	45.28 %	61.11 %
Daily rates quoted	1	16
Average minimum daily rate	£400	£244
Average daily rate	£425	£252
% change on same period last year	+68.83 %
Average maximum daily rate	£450	£259
UK excluding London average daily rate	£300	£301
% change on same period last year	-0.62 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	17
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.50	£17.18
Average hourly rate	£20.06	£18.06
% change on same period last year	+11.09 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.63	£18.94
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.03	£18.73
% change on same period last year	-3.75 %
System Software Bristol
Matching contract IT job ads	53	90
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.071 %	0.090 %
Daily rates quoted	8	24
Average minimum daily rate	£273	£256
Average daily rate	£291	£285
% change on same period last year	+2.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£309	£315
UK excluding London average daily rate	£321	£325
% change on same period last year	-1.17 %
Hourly rates quoted	18	27
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.18	£23.00
Average hourly rate	£27.05	£26.43
% change on same period last year	+2.32 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.91	£29.86
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.21	£21.86
% change on same period last year	-3.00 %
Active Directory South West

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 Bristol 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 Bristol region.

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 Bristol region.

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Active Directory across the Bristol region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

Active Directory
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 36 (60.00 %) Windows 2 20 (33.33 %) Microsoft 3 19 (31.67 %) Windows Server 2003 3 19 (31.67 %) MS Exchange 3 19 (31.67 %) DNS 4 16 (26.67 %) Citrix 5 13 (21.67 %) LAN 5 13 (21.67 %) Windows XP 5 13 (21.67 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 12 (20.00 %) Microsoft Certification 7 11 (18.33 %) WAN 7 11 (18.33 %) Firewall 8 10 (16.67 %) VMware 8 10 (16.67 %) SQL 9 9 (15.00 %) Cisco

9 9 (15.00 %) SharePoint 10 8 (13.33 %) DHCP 10 8 (13.33 %) TCP/IP 10 8 (13.33 %) SAN 11 7 (11.67 %) Backup Exec 11 7 (11.67 %) Exchange Server 2000 11 7 (11.67 %) MS Office 11 7 (11.67 %) MCP 11 7 (11.67 %) Windows 2000 12 6 (10.00 %) MCSE 12 6 (10.00 %) VoIP 13 5 (8.333 %) Migration 13 5 (8.333 %) Frame Relay 13 5 (8.333 %) IIS 13 5 (8.333 %) ATM

Active Directory
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 5 (8.333 %) CORBA	Application Platforms 1 19 (31.67 %) MS Exchange 2 13 (21.67 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 9 (15.00 %) SharePoint 4 7 (11.67 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 5 (8.333 %) IIS 6 4 (6.667 %) Lotus Notes 7 1 (1.667 %) WebLogic 7 1 (1.667 %) Exchange Server 2007 7 1 (1.667 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 7 1 (1.667 %) Exchange Server 5.5
Applications 1 7 (11.67 %) MS Office 2 4 (6.667 %) MS Excel 3 1 (1.667 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 19 (31.67 %) DNS 2 13 (21.67 %) LAN 3 11 (18.33 %) WAN 3 11 (18.33 %) Firewall 4 8 (13.33 %) SAN 4 8 (13.33 %) DHCP 4 8 (13.33 %) TCP/IP 5 6 (10.00 %) VoIP 6 5 (8.333 %) ATM 6 5 (8.333 %) MPLS 6 5 (8.333 %) Frame Relay 7 4 (6.667 %) Network Security 8 3 (5.000 %) VLAN 8 3 (5.000 %) VPN 9 2 (3.333 %) SMS 10 1 (1.667 %) FTP 10 1 (1.667 %) LLU 10 1 (1.667 %) IP Telephony 10 1 (1.667 %) Wireless
Development Applications 1 5 (8.333 %) Visual Studio	General 1 4 (6.667 %) Law 2 3 (5.000 %) Multimedia 2 3 (5.000 %) Music 3 2 (3.333 %) Telecoms 3 2 (3.333 %) Government 3 2 (3.333 %) Health 4 1 (1.667 %) Education 4 1 (1.667 %) Local Government 4 1 (1.667 %) Retail
Job Titles 1 17 (28.33 %) Support Engineer 2 12 (20.00 %) Desktop Support 3 11 (18.33 %) Network Support 4 10 (16.67 %) Analyst 5 8 (13.33 %) Administrator 6 7 (11.67 %) Systems Administrator 6 7 (11.67 %) 3rd Line Support 7 6 (10.00 %) Technical Analyst 7 6 (10.00 %) Desktop Engineer 8 5 (8.333 %) Desktop Support Engineer 8 5 (8.333 %) Server Support 8 5 (8.333 %) Technical Support 9 4 (6.667 %) Support Analyst 9 4 (6.667 %) Consultant 9 4 (6.667 %) 2nd Line Support 10 3 (5.000 %) Server Engineer 10 3 (5.000 %) Network Engineer 10 3 (5.000 %) Support Technician 10 3 (5.000 %) Network Support Engineer 11 2 (3.333 %) Technical Support Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 1 (1.667 %) Blackberry 1 1 (1.667 %) SecurID
Operating Systems 1 36 (60.00 %) Windows 2 19 (31.67 %) Windows Server 2003 3 13 (21.67 %) Windows XP 4 7 (11.67 %) Windows 2000 5 3 (5.000 %) UNIX 6 2 (3.333 %) Windows Vista 7 1 (1.667 %) Windows 2000 Server 7 1 (1.667 %) Red Hat Linux 7 1 (1.667 %) Solaris 7 1 (1.667 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (8.333 %) Migration 2 4 (6.667 %) Agile Software Development 2 4 (6.667 %) Load Balancing 3 3 (5.000 %) Security Cleared 4 2 (3.333 %) SC Cleared 5 1 (1.667 %) Network Load Balancing
Programming Languages 1 10 (16.67 %) SQL 2 5 (8.333 %) Java 3 1 (1.667 %) Perl 3 1 (1.667 %) VBScript 3 1 (1.667 %) VB 3 1 (1.667 %) Shell Script	Qualifications 1 12 (20.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 7 (11.67 %) MCP 3 6 (10.00 %) MCSE 4 4 (6.667 %) CCNA 4 4 (6.667 %) Cisco Certification 5 3 (5.000 %) MCSA 6 1 (1.667 %) MCDST 6 1 (1.667 %) MCTS 6 1 (1.667 %) MCITP 6 1 (1.667 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (3.333 %) SLA	System Software 1 7 (11.67 %) Backup Exec 2 4 (6.667 %) NetBackup 3 2 (3.333 %) VMware ESX 3 2 (3.333 %) Terminal Services 3 2 (3.333 %) Citrix Presentation Server 4 1 (1.667 %) VMware GSX
Systems Management 1 4 (6.667 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 2 (3.333 %) DameWare 3 1 (1.667 %) EMC Navisphere 3 1 (1.667 %) MIMEsweeper 3 1 (1.667 %) Tivoli 3 1 (1.667 %) MOM	Vendors 1 20 (33.33 %) Microsoft 2 16 (26.67 %) Citrix 3 10 (16.67 %) VMware 4 9 (15.00 %) Cisco 5 4 (6.667 %) Lotus 6 2 (3.333 %) VERITAS 6 2 (3.333 %) Remedy 6 2 (3.333 %) EMC 6 2 (3.333 %) Oracle 7 1 (1.667 %) SAP 7 1 (1.667 %) IBM 7 1 (1.667 %) Sun 7 1 (1.667 %) HP 7 1 (1.667 %) Dell 7 1 (1.667 %) Nortel 7 1 (1.667 %) Avaya 7 1 (1.667 %) Red Hat 7 1 (1.667 %) Symantec 7 1 (1.667 %) Altiris 7 1 (1.667 %) Blue Coat