The first table below looks at the demand for Active Directory skills in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Active Directory over the 3 months to 23 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 Buckinghamshire 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Active Directory
Rank 24 20 21
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +1
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 50 71 63
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 6.165% 7.194% 5.796%
As % of the System Software category 49.02% 74.74% 85.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 19 19
Average daily rate £313 £225 £185
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+38.88% +21.62%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £112 £95 £94
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £315 £310
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £275 £275
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 20 25
Average hourly rate £13.00 £13.50 £16.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.70% -19.40%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.48 £10.37
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £15.00 £23.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.42 £15.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-6.95% +3.33%
All System Software
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
102 95 74
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 12.58% 9.625% 6.808%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 28 21
Average daily rate £350 £300 £215
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% +39.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £105 £100
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £325 £303
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 20 26
Average hourly rate £14.00 £13.50 £16.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.70% -19.40%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.03 £10.48 £10.56
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.50 £15.00 £25.05
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
Active Directory
South East

Active Directory
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire Active Directory Daily Rate Trend

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Active Directory across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Buckinghamshire Active Directory Daily Rate Histogram

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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire Active Directory Hourly Rate Trend

Active Directory
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Active Directory within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Milton Keynes 0 40 £425 +69.66%
High Wycombe -4 4 £265 +178.94%
Iver - 1 £325 -
Marlow - 1 - -
Active Directory
South East

Active Directory
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 84 (70.00%) Windows
2 71 (59.17%) Microsoft
3 38 (31.67%) Citrix
3 38 (31.67%) MS Exchange
4 35 (29.17%) MS Excel
4 35 (29.17%) VMware
5 34 (28.33%) MS Office
6 31 (25.83%) Windows XP
7 30 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
7 30 (25.00%) Windows 7
8 29 (24.17%) Windows Server 2003
9 25 (20.83%) Remedy
9 25 (20.83%) Exchange Server 2010
9 25 (20.83%) Exchange Server 2007
10 21 (17.50%) VMware Infrastructure
10 21 (17.50%) ITIL
11 20 (16.67%) TCP/IP
12 19 (15.83%) Exchange Server 2003
13 18 (15.00%) Hyper-V
13 18 (15.00%) Finance
14 17 (14.17%) MS PowerPoint
15 16 (13.33%) Firewall
15 16 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
15 16 (13.33%) SAN
15 16 (13.33%) Lotus
15 16 (13.33%) Lotus Notes
16 15 (12.50%) SQL
16 15 (12.50%) Security Cleared
17 14 (11.67%) Migration
18 13 (10.83%) Linux

Active Directory
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 (0.833%) Web Services
1 1 (0.833%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 38 (31.67%) MS Exchange
2 25 (20.83%) Exchange Server 2010
2 25 (20.83%) Exchange Server 2007
3 19 (15.83%) Exchange Server 2003
4 16 (13.33%) Lotus Notes
5 9 (7.500%) GroupWise
6 5 (4.167%) IIS
7 4 (3.333%) BizTalk Server
7 4 (3.333%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 2 (1.667%) SharePoint
8 2 (1.667%) Lync
9 1 (0.833%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 35 (29.17%) MS Excel
2 34 (28.33%) MS Office
3 17 (14.17%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 20 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 16 (13.33%) Firewall
2 16 (13.33%) SAN
3 13 (10.83%) DHCP
3 13 (10.83%) VPN
4 12 (10.00%) DNS
5 11 (9.167%) WAN
5 11 (9.167%) LAN
6 9 (7.500%) Broadband
7 8 (6.667%) 3G
7 8 (6.667%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (4.167%) NAS
8 5 (4.167%) Wireless
8 5 (4.167%) WLAN
9 4 (3.333%) Internet
9 4 (3.333%) VoIP
10 3 (2.500%) Network Security
11 2 (1.667%) LDAP
11 2 (1.667%) SS7
12 1 (0.833%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (5.000%) SQL Server 2008
2 6 (5.000%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (1.667%) MySQL
4 1 (0.833%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (0.833%) Oracle OLAP
4 1 (0.833%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (0.833%) BusinessObjects XI
4 1 (0.833%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (0.833%) OLAP
4 1 (0.833%) Oracle Discoverer
4 1 (0.833%) Oracle 10g
4 1 (0.833%) SQL Server 2000
General
1 18 (15.00%) Finance
2 4 (3.333%) Marketing
3 2 (1.667%) Retail
3 2 (1.667%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 53 (44.17%) Analyst
2 29 (24.17%) Service Desk Analyst
2 29 (24.17%) Service Analyst
3 14 (11.67%) Support Analyst
3 14 (11.67%) Support Engineer
4 10 (8.333%) 2nd Line Support
5 9 (7.500%) Systems Engineer
6 8 (6.667%) Consultant
6 8 (6.667%) Help Desk Analyst
7 7 (5.833%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
8 6 (5.000%) 1st Line Support
8 6 (5.000%) Administrator
8 6 (5.000%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (4.167%) Systems Support Engineer
9 5 (4.167%) Systems Support
10 4 (3.333%) Systems Administrator
10 4 (3.333%) 3rd Line Support
10 4 (3.333%) Help Desk Support
10 4 (3.333%) Integration Engineer
11 3 (2.500%) Windows Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.667%) PDA
2 7 (5.833%) Clustering
3 5 (4.167%) Blackberry
4 3 (2.500%) Mathematics
4 3 (2.500%) EPoS
5 2 (1.667%) Replication
5 2 (1.667%) Computer Science
6 1 (0.833%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 84 (70.00%) Windows
2 31 (25.83%) Windows XP
3 30 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 30 (25.00%) Windows 7
4 29 (24.17%) Windows Server 2003
5 13 (10.83%) Linux
5 13 (10.83%) Windows Vista
6 9 (7.500%) CentOS
7 7 (5.833%) Windows 2000
8 5 (4.167%) Windows 2000 Server
8 5 (4.167%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (4.167%) Windows NT
9 1 (0.833%) Windows 8
9 1 (0.833%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (17.50%) ITIL
2 14 (11.67%) Migration
3 7 (5.833%) Information Security
4 5 (4.167%) Compatibility Testing
4 5 (4.167%) Capacity Planning
5 4 (3.333%) Configuration Management
5 4 (3.333%) Validation
5 4 (3.333%) Integration Testing
5 4 (3.333%) Test Scripting
6 3 (2.500%) Incident Management
6 3 (2.500%) Network Management
7 2 (1.667%) Change Management
7 2 (1.667%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (1.667%) Load Balancing
8 1 (0.833%) Supplier Management
8 1 (0.833%) Time Management
8 1 (0.833%) ITIL V3
8 1 (0.833%) High Availability
8 1 (0.833%) SIEM
8 1 (0.833%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 15 (12.50%) SQL
2 2 (1.667%) Perl
2 2 (1.667%) VBScript
3 1 (0.833%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.833%) VB
3 1 (0.833%) VBA
3 1 (0.833%) Java
3 1 (0.833%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 15 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 10 (8.333%) SC Cleared
4 8 (6.667%) ITIL Certification
4 8 (6.667%) DV Cleared
5 5 (4.167%) Degree
5 5 (4.167%) MCSE
5 5 (4.167%) CNA
5 5 (4.167%) Novell Certification
6 2 (1.667%) MCDST
7 1 (0.833%) MCITP
7 1 (0.833%) MCSA
7 1 (0.833%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.833%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.167%) SLA
2 4 (3.333%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 21 (17.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (15.00%) Hyper-V
3 10 (8.333%) VMware ESX
4 8 (6.667%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 5 (4.167%) XenApp
5 5 (4.167%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (3.333%) ISA Server
6 4 (3.333%) Terminal Services
7 3 (2.500%) vSphere
7 3 (2.500%) XenDesktop
8 1 (0.833%) Citrix Presentation Server
8 1 (0.833%) VMware Server
8 1 (0.833%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (0.833%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 7 (5.833%) SCCM
2 6 (5.000%) SCOM
3 5 (4.167%) Norton AntiVirus
4 4 (3.333%) BladeLogic
5 3 (2.500%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 2 (1.667%) AppManager
6 2 (1.667%) Backup Exec
7 1 (0.833%) WSUS
7 1 (0.833%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
7 1 (0.833%) OVSD
7 1 (0.833%) OpenView
7 1 (0.833%) MOM
Vendors
1 71 (59.17%) Microsoft
2 38 (31.67%) Citrix
3 35 (29.17%) VMware
4 25 (20.83%) Remedy
5 16 (13.33%) Lotus
6 9 (7.500%) Novell
7 8 (6.667%) SAP
7 8 (6.667%) HP
8 7 (5.833%) Symantec
9 5 (4.167%) Sophos
10 4 (3.333%) Cisco
11 3 (2.500%) Intel
12 2 (1.667%) NetIQ
12 2 (1.667%) Dell
13 1 (0.833%) Veeam
13 1 (0.833%) AppSense
13 1 (0.833%) Oracle
13 1 (0.833%) Business Objects
13 1 (0.833%) EMC
13 1 (0.833%) Veritas
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