Cardiff Active Directory Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Active Directory skills within the Cardiff region with a comparison to our System Software category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Active Directory over the 3 months to 18 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Active Directory
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Avon Aylesbury Ayrshire Bacup Banbury Barking Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bognor Regis Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Carlisle Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Colwyn Bay Conwy County Antrim Coventry Cramlington Crawley Croydon Cumbria Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Douglas Dover Dudley Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Ely Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Fife Fleetwood Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grays Greenwich Guildford Guisborough Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Hartlepool Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Inverurie Ipswich Isle of Man Kegworth Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Knutsford Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Middlewich Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Redcar Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rochdale Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South Croydon South East South Shields South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Asaph Stafford Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Thurrock 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 Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	12	22
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching contract IT job ads	21	14
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.028 %	0.014 %
As % of the category below	87.50 %	42.42 %
Daily rates quoted	3	2
Average minimum daily rate	£450	£325
Average daily rate	£477	£388
% change on same period last year	+23.01 %
Average maximum daily rate	£503	£450
UK excluding London average daily rate	£297	£300
% change on same period last year	-0.81 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£13.44	£19.00
Average hourly rate	£13.59	£21.50
% change on same period last year	-36.79 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£13.74	£24.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.58	£18.70
% change on same period last year	-5.98 %
System Software Cardiff
Matching contract IT job ads	24	33
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.032 %	0.034 %
Daily rates quoted	3	7
Average minimum daily rate	£450	£371
Average daily rate	£477	£394
% change on same period last year	+21.05 %
Average maximum daily rate	£503	£416
UK excluding London average daily rate	£328	£329
% change on same period last year	-0.39 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.94	£20.37
Average hourly rate	£16.10	£22.12
% change on same period last year	-27.19 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.27	£23.87
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.86	£22.20
% change on same period last year	-6.05 %
Active Directory South Wales

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 Cardiff 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 Cardiff region.

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Active Directory across the Cardiff region over the 3 months to 18 July 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 Cardiff region.

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Active Directory across the Cardiff region over the 3 months to 18 July 2008.

Active Directory
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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 28 (75.68 %) Windows 2 16 (43.24 %) Microsoft 3 13 (35.14 %) Windows XP 4 10 (27.03 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 9 (24.32 %) MS Exchange 6 8 (21.62 %) LAN 7 7 (18.92 %) Windows 2000 7 7 (18.92 %) Oracle 7 7 (18.92 %) SQL Server 7 7 (18.92 %) Exchange Server 2000 7 7 (18.92 %) SQL Server 2005 8 6 (16.22 %) Clustering 8 6 (16.22 %) MS Excel 9 5 (13.51 %) MS Office 9 5 (13.51 %) Incident Management

9 5 (13.51 %) Degree 9 5 (13.51 %) Microsoft Certification 9 5 (13.51 %) Windows Server 2003 9 5 (13.51 %) Internet 9 5 (13.51 %) SC Cleared 9 5 (13.51 %) Security Cleared 10 4 (10.81 %) Government 10 4 (10.81 %) Squid 10 4 (10.81 %) Information Security 10 4 (10.81 %) VMware 10 4 (10.81 %) ITIL 10 4 (10.81 %) Windows NT 10 4 (10.81 %) UNIX 10 4 (10.81 %) Citrix 10 4 (10.81 %) Apache

Active Directory
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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 3 (8.108 %) CORBA 2 2 (5.405 %) ADSI	Application Platforms 1 10 (27.03 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 9 (24.32 %) MS Exchange 3 7 (18.92 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 4 (10.81 %) Apache 4 4 (10.81 %) Tomcat 5 3 (8.108 %) SharePoint 5 3 (8.108 %) SharePoint Server 2007 5 3 (8.108 %) Exchange Server 2007 5 3 (8.108 %) Exchange Server 5.5 6 2 (5.405 %) IIS 7 1 (2.703 %) GroupWise
Applications 1 6 (16.22 %) MS Excel 2 5 (13.51 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 8 (21.62 %) LAN 2 5 (13.51 %) Internet 3 4 (10.81 %) TCP/IP 4 3 (8.108 %) IIOP 4 3 (8.108 %) VLAN 4 3 (8.108 %) WAN 5 2 (5.405 %) SSL 5 2 (5.405 %) SAN 6 1 (2.703 %) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (18.92 %) SQL Server 1 7 (18.92 %) SQL Server 2005 2 2 (5.405 %) SQL Server 2000 2 2 (5.405 %) EDRMS	General 1 4 (10.81 %) Government 2 1 (2.703 %) Manufacturing 2 1 (2.703 %) Publishing
Job Titles 1 7 (18.92 %) Analyst 2 6 (16.22 %) Server Specialist 3 5 (13.51 %) Service Analyst 3 5 (13.51 %) Service Desk Analyst 4 4 (10.81 %) IT Manager 4 4 (10.81 %) Support Manager 4 4 (10.81 %) IT Support Manager 5 3 (8.108 %) Consultant 6 2 (5.405 %) Technical Specialist 6 2 (5.405 %) 2nd Line Support 6 2 (5.405 %) Desktop Support 6 2 (5.405 %) Helpdesk Support 7 1 (2.703 %) Desktop Support Analyst 7 1 (2.703 %) Network Manager 7 1 (2.703 %) Network Support 7 1 (2.703 %) Senior Network Engineer 7 1 (2.703 %) Team Leader 7 1 (2.703 %) Network Engineer 7 1 (2.703 %) Senior Manager 7 1 (2.703 %) Server Support	Miscellaneous 1 6 (16.22 %) Clustering 2 3 (8.108 %) Taxonomies 3 2 (5.405 %) Management Information System 4 1 (2.703 %) NHS 4 1 (2.703 %) PACS 4 1 (2.703 %) PKI
Operating Systems 1 28 (75.68 %) Windows 2 13 (35.14 %) Windows XP 3 7 (18.92 %) Windows 2000 4 5 (13.51 %) Windows Server 2003 5 4 (10.81 %) UNIX 5 4 (10.81 %) Windows NT 6 1 (2.703 %) NetWare	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (13.51 %) Incident Management 1 5 (13.51 %) SC Cleared 1 5 (13.51 %) Security Cleared 2 4 (10.81 %) Information Security 2 4 (10.81 %) ITIL 3 3 (8.108 %) Document Management 4 2 (5.405 %) OO 5 1 (2.703 %) Project Management 5 1 (2.703 %) Migration 5 1 (2.703 %) Network Load Balancing
Programming Languages 1 3 (8.108 %) SQL 1 3 (8.108 %) VBScript 2 1 (2.703 %) VB	Qualifications 1 5 (13.51 %) Microsoft Certification 1 5 (13.51 %) Degree 2 2 (5.405 %) MCP 3 1 (2.703 %) MCSE 3 1 (2.703 %) MCDBA 3 1 (2.703 %) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (5.405 %) SLA	System Software 1 4 (10.81 %) Squid 2 3 (8.108 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 2 3 (8.108 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 1 (2.703 %) NFS 3 1 (2.703 %) NDS
Systems Management 1 1 (2.703 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 16 (43.24 %) Microsoft 2 7 (18.92 %) Oracle 3 4 (10.81 %) VMware 3 4 (10.81 %) Citrix 4 3 (8.108 %) Siemens 4 3 (8.108 %) VERITAS 4 3 (8.108 %) SurfControl 4 3 (8.108 %) HP 4 3 (8.108 %) Compaq 4 3 (8.108 %) Fujitsu Siemens 5 1 (2.703 %) IBM 5 1 (2.703 %) Intel