Cheshire Active Directory Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Active Directory skills within the Cheshire 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	31	29
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	55	31
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.073 %	0.032 %
As % of the category below	46.61 %	70.45 %
Daily rates quoted	14	7
Average minimum daily rate	£370	£279
Average daily rate	£394	£291
% change on same period last year	+35.06 %
Average maximum daily rate	£417	£304
UK excluding London average daily rate	£297	£300
% change on same period last year	-0.81 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£13.70	£25.00
Average hourly rate	£15.20	£27.50
% change on same period last year	-44.72 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.70	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.58	£18.70
% change on same period last year	-5.98 %
System Software Cheshire
Matching contract IT job ads	118	44
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.157 %	0.045 %
Daily rates quoted	36	9
Average minimum daily rate	£397	£293
Average daily rate	£429	£302
% change on same period last year	+42.06 %
Average maximum daily rate	£462	£312
UK excluding London average daily rate	£328	£329
% change on same period last year	-0.39 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£13.73	£25.00
Average hourly rate	£15.32	£27.50
% change on same period last year	-44.29 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.91	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.86	£22.20
% change on same period last year	-6.05 %
Active Directory North 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 Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Active Directory across the Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Active Directory
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Active Directory within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 18 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Chester	-2	10	-	-
Knutsford	-	8	£394	-
Macclesfield	-	6	-	-
Warrington	-2	5	-	-
Middlewich	-	2	-	-
Runcorn	-1	2	-	-

Active Directory North West

Active Directory
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 80 (84.21 %) Windows 2 31 (32.63 %) Windows XP 3 28 (29.47 %) Citrix 4 26 (27.37 %) Microsoft 4 26 (27.37 %) Windows Server 2003 5 19 (20.00 %) Windows NT 6 16 (16.84 %) MS Office 6 16 (16.84 %) MS Exchange 7 15 (15.79 %) Exchange Server 2003 8 14 (14.74 %) Migration 9 13 (13.68 %) SQL 10 12 (12.63 %) MCSE 10 12 (12.63 %) Windows 2000 10 12 (12.63 %) LAN 10 12 (12.63 %) WAN

10 12 (12.63 %) HP 10 12 (12.63 %) Microsoft Certification 10 12 (12.63 %) SAN 11 11 (11.58 %) Finance 12 10 (10.53 %) Dell 12 10 (10.53 %) DNS 13 9 (9.474 %) MS Excel 14 8 (8.421 %) IIS 15 7 (7.368 %) DHCP 16 6 (6.316 %) POP3 16 6 (6.316 %) SMTP 16 6 (6.316 %) PRINCE2 16 6 (6.316 %) COM+ 16 6 (6.316 %) DCOM 16 6 (6.316 %) ITIL

Active Directory
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 6 (6.316 %) COM+ 1 6 (6.316 %) DCOM 2 1 (1.053 %) Application Packaging	Application Platforms 1 16 (16.84 %) MS Exchange 2 15 (15.79 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 8 (8.421 %) IIS 4 4 (4.211 %) Lotus Notes 4 4 (4.211 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 1 (1.053 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 16 (16.84 %) MS Office 2 9 (9.474 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 12 (12.63 %) LAN 1 12 (12.63 %) WAN 1 12 (12.63 %) SAN 2 10 (10.53 %) DNS 3 7 (7.368 %) DHCP 4 6 (6.316 %) POP3 4 6 (6.316 %) SMTP 5 5 (5.263 %) TCP/IP 6 3 (3.158 %) Ethernet 7 2 (2.105 %) Broadband 8 1 (1.053 %) ADSL 8 1 (1.053 %) SMS 8 1 (1.053 %) FTP 8 1 (1.053 %) VPN 8 1 (1.053 %) 3G 8 1 (1.053 %) Firewall
Development Applications 1 2 (2.105 %) Dreamweaver 2 1 (1.053 %) WinRunner 2 1 (1.053 %) TestDirector 2 1 (1.053 %) QuickTest Pro	General 1 11 (11.58 %) Finance 2 5 (5.263 %) Banking 3 2 (2.105 %) Telecoms 4 1 (1.053 %) Marketing 4 1 (1.053 %) Health 4 1 (1.053 %) Financial Institution 4 1 (1.053 %) Back Office
Job Titles 1 18 (18.95 %) Analyst 2 13 (13.68 %) Support Engineer 3 12 (12.63 %) Helpdesk Analyst 4 11 (11.58 %) Server Engineer 5 10 (10.53 %) Infrastructure Specialist 6 7 (7.368 %) Field Engineer 7 6 (6.316 %) Helpdesk Support 7 6 (6.316 %) Desktop Support 7 6 (6.316 %) Applications Specialist 7 6 (6.316 %) Technical Manager 7 6 (6.316 %) Hardware Engineer 7 6 (6.316 %) Citrix Specialist 7 6 (6.316 %) Server Specialist 8 5 (5.263 %) Exchange Engineer 8 5 (5.263 %) Development Specialist 8 5 (5.263 %) 2nd Line Support 9 4 (4.211 %) Service Manager 9 4 (4.211 %) Desktop Engineer 9 4 (4.211 %) Windows Server Engineer 9 4 (4.211 %) Active Directory Specialist	Miscellaneous 1 3 (3.158 %) Blackberry 1 3 (3.158 %) Replication 2 2 (2.105 %) Management Information System 2 2 (2.105 %) PDA 2 2 (2.105 %) Statistics 3 1 (1.053 %) NHS 3 1 (1.053 %) Clustering
Operating Systems 1 80 (84.21 %) Windows 2 31 (32.63 %) Windows XP 3 26 (27.37 %) Windows Server 2003 4 19 (20.00 %) Windows NT 5 12 (12.63 %) Windows 2000 6 5 (5.263 %) NetWare 7 2 (2.105 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (14.74 %) Migration 2 6 (6.316 %) ITIL 2 6 (6.316 %) PRINCE2 3 3 (3.158 %) Change Management 3 3 (3.158 %) Project Management 4 2 (2.105 %) Information Security 4 2 (2.105 %) Incident Management 5 1 (1.053 %) Technical Architecture 5 1 (1.053 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 1 (1.053 %) Test Scripting 5 1 (1.053 %) Performance Management 5 1 (1.053 %) ISMS 5 1 (1.053 %) Disaster Recovery 5 1 (1.053 %) Information Security Management 5 1 (1.053 %) Data Security 5 1 (1.053 %) Security Management 5 1 (1.053 %) ERP 5 1 (1.053 %) B2B 5 1 (1.053 %) Service Delivery
Programming Languages 1 13 (13.68 %) SQL 2 2 (2.105 %) VBScript	Qualifications 1 12 (12.63 %) MCSE 1 12 (12.63 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (2.105 %) MCP 3 1 (1.053 %) ITIL Certification 3 1 (1.053 %) CCNA 3 1 (1.053 %) ISEB 3 1 (1.053 %) Citrix Certification 3 1 (1.053 %) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.053 %) SLA 1 1 (1.053 %) QA	System Software 1 6 (6.316 %) MetaFrame 1 6 (6.316 %) Citrix Presentation Server 2 3 (3.158 %) Backup Exec
Systems Management 1 2 (2.105 %) ZENworks 1 2 (2.105 %) WSUS 2 1 (1.053 %) Legato	Vendors 1 28 (29.47 %) Citrix 2 26 (27.37 %) Microsoft 3 12 (12.63 %) HP 4 10 (10.53 %) Dell 5 6 (6.316 %) VMware 6 5 (5.263 %) Cisco 6 5 (5.263 %) Novell 7 4 (4.211 %) Lotus 8 3 (3.158 %) Remedy 9 2 (2.105 %) McAfee Security 9 2 (2.105 %) LANDesk 9 2 (2.105 %) VERITAS 9 2 (2.105 %) Oracle 9 2 (2.105 %) SAP 10 1 (1.053 %) Intel 10 1 (1.053 %) Altiris 10 1 (1.053 %) Apple 10 1 (1.053 %) CheckPoint