The first table below looks at the demand for Active Directory skills in IT contracts advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Active Directory over the 3 months to 20 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 Chester 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Active Directory
Rank 22 17 20
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +3
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 4 5 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 2.899% 4.310% 1.887%
As % of the System Software category 15.38% 83.33% 21.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Average daily rate £240 - £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £275 £275
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
Average hourly rate £14.67 £14.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.80% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.50 £15.13 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-4.13% +0.83%
All System Software
Chester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
26 6 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 18.84% 5.172% 8.805%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 3
Average daily rate £295 £390 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-24.35% -2.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 0
Average hourly rate £43.70 £14.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+212.14% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -3.64%
Active Directory
Cheshire

Active Directory
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester Active Directory Hourly Rate Trend

Active Directory
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 10 (71.43%) Windows
2 9 (64.29%) Citrix
3 7 (50.00%) VMware
3 7 (50.00%) Windows 7
4 4 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
4 4 (28.57%) Local Government
4 4 (28.57%) SAN
4 4 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (28.57%) TCP/IP
4 4 (28.57%) MS Office
4 4 (28.57%) Windows XP
5 3 (21.43%) VPN
5 3 (21.43%) Cisco
5 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
5 3 (21.43%) TOGAF
5 3 (21.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (21.43%) Service Management
5 3 (21.43%) Firewall
5 3 (21.43%) Security Management
5 3 (21.43%) Information Security
6 2 (14.29%) SharePoint
6 2 (14.29%) SCCM
6 2 (14.29%) FMCG
6 2 (14.29%) DNS
6 2 (14.29%) DHCP
6 2 (14.29%) SQL
7 1 (7.143%) SQL Server
7 1 (7.143%) ITIL
7 1 (7.143%) MS Exchange
7 1 (7.143%) LAN

Active Directory
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 Platforms
1 2 (14.29%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.143%) MS Exchange
2 1 (7.143%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (7.143%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 4 (28.57%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) TCP/IP
1 4 (28.57%) SAN
2 3 (21.43%) Firewall
2 3 (21.43%) VPN
3 2 (14.29%) DNS
3 2 (14.29%) DHCP
4 1 (7.143%) HTTP
4 1 (7.143%) SNMP
4 1 (7.143%) LAN
4 1 (7.143%) WAN
4 1 (7.143%) SMTP
4 1 (7.143%) SSL
4 1 (7.143%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.143%) SQL Server
1 1 (7.143%) SQL Server 2000
1 1 (7.143%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (7.143%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 4 (28.57%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Architect
1 3 (21.43%) Information Architect
1 3 (21.43%) 2nd Line Support
1 3 (21.43%) Security Architect
1 3 (21.43%) IT Support
1 3 (21.43%) Information Security Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Wintel Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Technical Support
3 1 (7.143%) Support Engineer
3 1 (7.143%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (7.143%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
3 1 (7.143%) Wintel Server Engineer
3 1 (7.143%) Field Engineer
3 1 (7.143%) Team Leader
3 1 (7.143%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (7.143%) Installations Engineer
3 1 (7.143%) Server Engineer
3 1 (7.143%) Support Team Leader
3 1 (7.143%) Support Analyst
3 1 (7.143%) Desktop Support
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) FMCG
2 1 (7.143%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 10 (71.43%) Windows
2 7 (50.00%) Windows 7
3 4 (28.57%) Windows XP
3 4 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
3 4 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (7.143%) Windows 2000
4 1 (7.143%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (21.43%) Service Management
1 3 (21.43%) Security Management
1 3 (21.43%) Information Security
1 3 (21.43%) TOGAF
2 1 (7.143%) Network Management
2 1 (7.143%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) SQL
2 1 (7.143%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (7.143%) Hyper-V
1 1 (7.143%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) SCCM
2 1 (7.143%) SCOM
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) Citrix
2 7 (50.00%) VMware
3 3 (21.43%) Cisco
3 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.143%) HP
4 1 (7.143%) Dell
4 1 (7.143%) Symantec
4 1 (7.143%) Remedy
4 1 (7.143%) McAfee
4 1 (7.143%) Fujitsu