The first table below looks at the demand for the Active Directory Specialist role in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Active Directory Specialist in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the City of London 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
Active Directory Specialist
Rank - 217 240
Contract jobs requiring an Active Directory Specialist 0 2 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London - 0.025% 0.050%
As % of the Job Titles category - 0.028% 0.055%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 1
Average daily rate - £383 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +2.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £311 £370 £360
% change year-on-year
-15.87% +2.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
5876 7201 9157
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.51% 91.48% 91.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4326 5182 6677
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 179 197
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £41.25 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Active Directory Specialist
London

Active Directory Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Active Directory Specialist across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

City of London Active Directory Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Active Directory Specialist
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Active Directory Specialist across the City of London region.

City of London Active Directory Specialist Daily Rate Trend

Active Directory Specialist
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Active Directory Specialist in their job title 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 with Active Directory Specialist in their job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (75.00%) Windows
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) LDAP
4 1 (25.00%) MS Exchange
4 1 (25.00%) DHCP
4 1 (25.00%) DNS
4 1 (25.00%) Cisco
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (25.00%) VBScript
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (25.00%) IIS
4 1 (25.00%) ITIL
4 1 (25.00%) VMware
4 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (25.00%) HP
4 1 (25.00%) EMC
4 1 (25.00%) Intel
4 1 (25.00%) Citrix
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (25.00%) SAN
4 1 (25.00%) MCSE
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (25.00%) XenApp
4 1 (25.00%) Windows 7
4 1 (25.00%) Change Control
4 1 (25.00%) Windows 8

Active Directory Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Active Directory Specialist in their job title 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 with Active Directory Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (25.00%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) LDAP
2 1 (25.00%) DHCP
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (25.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (25.00%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (25.00%) MCSE
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) XenApp
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) VMware
1 1 (25.00%) HP
1 1 (25.00%) EMC
1 1 (25.00%) Intel
1 1 (25.00%) Citrix