Coventry Active Directory Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Active Directory skills within the Coventry region with a comparison to our System Software category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Active Directory over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Active Directory
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Addlestone Aylesbury Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birkenhead Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury Caerphilly Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Cleethorpes Colchester Conwy County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Dartford Deeside Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorking Dorset Dover Dudley Dunbar Dundee Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Ely Enfield England Essex Exeter Falkirk Farnborough Feltham Flintshire Gateshead Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Greenwich Grimsby Guildford Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hartlepool Haslemere Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kegworth Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston Llandudno London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton Lutterworth Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Matlock Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Morecambe Neath Port Talbot Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Shields North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Penrith Pershore Peterborough Plymouth Poole Port Talbot Portsmouth Preston Pudsey Reading Redditch Redhill Renfrewshire Romford Rotherham Rugby Sale Salford Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Scottish Borders Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Asaph St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stourbridge Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Teddington Teesside Telford Thames Valley Thatcham Thirsk Torfaen Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	17	17
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	13	17
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.018 %	0.017 %
As % of the category below	92.86 %	85.00 %
Daily rates quoted	1	11
Average minimum daily rate	£320	£102
Average daily rate	£320	£107
% change on same period last year	+197.67 %
Average maximum daily rate	£320	£113
UK excluding London average daily rate	£303	£299
% change on same period last year	+1.25 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£11.80	£24.17
Average hourly rate	£12.50	£25.00
% change on same period last year	-49.99 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£13.20	£25.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.27	£18.68
% change on same period last year	-2.23 %
System Software Coventry
Matching contract IT job ads	14	20
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.020 %
Daily rates quoted	1	11
Average minimum daily rate	£320	£101
Average daily rate	£320	£107
% change on same period last year	+199.53 %
Average maximum daily rate	£320	£112
UK excluding London average daily rate	£319	£322
% change on same period last year	-0.98 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£13.17	£24.17
Average hourly rate	£13.83	£25.00
% change on same period last year	-44.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£14.50	£25.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.28	£21.36
% change on same period last year	-0.39 %
Active Directory West Midlands

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 Coventry 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 Coventry region.

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 Coventry region.

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Active Directory across the Coventry region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

Active Directory
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Coventry 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 24 (88.89 %) Windows 2 17 (62.96 %) Windows Server 2003 3 14 (51.85 %) MS Exchange 4 11 (40.74 %) Microsoft 5 9 (33.33 %) Windows XP 5 9 (33.33 %) SQL 5 9 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 7 (25.93 %) VMware 6 7 (25.93 %) Windows 2000 7 5 (18.52 %) SQL Server 7 5 (18.52 %) MS Office 7 5 (18.52 %) Backup Exec 7 5 (18.52 %) SQL Server 2005 8 4 (14.81 %) SQL Server 2000 8 4 (14.81 %) ITIL

8 4 (14.81 %) DNS 8 4 (14.81 %) Cisco 8 4 (14.81 %) Dell 9 3 (11.11 %) Internet 9 3 (11.11 %) TCP/IP 9 3 (11.11 %) Terminal Services 9 3 (11.11 %) Citrix 9 3 (11.11 %) Microsoft Certification 9 3 (11.11 %) UNIX 9 3 (11.11 %) MCSE 9 3 (11.11 %) Firewall 10 2 (7.407 %) Windows 2000 Server 10 2 (7.407 %) Exchange Server 2000 10 2 (7.407 %) Finance 10 2 (7.407 %) Windows NT

Active Directory
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Coventry 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 14 (51.85 %) MS Exchange 2 9 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 2 (7.407 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 2 (7.407 %) SharePoint 4 1 (3.704 %) Lotus Notes 4 1 (3.704 %) Exchange Server 2007	Applications 1 5 (18.52 %) MS Office
Communications & Networking 1 4 (14.81 %) DNS 2 3 (11.11 %) Internet 2 3 (11.11 %) Firewall 2 3 (11.11 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (3.704 %) GPRS 3 1 (3.704 %) LAN 3 1 (3.704 %) SMS 3 1 (3.704 %) WAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (18.52 %) SQL Server 1 5 (18.52 %) SQL Server 2005 2 4 (14.81 %) SQL Server 2000
General 1 2 (7.407 %) Finance 2 1 (3.704 %) Government 2 1 (3.704 %) Financial Institution	Job Titles 1 8 (29.63 %) 3rd Line Support 2 7 (25.93 %) Analyst 3 5 (18.52 %) Support Analyst 4 4 (14.81 %) Server Engineer 5 3 (11.11 %) Support Engineer 5 3 (11.11 %) 3rd Line Support Engineer 5 3 (11.11 %) Server Support 6 2 (7.407 %) Systems Support 6 2 (7.407 %) Support Technician 6 2 (7.407 %) Helpdesk Analyst 6 2 (7.407 %) Systems Analyst 6 2 (7.407 %) Helpdesk Support 6 2 (7.407 %) Systems Support Analyst 6 2 (7.407 %) Server Support Engineer 7 1 (3.704 %) Desktop Analyst 7 1 (3.704 %) Server Administrator 7 1 (3.704 %) Windows Administrator 7 1 (3.704 %) Server Specialist 7 1 (3.704 %) Windows Server Engineer 7 1 (3.704 %) Support Specialist
Miscellaneous 1 1 (3.704 %) Mainframe 1 1 (3.704 %) AS400 1 1 (3.704 %) Clustering 1 1 (3.704 %) IBM Mainframe	Operating Systems 1 24 (88.89 %) Windows 2 17 (62.96 %) Windows Server 2003 3 9 (33.33 %) Windows XP 4 7 (25.93 %) Windows 2000 5 3 (11.11 %) UNIX 6 2 (7.407 %) Linux 6 2 (7.407 %) Windows NT 6 2 (7.407 %) Windows 2000 Server 7 1 (3.704 %) AIX 7 1 (3.704 %) HPUX 7 1 (3.704 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (14.81 %) ITIL 2 1 (3.704 %) Service Management 2 1 (3.704 %) ITSM 2 1 (3.704 %) Migration 2 1 (3.704 %) Test Scripting	Programming Languages 1 9 (33.33 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 3 (11.11 %) MCSE 1 3 (11.11 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (3.704 %) ISEB	System Software 1 5 (18.52 %) Backup Exec 2 3 (11.11 %) Terminal Services 3 1 (3.704 %) NetBackup
Vendors 1 11 (40.74 %) Microsoft 2 7 (25.93 %) VMware 3 4 (14.81 %) Cisco 3 4 (14.81 %) Dell 4 3 (11.11 %) Citrix 5 2 (7.407 %) Novell 6 1 (3.704 %) Lotus 6 1 (3.704 %) IBM 6 1 (3.704 %) HP