Devon Active Directory Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Active Directory skills within the Devon 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 5 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Active Directory
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Andover Aylesbury Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Belper Berkshire Bicester Birkenhead Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Braintree Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Caerphilly Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chichester Chippenham City of London Coatbridge Cobham Colchester Coleraine Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham Ely Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Grimsby Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Hartlepool Haslemere Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilford Inverness Ipswich Kegworth Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liphook Liverpool London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Neath Port Talbot 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 Northumbria Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Pershore Peterborough Plymouth Poole Port Talbot Portsmouth Potters Bar Prescot Preston Pudsey Reading Redditch Redhill Romford Rotherham Rugby Sale Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Scottish Borders Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Albans St Asaph St Helens St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Street Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Teddington Teesside Telford Thames Valley Thatcham Thirsk Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	16	14
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	10	26
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.028 %
As % of the category below	71.43 %	86.67 %
Daily rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum daily rate	-	£120
Average daily rate	-	£120
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£120
UK excluding London average daily rate	£286	£280
% change on same period last year	+2.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	15
Average minimum hourly rate	£13.67	£15.67
Average hourly rate	£15.27	£16.67
% change on same period last year	-8.35 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.88	£17.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.18	£17.92
% change on same period last year	+1.44 %
System Software Devon
Matching contract IT job ads	14	30
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.023 %	0.033 %
Daily rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum daily rate	-	£120
Average daily rate	-	£120
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£120
UK excluding London average daily rate	£317	£317
% change on same period last year	-
Hourly rates quoted	7	17
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.72	£14.52
Average hourly rate	£16.09	£15.24
% change on same period last year	+5.59 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.46	£15.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.09	£20.90
% change on same period last year	+0.90 %
Active Directory South 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 Devon 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 Devon 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 Devon region.

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Active Directory across the Devon region over the 3 months to 5 December 2008.

Active Directory
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Active Directory within the Devon region over the 3 months to 5 December 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
Exeter	-6	5	-	-
Plymouth	+3	1	-	-

Active Directory South West

Active Directory
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Devon 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 20 (68.97 %) Windows 2 13 (44.83 %) Windows Server 2003 3 11 (37.93 %) Microsoft 4 10 (34.48 %) Windows XP 5 7 (24.14 %) MS Office 5 7 (24.14 %) MS Exchange 5 7 (24.14 %) TCP/IP 5 7 (24.14 %) VMware 6 6 (20.69 %) VMware ESX 6 6 (20.69 %) Citrix 6 6 (20.69 %) WAN 6 6 (20.69 %) MS Excel 6 6 (20.69 %) Windows 2000 Server 7 5 (17.24 %) VMware Infrastructure 7 5 (17.24 %) DNS

8 4 (13.79 %) DHCP 8 4 (13.79 %) LAN 8 4 (13.79 %) HP 8 4 (13.79 %) SAN 8 4 (13.79 %) Windows NT 8 4 (13.79 %) Windows 2000 8 4 (13.79 %) IIS 8 4 (13.79 %) SQL 8 4 (13.79 %) Firewall 8 4 (13.79 %) UNIX 8 4 (13.79 %) Exchange Server 2003 9 3 (10.34 %) Data Protection 9 3 (10.34 %) Backup Exec 9 3 (10.34 %) McAfee Security 9 3 (10.34 %) Terminal Services

Active Directory
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Devon 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 1 (3.448 %) WebServices 1 1 (3.448 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 7 (24.14 %) MS Exchange 2 4 (13.79 %) IIS 2 4 (13.79 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (3.448 %) Apache 3 1 (3.448 %) SharePoint 3 1 (3.448 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 7 (24.14 %) MS Office 2 6 (20.69 %) MS Excel 3 1 (3.448 %) MS Visio 3 1 (3.448 %) Acrobat 3 1 (3.448 %) InfoPath	Communications & Networking 1 7 (24.14 %) TCP/IP 2 6 (20.69 %) WAN 3 5 (17.24 %) DNS 4 4 (13.79 %) SAN 4 4 (13.79 %) Firewall 4 4 (13.79 %) DHCP 4 4 (13.79 %) LAN 5 3 (10.34 %) FTP 5 3 (10.34 %) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (3.448 %) SQL Server	General 1 1 (3.448 %) Manufacturing
Job Titles 1 4 (13.79 %) Analyst 1 4 (13.79 %) Support Engineer 2 3 (10.34 %) Systems Administrator 2 3 (10.34 %) 2nd Line Support 2 3 (10.34 %) Administrator 2 3 (10.34 %) Server Engineer 2 3 (10.34 %) Network Support 2 3 (10.34 %) Rollout Engineer 2 3 (10.34 %) Desktop Support 2 3 (10.34 %) Windows Server Engineer 3 2 (6.897 %) 2nd Line Support Analyst 3 2 (6.897 %) Helpdesk Technician 3 2 (6.897 %) Support Analyst 3 2 (6.897 %) 1st Line Support 4 1 (3.448 %) 3rd Line Support 4 1 (3.448 %) Service Analyst 4 1 (3.448 %) Systems Engineer 4 1 (3.448 %) Support Technician 4 1 (3.448 %) Field Engineer 4 1 (3.448 %) Infrastructure Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (3.448 %) Thin Client 1 1 (3.448 %) VAX 1 1 (3.448 %) Fat Client
Operating Systems 1 20 (68.97 %) Windows 2 13 (44.83 %) Windows Server 2003 3 10 (34.48 %) Windows XP 4 6 (20.69 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 4 (13.79 %) UNIX 5 4 (13.79 %) Windows 2000 5 4 (13.79 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (10.34 %) Data Protection 2 2 (6.897 %) SC Cleared 2 2 (6.897 %) Security Cleared 3 1 (3.448 %) Migration 3 1 (3.448 %) Incident Management 3 1 (3.448 %) Load Balancing
Programming Languages 1 4 (13.79 %) SQL 2 3 (10.34 %) VBScript 2 3 (10.34 %) VB 2 3 (10.34 %) Perl	Qualifications 1 2 (6.897 %) MCSE 1 2 (6.897 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (3.448 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (6.897 %) SLA	System Software 1 6 (20.69 %) VMware ESX 2 5 (17.24 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 3 (10.34 %) Terminal Services 3 3 (10.34 %) Backup Exec 4 1 (3.448 %) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management 1 3 (10.34 %) Tivoli 1 3 (10.34 %) Tivoli Remote Control 1 3 (10.34 %) Tivoli Storage Manager	Vendors 1 11 (37.93 %) Microsoft 2 7 (24.14 %) VMware 3 6 (20.69 %) Citrix 4 4 (13.79 %) HP 5 3 (10.34 %) Intel 5 3 (10.34 %) VERITAS 5 3 (10.34 %) McAfee Security 6 2 (6.897 %) Remedy 7 1 (3.448 %) Hummingbird 7 1 (3.448 %) Adobe