Dudley Active Directory Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Active Directory skills within the Dudley 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 4 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 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 Eastleigh 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 Kingswinford 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 Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	4	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	4	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.006 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	100.00 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£287	£280
% change on same period last year	+2.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£10.00	-
Average hourly rate	£11.25	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£12.50	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.05	£17.97
% change on same period last year	+0.42 %
System Software Dudley
Matching contract IT job ads	4	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.006 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£317	£317
% change on same period last year	-0.13 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£10.00	-
Average hourly rate	£11.25	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£12.50	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.91	£21.04
% change on same period last year	-0.62 %
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 Dudley 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 Dudley 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 Dudley region.

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Active Directory across the Dudley region over the 3 months to 4 December 2008.

Active Directory
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Dudley 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 7 (87.50 %) Windows 2 4 (50.00 %) Windows Server 2003 3 3 (37.50 %) Citrix 3 3 (37.50 %) Windows XP 3 3 (37.50 %) MS Exchange 4 2 (25.00 %) Windows 2000 4 2 (25.00 %) MS Office 4 2 (25.00 %) Migration 4 2 (25.00 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 1 (12.50 %) VMware Infrastructure 5 1 (12.50 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 1 (12.50 %) VMware 5 1 (12.50 %) NHS 5 1 (12.50 %) Project Management 5 1 (12.50 %) ITIL

5 1 (12.50 %) MS Excel 5 1 (12.50 %) POP3 5 1 (12.50 %) DHCP 5 1 (12.50 %) DNS 5 1 (12.50 %) Cisco 5 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft

Active Directory
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Dudley 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 3 (37.50 %) MS Exchange 2 2 (25.00 %) Exchange Server 2003	Applications 1 2 (25.00 %) MS Office 2 1 (12.50 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 1 (12.50 %) POP3 1 1 (12.50 %) DHCP 1 1 (12.50 %) DNS	Job Titles 1 2 (25.00 %) Support Engineer 1 2 (25.00 %) Analyst 2 1 (12.50 %) Consultant 2 1 (12.50 %) Network Engineer 2 1 (12.50 %) Helpdesk Analyst 2 1 (12.50 %) 1st Line Support 2 1 (12.50 %) Desktop Support 2 1 (12.50 %) Service Analyst 2 1 (12.50 %) Field Engineer 2 1 (12.50 %) Migration Engineer 2 1 (12.50 %) Desktop Support Engineer 2 1 (12.50 %) Service Desk Analyst 2 1 (12.50 %) Network Support Engineer 2 1 (12.50 %) Desktop Engineer 2 1 (12.50 %) Network Support 2 1 (12.50 %) Active Directory Consultant
Miscellaneous 1 1 (12.50 %) NHS	Operating Systems 1 7 (87.50 %) Windows 2 4 (50.00 %) Windows Server 2003 3 3 (37.50 %) Windows XP 4 2 (25.00 %) Windows 2000 5 1 (12.50 %) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (25.00 %) Migration 2 1 (12.50 %) ITIL 2 1 (12.50 %) Project Management	System Software 1 1 (12.50 %) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors 1 3 (37.50 %) Citrix 2 1 (12.50 %) VMware 2 1 (12.50 %) Cisco 2 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft