The first table below looks at the demand for ADSI skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ADSI over the 3 months to 22 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 Application Development category for the England 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Active Directory Service Interfaces (ADSI)
Rank 496 561 555
Rank change year-on-year
+65 -6
Contract jobs citing ADSI 18 9 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.043% 0.017% 0.016%
As % of the Application Development category 0.157% 0.063% 0.058%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 7 1
Average daily rate £350 £328 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.87% -27.22%
UK excluding London average daily rate £333 £328 -
% change year-on-year
+1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
11460 14244 15606
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 27.15% 26.26% 28.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7340 8537 9258
Average daily rate £375 £353 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.38% -11.87%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 347 373 551
Average hourly rate £35.00 £33.00 £35.70
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.06% -7.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.45 £15.00 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.35 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
ADSI
UK

ADSI
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ADSI across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

England ADSI Jobs Demand Trend

ADSI
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ADSI across the England region.

England ADSI Daily Rate Trend

ADSI
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing ADSI across the England region.

England ADSI Hourly Rate Trend

ADSI
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ADSI within the England region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +39 10 £380 -20.00%
South East +18 8 £333 +1.52%
ADSI
UK

ADSI
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing ADSI 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 ADSI.

1 28 (100.00%) Windows
1 28 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 28 (100.00%) VMware
2 27 (96.43%) vSphere
3 25 (89.29%) VMware ESX
3 25 (89.29%) Microsoft
4 24 (85.71%) IIS
5 21 (75.00%) SAN
5 21 (75.00%) HP
6 20 (71.43%) VBScript
7 19 (67.86%) Dell
8 17 (60.71%) Citrix
8 17 (60.71%) BMC
8 17 (60.71%) Windows XP
8 17 (60.71%) McAfee
8 17 (60.71%) Sophos
8 17 (60.71%) Citrix Presentation Server
8 17 (60.71%) SCOM
8 17 (60.71%) VMware Infrastructure
8 17 (60.71%) NAS
8 17 (60.71%) XenApp
9 16 (57.14%) Backup Exec
10 15 (53.57%) NetBackup
10 15 (53.57%) PlateSpin
10 15 (53.57%) Clustering
10 15 (53.57%) Internet
10 15 (53.57%) Windows 2000
10 15 (53.57%) Apache
10 15 (53.57%) Windows NT
10 15 (53.57%) .NET

ADSI
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing ADSI 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 ADSI. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 15 (53.57%) .NET
1 15 (53.57%) ASP.NET
1 15 (53.57%) Web Services
2 4 (14.29%) XML
Application Platforms
1 24 (85.71%) IIS
2 15 (53.57%) Apache
3 11 (39.29%) MS Exchange
3 11 (39.29%) Exchange Server 2010
3 11 (39.29%) Exchange Server 2007
4 7 (25.00%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (3.571%) Exchange Server 2003
Communications & Networking
1 21 (75.00%) SAN
2 17 (60.71%) NAS
3 15 (53.57%) Internet
3 15 (53.57%) FTP
4 12 (42.86%) Firewall
5 7 (25.00%) BIG-IP
6 6 (21.43%) VPN
7 4 (14.29%) iSCSI
8 2 (7.143%) DHCP
9 1 (3.571%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) SQL Server 2008
1 4 (14.29%) SQL Server 2005
1 4 (14.29%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 15 (53.57%) Wintel Engineer
2 10 (35.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (35.71%) Systems Engineer
2 10 (35.71%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.143%) SCCM Engineer
5 1 (3.571%) Wintel Support Engineer
5 1 (3.571%) Windows Support Engineer
5 1 (3.571%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (3.571%) Wintel Support
5 1 (3.571%) Support Engineer
5 1 (3.571%) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 15 (53.57%) Clustering
2 5 (17.86%) Computer Science
3 1 (3.571%) iPhone
3 1 (3.571%) PKI
3 1 (3.571%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 28 (100.00%) Windows
1 28 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 17 (60.71%) Windows XP
3 15 (53.57%) Windows 2000
3 15 (53.57%) Windows NT
4 10 (35.71%) Windows Server 2008
5 7 (25.00%) Linux
5 7 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (14.29%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (28.57%) Migration
2 4 (14.29%) B2B
3 1 (3.571%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (71.43%) VBScript
2 10 (35.71%) PowerShell
2 10 (35.71%) VB
3 7 (25.00%) SQL
4 1 (3.571%) C
Qualifications
1 5 (17.86%) Degree
2 2 (7.143%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.571%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (96.43%) vSphere
2 25 (89.29%) VMware ESX
3 17 (60.71%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 17 (60.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (60.71%) XenApp
4 12 (42.86%) Active Directory
5 7 (25.00%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 17 (60.71%) SCOM
2 16 (57.14%) Backup Exec
3 15 (53.57%) NetBackup
3 15 (53.57%) Legato
4 5 (17.86%) SCCM
Vendors
1 28 (100.00%) VMware
2 25 (89.29%) Microsoft
3 21 (75.00%) HP
4 19 (67.86%) Dell
5 17 (60.71%) Citrix
5 17 (60.71%) BMC
5 17 (60.71%) McAfee
5 17 (60.71%) Sophos
6 15 (53.57%) PlateSpin
6 15 (53.57%) Veritas
6 15 (53.57%) IBM
6 15 (53.57%) Leostream
7 7 (25.00%) Blue Coat
7 7 (25.00%) Oracle
7 7 (25.00%) Red Hat
7 7 (25.00%) F5
8 6 (21.43%) Cisco
9 4 (14.29%) Brocade
9 4 (14.29%) EMC
10 2 (7.143%) Altiris