The first table below looks at the demand for Active Directory skills in IT contracts advertised for the Erskine region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Active Directory over the 3 months to 19 June 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 System Software category for the Erskine 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Active Directory
Rank 17 16 -
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 5 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Erskine 8.333% 4.651% -
As % of the System Software category 29.41% 40.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
Average daily rate £345 £355 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.81% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £265 £275
% change year-on-year
+3.77% -3.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.50 £16.00 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-9.37% +6.66%
All System Software
Erskine
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
17 5 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Erskine 28.33% 11.63% -
Number of daily rates quoted 14 4 0
Average daily rate £373 £368 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.36% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £318 £305
% change year-on-year
+2.36% +4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £17.00 £16.75
% change year-on-year
- +1.49%
Active Directory
Renfrewshire

Active Directory
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Active Directory across the Erskine region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

Erskine Active Directory Jobs Demand Trend

Active Directory
Daily Rate Trend

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

Erskine Active Directory Daily Rate Trend

Active Directory
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Erskine 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 16 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 16 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (75.00%) Windows
3 8 (50.00%) HP
3 8 (50.00%) OpenView Configuration Management
4 7 (43.75%) Citrix
5 6 (37.50%) SAN
6 5 (31.25%) Windows Server 2003
6 5 (31.25%) Windows Server 2008
7 4 (25.00%) Software Deployment
7 4 (25.00%) Veritas
7 4 (25.00%) XPath
7 4 (25.00%) HP Operations Orchestration
7 4 (25.00%) Netcool
7 4 (25.00%) Telecoms
7 4 (25.00%) Finance
7 4 (25.00%) XML
7 4 (25.00%) XSL
7 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
7 4 (25.00%) HTML
7 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
8 3 (18.75%) MySQL
8 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
8 3 (18.75%) Solaris
8 3 (18.75%) Windows XP
8 3 (18.75%) SSL
8 3 (18.75%) CA
8 3 (18.75%) EMC
8 3 (18.75%) Service Management
8 3 (18.75%) IPsec

Active Directory
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Erskine 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 4 (25.00%) XML
1 4 (25.00%) XSL
1 4 (25.00%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (6.250%) CMS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (37.50%) SAN
2 3 (18.75%) SSL
2 3 (18.75%) IPsec
3 1 (6.250%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) MySQL
1 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (25.00%) Telecoms
1 4 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Consultant
2 3 (18.75%) Management Consultant
2 3 (18.75%) Configuration Management Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) Operations Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) Technical Leader
3 2 (12.50%) Technical Consultant
4 1 (6.250%) Service Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) Team Leader
4 1 (6.250%) Security Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) Senior Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 12 (75.00%) Windows
2 5 (31.25%) Windows Server 2003
2 5 (31.25%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (18.75%) Solaris
3 3 (18.75%) Windows XP
3 3 (18.75%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (25.00%) Software Deployment
2 3 (18.75%) Service Management
2 3 (18.75%) Configuration Management
2 3 (18.75%) Test Scripting
2 3 (18.75%) Software Distribution
2 3 (18.75%) Information Assurance
3 1 (6.250%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) XPath
1 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (18.75%) Jython
3 1 (6.250%) C
Qualifications
1 16 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 16 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (50.00%) OpenView Configuration Management
2 4 (25.00%) HP Operations Orchestration
2 4 (25.00%) Netcool
3 3 (18.75%) HP SiteScope
3 3 (18.75%) HP UCMDB
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) HP
2 7 (43.75%) Citrix
3 4 (25.00%) Veritas
3 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (18.75%) CA
4 3 (18.75%) EMC
4 3 (18.75%) VMware
5 1 (6.250%) Lumension