The first table below looks at the demand for Active Directory skills in IT contracts advertised for the Guildford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Active Directory over the 3 months to 23 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 System Software category for the Guildford 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Active Directory
Rank 26 18 6
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -12
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 6 3 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 2.791% 2.521% 11.28%
As % of the System Software category 75.00% 75.00% 78.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 3
Average daily rate £303 £105 £255
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+189.47% -59.01%
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £275 £275
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
Average hourly rate £34.75 £17.75 £23.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+95.77% -24.46%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.42 £15.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-6.95% +3.33%
All System Software
Guildford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
8 4 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 3.721% 3.361% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 4
Average daily rate £300 £105 £255
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+187.08% -59.01%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
Average hourly rate £34.75 £17.50 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+98.57% -46.15%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
Active Directory
Surrey

Active Directory
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford Active Directory Daily Rate Trend

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Guildford Active Directory Hourly Rate Trend

Active Directory
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 15 (75.00%) Windows
2 11 (55.00%) Microsoft
3 10 (50.00%) MS Exchange
4 9 (45.00%) Hyper-V
5 7 (35.00%) ITIL
6 6 (30.00%) Exchange Server 2007
6 6 (30.00%) Exchange Server 2010
7 5 (25.00%) SCCM
7 5 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
7 5 (25.00%) SQL
7 5 (25.00%) Citrix
8 4 (20.00%) MS Office
8 4 (20.00%) LAN
8 4 (20.00%) Migration
8 4 (20.00%) VMware
8 4 (20.00%) Clustering
8 4 (20.00%) SCOM
8 4 (20.00%) DFS Replication
9 3 (15.00%) Windows 7
9 3 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
9 3 (15.00%) MS Excel
9 3 (15.00%) SLA
9 3 (15.00%) VPN
9 3 (15.00%) DNS
10 2 (10.00%) DHCP
10 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (10.00%) Symantec
10 2 (10.00%) Windows XP
10 2 (10.00%) Service Delivery
10 2 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement

Active Directory
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 (5.000%) jQuery
1 1 (5.000%) Ajax
1 1 (5.000%) ASP.NET
1 1 (5.000%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 10 (50.00%) MS Exchange
2 6 (30.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 6 (30.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (5.000%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (20.00%) MS Office
2 3 (15.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) LAN
2 3 (15.00%) VPN
2 3 (15.00%) DNS
3 2 (10.00%) DHCP
4 1 (5.000%) Firewall
4 1 (5.000%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (5.000%) WAN
4 1 (5.000%) FTP
4 1 (5.000%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.000%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (5.000%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (5.000%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Analyst
2 7 (35.00%) Server Analyst
3 5 (25.00%) Support Analyst
4 4 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support
4 4 (20.00%) Server Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) Server Support Analyst
5 3 (15.00%) Server Support
6 2 (10.00%) Desktop Support
6 2 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support
6 2 (10.00%) Support Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Desktop Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
7 1 (5.000%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 1 (5.000%) 3rd Line Server Support
7 1 (5.000%) Service Desk Engineer
7 1 (5.000%) C# .NET Developer
7 1 (5.000%) Technical Support
7 1 (5.000%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (5.000%) Technical Support Analyst
7 1 (5.000%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 15 (75.00%) Windows
2 5 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (15.00%) Windows 7
4 2 (10.00%) Windows XP
5 1 (5.000%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) ITIL
2 4 (20.00%) Migration
3 2 (10.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (5.000%) OOP
4 1 (5.000%) OO
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (5.000%) T-SQL
2 1 (5.000%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.000%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.000%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.000%) MCSE
2 1 (5.000%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (45.00%) Hyper-V
2 4 (20.00%) DFS Replication
3 3 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (5.000%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) SCCM
2 4 (20.00%) SCOM
3 1 (5.000%) Backup Exec
3 1 (5.000%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 11 (55.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (25.00%) Citrix
3 4 (20.00%) VMware
4 2 (10.00%) Symantec
5 1 (5.000%) Altiris
5 1 (5.000%) McAfee
5 1 (5.000%) Dell