The first table below looks at the demand for Active Directory skills in IT contracts advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Active Directory over the 3 months to 18 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 Kent 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Active Directory
Rank 18 27 3
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -24
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 18 8 57
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 6.818% 3.306% 18.69%
As % of the System Software category 26.09% 32.00% 89.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 35
Average daily rate £278 £138 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+101.81% -50.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £133 £128 £231
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £280 £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £269 £275
% change year-on-year
+2.32% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 3
Average hourly rate £16.00 £27.50 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-41.81% +61.76%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.90 £27.50 £13.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.50 £27.50 £23.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.35 £16.00 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-10.34% +6.66%
All System Software
Kent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
69 25 64
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 26.14% 10.33% 20.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 15 40
Average daily rate £375 £380 £289
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.31% +31.60%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £129 £140 £241
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £431 £323
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £324 £310
% change year-on-year
+0.30% +4.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 4
Average hourly rate £16.00 £67.50 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-76.29% +350.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £35.50 £12.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £67.50 £22.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £17.00 £16.75
% change year-on-year
- +1.49%
Active Directory
South East

Active Directory
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent Active Directory Daily Rate Trend

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Active Directory across the Kent region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Kent Active Directory Daily Rate Histogram

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 Kent region.

Kent Active Directory Hourly Rate Trend

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 Kent region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Canterbury - 2 £300 -
Tonbridge -2 1 £475 +245.45%
Tunbridge Wells - 1 £150 - 6
Dartford - 1 - -
Dover - - - -
Sittingbourne - - - -
West Malling - - - - 2
Whitstable - - - - 2
Active Directory
South East

Active Directory
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 38 (100.00%) Windows
2 24 (63.16%) Windows Server 2003
3 20 (52.63%) Windows Server 2008
4 18 (47.37%) Citrix
5 17 (44.74%) VMware
6 15 (39.47%) MS Exchange
7 11 (28.95%) Microsoft
7 11 (28.95%) Windows 7
8 10 (26.32%) Exchange Server 2007
8 10 (26.32%) Windows XP
9 9 (23.68%) DNS
9 9 (23.68%) Windows Vista
10 8 (21.05%) VMware Infrastructure
10 8 (21.05%) DHCP
10 8 (21.05%) SharePoint
11 7 (18.42%) MS Excel
12 6 (15.79%) SCOM
12 6 (15.79%) Windows 2000 Server
12 6 (15.79%) Exchange Server 2010
12 6 (15.79%) LAN
12 6 (15.79%) WAN
12 6 (15.79%) TCP/IP
12 6 (15.79%) VPN
12 6 (15.79%) Juniper
12 6 (15.79%) HP
12 6 (15.79%) Advertising
12 6 (15.79%) Firewall
12 6 (15.79%) IPsec
13 5 (13.16%) Blackberry
13 5 (13.16%) Dell

Active Directory
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 2 (5.263%) Windows SharePoint Services
2 1 (2.632%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 15 (39.47%) MS Exchange
2 10 (26.32%) Exchange Server 2007
3 8 (21.05%) SharePoint
4 6 (15.79%) Exchange Server 2010
5 4 (10.53%) Exchange Server 2003
6 2 (5.263%) IIS
6 2 (5.263%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 7 (18.42%) MS Excel
2 5 (13.16%) MS Office
3 1 (2.632%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.632%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (2.632%) InfoPath
Communications & Networking
1 9 (23.68%) DNS
2 8 (21.05%) DHCP
3 6 (15.79%) TCP/IP
3 6 (15.79%) VPN
3 6 (15.79%) LAN
3 6 (15.79%) WAN
3 6 (15.79%) Firewall
3 6 (15.79%) IPsec
4 5 (13.16%) WLAN
5 4 (10.53%) Internet
6 3 (7.895%) IPv6
7 2 (5.263%) SAN
7 2 (5.263%) SMTP
7 2 (5.263%) HTTP
8 1 (2.632%) Wireless
8 1 (2.632%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.895%) SQL Server
1 3 (7.895%) SQL Server 2005
1 3 (7.895%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 6 (15.79%) Advertising
2 2 (5.263%) Telecoms
3 1 (2.632%) Finance
3 1 (2.632%) Banking
3 1 (2.632%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (31.58%) Support Engineer
2 9 (23.68%) Analyst
2 9 (23.68%) Support Analyst
3 8 (21.05%) Desktop Support
3 8 (21.05%) Desktop Engineer
4 7 (18.42%) Server Engineer
5 6 (15.79%) 2nd Line Support
5 6 (15.79%) 1st Line Support
6 4 (10.53%) Desktop Support Analyst
6 4 (10.53%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 4 (10.53%) Desktop Analyst
7 3 (7.895%) Server Support Engineer
7 3 (7.895%) Server Support
7 3 (7.895%) Team Leader
7 3 (7.895%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
7 3 (7.895%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 2 (5.263%) 1st Line Support Engineer
8 2 (5.263%) IT Support
8 2 (5.263%) Project Engineer
8 2 (5.263%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.16%) Blackberry
2 3 (7.895%) PKI
3 2 (5.263%) NHS
3 2 (5.263%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 38 (100.00%) Windows
2 24 (63.16%) Windows Server 2003
3 20 (52.63%) Windows Server 2008
4 11 (28.95%) Windows 7
5 10 (26.32%) Windows XP
6 9 (23.68%) Windows Vista
7 6 (15.79%) Windows 2000 Server
8 3 (7.895%) Windows Mobile
9 2 (5.263%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (10.53%) Incident Management
1 4 (10.53%) Release Management
2 3 (7.895%) ITIL
3 2 (5.263%) ITIL V3
3 2 (5.263%) Software Deployment
4 1 (2.632%) Service Management
4 1 (2.632%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.16%) PowerShell
2 4 (10.53%) SQL
2 4 (10.53%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 5 (13.16%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (7.895%) MCSA
3 1 (2.632%) MCP
System Software
1 8 (21.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (13.16%) vSphere
3 4 (10.53%) Terminal Server
3 4 (10.53%) Terminal Services
4 1 (2.632%) XenApp
4 1 (2.632%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 6 (15.79%) SCOM
2 2 (5.263%) SCCM
3 1 (2.632%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 1 (2.632%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 18 (47.37%) Citrix
2 17 (44.74%) VMware
3 11 (28.95%) Microsoft
4 6 (15.79%) HP
4 6 (15.79%) Juniper
5 5 (13.16%) Dell
6 2 (5.263%) EMC
6 2 (5.263%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.632%) SAP
7 1 (2.632%) Veritas
7 1 (2.632%) Altiris
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