Leeds Active Directory Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Active Directory skills within the Leeds 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Active Directory
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Avon Aylesbury Ayrshire Bacup Banbury Barking Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bognor Regis Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Colwyn Bay Conwy County Antrim Coventry Cramlington Crawley Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Douglas Dover Dudley Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Ely Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Fife Fleetwood Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grays Greenwich Guildford Guisborough Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Hartlepool Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Inverurie Ipswich Isle of Man Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Knutsford Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Middlewich Midlands Milton Keynes 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 Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Redcar Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rochdale Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South Croydon South East South Shields South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Asaph Stafford Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Thurrock Torfaen Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Witham Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	24	34
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching contract IT job ads	74	40
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.099 %	0.040 %
As % of the category below	74.75 %	80.00 %
Daily rates quoted	20	6
Average minimum daily rate	£261	£145
Average daily rate	£278	£149
% change on same period last year	+86.33 %
Average maximum daily rate	£296	£154
UK excluding London average daily rate	£296	£303
% change on same period last year	-2.12 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.10	£10.99
Average hourly rate	£18.55	£12.03
% change on same period last year	+54.19 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.00	£13.07
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.55	£18.80
% change on same period last year	-6.62 %
System Software Leeds
Matching contract IT job ads	99	50
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.132 %	0.051 %
Daily rates quoted	27	9
Average minimum daily rate	£270	£170
Average daily rate	£289	£179
% change on same period last year	+61.10 %
Average maximum daily rate	£308	£189
UK excluding London average daily rate	£323	£327
% change on same period last year	-1.33 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.82	£10.99
Average hourly rate	£19.36	£12.03
% change on same period last year	+60.96 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.91	£13.07
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.00	£22.17
% change on same period last year	-5.27 %
Active Directory West Yorkshire

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 Leeds 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 Leeds region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Active Directory across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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 Leeds region.

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Active Directory across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Active Directory
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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.

1 101 (80.16 %) Windows 2 62 (49.21 %) Microsoft 3 43 (34.13 %) MS Exchange 4 36 (28.57 %) Windows XP 5 31 (24.60 %) MS Office 6 29 (23.02 %) SQL Server 6 29 (23.02 %) TCP/IP 7 28 (22.22 %) Exchange Server 2003 8 23 (18.25 %) Windows Server 2003 8 23 (18.25 %) ITIL 9 22 (17.46 %) Windows 2000 9 22 (17.46 %) MS Excel 10 20 (15.87 %) VPN 10 20 (15.87 %) WAN 11 19 (15.08 %) Citrix

12 18 (14.29 %) SQL 13 17 (13.49 %) Microsoft Certification 13 17 (13.49 %) Internet 13 17 (13.49 %) Exchange Server 2000 13 17 (13.49 %) SQL Server 2005 14 14 (11.11 %) Telecoms 14 14 (11.11 %) SAN 15 13 (10.32 %) PRINCE2 15 13 (10.32 %) Firewall 16 11 (8.730 %) DNS 16 11 (8.730 %) VMware ESX 17 10 (7.937 %) UNIX 17 10 (7.937 %) Finance 17 10 (7.937 %) MPLS 17 10 (7.937 %) SQL Server 2000

Active Directory
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 9 (7.143 %) .NET 2 6 (4.762 %) ASP.NET 3 5 (3.968 %) ASP.NET 2.0 4 3 (2.381 %) WebServices 5 2 (1.587 %) Windows SharePoint Services 5 2 (1.587 %) .NET Framework 5 2 (1.587 %) Application Packaging 5 2 (1.587 %) WCF 6 1 (0.794 %) XML 6 1 (0.794 %) XSLT 6 1 (0.794 %) AJAX 6 1 (0.794 %) HTML 6 1 (0.794 %) CSS	Application Platforms 1 43 (34.13 %) MS Exchange 2 28 (22.22 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 17 (13.49 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 8 (6.349 %) Lotus Notes 4 8 (6.349 %) SharePoint 5 6 (4.762 %) Lotus Domino 5 6 (4.762 %) IIS 6 5 (3.968 %) WebLogic 7 2 (1.587 %) Exchange Server 2007 8 1 (0.794 %) SharePoint Server 2007 8 1 (0.794 %) WorkSite
Applications 1 31 (24.60 %) MS Office 2 22 (17.46 %) MS Excel 3 2 (1.587 %) InfoPath	Business Applications 1 3 (2.381 %) SoftGrid 2 1 (0.794 %) assyst
Communications & Networking 1 29 (23.02 %) TCP/IP 2 20 (15.87 %) VPN 2 20 (15.87 %) WAN 3 17 (13.49 %) Internet 4 14 (11.11 %) SAN 5 13 (10.32 %) Firewall 6 11 (8.730 %) DNS 7 10 (7.937 %) MPLS 8 8 (6.349 %) Broadband 9 7 (5.556 %) LAN 10 6 (4.762 %) DHCP 11 4 (3.175 %) VoIP 11 4 (3.175 %) Intranet 12 3 (2.381 %) LDAP 13 2 (1.587 %) X.500 13 2 (1.587 %) X.509 13 2 (1.587 %) Kerberos 13 2 (1.587 %) SSL 14 1 (0.794 %) VLAN 14 1 (0.794 %) Extranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 29 (23.02 %) SQL Server 2 17 (13.49 %) SQL Server 2005 3 10 (7.937 %) SQL Server 2000 4 7 (5.556 %) SQL Server 7 5 2 (1.587 %) MS Access
Development Applications 1 5 (3.968 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (0.794 %) VSS/SourceSafe	General 1 14 (11.11 %) Telecoms 2 10 (7.937 %) Finance 3 7 (5.556 %) Health 4 6 (4.762 %) Law 4 6 (4.762 %) Banking 5 4 (3.175 %) Legal 5 4 (3.175 %) Education 5 4 (3.175 %) Government
Job Titles 1 28 (22.22 %) Analyst 2 19 (15.08 %) Desktop Support 3 17 (13.49 %) Support Analyst 4 15 (11.90 %) Developer 5 13 (10.32 %) Support Engineer 5 13 (10.32 %) 2nd Line Support 6 8 (6.349 %) Systems Engineer 7 7 (5.556 %) Service Analyst 7 7 (5.556 %) Technical Support 7 7 (5.556 %) Desktop Support Analyst 7 7 (5.556 %) Service Desk Analyst 7 7 (5.556 %) Desktop Engineer 7 7 (5.556 %) Desktop Analyst 8 6 (4.762 %) Server Engineer 8 6 (4.762 %) Project Engineer 8 6 (4.762 %) Desktop Support Engineer 8 6 (4.762 %) Helpdesk Analyst 8 6 (4.762 %) Server Support 8 6 (4.762 %) Consultant 9 5 (3.968 %) Senior Developer	Miscellaneous 1 5 (3.968 %) NHS 1 5 (3.968 %) Clustering 2 2 (1.587 %) PKI 2 2 (1.587 %) Smartcard 2 2 (1.587 %) Blackberry 2 2 (1.587 %) NPfIT 3 1 (0.794 %) Computer Science 3 1 (0.794 %) Client/Server
Operating Systems 1 101 (80.16 %) Windows 2 36 (28.57 %) Windows XP 3 23 (18.25 %) Windows Server 2003 4 22 (17.46 %) Windows 2000 5 10 (7.937 %) UNIX 6 7 (5.556 %) Linux 7 6 (4.762 %) Windows NT 8 5 (3.968 %) Windows Vista 9 3 (2.381 %) NetWare 9 3 (2.381 %) Solaris 10 2 (1.587 %) Windows Mobile 11 1 (0.794 %) Mac OS X	Processes & Methodologies 1 23 (18.25 %) ITIL 2 13 (10.32 %) PRINCE2 3 8 (6.349 %) Project Management 4 7 (5.556 %) Network Load Balancing 5 5 (3.968 %) Migration 6 4 (3.175 %) Service Management 7 3 (2.381 %) PRINCE 7 3 (2.381 %) Problem Management 7 3 (2.381 %) Network Design 7 3 (2.381 %) Data Migration 8 2 (1.587 %) Supplier Management 8 2 (1.587 %) Enterprise Architecture 8 2 (1.587 %) Risk Assessment 8 2 (1.587 %) ITSM 8 2 (1.587 %) Security Management 8 2 (1.587 %) UML 9 1 (0.794 %) OO 9 1 (0.794 %) OOD 9 1 (0.794 %) MOF 9 1 (0.794 %) Change Management
Programming Languages 1 18 (14.29 %) SQL 2 5 (3.968 %) VB 3 4 (3.175 %) Shell Script 3 4 (3.175 %) Perl 4 2 (1.587 %) C# 5 1 (0.794 %) JavaScript	Qualifications 1 17 (13.49 %) Microsoft Certification 2 9 (7.143 %) MCP 2 9 (7.143 %) MCSE 3 4 (3.175 %) PRINCE2 Certification 4 2 (1.587 %) Network+ Certification 4 2 (1.587 %) CCNA 4 2 (1.587 %) Cisco Certification 5 1 (0.794 %) HNC 5 1 (0.794 %) CNA 5 1 (0.794 %) CNE 5 1 (0.794 %) Novell Certification 5 1 (0.794 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (1.587 %) ISO27001	System Software 1 11 (8.730 %) VMware ESX 2 8 (6.349 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 5 (3.968 %) Backup Exec 4 4 (3.175 %) MetaFrame 5 3 (2.381 %) Novell eDirectory 6 2 (1.587 %) ISA Server
Systems Management 1 7 (5.556 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 5 (3.968 %) OpenView 2 5 (3.968 %) Norton AntiVirus 2 5 (3.968 %) NNM 2 5 (3.968 %) OVOW 3 4 (3.175 %) OVIS 4 3 (2.381 %) ZENworks 5 2 (1.587 %) OVPA 5 2 (1.587 %) OVPM 5 2 (1.587 %) MOM 5 2 (1.587 %) ARCserve	Vendors 1 62 (49.21 %) Microsoft 2 19 (15.08 %) Citrix 3 9 (7.143 %) VMware 4 8 (6.349 %) Symantec 4 8 (6.349 %) Lotus 4 8 (6.349 %) HP 5 7 (5.556 %) Oracle 6 6 (4.762 %) Novell 7 4 (3.175 %) VERITAS 7 4 (3.175 %) Cisco 8 2 (1.587 %) Dell 8 2 (1.587 %) Apple 8 2 (1.587 %) Remedy 8 2 (1.587 %) Mitel 8 2 (1.587 %) Altiris 9 1 (0.794 %) Intel 9 1 (0.794 %) CommVault