The first table below looks at the demand for Active Directory skills in IT contracts advertised for the Luton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Active Directory over the 3 months to 24 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 Luton 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Active Directory
Rank 8 9 10
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +1
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 9 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Luton 11.25% 4.839% 1.961%
As % of the System Software category 81.82% 75.00% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 0
Average daily rate £325 £280 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.96% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £275 £275
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £15.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-9.67% +3.33%
All System Software
Luton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
11 4 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Luton 13.75% 6.452% 7.843%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 2
Average daily rate £325 £388 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.12% +25.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.79 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-4.67% -1.98%
Active Directory
Bedfordshire

Active Directory
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Luton 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 Luton region.

Luton 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 Luton region.

Luton Active Directory Hourly Rate Trend

Active Directory
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Luton 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 9 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (77.78%) DHCP
2 7 (77.78%) Windows
2 7 (77.78%) DNS
3 6 (66.67%) IIS
4 5 (55.56%) MS Excel
4 5 (55.56%) FTP
4 5 (55.56%) ITIL
4 5 (55.56%) Publishing
4 5 (55.56%) Configuration Management
4 5 (55.56%) PowerShell
4 5 (55.56%) SCOM
5 2 (22.22%) Windows 7
5 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (22.22%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2003
5 2 (22.22%) SLA
5 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (22.22%) HTTP
5 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
5 2 (22.22%) Adobe
5 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (22.22%) Windows XP
5 2 (22.22%) MS Exchange
5 2 (22.22%) LAN
5 2 (22.22%) MS Office
5 2 (22.22%) COM
5 2 (22.22%) SQL

Active Directory
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Luton 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 (22.22%) COM
Application Platforms
1 6 (66.67%) IIS
2 2 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (22.22%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 5 (55.56%) MS Excel
2 2 (22.22%) MS Office
2 2 (22.22%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 7 (77.78%) DHCP
1 7 (77.78%) DNS
2 5 (55.56%) FTP
3 2 (22.22%) HTTP
3 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
3 2 (22.22%) LAN
4 1 (11.11%) VPN
4 1 (11.11%) Wireless
General
1 5 (55.56%) Publishing
2 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) 2nd Line Support Technician
2 2 (22.22%) Support Technician
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 2 (22.22%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (11.11%) Web Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Web Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Service Desk Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (77.78%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) Windows 7
2 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (22.22%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) ITIL
1 5 (55.56%) Configuration Management
2 2 (22.22%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (11.11%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) PowerShell
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) SLA
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) SCOM
2 1 (11.11%) Nagios
2 1 (11.11%) Cacti
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Adobe
3 1 (11.11%) JD Edwards
3 1 (11.11%) Polycom