M4 Corridor Active Directory Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Active Directory skills within the M4 Corridor 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 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Active Directory
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Addlestone Aylesbury Ayrshire Bacup Barking Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Cleethorpes Colchester Colwyn Bay Conwy County Antrim Coventry Cramlington Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorset Douglas Dover Dudley Dunbar Dundee Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Ely Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Farnborough Feltham Fife Gateshead Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grays Great Yarmouth Greenwich Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hartlepool Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Kegworth Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston Llandudno London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton Lutterworth Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Matlock Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Middlewich Midlands Milton Keynes Morecambe Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Shields South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Asaph Stafford Staffordshire Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex 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 Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	22	19
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching contract IT job ads	1	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.009 %
As % of the category below	33.33 %	42.86 %
Daily rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum daily rate	-	£438
Average daily rate	-	£438
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£438
UK excluding London average daily rate	£296	£304
% change on same period last year	-2.43 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.90	£18.93
% change on same period last year	-5.44 %
System Software M4 Corridor
Matching contract IT job ads	3	21
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.021 %
Daily rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum daily rate	-	£438
Average daily rate	-	£438
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£438
UK excluding London average daily rate	£321	£325
% change on same period last year	-1.34 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.86	£21.86
% change on same period last year	-4.59 %
Active Directory South East

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 M4 Corridor 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 M4 Corridor region.

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 M4 Corridor region.

Active Directory
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the M4 Corridor 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 3 (100.00 %) Windows 1 3 (100.00 %) Windows Server 2003 2 2 (66.67 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 2 (66.67 %) DNS 2 2 (66.67 %) Windows 2000 2 2 (66.67 %) MS Excel 2 2 (66.67 %) Windows NT 2 2 (66.67 %) OpenView 2 2 (66.67 %) SAN 2 2 (66.67 %) Novell 3 1 (33.33 %) Red Hat 3 1 (33.33 %) Citrix 3 1 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 3 1 (33.33 %) Cisco 3 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft

3 1 (33.33 %) Linux 3 1 (33.33 %) Firewall 3 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 1 (33.33 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 1 (33.33 %) Red Hat Linux

Active Directory
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the M4 Corridor 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 Platforms 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2007	Applications 1 2 (66.67 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 2 (66.67 %) DNS 1 2 (66.67 %) SAN 2 1 (33.33 %) Firewall	Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Analyst 2 1 (33.33 %) Server Engineer
Operating Systems 1 3 (100.00 %) Windows 1 3 (100.00 %) Windows Server 2003 2 2 (66.67 %) Windows 2000 2 2 (66.67 %) Windows NT 3 1 (33.33 %) Linux 3 1 (33.33 %) Red Hat Linux	System Software 1 1 (33.33 %) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management 1 2 (66.67 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 1 2 (66.67 %) OpenView	Vendors 1 2 (66.67 %) Novell 2 1 (33.33 %) Red Hat 2 1 (33.33 %) Citrix 2 1 (33.33 %) Cisco 2 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft