The first table below looks at the demand for Active Directory skills in IT contracts advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Active Directory over the 3 months to 20 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 Merseyside 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Active Directory
Rank 12 14 22
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +8
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 13 21 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 6.806% 8.642% 4.015%
As % of the System Software category 76.47% 84.00% 45.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 9 6
Average daily rate £275 £263 £333
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.76% -21.05%
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £265 £275
% change year-on-year
+3.77% -3.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 2
Average hourly rate £12.50 £16.50 £16.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-24.24% +1.53%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.60 £14.26 £12.85
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.50 £30.00 £19.65
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.50 £16.00 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-9.37% +6.66%
All System Software
Merseyside
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
17 25 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 8.901% 10.29% 8.759%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 12
Average daily rate £393 £263 £360
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+49.52% -27.08%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £286 £225 £248
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £263 £457
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £315 £310
% change year-on-year
+3.17% +1.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 4
Average hourly rate £13.25 £16.50 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-19.69% -19.51%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.75 £15.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.50 £26.40 £22.21
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
- +3.03%
Active Directory
North West

Active Directory
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region over the 3 months to 20 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
Liverpool 0 6 £275 +4.76% 2
St Helens - - - -
Active Directory
North West

Active Directory
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 17 (73.91%) Windows
2 13 (56.52%) Microsoft
3 9 (39.13%) Windows Server 2008
4 8 (34.78%) Windows Server 2003
5 6 (26.09%) VMware
5 6 (26.09%) Windows XP
5 6 (26.09%) MS Exchange
5 6 (26.09%) Windows 7
6 5 (21.74%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (21.74%) SCCM
6 5 (21.74%) DNS
6 5 (21.74%) Cisco
7 4 (17.39%) MS Office
7 4 (17.39%) SC Cleared
7 4 (17.39%) Security Cleared
7 4 (17.39%) Hyper-V
8 3 (13.04%) SCOM
8 3 (13.04%) Exchange Server 2003
8 3 (13.04%) LAN
8 3 (13.04%) WAN
8 3 (13.04%) Dell
8 3 (13.04%) Citrix
8 3 (13.04%) SAN
8 3 (13.04%) Clustering
8 3 (13.04%) Change Management
8 3 (13.04%) Migration
9 2 (8.696%) Internet
9 2 (8.696%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 2 (8.696%) MPLS
9 2 (8.696%) Sophos

Active Directory
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 6 (26.09%) MS Exchange
2 3 (13.04%) Exchange Server 2003
3 2 (8.696%) IBM Notes
3 2 (8.696%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (4.348%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 4 (17.39%) MS Office
2 2 (8.696%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (21.74%) DNS
2 3 (13.04%) LAN
2 3 (13.04%) WAN
2 3 (13.04%) SAN
3 2 (8.696%) Internet
3 2 (8.696%) MPLS
3 2 (8.696%) VoIP
3 2 (8.696%) Firewall
3 2 (8.696%) DHCP
3 2 (8.696%) TCP/IP
3 2 (8.696%) VPN
3 2 (8.696%) LDAP
3 2 (8.696%) VLAN
4 1 (4.348%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (4.348%) iSCSI
4 1 (4.348%) IP Telephony
4 1 (4.348%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (4.348%) Cisco PIX
4 1 (4.348%) SMS
4 1 (4.348%) ADSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.348%) DB2
General
1 2 (8.696%) Dutch Language
1 2 (8.696%) French Language
2 1 (4.348%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (13.04%) 2nd Line Support
1 3 (13.04%) 1st Line Support
2 2 (8.696%) 3rd Line Support
2 2 (8.696%) Analyst
2 2 (8.696%) Consultant
2 2 (8.696%) Architect
2 2 (8.696%) Service Analyst
2 2 (8.696%) Service Desk Analyst
2 2 (8.696%) Designer
3 1 (4.348%) Wintel Consultant
3 1 (4.348%) SCCM Administrator
3 1 (4.348%) 1st Line Support Analyst
3 1 (4.348%) Active Directory Consultant
3 1 (4.348%) Project Engineer
3 1 (4.348%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (4.348%) Server Engineer
3 1 (4.348%) Rollout Engineer
3 1 (4.348%) Deployment Engineer
3 1 (4.348%) Windows Server Engineer
3 1 (4.348%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Clustering
2 2 (8.696%) FMCG
3 1 (4.348%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (4.348%) Fat Client
3 1 (4.348%) Thin Client
3 1 (4.348%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.348%) Replication
3 1 (4.348%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 17 (73.91%) Windows
2 9 (39.13%) Windows Server 2008
3 8 (34.78%) Windows Server 2003
4 6 (26.09%) Windows XP
4 6 (26.09%) Windows 7
5 2 (8.696%) Linux
5 2 (8.696%) Windows 2000 Server
6 1 (4.348%) Windows 8
6 1 (4.348%) CentOS
6 1 (4.348%) Ubuntu
6 1 (4.348%) Windows Vista
6 1 (4.348%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (13.04%) Change Management
1 3 (13.04%) Migration
2 2 (8.696%) Problem Management
2 2 (8.696%) Performance Management
3 1 (4.348%) Security Architecture
3 1 (4.348%) Service Desk Management
3 1 (4.348%) Document Management
3 1 (4.348%) Incident Management
3 1 (4.348%) ITIL
3 1 (4.348%) Security Management
3 1 (4.348%) Validation
3 1 (4.348%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.696%) SQL
1 2 (8.696%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) SC Cleared
1 4 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.348%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (4.348%) DV Cleared
2 1 (4.348%) MCP
2 1 (4.348%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.348%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (21.74%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (17.39%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.348%) vSphere
3 1 (4.348%) UAG
3 1 (4.348%) XenApp
3 1 (4.348%) XenDesktop
3 1 (4.348%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 1 (4.348%) VMware ESX
3 1 (4.348%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) SCCM
2 3 (13.04%) SCOM
3 2 (8.696%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (4.348%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (4.348%) Backup Exec
4 1 (4.348%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 13 (56.52%) Microsoft
2 6 (26.09%) VMware
3 5 (21.74%) Cisco
4 3 (13.04%) Dell
4 3 (13.04%) Citrix
5 2 (8.696%) Sophos
5 2 (8.696%) NetApp
5 2 (8.696%) Lotus
5 2 (8.696%) HP
5 2 (8.696%) IBM
5 2 (8.696%) Oracle
6 1 (4.348%) NETGEAR
6 1 (4.348%) Brocade
6 1 (4.348%) Red Hat
6 1 (4.348%) Wyse
6 1 (4.348%) Symantec
Liverpool, North West
The successful candidates will have experience working with the following technologies: - VMware, V-Sphere - Storage experience, EMC, SAN - Cisco UCS Blade solutions - Active Directory - Citrix (Xen App desirable) -...
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Posted: 13 June 2013