Midlands Active Directory Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Active Directory skills within the Midlands 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	45	60
Rank change on same period last year	+15
Matching contract IT job ads	31	25
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.041 %	0.025 %
As % of the category below	65.96 %	56.82 %
Daily rates quoted	4	2
Average minimum daily rate	£204	£183
Average daily rate	£209	£203
% change on same period last year	+3.39 %
Average maximum daily rate	£215	£223
UK excluding London average daily rate	£296	£303
% change on same period last year	-2.12 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.50	£20.69
Average hourly rate	£13.63	£20.69
% change on same period last year	-34.13 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£14.75	£20.69
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.55	£18.80
% change on same period last year	-6.62 %
System Software Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	47	44
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.063 %	0.045 %
Daily rates quoted	7	6
Average minimum daily rate	£309	£274
Average daily rate	£316	£297
% change on same period last year	+6.37 %
Average maximum daily rate	£323	£321
UK excluding London average daily rate	£323	£327
% change on same period last year	-1.33 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.50	£20.69
Average hourly rate	£16.58	£20.69
% change on same period last year	-19.83 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.67	£20.69
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.00	£22.17
% change on same period last year	-5.27 %
Active Directory England

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 Midlands 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 Midlands region.

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Active Directory across the Midlands 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 Midlands region.

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 22 (48.89 %) Windows 2 21 (46.67 %) Microsoft 3 11 (24.44 %) MS Exchange 4 8 (17.78 %) Citrix 5 7 (15.56 %) Microsoft Certification 5 7 (15.56 %) Migration 6 6 (13.33 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 5 (11.11 %) SAN 7 5 (11.11 %) Windows Server 2003 7 5 (11.11 %) SharePoint 7 5 (11.11 %) MCSE 7 5 (11.11 %) MS Office 7 5 (11.11 %) SharePoint Server 2007 8 4 (8.889 %) Retail 8 4 (8.889 %) Workflow

8 4 (8.889 %) Exchange Server 2000 8 4 (8.889 %) ITIL 8 4 (8.889 %) Windows 2000 8 4 (8.889 %) PRINCE2 8 4 (8.889 %) CCNP 8 4 (8.889 %) Cisco Certification 8 4 (8.889 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 8 4 (8.889 %) Project Management 9 3 (6.667 %) Internet 9 3 (6.667 %) Windows NT 9 3 (6.667 %) SQL 9 3 (6.667 %) Banking 9 3 (6.667 %) Windows SharePoint Services 9 3 (6.667 %) Retail Banking 9 3 (6.667 %) Office Project Server

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 3 (6.667 %) Windows SharePoint Services 2 1 (2.222 %) .NET 2 1 (2.222 %) ASP.NET	Application Platforms 1 11 (24.44 %) MS Exchange 2 6 (13.33 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 5 (11.11 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 5 (11.11 %) SharePoint 4 4 (8.889 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 3 (6.667 %) Office Project Server 6 1 (2.222 %) Exchange Server 2007 6 1 (2.222 %) IIS 6 1 (2.222 %) GroupWise 6 1 (2.222 %) Exchange Server 5.5
Applications 1 5 (11.11 %) MS Office 2 2 (4.444 %) MS Excel 3 1 (2.222 %) MS Project	Communications & Networking 1 5 (11.11 %) SAN 2 3 (6.667 %) Internet 3 2 (4.444 %) LAN 3 2 (4.444 %) WAN 4 1 (2.222 %) SMTP 4 1 (2.222 %) DHCP 4 1 (2.222 %) HTTP 4 1 (2.222 %) TCP/IP 4 1 (2.222 %) DNS 4 1 (2.222 %) LDAP
General 1 4 (8.889 %) Retail 2 3 (6.667 %) Banking 2 3 (6.667 %) Retail Banking 3 1 (2.222 %) Local Government 3 1 (2.222 %) Back Office 3 1 (2.222 %) Telecoms 3 1 (2.222 %) Finance 3 1 (2.222 %) Education 3 1 (2.222 %) Government 3 1 (2.222 %) Health 3 1 (2.222 %) Publishing	Job Titles 1 8 (17.78 %) Analyst 2 7 (15.56 %) Architect 3 6 (13.33 %) Support Analyst 4 5 (11.11 %) 1st Line Support 4 5 (11.11 %) 2nd Line Support 5 4 (8.889 %) Developer 5 4 (8.889 %) Infrastructure Architect 5 4 (8.889 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 5 4 (8.889 %) Project Manager 5 4 (8.889 %) Infrastructure Manager 6 3 (6.667 %) Technical Manager 6 3 (6.667 %) SharePoint Developer 6 3 (6.667 %) Technical Project Manager 7 2 (4.444 %) Solutions Architect 7 2 (4.444 %) Support Engineer 7 2 (4.444 %) Consultant 7 2 (4.444 %) 3rd Line Support 7 2 (4.444 %) Helpdesk Support 7 2 (4.444 %) Server Engineer 8 1 (2.222 %) Citrix Support
Miscellaneous 1 2 (4.444 %) Smartcard 1 2 (4.444 %) PKI 2 1 (2.222 %) NHS 2 1 (2.222 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 22 (48.89 %) Windows 2 5 (11.11 %) Windows Server 2003 3 4 (8.889 %) Windows 2000 4 3 (6.667 %) Windows NT 5 1 (2.222 %) Windows XP 5 1 (2.222 %) NetWare 5 1 (2.222 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (15.56 %) Migration 2 4 (8.889 %) ITIL 2 4 (8.889 %) PRINCE2 2 4 (8.889 %) Project Management 2 4 (8.889 %) Workflow 3 2 (4.444 %) Security Cleared 4 1 (2.222 %) Logistics 4 1 (2.222 %) Systems Analysis	Programming Languages 1 3 (6.667 %) SQL 2 1 (2.222 %) C#
Qualifications 1 7 (15.56 %) Microsoft Certification 2 5 (11.11 %) MCSE 3 4 (8.889 %) CCNP 3 4 (8.889 %) Cisco Certification 4 1 (2.222 %) MCP 4 1 (2.222 %) CCNA 4 1 (2.222 %) CCDA 4 1 (2.222 %) MCSA 4 1 (2.222 %) CNA 4 1 (2.222 %) CNE 4 1 (2.222 %) Novell Certification 4 1 (2.222 %) ITIL Certification	System Software 1 3 (6.667 %) Citrix Presentation Server 2 1 (2.222 %) NDS 2 1 (2.222 %) ISA Server 2 1 (2.222 %) Backup Exec
Systems Management 1 4 (8.889 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 21 (46.67 %) Microsoft 2 8 (17.78 %) Citrix 3 2 (4.444 %) CA 3 2 (4.444 %) Novell 3 2 (4.444 %) VMware 3 2 (4.444 %) Cisco 4 1 (2.222 %) HP 4 1 (2.222 %) Dell 4 1 (2.222 %) Oracle 4 1 (2.222 %) SAP