The first table below looks at the demand for Active Directory skills in IT contracts advertised for the Newcastle upon Tyne region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Active Directory over the 3 months to 17 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 Newcastle upon Tyne 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Active Directory
Rank 23 28 23
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -5
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 3 6 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 2.027% 2.326% 2.564%
As % of the System Software category 23.08% 20.69% 38.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 3
Average daily rate - £350 £125
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +180.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £275 £275
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
Average hourly rate £18.25 £14.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+30.35% +3.70%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.16 £15.13 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-6.38% +0.83%
All System Software
Newcastle upon Tyne
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
13 29 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 8.784% 11.24% 6.667%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 17 5
Average daily rate £300 £400 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-24.93% +33.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £258 £250 £112
10% offered a daily rate of more than £301 £490 £333
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
Average hourly rate £18.25 £14.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+30.35% +3.70%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
Active Directory
Tyne and Wear

Active Directory
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Newcastle upon Tyne 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region.

Newcastle upon Tyne 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region.

Newcastle upon Tyne Active Directory Hourly Rate Trend

Active Directory
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 7 (87.50%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) MS Exchange
2 3 (37.50%) VPN
2 3 (37.50%) Dell
2 3 (37.50%) SCCM
2 3 (37.50%) Windows 7
3 2 (25.00%) Blackberry
3 2 (25.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (12.50%) McAfee
4 1 (12.50%) CCNA
4 1 (12.50%) Asset Management
4 1 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2003
4 1 (12.50%) Problem Management
4 1 (12.50%) Service Management
4 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (12.50%) VMware
4 1 (12.50%) Clustering
4 1 (12.50%) Citrix
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (12.50%) SAN
4 1 (12.50%) Novell
4 1 (12.50%) DNS
4 1 (12.50%) SLA
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco
4 1 (12.50%) LAN
4 1 (12.50%) SMTP
4 1 (12.50%) FTP

Active Directory
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 3 (37.50%) MS Exchange
2 2 (25.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) VPN
2 1 (12.50%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) SAN
2 1 (12.50%) LDAP
2 1 (12.50%) LAN
2 1 (12.50%) SMTP
2 1 (12.50%) FTP
2 1 (12.50%) SNMP
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Analyst
1 3 (37.50%) Support Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) 2nd Line Support
1 3 (37.50%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Administrator
2 2 (25.00%) Service Desk Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Service Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Server Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Blackberry
2 1 (12.50%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) Windows 7
3 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (12.50%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (12.50%) ITIL
1 1 (12.50%) Project Management
1 1 (12.50%) Service Management
1 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (12.50%) Asset Management
1 1 (12.50%) Problem Management
1 1 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) CCNA
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (12.50%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) SCCM
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco UCCX
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Dell
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco
3 1 (12.50%) Citrix
3 1 (12.50%) Novell
3 1 (12.50%) McAfee
3 1 (12.50%) VMware
3 1 (12.50%) RightFax
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
Our client is about to undertake a VOIP project that will run for approx... They require an IT contractor with the following experience: - Strong project management/co-ordination...
Solutions Recruitment
Rate: From £15 to £25 per hour
Posted: 14 May 2013