North Yorkshire Active Directory Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Active Directory skills within the North Yorkshire 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	5	14
Rank change on same period last year	+9
Matching contract IT job ads	61	42
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.081 %	0.042 %
As % of the category below	93.85 %	97.67 %
Daily rates quoted	3	4
Average minimum daily rate	£285	£256
Average daily rate	£287	£275
% change on same period last year	+4.24 %
Average maximum daily rate	£288	£294
UK excluding London average daily rate	£296	£303
% change on same period last year	-2.12 %
Hourly rates quoted	13	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.50	£8.00
Average hourly rate	£17.32	£9.00
% change on same period last year	+92.46 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.14	£10.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.55	£18.80
% change on same period last year	-6.62 %
System Software North Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	65	43
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.087 %	0.044 %
Daily rates quoted	4	4
Average minimum daily rate	£289	£265
Average daily rate	£295	£290
% change on same period last year	+1.72 %
Average maximum daily rate	£301	£315
UK excluding London average daily rate	£323	£327
% change on same period last year	-1.33 %
Hourly rates quoted	13	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.50	£8.00
Average hourly rate	£17.32	£9.00
% change on same period last year	+92.46 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.14	£10.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.00	£22.17
% change on same period last year	-5.27 %
Active Directory Yorkshire

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 North Yorkshire 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 North Yorkshire 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 North Yorkshire region.

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Active Directory
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Active Directory within the North Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
York	+9	21	£85	-65.99 %
Middlesbrough	+6	12	-	-
Harrogate	-11	4	£388	-
Northallerton	-	2	-	-
Guisborough	-	1	-	-
Redcar	-	1	-	-
Scarborough	-	1	-	-

Active Directory Yorkshire

Active Directory
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North Yorkshire 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 90 (89.11 %) Windows 2 52 (51.49 %) MS Office 3 32 (31.68 %) Windows XP 4 28 (27.72 %) Windows Server 2003 5 26 (25.74 %) Windows 2000 5 26 (25.74 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 24 (23.76 %) MS Excel 7 21 (20.79 %) MS Exchange 8 19 (18.81 %) Exchange Server 2000 9 18 (17.82 %) TCP/IP 10 17 (16.83 %) Microsoft 11 14 (13.86 %) Citrix 12 13 (12.87 %) ITIL 13 12 (11.88 %) IIS 13 12 (11.88 %) WAN

13 12 (11.88 %) Intranet 13 12 (11.88 %) Legal 14 10 (9.901 %) Windows NT 15 9 (8.911 %) Oracle 16 8 (7.921 %) HP 17 7 (6.931 %) LAN 18 6 (5.941 %) Microsoft Certification 18 6 (5.941 %) RDBMS 19 5 (4.950 %) Clustering 19 5 (4.950 %) NetBackup 19 5 (4.950 %) MCP 20 4 (3.960 %) SQL 20 4 (3.960 %) SharePoint 20 4 (3.960 %) VERITAS 20 4 (3.960 %) WSUS

Active Directory
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North Yorkshire 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 (1.980 %) .NET 2 1 (0.990 %) Windows SharePoint Services	Application Platforms 1 26 (25.74 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 21 (20.79 %) MS Exchange 3 19 (18.81 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 12 (11.88 %) IIS 5 4 (3.960 %) SharePoint 6 3 (2.970 %) Documentum 6 3 (2.970 %) SharePoint Server 2007 6 3 (2.970 %) Exchange Server 2007 7 1 (0.990 %) Exchange Server 5.5 7 1 (0.990 %) SharePoint Portal Server 7 1 (0.990 %) WebLogic 7 1 (0.990 %) Lotus Notes 7 1 (0.990 %) Lotus Domino
Applications 1 52 (51.49 %) MS Office 2 24 (23.76 %) MS Excel 3 3 (2.970 %) AutoCAD	Communications & Networking 1 18 (17.82 %) TCP/IP 2 12 (11.88 %) Intranet 2 12 (11.88 %) WAN 3 7 (6.931 %) LAN 4 3 (2.970 %) DHCP 4 3 (2.970 %) DNS 5 2 (1.980 %) FTP 5 2 (1.980 %) GPRS 6 1 (0.990 %) SAN 6 1 (0.990 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (5.941 %) RDBMS 2 3 (2.970 %) SQL Server 3 1 (0.990 %) SQL Server 2000	General 1 12 (11.88 %) Legal 2 4 (3.960 %) Finance 3 2 (1.980 %) Advertising 4 1 (0.990 %) Banking 4 1 (0.990 %) Automotive 4 1 (0.990 %) Construction 4 1 (0.990 %) Electric
Job Titles 1 22 (21.78 %) 2nd Line Support 2 16 (15.84 %) Support Engineer 3 15 (14.85 %) Desktop Support 4 14 (13.86 %) Analyst 5 8 (7.921 %) Administrator 5 8 (7.921 %) Desktop Engineer 6 7 (6.931 %) Helpdesk Operator 7 6 (5.941 %) Rollout Engineer 7 6 (5.941 %) Server Engineer 7 6 (5.941 %) Helpdesk Support 7 6 (5.941 %) Systems Administrator 7 6 (5.941 %) Support Analyst 7 6 (5.941 %) Helpdesk Analyst 8 5 (4.950 %) Desktop Support Analyst 8 5 (4.950 %) Technical Manager 8 5 (4.950 %) Desktop Analyst 9 4 (3.960 %) Server Administrator 9 4 (3.960 %) Desktop Support Engineer 9 4 (3.960 %) Field Engineer 9 4 (3.960 %) Technical Support	Miscellaneous 1 5 (4.950 %) Clustering 2 4 (3.960 %) German Language 3 2 (1.980 %) Replication 4 1 (0.990 %) Norwegian Language 4 1 (0.990 %) Blackberry 4 1 (0.990 %) Mainframe 4 1 (0.990 %) PDA 4 1 (0.990 %) Taxonomies 4 1 (0.990 %) Dutch Language
Operating Systems 1 90 (89.11 %) Windows 2 32 (31.68 %) Windows XP 3 28 (27.72 %) Windows Server 2003 4 26 (25.74 %) Windows 2000 5 10 (9.901 %) Windows NT 6 2 (1.980 %) UNIX 7 1 (0.990 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 13 (12.87 %) ITIL 2 2 (1.980 %) Service Management 2 2 (1.980 %) ITSM 2 2 (1.980 %) Migration 2 2 (1.980 %) BC Cleared 2 2 (1.980 %) Security Cleared 3 1 (0.990 %) Data Management 3 1 (0.990 %) Information Management 3 1 (0.990 %) Document Management 3 1 (0.990 %) Data Analysis
Programming Languages 1 4 (3.960 %) SQL 2 1 (0.990 %) Shell Script 2 1 (0.990 %) Java 2 1 (0.990 %) Perl	Qualifications 1 6 (5.941 %) Microsoft Certification 2 5 (4.950 %) MCP 3 3 (2.970 %) Degree 4 2 (1.980 %) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (1.980 %) SLA	System Software 1 5 (4.950 %) NetBackup 2 2 (1.980 %) VMware ESX 3 1 (0.990 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 1 (0.990 %) Terminal Server 3 1 (0.990 %) Terminal Services
Systems Management 1 4 (3.960 %) WSUS 2 2 (1.980 %) SCCM 3 1 (0.990 %) OpenView 3 1 (0.990 %) MOM 3 1 (0.990 %) NNM 3 1 (0.990 %) OVOW 3 1 (0.990 %) OVIS	Vendors 1 17 (16.83 %) Microsoft 2 14 (13.86 %) Citrix 3 9 (8.911 %) Oracle 4 8 (7.921 %) HP 5 4 (3.960 %) VERITAS 6 3 (2.970 %) VMware 7 2 (1.980 %) Wyse 7 2 (1.980 %) Dell 7 2 (1.980 %) Cisco 8 1 (0.990 %) IBM 8 1 (0.990 %) Lotus