Active Directory Contracts in Oxford
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Active Directory skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Active Directory over the 3 months to 21 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 Oxford 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Active Directory
Rank 24 23 16
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -7
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 12 17 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 5.217% 4.971% 6.875%
As % of the System Software category 24.00% 60.71% 55.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
Average daily rate £204 £325 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-37.30% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £275 £275
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 7
Average hourly rate £12.08 £20.25 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-40.37% -11.95%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.34 £18.45 £15.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.82 £22.05 £26.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.50 £15.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-6.45% +3.33%
All System Software
Oxford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category		 50 28 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 21.74% 8.187% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 4 8
Average daily rate £300 £300 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £243 £250 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £380 £400 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 7
Average hourly rate £13.00 £20.25 £21.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.80% -5.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.52 £18.45 £18.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.60 £22.05 £26.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
Active Directory
Oxfordshire

Active Directory
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford Active Directory Hourly Rate Trend

Active Directory
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 25 (86.21%) Windows
2 14 (48.28%) VMware
3 12 (41.38%) Windows Server 2003
4 11 (37.93%) Windows XP
4 11 (37.93%) Windows Server 2008
4 11 (37.93%) Windows 7
5 8 (27.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (27.59%) DHCP
5 8 (27.59%) NetWare
5 8 (27.59%) MS Excel
5 8 (27.59%) MS Office
5 8 (27.59%) DNS
6 7 (24.14%) Altiris
6 7 (24.14%) Degree
7 6 (20.69%) Disaster Recovery
7 6 (20.69%) Cisco
7 6 (20.69%) Microsoft
7 6 (20.69%) Tivoli
7 6 (20.69%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 6 (20.69%) Nagios
7 6 (20.69%) SQL
7 6 (20.69%) TCP/IP
7 6 (20.69%) MS Exchange
8 5 (17.24%) UNIX
9 4 (13.79%) Migration
9 4 (13.79%) Cisco IOS
9 4 (13.79%) SCCM
9 4 (13.79%) ITIL
9 4 (13.79%) vSphere
9 4 (13.79%) VMware ESXi

Active Directory
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 (10.34%) WSH
2 1 (3.448%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 6 (20.69%) MS Exchange
2 3 (10.34%) Exchange Server 2010
2 3 (10.34%) SharePoint 2010
2 3 (10.34%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.448%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 8 (27.59%) MS Excel
1 8 (27.59%) MS Office
2 1 (3.448%) Spreadsheet
Communications & Networking
1 8 (27.59%) DHCP
1 8 (27.59%) DNS
2 6 (20.69%) TCP/IP
3 4 (13.79%) Cisco IOS
4 3 (10.34%) VoIP
5 2 (6.897%) Firewall
5 2 (6.897%) VPN
6 1 (3.448%) WAN
6 1 (3.448%) LAN
6 1 (3.448%) SAN
Job Titles
1 10 (34.48%) Analyst
2 9 (31.03%) Administrator
3 7 (24.14%) Support Analyst
4 6 (20.69%) Windows Administrator
5 5 (17.24%) Technical Analyst
6 4 (13.79%) Technical Support
7 3 (10.34%) Desktop Support
7 3 (10.34%) Support Engineer
7 3 (10.34%) Technical Support Analyst
7 3 (10.34%) Desktop Engineer
8 2 (6.897%) 2nd Line Support
8 2 (6.897%) Desktop Analyst
8 2 (6.897%) Desktop Support Analyst
8 2 (6.897%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
9 1 (3.448%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 1 (3.448%) Mac Engineer
9 1 (3.448%) Systems Administrator
9 1 (3.448%) Network Engineer
9 1 (3.448%) 3rd Line Support
9 1 (3.448%) Service Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.897%) Blackberry
2 1 (3.448%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 25 (86.21%) Windows
2 12 (41.38%) Windows Server 2003
3 11 (37.93%) Windows XP
3 11 (37.93%) Windows Server 2008
3 11 (37.93%) Windows 7
4 8 (27.59%) NetWare
5 5 (17.24%) UNIX
6 1 (3.448%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (3.448%) Linux
6 1 (3.448%) Mac OS X
6 1 (3.448%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (20.69%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (13.79%) Migration
2 4 (13.79%) ITIL
3 1 (3.448%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.69%) SQL
2 3 (10.34%) VB
Qualifications
1 7 (24.14%) Degree
2 2 (6.897%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (6.897%) CCNA
System Software
1 8 (27.59%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (13.79%) vSphere
2 4 (13.79%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (3.448%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 6 (20.69%) Tivoli
1 6 (20.69%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 6 (20.69%) Nagios
2 4 (13.79%) SCCM
3 3 (10.34%) SCOM
4 1 (3.448%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 14 (48.28%) VMware
2 7 (24.14%) Altiris
3 6 (20.69%) Cisco
3 6 (20.69%) Microsoft
4 3 (10.34%) Apple
4 3 (10.34%) Citrix
5 1 (3.448%) Dell
5 1 (3.448%) NetApp
5 1 (3.448%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.448%) LANDesk
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