Scotland Active Directory Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Active Directory skills within the Scotland 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.

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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	18	22
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	124	171
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.165 %	0.173 %
As % of the category below	64.92 %	66.80 %
Daily rates quoted	22	19
Average minimum daily rate	£236	£226
Average daily rate	£250	£244
% change on same period last year	+2.49 %
Average maximum daily rate	£264	£262
UK excluding London average daily rate	£296	£303
% change on same period last year	-2.12 %
Hourly rates quoted	21	25
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.10	£15.33
Average hourly rate	£20.27	£16.57
% change on same period last year	+22.32 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.45	£17.82
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.55	£18.80
% change on same period last year	-6.62 %
System Software Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	191	256
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.255 %	0.259 %
Daily rates quoted	31	35
Average minimum daily rate	£253	£246
Average daily rate	£271	£265
% change on same period last year	+2.29 %
Average maximum daily rate	£290	£284
UK excluding London average daily rate	£323	£327
% change on same period last year	-1.33 %
Hourly rates quoted	26	29
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.43	£16.56
Average hourly rate	£23.61	£17.80
% change on same period last year	+32.61 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.78	£19.05
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.00	£22.17
% change on same period last year	-5.27 %
Active Directory UK

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 Scotland 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 Scotland region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Active Directory across the Scotland region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

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

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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 Scotland 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
Aberdeen	+8	41	£196	+15.29 %
Edinburgh	-5	28	£305	+22.70 %
Glasgow	-8	28	£237	-0.15 %
Renfrewshire	-	9	-	-
Aberdeenshire	+3	2	-	-
Ayrshire	-	2	-	-
West Lothian	-	1	-	-
Fife	+5	1	-	-
Lanarkshire	-1	1	-	-
North Lanarkshire	0	1	-	-
Highlands	-4	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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.

1 189 (69.23 %) Windows 2 122 (44.69 %) Microsoft 3 62 (22.71 %) MS Exchange 4 61 (22.34 %) Citrix 5 48 (17.58 %) Windows XP 6 47 (17.22 %) Windows 2000 7 46 (16.85 %) Exchange Server 2003 8 40 (14.65 %) MS Office 9 39 (14.29 %) VMware 10 36 (13.19 %) Windows Server 2003 11 34 (12.45 %) Cisco 12 31 (11.36 %) Microsoft Certification 13 30 (10.99 %) Windows NT 14 29 (10.62 %) MS Excel 15 28 (10.26 %) SQL Server

15 28 (10.26 %) HP 16 27 (9.890 %) WAN 16 27 (9.890 %) Finance 17 26 (9.524 %) Migration 18 24 (8.791 %) SAN 19 23 (8.425 %) ITIL 20 21 (7.692 %) LAN 20 21 (7.692 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 21 19 (6.960 %) Exchange Server 2000 22 18 (6.593 %) MCSE 23 17 (6.227 %) .NET 24 16 (5.861 %) VERITAS 24 16 (5.861 %) Clustering 25 15 (5.495 %) Novell 25 15 (5.495 %) SQL

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 17 (6.227 %) .NET 2 14 (5.128 %) WebServices 3 10 (3.663 %) XML 3 10 (3.663 %) ASP.NET 4 7 (2.564 %) WinForms 5 5 (1.832 %) CSS 6 4 (1.465 %) SOAP 6 4 (1.465 %) AJAX 6 4 (1.465 %) HTML 7 3 (1.099 %) WF 8 2 (0.733 %) ASP.NET 2.0 8 2 (0.733 %) .NET Framework 8 2 (0.733 %) ADO.NET 8 2 (0.733 %) ASP 8 2 (0.733 %) XSL 9 1 (0.366 %) Middleware 9 1 (0.366 %) Application Packaging 9 1 (0.366 %) Windows SharePoint Services	Application Platforms 1 62 (22.71 %) MS Exchange 2 46 (16.85 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 19 (6.960 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 12 (4.396 %) SharePoint 5 10 (3.663 %) BizTalk Server 6 9 (3.297 %) Lotus Notes 7 7 (2.564 %) IIS 7 7 (2.564 %) SharePoint Server 2007 8 6 (2.198 %) Exchange Server 2007 9 5 (1.832 %) Office Project Server 9 5 (1.832 %) Exchange Server 5.5 10 2 (0.733 %) SharePoint Portal Server 11 1 (0.366 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications 1 40 (14.65 %) MS Office 2 29 (10.62 %) MS Excel 3 5 (1.832 %) MS Project 4 2 (0.733 %) Acrobat 4 2 (0.733 %) MS PowerPoint 5 1 (0.366 %) InfoPath	Business Applications 1 3 (1.099 %) Movex 2 2 (0.733 %) SoftGrid 2 2 (0.733 %) Dynamics CRM 3 1 (0.366 %) Great Plains
Communications & Networking 1 27 (9.890 %) WAN 2 24 (8.791 %) SAN 3 21 (7.692 %) LAN 4 15 (5.495 %) TCP/IP 5 12 (4.396 %) DNS 6 11 (4.029 %) SMS 6 11 (4.029 %) VoIP 7 10 (3.663 %) VPN 7 10 (3.663 %) LDAP 7 10 (3.663 %) Internet 8 6 (2.198 %) Firewall 8 6 (2.198 %) DHCP 9 4 (1.465 %) Intranet 10 3 (1.099 %) Wireless 10 3 (1.099 %) IPsec 10 3 (1.099 %) IPCC 10 3 (1.099 %) SSL 10 3 (1.099 %) Cisco PIX 11 2 (0.733 %) Network Security 11 2 (0.733 %) IP Telephony	Database & Business Intelligence 1 28 (10.26 %) SQL Server 2 15 (5.495 %) SQL Server 2005 3 7 (2.564 %) Crystal Reports 4 6 (2.198 %) SQL Server 2000 5 4 (1.465 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 3 (1.099 %) GIS 7 1 (0.366 %) BusinessObjects XI 7 1 (0.366 %) ROLAP 7 1 (0.366 %) BusinessObjects 7 1 (0.366 %) SQL Server 7
Development Applications 1 8 (2.930 %) Visual Studio 2 5 (1.832 %) MSI 3 1 (0.366 %) InstallShield 3 1 (0.366 %) AdminStudio	General 1 27 (9.890 %) Finance 2 8 (2.930 %) Back Office 3 7 (2.564 %) Telecoms 3 7 (2.564 %) Banking 4 5 (1.832 %) Health 4 5 (1.832 %) Legal 5 4 (1.465 %) Financial Institution 5 4 (1.465 %) Government 6 2 (0.733 %) Investment Banking 7 1 (0.366 %) Insurance 7 1 (0.366 %) Retail 7 1 (0.366 %) Education
Job Titles 1 59 (21.61 %) Analyst 2 35 (12.82 %) Desktop Support 3 27 (9.890 %) Support Analyst 4 25 (9.158 %) Administrator 5 24 (8.791 %) Support Engineer 6 20 (7.326 %) Consultant 6 20 (7.326 %) Server Engineer 7 19 (6.960 %) Desktop Engineer 8 15 (5.495 %) Developer 9 13 (4.762 %) Server Support 10 12 (4.396 %) 2nd Line Support 10 12 (4.396 %) Desktop Support Engineer 11 11 (4.029 %) Technical Analyst 11 11 (4.029 %) .NET Developer 11 11 (4.029 %) Service Analyst 12 10 (3.663 %) Service Desk Analyst 13 8 (2.930 %) Team Leader 13 8 (2.930 %) Support Technician 14 7 (2.564 %) Applications Packager 14 7 (2.564 %) Helpdesk Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 16 (5.861 %) Clustering 2 7 (2.564 %) Blackberry 3 3 (1.099 %) Mainframe 3 3 (1.099 %) PKI 4 2 (0.733 %) Taxonomies 4 2 (0.733 %) Client/Server 5 1 (0.366 %) Thin Client 5 1 (0.366 %) French Language 5 1 (0.366 %) Fat Client 5 1 (0.366 %) PDA
Operating Systems 1 189 (69.23 %) Windows 2 48 (17.58 %) Windows XP 3 47 (17.22 %) Windows 2000 4 36 (13.19 %) Windows Server 2003 5 30 (10.99 %) Windows NT 6 8 (2.930 %) NetWare 7 7 (2.564 %) UNIX 8 4 (1.465 %) Linux 9 2 (0.733 %) Windows Vista 10 1 (0.366 %) Solaris 10 1 (0.366 %) VMS 10 1 (0.366 %) OpenVMS	Processes & Methodologies 1 26 (9.524 %) Migration 2 23 (8.425 %) ITIL 3 14 (5.128 %) Change Management 4 9 (3.297 %) Service Management 4 9 (3.297 %) Web Development 5 7 (2.564 %) Workflow 5 7 (2.564 %) Disaster Recovery 5 7 (2.564 %) Project Management 6 6 (2.198 %) Web Design 7 5 (1.832 %) ERP 8 4 (1.465 %) OO 8 4 (1.465 %) CRM 8 4 (1.465 %) Content Management 8 4 (1.465 %) User Acceptance Testing 8 4 (1.465 %) Security Cleared 9 3 (1.099 %) SC Cleared 9 3 (1.099 %) Network Load Balancing 9 3 (1.099 %) Incident Management 9 3 (1.099 %) Service Delivery 10 2 (0.733 %) RDF
Programming Languages 1 15 (5.495 %) SQL 2 12 (4.396 %) C# 3 10 (3.663 %) VB 4 6 (2.198 %) VBScript 5 5 (1.832 %) Shell Script 6 4 (1.465 %) Transact-SQL 6 4 (1.465 %) DHTML 6 4 (1.465 %) JavaScript 7 1 (0.366 %) C 7 1 (0.366 %) Java 7 1 (0.366 %) VB.NET	Qualifications 1 31 (11.36 %) Microsoft Certification 2 18 (6.593 %) MCSE 3 7 (2.564 %) Cisco Certification 4 5 (1.832 %) MCP 4 5 (1.832 %) CCNP 5 4 (1.465 %) CCSP 5 4 (1.465 %) MCSA 5 4 (1.465 %) CCVP 5 4 (1.465 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 5 4 (1.465 %) Degree 6 3 (1.099 %) HND 6 3 (1.099 %) CCDP 7 2 (0.733 %) MCDBA 7 2 (0.733 %) MCAD 7 2 (0.733 %) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 11 (4.029 %) SLA	System Software 1 11 (4.029 %) VMware ESX 2 10 (3.663 %) Backup Exec 2 10 (3.663 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 9 (3.297 %) NetBackup 4 5 (1.832 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 4 5 (1.832 %) Citrix Presentation Server 5 4 (1.465 %) MetaFrame 6 3 (1.099 %) Terminal Server 7 2 (0.733 %) Terminal Services 8 1 (0.366 %) ISA Server
Systems Management 1 21 (7.692 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 7 (2.564 %) ARCserve 2 7 (2.564 %) OpenView 2 7 (2.564 %) MOM 3 5 (1.832 %) Tivoli 4 3 (1.099 %) WSUS 5 2 (0.733 %) DameWare 6 1 (0.366 %) EMC NetWorker 6 1 (0.366 %) SCOM 6 1 (0.366 %) Norton AntiVirus 6 1 (0.366 %) Legato	Vendors 1 122 (44.69 %) Microsoft 2 61 (22.34 %) Citrix 3 39 (14.29 %) VMware 4 34 (12.45 %) Cisco 5 28 (10.26 %) HP 6 16 (5.861 %) VERITAS 7 15 (5.495 %) Novell 8 12 (4.396 %) IBM 9 11 (4.029 %) Remedy 10 10 (3.663 %) Lotus 11 9 (3.297 %) Dell 12 8 (2.930 %) Symantec 13 6 (2.198 %) McAfee Security 14 4 (1.465 %) CommVault 14 4 (1.465 %) CheckPoint 14 4 (1.465 %) Oracle 15 3 (1.099 %) Compaq 15 3 (1.099 %) Adobe 15 3 (1.099 %) Intel 16 2 (0.733 %) Siemens