South East Active Directory Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Active Directory skills within the South East 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 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Active Directory
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Addlestone Aylesbury Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birkenhead Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury Caerphilly Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Cleethorpes Colchester Conwy County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Dartford Deeside Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorking Dorset Dover Dudley Dunbar Dundee Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Ely Enfield England Essex Exeter Falkirk Farnborough Feltham Flintshire Gateshead Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Greenwich Grimsby Guildford Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hartlepool Haslemere Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kegworth Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston Llandudno London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton Lutterworth Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Matlock Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Morecambe Neath Port Talbot Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Shields North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Penrith Pershore Peterborough Plymouth Poole Port Talbot Portsmouth Preston Pudsey Reading Redditch Redhill Renfrewshire Romford Rotherham Rugby Sale Salford Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Scottish Borders Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Asaph St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stourbridge Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Teddington Teesside Telford Thames Valley Thatcham Thirsk Torfaen Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	21	20
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	700	979
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.986 %	0.989 %
As % of the category below	69.86 %	71.88 %
Daily rates quoted	151	217
Average minimum daily rate	£314	£302
Average daily rate	£333	£322
% change on same period last year	+3.23 %
Average maximum daily rate	£351	£342
UK excluding London average daily rate	£303	£299
% change on same period last year	+1.25 %
Hourly rates quoted	168	275
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.39	£17.82
Average hourly rate	£19.60	£18.85
% change on same period last year	+3.97 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.81	£19.89
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.27	£18.68
% change on same period last year	-2.23 %
System Software South East
Matching contract IT job ads	1002	1362
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.411 %	1.376 %
Daily rates quoted	252	325
Average minimum daily rate	£318	£324
Average daily rate	£338	£344
% change on same period last year	-1.96 %
Average maximum daily rate	£358	£365
UK excluding London average daily rate	£319	£322
% change on same period last year	-0.98 %
Hourly rates quoted	189	345
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.68	£20.03
Average hourly rate	£21.92	£21.13
% change on same period last year	+3.74 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.15	£22.23
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.28	£21.36
% change on same period last year	-0.39 %
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 South East 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 South East region.

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Active Directory across the South East region over the 3 months to 10 October 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 South East region.

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Active Directory across the South East region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

Active Directory
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Active Directory within the South East region over the 3 months to 10 October 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
Berkshire	+6	159	£355	-3.09 %
Hampshire	-6	129	£365	+25.25 %
Buckinghamshire	+3	120	£313	-8.13 %
Surrey	-14	79	£374	+28.82 %
Oxfordshire	0	73	£298	+18.92 %
Kent	+4	47	£321	-29.07 %
Middlesex	+12	33	£269	+79.57 %
West Sussex	-3	21	£255	-8.42 %
East Sussex	+14	14	-	-
Sussex	+5	4	£110	-51.11 %
M4 Corridor	-1	4	£533	+21.90 %
Thames Valley	-9	4	-	-
Home Counties	+22	3	-	-

Active Directory England

Active Directory
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 1002 (73.25 %) Windows 2 563 (41.15 %) Windows Server 2003 3 495 (36.18 %) Microsoft 4 352 (25.73 %) MS Exchange 5 348 (25.44 %) Windows XP 6 240 (17.54 %) MS Office 7 239 (17.47 %) Windows 2000 8 236 (17.25 %) Citrix 9 231 (16.89 %) Security Cleared 10 200 (14.62 %) Exchange Server 2003 11 183 (13.38 %) Microsoft Certification 12 166 (12.13 %) SC Cleared 13 163 (11.92 %) DNS 14 157 (11.48 %) TCP/IP 15 156 (11.40 %) MS Excel

16 149 (10.89 %) VMware 17 147 (10.75 %) MCSE 18 143 (10.45 %) SAN 19 135 (9.868 %) LAN 20 133 (9.722 %) HP 21 131 (9.576 %) ITIL 22 118 (8.626 %) DHCP 23 109 (7.968 %) WAN 24 104 (7.602 %) SQL 25 103 (7.529 %) SQL Server 26 97 (7.091 %) Windows 2000 Server 27 93 (6.798 %) Government 28 88 (6.433 %) Migration 29 85 (6.213 %) Windows Vista 30 79 (5.775 %) Cisco

Active Directory
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 42 (3.070 %) .NET 2 22 (1.608 %) .NET Framework 3 18 (1.316 %) WebSphere 4 15 (1.096 %) XML 5 14 (1.023 %) ASP.NET 6 13 (0.950 %) WSH 6 13 (0.950 %) HTML 7 10 (0.731 %) J2EE 8 9 (0.658 %) Application Packaging 9 7 (0.512 %) ASP 10 6 (0.439 %) WMI 11 4 (0.292 %) CSS 11 4 (0.292 %) AJAX 12 3 (0.219 %) Windows SharePoint Services 12 3 (0.219 %) JDBC 12 3 (0.219 %) Hibernate 12 3 (0.219 %) Spring 12 3 (0.219 %) CORBA 13 2 (0.146 %) jBPM 13 2 (0.146 %) ADO.NET	Application Platforms 1 352 (25.73 %) MS Exchange 2 200 (14.62 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 74 (5.409 %) IIS 4 62 (4.532 %) Lotus Notes 5 45 (3.289 %) Exchange Server 2007 6 44 (3.216 %) SharePoint 7 36 (2.632 %) GroupWise 8 28 (2.047 %) Exchange Server 2000 9 27 (1.974 %) SharePoint Server 2007 10 23 (1.681 %) Exchange Server 5.5 11 17 (1.243 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 12 9 (0.658 %) Apache 13 7 (0.512 %) Lotus Domino 13 7 (0.512 %) WebSphere MQ 14 5 (0.365 %) BizTalk Server 15 4 (0.292 %) SharePoint Portal Server 16 3 (0.219 %) Office Communications Server 17 2 (0.146 %) WorkSite 17 2 (0.146 %) WebSphere Application Server 17 2 (0.146 %) Tomcat
Applications 1 240 (17.54 %) MS Office 2 156 (11.40 %) MS Excel 3 5 (0.365 %) MS Visio 3 5 (0.365 %) Shockwave 4 4 (0.292 %) InfoPath 4 4 (0.292 %) MS Project 5 3 (0.219 %) Acrobat 5 3 (0.219 %) MS PowerPoint 6 2 (0.146 %) Spreadsheet	Business Applications 1 13 (0.950 %) SoftGrid 2 4 (0.292 %) Summit 3 3 (0.219 %) MFGPRO 3 3 (0.219 %) Hyperion Planning 4 1 (0.073 %) BusinessWorks 4 1 (0.073 %) GoldMine
Communications & Networking 1 163 (11.92 %) DNS 2 157 (11.48 %) TCP/IP 3 143 (10.45 %) SAN 4 135 (9.868 %) LAN 5 118 (8.626 %) DHCP 6 109 (7.968 %) WAN 7 75 (5.482 %) Firewall 8 64 (4.678 %) VPN 9 37 (2.705 %) Internet 10 33 (2.412 %) LDAP 11 21 (1.535 %) Intranet 12 18 (1.316 %) Wireless 13 16 (1.170 %) VoIP 13 16 (1.170 %) Ethernet 14 15 (1.096 %) SMS 15 13 (0.950 %) IP Telephony 16 12 (0.877 %) Network Security 17 10 (0.731 %) SSH 18 7 (0.512 %) Cisco PIX 18 7 (0.512 %) X.400	Database & Business Intelligence 1 103 (7.529 %) SQL Server 2 33 (2.412 %) SQL Server 2005 3 24 (1.754 %) SQL Server 2000 4 4 (0.292 %) Oracle 10g 5 3 (0.219 %) MS Access 5 3 (0.219 %) DB2 5 3 (0.219 %) Hyperion Essbase 6 2 (0.146 %) BusinessObjects 7 1 (0.073 %) SQL Server 7 7 1 (0.073 %) Oracle Discoverer 7 1 (0.073 %) Informix 7 1 (0.073 %) Oracle Reports 7 1 (0.073 %) EDMS 7 1 (0.073 %) DB2 UDB
Development Applications 1 23 (1.681 %) MSI 2 9 (0.658 %) InstallShield 3 8 (0.585 %) TestDirector 4 6 (0.439 %) Visual Studio 5 5 (0.365 %) Flash 5 5 (0.365 %) StarTeam 6 3 (0.219 %) Eclipse 7 1 (0.073 %) Rational Rose 7 1 (0.073 %) PVCS 7 1 (0.073 %) VSS/SourceSafe 7 1 (0.073 %) Oracle Forms 7 1 (0.073 %) CruiseControl 7 1 (0.073 %) FrontPage	General 1 93 (6.798 %) Government 2 69 (5.044 %) Finance 3 32 (2.339 %) Telecoms 4 19 (1.389 %) Legal 5 18 (1.316 %) Auditing 6 14 (1.023 %) Insurance 6 14 (1.023 %) Health 6 14 (1.023 %) Pharmaceutical 7 12 (0.877 %) Local Government 8 10 (0.731 %) Retail 9 9 (0.658 %) Back Office 9 9 (0.658 %) Education 10 8 (0.585 %) Law 10 8 (0.585 %) Construction 11 7 (0.512 %) Marketing 12 5 (0.365 %) Aerospace 12 5 (0.365 %) Manufacturing 12 5 (0.365 %) Military 13 3 (0.219 %) Banking 13 3 (0.219 %) FMCG
Job Titles 1 303 (22.15 %) Analyst 2 188 (13.74 %) Support Analyst 3 160 (11.70 %) Support Engineer 4 148 (10.82 %) 2nd Line Support 5 120 (8.772 %) 3rd Line Support 6 117 (8.553 %) Desktop Support 7 94 (6.871 %) Administrator 8 72 (5.263 %) Consultant 9 65 (4.751 %) 1st Line Support 10 55 (4.020 %) Helpdesk Support 11 50 (3.655 %) Helpdesk Analyst 12 49 (3.582 %) Server Support 13 46 (3.363 %) Architect 14 41 (2.997 %) Support Technician 15 38 (2.778 %) 2nd Line Support Analyst 16 37 (2.705 %) Systems Administrator 16 37 (2.705 %) Server Engineer 17 35 (2.558 %) Network Engineer 18 34 (2.485 %) Desktop Engineer 19 33 (2.412 %) 2nd Line Support Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 64 (4.678 %) Blackberry 2 61 (4.459 %) Clustering 3 22 (1.608 %) Client/Server 4 17 (1.243 %) Replication 5 16 (1.170 %) NHS 6 13 (0.950 %) PKI 7 10 (0.731 %) Computer Science 8 8 (0.585 %) Fat Client 8 8 (0.585 %) Thin Client 8 8 (0.585 %) Mainframe 9 7 (0.512 %) PDA 10 6 (0.439 %) Mathematics 10 6 (0.439 %) Management Information System 11 4 (0.292 %) AS400 11 4 (0.292 %) N-Tier 11 4 (0.292 %) Physics 12 3 (0.219 %) CESG 13 2 (0.146 %) Smartphone 13 2 (0.146 %) Cryptography 14 1 (0.073 %) Spread Betting
Operating Systems 1 1002 (73.25 %) Windows 2 563 (41.15 %) Windows Server 2003 3 348 (25.44 %) Windows XP 4 239 (17.47 %) Windows 2000 5 97 (7.091 %) Windows 2000 Server 6 85 (6.213 %) Windows Vista 7 67 (4.898 %) UNIX 8 53 (3.874 %) Windows NT 9 48 (3.509 %) Solaris 10 43 (3.143 %) Linux 11 39 (2.851 %) NetWare 12 35 (2.558 %) Windows Server 2008 13 14 (1.023 %) HPUX 14 12 (0.877 %) AIX 15 10 (0.731 %) SUSE 16 7 (0.512 %) VMS 16 7 (0.512 %) Red Hat Linux 17 6 (0.439 %) Mac OS X 18 3 (0.219 %) Windows Mobile 19 1 (0.073 %) OS/400	Processes & Methodologies 1 231 (16.89 %) Security Cleared 2 166 (12.13 %) SC Cleared 3 131 (9.576 %) ITIL 4 88 (6.433 %) Migration 5 37 (2.705 %) Project Management 6 25 (1.827 %) Service Delivery 7 24 (1.754 %) PRINCE2 8 23 (1.681 %) Service Management 9 20 (1.462 %) DV Cleared 10 16 (1.170 %) Asset Management 11 13 (0.950 %) Release Management 12 12 (0.877 %) Incident Management 12 12 (0.877 %) ITSM 13 11 (0.804 %) Stakeholder Management 13 11 (0.804 %) Data Migration 14 9 (0.658 %) System Testing 14 9 (0.658 %) Load Balancing 14 9 (0.658 %) Disaster Recovery 14 9 (0.658 %) Network Design 15 8 (0.585 %) Validation
Programming Languages 1 104 (7.602 %) SQL 2 50 (3.655 %) VBScript 3 42 (3.070 %) VB 4 34 (2.485 %) Java 5 18 (1.316 %) Perl 6 16 (1.170 %) C 7 15 (1.096 %) C# 8 14 (1.023 %) Shell Script 9 9 (0.658 %) VBA 10 8 (0.585 %) JavaScript 11 6 (0.439 %) VB.NET 12 4 (0.292 %) PL/SQL 12 4 (0.292 %) C++ 13 3 (0.219 %) Transact-SQL 13 3 (0.219 %) PowerShell 14 2 (0.146 %) Groovy 14 2 (0.146 %) PHP 15 1 (0.073 %) Korn	Qualifications 1 183 (13.38 %) Microsoft Certification 2 147 (10.75 %) MCSE 3 57 (4.167 %) MCP 4 35 (2.558 %) Degree 5 30 (2.193 %) MCSA 6 26 (1.901 %) Cisco Certification 7 19 (1.389 %) Novell Certification 8 17 (1.243 %) CNE 9 15 (1.096 %) Citrix Certification 10 14 (1.023 %) CCNA 11 10 (0.731 %) ITIL Certification 12 9 (0.658 %) CCA 13 8 (0.585 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 14 7 (0.512 %) ISEB 15 5 (0.365 %) CCEA 15 5 (0.365 %) PRINCE2 Certification 16 4 (0.292 %) RHCE 17 3 (0.219 %) MCTS 17 3 (0.219 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 17 3 (0.219 %) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 46 (3.363 %) SLA 2 16 (1.170 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 3 7 (0.512 %) QA 4 1 (0.073 %) BS7799	System Software 1 54 (3.947 %) VMware Infrastructure 2 51 (3.728 %) Citrix Presentation Server 2 51 (3.728 %) Backup Exec 3 31 (2.266 %) ISA Server 4 29 (2.120 %) VMware ESX 5 28 (2.047 %) NetBackup 6 27 (1.974 %) NDS 7 17 (1.243 %) Terminal Services 7 17 (1.243 %) Novell eDirectory 8 16 (1.170 %) Terminal Server 9 4 (0.292 %) Xen 10 3 (0.219 %) MetaFrame 11 2 (0.146 %) VMware Workstation 11 2 (0.146 %) RACF 11 2 (0.146 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 12 1 (0.073 %) VMware GSX
Systems Management 1 39 (2.851 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 24 (1.754 %) OpenView Configuration Management 3 17 (1.243 %) MOM 3 17 (1.243 %) OpenView 4 14 (1.023 %) WSUS 4 14 (1.023 %) SCCM 5 12 (0.877 %) OVOW 6 11 (0.804 %) Unicenter 7 8 (0.585 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 7 8 (0.585 %) Norton AntiVirus 8 7 (0.512 %) BMC PATROL 8 7 (0.512 %) SCOM 8 7 (0.512 %) EMC NetWorker 8 7 (0.512 %) OVPI 9 5 (0.365 %) DameWare 9 5 (0.365 %) RepliStor 10 4 (0.292 %) ARCserve 10 4 (0.292 %) MIIS 11 3 (0.219 %) ZENworks 11 3 (0.219 %) Legato	Vendors 1 495 (36.18 %) Microsoft 2 236 (17.25 %) Citrix 3 149 (10.89 %) VMware 4 133 (9.722 %) HP 5 79 (5.775 %) Cisco 6 75 (5.482 %) Novell 7 65 (4.751 %) Lotus 8 42 (3.070 %) VERITAS 8 42 (3.070 %) Sun 9 40 (2.924 %) EMC 10 35 (2.558 %) Dell 11 33 (2.412 %) Altiris 12 32 (2.339 %) Symantec 13 31 (2.266 %) Oracle 14 25 (1.827 %) Compaq 15 23 (1.681 %) IBM 15 23 (1.681 %) Remedy 16 13 (0.950 %) Red Hat 17 12 (0.877 %) McAfee Security 17 12 (0.877 %) CA