South Yorkshire Active Directory Contracts

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

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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	8	20
Rank change on same period last year	+12
Matching contract IT job ads	40	21
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.053 %	0.021 %
As % of the category below	46.51 %	29.17 %
Daily rates quoted	14	0
Average minimum daily rate	£288	-
Average daily rate	£296	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£305	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£296	£303
% change on same period last year	-2.12 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.01	£14.88
Average hourly rate	£17.94	£15.38
% change on same period last year	+16.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.86	£15.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.55	£18.80
% change on same period last year	-6.62 %
System Software South Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	86	72
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.115 %	0.073 %
Daily rates quoted	19	12
Average minimum daily rate	£298	£259
Average daily rate	£309	£282
% change on same period last year	+9.63 %
Average maximum daily rate	£321	£306
UK excluding London average daily rate	£323	£327
% change on same period last year	-1.33 %
Hourly rates quoted	38	21
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.36	£23.70
Average hourly rate	£26.28	£24.14
% change on same period last year	+8.85 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.21	£24.58
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 South 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 South Yorkshire 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 South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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 Yorkshire 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 South Yorkshire 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 South 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
Sheffield	+7	25	£316	-
Rotherham	+6	6	-	-
Doncaster	-	2	-	-
Barnsley	-2	2	-	-

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Active Directory
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South 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 53 (75.71 %) Windows 2 31 (44.29 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 27 (38.57 %) MS Exchange 4 20 (28.57 %) Microsoft 5 19 (27.14 %) Windows XP 6 18 (25.71 %) MS Office 7 17 (24.29 %) Windows 2000 7 17 (24.29 %) MS Excel 8 13 (18.57 %) Citrix 8 13 (18.57 %) Microsoft Certification 9 12 (17.14 %) MCSE 9 12 (17.14 %) Exchange Server 2000 9 12 (17.14 %) Firewall 10 10 (14.29 %) Remedy 10 10 (14.29 %) CheckPoint

11 8 (11.43 %) MOM 11 8 (11.43 %) HP 11 8 (11.43 %) Windows NT 11 8 (11.43 %) ITIL 11 8 (11.43 %) MCP 11 8 (11.43 %) Citrix Certification 11 8 (11.43 %) CCEA 11 8 (11.43 %) Backup Exec 11 8 (11.43 %) SCOM 12 7 (10.00 %) SQL 12 7 (10.00 %) SharePoint 12 7 (10.00 %) Norton AntiVirus 12 7 (10.00 %) Symantec 13 6 (8.571 %) ZENworks 13 6 (8.571 %) ISA Server

Active Directory
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South 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 Platforms 1 31 (44.29 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 27 (38.57 %) MS Exchange 3 12 (17.14 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 7 (10.00 %) SharePoint 5 6 (8.571 %) Lotus Notes 6 5 (7.143 %) GroupWise 7 2 (2.857 %) Exchange Server 2007 8 1 (1.429 %) Exchange Server 5.5	Applications 1 18 (25.71 %) MS Office 2 17 (24.29 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 12 (17.14 %) Firewall 2 5 (7.143 %) DNS 3 4 (5.714 %) SAN 3 4 (5.714 %) TCP/IP 4 3 (4.286 %) SMS 5 2 (2.857 %) DHCP 5 2 (2.857 %) VPN 6 1 (1.429 %) SNA 6 1 (1.429 %) LAN 6 1 (1.429 %) VoIP 6 1 (1.429 %) WAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (2.857 %) SQL Server
General 1 3 (4.286 %) Health 2 2 (2.857 %) Education 3 1 (1.429 %) Back Office 3 1 (1.429 %) Manufacturing	Job Titles 1 11 (15.71 %) Analyst 1 11 (15.71 %) Consultant 1 11 (15.71 %) Technical Consultant 2 10 (14.29 %) Server Support 3 8 (11.43 %) Support Technician 4 7 (10.00 %) 2nd Line Support 5 6 (8.571 %) Service Desk Analyst 5 6 (8.571 %) Support Engineer 5 6 (8.571 %) Service Analyst 6 5 (7.143 %) Server Support Technician 6 5 (7.143 %) Desktop Support 7 4 (5.714 %) Rollout Engineer 8 3 (4.286 %) 3rd Line Support 8 3 (4.286 %) Support Analyst 8 3 (4.286 %) 1st Line Support 9 2 (2.857 %) Helpdesk Analyst 9 2 (2.857 %) Junior 9 2 (2.857 %) IT Support Analyst 9 2 (2.857 %) Field Engineer 9 2 (2.857 %) Microsoft Consultant
Miscellaneous 1 6 (8.571 %) NHS	Operating Systems 1 53 (75.71 %) Windows 2 19 (27.14 %) Windows XP 3 17 (24.29 %) Windows 2000 4 8 (11.43 %) Windows NT 5 6 (8.571 %) NetWare 6 4 (5.714 %) Windows Server 2003 7 2 (2.857 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (11.43 %) ITIL 2 2 (2.857 %) ERP 3 1 (1.429 %) Migration 3 1 (1.429 %) Problem Management 3 1 (1.429 %) Security Cleared	Programming Languages 1 7 (10.00 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 13 (18.57 %) Microsoft Certification 2 12 (17.14 %) MCSE 3 8 (11.43 %) Citrix Certification 3 8 (11.43 %) CCEA 3 8 (11.43 %) MCP 4 5 (7.143 %) MCSA 5 3 (4.286 %) Check Point Certification 6 1 (1.429 %) Degree 6 1 (1.429 %) CNE 6 1 (1.429 %) Novell Certification	System Software 1 8 (11.43 %) Backup Exec 2 6 (8.571 %) ISA Server 3 3 (4.286 %) NetBackup 4 2 (2.857 %) VMware ESX 5 1 (1.429 %) MetaFrame
Systems Management 1 8 (11.43 %) MOM 1 8 (11.43 %) SCOM 2 7 (10.00 %) Norton AntiVirus 3 6 (8.571 %) ZENworks 4 5 (7.143 %) SCCM 4 5 (7.143 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 4 5 (7.143 %) ARCserve 4 5 (7.143 %) OpenView 5 3 (4.286 %) Tivoli	Vendors 1 20 (28.57 %) Microsoft 2 13 (18.57 %) Citrix 3 10 (14.29 %) CheckPoint 3 10 (14.29 %) Remedy 4 8 (11.43 %) HP 5 7 (10.00 %) Symantec 6 6 (8.571 %) Lotus 7 5 (7.143 %) Novell 7 5 (7.143 %) VMware 8 4 (5.714 %) VERITAS 8 4 (5.714 %) IBM 9 2 (2.857 %) NetApp 10 1 (1.429 %) Compaq 10 1 (1.429 %) Northgate