Southampton Active Directory Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Active Directory skills within the Southampton 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 8 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Active Directory
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Addlestone Aylesbury Barking Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Cleethorpes Colchester Colwyn Bay Conwy County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Dartford Deeside Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorking Dorset Douglas Dover Dudley Dunbar Dundee Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Farnborough Feltham Fife Flintshire Gateshead Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Grays Great Yarmouth Greenwich Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hartlepool Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Hove Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Kegworth Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston Llandudno London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton Lutterworth Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Matlock Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Middlewich Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Morecambe Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Shields North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Shields South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Asaph St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Thatcham Thirsk Thurrock Torfaen Twickenham Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	16	23
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching contract IT job ads	11	13
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.015 %	0.013 %
As % of the category below	78.57 %	100.00 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£200
Average daily rate	-	£200
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£200
UK excluding London average daily rate	£296	£300
% change on same period last year	-1.16 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.62	£18.80
Average hourly rate	£17.66	£20.45
% change on same period last year	-13.63 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.71	£22.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.04	£18.66
% change on same period last year	-3.28 %
System Software Southampton
Matching contract IT job ads	14	13
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.019 %	0.013 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£250	£200
Average daily rate	£300	£200
% change on same period last year	+50.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£200
UK excluding London average daily rate	£321	£325
% change on same period last year	-1.24 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.59	£18.80
Average hourly rate	£16.48	£20.45
% change on same period last year	-19.41 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.37	£22.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.17	£21.82
% change on same period last year	-2.96 %
Active Directory Hampshire

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 Southampton 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 Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Active Directory across the Southampton region over the 3 months to 8 September 2008.

Active Directory
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 13 (86.67 %) Windows 2 11 (73.33 %) Windows Server 2003 3 7 (46.67 %) Windows XP 3 7 (46.67 %) MS Exchange 3 7 (46.67 %) Microsoft 4 5 (33.33 %) MS Excel 4 5 (33.33 %) MS Office 5 3 (20.00 %) SQL Server 5 3 (20.00 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 2 (13.33 %) Internet 6 2 (13.33 %) Linux 6 2 (13.33 %) Windows 2000 6 2 (13.33 %) HTML 6 2 (13.33 %) PHP 6 2 (13.33 %) SQL

6 2 (13.33 %) SC Cleared 6 2 (13.33 %) Security Cleared 7 1 (6.667 %) Windows 2000 Server 7 1 (6.667 %) Transact-SQL 7 1 (6.667 %) VB 7 1 (6.667 %) VBA 7 1 (6.667 %) .NET 7 1 (6.667 %) Java 7 1 (6.667 %) JavaScript 7 1 (6.667 %) Perl 7 1 (6.667 %) IIS 7 1 (6.667 %) ASP 7 1 (6.667 %) XML 7 1 (6.667 %) PRINCE2 7 1 (6.667 %) UNIX

Active Directory
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 (13.33 %) HTML 2 1 (6.667 %) .NET 2 1 (6.667 %) ASP 2 1 (6.667 %) XML 2 1 (6.667 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 7 (46.67 %) MS Exchange 2 3 (20.00 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (6.667 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 1 (6.667 %) IIS
Applications 1 5 (33.33 %) MS Office 1 5 (33.33 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 2 (13.33 %) Internet 2 1 (6.667 %) LAN 2 1 (6.667 %) WAN 2 1 (6.667 %) DHCP 2 1 (6.667 %) TCP/IP 2 1 (6.667 %) DNS 2 1 (6.667 %) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (20.00 %) SQL Server 2 1 (6.667 %) SQL Server 2000 2 1 (6.667 %) SQL Server 2005	General 1 1 (6.667 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 4 (26.67 %) 3rd Line Support 2 3 (20.00 %) 2nd Line Support 3 2 (13.33 %) Administrator 3 2 (13.33 %) Analyst 3 2 (13.33 %) Support Technician 3 2 (13.33 %) Support Analyst 3 2 (13.33 %) Support Engineer 4 1 (6.667 %) Technical Support 4 1 (6.667 %) Programmer 4 1 (6.667 %) Desktop Support 4 1 (6.667 %) Junior 4 1 (6.667 %) Developer 4 1 (6.667 %) IT Manager 4 1 (6.667 %) Systems Analyst 4 1 (6.667 %) Systems Administrator 4 1 (6.667 %) Systems Support 4 1 (6.667 %) Desktop Support Analyst 4 1 (6.667 %) Helpdesk Support 4 1 (6.667 %) Systems Support Analyst 4 1 (6.667 %) IT Administrator	Operating Systems 1 13 (86.67 %) Windows 2 11 (73.33 %) Windows Server 2003 3 7 (46.67 %) Windows XP 4 2 (13.33 %) Linux 4 2 (13.33 %) Windows 2000 5 1 (6.667 %) UNIX 5 1 (6.667 %) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (13.33 %) SC Cleared 1 2 (13.33 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (6.667 %) PRINCE2	Programming Languages 1 2 (13.33 %) PHP 1 2 (13.33 %) SQL 2 1 (6.667 %) Transact-SQL 2 1 (6.667 %) VB 2 1 (6.667 %) VBA 2 1 (6.667 %) C# 2 1 (6.667 %) Java 2 1 (6.667 %) JavaScript 2 1 (6.667 %) Perl
System Software 1 1 (6.667 %) Backup Exec	Vendors 1 7 (46.67 %) Microsoft 2 1 (6.667 %) HP 2 1 (6.667 %) Novell