The first table below looks at the demand for the Active Directory Specialist role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Active Directory Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Active Directory Specialist
Rank 526 552 587
Rank change year-on-year
+26 +35
Contract jobs requiring an Active Directory Specialist 15 18 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.031% 0.031% 0.022%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.034% 0.034% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 5
Average daily rate £388 £385 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.64% +37.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £258 £324 £274
10% offered a daily rate of more than £445 £458 £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £359 £385 £360
% change year-on-year
-6.81% +6.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
44347 53663 57608
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.17% 92.47% 92.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 25564 29628 31510
Average daily rate £400 £400 £420
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -4.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2099 2560 2964
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.19 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%

Active Directory Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Active Directory Specialist within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Active Directory Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Active Directory Specialist
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Active Directory Specialist within the UK.

Active Directory Specialist Daily Rate Trend

Active Directory Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Active Directory Specialist within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Active Directory Specialist Daily Rate Histogram

Active Directory Specialist
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Active Directory Specialist within the UK.

Active Directory Specialist Hourly Rate Trend

Active Directory Specialist
Top 11 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 Specialist within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +6 11 £388 +0.64%
London +28 6 £475 +13.09%
South East +17 3 £330 -14.28%
East of England - - - -
Pudsey - - - -
Reading - - - -
Berkshire - - - -
Essex - - - -
West Yorkshire - - - -
Yorkshire - - - -
City of London - - - -

Active Directory Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Active Directory Specialist in their job title 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 with Active Directory Specialist in their job title.

1 21 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 13 (61.90%) Migration
3 9 (42.86%) Windows
4 8 (38.10%) Microsoft
5 6 (28.57%) MS Exchange
5 6 (28.57%) Exchange Server 2010
6 5 (23.81%) Windows Server 2008
6 5 (23.81%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
6 5 (23.81%) Windows Server 2003
6 5 (23.81%) Symantec
6 5 (23.81%) Blackberry
6 5 (23.81%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 4 (19.05%) Configuration Management
7 4 (19.05%) Websense
7 4 (19.05%) S/MIME
7 4 (19.05%) SharePoint
7 4 (19.05%) VBScript
7 4 (19.05%) PowerShell
7 4 (19.05%) High Availability
7 4 (19.05%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (19.05%) PKI
7 4 (19.05%) Exchange Server 2003
7 4 (19.05%) SCCM
7 4 (19.05%) SCOM
7 4 (19.05%) SharePoint 2010
7 4 (19.05%) UAG
7 4 (19.05%) Lync
8 3 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (14.29%) VB
8 3 (14.29%) LDAP

Active Directory Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Active Directory Specialist in their job title 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 with Active Directory Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 6 (28.57%) MS Exchange
1 6 (28.57%) Exchange Server 2010
2 5 (23.81%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 4 (19.05%) SharePoint
3 4 (19.05%) Exchange Server 2003
3 4 (19.05%) SharePoint 2010
3 4 (19.05%) Lync
4 1 (4.762%) Exchange Server 2007
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) S/MIME
2 3 (14.29%) LDAP
3 2 (9.524%) DHCP
3 2 (9.524%) DNS
4 1 (4.762%) Unified Communications
General
1 3 (14.29%) Finance
2 2 (9.524%) Banking
3 1 (4.762%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Blackberry
2 4 (19.05%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (42.86%) Windows
2 5 (23.81%) Windows Server 2008
2 5 (23.81%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (9.524%) Windows 8
4 2 (9.524%) Windows 7
5 1 (4.762%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (61.90%) Migration
2 4 (19.05%) Configuration Management
2 4 (19.05%) High Availability
2 4 (19.05%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (9.524%) ITIL
4 1 (4.762%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (19.05%) VBScript
1 4 (19.05%) PowerShell
2 3 (14.29%) VB
System Software
1 21 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (19.05%) UAG
3 2 (9.524%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (23.81%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
2 4 (19.05%) SCCM
2 4 (19.05%) SCOM
3 1 (4.762%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 8 (38.10%) Microsoft
2 5 (23.81%) Symantec
3 4 (19.05%) Websense
4 3 (14.29%) VMware
5 1 (4.762%) Oracle
5 1 (4.762%) McAfee
5 1 (4.762%) Intel
5 1 (4.762%) Citrix
5 1 (4.762%) Novell