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The first table below looks at the demand for Active Directory skills 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 over the 3 months to 18 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 of the System Software category.

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.

3 months to
18 Jun 2013

Same period 2012

Same period 2011

Microsoft Active Directory

Rank

Rank change year-on-year

Contract jobs citing Active Directory

2610

2763

2801

As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK

5.362%

4.758%

4.504%

As % of the System Software category

55.96%

58.32%

61.29%

Number of daily rates quoted

1073

1134

1129

Average daily rate

£300

90% offered a daily rate of more than

£135

£136

£125

10% offered a daily rate of more than

£450

UK excluding London average daily rate

£275

£269

£275

% change year-on-year

+2.32%

-2.27%

Number of hourly rates quoted

551

622

599

Average hourly rate

£15.50

£16.50

£15.75

Average hourly rate % change year-on-year

-6.06%

+4.76%

90% offered a hourly rate of more than

£10.50

£11.00

10% offered a hourly rate of more than

£27.50

£30.00

UK excluding London average hourly rate

£14.35

£16.00

£15.00

% change year-on-year

-10.34%

+6.66%

All System Software
UK

Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category

4664

4738

4570

As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK

9.581%

8.159%

7.348%

Number of daily rates quoted

2250

2241

2031

Average daily rate

£350

£340

£350

Average daily rate % change year-on-year

+2.94%

-2.85%

90% offered a daily rate of more than

£200

£195

£200

10% offered a daily rate of more than

£475

£450

£475

UK excluding London average daily rate

£325

£324

£310

% change year-on-year

+0.30%

+4.51%

Number of hourly rates quoted

619

682

678

Average hourly rate

£18.00

£17.50

£18.00

Average hourly rate % change year-on-year

+2.85%

-2.77%

90% offered a hourly rate of more than

£11.00

10% offered a hourly rate of more than

£32.50

£35.00

UK excluding London average hourly rate

£17.00

£16.75

% change year-on-year

+1.49%

Active Directory
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Active Directory
Daily Rate Trend

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

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Active Directory within the UK over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Active Directory within the UK over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Active Directory
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 18 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	+4	2405	£300	-	692
London	-9	917	£325	-	242
South East	+7	602	£313	+4.16%	158
City of London	-5	283	£325	-1.51%	83
East of England	+3	210	£225	-12.62%	47
Berkshire	+8	206	£300	+7.14%	32
Hampshire	+3	139	£311	+3.75%	44
North West	+9	136	£240	-8.57%	78
South West	+20	130	£275	-8.33%	48
East Midlands	+14	130	£225	-9.90%	30
West Midlands	+13	130	£250	-13.04%	47
Yorkshire	-2	114	£219	-22.56%	35
Surrey	+11	83	£300	-6.25%	23
Reading	0	81	£245	-12.50%	17
Scotland	-34	74	£300	+9.09%	18
West Yorkshire	-4	70	£250	+7.52%	24
Wales	+9	63	£275	+37.50%	9
Buckinghamshire	-3	60	£355	+41.85%	17
Bracknell	+10	59	£300	+14.28%	4
Cambridgeshire	+10	55	£225	+9.75%	17
Manchester	+2	54	£240	+3.78%	50
Essex	-3	54	£165	-30.52%	11
South Wales	+5	49	£305	+22.00%	6
Hertfordshire	+17	44	£325	-23.52%	10
Milton Keynes	-4	44	£393	+42.59%	8
West Sussex	+8	42	£425	+41.66%	9
Southampton	0	40	£300	-0.82%	17
Nottinghamshire	+23	38	£276	-15.00%	3
Oxfordshire	+8	37	£263	-16.00%	12
Leeds	-8	37	£200	-4.76%	12

Active Directory
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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	3950 (77.62%)	Windows
2	2298 (45.16%)	Microsoft
3	1628 (31.99%)	Windows Server 2008
4	1514 (29.75%)	VMware
5	1495 (29.38%)	MS Exchange
6	1375 (27.02%)	Windows 7
7	1308 (25.70%)	Windows XP
8	1295 (25.45%)	Windows Server 2003
9	1272 (25.00%)	Citrix
10	1063 (20.89%)	MS Office
11	846 (16.62%)	MS Excel
12	839 (16.49%)	ITIL
13	775 (15.23%)	VMware Infrastructure
14	774 (15.21%)	DNS
15	757 (14.88%)	Exchange Server 2010

16	733 (14.40%)	SCCM
17	699 (13.74%)	SQL
18	629 (12.36%)	HP
19	615 (12.08%)	Migration
20	595 (11.69%)	Blackberry
21	589 (11.57%)	Microsoft Certification
22	582 (11.44%)	SQL Server
23	570 (11.20%)	SAN
24	537 (10.55%)	DHCP
25	527 (10.36%)	TCP/IP
26	525 (10.32%)	Security Cleared
27	519 (10.20%)	Cisco
28	504 (9.904%)	Exchange Server 2007
29	499 (9.805%)	Finance
30	480 (9.432%)	Exchange Server 2003

Active Directory
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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	157 (3.085%)	.NET
2	97 (1.906%)	Application Packaging
3	90 (1.769%)	Web Services
4	85 (1.670%)	HTML
5	69 (1.356%)	Middleware
6	66 (1.297%)	ASP.NET
7	59 (1.159%)	XML
8	41 (0.806%)	.NET Framework
9	35 (0.688%)	COM
10	34 (0.668%)	WebSphere
10	34 (0.668%)	jQuery
11	33 (0.648%)	CSS
12	32 (0.629%)	WCF
13	22 (0.432%)	Ajax
13	22 (0.432%)	ASP
13	22 (0.432%)	SAML
14	19 (0.373%)	Silverlight
15	18 (0.354%)	ADO.NET Entity Framework
16	17 (0.334%)	Software Packaging
16	17 (0.334%)	JSON

Application Platforms
1	1495 (29.38%)	MS Exchange
2	757 (14.88%)	Exchange Server 2010
3	504 (9.904%)	Exchange Server 2007
4	480 (9.432%)	Exchange Server 2003
5	373 (7.330%)	SharePoint
6	338 (6.642%)	IIS
7	280 (5.502%)	Blackberry Enterprise Server
8	197 (3.871%)	IBM Notes
9	146 (2.869%)	Lync
10	124 (2.437%)	SharePoint 2010
11	75 (1.474%)	Apache
12	48 (0.943%)	Tomcat
13	39 (0.766%)	Office Communications Server
14	37 (0.727%)	SharePoint Server
15	35 (0.688%)	Lotus Domino
16	30 (0.590%)	Exchange Server 2013
17	21 (0.413%)	WebLogic
18	19 (0.373%)	BizTalk Server
19	17 (0.334%)	Windows Azure
19	17 (0.334%)	WorkSite

Applications
1	1063 (20.89%)	MS Office
2	846 (16.62%)	MS Excel
3	82 (1.611%)	MS PowerPoint
4	68 (1.336%)	MS Visio
5	56 (1.100%)	Office 365
6	37 (0.727%)	MS Project
7	14 (0.275%)	Google Apps
8	12 (0.236%)	InfoPath
9	8 (0.157%)	Photoshop
10	2 (0.039%)	S-PLUS
10	2 (0.039%)	Spreadsheet
11	1 (0.020%)	Vectorworks
11	1 (0.020%)	CINEMA 4D
11	1 (0.020%)	PaintShop Pro
11	1 (0.020%)	Acrobat

Business Applications
1	29 (0.570%)	Dynamics CRM
2	17 (0.334%)	Dynamics NAV
3	11 (0.216%)	assyst
4	10 (0.197%)	Remedy ITSM
5	8 (0.157%)	Dynamics AX
6	7 (0.138%)	SAP R/3
7	5 (0.098%)	Oracle EBS
8	4 (0.079%)	Oracle Applications
8	4 (0.079%)	Line 50
9	3 (0.059%)	Maximo
10	2 (0.039%)	SAP FI
10	2 (0.039%)	Agresso
10	2 (0.039%)	SAP HR
10	2 (0.039%)	BusinessWorks
10	2 (0.039%)	Dynamics GP
11	1 (0.020%)	Remedy AR System
11	1 (0.020%)	Cerner Millennium
11	1 (0.020%)	Infor M3
11	1 (0.020%)	Summit
11	1 (0.020%)	SAP Oil and Gas

Communications & Networking
1	774 (15.21%)	DNS
2	570 (11.20%)	SAN
3	537 (10.55%)	DHCP
4	527 (10.36%)	TCP/IP
5	465 (9.137%)	LAN
6	437 (8.587%)	WAN
7	364 (7.153%)	Firewall
8	334 (6.563%)	VPN
9	197 (3.871%)	Internet
10	175 (3.439%)	LDAP
11	133 (2.613%)	VoIP
12	128 (2.515%)	Wireless
13	126 (2.476%)	NAS
14	81 (1.592%)	SSL
14	81 (1.592%)	SMTP
15	76 (1.493%)	Cisco ASA
16	71 (1.395%)	Intranet
17	62 (1.218%)	HTTP
18	61 (1.199%)	VLAN
19	60 (1.179%)	Network Security

Database & Business Intelligence
1	582 (11.44%)	SQL Server
2	266 (5.227%)	SQL Server 2008
3	203 (3.989%)	SQL Server 2005
4	73 (1.434%)	SQL Server 2000
5	56 (1.100%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
6	43 (0.845%)	Oracle 8/8i
7	37 (0.727%)	MySQL
7	37 (0.727%)	SQL Server Integration Services
8	30 (0.590%)	SQL Server 2012
9	27 (0.531%)	Oracle 11g
9	27 (0.531%)	DB2
9	27 (0.531%)	Oracle 10g
10	19 (0.373%)	Data Warehouse
11	16 (0.314%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
12	14 (0.275%)	Oracle Reports
13	12 (0.236%)	MS Access
14	10 (0.197%)	RDBMS
15	9 (0.177%)	DTS
16	8 (0.157%)	Oracle OWB
16	8 (0.157%)	Oracle BI EE

Development Applications
1	129 (2.535%)	MSI
2	93 (1.827%)	InstallShield
3	36 (0.707%)	Visual Studio
4	22 (0.432%)	LoadRunner
5	19 (0.373%)	VSS/SourceSafe
6	17 (0.334%)	Team Foundation Server
7	11 (0.216%)	Oracle APEX
7	11 (0.216%)	Subversion
8	10 (0.197%)	ClearCase
8	10 (0.197%)	QuickTest Pro
8	10 (0.197%)	Git (software)
9	9 (0.177%)	Wise Package Studio
10	7 (0.138%)	TeamCity
10	7 (0.138%)	Oracle Forms
11	6 (0.118%)	ClearQuest
11	6 (0.118%)	AdminStudio
11	6 (0.118%)	JIRA
12	5 (0.098%)	Microsoft Blend
12	5 (0.098%)	Rational Performance Tester
13	4 (0.079%)	Hudson

General
1	499 (9.805%)	Finance
2	269 (5.286%)	Banking
3	154 (3.026%)	Telecoms
4	116 (2.279%)	Retail
5	105 (2.063%)	Law
6	100 (1.965%)	Legal
7	93 (1.827%)	Investment Banking
8	68 (1.336%)	Back Office
9	60 (1.179%)	Publishing
10	39 (0.766%)	Financial Institution
11	31 (0.609%)	Manufacturing
11	31 (0.609%)	Advertising
12	29 (0.570%)	Local Government
13	28 (0.550%)	French Language
14	19 (0.373%)	German Language
15	16 (0.314%)	Military
16	13 (0.255%)	Marketing
17	11 (0.216%)	Aerospace
18	10 (0.197%)	Games
18	10 (0.197%)	Dutch Language

Job Titles
1	1196 (23.50%)	Analyst
2	693 (13.62%)	Support Engineer
3	467 (9.177%)	Support Analyst
4	434 (8.528%)	2nd Line Support
5	391 (7.683%)	Desktop Support
6	356 (6.995%)	Service Analyst
7	346 (6.799%)	Service Desk Analyst
8	318 (6.249%)	3rd Line Support
9	293 (5.758%)	Administrator
10	265 (5.207%)	Infrastructure Engineer
11	262 (5.148%)	Consultant
12	241 (4.736%)	IT Support
13	209 (4.107%)	Architect
14	207 (4.068%)	Desktop Engineer
15	189 (3.714%)	1st Line Support
16	161 (3.164%)	Systems Administrator
17	153 (3.006%)	Desktop Support Engineer
17	153 (3.006%)	2nd Line Support Engineer
18	152 (2.987%)	Server Engineer
19	148 (2.908%)	Systems Engineer

Miscellaneous
1	595 (11.69%)	Blackberry
2	217 (4.264%)	Clustering
3	96 (1.886%)	NHS
4	80 (1.572%)	Management Information System
5	79 (1.552%)	PKI
6	72 (1.415%)	Thin Client
6	72 (1.415%)	Fat Client
7	52 (1.022%)	iPad
8	49 (0.963%)	iPhone
9	45 (0.884%)	Video Conferencing
9	45 (0.884%)	Client/Server
10	43 (0.845%)	Hedge funds
11	41 (0.806%)	PDA
12	38 (0.747%)	Computer Science
13	35 (0.688%)	Replication
14	28 (0.550%)	Enterprise Software
15	27 (0.531%)	EqualLogic
16	22 (0.432%)	SecurID
16	22 (0.432%)	Handset
17	21 (0.413%)	Statistics

Operating Systems
1	3950 (77.62%)	Windows
2	1628 (31.99%)	Windows Server 2008
3	1375 (27.02%)	Windows 7
4	1308 (25.70%)	Windows XP
5	1295 (25.45%)	Windows Server 2003
6	316 (6.209%)	Linux
7	206 (4.048%)	Windows Vista
8	162 (3.183%)	UNIX
9	149 (2.928%)	Windows 2000
10	119 (2.338%)	Windows Server 2012
11	103 (2.024%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12	90 (1.769%)	Windows 8
13	87 (1.710%)	Mac OS X
14	81 (1.592%)	Windows 2000 Server
15	46 (0.904%)	Solaris
16	37 (0.727%)	Windows NT
17	30 (0.590%)	AIX
17	30 (0.590%)	Apple iOS
18	29 (0.570%)	Android
19	26 (0.511%)	CentOS

Processes & Methodologies
1	839 (16.49%)	ITIL
2	615 (12.08%)	Migration
3	206 (4.048%)	Project Management
4	155 (3.046%)	Disaster Recovery
5	152 (2.987%)	Change Management
5	152 (2.987%)	PRINCE2
6	144 (2.830%)	Incident Management
7	143 (2.810%)	Service Management
8	124 (2.437%)	Service Delivery
9	98 (1.926%)	Change Control
10	82 (1.611%)	Configuration Management
11	81 (1.592%)	Problem Management
12	69 (1.356%)	Software Deployment
13	63 (1.238%)	User Acceptance Testing
13	63 (1.238%)	Business Continuity
14	59 (1.159%)	Workflow
15	58 (1.140%)	Load Balancing
16	55 (1.081%)	Capacity Planning
17	54 (1.061%)	Asset Management
18	53 (1.041%)	Information Security

Programming Languages
1	699 (13.74%)	SQL
2	452 (8.882%)	PowerShell
3	209 (4.107%)	VB
4	198 (3.891%)	VBScript
5	110 (2.162%)	C#
6	80 (1.572%)	C
7	67 (1.317%)	Perl
8	63 (1.238%)	JavaScript
9	46 (0.904%)	Java
10	43 (0.845%)	T-SQL
11	33 (0.648%)	PHP
12	32 (0.629%)	Shell Script
13	24 (0.472%)	VB.NET
14	23 (0.452%)	VBA
15	15 (0.295%)	Ruby
16	10 (0.197%)	PL/SQL
17	9 (0.177%)	XPath
18	8 (0.157%)	VB6
19	7 (0.138%)	Python
20	6 (0.118%)	C++

Qualifications
1	589 (11.57%)	Microsoft Certification
2	525 (10.32%)	Security Cleared
3	385 (7.565%)	SC Cleared
4	353 (6.937%)	MCSE
5	174 (3.419%)	MCP
6	145 (2.849%)	Degree
7	130 (2.555%)	Cisco Certification
8	128 (2.515%)	MCITP
9	110 (2.162%)	CCNA
10	90 (1.769%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10	90 (1.769%)	DV Cleared
11	88 (1.729%)	MCSA
12	78 (1.533%)	ITIL Certification
13	71 (1.395%)	Citrix Certification
14	66 (1.297%)	MCDST
15	56 (1.100%)	CCA
16	45 (0.884%)	MCTS
17	35 (0.688%)	CCNP
18	34 (0.668%)	CISSP
19	26 (0.511%)	VCP5

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	250 (4.913%)	SLA
2	56 (1.100%)	QA
3	41 (0.806%)	ISO/IEC 27001
4	26 (0.511%)	ISO 9001
5	22 (0.432%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
6	17 (0.334%)	ISO 9000
7	12 (0.236%)	PCI DSS
8	7 (0.138%)	Data Quality
8	7 (0.138%)	BS25999
9	4 (0.079%)	COBIT
10	3 (0.059%)	BS7799
11	2 (0.039%)	GAMP
11	2 (0.039%)	JSP 440
11	2 (0.039%)	HIPAA
12	1 (0.020%)	TickIT

System Software
1	775 (15.23%)	VMware Infrastructure
2	425 (8.351%)	XenApp
3	320 (6.288%)	vSphere
4	233 (4.579%)	Hyper-V
5	222 (4.362%)	VMware ESX
6	189 (3.714%)	Microsoft App-V
7	148 (2.908%)	XenDesktop
8	89 (1.749%)	VMware ESXi
9	75 (1.474%)	Terminal Services
10	65 (1.277%)	XenServer
11	58 (1.140%)	Citrix Presentation Server
12	55 (1.081%)	UAG
13	53 (1.041%)	ISA Server
14	38 (0.747%)	Forefront TMG
15	33 (0.648%)	VMware Server
16	28 (0.550%)	VMware Workstation
17	26 (0.511%)	Xen
17	26 (0.511%)	NFS
17	26 (0.511%)	Terminal Server
18	22 (0.432%)	DFS Replication

Systems Management
1	733 (14.40%)	SCCM
2	358 (7.035%)	SCOM
3	140 (2.751%)	WSUS
4	131 (2.574%)	Backup Exec
5	96 (1.886%)	Systems Management Server (SMS)
6	80 (1.572%)	Symantec Enterprise Vault
7	63 (1.238%)	Norton AntiVirus
8	54 (1.061%)	NetBackup
9	53 (1.041%)	Tivoli
10	47 (0.924%)	OpenView
10	47 (0.924%)	McAfee ePO
11	46 (0.904%)	OpenView Configuration Management
12	42 (0.825%)	HP SIM
13	28 (0.550%)	OVSD
14	27 (0.531%)	MOM
14	27 (0.531%)	HP Quality Center
15	26 (0.511%)	Nagios
16	24 (0.472%)	Puppet
17	23 (0.452%)	DameWare
18	22 (0.432%)	MAILsweeper

Vendors
1	2298 (45.16%)	Microsoft
2	1514 (29.75%)	VMware
3	1272 (25.00%)	Citrix
4	629 (12.36%)	HP
5	519 (10.20%)	Cisco
6	235 (4.618%)	Symantec
7	224 (4.402%)	Dell
8	206 (4.048%)	Lotus
9	204 (4.009%)	Oracle
10	176 (3.458%)	NetApp
11	147 (2.889%)	IBM
12	143 (2.810%)	McAfee
13	129 (2.535%)	Red Hat
14	122 (2.397%)	Apple
15	120 (2.358%)	Remedy
16	117 (2.299%)	AppSense
17	114 (2.240%)	Altiris
17	114 (2.240%)	EMC
18	66 (1.297%)	Juniper
18	66 (1.297%)	CA

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