The first table below looks at the demand for Active Directory skills in IT contracts advertised for the Warrington region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Active Directory over the 3 months to 17 May 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 for the Warrington region.

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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Active Directory
Rank 18 14 14
Rank change year-on-year
-4 0
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 3 3 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warrington 2.362% 3.125% 4.494%
As % of the System Software category 75.00% 60.00% 30.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £110 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £275 £275
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
Average hourly rate £12.50 - £13.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.16 £15.13 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-6.38% +0.83%
All System Software
Warrington
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
4 5 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warrington 3.150% 5.208% 14.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 4
Average daily rate £475 £355 £228
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+33.80% +56.04%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
Average hourly rate £12.50 - £13.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
Active Directory
Cheshire

Active Directory
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Warrington Active Directory Jobs Demand Trend

Active Directory
Daily Rate Trend

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

Warrington Active Directory Daily Rate Trend

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Warrington Active Directory Hourly Rate Trend

Active Directory
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Warrington 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 7 (77.78%) Windows
1 7 (77.78%) Windows 7
2 6 (66.67%) ITIL
2 6 (66.67%) MCP
2 6 (66.67%) Windows XP
2 6 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
4 4 (44.44%) OpenView
4 4 (44.44%) HP
4 4 (44.44%) Lotus
4 4 (44.44%) MS Visio
4 4 (44.44%) MS Project
4 4 (44.44%) MS Office
4 4 (44.44%) Lotus Notes
4 4 (44.44%) MCSE
4 4 (44.44%) MS Excel
4 4 (44.44%) ISO 9000
4 4 (44.44%) LiveLink
4 4 (44.44%) MS PowerPoint
4 4 (44.44%) MCDST
4 4 (44.44%) MCITP
4 4 (44.44%) Incident Management
4 4 (44.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (44.44%) ServiceCenter
4 4 (44.44%) BS25999
4 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
4 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
5 2 (22.22%) Manufacturing
5 2 (22.22%) MS Exchange
5 2 (22.22%) Citrix

Active Directory
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Warrington 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 4 (44.44%) Lotus Notes
1 4 (44.44%) LiveLink
2 2 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (22.22%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 4 (44.44%) MS Project
1 4 (44.44%) MS Office
1 4 (44.44%) MS Excel
1 4 (44.44%) MS Visio
1 4 (44.44%) MS PowerPoint
General
1 2 (22.22%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Analyst
2 4 (44.44%) Support Analyst
2 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
3 3 (33.33%) Service Desk Analyst
3 3 (33.33%) Service Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Field Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Desktop Support
4 1 (11.11%) Rollout Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Deployment Engineer
Operating Systems
1 7 (77.78%) Windows
1 7 (77.78%) Windows 7
2 6 (66.67%) Windows XP
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) ITIL
2 4 (44.44%) Incident Management
3 2 (22.22%) Problem Management
3 2 (22.22%) Service Desk Management
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 6 (66.67%) MCP
2 4 (44.44%) MCSE
2 4 (44.44%) MCDST
2 4 (44.44%) MCITP
2 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
2 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) ISO 9000
1 4 (44.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (44.44%) BS25999
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) OpenView
1 4 (44.44%) ServiceCenter
2 1 (11.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 4 (44.44%) HP
2 4 (44.44%) Lotus
3 2 (22.22%) Citrix
4 1 (11.11%) Fujitsu
4 1 (11.11%) Acronis