West Sussex Active Directory Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Active Directory skills within the West Sussex 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 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Active Directory
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 Orpington 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 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	14	16
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	35	46
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.047 %	0.047 %
As % of the category below	71.43 %	90.20 %
Daily rates quoted	4	7
Average minimum daily rate	£215	£321
Average daily rate	£225	£337
% change on same period last year	-33.20 %
Average maximum daily rate	£235	£352
UK excluding London average daily rate	£296	£302
% change on same period last year	-1.93 %
Hourly rates quoted	15	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.76	£16.88
Average hourly rate	£17.00	£17.94
% change on same period last year	-5.22 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.24	£19.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.57	£18.85
% change on same period last year	-6.76 %
System Software West Sussex
Matching contract IT job ads	49	51
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.065 %	0.052 %
Daily rates quoted	8	7
Average minimum daily rate	£263	£325
Average daily rate	£268	£342
% change on same period last year	-21.47 %
Average maximum daily rate	£273	£358
UK excluding London average daily rate	£324	£328
% change on same period last year	-1.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.50	£20.50
Average hourly rate	£20.23	£21.61
% change on same period last year	-6.37 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.96	£22.71
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.01	£22.29
% change on same period last year	-5.77 %
Active Directory South East

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 West Sussex 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 West Sussex region.

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Active Directory across the West Sussex region over the 3 months to 24 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 West Sussex region.

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Active Directory across the West Sussex region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008.

Active Directory
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 West Sussex region over the 3 months to 24 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
Crawley	+3	12	£135	-58.46 %
Gatwick	+3	5	£153	-
Chichester	+6	4	-	-
Worthing	+6	2	£550	-
Bognor Regis	-	2	-	-

Active Directory South East

Active Directory
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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 70 (74.47 %) Windows 2 45 (47.87 %) Microsoft 3 28 (29.79 %) MS Exchange 4 24 (25.53 %) Citrix 5 23 (24.47 %) MS Office 6 20 (21.28 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 19 (20.21 %) Windows 2000 7 19 (20.21 %) Windows XP 8 18 (19.15 %) Novell 8 18 (19.15 %) Windows Server 2003 9 16 (17.02 %) MS Excel 10 14 (14.89 %) ITIL 11 13 (13.83 %) VMware 12 11 (11.70 %) Lotus Notes 12 11 (11.70 %) LAN

12 11 (11.70 %) NetWare 12 11 (11.70 %) Lotus 13 10 (10.64 %) TCP/IP 14 9 (9.574 %) DNS 15 7 (7.447 %) SAN 15 7 (7.447 %) Windows NT 15 7 (7.447 %) Migration 16 6 (6.383 %) NDS 16 6 (6.383 %) DHCP 16 6 (6.383 %) SQL 16 6 (6.383 %) Exchange Server 2007 16 6 (6.383 %) Exchange Server 2000 17 5 (5.319 %) VERITAS 17 5 (5.319 %) Microsoft Certification 17 5 (5.319 %) Dell

Active Directory
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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 (2.128 %) WMI 2 1 (1.064 %) .NET Framework 2 1 (1.064 %) HTML 2 1 (1.064 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 28 (29.79 %) MS Exchange 2 20 (21.28 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 11 (11.70 %) Lotus Notes 4 6 (6.383 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 6 (6.383 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 4 (4.255 %) SharePoint 6 2 (2.128 %) Office Communications Server 7 1 (1.064 %) IIS 7 1 (1.064 %) GroupWise 7 1 (1.064 %) Exchange Server 5.5
Applications 1 23 (24.47 %) MS Office 2 16 (17.02 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 11 (11.70 %) LAN 2 10 (10.64 %) TCP/IP 3 9 (9.574 %) DNS 4 7 (7.447 %) SAN 5 6 (6.383 %) DHCP 6 5 (5.319 %) Wireless 6 5 (5.319 %) Firewall 7 4 (4.255 %) WAN 7 4 (4.255 %) Intranet 8 3 (3.191 %) VPN 8 3 (3.191 %) VoIP 9 2 (2.128 %) WLAN 9 2 (2.128 %) ADSL 9 2 (2.128 %) Broadband 9 2 (2.128 %) Internet 9 2 (2.128 %) Wi-Fi 10 1 (1.064 %) 3G 10 1 (1.064 %) IP Telephony 10 1 (1.064 %) VLAN 10 1 (1.064 %) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (2.128 %) SQL Server 2 1 (1.064 %) SQL Server 2000 2 1 (1.064 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 2 (2.128 %) MSI
General 1 3 (3.191 %) Legal 2 1 (1.064 %) Manufacturing 2 1 (1.064 %) Banking 2 1 (1.064 %) Retail 2 1 (1.064 %) Insurance 2 1 (1.064 %) FMCG 2 1 (1.064 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 46 (48.94 %) Analyst 2 23 (24.47 %) Support Analyst 3 12 (12.77 %) Support Engineer 3 12 (12.77 %) 2nd Line Support 4 10 (10.64 %) Helpdesk Support 4 10 (10.64 %) Service Desk Analyst 4 10 (10.64 %) 3rd Line Support 4 10 (10.64 %) Service Analyst 5 9 (9.574 %) Desktop Support 5 9 (9.574 %) 1st Line Support 6 7 (7.447 %) Helpdesk Analyst 7 6 (6.383 %) Business Analyst 8 5 (5.319 %) Infrastructure Analyst 8 5 (5.319 %) Administrator 9 4 (4.255 %) Server Engineer 9 4 (4.255 %) Technical Business Analyst 9 4 (4.255 %) Technical Analyst 10 3 (3.191 %) Desktop Analyst 10 3 (3.191 %) Helpdesk Support Analyst 10 3 (3.191 %) Desktop Support Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 4 (4.255 %) Clustering 2 3 (3.191 %) Blackberry 3 1 (1.064 %) HACMP	Operating Systems 1 70 (74.47 %) Windows 2 19 (20.21 %) Windows 2000 2 19 (20.21 %) Windows XP 3 18 (19.15 %) Windows Server 2003 4 11 (11.70 %) NetWare 5 7 (7.447 %) Windows NT 6 4 (4.255 %) UNIX 7 2 (2.128 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (14.89 %) ITIL 2 7 (7.447 %) Migration 3 3 (3.191 %) Technical Architecture 4 2 (2.128 %) Operations Management 4 2 (2.128 %) Load Balancing 4 2 (2.128 %) Asset Management 4 2 (2.128 %) Change Management 5 1 (1.064 %) Incident Management 5 1 (1.064 %) Release Management 5 1 (1.064 %) OO 5 1 (1.064 %) Configuration Management 5 1 (1.064 %) Service Management 5 1 (1.064 %) Service Delivery	Programming Languages 1 6 (6.383 %) SQL 2 2 (2.128 %) VBA 2 2 (2.128 %) PowerShell 3 1 (1.064 %) VB.NET 3 1 (1.064 %) PHP
Qualifications 1 5 (5.319 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (3.191 %) MCSE 3 1 (1.064 %) ISEB 3 1 (1.064 %) Degree 3 1 (1.064 %) MCP	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.064 %) SLA
System Software 1 6 (6.383 %) NDS 2 4 (4.255 %) ISA Server 2 4 (4.255 %) Backup Exec 3 3 (3.191 %) NetBackup 3 3 (3.191 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 2 (2.128 %) VMware Workstation 4 2 (2.128 %) Citrix Presentation Server 4 2 (2.128 %) MetaFrame 5 1 (1.064 %) VMware ESX	Systems Management 1 3 (3.191 %) WSUS 2 2 (2.128 %) Legato 2 2 (2.128 %) MOM 2 2 (2.128 %) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors 1 45 (47.87 %) Microsoft 2 24 (25.53 %) Citrix 3 18 (19.15 %) Novell 4 13 (13.83 %) VMware 5 11 (11.70 %) Lotus 6 5 (5.319 %) VERITAS 6 5 (5.319 %) Dell 6 5 (5.319 %) EMC 7 4 (4.255 %) HP 7 4 (4.255 %) Cisco 8 3 (3.191 %) IBM 8 3 (3.191 %) Compaq 8 3 (3.191 %) Interwoven 9 2 (2.128 %) Apple 9 2 (2.128 %) Symantec 9 2 (2.128 %) Mitel 10 1 (1.064 %) LANDesk 10 1 (1.064 %) SAP 10 1 (1.064 %) Websense 10 1 (1.064 %) Intel