The first table below looks at the demand for Active Directory skills in IT contracts advertised for the Worthing region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Active Directory over the 3 months to 22 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 Worthing 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Active Directory
Rank 5 8 -
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 5 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Worthing 15.63% 6.452% -
As % of the System Software category 100.00% 100.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Average daily rate £350 £161 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+117.39% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £275 £275
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
Average hourly rate £15.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.50 £15.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-6.45% +3.33%
All System Software
Worthing
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
5 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Worthing 15.63% 6.452% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Average daily rate £350 £161 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+117.39% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
Average hourly rate £15.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
Active Directory
West Sussex

Active Directory
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Worthing 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 Worthing region.

Worthing 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 Worthing region.

Worthing Active Directory Hourly Rate Trend

Active Directory
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Worthing 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 (87.50%) Windows
2 6 (75.00%) HP
3 5 (62.50%) MS Exchange
3 5 (62.50%) MS Office
4 4 (50.00%) Windows XP
5 2 (25.00%) ProCurve
5 2 (25.00%) Firewall
5 2 (25.00%) Finance
5 2 (25.00%) VMware
5 2 (25.00%) Clustering
5 2 (25.00%) DHCP
5 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
5 2 (25.00%) DNS
5 2 (25.00%) Juniper
5 2 (25.00%) SAN
5 2 (25.00%) NetApp
5 2 (25.00%) CheckPoint
6 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (12.50%) Blackberry
6 1 (12.50%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
6 1 (12.50%) Dell
6 1 (12.50%) LAN
6 1 (12.50%) Backup Exec
6 1 (12.50%) Business Continuity
6 1 (12.50%) Altiris
6 1 (12.50%) WebSphere
6 1 (12.50%) WSUS
6 1 (12.50%) SCCM
6 1 (12.50%) Advertising

Active Directory
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Worthing 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 1 (12.50%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 5 (62.50%) MS Exchange
2 1 (12.50%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 5 (62.50%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
1 2 (25.00%) DHCP
1 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (25.00%) DNS
1 2 (25.00%) SAN
2 1 (12.50%) LAN
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Advertising
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) 2nd Line Support
2 3 (37.50%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Desktop Support
4 1 (12.50%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Administrator
4 1 (12.50%) SCCM Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Clustering
2 1 (12.50%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) Windows
2 4 (50.00%) Windows XP
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (12.50%) Windows 2000 Server
3 1 (12.50%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
1 1 (12.50%) Business Continuity
1 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Backup Exec
1 1 (12.50%) WSUS
1 1 (12.50%) SCCM
1 1 (12.50%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) HP
2 2 (25.00%) ProCurve
2 2 (25.00%) VMware
2 2 (25.00%) Juniper
2 2 (25.00%) NetApp
2 2 (25.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (12.50%) Dell
3 1 (12.50%) Altiris
3 1 (12.50%) F5