The first table below looks at the demand for Active Directory skills in IT jobs advertised for the Banbury region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs 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 Banbury region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Active Directory
Rank 8 5 22
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +17
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 1 7 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Banbury 2.857% 21.88% 3.030%
As % of the System Software category 25.00% 100.00% 40.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1 7 4
Average salary £39,000 £45,000 £21,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
-13.33% +106.89%
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
All System Software
Banbury
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
4 7 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Banbury 11.43% 21.88% 7.576%
Number of salaries quoted 4 7 10
Average salary £65,000 £45,000 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+44.44% +32.35%
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +2.63%
Active Directory
Oxfordshire

Active Directory
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Banbury Active Directory Jobs Demand Trend

Active Directory
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Active Directory across the Banbury region.

Banbury Active Directory Salary Trend

Active Directory
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Banbury 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Active Directory.

1 15 (78.95%) Windows
2 13 (68.42%) MS Excel
2 13 (68.42%) VMware
3 12 (63.16%) Windows Server 2008
3 12 (63.16%) MS Exchange
4 10 (52.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (42.11%) Microsoft
6 7 (36.84%) SAN
7 6 (31.58%) NetApp
7 6 (31.58%) Internet
7 6 (31.58%) Windows XP
7 6 (31.58%) WAN
7 6 (31.58%) SQL Server
8 5 (26.32%) MS Office
8 5 (26.32%) DNS
8 5 (26.32%) Windows 7
8 5 (26.32%) Business Continuity
8 5 (26.32%) Finance
9 4 (21.05%) Telecoms
9 4 (21.05%) Cisco
10 3 (15.79%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (15.79%) CCNA
10 3 (15.79%) MPLS
10 3 (15.79%) EPoS
10 3 (15.79%) Windows Server 2003
10 3 (15.79%) SLA
10 3 (15.79%) Java
10 3 (15.79%) C
10 3 (15.79%) C#
10 3 (15.79%) Linux

Active Directory
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Banbury 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Active Directory. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 12 (63.16%) MS Exchange
2 3 (15.79%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (10.53%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (5.263%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (68.42%) MS Excel
2 5 (26.32%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 7 (36.84%) SAN
2 6 (31.58%) Internet
2 6 (31.58%) WAN
3 5 (26.32%) DNS
4 3 (15.79%) MPLS
5 2 (10.53%) OSPF
5 2 (10.53%) HTTP
5 2 (10.53%) VPN
5 2 (10.53%) Wireless
6 1 (5.263%) LAN
6 1 (5.263%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (31.58%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.53%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 5 (26.32%) Finance
2 4 (21.05%) Telecoms
3 3 (15.79%) Retail
4 1 (5.263%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Analyst
1 5 (26.32%) Systems Analyst
1 5 (26.32%) Administrator
1 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Help Desk Support
3 3 (15.79%) 2nd Line Support
3 3 (15.79%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (10.53%) Network Administrator
5 1 (5.263%) IT Administrator
5 1 (5.263%) Infrastructure Consultant
5 1 (5.263%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 1 (5.263%) Network Engineer
5 1 (5.263%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (5.263%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.263%) Consultant
5 1 (5.263%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.263%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 15 (78.95%) Windows
2 12 (63.16%) Windows Server 2008
3 6 (31.58%) Windows XP
4 5 (26.32%) Windows 7
5 3 (15.79%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (15.79%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (26.32%) Business Continuity
2 3 (15.79%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (10.53%) ITIL
4 1 (5.263%) Project Management
4 1 (5.263%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.79%) C
1 3 (15.79%) C#
1 3 (15.79%) Java
2 1 (5.263%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) CCNA
1 3 (15.79%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (10.53%) Degree
3 1 (5.263%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.263%) MCSE
3 1 (5.263%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (52.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (10.53%) XenApp
2 2 (10.53%) XenDesktop
3 1 (5.263%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 13 (68.42%) VMware
2 8 (42.11%) Microsoft
3 6 (31.58%) NetApp
4 4 (21.05%) Cisco
5 2 (10.53%) Citrix
5 2 (10.53%) Juniper