City of London Active Directory Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Active Directory skills within the City of London region with a comparison to our System Software category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Active Directory over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Active Directory
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Alfreton Altrincham Andover Avonmouth Aylesbury Banbury Barking Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bingley Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackpool Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chessington Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Clapham Cobham Colchester Cornwall Coulsdon County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Daresbury Dartford Deeside Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Droitwich Dudley Dunfermline Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Elland Enfield England Epsom Esher Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Flintshire Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Goole Grantham Great Yarmouth Guildford Hailsham Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Haslemere Havant Haverhill Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilford Inverness Ipswich Isle of Wight Iver Jersey Kent Kettering King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Liversedge London Loughborough Loughton Luton Lutterworth M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Melksham Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nelson Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northumbria Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Ormskirk Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Penrith Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrew Renfrewshire Retford Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Royston Rugby Salford Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Skipton Sleaford Slough Solihull Somerset South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Albans St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Teddington Telford Tewkesbury Thame Thames Valley Thatcham Tonbridge Torquay Tring Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wednesbury Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weston-super-Mare Wetherby Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Winsford Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	33	60
Rank change on same period last year	+27
Matching permanent IT job ads	1003	582
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.555 %	0.244 %
As % of the category below	66.16 %	55.43 %
Salaries quoted	858	447
Average minimum salary	£35,974	£37,528
Average salary	£38,376	£39,931
% change on same period last year	-3.89 %
Average maximum salary	£40,777	£42,335
UK excluding London average salary	£31,023	£32,432
% change on same period last year	-4.34 %
System Software City of London
Matching permanent IT job ads	1516	1050
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.839 %	0.440 %
Salaries quoted	1294	788
Average minimum salary	£41,589	£46,351
Average salary	£44,906	£49,695
% change on same period last year	-9.63 %
Average maximum salary	£48,222	£53,040
UK excluding London average salary	£34,733	£35,187
% change on same period last year	-1.29 %
Active Directory London

Active Directory
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Active Directory across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

Active Directory
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Active Directory across the City of London region.

Active Directory
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Active Directory across the City of London region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

Active Directory
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the City of London 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 1543 (77.62 %) Windows 2 843 (42.40 %) Windows Server 2003 3 721 (36.27 %) Microsoft 4 711 (35.76 %) MS Exchange 5 556 (27.97 %) Finance 6 478 (24.04 %) Windows XP 7 465 (23.39 %) Exchange Server 2003 8 462 (23.24 %) MS Office 9 432 (21.73 %) MS Excel 10 425 (21.38 %) Citrix 11 393 (19.77 %) Microsoft Certification 12 340 (17.10 %) VMware 13 337 (16.95 %) MCSE 14 316 (15.90 %) SQL Server 15 300 (15.09 %) SQL

16 298 (14.99 %) Windows 2000 17 290 (14.59 %) TCP/IP 18 284 (14.29 %) Law 19 265 (13.33 %) DNS 20 251 (12.63 %) Cisco 20 251 (12.63 %) Windows 2000 Server 21 229 (11.52 %) Blackberry 21 229 (11.52 %) Banking 22 222 (11.17 %) SAN 23 219 (11.02 %) Legal 24 216 (10.87 %) DHCP 25 203 (10.21 %) ITIL 26 187 (9.406 %) Firewall 27 174 (8.753 %) SharePoint 28 171 (8.602 %) IIS

Active Directory
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the City of London 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 Development 1 97 (4.879 %) .NET 2 34 (1.710 %) ASP.NET 3 33 (1.660 %) Application Packaging 4 31 (1.559 %) ASP 5 15 (0.755 %) HTML 5 15 (0.755 %) ATL 5 15 (0.755 %) MFC 6 13 (0.654 %) DCOM 7 12 (0.604 %) WebSphere 7 12 (0.604 %) Middleware 8 11 (0.553 %) XML 9 8 (0.402 %) COM+ 10 7 (0.352 %) ODBC 11 5 (0.252 %) Windows SharePoint Services 12 4 (0.201 %) CSS 12 4 (0.201 %) COM 13 3 (0.151 %) EJB 13 3 (0.151 %) WebServices 14 2 (0.101 %) ActiveX 14 2 (0.101 %) ADO	Application Platforms 1 711 (35.76 %) MS Exchange 2 465 (23.39 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 174 (8.753 %) SharePoint 4 171 (8.602 %) IIS 5 112 (5.634 %) Exchange Server 2000 6 90 (4.527 %) Exchange Server 2007 7 70 (3.521 %) Lotus Notes 8 44 (2.213 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 9 33 (1.660 %) WorkSite 10 25 (1.258 %) Exchange Server 5.5 11 19 (0.956 %) SharePoint Server 2007 12 14 (0.704 %) CMS 12 14 (0.704 %) LiveLink 12 14 (0.704 %) WebLogic 13 13 (0.654 %) BizTalk Server 13 13 (0.654 %) Content Management Server 14 8 (0.402 %) Apache 15 7 (0.352 %) Lotus Domino 16 4 (0.201 %) Office Communications Server 16 4 (0.201 %) SharePoint Portal Server
Applications 1 462 (23.24 %) MS Office 2 432 (21.73 %) MS Excel 3 20 (1.006 %) DeltaView 4 16 (0.805 %) MS PowerPoint 5 15 (0.755 %) Acrobat 6 6 (0.302 %) MS Visio 7 4 (0.201 %) MATLAB 8 3 (0.151 %) AutoCAD 9 1 (0.050 %) QuarkXPress 9 1 (0.050 %) Photoshop 9 1 (0.050 %) MS Project 9 1 (0.050 %) Adobe Illustrator	Business Applications 1 34 (1.710 %) SoftGrid 2 12 (0.604 %) assyst 3 3 (0.151 %) Great Plains 3 3 (0.151 %) Kondor+ 4 2 (0.101 %) Microsoft CRM 4 2 (0.101 %) Dynamics CRM 5 1 (0.050 %) RMDS 5 1 (0.050 %) Bond Adapt 5 1 (0.050 %) ADP Wilco Gloss 5 1 (0.050 %) AWD 5 1 (0.050 %) INSURE/90
Communications & Networking 1 290 (14.59 %) TCP/IP 2 265 (13.33 %) DNS 3 222 (11.17 %) SAN 4 216 (10.87 %) DHCP 5 187 (9.406 %) Firewall 6 168 (8.451 %) LAN 7 149 (7.495 %) WAN 8 133 (6.690 %) VPN 9 92 (4.628 %) VoIP 10 84 (4.225 %) Internet 11 39 (1.962 %) LDAP 12 35 (1.761 %) Network Security 13 34 (1.710 %) SMS 14 32 (1.610 %) Cisco PIX 15 29 (1.459 %) VLAN 16 24 (1.207 %) Intranet 17 22 (1.107 %) FTP 18 21 (1.056 %) Kerberos 18 21 (1.056 %) WLAN 18 21 (1.056 %) Wireless	Database & Business Intelligence 1 316 (15.90 %) SQL Server 2 58 (2.918 %) SQL Server 2005 3 44 (2.213 %) SQL Server 2000 4 19 (0.956 %) MySQL 5 16 (0.805 %) ETL 6 9 (0.453 %) RDBMS 7 8 (0.402 %) Datawarehouse 8 7 (0.352 %) Oracle 10g 9 6 (0.302 %) BusinessObjects 9 6 (0.302 %) SQL Server 7 9 6 (0.302 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 9 6 (0.302 %) Informix 10 3 (0.151 %) Oracle 8/8i 10 3 (0.151 %) DB2 11 2 (0.101 %) Crystal Reports 11 2 (0.101 %) Oracle 9i 11 2 (0.101 %) MS Access 11 2 (0.101 %) TOAD 12 1 (0.050 %) DTS 12 1 (0.050 %) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications 1 34 (1.710 %) MSI 2 11 (0.553 %) InstallShield 2 11 (0.553 %) Visual Studio 3 6 (0.302 %) ClearCase 4 5 (0.252 %) Ant 5 3 (0.151 %) CruiseControl 5 3 (0.151 %) PVCS 5 3 (0.151 %) TestDirector 5 3 (0.151 %) QuickTest Pro 6 2 (0.101 %) VSS/SourceSafe 6 2 (0.101 %) Flash 6 2 (0.101 %) Subversion 7 1 (0.050 %) JIRA 7 1 (0.050 %) Dreamweaver 7 1 (0.050 %) WinRunner 7 1 (0.050 %) AdminStudio 7 1 (0.050 %) ClearQuest 7 1 (0.050 %) Rational Robot	General 1 556 (27.97 %) Finance 2 284 (14.29 %) Law 3 229 (11.52 %) Banking 4 219 (11.02 %) Legal 5 123 (6.187 %) Insurance 6 96 (4.829 %) Investment Banking 7 82 (4.125 %) Pensions 8 74 (3.722 %) Back Office 9 52 (2.616 %) Financial Institution 10 51 (2.565 %) Health 11 42 (2.113 %) Telecoms 12 22 (1.107 %) Marketing 13 18 (0.905 %) Front Office 14 13 (0.654 %) Government 15 10 (0.503 %) Retail 15 10 (0.503 %) Education 16 9 (0.453 %) Advertising 16 9 (0.453 %) Publishing 17 7 (0.352 %) Games 18 4 (0.201 %) Police
Job Titles 1 678 (34.10 %) Analyst 2 426 (21.43 %) Support Analyst 3 186 (9.356 %) Desktop Support 4 178 (8.954 %) Administrator 5 172 (8.652 %) Support Engineer 6 132 (6.640 %) Systems Administrator 7 110 (5.533 %) 3rd Line Support 8 106 (5.332 %) Helpdesk Analyst 9 104 (5.231 %) 2nd Line Support 10 102 (5.131 %) Systems Engineer 11 94 (4.728 %) Helpdesk Support 12 92 (4.628 %) Team Leader 13 79 (3.974 %) Consultant 14 77 (3.873 %) Desktop Analyst 15 73 (3.672 %) Server Support 15 73 (3.672 %) IT Support Analyst 16 70 (3.521 %) Senior Analyst 17 67 (3.370 %) Desktop Engineer 18 64 (3.219 %) Desktop Support Analyst 19 63 (3.169 %) Server Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 229 (11.52 %) Blackberry 2 74 (3.722 %) Clustering 3 47 (2.364 %) PDA 4 26 (1.308 %) Replication 5 23 (1.157 %) Video Conferencing 6 19 (0.956 %) Client/Server 7 12 (0.604 %) Derivative 8 11 (0.553 %) Management Information System 9 10 (0.503 %) Equities 9 10 (0.503 %) Mainframe 9 10 (0.503 %) Computer Science 10 7 (0.352 %) EMC Centera 10 7 (0.352 %) CLARiiON 11 6 (0.302 %) PMI 11 6 (0.302 %) German Language 12 5 (0.252 %) N-Tier 12 5 (0.252 %) AS400 13 4 (0.201 %) Thin Client 13 4 (0.201 %) Market Risk 13 4 (0.201 %) Fat Client
Operating Systems 1 1543 (77.62 %) Windows 2 843 (42.40 %) Windows Server 2003 3 478 (24.04 %) Windows XP 4 298 (14.99 %) Windows 2000 5 251 (12.63 %) Windows 2000 Server 6 153 (7.696 %) Linux 7 116 (5.835 %) UNIX 8 74 (3.722 %) Windows Vista 9 55 (2.767 %) Solaris 10 52 (2.616 %) Windows NT 11 40 (2.012 %) Red Hat Linux 12 36 (1.811 %) Windows Server 2008 13 16 (0.805 %) Mac OS X 14 9 (0.453 %) NetWare 15 3 (0.151 %) AIX 15 3 (0.151 %) SUSE 15 3 (0.151 %) OpenBSD 16 2 (0.101 %) Ubuntu 16 2 (0.101 %) Windows Mobile 16 2 (0.101 %) Mandriva Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 203 (10.21 %) ITIL 2 106 (5.332 %) Disaster Recovery 3 74 (3.722 %) Project Management 3 74 (3.722 %) Asset Management 4 72 (3.622 %) Investment Management 5 61 (3.068 %) Document Management 6 46 (2.314 %) Service Delivery 7 42 (2.113 %) Migration 8 40 (2.012 %) Service Management 9 30 (1.509 %) Information Security 10 26 (1.308 %) Problem Management 11 21 (1.056 %) Business Analysis 12 20 (1.006 %) Agile Software Development 12 20 (1.006 %) Configuration Management 12 20 (1.006 %) Identity Management 13 19 (0.956 %) Business Continuity 13 19 (0.956 %) User Acceptance Testing 14 18 (0.905 %) Load Balancing 15 17 (0.855 %) Time Management 16 16 (0.805 %) Security Cleared
Programming Languages 1 300 (15.09 %) SQL 2 86 (4.326 %) VBScript 3 55 (2.767 %) VB 3 55 (2.767 %) C# 4 29 (1.459 %) Perl 5 20 (1.006 %) Java 5 20 (1.006 %) C 6 17 (0.855 %) C++ 7 15 (0.755 %) VBA 8 12 (0.604 %) Shell Script 9 8 (0.402 %) VB.NET 10 7 (0.352 %) PHP 11 5 (0.252 %) JCL 11 5 (0.252 %) VB6 12 4 (0.201 %) VC++ 12 4 (0.201 %) PowerShell 13 2 (0.101 %) JavaScript 14 1 (0.050 %) Korn 14 1 (0.050 %) PowerHouse	Qualifications 1 393 (19.77 %) Microsoft Certification 2 337 (16.95 %) MCSE 3 119 (5.986 %) MCP 4 74 (3.722 %) Degree 5 66 (3.320 %) Cisco Certification 6 65 (3.270 %) MCSA 7 62 (3.119 %) CCNA 8 38 (1.911 %) Citrix Certification 9 34 (1.710 %) CCA 10 32 (1.610 %) ITIL Certification 10 32 (1.610 %) MOS 11 21 (1.056 %) CCEA 12 16 (0.805 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 13 11 (0.553 %) A+ Certification 14 8 (0.402 %) CISSP 15 7 (0.352 %) CNE 15 7 (0.352 %) Novell Certification 15 7 (0.352 %) MCDST 15 7 (0.352 %) CISM 15 7 (0.352 %) HP APS
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 63 (3.169 %) SLA 2 26 (1.308 %) QA 3 5 (0.252 %) COBIT 3 5 (0.252 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 4 4 (0.201 %) ISO27001	System Software 1 126 (6.338 %) VMware Infrastructure 2 80 (4.024 %) VMware ESX 3 68 (3.421 %) Backup Exec 4 67 (3.370 %) ISA Server 5 66 (3.320 %) Citrix Presentation Server 6 36 (1.811 %) MetaFrame 7 34 (1.710 %) NetBackup 8 32 (1.610 %) Terminal Services 9 21 (1.056 %) Xen 10 17 (0.855 %) Terminal Server 11 9 (0.453 %) NDS 11 9 (0.453 %) VMware GSX 12 7 (0.352 %) NFS 12 7 (0.352 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 13 5 (0.252 %) VMware Workstation 14 3 (0.151 %) MailMarshal 15 2 (0.101 %) ClearTrust
Systems Management 1 62 (3.119 %) MOM 2 49 (2.465 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 30 (1.509 %) Legato 4 28 (1.408 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 5 27 (1.358 %) Norton AntiVirus 6 26 (1.308 %) Tivoli 7 12 (0.604 %) WSUS 8 11 (0.553 %) OpenView Configuration Management 9 7 (0.352 %) MIMEsweeper 10 6 (0.302 %) DameWare 11 5 (0.252 %) SCOM 12 4 (0.201 %) SCCM 12 4 (0.201 %) MAILsweeper 12 4 (0.201 %) ARCserve 12 4 (0.201 %) ZENworks 13 3 (0.151 %) OpenView 14 2 (0.101 %) EMC NetWorker 15 1 (0.050 %) AutoSys 15 1 (0.050 %) Netcool 15 1 (0.050 %) OVSD	Vendors 1 721 (36.27 %) Microsoft 2 425 (21.38 %) Citrix 3 340 (17.10 %) VMware 4 251 (12.63 %) Cisco 5 146 (7.344 %) HP 6 95 (4.779 %) Bloomberg 7 86 (4.326 %) Symantec 8 82 (4.125 %) Lotus 9 77 (3.873 %) VERITAS 10 76 (3.823 %) Reuters 11 65 (3.270 %) Oracle 12 63 (3.169 %) Altiris 13 60 (3.018 %) IBM 14 57 (2.867 %) Dell 15 50 (2.515 %) EMC 16 45 (2.264 %) Interwoven 17 43 (2.163 %) CheckPoint 18 42 (2.113 %) Red Hat 19 31 (1.559 %) McAfee Security 19 31 (1.559 %) NetApp