The first table below looks at the demand for Active Directory skills in IT jobs advertised for the Colchester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Active Directory over the 3 months to 23 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 Colchester region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Active Directory
Rank 22 38 24
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -14
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 7 4 19
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Colchester 4.023% 2.235% 7.950%
As % of the System Software category 70.00% 25.00% 70.37%
Number of salaries quoted 7 3 16
Average salary £30,000 £19,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+53.84% -40.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £19,100 £28,500
10% offered a salary of more than £32,000 £19,500 £43,250
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
All System Software
Colchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
10 16 27
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Colchester 5.747% 8.939% 11.30%
Number of salaries quoted 9 15 22
Average salary £30,000 £40,000 £33,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
-25.00% +18.51%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £19,500 £29,750
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £55,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +4.00%
Active Directory
Essex

Active Directory
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Colchester 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 Colchester region.

Colchester Active Directory Salary Trend

Active Directory
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Colchester 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 10 (58.82%) Citrix
2 9 (52.94%) Windows
3 8 (47.06%) ITIL
3 8 (47.06%) MS Office
4 7 (41.18%) Microsoft
5 6 (35.29%) Linux
5 6 (35.29%) MS Excel
6 5 (29.41%) TCP/IP
6 5 (29.41%) VPN
6 5 (29.41%) MS Exchange
6 5 (29.41%) VoIP
6 5 (29.41%) Exchange Server 2007
7 4 (23.53%) Problem Management
7 4 (23.53%) Network Security
7 4 (23.53%) Change Control
7 4 (23.53%) Incident Management
7 4 (23.53%) Firewall
7 4 (23.53%) Avaya
7 4 (23.53%) Apple
7 4 (23.53%) MySQL
7 4 (23.53%) Web Services
7 4 (23.53%) PHP
8 3 (17.65%) MCSA
8 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (17.65%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (17.65%) VMware
8 3 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
9 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (11.76%) Finance
9 2 (11.76%) HP

Active Directory
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Colchester 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 4 (23.53%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 5 (29.41%) MS Exchange
1 5 (29.41%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (11.76%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 8 (47.06%) MS Office
2 6 (35.29%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) TCP/IP
1 5 (29.41%) VPN
1 5 (29.41%) VoIP
2 4 (23.53%) Network Security
2 4 (23.53%) Firewall
3 1 (5.882%) DNS
3 1 (5.882%) Internet
3 1 (5.882%) DHCP
3 1 (5.882%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) MySQL
General
1 2 (11.76%) Finance
2 1 (5.882%) Law
2 1 (5.882%) Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (58.82%) Analyst
2 7 (41.18%) Service Analyst
2 7 (41.18%) Service Desk Analyst
3 4 (23.53%) IT Support
3 4 (23.53%) Support Manager
3 4 (23.53%) IT Support Manager
4 3 (17.65%) Help Desk Support
5 2 (11.76%) Help Desk Analyst
6 1 (5.882%) Desktop Support
6 1 (5.882%) Support Analyst
6 1 (5.882%) Server Engineer
6 1 (5.882%) Support Engineer
6 1 (5.882%) 3rd Line Support
6 1 (5.882%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (5.882%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Blackberry
2 1 (5.882%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (52.94%) Windows
2 6 (35.29%) Linux
3 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (11.76%) Windows XP
4 1 (5.882%) UNIX
4 1 (5.882%) Windows Vista
4 1 (5.882%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (5.882%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) ITIL
2 4 (23.53%) Problem Management
2 4 (23.53%) Change Control
2 4 (23.53%) Incident Management
3 1 (5.882%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) PHP
2 1 (5.882%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) MCSA
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (17.65%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.882%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.882%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.882%) XenDesktop
2 1 (5.882%) vSphere
2 1 (5.882%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 1 (5.882%) NetBackup
1 1 (5.882%) SCCM
1 1 (5.882%) SCOM
Vendors
1 10 (58.82%) Citrix
2 7 (41.18%) Microsoft
3 4 (23.53%) Avaya
3 4 (23.53%) Apple
4 3 (17.65%) VMware
5 2 (11.76%) HP
6 1 (5.882%) Cisco
6 1 (5.882%) Symantec
6 1 (5.882%) Nortel
6 1 (5.882%) Red Hat
6 1 (5.882%) Wyse
6 1 (5.882%) Acronis
6 1 (5.882%) Tandberg
Colchester, South East
Printer setup, adding users, backup and restore etc- Undertake installation and maintenance of clients software and liaise with 3rd party vendors.Role Requirements:- 1-2 years previous IT...
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Posted: 11 May 2013