England Active Directory Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Active Directory skills within the England 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 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Alfreton Altrincham Andover Aylesbury Banbury Barking Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Bicester Bingley Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Carlisle Carnforth Caterham 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 Dudley Dunfermline Durham Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Elland Ely Enfield England Epsom Esher Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Flintshire Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Goole Gosport Grantham Great Yarmouth Guildford Hailsham Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Haslemere Havant Haverhill Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilford Inverness Ipswich Iver Jersey Kent Kettering King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Loughton Luton Lutterworth M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Melksham Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nelson Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumbria Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Ormskirk Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Penrith Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Prescot Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrew Renfrewshire Retford Rickmansworth Rochdale Romford Rotherham Royston Rugby Runcorn 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 Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Swindon Teddington Telford Tewkesbury Thame Thames Valley Thatcham Tonbridge Torquay Tring Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallington Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wednesbury Welwyn Garden City Wembley 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 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	30	42
Rank change on same period last year	+12
Matching permanent IT job ads	8928	9235
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	4.874 %	3.878 %
As % of the category below	67.93 %	66.72 %
Salaries quoted	7797	7685
Average minimum salary	£31,162	£33,100
Average salary	£33,246	£35,291
% change on same period last year	-5.79 %
Average maximum salary	£35,329	£37,482
UK excluding London average salary	£30,979	£32,559
% change on same period last year	-4.85 %
System Software England
Matching permanent IT job ads	13142	13841
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	7.175 %	5.812 %
Salaries quoted	11253	11323
Average minimum salary	£35,023	£36,523
Average salary	£37,568	£39,009
% change on same period last year	-3.69 %
Average maximum salary	£40,113	£41,494
UK excluding London average salary	£34,649	£35,258
% change on same period last year	-1.72 %
Active Directory UK

Active Directory
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Active Directory across the England 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 England region.

Active Directory
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Active Directory across the England region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

Active Directory
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Active Directory within the England region over the 3 months to 29 August 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 Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
London	+9	3791	£36,974	-5.03 %
South East	+5	2093	£33,230	-5.77 %
East of England	+7	616	£32,230	+0.09 %
Yorkshire	+15	599	£26,715	-7.70 %
South West	-1	520	£29,889	+2.22 %
West Midlands	+6	490	£27,811	-0.99 %
North West	+1	427	£28,068	-15.41 %
East Midlands	+14	378	£27,965	-
North East	+18	47	£27,051	-8.25 %
Midlands	+29	26	£44,674	+55.65 %
Humberside	-	1	£27,500	-

Active Directory UK

Active Directory
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the England 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 14636 (80.02 %) Windows 2 9020 (49.31 %) Windows Server 2003 3 8441 (46.15 %) Microsoft 4 6804 (37.20 %) MS Exchange 5 5385 (29.44 %) Microsoft Certification 6 4370 (23.89 %) Windows XP 7 4368 (23.88 %) MCSE 8 4288 (23.44 %) MS Excel 9 4179 (22.85 %) Exchange Server 2003 10 4170 (22.80 %) Citrix 11 4115 (22.50 %) TCP/IP 12 3450 (18.86 %) SQL Server 13 3320 (18.15 %) MS Office 14 3226 (17.64 %) SQL 15 3192 (17.45 %) Cisco

16 3126 (17.09 %) Windows 2000 17 3074 (16.81 %) VMware 18 3013 (16.47 %) DNS 19 2734 (14.95 %) WAN 20 2681 (14.66 %) LAN 21 2642 (14.44 %) Windows 2000 Server 22 2578 (14.09 %) Firewall 23 2304 (12.60 %) Finance 24 2271 (12.42 %) IIS 25 1917 (10.48 %) DHCP 26 1889 (10.33 %) ITIL 27 1853 (10.13 %) SAN 28 1829 (9.999 %) MCP 29 1712 (9.360 %) VPN 30 1511 (8.261 %) Linux

Active Directory
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the England 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 1 817 (4.467 %) .NET 2 339 (1.853 %) ASP.NET 3 296 (1.618 %) XML 4 221 (1.208 %) ASP 5 219 (1.197 %) HTML 6 172 (0.940 %) Application Packaging 7 136 (0.744 %) WebServices 8 130 (0.711 %) WebSphere 9 102 (0.558 %) CSS 10 77 (0.421 %) Windows SharePoint Services 11 73 (0.399 %) WMI 12 68 (0.372 %) COM+ 13 67 (0.366 %) SOAP 14 66 (0.361 %) .NET Framework 15 55 (0.301 %) ASP.NET 2.0 16 49 (0.268 %) AJAX 17 42 (0.230 %) MFC 18 37 (0.202 %) COM 19 36 (0.197 %) ODBC 20 34 (0.186 %) ATL	Application Platforms 1 6804 (37.20 %) MS Exchange 2 4179 (22.85 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 2271 (12.42 %) IIS 4 1424 (7.785 %) SharePoint 5 1256 (6.867 %) Exchange Server 2007 6 1119 (6.118 %) Exchange Server 2000 7 833 (4.554 %) Lotus Notes 8 354 (1.935 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 9 308 (1.684 %) BizTalk Server 10 302 (1.651 %) Exchange Server 5.5 11 250 (1.367 %) Apache 12 245 (1.339 %) Lotus Domino 13 204 (1.115 %) SharePoint Server 2007 14 156 (0.853 %) Office Communications Server 15 115 (0.629 %) Tomcat 16 101 (0.552 %) CMS 17 85 (0.465 %) WebLogic 18 79 (0.432 %) Content Management Server 19 58 (0.317 %) SharePoint Portal Server 20 54 (0.295 %) WorkSite
Applications 1 4288 (23.44 %) MS Excel 2 3320 (18.15 %) MS Office 3 107 (0.585 %) MS Project 4 63 (0.344 %) MS PowerPoint 5 58 (0.317 %) MS Visio 6 26 (0.142 %) Acrobat 7 22 (0.120 %) DeltaView 8 15 (0.082 %) Photoshop 9 12 (0.066 %) QuarkXPress 10 11 (0.060 %) InfoPath 10 11 (0.060 %) AutoCAD 11 8 (0.044 %) Spreadsheet 12 5 (0.027 %) SPSS 13 4 (0.022 %) MATLAB 13 4 (0.022 %) Adobe Illustrator 14 2 (0.011 %) CA Clarity 14 2 (0.011 %) SmartSuite 14 2 (0.011 %) Paint Shop Pro 15 1 (0.005 %) Shockwave 15 1 (0.005 %) InDesign	Business Applications 1 158 (0.864 %) Microsoft CRM 2 113 (0.618 %) Dynamics CRM 3 91 (0.498 %) SoftGrid 4 64 (0.350 %) Dynamics AX 5 55 (0.301 %) Axapta 6 22 (0.120 %) Great Plains 7 21 (0.115 %) Summit 8 18 (0.098 %) assyst 9 14 (0.077 %) AWD 10 13 (0.071 %) Applix TM1 10 13 (0.071 %) Navision 11 11 (0.060 %) GoldMine 11 11 (0.060 %) Remedy AR System 12 10 (0.055 %) SAP R/3 13 8 (0.044 %) Pegasus Opera 13 8 (0.044 %) SAP Business One 13 8 (0.044 %) Dynamics GP 14 7 (0.038 %) Oracle EBS 14 7 (0.038 %) Oracle Applications 15 6 (0.033 %) Tesseract
Communications & Networking 1 4115 (22.50 %) TCP/IP 2 3013 (16.47 %) DNS 3 2734 (14.95 %) WAN 4 2681 (14.66 %) LAN 5 2578 (14.09 %) Firewall 6 1917 (10.48 %) DHCP 7 1853 (10.13 %) SAN 8 1712 (9.360 %) VPN 9 886 (4.844 %) Internet 10 635 (3.472 %) VoIP 11 367 (2.006 %) Cisco PIX 12 343 (1.875 %) Network Security 13 335 (1.832 %) LDAP 14 332 (1.815 %) Wireless 15 286 (1.564 %) SMS 16 267 (1.460 %) VLAN 17 195 (1.066 %) Intranet 18 180 (0.984 %) SMTP 19 153 (0.836 %) FTP 20 140 (0.765 %) Ethernet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3450 (18.86 %) SQL Server 2 837 (4.576 %) SQL Server 2005 3 677 (3.701 %) SQL Server 2000 4 158 (0.864 %) MySQL 5 134 (0.733 %) Crystal Reports 6 85 (0.465 %) DTS 7 82 (0.448 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 8 80 (0.437 %) MS Access 9 73 (0.399 %) RDBMS 10 65 (0.355 %) SQL Server Integration Services 11 48 (0.262 %) Oracle 10g 12 45 (0.246 %) Datawarehouse 12 45 (0.246 %) Oracle 9i 13 34 (0.186 %) DB2 14 33 (0.180 %) BusinessObjects 15 29 (0.159 %) Informix 16 26 (0.142 %) Oracle Reports 17 24 (0.131 %) ETL 17 24 (0.131 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 18 20 (0.109 %) SQL Server 7
Development Applications 1 139 (0.760 %) MSI 2 85 (0.465 %) Visual Studio 3 68 (0.372 %) InstallShield 4 43 (0.235 %) VSS/SourceSafe 5 22 (0.120 %) TestDirector 6 15 (0.082 %) Subversion 7 11 (0.060 %) QuickTest Pro 7 11 (0.060 %) ClearCase 7 11 (0.060 %) Dreamweaver 8 10 (0.055 %) Flash 9 9 (0.049 %) AdminStudio 10 8 (0.044 %) PVCS 10 8 (0.044 %) Oracle APEX 11 7 (0.038 %) Ant 12 6 (0.033 %) ProC 13 5 (0.027 %) Synon 14 4 (0.022 %) NUnit 14 4 (0.022 %) CruiseControl 14 4 (0.022 %) JIRA 15 3 (0.016 %) LoadRunner	General 1 2304 (12.60 %) Finance 2 950 (5.194 %) Pensions 3 716 (3.914 %) Health 4 628 (3.433 %) Banking 5 579 (3.165 %) Law 6 534 (2.919 %) Telecoms 7 478 (2.613 %) Insurance 8 411 (2.247 %) Legal 9 381 (2.083 %) Education 9 381 (2.083 %) Back Office 10 320 (1.749 %) Retail 11 280 (1.531 %) Government 12 239 (1.307 %) Investment Banking 13 169 (0.924 %) Marketing 14 165 (0.902 %) Manufacturing 15 122 (0.667 %) Financial Institution 16 108 (0.590 %) Publishing 17 95 (0.519 %) Construction 18 73 (0.399 %) Pharmaceutical 19 69 (0.377 %) Games
Job Titles 1 4632 (25.32 %) Analyst 2 2777 (15.18 %) Support Analyst 3 2313 (12.65 %) Support Engineer 4 1684 (9.207 %) Administrator 5 1253 (6.850 %) Consultant 6 1098 (6.003 %) Desktop Support 7 1032 (5.642 %) Systems Administrator 8 1002 (5.478 %) 2nd Line Support 9 962 (5.259 %) Systems Engineer 10 906 (4.953 %) 3rd Line Support 11 786 (4.297 %) Technical Support 12 772 (4.221 %) Server Support 13 640 (3.499 %) Network Engineer 14 623 (3.406 %) IT Support Analyst 15 581 (3.176 %) Senior Analyst 16 553 (3.023 %) Network Support 17 519 (2.837 %) Server Engineer 18 508 (2.777 %) Team Leader 19 493 (2.695 %) Architect 20 491 (2.684 %) IT Support Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 1192 (6.517 %) Blackberry 2 856 (4.680 %) Clustering 3 185 (1.011 %) Client/Server 4 148 (0.809 %) Thin Client 4 148 (0.809 %) Fat Client 5 143 (0.782 %) Replication 6 123 (0.672 %) Management Information System 6 123 (0.672 %) PDA 7 111 (0.607 %) EPoS 8 80 (0.437 %) Computer Science 9 79 (0.432 %) AS400 10 69 (0.377 %) Mainframe 11 60 (0.328 %) Video Conferencing 12 58 (0.317 %) German Language 13 51 (0.279 %) French Language 14 45 (0.246 %) N-Tier 14 45 (0.246 %) CLARiiON 15 39 (0.213 %) Mathematics 16 36 (0.197 %) Device Driver 17 32 (0.175 %) NHS
Operating Systems 1 14636 (80.02 %) Windows 2 9020 (49.31 %) Windows Server 2003 3 4370 (23.89 %) Windows XP 4 3126 (17.09 %) Windows 2000 5 2642 (14.44 %) Windows 2000 Server 6 1511 (8.261 %) Linux 7 1320 (7.217 %) Windows Vista 8 1105 (6.041 %) UNIX 9 589 (3.220 %) Windows NT 10 495 (2.706 %) Windows Server 2008 11 311 (1.700 %) Red Hat Linux 12 295 (1.613 %) Solaris 13 186 (1.017 %) Mac OS X 14 137 (0.749 %) NetWare 15 118 (0.645 %) AIX 16 48 (0.262 %) SUSE 17 45 (0.246 %) Debian 18 34 (0.186 %) HPUX 19 29 (0.159 %) Mac OS X Server 20 28 (0.153 %) Windows Mobile	Processes & Methodologies 1 1889 (10.33 %) ITIL 2 805 (4.401 %) Project Management 3 624 (3.412 %) Disaster Recovery 4 415 (2.269 %) Migration 5 369 (2.017 %) PRINCE2 6 367 (2.006 %) CRM 7 340 (1.859 %) Security Cleared 8 276 (1.509 %) Service Delivery 9 264 (1.443 %) Document Management 10 261 (1.427 %) Service Management 11 219 (1.197 %) Change Management 12 195 (1.066 %) Problem Management 13 194 (1.061 %) E-Commerce 14 188 (1.028 %) Load Balancing 15 183 (1.000 %) Asset Management 16 179 (0.979 %) Technical Architecture 17 160 (0.875 %) Project Planning 18 153 (0.836 %) ERP 19 141 (0.771 %) SC Cleared 20 134 (0.733 %) Network Design
Programming Languages 1 3226 (17.64 %) SQL 2 514 (2.810 %) C# 3 458 (2.504 %) VB 4 357 (1.952 %) VBScript 5 318 (1.739 %) C 6 171 (0.935 %) Java 7 153 (0.836 %) C++ 8 150 (0.820 %) Perl 9 149 (0.815 %) Transact-SQL 10 144 (0.787 %) VB.NET 11 136 (0.744 %) JavaScript 12 130 (0.711 %) VBA 13 111 (0.607 %) PHP 14 98 (0.536 %) VB6 15 83 (0.454 %) Shell Script 16 37 (0.202 %) Korn 17 32 (0.175 %) Python 18 30 (0.164 %) ABAP 19 28 (0.153 %) PowerShell 20 20 (0.109 %) DHTML	Qualifications 1 5385 (29.44 %) Microsoft Certification 2 4368 (23.88 %) MCSE 3 1829 (9.999 %) MCP 4 1175 (6.424 %) Cisco Certification 5 1089 (5.954 %) Degree 6 1070 (5.850 %) MCSA 7 971 (5.309 %) CCNA 8 390 (2.132 %) Citrix Certification 9 265 (1.449 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 10 262 (1.432 %) CCA 11 243 (1.329 %) CCNP 12 188 (1.028 %) ITIL Certification 13 174 (0.951 %) MCDST 14 167 (0.913 %) CCEA 15 97 (0.530 %) A+ Certification 16 92 (0.503 %) PRINCE2 Certification 17 85 (0.465 %) MCSD 18 84 (0.459 %) MCTS 19 83 (0.454 %) HND 20 54 (0.295 %) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 635 (3.472 %) SLA 2 105 (0.574 %) QA 3 32 (0.175 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 4 22 (0.120 %) ISO27001 5 21 (0.115 %) ISO/IEC 20000 6 12 (0.066 %) ISO9001 7 9 (0.049 %) ISO9000 8 5 (0.027 %) BS7799 8 5 (0.027 %) COBIT 9 4 (0.022 %) ISO17799 10 2 (0.011 %) HL7 10 2 (0.011 %) DICOM 10 2 (0.011 %) PCI DSS 11 1 (0.005 %) CESG Infosec	System Software 1 1122 (6.134 %) VMware Infrastructure 2 718 (3.925 %) Backup Exec 3 649 (3.548 %) ISA Server 4 641 (3.504 %) Terminal Services 5 599 (3.275 %) VMware ESX 6 533 (2.914 %) Citrix Presentation Server 7 285 (1.558 %) NetBackup 8 244 (1.334 %) MetaFrame 9 237 (1.296 %) Terminal Server 10 128 (0.700 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 11 58 (0.317 %) Xen 12 54 (0.295 %) NFS 13 43 (0.235 %) VMware Server 14 37 (0.202 %) MailMarshal 15 28 (0.153 %) NDS 16 25 (0.137 %) VMware Workstation 17 24 (0.131 %) VMware GSX 18 20 (0.109 %) Novell eDirectory 19 10 (0.055 %) MSMQ 19 10 (0.055 %) RACF
Systems Management 1 711 (3.887 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 584 (3.193 %) MOM 3 201 (1.099 %) WSUS 4 187 (1.022 %) Norton AntiVirus 5 167 (0.913 %) OpenView 6 148 (0.809 %) SCOM 7 120 (0.656 %) Tivoli 8 115 (0.629 %) SCCM 9 104 (0.569 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 10 84 (0.459 %) ARCserve 11 77 (0.421 %) Legato 12 75 (0.410 %) MAILsweeper 13 52 (0.284 %) OpenView Configuration Management 14 45 (0.246 %) DameWare 15 41 (0.224 %) ZENworks 16 37 (0.202 %) CiscoWorks 17 34 (0.186 %) Unicenter 17 34 (0.186 %) EMC NetWorker 18 28 (0.153 %) MIMEsweeper 18 28 (0.153 %) BMC PATROL	Vendors 1 8441 (46.15 %) Microsoft 2 4170 (22.80 %) Citrix 3 3192 (17.45 %) Cisco 4 3074 (16.81 %) VMware 5 1239 (6.774 %) HP 6 921 (5.035 %) Lotus 7 693 (3.789 %) Oracle 8 652 (3.565 %) VERITAS 9 587 (3.209 %) Symantec 10 463 (2.531 %) IBM 11 444 (2.427 %) Dell 12 399 (2.181 %) CheckPoint 13 356 (1.946 %) Novell 14 338 (1.848 %) Altiris 15 334 (1.826 %) Red Hat 16 294 (1.607 %) Bloomberg 17 261 (1.427 %) Reuters 18 256 (1.400 %) EMC 19 254 (1.389 %) Remedy 20 246 (1.345 %) Avaya