The first table below looks at the demand for Active Directory skills in IT jobs advertised for the Huddersfield 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 Huddersfield region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Active Directory
Rank 19 15 10
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -5
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 7 10 31
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Huddersfield 8.642% 7.937% 19.38%
As % of the System Software category 70.00% 76.92% 96.88%
Number of salaries quoted 6 7 29
Average salary £22,500 £33,264 £24,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-32.35% +38.59%
90% offered a salary of more than £19,500 £25,700 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £33,958 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
All System Software
Huddersfield
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
10 13 32
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Huddersfield 12.35% 10.32% 20.00%
Number of salaries quoted 9 7 30
Average salary £40,000 £33,264 £24,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+20.25% +38.59%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,450 £27,150 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £45,000 £35,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +2.63%
Active Directory
West Yorkshire

Active Directory
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Huddersfield 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 Huddersfield region.

Huddersfield Active Directory Salary Trend

Active Directory
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Huddersfield 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 13 (92.86%) Windows
1 13 (92.86%) MS Exchange
2 12 (85.71%) VMware
3 8 (57.14%) TCP/IP
4 7 (50.00%) MS Office
5 6 (42.86%) Firewall
5 6 (42.86%) WatchGuard
5 6 (42.86%) Exchange Server 2010
6 5 (35.71%) SQL Server
6 5 (35.71%) HP
6 5 (35.71%) SharePoint
6 5 (35.71%) SAN
7 4 (28.57%) Veritas
7 4 (28.57%) Apple
7 4 (28.57%) Citrix
7 4 (28.57%) WAN
7 4 (28.57%) ITIL
7 4 (28.57%) LAN
7 4 (28.57%) VMware Server
8 3 (21.43%) Backup Exec
8 3 (21.43%) Time Management
8 3 (21.43%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (21.43%) SonicWALL
8 3 (21.43%) VoIP
8 3 (21.43%) MS Excel
8 3 (21.43%) VPN
8 3 (21.43%) SSL
8 3 (21.43%) SLA
8 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
8 3 (21.43%) Windows Server 2003

Active Directory
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Huddersfield 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 13 (92.86%) MS Exchange
2 6 (42.86%) Exchange Server 2010
3 5 (35.71%) SharePoint
4 2 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 7 (50.00%) MS Office
2 3 (21.43%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 8 (57.14%) TCP/IP
2 6 (42.86%) Firewall
3 5 (35.71%) SAN
4 4 (28.57%) LAN
4 4 (28.57%) WAN
5 3 (21.43%) VoIP
5 3 (21.43%) SSL
5 3 (21.43%) VPN
6 1 (7.143%) DNS
6 1 (7.143%) WLAN
6 1 (7.143%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) SQL Server
2 2 (14.29%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (14.29%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Technical Support
2 3 (21.43%) Systems Support
2 3 (21.43%) Support Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Systems Administrator
2 3 (21.43%) 1st Line Support
2 3 (21.43%) 2nd Line Support
2 3 (21.43%) Administrator
3 2 (14.29%) Team Leader
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Team Leader
3 2 (14.29%) IT Support
4 1 (7.143%) Help Desk Support Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) Citrix Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) Help Desk Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) Help Desk Support
4 1 (7.143%) Help Desk Support Analyst
4 1 (7.143%) IT Support Analyst
4 1 (7.143%) Support Consultant
4 1 (7.143%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Blackberry
2 2 (14.29%) CLARiiON
2 2 (14.29%) Celerra
Operating Systems
1 13 (92.86%) Windows
2 3 (21.43%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (21.43%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (14.29%) Windows 7
3 2 (14.29%) HPUX
3 2 (14.29%) Linux
4 1 (7.143%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) ITIL
2 3 (21.43%) Time Management
3 1 (7.143%) Project Management
3 1 (7.143%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) VMware Server
2 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (14.29%) vSphere
3 1 (7.143%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 12 (85.71%) VMware
2 6 (42.86%) WatchGuard
3 5 (35.71%) HP
4 4 (28.57%) Citrix
4 4 (28.57%) Veritas
4 4 (28.57%) Apple
5 3 (21.43%) Symantec
5 3 (21.43%) Sophos
5 3 (21.43%) SonicWALL
5 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
6 2 (14.29%) Red Hat
6 2 (14.29%) Dell
6 2 (14.29%) EMC
7 1 (7.143%) Sage
Huddersfield, West Yorkshire
You will need to have experience of supporting 200+ servers and ideally have strong experience with Windows (Server 2003/2008), Active Directory, IIS, SQL Server (2005, SQL Server...
Spring Technology
Salary: £27000.00 - £28500 per annum + 25 days Holidays
Posted: 16 May 2013