The first table below looks at the demand for Active Directory skills in IT jobs advertised for the Ipswich region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Active Directory over the 3 months to 24 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 Ipswich region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Active Directory
Rank 11 19 49
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +30
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 53 29 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Ipswich 16.21% 10.98% 0.685%
As % of the System Software category 74.65% 58.00% 66.67%
Number of salaries quoted 49 25 2
Average salary £37,500 £32,500 £29,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.38% +9.24%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,050 £31,000 £21,950
10% offered a salary of more than £47,000 £40,000 £37,550
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
All System Software
Ipswich
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
71 50 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Ipswich 21.71% 18.94% 1.027%
Number of salaries quoted 67 46 3
Average salary £37,500 £32,500 £39,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.38% -17.72%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,800 £29,500 £23,900
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £41,900 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +4.00%
Active Directory
Suffolk

Active Directory
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Ipswich 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 Ipswich region.

Ipswich Active Directory Salary Trend

Active Directory
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Active Directory across the Ipswich region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Ipswich Active Directory Salary Histogram

Active Directory
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Ipswich 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 87 (88.78%) Windows
2 74 (75.51%) Microsoft
3 45 (45.92%) Firewall
4 42 (42.86%) DNS
5 34 (34.69%) MS Exchange
5 34 (34.69%) SQL Server
6 30 (30.61%) Business Intelligence
6 30 (30.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 28 (28.57%) SQL
8 27 (27.55%) VMware
9 25 (25.51%) IIS
10 24 (24.49%) Windows Server 2008
11 22 (22.45%) SQL Server 2008
11 22 (22.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 22 (22.45%) SQL Server 2005
11 22 (22.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 22 (22.45%) T-SQL
11 22 (22.45%) SQL Server 2012
12 20 (20.41%) TCP/IP
12 20 (20.41%) DHCP
13 19 (19.39%) MS Excel
13 19 (19.39%) SharePoint
13 19 (19.39%) Microsoft Certification
13 19 (19.39%) VMware Infrastructure
14 18 (18.37%) Windows Azure
14 18 (18.37%) OLTP
14 18 (18.37%) Amazon RDS
14 18 (18.37%) Azure SQL Database
15 17 (17.35%) Windows Server 2003
15 17 (17.35%) Load Balancing

Active Directory
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Ipswich 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 14 (14.29%) Web Services
2 4 (4.082%) WSH
3 2 (2.041%) XML
3 2 (2.041%) Apache Flex
4 1 (1.020%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 34 (34.69%) MS Exchange
2 25 (25.51%) IIS
3 19 (19.39%) SharePoint
4 18 (18.37%) Windows Azure
5 16 (16.33%) Exchange Server 2010
6 15 (15.31%) SharePoint Server
7 10 (10.20%) Amazon AWS
8 8 (8.163%) SharePoint 2010
9 4 (4.082%) Exchange Server 2003
10 3 (3.061%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 2 (2.041%) Exchange Server 5.5
11 2 (2.041%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 19 (19.39%) MS Excel
2 10 (10.20%) MS Office
3 8 (8.163%) PowerPivot
4 3 (3.061%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 45 (45.92%) Firewall
2 42 (42.86%) DNS
3 20 (20.41%) TCP/IP
3 20 (20.41%) DHCP
4 15 (15.31%) Wireshark
4 15 (15.31%) SAN
5 14 (14.29%) LAN
5 14 (14.29%) WAN
6 12 (12.24%) VoIP
7 11 (11.22%) VPN
7 11 (11.22%) Wi-Fi
8 8 (8.163%) Kerberos
9 7 (7.143%) Internet
10 6 (6.122%) NAS
11 3 (3.061%) iSCSI
11 3 (3.061%) SSL
11 3 (3.061%) SMTP
11 3 (3.061%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (34.69%) SQL Server
2 30 (30.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 22 (22.45%) SQL Server 2008
3 22 (22.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 22 (22.45%) SQL Server 2005
3 22 (22.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 22 (22.45%) SQL Server 2012
4 18 (18.37%) OLTP
4 18 (18.37%) Amazon RDS
4 18 (18.37%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (8.163%) PerformancePoint
6 5 (5.102%) MySQL
General
1 13 (13.27%) Finance
2 3 (3.061%) Marketing
3 2 (2.041%) Banking
4 1 (1.020%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 22 (22.45%) SQL DBA
1 22 (22.45%) DBA
2 15 (15.31%) Analyst
3 14 (14.29%) SharePoint Administrator
3 14 (14.29%) Administrator
4 11 (11.22%) Systems Engineer
4 11 (11.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (8.163%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 8 (8.163%) Team Leader
5 8 (8.163%) Infrastructure Team Leader
6 7 (7.143%) Support Engineer
7 5 (5.102%) Support Analyst
7 5 (5.102%) Architect
8 4 (4.082%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
8 4 (4.082%) Technical Architect
8 4 (4.082%) 3rd Line Support
8 4 (4.082%) Infrastructure Architect
9 3 (3.061%) Help Desk Support
9 3 (3.061%) 2nd Line Support
9 3 (3.061%) Help Desk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.27%) Computer Science
2 3 (3.061%) Blackberry
2 3 (3.061%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 87 (88.78%) Windows
2 24 (24.49%) Windows Server 2008
3 17 (17.35%) Windows Server 2003
4 15 (15.31%) Linux
5 9 (9.184%) UNIX
6 7 (7.143%) Windows 7
6 7 (7.143%) Windows Vista
7 6 (6.122%) Windows XP
8 5 (5.102%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (3.061%) VMS
9 3 (3.061%) Windows 2000
9 3 (3.061%) Mac OS X
9 3 (3.061%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (2.041%) CentOS
11 1 (1.020%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (30.61%) Business Intelligence
2 17 (17.35%) Load Balancing
3 15 (15.31%) ITIL
4 8 (8.163%) Service Management
5 5 (5.102%) Problem Management
5 5 (5.102%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (4.082%) Risk Management
7 3 (3.061%) Online Marketing
8 2 (2.041%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 28 (28.57%) SQL
2 22 (22.45%) T-SQL
3 4 (4.082%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.041%) VBScript
5 1 (1.020%) Ruby
5 1 (1.020%) Perl
5 1 (1.020%) Python
5 1 (1.020%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 19 (19.39%) Microsoft Certification
2 13 (13.27%) Degree
3 11 (11.22%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (9.184%) CCNA
5 7 (7.143%) CCNP
6 5 (5.102%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (4.082%) MCITP
8 3 (3.061%) MCSE
8 3 (3.061%) CCA
8 3 (3.061%) Citrix Certification
8 3 (3.061%) VCAP
9 2 (2.041%) MCP
10 1 (1.020%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.061%) QA
2 1 (1.020%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (19.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (8.163%) VMware ESX
3 7 (7.143%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (5.102%) vSphere
5 4 (4.082%) Hyper-V
5 4 (4.082%) XenApp
6 3 (3.061%) XenServer
6 3 (3.061%) XenDesktop
7 2 (2.041%) VMFS
7 2 (2.041%) NFS
Vendors
1 74 (75.51%) Microsoft
2 27 (27.55%) VMware
3 13 (13.27%) Cisco
4 9 (9.184%) Citrix
5 6 (6.122%) NetApp
6 5 (5.102%) Red Hat
7 3 (3.061%) Fortinet
7 3 (3.061%) CheckPoint
8 2 (2.041%) HP
8 2 (2.041%) JBoss
8 2 (2.041%) IBM
9 1 (1.020%) EMC
9 1 (1.020%) Symantec
9 1 (1.020%) Juniper