The first table below looks at the demand for Active Directory skills in IT jobs advertised for the Leicestershire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Active Directory over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Leicestershire region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Active Directory
Rank 41 38 49
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +11
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 42 46 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicestershire 6.158% 5.959% 1.493%
As % of the System Software category 61.76% 68.66% 28.57%
Number of salaries quoted 39 45 8
Average salary £30,000 £27,000 £20,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% +35.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £19,500 £18,000 £18,437
10% offered a salary of more than £38,000 £43,500 £30,200
UK excluding London average salary £33,000 £33,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year
-1.49% +3.07%
All System Software
Leicestershire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
68 67 28
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicestershire 9.971% 8.679% 5.224%
Number of salaries quoted 56 63 24
Average salary £35,000 £30,000 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+16.66% -11.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,200 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £42,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +3.89%
Active Directory
East Midlands

Active Directory
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region.

Leicestershire Active Directory Salary Trend

Active Directory
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Active Directory across the Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Leicestershire Active Directory Salary Histogram

Active Directory
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Active Directory within the Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Leicester -2 26 £32,500 +20.37% 7
Ashby-de-la-Zouch - 4 £22,500 -
Hinckley -9 3 £21,500 +19.44%
Active Directory
East Midlands

Active Directory
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Leicestershire 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 (96.67%) Windows
2 47 (52.22%) Microsoft
3 45 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 40 (44.44%) MS Exchange
5 38 (42.22%) SQL Server
5 38 (42.22%) Windows Server 2003
5 38 (42.22%) VMware
6 31 (34.44%) MS Excel
7 30 (33.33%) TCP/IP
8 28 (31.11%) VMware Infrastructure
9 25 (27.78%) Citrix
10 21 (23.33%) Windows XP
10 21 (23.33%) Microsoft Certification
10 21 (23.33%) MS Office
11 20 (22.22%) IIS
12 17 (18.89%) VBScript
12 17 (18.89%) MCP
13 16 (17.78%) HP
13 16 (17.78%) Windows 7
14 15 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2007
14 15 (16.67%) SCOM
14 15 (16.67%) MCITP
15 14 (15.56%) vSphere
16 13 (14.44%) Exchange Server 2010
16 13 (14.44%) Symantec
16 13 (14.44%) MCSE
16 13 (14.44%) SharePoint
16 13 (14.44%) SQL
17 12 (13.33%) Dell
18 11 (12.22%) SQL Server 2000

Active Directory
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Leicestershire 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 5 (5.556%) HTML
2 1 (1.111%) JSP
2 1 (1.111%) Hibernate
2 1 (1.111%) Velocity
2 1 (1.111%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 40 (44.44%) MS Exchange
2 20 (22.22%) IIS
3 15 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2007
4 13 (14.44%) Exchange Server 2010
4 13 (14.44%) SharePoint
5 10 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2003
6 5 (5.556%) SharePoint 2010
7 3 (3.333%) Lync
8 2 (2.222%) Commerce Server 2007
8 2 (2.222%) Commerce Server
8 2 (2.222%) SAS
9 1 (1.111%) IBM Notes
9 1 (1.111%) Lotus Domino
9 1 (1.111%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 1 (1.111%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 31 (34.44%) MS Excel
2 21 (23.33%) MS Office
3 2 (2.222%) EPLAN
Communications & Networking
1 30 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 11 (12.22%) WAN
3 10 (11.11%) Firewall
3 10 (11.11%) SAN
4 8 (8.889%) Internet
4 8 (8.889%) LAN
4 8 (8.889%) VoIP
5 6 (6.667%) DHCP
6 5 (5.556%) Wireless
7 4 (4.444%) DNS
8 3 (3.333%) DMZ
8 3 (3.333%) Intranet
8 3 (3.333%) NetScaler
8 3 (3.333%) PABX
8 3 (3.333%) iSCSI
9 2 (2.222%) IP Telephony
9 2 (2.222%) FTP
10 1 (1.111%) HTTP
10 1 (1.111%) Fibre Channel
10 1 (1.111%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (42.22%) SQL Server
2 11 (12.22%) SQL Server 2000
3 8 (8.889%) SQL Server 2005
3 8 (8.889%) SQL Server 2008
4 5 (5.556%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 1 (1.111%) GitHub
General
1 8 (8.889%) Retail
1 8 (8.889%) Back Office
2 4 (4.444%) Finance
3 3 (3.333%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.111%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 26 (28.89%) Support Engineer
2 15 (16.67%) Analyst
3 14 (15.56%) Systems Engineer
4 10 (11.11%) IT Support
5 9 (10.00%) IT Support Engineer
6 7 (7.778%) 3rd Line Support
6 7 (7.778%) Administrator
6 7 (7.778%) Senior Support Engineer
6 7 (7.778%) 1st Line Support
6 7 (7.778%) Senior IT Support
7 6 (6.667%) Windows Engineer
7 6 (6.667%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 6 (6.667%) Project Manager
7 6 (6.667%) Support Analyst
7 6 (6.667%) Systems Administrator
8 5 (5.556%) Systems Support
8 5 (5.556%) Team Leader
8 5 (5.556%) Systems Support Engineer
9 4 (4.444%) 1st Line Support Engineer
9 4 (4.444%) Build Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.00%) Management Information System
1 9 (10.00%) Clustering
2 5 (5.556%) Blackberry
3 4 (4.444%) Computer Science
3 4 (4.444%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (4.444%) Biometrics
3 4 (4.444%) Smartcard
3 4 (4.444%) EPoS
4 3 (3.333%) Open Source
5 2 (2.222%) Firmware
6 1 (1.111%) EFT
6 1 (1.111%) AS400
Operating Systems
1 87 (96.67%) Windows
2 45 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 38 (42.22%) Windows Server 2003
4 21 (23.33%) Windows XP
5 16 (17.78%) Windows 7
6 11 (12.22%) Windows Server 2012
7 9 (10.00%) Windows 2000 Server
7 9 (10.00%) Windows Vista
8 7 (7.778%) Linux
8 7 (7.778%) Windows 2000
9 6 (6.667%) Windows 8
10 2 (2.222%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (12.22%) Change Management
1 11 (12.22%) Disaster Recovery
2 9 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
2 9 (10.00%) Capacity Management
3 8 (8.889%) Incident Management
4 7 (7.778%) ITIL
5 6 (6.667%) Migration
6 4 (4.444%) Cyber Security
6 4 (4.444%) Identity Management
6 4 (4.444%) E-Commerce
7 3 (3.333%) Project Management
7 3 (3.333%) Software Deployment
7 3 (3.333%) Business Analysis
8 2 (2.222%) Problem Management
8 2 (2.222%) Data Protection
8 2 (2.222%) Performance Management
8 2 (2.222%) Service Delivery
8 2 (2.222%) ERP
9 1 (1.111%) Time Management
9 1 (1.111%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (18.89%) VBScript
2 13 (14.44%) SQL
3 10 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 5 (5.556%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.222%) Perl
5 2 (2.222%) C
5 2 (2.222%) VB
6 1 (1.111%) Java
Qualifications
1 21 (23.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 17 (18.89%) MCP
3 15 (16.67%) MCITP
4 13 (14.44%) MCSE
5 11 (12.22%) MCTS
6 9 (10.00%) Degree
7 7 (7.778%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 5 (5.556%) Citrix Certification
9 4 (4.444%) Security Cleared
9 4 (4.444%) CCEE
9 4 (4.444%) MCSA
9 4 (4.444%) CISSP
10 2 (2.222%) MCPD
10 2 (2.222%) VCP4
10 2 (2.222%) CCAA
11 1 (1.111%) CCA
11 1 (1.111%) CCEA
11 1 (1.111%) CCIA
11 1 (1.111%) VCAP
11 1 (1.111%) NCDA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.667%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (31.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (15.56%) vSphere
3 5 (5.556%) XenDesktop
3 5 (5.556%) XenApp
4 4 (4.444%) Hyper-V
4 4 (4.444%) VMware ESX
5 3 (3.333%) Terminal Services
6 2 (2.222%) XenServer
7 1 (1.111%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 15 (16.67%) SCOM
2 6 (6.667%) SCCM
3 5 (5.556%) Norton AntiVirus
4 4 (4.444%) Backup Exec
5 2 (2.222%) WSUS
6 1 (1.111%) ARCserve
6 1 (1.111%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 47 (52.22%) Microsoft
2 38 (42.22%) VMware
3 25 (27.78%) Citrix
4 16 (17.78%) HP
5 13 (14.44%) Symantec
6 12 (13.33%) Dell
7 10 (11.11%) Cisco
8 6 (6.667%) LANDesk
9 3 (3.333%) Red Hat
9 3 (3.333%) ProCurve
10 2 (2.222%) Altiris
10 2 (2.222%) Veeam
10 2 (2.222%) Novell
10 2 (2.222%) Oracle
11 1 (1.111%) Lotus
11 1 (1.111%) McAfee
11 1 (1.111%) NetApp
11 1 (1.111%) Juniper
11 1 (1.111%) Sophos
11 1 (1.111%) WatchGuard
Leicester, East Midlands
My client, an educational establishment, is about to undertake a huge 3 year transformation project and is now looking for experience IT professionals to join their team for...
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £18000 - £21000 per annum
Posted: 4 June 2013
Leicester, Leicestershire
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Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £18000 - £21000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
Leicestershire
2nd Line Support - Leicestershire - £21,000 to £24,000 per annum. We are looking for a 2nd Line Support Analyst to join a Support team in an established...
Venn Group
Salary: £21000 - 24000 Per Annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
Manchester or Leicester, North West, Midlands,...
We currently have an exciting opportunity for a forward thinking 3rd UC Engineer to join our team.Reporting to the Unified Communications Manager, the 3rd Line Unified Communications...
Outsourcery
Salary: £30,000 - £40,000 per year
Posted: 21 May 2013
Leicester, Leicestershire
Windows XP/7. Microsoft Active Directory. Group Policy configuration & Deployment, Microsoft IIS 6/7, VBScript, TCP/IP, Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005/2008... HP/Dell Server Hardware. HP/...
MAPP Ltd - IT & Business Management Recruitment Specialists
Salary: Up to £38,000 per annum + bonus (12% average) + pension + share option
Posted: 14 June 2013
Leicester, Leicestershire
EasyWebRecruitment.com
Salary: 34425
Posted: 18 June 2013
Leicester, East Midlands
Applause IT Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £34000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Leicester, Leicestershire
Applause IT Innovation
Salary: £30000 - £34000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013