The first table below looks at the demand for Active Directory skills in IT jobs advertised for the Sussex region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Active Directory over the 3 months to 21 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 Sussex region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Active Directory
Rank - 19 -
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 0 5 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sussex - 4.545% -
As % of the System Software category - 100.00% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
All System Software
Sussex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
12 5 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sussex 16.90% 4.545% 12.50%
Number of salaries quoted 6 0 5
Average salary £45,000 - £25,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,946 £39,000 £37,875
% change year-on-year
-0.13% +2.97%
Active Directory
South East

Active Directory
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Sussex 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 Sussex region.

Sussex Active Directory Salary Trend

Active Directory
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sussex 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 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) Lync
2 2 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (66.67%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) HP
2 2 (66.67%) Citrix
2 2 (66.67%) SAN
2 2 (66.67%) NetApp
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) LAN
2 2 (66.67%) WAN
2 2 (66.67%) NFS
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco
3 1 (33.33%) IBM
3 1 (33.33%) VPN
3 1 (33.33%) DNS
3 1 (33.33%) DHCP
3 1 (33.33%) VoIP
3 1 (33.33%) UNIX
3 1 (33.33%) ADSL
3 1 (33.33%) Lotus Notes
3 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
3 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (33.33%) Veritas
3 1 (33.33%) Lotus

Active Directory
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sussex 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 3 (100.00%) MS Exchange
2 2 (66.67%) Lync
2 2 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (33.33%) Lotus Notes
3 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2013
3 1 (33.33%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (66.67%) SAN
1 2 (66.67%) LAN
1 2 (66.67%) WAN
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) DHCP
2 1 (33.33%) VoIP
2 1 (33.33%) ADSL
2 1 (33.33%) Internet
2 1 (33.33%) MPLS
2 1 (33.33%) VPLS
2 1 (33.33%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support
1 1 (33.33%) Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Exchange Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Exchange Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) EqualLogic
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (33.33%) UNIX
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) VB
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) NFS
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (33.33%) XenApp
3 1 (33.33%) XenDesktop
3 1 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) NetBackup
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM
1 1 (33.33%) SCOM
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) HP
2 2 (66.67%) Citrix
2 2 (66.67%) NetApp
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco
3 1 (33.33%) IBM
3 1 (33.33%) Veritas
3 1 (33.33%) Lotus
3 1 (33.33%) Brocade
3 1 (33.33%) SonicWALL
3 1 (33.33%) Dell