The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Active Directory skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Active Directory over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the System Software category.

Microsoft Active Directory
Location
3 months to
21 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank435147
Rank change year-on-year
Up+8Down-4
Matching permanent IT job ads598850384013
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK4.941 %4.129 %4.214 %
As % of the System Software category57.35 %55.04 %61.08 %
Number of salaries quoted527542373400
Average salary£35,000£34,000£33,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.94 %+3.03 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£22,500£22,000£21,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£55,000£53,500£55,000
UK excluding London average salary£32,500£32,500£31,000
% change year-on-year
-+4.83 %
IT Job Market, System Software CategoryAll System Software
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
1044191546570
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK8.615 %7.502 %6.900 %
Number of salaries quoted899575195352
Average salary£41,000£40,000£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.50 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£26,000£25,000£24,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£60,000£60,000£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£38,500£37,500£37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66 %-

Active Directory
Demand Trend

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

Active Directory Demand Trend

Active Directory
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Active Directory within the UK.

Active Directory Salary Trend

Active Directory
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Active Directory over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 within the UK.

Active Directory Salary Histogram

Active Directory
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandUp+45546£35,000+2.94 %
LondonUp+182586£40,000+5.26 %
South EastUp+61240£35,000+4.47 %
City of LondonUp+15617£41,500-2.35 %
East of EnglandUp+3398£33,500-4.28 %
SurreyDown-5378£37,500+7.14 %
North WestUp+3360£30,000+1.69 %
YorkshireUp+17307£32,000+14.28 %
BerkshireDown-1267£37,500+7.14 %
West MidlandsDown-7253£32,375-7.50 %
South WestDown-17205£32,500+1.56 %
West YorkshireUp+8191£33,264+16.71 %
ScotlandUp+16187£34,000+13.33 %
HampshireUp+11180£31,500-1.56 %
ManchesterDown-1169£29,000+4.50 %
East MidlandsUp+5166£27,500-5.17 %
LeedsUp+30141£34,000+4.61 %
WalesUp+39119£33,500+21.81 %
ReadingUp+2118£35,000-
BuckinghamshireUp+19117£27,000-16.92 %
CheshireUp+10109£32,500+12.06 %
HertfordshireDown-11106£30,000-29.41 %
South WalesUp+34104£33,500+21.81 %
EssexDown-3100£31,000-8.14 %
BirminghamDown-897£35,000-6.66 %
CambridgeshireUp+2481£35,000-
KentUp+2969£29,000-21.62 %
OxfordshireUp+166£32,594+12.39 %
South YorkshireUp+2265£31,500+17.20 %
WiltshireUp+363£35,250+10.15 %

Active Directory
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

110175 (84.12 %)Windows
26720 (55.56 %)Microsoft
35064 (41.87 %)Windows Server 2008
44841 (40.02 %)VMware
54705 (38.90 %)MS Exchange
64599 (38.02 %)Windows Server 2003
73511 (29.03 %)MS Excel
83342 (27.63 %)Citrix
92926 (24.19 %)VMware Infrastructure
102897 (23.95 %)Microsoft Certification
112615 (21.62 %)SQL Server
122596 (21.46 %)Windows XP
132574 (21.28 %)TCP/IP
142498 (20.65 %)Cisco
152458 (20.32 %)DNS
162397 (19.82 %)SQL
172307 (19.07 %)ITIL
182306 (19.06 %)MS Office
192253 (18.63 %)SAN
202169 (17.93 %)Exchange Server 2007
212161 (17.87 %)MCSE
222110 (17.44 %)Exchange Server 2010
232071 (17.12 %)Windows 7
241984 (16.40 %)Firewall
251867 (15.43 %)Finance
261776 (14.68 %)Linux
271726 (14.27 %)DHCP
281649 (13.63 %)Exchange Server 2003
291606 (13.28 %)IIS
301532 (12.67 %)SharePoint

Active Directory
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1686 (5.671 %).NET
2358 (2.960 %)Web Services
3318 (2.629 %)ASP.NET
4276 (2.282 %)HTML
5264 (2.183 %)XML
6232 (1.918 %)CSS
7131 (1.083 %)Application Packaging
8122 (1.009 %)Middleware
9111 (0.918 %)WebSphere
10107 (0.885 %)ASP
11106 (0.876 %)COM
11106 (0.876 %).NET Framework
1294 (0.777 %)WCF
1391 (0.752 %)Forefront TMG
1475 (0.620 %)WPF
1571 (0.587 %)jQuery
1667 (0.554 %)XSLT
1762 (0.513 %)Ajax
1859 (0.488 %)Software Packaging
1952 (0.430 %)WinForms
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
14705 (38.90 %)MS Exchange
22169 (17.93 %)Exchange Server 2007
32110 (17.44 %)Exchange Server 2010
41649 (13.63 %)Exchange Server 2003
51606 (13.28 %)IIS
61532 (12.67 %)SharePoint
7619 (5.117 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
8414 (3.423 %)Apache
9314 (2.596 %)Lync
10287 (2.373 %)SharePoint 2010
11238 (1.968 %)Lotus Notes
12214 (1.769 %)Office Communications Server
13178 (1.472 %)Tomcat
14160 (1.323 %)SharePoint Server
15133 (1.100 %)WebLogic
16128 (1.058 %)Exchange Server 2000
17119 (0.984 %)BizTalk Server
1878 (0.645 %)Oracle Coherence
1971 (0.587 %)CMS
2069 (0.570 %)Lotus Domino
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
13511 (29.03 %)MS Excel
22306 (19.06 %)MS Office
3207 (1.711 %)MS Visio
4192 (1.587 %)MS PowerPoint
583 (0.686 %)Office 365
650 (0.413 %)Google Apps
741 (0.339 %)MS Project
819 (0.157 %)InfoPath
99 (0.074 %)AutoCAD
108 (0.066 %)Spreadsheet
108 (0.066 %)DeltaView
108 (0.066 %)Photoshop
116 (0.050 %)Acrobat
125 (0.041 %)Adobe Illustrator
125 (0.041 %)PowerPivot
125 (0.041 %)Final Cut Pro
134 (0.033 %)InDesign
143 (0.025 %)Revit
152 (0.017 %)SmartSuite
152 (0.017 %)SPSS
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
1109 (0.901 %)Dynamics CRM
228 (0.231 %)SoftGrid
323 (0.190 %)Summit
422 (0.182 %)Dynamics AX
422 (0.182 %)Dynamics NAV
515 (0.124 %)Line 100
515 (0.124 %)Sage MMS
610 (0.083 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
79 (0.074 %)GoldMine
79 (0.074 %)Remedy ITSM
88 (0.066 %)assyst
88 (0.066 %)Movex
97 (0.058 %)SAP ERP
105 (0.041 %)Oracle ERP
105 (0.041 %)FastVal
105 (0.041 %)SunGard APT
114 (0.033 %)Advent Portfolio Exchange
114 (0.033 %)SAP GRC
114 (0.033 %)Line 500
114 (0.033 %)Line 50
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
12574 (21.28 %)TCP/IP
22458 (20.32 %)DNS
32253 (18.63 %)SAN
41984 (16.40 %)Firewall
51726 (14.27 %)DHCP
61429 (11.81 %)LAN
71350 (11.16 %)WAN
81267 (10.47 %)VPN
9740 (6.118 %)Internet
10581 (4.803 %)VoIP
11410 (3.390 %)VLAN
12396 (3.274 %)NAS
13346 (2.860 %)LDAP
14343 (2.836 %)Wireless
15281 (2.323 %)SSL
16261 (2.158 %)Network Security
17230 (1.901 %)Cisco ASA
18196 (1.620 %)MPLS
19187 (1.546 %)iSCSI
20180 (1.488 %)SMTP
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
12615 (21.62 %)SQL Server
2685 (5.663 %)SQL Server 2005
3673 (5.564 %)SQL Server 2008
4249 (2.059 %)MySQL
5178 (1.472 %)SQL Server 2000
6129 (1.066 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
786 (0.711 %)Oracle 8/8i
875 (0.620 %)SQL Server Integration Services
974 (0.612 %)RDBMS
1057 (0.471 %)Crystal Reports
1156 (0.463 %)Oracle 11g
1241 (0.339 %)Oracle 10g
1241 (0.339 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
1333 (0.273 %)MS Access
1432 (0.265 %)DTS
1521 (0.174 %)BusinessObjects
1620 (0.165 %)PostgreSQL
1717 (0.141 %)DB2
1717 (0.141 %)ETL
1717 (0.141 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
189 (0.736 %)Visual Studio
280 (0.661 %)MSI
377 (0.637 %)Subversion
472 (0.595 %)Team Foundation Server
540 (0.331 %)InstallShield
621 (0.174 %)AdminStudio
719 (0.157 %)Eclipse
816 (0.132 %)VSS/SourceSafe
914 (0.116 %)Wise Package Studio
914 (0.116 %)TeamCity
1011 (0.091 %)Git (software)
1110 (0.083 %)K2 blackpoint
129 (0.074 %)Visual Composer
129 (0.074 %)SAP CE
129 (0.074 %)NWDI
129 (0.074 %)NWDS
138 (0.066 %)Mockito
138 (0.066 %)Rational Rhapsody
138 (0.066 %)JIRA
147 (0.058 %)TortoiseSVN
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11867 (15.43 %)Finance
2481 (3.977 %)Banking
3384 (3.175 %)Telecoms
4317 (2.621 %)Law
5282 (2.331 %)Legal
6227 (1.877 %)Retail
7216 (1.786 %)Back Office
8136 (1.124 %)Marketing
9134 (1.108 %)Investment Banking
10120 (0.992 %)Manufacturing
1199 (0.818 %)Advertising
1297 (0.802 %)Games
1388 (0.728 %)Financial Institution
1454 (0.446 %)French Language
1551 (0.422 %)Publishing
1646 (0.380 %)German Language
1737 (0.306 %)Pharmaceutical
1831 (0.256 %)Front Office
1929 (0.240 %)International Banking
2021 (0.174 %)Local Government
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
12731 (22.58 %)Analyst
21580 (13.06 %)Support Engineer
31553 (12.84 %)Support Analyst
41193 (9.863 %)Administrator
5926 (7.655 %)Consultant
6860 (7.110 %)Systems Administrator
7793 (6.556 %)IT Support
8741 (6.126 %)Infrastructure Engineer
9731 (6.043 %)2nd Line Support
10721 (5.961 %)3rd Line Support
11596 (4.927 %)Desktop Support
12588 (4.861 %)Technical Support
13486 (4.018 %)Systems Engineer
14473 (3.910 %)Architect
15453 (3.745 %)Infrastructure Analyst
16423 (3.497 %)Service Analyst
17421 (3.480 %)Service Desk Analyst
18336 (2.778 %)Technical Analyst
19331 (2.736 %)IT Support Engineer
20320 (2.646 %)Server Engineer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11142 (9.441 %)Blackberry
2702 (5.804 %)Clustering
3277 (2.290 %)Management Information System
3277 (2.290 %)Replication
4261 (2.158 %)Computer Science
5181 (1.496 %)Hedge funds
6162 (1.339 %)PKI
7144 (1.190 %)iPhone
8118 (0.976 %)CLARiiON
9111 (0.918 %)PDA
9111 (0.918 %)Fat Client
9111 (0.918 %)Thin Client
10105 (0.868 %)Cloud Computing
11102 (0.843 %)Video Conferencing
12101 (0.835 %)Open Source
1392 (0.761 %)Client/Server
1490 (0.744 %)SaaS
1589 (0.736 %)Mathematics
1673 (0.604 %)EqualLogic
1769 (0.570 %)iPad
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
110175 (84.12 %)Windows
25064 (41.87 %)Windows Server 2008
34599 (38.02 %)Windows Server 2003
42596 (21.46 %)Windows XP
52071 (17.12 %)Windows 7
61776 (14.68 %)Linux
7961 (7.945 %)Windows Vista
8832 (6.878 %)UNIX
9436 (3.604 %)Windows 2000 Server
10354 (2.927 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11321 (2.654 %)Windows 2000
12289 (2.389 %)Solaris
13184 (1.521 %)Mac OS X
14102 (0.843 %)Mac OS
1590 (0.744 %)Debian
1683 (0.686 %)AIX
1770 (0.579 %)CentOS
1867 (0.554 %)Ubuntu
1961 (0.504 %)Windows NT
2046 (0.380 %)SUSE
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
12307 (19.07 %)ITIL
2721 (5.961 %)Disaster Recovery
3565 (4.671 %)Project Management
4545 (4.506 %)Migration
5523 (4.324 %)Service Delivery
6393 (3.249 %)Load Balancing
7379 (3.133 %)Change Management
8368 (3.042 %)Service Management
9306 (2.530 %)E-Commerce
10288 (2.381 %)PRINCE2
10288 (2.381 %)Incident Management
11263 (2.174 %)Problem Management
12253 (2.092 %)CRM
13220 (1.819 %)Business Continuity
14210 (1.736 %)Configuration Management
15205 (1.695 %)Capacity Planning
16201 (1.662 %)Document Management
17182 (1.505 %)Information Security
18178 (1.472 %)Time Management
19176 (1.455 %)Agile Software Development
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
12397 (19.82 %)SQL
2594 (4.911 %)PowerShell
3410 (3.390 %)C#
4335 (2.770 %)VBScript
5303 (2.505 %)Perl
6253 (2.092 %)JavaScript
7245 (2.025 %)VB
8226 (1.868 %)C
9224 (1.852 %)Java
10152 (1.257 %)T-SQL
11150 (1.240 %)C++
12131 (1.083 %)Shell Script
13118 (0.976 %)PHP
14115 (0.951 %)VBA
15108 (0.893 %)VB.NET
15108 (0.893 %)Python
16106 (0.876 %)Bash shell
1754 (0.446 %)PL/SQL
1841 (0.339 %)VB6
1927 (0.223 %)Ruby
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
12897 (23.95 %)Microsoft Certification
22161 (17.87 %)MCSE
31232 (10.19 %)MCITP
41118 (9.243 %)Degree
5898 (7.424 %)Cisco Certification
6812 (6.713 %)MCP
7756 (6.250 %)CCNA
8680 (5.622 %)MCSA
9525 (4.340 %)Security Cleared
10513 (4.241 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11380 (3.142 %)SC Cleared
12341 (2.819 %)Citrix Certification
13272 (2.249 %)CCA
14263 (2.174 %)MCTS
15187 (1.546 %)MCDST
16184 (1.521 %)ITIL Certification
17180 (1.488 %)CCNP
18162 (1.339 %)CISSP
19105 (0.868 %)CCEA
2094 (0.777 %)A+ Certification
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1737 (6.093 %)SLA
2130 (1.075 %)PCI DSS
3116 (0.959 %)ISO/IEC 27001
4101 (0.835 %)QA
574 (0.612 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
662 (0.513 %)ISO 9001
713 (0.107 %)COBIT
89 (0.074 %)BS7799
98 (0.066 %)Data Quality
106 (0.050 %)ISO/IEC 20000
115 (0.041 %)HMG Infosec
124 (0.033 %)ISO 14001
131 (0.008 %)ISO 9000
131 (0.008 %)GAAP
131 (0.008 %)DICOM
131 (0.008 %)WAI
131 (0.008 %)BS25999
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
12926 (24.19 %)VMware Infrastructure
21205 (9.962 %)Hyper-V
31028 (8.499 %)vSphere
4975 (8.061 %)XenApp
5825 (6.820 %)VMware ESX
6412 (3.406 %)XenDesktop
7396 (3.274 %)Terminal Services
8357 (2.951 %)XenServer
9303 (2.505 %)VMware ESXi
10259 (2.141 %)ISA Server
11243 (2.009 %)Citrix Presentation Server
12239 (1.976 %)Xen
13129 (1.066 %)MetaFrame
14118 (0.976 %)Terminal Server
1596 (0.794 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
1685 (0.703 %)UAG
1778 (0.645 %)NFS
1873 (0.604 %)VMware Server
1948 (0.397 %)Samba
2047 (0.389 %)VMware Workstation
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
11031 (8.523 %)SCCM
2666 (5.506 %)SCOM
3572 (4.729 %)Backup Exec
4260 (2.149 %)WSUS
5223 (1.844 %)NetBackup
6196 (1.620 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
7146 (1.207 %)Norton AntiVirus
8129 (1.066 %)Tivoli
9107 (0.885 %)MOM
10103 (0.852 %)SCVMM
11102 (0.843 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
1294 (0.777 %)vCenter
1382 (0.678 %)McAfee ePO
1479 (0.653 %)Nagios
1479 (0.653 %)WMI
1577 (0.637 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
1659 (0.488 %)HP SIM
1750 (0.413 %)ARCserve
1849 (0.405 %)Puppet
1944 (0.364 %)Nessus
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
16720 (55.56 %)Microsoft
24841 (40.02 %)VMware
33342 (27.63 %)Citrix
42498 (20.65 %)Cisco
51256 (10.38 %)HP
6674 (5.572 %)Symantec
7671 (5.547 %)Oracle
8513 (4.241 %)Dell
9459 (3.795 %)EMC
9459 (3.795 %)NetApp
10411 (3.398 %)Red Hat
11365 (3.018 %)CheckPoint
12349 (2.885 %)Juniper
13327 (2.703 %)IBM
14262 (2.166 %)Lotus
14262 (2.166 %)Apple
15226 (1.868 %)Altiris
16203 (1.678 %)Avaya
17187 (1.546 %)McAfee
18181 (1.496 %)Bloomberg