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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Active Directory
Rank 31 18 54
Rank change year-on-year
-13 +36
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 78 120 32
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wales 6.316% 10.29% 3.065%
As % of the System Software category 69.03% 73.62% 51.61%
Number of salaries quoted 72 94 30
Average salary £27,500 £32,500 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-15.38% +18.18%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,550 £20,650 £17,075
10% offered a salary of more than £39,900 £42,500 £34,000
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
All System Software
Wales
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
113 163 62
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wales 9.150% 13.98% 5.939%
Number of salaries quoted 103 123 58
Average salary £28,500 £35,000 £31,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-18.57% +12.90%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,500 £25,000 £20,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £43,150 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +4.00%
Active Directory
UK

Active Directory
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wales 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 Wales region.

Wales Active Directory Salary Trend

Active Directory
Salary Histogram

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

Wales 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 Wales region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
South Wales -11 72 £27,500 -17.29%
West Wales +9 2 £40,000 -
North Wales -13 2 £33,000 +45.05%
Active Directory
UK

Active Directory
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wales 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 96 (83.48%) Windows
2 75 (65.22%) Microsoft
3 71 (61.74%) Windows Server 2008
4 68 (59.13%) MS Exchange
5 58 (50.43%) VMware
6 51 (44.35%) Exchange Server 2007
7 49 (42.61%) MS Excel
8 40 (34.78%) DNS
9 38 (33.04%) Exchange Server 2010
10 33 (28.70%) SQL Server
11 31 (26.96%) IIS
11 31 (26.96%) ITIL
11 31 (26.96%) Exchange Server 2003
12 29 (25.22%) Windows Server 2003
13 28 (24.35%) SAN
14 27 (23.48%) Windows 7
14 27 (23.48%) Windows Server 2012
15 26 (22.61%) TCP/IP
16 24 (20.87%) SQL
16 24 (20.87%) SharePoint
16 24 (20.87%) Firewall
17 23 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
18 21 (18.26%) Incident Management
19 20 (17.39%) Cisco
19 20 (17.39%) DHCP
19 20 (17.39%) Advertising
20 19 (16.52%) Finance
21 18 (15.65%) MCSE
21 18 (15.65%) VMware Infrastructure
22 17 (14.78%) VoIP

Active Directory
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wales 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 (4.348%) HTML
2 3 (2.609%) CGI
2 3 (2.609%) .NET
2 3 (2.609%) CSS
3 1 (0.870%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.870%) ASP.NET
3 1 (0.870%) COM
Application Platforms
1 68 (59.13%) MS Exchange
2 51 (44.35%) Exchange Server 2007
3 38 (33.04%) Exchange Server 2010
4 31 (26.96%) IIS
4 31 (26.96%) Exchange Server 2003
5 24 (20.87%) SharePoint
6 11 (9.565%) Apache
7 9 (7.826%) Lync
8 8 (6.957%) Office Communications Server
9 5 (4.348%) Exchange Server 2000
9 5 (4.348%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.870%) Exchange Server 2013
10 1 (0.870%) Site Server
Applications
1 49 (42.61%) MS Excel
2 17 (14.78%) MS Office
3 11 (9.565%) Office 365
4 9 (7.826%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 40 (34.78%) DNS
2 28 (24.35%) SAN
3 26 (22.61%) TCP/IP
4 24 (20.87%) Firewall
5 20 (17.39%) DHCP
6 17 (14.78%) VoIP
7 16 (13.91%) VPN
8 7 (6.087%) WAN
8 7 (6.087%) LAN
8 7 (6.087%) Internet
9 6 (5.217%) IP Telephony
9 6 (5.217%) Unified Communications
10 4 (3.478%) Cisco Nexus
10 4 (3.478%) NAS
11 2 (1.739%) BGP
11 2 (1.739%) MPLS
11 2 (1.739%) EIGRP
11 2 (1.739%) Cisco IOS
11 2 (1.739%) Cisco PIX
11 2 (1.739%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (28.70%) SQL Server
2 11 (9.565%) MySQL
2 11 (9.565%) SQL Server 2005
3 4 (3.478%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (0.870%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 3 (2.609%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (17.39%) Advertising
2 19 (16.52%) Finance
3 6 (5.217%) Telecoms
4 3 (2.609%) Banking
4 3 (2.609%) Local Government
4 3 (2.609%) Manufacturing
5 2 (1.739%) Financial Institution
5 2 (1.739%) Legal
5 2 (1.739%) Welsh Language
6 1 (0.870%) Retail
6 1 (0.870%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 30 (26.09%) Analyst
2 19 (16.52%) Support Analyst
3 16 (13.91%) Support Engineer
4 13 (11.30%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 13 (11.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 12 (10.43%) Administrator
6 11 (9.565%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
7 9 (7.826%) 3rd Line Support
8 8 (6.957%) Infrastructure Specialist
9 7 (6.087%) Technical Support
9 7 (6.087%) Junior
10 6 (5.217%) Systems Administrator
10 6 (5.217%) Network Administrator
10 6 (5.217%) Implementation Engineer
10 6 (5.217%) Data Centre Engineer
11 5 (4.348%) Service Desk Analyst
11 5 (4.348%) Service Analyst
12 4 (3.478%) 1st Line Support
12 4 (3.478%) DBA
12 4 (3.478%) SQL DBA
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.565%) SaaS
2 10 (8.696%) Clustering
3 8 (6.957%) Informatics
4 6 (5.217%) Blackberry
4 6 (5.217%) Video Conferencing
5 5 (4.348%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.609%) Mobile Banking
6 3 (2.609%) Replication
7 2 (1.739%) Computer Science
7 2 (1.739%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.870%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 96 (83.48%) Windows
2 71 (61.74%) Windows Server 2008
3 29 (25.22%) Windows Server 2003
4 27 (23.48%) Windows 7
4 27 (23.48%) Windows Server 2012
5 14 (12.17%) Windows 8
6 13 (11.30%) Windows 2000
7 10 (8.696%) UNIX
7 10 (8.696%) Windows XP
8 8 (6.957%) Linux
9 2 (1.739%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.870%) Windows Mobile
10 1 (0.870%) Android
10 1 (0.870%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (26.96%) ITIL
2 21 (18.26%) Incident Management
3 6 (5.217%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (4.348%) Project Management
5 4 (3.478%) Asset Management
6 3 (2.609%) Service Management
7 2 (1.739%) Service Delivery
7 2 (1.739%) Change Management
7 2 (1.739%) Technical Architecture
7 2 (1.739%) Communications Security
7 2 (1.739%) Information Management
8 1 (0.870%) Capacity Management
8 1 (0.870%) Performance Management
8 1 (0.870%) Release Management
8 1 (0.870%) Information Security
8 1 (0.870%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 24 (20.87%) SQL
2 6 (5.217%) PowerShell
3 5 (4.348%) VBScript
4 2 (1.739%) VB
4 2 (1.739%) VB.NET
4 2 (1.739%) VB6
5 1 (0.870%) C#
Qualifications
1 23 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 18 (15.65%) MCSE
3 9 (7.826%) Degree
3 9 (7.826%) MCITP
4 8 (6.957%) MCP
4 8 (6.957%) MCSA
5 6 (5.217%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 5 (4.348%) SC Cleared
6 5 (4.348%) DV Cleared
6 5 (4.348%) Security Cleared
7 4 (3.478%) CCNA
7 4 (3.478%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.739%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.826%) SLA
2 3 (2.609%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.739%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.870%) DICOM
System Software
1 18 (15.65%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (8.696%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 8 (6.957%) Hyper-V
3 8 (6.957%) VMware ESX
4 6 (5.217%) Terminal Services
4 6 (5.217%) XenApp
5 5 (4.348%) Citrix Presentation Server
6 4 (3.478%) XenServer
7 2 (1.739%) Terminal Server
7 2 (1.739%) ISA Server
8 1 (0.870%) vSphere
8 1 (0.870%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.870%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 11 (9.565%) Windows Intune
2 9 (7.826%) NetBackup
3 7 (6.087%) Backup Exec
3 7 (6.087%) Norton AntiVirus
4 5 (4.348%) SCCM
4 5 (4.348%) ARCserve
5 4 (3.478%) WSUS
5 4 (3.478%) SCOM
6 2 (1.739%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 75 (65.22%) Microsoft
2 58 (50.43%) VMware
3 20 (17.39%) Cisco
4 16 (13.91%) Citrix
5 11 (9.565%) Symantec
6 6 (5.217%) Dell
6 6 (5.217%) Dialogic
7 5 (4.348%) HP
7 5 (4.348%) Sophos
7 5 (4.348%) Remedy
7 5 (4.348%) McAfee
8 4 (3.478%) Veritas
9 3 (2.609%) Avaya
10 2 (1.739%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.739%) WatchGuard
11 1 (0.870%) Veeam
11 1 (0.870%) Kaspersky
11 1 (0.870%) 3Com
11 1 (0.870%) Apple
11 1 (0.870%) NetApp
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If you are an Senior Microsoft Engineer and have the following experience: Administration and maintenance of diverse Microsoft environments; to include (but not limited to) Microsoft Windows 2000/...
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Salary: £38000 - £44000 per annum + Pension, Health, 20% bonus
Posted: 20 May 2013
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If you are an Senior Microsoft Data Centre or MS Project Engineer and have the following experience: Administration and maintenance of diverse Microsoft environments; to include (but not...
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Salary: £38000 - £43000 per annum + BONUS + Health, Benefits
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IIS 7.x deployment and operations. Active Directory administration and troubleshooting. Microsoft SQL 2008 deployment / admin / troubleshooting experience. Working knowledge of TCP / IP / DNS / VPN / Firewalls / Load Balancers.
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Salary: From £20,000 to £30,000 per annum
Posted: 3 May 2013
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Permanent My award winning blue chip client is recruiting for a Graduate 1st line support analyst to provide internal 1st line support to their large user base. This...
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Salary: £18000.00 - £24000.00
Posted: 22 May 2013
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Have some experience with at least one of the following : Visual Studio, php, Java. * Have expertise working with Microsoft Active Directory as well as Microsoft server and application...
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Salary: £26000 - £30000 per annum
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