Macclesfield Active Directory Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Active Directory skills within the Macclesfield region with a comparison to our System Software category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Active Directory over the 3 months to 1 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Active Directory
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Andover Aylesbury Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Belper Berkshire Bicester Birkenhead Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Braintree Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury Bury St Edmunds Caerphilly Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chichester Chippenham City of London Cobham Colchester Coleraine Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Deeside Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Ely Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Flintshire Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Grimsby Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hartlepool Haslemere Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilford Inverness Ipswich Kegworth Kent Kingswinford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liphook Liverpool London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Neath Port Talbot New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northumbria Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Pershore Peterborough Plymouth Poole Port Talbot Portsmouth Potters Bar Prescot Preston Pudsey Reading Redditch Redhill Romford Rotherham Rugby Sale Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Scottish Borders Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Albans St Asaph St Helens St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Street Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Teddington Teesside Telford Thames Valley Thatcham Thirsk Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 1 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	14	4
Rank change on same period last year	-10
Matching contract IT job ads	2	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	100.00 %	100.00 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£286	£280
% change on same period last year	+2.23 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£8.00	£8.00
Average hourly rate	£11.00	£11.50
% change on same period last year	-4.34 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£14.00	£15.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.06	£18.00
% change on same period last year	+0.35 %
System Software Macclesfield
Matching contract IT job ads	2	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.004 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£317	£317
% change on same period last year	-0.01 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£8.00	£8.00
Average hourly rate	£11.00	£11.50
% change on same period last year	-4.34 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£14.00	£15.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.87	£21.19
% change on same period last year	-1.54 %
Active Directory Cheshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Active Directory
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Active Directory across the Macclesfield region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

Active Directory
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Active Directory across the Macclesfield region.

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Active Directory across the Macclesfield region.

Active Directory
Top 6 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 1 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Macclesfield 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited Active Directory.

1 7 (100.00 %) Windows 1 7 (100.00 %) Windows XP 2 2 (28.57 %) Microsoft 2 2 (28.57 %) Remedy 2 2 (28.57 %) MS Office 3 1 (14.29 %) MS Exchange

Active Directory
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 1 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Macclesfield 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited Active Directory. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 1 (14.29 %) MS Exchange	Applications 1 2 (28.57 %) MS Office
Job Titles 1 6 (85.71 %) Analyst 1 6 (85.71 %) Helpdesk Analyst 2 1 (14.29 %) Support Engineer 2 1 (14.29 %) Hardware Engineer 2 1 (14.29 %) Hardware Support Engineer	Operating Systems 1 7 (100.00 %) Windows 1 7 (100.00 %) Windows XP
Vendors 1 2 (28.57 %) Microsoft 1 2 (28.57 %) Remedy