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

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Active Directory
Rank 27 34 38
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +4
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 16 4 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Macclesfield 8.081% 2.353% 1.896%
As % of the System Software category 94.12% 66.67% 66.67%
Number of salaries quoted 6 4 3
Average salary £32,500 £38,750 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-16.12% +40.90%
UK excluding London average salary £33,000 £33,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year
-1.49% +3.07%
All System Software
Macclesfield
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
17 6 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Macclesfield 8.586% 3.529% 2.844%
Number of salaries quoted 7 6 5
Average salary £45,000 £27,500 £33,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+63.63% -18.51%
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +3.89%
Active Directory
Cheshire

Active Directory
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Macclesfield 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 Macclesfield region.

Macclesfield Active Directory Salary Trend

Active Directory
Salary Histogram

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

Macclesfield Active Directory Salary Histogram

Active Directory
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Active Directory.

1 20 (95.24%) Windows
1 20 (95.24%) Microsoft
2 19 (90.48%) Windows Server 2008
3 18 (85.71%) MS Exchange
3 18 (85.71%) Exchange Server 2010
4 17 (80.95%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (76.19%) Windows Server 2003
5 16 (76.19%) SharePoint
5 16 (76.19%) Exchange Server 2003
6 15 (71.43%) MS Excel
7 14 (66.67%) MCP
7 14 (66.67%) VMware
8 13 (61.90%) SAN
8 13 (61.90%) NetApp
9 10 (47.62%) HP
9 10 (47.62%) ITIL
9 10 (47.62%) SQL Server
9 10 (47.62%) IIS
9 10 (47.62%) MCSE
9 10 (47.62%) MCITP
9 10 (47.62%) vSphere
9 10 (47.62%) Capacity Management
10 9 (42.86%) SCCM
10 9 (42.86%) SolarWinds
10 9 (42.86%) SQL Server 2008
10 9 (42.86%) SQL Server 2005
10 9 (42.86%) SharePoint Server
10 9 (42.86%) ISA Server
11 8 (38.10%) Cisco
11 8 (38.10%) ITIL Certification

Active Directory
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Active Directory. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (4.762%) LAMP
1 1 (4.762%) RESTful
1 1 (4.762%) Web Services
1 1 (4.762%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 18 (85.71%) MS Exchange
1 18 (85.71%) Exchange Server 2010
2 16 (76.19%) SharePoint
2 16 (76.19%) Exchange Server 2003
3 10 (47.62%) IIS
4 9 (42.86%) SharePoint Server
5 8 (38.10%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (4.762%) Windows Azure
6 1 (4.762%) Amazon AWS
6 1 (4.762%) OpenStack
Applications
1 15 (71.43%) MS Excel
2 6 (28.57%) Office 365
3 1 (4.762%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 13 (61.90%) SAN
2 8 (38.10%) VoIP
3 7 (33.33%) Firewall
4 6 (28.57%) DHCP
4 6 (28.57%) TCP/IP
4 6 (28.57%) VPN
4 6 (28.57%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (47.62%) SQL Server
2 9 (42.86%) SQL Server 2008
2 9 (42.86%) SQL Server 2005
Job Titles
1 13 (61.90%) Server Engineer
1 13 (61.90%) Senior Server Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) IT Support
2 6 (28.57%) IT Support Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) Support Engineer
3 2 (9.524%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (9.524%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.762%) Help Desk Support
4 1 (4.762%) Help Desk Support Analyst
4 1 (4.762%) Lead Architect
4 1 (4.762%) Architect
4 1 (4.762%) Analyst
4 1 (4.762%) Support Analyst
4 1 (4.762%) Help Desk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.762%) CMDB
1 1 (4.762%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (4.762%) SaaS
1 1 (4.762%) PaaS
1 1 (4.762%) IaaS
Operating Systems
1 20 (95.24%) Windows
2 19 (90.48%) Windows Server 2008
3 16 (76.19%) Windows Server 2003
4 7 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (28.57%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) ITIL
1 10 (47.62%) Capacity Management
2 7 (33.33%) Performance Management
2 7 (33.33%) Change Control
3 1 (4.762%) Migration
3 1 (4.762%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (4.762%) Use Case
3 1 (4.762%) Data Modelling
3 1 (4.762%) UML
3 1 (4.762%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.762%) Java
1 1 (4.762%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (80.95%) Microsoft Certification
2 14 (66.67%) MCP
3 10 (47.62%) MCSE
3 10 (47.62%) MCITP
4 8 (38.10%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 10 (47.62%) vSphere
2 9 (42.86%) ISA Server
3 6 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (4.762%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 9 (42.86%) SCCM
2 7 (33.33%) SolarWinds Orion
3 2 (9.524%) NetBackup
4 1 (4.762%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (95.24%) Microsoft
2 14 (66.67%) VMware
3 13 (61.90%) NetApp
4 10 (47.62%) HP
5 9 (42.86%) SolarWinds
6 8 (38.10%) Cisco
6 8 (38.10%) FrontRange
7 1 (4.762%) Google
7 1 (4.762%) Citrix
7 1 (4.762%) Rackspace
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