Active Directory Contracts

Microsoft Active Directory
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Active Directory skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Active Directory over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 32 48
Rank change year-on-year -1 +16 -1
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 2,230 3,212 4,260
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 5.15% 5.78% 4.86%
As % of the System Software category 47.17% 44.29% 36.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,554 2,333 3,079
10th Percentile £163 £163 £150
25th Percentile £225 £213 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £538
90th Percentile £675 £682 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £406 £350 £278
% change year-on-year +15.86% +26.13% -16.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 125 218
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.25 £12.63
25th Percentile £14.16 £15.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £17.60 £22.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.80% +28.57% +9.38%
75th Percentile £23.76 £54.00 £22.25
90th Percentile £40.00 £66.00 £35.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.00 £18.51 £17.00
% change year-on-year -13.57% +8.90% +10.57%

All System Software Skills
UK

Active Directory is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,728 7,253 11,547
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.91% 13.05% 13.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,276 5,110 8,298
10th Percentile £205 £200 £200
25th Percentile £356 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.47%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £478 £450
% change year-on-year -0.68% +6.28% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 225 249 285
10th Percentile £14.06 £15.21 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £20.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £24.18 £54.83 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.90% +174.15% -
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.50 £45.00
90th Percentile £79.20 £75.55 £60.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £48.40 £17.64
% change year-on-year -43.18% +174.38% -3.04%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Active Directory as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in the UK

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Active Directory.

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in the UK

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in the UK

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Active Directory.

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in the UK

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Active Directory over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Active Directory in the UK

Active Directory
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Active Directory within the UK over the 6 months to 9 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -1 1,985 £438 +2.94% 987
UK excluding London 0 1,277 £406 +15.86% 821
London +4 837 £443 -9.46% 220
Work from Home -1 626 £475 - 389
South East +14 453 £525 +23.53% 210
North of England -13 239 £316 +9.05% 201
Midlands -2 180 £338 -3.57% 151
South West -15 157 £439 -12.15% 119
Scotland +17 139 £325 -1.52% 68
North West -11 128 £375 +15.38% 109
West Midlands -4 110 £338 -10.00% 82
Yorkshire -10 94 £286 +14.30% 73
East of England -21 93 £265 -24.29% 71
East Midlands -2 65 £331 +48.54% 69
Wales -9 20 £138 -23.60% 20
North East +12 15 £500 +78.57% 22
Northern Ireland -21 2 £363 -14.71% 1

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 462 (20.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 194 (8.70%) SharePoint
3 58 (2.60%) IIS
4 47 (2.11%) Confluence
5 30 (1.35%) Skype for Business
6 27 (1.21%) Exchange Server 2010
6 27 (1.21%) Exchange Server 2013
7 17 (0.76%) CMS
8 14 (0.63%) Exchange Server 2007
9 11 (0.49%) Exchange Server 2003
10 8 (0.36%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 7 (0.31%) Apache
11 7 (0.31%) Tomcat
12 5 (0.22%) JBoss
13 4 (0.18%) nginx
13 4 (0.18%) Oracle Self-Service HR
14 2 (0.090%) OpenStack
14 2 (0.090%) WordPress
15 1 (0.045%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 1 (0.045%) SAS
Applications
1 228 (10.22%) Microsoft Office
2 72 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 30 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.18%) Acrobat
6 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.090%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.090%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.090%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.045%) PTC Creo
8 1 (0.045%) Trello
8 1 (0.045%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 11 (0.49%) Teamcenter
2 8 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
4 3 (0.13%) SystmOne
5 2 (0.090%) ION MarketView
6 1 (0.045%) assyst
6 1 (0.045%) BusinessWorks
6 1 (0.045%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.045%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.045%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 912 (40.90%) Azure
2 847 (37.98%) Microsoft 365
3 559 (25.07%) Entra ID
4 212 (9.51%) AWS
5 132 (5.92%) Azure DevOps
6 94 (4.22%) Azure Monitor
7 90 (4.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 88 (3.95%) OneDrive
9 71 (3.18%) PaaS
10 65 (2.91%) Power Platform
11 61 (2.74%) Azure Service Bus
12 53 (2.38%) IaaS
13 46 (2.06%) Azure Storage
13 46 (2.06%) GitHub
13 46 (2.06%) SaaS
14 43 (1.93%) Dynamics 365
15 42 (1.88%) GCP
16 38 (1.70%) Serverless
17 33 (1.48%) Azure Functions
17 33 (1.48%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 367 (16.46%) DNS
2 241 (10.81%) DHCP
3 236 (10.58%) Firewall
4 138 (6.19%) VPN
5 107 (4.80%) SAN
6 88 (3.95%) LAN
7 85 (3.81%) WAN
8 71 (3.18%) TCP/IP
9 67 (3.00%) Wi-Fi
10 57 (2.56%) SSL
10 57 (2.56%) Wireless
11 36 (1.61%) NAS
11 36 (1.61%) Network Security
11 36 (1.61%) Remote Desktop
11 36 (1.61%) Skype
11 36 (1.61%) VLAN
12 30 (1.35%) VoIP
13 28 (1.26%) Kerberos
14 24 (1.08%) MPLS
15 20 (0.90%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 275 (12.33%) SQL Server
2 47 (2.11%) MySQL
3 36 (1.61%) Power BI
4 29 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
4 29 (1.30%) Oracle Reports
5 28 (1.26%) Relational Database
6 27 (1.21%) Azure SQL Database
7 24 (1.08%) NoSQL
8 20 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
9 19 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
10 16 (0.72%) Hadoop
11 15 (0.67%) Oracle Database
11 15 (0.67%) RDBMS
11 15 (0.67%) Redis
12 8 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 7 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 5 (0.22%) Data Lake
15 4 (0.18%) Big Data
16 3 (0.13%) MariaDB
16 3 (0.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 96 (4.30%) Git
2 79 (3.54%) JIRA
3 35 (1.57%) Jenkins
4 27 (1.21%) Selenium
5 23 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
6 19 (0.85%) Robot Framework
7 18 (0.81%) TeamCity
8 16 (0.72%) Visual Studio
9 11 (0.49%) SpecFlow
9 11 (0.49%) WebDriver
10 10 (0.45%) Postman
10 10 (0.45%) SonarQube
11 9 (0.40%) Bitbucket
11 9 (0.40%) GitLab
12 5 (0.22%) Bitbucket Server
12 5 (0.22%) CA Release Automation
12 5 (0.22%) Fiddler
12 5 (0.22%) MSI
13 4 (0.18%) Hudson
13 4 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 593 (26.59%) Social Skills
2 271 (12.15%) Finance
3 236 (10.58%) Public Sector
4 158 (7.09%) Analytical Skills
5 92 (4.13%) Banking
6 52 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
7 46 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
8 45 (2.02%) Financial Institution
9 43 (1.93%) Manufacturing
10 35 (1.57%) Legal
10 35 (1.57%) Telecoms
11 29 (1.30%) Retail
12 26 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
13 23 (1.03%) Back Office
13 23 (1.03%) Marketing
14 20 (0.90%) Law
14 20 (0.90%) Military
15 17 (0.76%) Local Government
16 15 (0.67%) French Language
17 13 (0.58%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 282 (12.65%) Analyst
2 269 (12.06%) Support Engineer
3 243 (10.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 203 (9.10%) Senior
5 199 (8.92%) Architect
6 182 (8.16%) IT Support
7 144 (6.46%) Developer
8 122 (5.47%) Service Analyst
9 120 (5.38%) IT Engineer
10 119 (5.34%) Service Desk Analyst
11 100 (4.48%) 2nd Line Support
11 100 (4.48%) Desktop Support
12 85 (3.81%) Desktop Engineer
13 83 (3.72%) Support Analyst
14 78 (3.50%) Consultant
15 76 (3.41%) Senior Developer
16 75 (3.36%) Azure Engineer
17 74 (3.32%) IT Analyst
18 73 (3.27%) Active Directory Engineer
19 71 (3.18%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (6.23%) .NET
2 121 (5.43%) XML
3 110 (4.93%) LDAP
4 98 (4.39%) Web Services
5 97 (4.35%) SailPoint
6 85 (3.81%) HTML
7 73 (3.27%) .NET Core
8 61 (2.74%) React
9 55 (2.47%) SAML
10 45 (2.02%) SOAP
11 43 (1.93%) CSS
12 41 (1.84%) JSP
13 39 (1.75%) Servlets
13 39 (1.75%) SPML
14 37 (1.66%) OpenID
15 35 (1.57%) .NET Framework
15 35 (1.57%) ASP.NET
16 33 (1.48%) AngularJS
17 31 (1.39%) ARM Templates
17 31 (1.39%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 190 (8.52%) PKI
2 91 (4.08%) Data Centre
3 75 (3.36%) Onboarding
4 72 (3.23%) Replication
5 70 (3.14%) Product Ownership
6 56 (2.51%) Clustering
6 56 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
7 53 (2.38%) Management Information System
8 45 (2.02%) Video Conferencing
9 32 (1.43%) iPhone
10 27 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
11 25 (1.12%) Driving Licence
11 25 (1.12%) iPad
12 21 (0.94%) Smartphone
13 19 (0.85%) CMDB
13 19 (0.85%) Mobile App
14 18 (0.81%) Linux Command Line
14 18 (0.81%) Public Cloud
15 17 (0.76%) NHS
16 16 (0.72%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 1,362 (61.08%) Windows
2 575 (25.78%) Windows Server
3 479 (21.48%) Windows 10
4 259 (11.61%) Linux
5 182 (8.16%) Windows Server 2012
6 172 (7.71%) Windows Server 2016
7 157 (7.04%) Windows Server 2019
8 93 (4.17%) Windows 7
9 84 (3.77%) Apple iOS
10 68 (3.05%) Unix
11 55 (2.47%) Mac OS
12 52 (2.33%) Android
13 48 (2.15%) Windows Server 2008
14 43 (1.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 38 (1.70%) Ubuntu
16 34 (1.52%) VMS
17 23 (1.03%) Windows Server 2003
18 18 (0.81%) Windows XP
19 16 (0.72%) CentOS
19 16 (0.72%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 348 (15.61%) ITIL
2 332 (14.89%) Customer Service
3 294 (13.18%) Problem-Solving
4 288 (12.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 270 (12.11%) Migration
6 266 (11.93%) Agile
7 257 (11.52%) DevOps
8 189 (8.48%) CI/CD
9 137 (6.14%) Identity Access Management
10 113 (5.07%) RBAC
11 110 (4.93%) Disaster Recovery
12 106 (4.75%) Cybersecurity
13 99 (4.44%) Service Management
14 97 (4.35%) Scrum
15 96 (4.30%) Identity Management
16 95 (4.26%) Mobile Device Management
17 87 (3.90%) Service Delivery
18 84 (3.77%) Change Management
19 80 (3.59%) Infrastructure as Code
20 76 (3.41%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 477 (21.39%) PowerShell
2 223 (10.00%) SQL
3 136 (6.10%) C#
4 131 (5.87%) Python
5 97 (4.35%) JavaScript
6 92 (4.13%) Bicep
7 79 (3.54%) Java
8 38 (1.70%) TypeScript
9 28 (1.26%) VB
10 27 (1.21%) VBScript
11 22 (0.99%) Bash
12 14 (0.63%) PL/SQL
13 11 (0.49%) C
13 11 (0.49%) Shell Script
14 10 (0.45%) C++
14 10 (0.45%) Perl
15 9 (0.40%) R
16 8 (0.36%) Go
16 8 (0.36%) PHP
16 8 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 533 (23.90%) Security Cleared
2 340 (15.25%) SC Cleared
3 276 (12.38%) Degree
4 210 (9.42%) DV Cleared
5 150 (6.73%) Microsoft Certification
6 60 (2.69%) MCSE
7 52 (2.33%) MCSA
8 50 (2.24%) Azure Certification
9 37 (1.66%) Cisco Certification
10 36 (1.61%) A+ Certification
11 34 (1.52%) ITIL Certification
12 33 (1.48%) CCNA
13 29 (1.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 29 (1.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 27 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
15 26 (1.17%) AWS Certification
15 26 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
16 23 (1.03%) DBS Check
17 21 (0.94%) CISSP
18 20 (0.90%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (4.53%) SLA
2 53 (2.38%) QA
3 24 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (0.90%) NIST
4 20 (0.90%) PCI DSS
5 16 (0.72%) GDPR
5 16 (0.72%) WCAG
6 14 (0.63%) Accessibility
7 12 (0.54%) Disclosure Scotland
8 8 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (0.31%) ISO 9001
9 7 (0.31%) RMADS
10 6 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 4 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.13%) COBIT
13 2 (0.090%) Data Quality
13 2 (0.090%) GRC
13 2 (0.090%) PMO
13 2 (0.090%) SOC 2
System Software
1 316 (14.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 140 (6.28%) Hyper-V
3 88 (3.95%) Virtual Machines
4 67 (3.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 67 (3.00%) vSphere
5 63 (2.83%) VMware ESXi
6 45 (2.02%) Docker
7 39 (1.75%) IAG
7 39 (1.75%) XenApp
8 38 (1.70%) ACF2
8 38 (1.70%) RACF
9 23 (1.03%) Firmware
10 22 (0.99%) BitLocker
10 22 (0.99%) XenDesktop
11 20 (0.90%) VMware NSX
12 18 (0.81%) NFS
13 16 (0.72%) HDFS
13 16 (0.72%) Virtual Servers
13 16 (0.72%) VMware Workstation
14 14 (0.63%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 377 (16.91%) SCCM
2 246 (11.03%) Microsoft Intune
3 120 (5.38%) WSUS
4 87 (3.90%) Single Sign-On
5 85 (3.81%) Terraform
6 84 (3.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 80 (3.59%) Kubernetes
8 70 (3.14%) SCOM
9 61 (2.74%) Ansible
10 46 (2.06%) vCenter Server
11 36 (1.61%) Jamf Pro
12 26 (1.17%) NetBackup
13 19 (0.85%) EMC NetWorker
14 18 (0.81%) Failover Clustering
14 18 (0.81%) Kibana
14 18 (0.81%) Nessus
15 16 (0.72%) Sysprep
16 15 (0.67%) Microsoft Clustering
17 13 (0.58%) FortiGate
18 12 (0.54%) logstash
Vendors
1 1,177 (52.78%) Microsoft
2 430 (19.28%) VMware
3 194 (8.70%) Citrix
4 189 (8.48%) ServiceNow
5 126 (5.65%) Oracle
6 118 (5.29%) Cisco
7 98 (4.39%) Apple
8 86 (3.86%) CyberArk
9 62 (2.78%) HP
10 59 (2.65%) Dell
11 58 (2.60%) Veeam
12 48 (2.15%) Okta
13 40 (1.79%) Red Hat
14 38 (1.70%) EMC
15 37 (1.66%) SAP
16 34 (1.52%) CA
17 29 (1.30%) Palo Alto
18 26 (1.17%) Ivanti
18 26 (1.17%) Sybase
19 25 (1.12%) Avaya