Active Directory Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Active Directory
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 41 40 71
Rank change year-on-year -1 +31 -17
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 626 1,225 1,631
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 4.27% 5.13% 3.70%
As % of the System Software category 43.50% 41.72% 30.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 458 895 1,205
10th Percentile £178 £188 £185
25th Percentile £336 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +1.12%
75th Percentile £608 £588 £565
90th Percentile £675 £700 £638
UK median daily rate £425 £425 £400
% change year-on-year - +6.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 39 54
10th Percentile - £14.49 £13.35
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.52 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £39.60 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -59.60% +84.19% +10.26%
75th Percentile £17.10 £66.00 £28.41
90th Percentile £17.69 £77.00 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £17.60 £22.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year -21.80% +28.57% +9.38%

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,439 2,936 5,299
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 9.81% 12.30% 12.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,076 2,082 3,942
10th Percentile £294 £280 £320
25th Percentile £410 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.52% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £616 £633 £625
90th Percentile £675 £718 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 112 87
10th Percentile - £18.13 £15.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £47.50 £18.55
Median hourly rate £40.25 £65.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.08% +136.36% +14.58%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £59.84
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.68 £66.40
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £54.83 £20.00
% change year-on-year -55.90% +174.15% -

Active Directory
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Active Directory as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Active Directory trend for jobs with a WFH option

Active Directory
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Active Directory.

Active Directory daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Active Directory over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Active Directory daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Active Directory.

Active Directory hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 153 (24.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (4.95%) SharePoint
3 21 (3.35%) Confluence
4 19 (3.04%) IIS
5 12 (1.92%) Exchange Server 2007
5 12 (1.92%) Exchange Server 2010
6 11 (1.76%) Exchange Server 2003
6 11 (1.76%) Exchange Server 2013
6 11 (1.76%) Skype for Business
7 8 (1.28%) CMS
8 3 (0.48%) JBoss
8 3 (0.48%) Oracle Self-Service HR
9 2 (0.32%) Apache
9 2 (0.32%) nginx
9 2 (0.32%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.16%) IBM Notes
10 1 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.16%) SAS
10 1 (0.16%) SharePoint 2013
10 1 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 40 (6.39%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.48%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (1.12%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.16%) assyst
2 1 (0.16%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (0.16%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 315 (50.32%) Azure
2 214 (34.19%) Microsoft 365
3 199 (31.79%) Entra ID
4 106 (16.93%) AWS
5 43 (6.87%) Azure Monitor
6 39 (6.23%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (4.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 26 (4.15%) OneDrive
9 25 (3.99%) Azure Storage
10 23 (3.67%) PaaS
11 21 (3.35%) GitHub
12 19 (3.04%) Dynamics 365
12 19 (3.04%) Power Platform
13 18 (2.88%) IaaS
14 16 (2.56%) Azure Sentinel
14 16 (2.56%) Azure Service Bus
14 16 (2.56%) SaaS
15 15 (2.40%) GCP
16 12 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
17 10 (1.60%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 104 (16.61%) DNS
2 87 (13.90%) Firewall
3 70 (11.18%) DHCP
4 40 (6.39%) SSL
5 36 (5.75%) VPN
6 35 (5.59%) SAN
7 21 (3.35%) Network Security
8 20 (3.19%) TCP/IP
9 16 (2.56%) NAS
10 12 (1.92%) Skype
11 11 (1.76%) VLAN
11 11 (1.76%) Wireless
12 9 (1.44%) WAN
13 8 (1.28%) FTP
13 8 (1.28%) Kerberos
13 8 (1.28%) LAN
13 8 (1.28%) NetScaler
14 6 (0.96%) Remote Desktop
15 4 (0.64%) tcpdump
15 4 (0.64%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (13.10%) SQL Server
2 21 (3.35%) MySQL
3 18 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
4 15 (2.40%) Oracle Reports
5 10 (1.60%) Relational Database
6 7 (1.12%) Hadoop
6 7 (1.12%) NoSQL
6 7 (1.12%) Oracle Database
7 6 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (0.80%) RDBMS
9 4 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (0.64%) Big Data
9 4 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (0.64%) Power BI
9 4 (0.64%) Redis
10 3 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.32%) MariaDB
11 2 (0.32%) Metadata
11 2 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 32 (5.11%) JIRA
2 31 (4.95%) Git
3 15 (2.40%) Jenkins
4 11 (1.76%) TeamCity
5 8 (1.28%) Selenium
6 5 (0.80%) Visual Studio
7 4 (0.64%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (0.64%) SpecFlow
7 4 (0.64%) WebDriver
8 3 (0.48%) Bitbucket Server
8 3 (0.48%) CA Release Automation
8 3 (0.48%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.32%) GitLab
9 2 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.16%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.16%) MSI
General
1 134 (21.41%) Social Skills
2 102 (16.29%) Finance
3 79 (12.62%) Public Sector
4 30 (4.79%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (4.31%) Banking
6 20 (3.19%) Organisational Skills
7 14 (2.24%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.24%) Financial Institution
7 14 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (1.76%) Manufacturing
9 10 (1.60%) Retail
10 9 (1.44%) Back Office
11 8 (1.28%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.12%) Marketing
13 5 (0.80%) Automotive
13 5 (0.80%) French Language
14 4 (0.64%) Front Office
14 4 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (0.64%) Law
14 4 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 79 (12.62%) Architect
2 65 (10.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 61 (9.74%) Senior
4 59 (9.42%) Analyst
5 47 (7.51%) Developer
6 39 (6.23%) Support Engineer
7 37 (5.91%) Consultant
8 34 (5.43%) Service Analyst
9 33 (5.27%) Service Desk Analyst
10 27 (4.31%) Azure Engineer
11 26 (4.15%) Senior Developer
12 25 (3.99%) Support Specialist
13 24 (3.83%) Security Engineer
14 23 (3.67%) Active Directory Engineer
15 22 (3.51%) Active Directory Support
16 20 (3.19%) Cloud Engineer
16 20 (3.19%) IT Engineer
17 19 (3.04%) Support Analyst
18 18 (2.88%) Azure Specialist
18 18 (2.88%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (8.47%) Web Services
2 46 (7.35%) .NET
3 45 (7.19%) LDAP
4 38 (6.07%) XML
5 29 (4.63%) SailPoint
6 28 (4.47%) HTML
7 26 (4.15%) ARM Templates
8 25 (3.99%) .NET Core
9 21 (3.35%) SAML
10 19 (3.04%) React
11 18 (2.88%) SOAP
12 16 (2.56%) ASP.NET
12 16 (2.56%) JSP
12 16 (2.56%) Servlets
12 16 (2.56%) SPML
13 15 (2.40%) JDBC
14 13 (2.08%) CSS
14 13 (2.08%) OAuth
15 12 (1.92%) OpenID
16 9 (1.44%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 73 (11.66%) PKI
2 33 (5.27%) Data Centre
3 27 (4.31%) Onboarding
4 26 (4.15%) Self-Motivation
5 25 (3.99%) Replication
6 24 (3.83%) Product Ownership
7 19 (3.04%) Video Conferencing
8 16 (2.56%) Clustering
9 14 (2.24%) Management Information System
10 11 (1.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 10 (1.60%) Mobile App
12 7 (1.12%) Blog
12 7 (1.12%) Virtual Team
13 6 (0.96%) Cloud Native
13 6 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
14 4 (0.64%) Enterprise Software
14 4 (0.64%) Hedge funds
14 4 (0.64%) Hybrid Cloud
14 4 (0.64%) Public Cloud
14 4 (0.64%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 334 (53.35%) Windows
2 138 (22.04%) Windows Server
3 96 (15.34%) Linux
4 95 (15.18%) Windows 10
5 58 (9.27%) Windows Server 2016
6 42 (6.71%) Windows Server 2012
7 36 (5.75%) Windows Server 2019
8 17 (2.72%) Windows Server 2003
9 16 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 16 (2.56%) Windows Server 2008
10 15 (2.40%) Windows 7
11 14 (2.24%) Apple iOS
11 14 (2.24%) Unix
12 12 (1.92%) Ubuntu
13 9 (1.44%) VMS
14 8 (1.28%) Android
15 6 (0.96%) Oracle Linux
16 5 (0.80%) CentOS
16 5 (0.80%) Solaris
17 4 (0.64%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (16.77%) Migration
2 104 (16.61%) DevOps
3 89 (14.22%) Agile
4 84 (13.42%) ITIL
5 78 (12.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 76 (12.14%) CI/CD
7 64 (10.22%) Problem-Solving
8 52 (8.31%) Customer Service
9 50 (7.99%) RBAC
10 48 (7.67%) Infrastructure as Code
11 42 (6.71%) Disaster Recovery
11 42 (6.71%) Identity Management
12 39 (6.23%) Identity Access Management
13 37 (5.91%) Cybersecurity
14 35 (5.59%) Cryptography
15 33 (5.27%) Analytics
15 33 (5.27%) Key Management
16 32 (5.11%) Multi-Factor Authentication
17 29 (4.63%) Service Management
18 28 (4.47%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 165 (26.36%) PowerShell
2 74 (11.82%) SQL
3 59 (9.42%) C#
4 47 (7.51%) Bicep
5 40 (6.39%) Python
6 36 (5.75%) JavaScript
7 28 (4.47%) Java
8 25 (3.99%) VB
9 24 (3.83%) VBScript
10 13 (2.08%) TypeScript
11 10 (1.60%) Bash
12 7 (1.12%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.80%) C++
14 4 (0.64%) Perl
15 3 (0.48%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.32%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.32%) Ruby
16 2 (0.32%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.32%) VB.NET
16 2 (0.32%) XPath
Qualifications
1 143 (22.84%) Security Cleared
2 123 (19.65%) SC Cleared
3 109 (17.41%) Degree
4 53 (8.47%) DV Cleared
5 35 (5.59%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (3.35%) AWS Certification
6 21 (3.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 16 (2.56%) Azure Certification
8 11 (1.76%) MCSE
9 10 (1.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 10 (1.60%) MCSA
10 9 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (0.80%) CEH
11 5 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (0.80%) MCITP
12 4 (0.64%) OSCP
12 4 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.48%) CREST Certified
13 3 (0.48%) GPEN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.99%) SLA
2 10 (1.60%) GDPR
2 10 (1.60%) PCI DSS
3 9 (1.44%) Disclosure Scotland
3 9 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (1.44%) NIST
4 8 (1.28%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.28%) WCAG
5 7 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (0.64%) QA
7 2 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.32%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.16%) GLBA
8 1 (0.16%) ISAE 3402
8 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 55 (8.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 41 (6.55%) Virtual Machines
3 32 (5.11%) Virtual Desktop
4 24 (3.83%) Hyper-V
5 22 (3.51%) vSphere
6 21 (3.35%) Docker
7 16 (2.56%) ACF2
7 16 (2.56%) IAG
7 16 (2.56%) RACF
8 13 (2.08%) XenApp
9 11 (1.76%) VMware ESXi
10 8 (1.28%) XenDesktop
11 7 (1.12%) HDFS
11 7 (1.12%) NFS
12 6 (0.96%) VMware NSX
13 3 (0.48%) BitLocker
13 3 (0.48%) Terminal Services
13 3 (0.48%) VMware Server
14 2 (0.32%) Microsoft App-V
15 1 (0.16%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 93 (14.86%) SCCM
2 69 (11.02%) Microsoft Intune
3 43 (6.87%) Kubernetes
4 32 (5.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 29 (4.63%) WSUS
6 26 (4.15%) Terraform
7 25 (3.99%) SCOM
8 24 (3.83%) Single Sign-On
9 20 (3.19%) Ansible
10 6 (0.96%) Kibana
10 6 (0.96%) Nessus
10 6 (0.96%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.80%) EMC NetWorker
11 5 (0.80%) Jamf Pro
11 5 (0.80%) Netcool
11 5 (0.80%) Puppet
11 5 (0.80%) Tivoli
11 5 (0.80%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 5 (0.80%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.64%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 297 (47.44%) Microsoft
2 85 (13.58%) VMware
3 54 (8.63%) ServiceNow
4 53 (8.47%) Citrix
5 48 (7.67%) Oracle
6 30 (4.79%) HP
7 28 (4.47%) Cisco
8 27 (4.31%) CyberArk
9 20 (3.19%) Qualys
10 17 (2.72%) SAP
11 15 (2.40%) CA
11 15 (2.40%) Sybase
12 14 (2.24%) Avaya
12 14 (2.24%) Dell
12 14 (2.24%) EMC
12 14 (2.24%) Okta
12 14 (2.24%) Zscaler
13 12 (1.92%) CheckPoint
13 12 (1.92%) Isilon
14 10 (1.60%) Apple