Active Directory Contracts in the East of England

Microsoft Active Directory
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 15 17
Rank change year-on-year -17 +2 0
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 93 177 235
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 4.79% 9.11% 9.08%
As % of the System Software category 65.96% 53.15% 56.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 141 169
10th Percentile £164 £160 £134
25th Percentile £204 £189 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £258 £350 £325
Median % change year-on-year -26.43% +7.69% +47.73%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £438
90th Percentile £675 £700 £525
England median daily rate £428 £430 £398
% change year-on-year -0.58% +8.18% +4.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 11 44
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £13.41
Median hourly rate £14.16 £17.00 £15.25
Median % change year-on-year -16.71% +11.48% -14.08%
75th Percentile £15.12 £23.84 £18.55
90th Percentile - £64.50 £24.40
England median hourly rate £17.60 £20.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year -12.03% +17.65% +7.05%

All System Software Skills
East of England

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 advertised in the East of England with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 141 333 414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 7.26% 17.15% 16.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 224 295
10th Percentile £178 £170 £156
25th Percentile £228 £230 £256
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £553 £600 £538
90th Percentile £695 £700 £626
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 30 49
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £13.41
25th Percentile - £18.67 £14.00
Median hourly rate £14.16 £57.50 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -75.37% +270.97% -15.16%
75th Percentile £15.44 £70.00 £19.50
90th Percentile £77.30 £73.75 £32.23
England median hourly rate £22.15 £52.13 £18.60
% change year-on-year -57.51% +180.27% -2.11%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Active Directory as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in the East of England

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in the East of England

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in the East of England over the 6 months to 6 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in the East of England

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in the East of England

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 6 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
Cambridgeshire +2 36 £225 -43.75% 22
Hertfordshire -34 25 £450 -4.26% 25
Suffolk +13 11 £199 +24.22% 7
Essex +6 10 £350 -9.68% 11
Bedfordshire -16 10 £275 +30.95% 3
Norfolk -3 1 - - 7
Active Directory
England

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 18 (19.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (13.98%) SharePoint
3 11 (11.83%) IIS
4 6 (6.45%) Tomcat
5 2 (2.15%) Apache
Applications
1 21 (22.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (21.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (5.38%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (2.15%) AutoCAD
5 1 (1.08%) PTC Creo
5 1 (1.08%) Windchill
Cloud Services
1 39 (41.94%) Microsoft 365
2 20 (21.51%) Azure
3 5 (5.38%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (3.23%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.08%) AWS
5 1 (1.08%) PaaS
5 1 (1.08%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 13 (13.98%) Wi-Fi
2 9 (9.68%) VPN
3 6 (6.45%) TCP/IP
4 4 (4.30%) WAN
4 4 (4.30%) Wireless
4 4 (4.30%) Wireshark
5 3 (3.23%) LAN
5 3 (3.23%) Structured Cabling
6 2 (2.15%) DHCP
6 2 (2.15%) Kerberos
7 1 (1.08%) DNS
7 1 (1.08%) Ethernet
7 1 (1.08%) Firewall
7 1 (1.08%) FTP
7 1 (1.08%) Internet
7 1 (1.08%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (1.08%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (1.08%) Unified Communications
7 1 (1.08%) VLAN
7 1 (1.08%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.45%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.08%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 4 (4.30%) Fiddler
2 2 (2.15%) JIRA
3 1 (1.08%) MSI
3 1 (1.08%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 31 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 8 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (5.38%) Manufacturing
3 5 (5.38%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.30%) Marketing
4 4 (4.30%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.08%) Electronics
5 1 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.08%) Legal
Job Titles
1 34 (36.56%) Analyst
2 30 (32.26%) Service Analyst
2 30 (32.26%) Service Desk Analyst
3 27 (29.03%) Support Engineer
4 18 (19.35%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
5 10 (10.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (9.68%) IT Engineer
7 8 (8.60%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 7 (7.53%) 2nd Line Support
8 7 (7.53%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 7 (7.53%) Desktop Engineer
8 7 (7.53%) Desktop Support
8 7 (7.53%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 7 (7.53%) IT Support
9 6 (6.45%) Administrator
9 6 (6.45%) Technical Analyst
9 6 (6.45%) Technical Services Analyst
9 6 (6.45%) Windows Engineer
10 5 (5.38%) Design Engineer
10 5 (5.38%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.38%) .NET
2 4 (4.30%) .NET Framework
2 4 (4.30%) SAML
2 4 (4.30%) Web Services
3 2 (2.15%) LDAP
3 2 (2.15%) Middleware
4 1 (1.08%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.60%) iPhone
2 7 (7.53%) iPad
3 6 (6.45%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (5.38%) PKI
5 3 (3.23%) Clustering
5 3 (3.23%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.15%) BYOD
6 2 (2.15%) Fat Client
6 2 (2.15%) NHS
6 2 (2.15%) Thin Client
7 1 (1.08%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.08%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.08%) Replication
7 1 (1.08%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 59 (63.44%) Windows
2 25 (26.88%) Windows Server
3 18 (19.35%) Linux
3 18 (19.35%) Windows 10
4 9 (9.68%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (7.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (7.53%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (6.45%) Android
7 3 (3.23%) Apple iOS
7 3 (3.23%) Unix
8 2 (2.15%) AIX
8 2 (2.15%) Solaris
8 2 (2.15%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (1.08%) Mac OS
9 1 (1.08%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (38.71%) ITIL
2 31 (33.33%) Customer Service
3 28 (30.11%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (19.35%) Service Delivery
5 15 (16.13%) Migration
6 13 (13.98%) Incident Management
6 13 (13.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 13 (13.98%) Mathematics
7 10 (10.75%) High Availability
8 8 (8.60%) Root Cause Analysis
9 7 (7.53%) Release Management
10 6 (6.45%) ITSM
10 6 (6.45%) Project Delivery
11 5 (5.38%) DevOps
11 5 (5.38%) Load Balancing
11 5 (5.38%) Roadmaps
11 5 (5.38%) Technology Roadmap
12 4 (4.30%) Problem Management
12 4 (4.30%) Security Patching
12 4 (4.30%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (7.53%) PowerShell
2 5 (5.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (23.66%) Microsoft Certification
1 22 (23.66%) Security Cleared
2 17 (18.28%) MCSA
3 16 (17.20%) Degree
3 16 (17.20%) DV Cleared
4 14 (15.05%) A+ Certification
5 10 (10.75%) CCNA
5 10 (10.75%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (9.68%) SC Cleared
7 6 (6.45%) MCP
8 4 (4.30%) MCSE
9 3 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (3.23%) ECDL
9 3 (3.23%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (3.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (1.08%) HNC
10 1 (1.08%) MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.83%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (15.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (10.75%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.23%) Hyper-V
3 3 (3.23%) VMware Workstation
4 1 (1.08%) HDFS
4 1 (1.08%) NFS
4 1 (1.08%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 17 (18.28%) SCCM
2 7 (7.53%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (6.45%) SCOM
4 4 (4.30%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (3.23%) WSUS
6 1 (1.08%) Autotask
Vendors
1 55 (59.14%) Microsoft
2 20 (21.51%) Citrix
3 18 (19.35%) VMware
4 16 (17.20%) ServiceNow
5 5 (5.38%) F5
5 5 (5.38%) Red Hat
6 3 (3.23%) McAfee
7 2 (2.15%) Cisco
7 2 (2.15%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (2.15%) SAP
8 1 (1.08%) Isilon
8 1 (1.08%) MobileIron
8 1 (1.08%) Remedy
8 1 (1.08%) SonicWALL