Active Directory Contracts in England

Microsoft Active Directory
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 32 46
Rank change year-on-year 0 +14 -1
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 1,973 2,758 3,703
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 5.42% 5.76% 5.26%
As % of the System Software category 49.34% 44.82% 38.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,401 2,026 2,676
10th Percentile £163 £163 £150
25th Percentile £213 £225 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £430 £400
Median % change year-on-year -1.16% +7.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £538
90th Percentile £675 £688 £625
UK median daily rate £425 £427 £400
% change year-on-year -0.35% +6.63% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 116 219
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £14.16 £15.50 £14.25
Median hourly rate £17.39 £19.50 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year -10.81% +13.04% +7.81%
75th Percentile £23.31 £50.08 £22.25
90th Percentile £40.00 £65.25 £28.75
UK median hourly rate £17.39 £20.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +14.29% +7.69%

All System Software Skills
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 England with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 3,999 6,154 9,653
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.98% 12.86% 13.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,809 4,436 7,006
10th Percentile £200 £203 £196
25th Percentile £350 £387 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +6.06%
75th Percentile £606 £650 £632
90th Percentile £688 £738 £706
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 217 271
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.93 £13.00
25th Percentile £14.48 £17.50 £14.81
Median hourly rate £22.00 £50.00 £18.60
Median % change year-on-year -56.00% +168.82% -7.00%
75th Percentile £58.69 £65.75 £28.75
90th Percentile £76.80 £76.19 £52.50
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £54.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -58.33% +184.21% -11.63%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in England

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in England

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in England over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in England

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in England

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Active Directory in England over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Active Directory in England

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 23 May 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
London +5 824 £430 -9.47% 241
South East +13 446 £501 +23.70% 222
North of England -9 250 £300 -6.98% 209
Midlands 0 161 £338 -10.00% 150
South West -14 161 £439 -12.15% 131
North West -12 132 £350 - 115
Yorkshire -7 101 £295 +12.38% 78
East of England -14 98 £250 -28.57% 105
West Midlands -7 97 £350 -6.67% 88
East Midlands -1 60 £300 +34.53% 62
North East +12 15 £500 +78.57% 19
Active Directory
UK

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 409 (20.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 175 (8.87%) SharePoint
3 42 (2.13%) IIS
4 37 (1.88%) Confluence
5 30 (1.52%) Skype for Business
6 28 (1.42%) Exchange Server 2010
7 25 (1.27%) Exchange Server 2013
8 18 (0.91%) CMS
9 14 (0.71%) Exchange Server 2007
10 10 (0.51%) Exchange Server 2003
11 8 (0.41%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 7 (0.35%) Tomcat
13 6 (0.30%) Apache
14 5 (0.25%) JBoss
15 4 (0.20%) Oracle Self-Service HR
16 3 (0.15%) nginx
16 3 (0.15%) WordPress
17 2 (0.10%) OpenStack
18 1 (0.051%) Oracle SOA Suite
18 1 (0.051%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 203 (10.29%) Microsoft Office
2 61 (3.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 32 (1.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.41%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.10%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.051%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.051%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.051%) PTC Creo
7 1 (0.051%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.051%) Trello
7 1 (0.051%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 7 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
1 7 (0.35%) Teamcenter
2 4 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.10%) ION MarketView
3 2 (0.10%) SystmOne
4 1 (0.051%) BusinessWorks
4 1 (0.051%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.051%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.051%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.051%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 817 (41.41%) Azure
2 773 (39.18%) Microsoft 365
3 468 (23.72%) Entra ID
4 191 (9.68%) AWS
5 129 (6.54%) Azure DevOps
6 94 (4.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 92 (4.66%) Azure Monitor
8 81 (4.11%) OneDrive
9 63 (3.19%) Azure Service Bus
9 63 (3.19%) PaaS
10 54 (2.74%) Power Platform
11 48 (2.43%) IaaS
12 42 (2.13%) SaaS
13 41 (2.08%) GCP
14 40 (2.03%) Azure Storage
15 35 (1.77%) GitHub
16 32 (1.62%) Serverless
17 31 (1.57%) Dynamics 365
18 28 (1.42%) Azure Functions
18 28 (1.42%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 336 (17.03%) DNS
2 219 (11.10%) DHCP
3 214 (10.85%) Firewall
4 107 (5.42%) VPN
5 101 (5.12%) SAN
6 91 (4.61%) LAN
7 90 (4.56%) WAN
8 72 (3.65%) TCP/IP
9 67 (3.40%) Wi-Fi
10 53 (2.69%) Wireless
11 47 (2.38%) SSL
12 40 (2.03%) Skype
13 34 (1.72%) NAS
13 34 (1.72%) VLAN
14 32 (1.62%) Network Security
15 27 (1.37%) VoIP
16 26 (1.32%) Remote Desktop
17 24 (1.22%) MPLS
18 17 (0.86%) Internet
18 17 (0.86%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 257 (13.03%) SQL Server
2 36 (1.82%) MySQL
3 30 (1.52%) Power BI
4 25 (1.27%) NoSQL
5 22 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
6 21 (1.06%) Oracle Reports
7 20 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
7 20 (1.01%) Relational Database
8 17 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
8 17 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
9 15 (0.76%) Redis
10 13 (0.66%) Hadoop
11 12 (0.61%) RDBMS
12 11 (0.56%) Oracle Database
13 6 (0.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (0.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 4 (0.20%) Big Data
15 4 (0.20%) Data Lake
16 2 (0.10%) Amazon Redshift
16 2 (0.10%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 90 (4.56%) Git
2 65 (3.29%) JIRA
3 25 (1.27%) Jenkins
3 25 (1.27%) Selenium
4 21 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
5 18 (0.91%) TeamCity
6 17 (0.86%) Robot Framework
7 15 (0.76%) Visual Studio
8 11 (0.56%) SpecFlow
8 11 (0.56%) WebDriver
9 10 (0.51%) Postman
9 10 (0.51%) SonarQube
10 8 (0.41%) GitLab
11 5 (0.25%) Bitbucket Server
11 5 (0.25%) CA Release Automation
11 5 (0.25%) Fiddler
11 5 (0.25%) Hudson
12 4 (0.20%) MSI
13 3 (0.15%) Cucumber
13 3 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 540 (27.37%) Social Skills
2 249 (12.62%) Finance
3 176 (8.92%) Public Sector
4 144 (7.30%) Analytical Skills
5 88 (4.46%) Banking
6 52 (2.64%) Documentation Skills
7 38 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
8 35 (1.77%) Financial Institution
8 35 (1.77%) Manufacturing
9 34 (1.72%) Telecoms
10 30 (1.52%) Retail
11 29 (1.47%) Legal
12 26 (1.32%) Marketing
13 24 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
14 23 (1.17%) Back Office
15 21 (1.06%) Military
16 18 (0.91%) Law
17 15 (0.76%) Electronics
17 15 (0.76%) French Language
17 15 (0.76%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 253 (12.82%) Support Engineer
2 248 (12.57%) Analyst
3 229 (11.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 192 (9.73%) Senior
5 167 (8.46%) Architect
6 164 (8.31%) IT Support
7 125 (6.34%) Developer
8 120 (6.08%) Service Analyst
9 117 (5.93%) Service Desk Analyst
10 114 (5.78%) IT Engineer
11 93 (4.71%) 2nd Line Support
12 92 (4.66%) Desktop Support
13 72 (3.65%) Desktop Engineer
14 70 (3.55%) Senior Developer
14 70 (3.55%) Windows Engineer
15 67 (3.40%) IT Support Engineer
16 65 (3.29%) Azure Engineer
17 62 (3.14%) 2nd Line Engineer
17 62 (3.14%) Active Directory Engineer
17 62 (3.14%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (6.99%) .NET
2 101 (5.12%) XML
3 82 (4.16%) Web Services
4 78 (3.95%) LDAP
5 74 (3.75%) .NET Core
6 71 (3.60%) SailPoint
7 69 (3.50%) HTML
8 62 (3.14%) React
9 42 (2.13%) CSS
9 42 (2.13%) SAML
10 35 (1.77%) ASP.NET
11 33 (1.67%) .NET Framework
12 32 (1.62%) AngularJS
13 29 (1.47%) SOAP
14 27 (1.37%) JSP
15 26 (1.32%) Servlets
15 26 (1.32%) SPML
16 25 (1.27%) REST
17 23 (1.17%) ARM Templates
17 23 (1.17%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 168 (8.51%) PKI
2 79 (4.00%) Data Centre
3 67 (3.40%) Onboarding
4 64 (3.24%) Product Ownership
5 61 (3.09%) Replication
6 52 (2.64%) Clustering
7 51 (2.58%) Self-Motivation
8 49 (2.48%) Management Information System
9 44 (2.23%) Video Conferencing
10 30 (1.52%) iPhone
11 23 (1.17%) Driving Licence
12 20 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
12 20 (1.01%) iPad
12 20 (1.01%) Smartphone
13 19 (0.96%) Public Cloud
14 17 (0.86%) CMDB
14 17 (0.86%) Linux Command Line
14 17 (0.86%) Mobile App
14 17 (0.86%) NHS
15 14 (0.71%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 1,245 (63.10%) Windows
2 533 (27.01%) Windows Server
3 434 (22.00%) Windows 10
4 235 (11.91%) Linux
5 168 (8.51%) Windows Server 2012
6 146 (7.40%) Windows Server 2016
6 146 (7.40%) Windows Server 2019
7 77 (3.90%) Windows 7
8 76 (3.85%) Apple iOS
9 57 (2.89%) Unix
10 54 (2.74%) Mac OS
11 47 (2.38%) Android
12 46 (2.33%) Windows Server 2008
13 39 (1.98%) Ubuntu
14 35 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 34 (1.72%) VMS
16 21 (1.06%) Windows Server 2003
17 18 (0.91%) Windows NT
17 18 (0.91%) Windows XP
18 15 (0.76%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 313 (15.86%) Customer Service
2 293 (14.85%) ITIL
3 267 (13.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 254 (12.87%) Problem-Solving
5 248 (12.57%) DevOps
6 246 (12.47%) Migration
7 243 (12.32%) Agile
8 177 (8.97%) CI/CD
9 102 (5.17%) Identity Access Management
10 99 (5.02%) Disaster Recovery
10 99 (5.02%) Service Management
11 93 (4.71%) RBAC
11 93 (4.71%) Scrum
12 90 (4.56%) Cybersecurity
13 86 (4.36%) Mobile Device Management
14 76 (3.85%) Change Management
15 68 (3.45%) Project Delivery
16 67 (3.40%) B2C
16 67 (3.40%) Service Delivery
17 66 (3.35%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 411 (20.83%) PowerShell
2 195 (9.88%) SQL
3 134 (6.79%) C#
4 118 (5.98%) Python
5 89 (4.51%) Bicep
6 77 (3.90%) JavaScript
7 63 (3.19%) Java
8 37 (1.88%) TypeScript
9 26 (1.32%) VB
10 24 (1.22%) VBScript
11 22 (1.12%) Bash
12 9 (0.46%) C++
12 9 (0.46%) R
13 8 (0.41%) Perl
13 8 (0.41%) PHP
13 8 (0.41%) PL/SQL
14 6 (0.30%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.25%) C
15 5 (0.25%) Ruby
16 4 (0.20%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 453 (22.96%) Security Cleared
2 263 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 247 (12.52%) Degree
4 203 (10.29%) DV Cleared
5 124 (6.28%) Microsoft Certification
6 46 (2.33%) MCSA
7 40 (2.03%) MCSE
8 39 (1.98%) Cisco Certification
9 38 (1.93%) Azure Certification
10 36 (1.82%) CCNA
11 31 (1.57%) ITIL Certification
12 28 (1.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 26 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
14 25 (1.27%) A+ Certification
15 24 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
16 23 (1.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 21 (1.06%) DBS Check
18 19 (0.96%) CCNP
19 18 (0.91%) CISSP
20 16 (0.81%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (4.92%) SLA
2 49 (2.48%) QA
3 20 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (0.91%) NIST
5 16 (0.81%) GDPR
5 16 (0.81%) WCAG
6 15 (0.76%) PCI DSS
7 14 (0.71%) Accessibility
8 8 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (0.35%) ISO 9001
9 7 (0.35%) RMADS
10 5 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 4 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.15%) COBIT
12 3 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.10%) Data Quality
13 2 (0.10%) GRC
13 2 (0.10%) NCSC
13 2 (0.10%) PMO
14 1 (0.051%) NIST 800
System Software
1 292 (14.80%) VMware Infrastructure
2 111 (5.63%) Hyper-V
3 80 (4.05%) Virtual Machines
4 60 (3.04%) Virtual Desktop
5 59 (2.99%) vSphere
6 58 (2.94%) VMware ESXi
7 39 (1.98%) Docker
7 39 (1.98%) XenApp
8 26 (1.32%) IAG
9 25 (1.27%) ACF2
9 25 (1.27%) Firmware
9 25 (1.27%) RACF
10 21 (1.06%) VMware NSX
10 21 (1.06%) XenDesktop
11 17 (0.86%) Virtual Servers
11 17 (0.86%) VMware Workstation
12 16 (0.81%) NFS
13 13 (0.66%) BitLocker
13 13 (0.66%) HDFS
14 9 (0.46%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 332 (16.83%) SCCM
2 224 (11.35%) Microsoft Intune
3 103 (5.22%) WSUS
4 77 (3.90%) Single Sign-On
5 72 (3.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 72 (3.65%) Kubernetes
6 71 (3.60%) Terraform
7 63 (3.19%) SCOM
8 56 (2.84%) Ansible
9 45 (2.28%) vCenter Server
10 38 (1.93%) Jamf Pro
11 25 (1.27%) NetBackup
12 21 (1.06%) EMC NetWorker
13 18 (0.91%) Kibana
13 18 (0.91%) Sysprep
14 15 (0.76%) Failover Clustering
14 15 (0.76%) Microsoft Clustering
15 13 (0.66%) Nessus
16 11 (0.56%) FortiGate
16 11 (0.56%) logstash
Vendors
1 1,044 (52.91%) Microsoft
2 398 (20.17%) VMware
3 174 (8.82%) Citrix
4 172 (8.72%) ServiceNow
5 99 (5.02%) Oracle
6 95 (4.82%) Apple
6 95 (4.82%) Cisco
7 63 (3.19%) CyberArk
8 62 (3.14%) Veeam
9 53 (2.69%) HP
10 50 (2.53%) Dell
11 38 (1.93%) EMC
11 38 (1.93%) Okta
11 38 (1.93%) SAP
12 30 (1.52%) Red Hat
13 29 (1.47%) Palo Alto
14 26 (1.32%) CA
14 26 (1.32%) Ivanti
15 24 (1.22%) Google
16 23 (1.17%) Symantec