Active Directory Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Active Directory
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 24 24 21
Rank change year-on-year 0 -3 +3
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 1,284 1,692 2,309
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.10% 7.43% 7.50%
As % of the System Software category 50.83% 49.17% 49.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 909 1,220 1,655
10th Percentile £150 £155 £135
25th Percentile £200 £200 £170
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £350 £281
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +24.78% -13.69%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £473
90th Percentile £650 £675 £575
UK median daily rate £425 £425 £400
% change year-on-year - +6.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 91 195
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.25 £12.52
25th Percentile £14.16 £15.38 £14.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £18.50 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year -13.51% +10.45% +9.84%
75th Percentile £18.38 £40.25 £20.33
90th Percentile £40.00 £64.50 £25.00
UK median hourly rate £17.60 £22.00 £17.25
% change year-on-year -20.02% +27.54% +7.81%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 2,526 3,441 4,646
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.00% 15.11% 15.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,723 2,421 3,311
10th Percentile £183 £180 £158
25th Percentile £313 £306 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £479 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.84% +6.44% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £550
90th Percentile £650 £688 £640
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 164 231
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.25 £12.73
25th Percentile £14.16 £16.44 £14.25
Median hourly rate £25.84 £48.12 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.30% +174.94% -3.81%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £23.00
90th Percentile £79.80 £75.00 £49.52
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £54.83 £19.00
% change year-on-year -55.90% +188.58% -5.00%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Active Directory as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in the UK excluding London

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in the UK excluding London

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in the UK excluding London

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in the UK excluding London

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Active Directory in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Active Directory in the UK excluding London

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London 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
South East +15 452 £525 +23.53% 210
North of England -11 243 £313 +4.17% 191
Midlands 0 179 £338 -4.32% 143
South West -17 160 £445 -11.08% 123
Scotland +22 141 £340 +23.64% 63
North West -12 129 £375 +15.38% 102
West Midlands -5 110 £338 -10.00% 76
Yorkshire -12 97 £286 +14.30% 71
East of England -17 93 £258 -26.43% 73
East Midlands -3 65 £331 +48.54% 67
Wales -8 20 £138 -25.46% 16
North East +10 15 £500 +78.57% 20
Northern Ireland -19 2 £363 -14.71% 1
Active Directory
UK

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 270 (21.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 119 (9.27%) SharePoint
3 32 (2.49%) Confluence
4 31 (2.41%) IIS
5 8 (0.62%) Skype for Business
6 6 (0.47%) Tomcat
7 5 (0.39%) JBoss
8 4 (0.31%) Apache
8 4 (0.31%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2013
9 2 (0.16%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 146 (11.37%) Microsoft Office
2 50 (3.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.47%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.16%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.078%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.078%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.078%) PTC Creo
6 1 (0.078%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.078%) Trello
6 1 (0.078%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 7 (0.55%) Teamcenter
2 6 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.23%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.078%) assyst
4 1 (0.078%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.078%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.078%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 503 (39.17%) Microsoft 365
2 424 (33.02%) Azure
3 239 (18.61%) Entra ID
4 110 (8.57%) AWS
5 54 (4.21%) Azure Monitor
6 43 (3.35%) OneDrive
7 28 (2.18%) Power Platform
8 22 (1.71%) Azure Data Factory
9 21 (1.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 21 (1.64%) Azure Functions
9 21 (1.64%) Serverless
10 20 (1.56%) Azure Storage
10 20 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
11 16 (1.25%) IaaS
12 15 (1.17%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (1.17%) PaaS
13 14 (1.09%) Azure Logic Apps
13 14 (1.09%) OCI
13 14 (1.09%) PowerApps
14 13 (1.01%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 241 (18.77%) DNS
2 182 (14.17%) DHCP
3 139 (10.83%) Firewall
4 86 (6.70%) VPN
5 70 (5.45%) SAN
6 63 (4.91%) LAN
7 62 (4.83%) WAN
8 52 (4.05%) Wi-Fi
9 47 (3.66%) TCP/IP
10 45 (3.50%) SSL
11 40 (3.12%) Wireless
12 25 (1.95%) VLAN
13 24 (1.87%) Remote Desktop
14 20 (1.56%) NAS
15 18 (1.40%) Network Security
16 14 (1.09%) NetScaler
16 14 (1.09%) Skype
16 14 (1.09%) VoIP
17 13 (1.01%) Kerberos
18 11 (0.86%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (5.06%) SQL Server
2 21 (1.64%) Power BI
3 20 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
3 20 (1.56%) NoSQL
4 13 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
5 11 (0.86%) Oracle Database
6 10 (0.78%) MySQL
7 8 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (0.47%) RDBMS
8 6 (0.47%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.31%) Big Data
10 3 (0.23%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (0.16%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.078%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.078%) MongoDB
12 1 (0.078%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 48 (3.74%) JIRA
2 38 (2.96%) Git
3 21 (1.64%) Sonatype Nexus
4 15 (1.17%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.17%) Robot Framework
5 10 (0.78%) Selenium
6 9 (0.70%) Bitbucket
7 7 (0.55%) SonarQube
8 5 (0.39%) Bitbucket Server
8 5 (0.39%) CA Release Automation
8 5 (0.39%) GitLab
8 5 (0.39%) MSI
8 5 (0.39%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.31%) Fiddler
9 4 (0.31%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.16%) JMeter
10 2 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.078%) Gradle
11 1 (0.078%) Liquibase
11 1 (0.078%) Oracle APEX
General
1 408 (31.78%) Social Skills
2 123 (9.58%) Public Sector
3 99 (7.71%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (3.89%) Finance
5 31 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
5 31 (2.41%) Manufacturing
6 30 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
7 24 (1.87%) Banking
8 21 (1.64%) Military
9 19 (1.48%) Retail
10 15 (1.17%) Legal
11 13 (1.01%) Aerospace
12 12 (0.93%) Automotive
13 10 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
13 10 (0.78%) Telecoms
14 8 (0.62%) Law
15 7 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
16 6 (0.47%) Local Government
16 6 (0.47%) Marketing
17 5 (0.39%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 194 (15.11%) Analyst
2 175 (13.63%) Support Engineer
3 153 (11.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 121 (9.42%) IT Support
5 118 (9.19%) Architect
6 96 (7.48%) Service Desk Analyst
7 95 (7.40%) Service Analyst
8 76 (5.92%) IT Engineer
9 72 (5.61%) 2nd Line Support
10 58 (4.52%) Desktop Support
10 58 (4.52%) Senior
11 54 (4.21%) Support Analyst
12 52 (4.05%) Desktop Engineer
13 51 (3.97%) Active Directory Support
14 46 (3.58%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 46 (3.58%) Active Directory Engineer
14 46 (3.58%) IT Analyst
15 45 (3.50%) Windows Engineer
16 44 (3.43%) IT Support Engineer
17 43 (3.35%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (4.44%) Web Services
2 26 (2.02%) LDAP
3 25 (1.95%) ARM Templates
3 25 (1.95%) SailPoint
3 25 (1.95%) SAML
4 20 (1.56%) React
5 18 (1.40%) .NET
5 18 (1.40%) OpenID
6 16 (1.25%) Elastic Stack
7 13 (1.01%) OAuth
8 11 (0.86%) RESTful
9 9 (0.70%) ADO
10 7 (0.55%) JSON
10 7 (0.55%) OAuth2
10 7 (0.55%) XML
11 6 (0.47%) .NET Framework
11 6 (0.47%) Spring Boot
12 5 (0.39%) .NET Core
13 4 (0.31%) REST
13 4 (0.31%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 158 (12.31%) PKI
2 52 (4.05%) Data Centre
3 40 (3.12%) Self-Motivation
4 37 (2.88%) Clustering
5 24 (1.87%) Product Ownership
6 22 (1.71%) Driving Licence
6 22 (1.71%) Replication
7 20 (1.56%) iPhone
8 17 (1.32%) Onboarding
9 16 (1.25%) CMDB
9 16 (1.25%) iPad
9 16 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
10 13 (1.01%) Digital Signage
10 13 (1.01%) Management Information System
11 12 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (0.93%) Video Conferencing
12 11 (0.86%) Fat Client
12 11 (0.86%) Thin Client
13 10 (0.78%) NHS
14 9 (0.70%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 871 (67.83%) Windows
2 374 (29.13%) Windows Server
3 342 (26.64%) Windows 10
4 169 (13.16%) Linux
5 125 (9.74%) Windows Server 2019
6 124 (9.66%) Windows Server 2016
7 121 (9.42%) Windows Server 2012
8 65 (5.06%) Apple iOS
9 51 (3.97%) Windows 7
10 35 (2.73%) Ubuntu
11 30 (2.34%) Mac OS
12 25 (1.95%) Android
13 23 (1.79%) Unix
13 23 (1.79%) VMS
14 18 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 17 (1.32%) Windows Server 2008
16 16 (1.25%) Windows NT
17 15 (1.17%) Windows XP
18 12 (0.93%) CentOS
19 10 (0.78%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 248 (19.31%) ITIL
2 238 (18.54%) Customer Service
3 179 (13.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 177 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
5 121 (9.42%) Migration
6 109 (8.49%) Agile
7 84 (6.54%) DevOps
8 75 (5.84%) Service Management
9 69 (5.37%) CI/CD
10 66 (5.14%) Identity Access Management
11 60 (4.67%) Cybersecurity
11 60 (4.67%) Mobile Device Management
11 60 (4.67%) Release Management
11 60 (4.67%) Service Delivery
12 53 (4.13%) Change Management
13 51 (3.97%) High Availability
14 50 (3.89%) Identity Management
15 48 (3.74%) Disaster Recovery
16 46 (3.58%) Cryptography
16 46 (3.58%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 231 (17.99%) PowerShell
2 90 (7.01%) SQL
3 69 (5.37%) Python
4 27 (2.10%) VBScript
5 26 (2.02%) C#
6 22 (1.71%) Bicep
7 21 (1.64%) VB
8 17 (1.32%) Java
9 10 (0.78%) Bash
9 10 (0.78%) JavaScript
10 9 (0.70%) C
11 8 (0.62%) C++
11 8 (0.62%) PHP
11 8 (0.62%) R
12 7 (0.55%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.47%) Go
14 5 (0.39%) Perl
15 4 (0.31%) Ruby
16 3 (0.23%) VB.NET
17 2 (0.16%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 418 (32.55%) Security Cleared
2 276 (21.50%) SC Cleared
3 209 (16.28%) Degree
4 177 (13.79%) DV Cleared
5 102 (7.94%) Microsoft Certification
6 50 (3.89%) MCSE
7 44 (3.43%) MCSA
8 33 (2.57%) A+ Certification
9 32 (2.49%) Cisco Certification
10 31 (2.41%) CCNA
11 29 (2.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 26 (2.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 25 (1.95%) ITIL Certification
14 22 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
15 21 (1.64%) Azure Certification
16 16 (1.25%) DBS Check
16 16 (1.25%) MCP
17 15 (1.17%) CCNP
18 14 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
19 12 (0.93%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (5.37%) SLA
2 35 (2.73%) QA
3 12 (0.93%) Disclosure Scotland
4 8 (0.62%) NIST
5 7 (0.55%) GDPR
5 7 (0.55%) RMADS
6 6 (0.47%) ISO 9001
6 6 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 6 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.31%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.078%) COBIT
10 1 (0.078%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 233 (18.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 98 (7.63%) Hyper-V
3 58 (4.52%) VMware ESXi
4 57 (4.44%) Virtual Machines
5 54 (4.21%) Virtual Desktop
6 39 (3.04%) vSphere
7 34 (2.65%) XenApp
8 17 (1.32%) Firmware
8 17 (1.32%) XenDesktop
9 16 (1.25%) BitLocker
9 16 (1.25%) Docker
9 16 (1.25%) VMware NSX
9 16 (1.25%) VMware Workstation
10 13 (1.01%) Virtual Servers
11 8 (0.62%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 8 (0.62%) iptables
11 8 (0.62%) KVM
12 7 (0.55%) Microsoft App-V
12 7 (0.55%) Terminal Services
13 6 (0.47%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 264 (20.56%) SCCM
2 154 (11.99%) Microsoft Intune
3 110 (8.57%) WSUS
4 53 (4.13%) SCOM
5 51 (3.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 42 (3.27%) Kubernetes
6 42 (3.27%) vCenter Server
7 40 (3.12%) Single Sign-On
8 29 (2.26%) Ansible
8 29 (2.26%) Terraform
9 22 (1.71%) NetBackup
10 17 (1.32%) Jamf Pro
11 16 (1.25%) Kibana
11 16 (1.25%) Nessus
11 16 (1.25%) Sysprep
12 14 (1.09%) EMC NetWorker
13 12 (0.93%) Microsoft Clustering
14 11 (0.86%) Autotask
14 11 (0.86%) Failover Clustering
15 10 (0.78%) logstash
Vendors
1 653 (50.86%) Microsoft
2 306 (23.83%) VMware
3 118 (9.19%) Citrix
4 80 (6.23%) ServiceNow
5 68 (5.30%) Cisco
6 56 (4.36%) Apple
7 55 (4.28%) Oracle
8 32 (2.49%) CyberArk
9 29 (2.26%) HP
9 29 (2.26%) Veeam
10 28 (2.18%) Red Hat
11 26 (2.02%) Dell
12 24 (1.87%) Symantec
13 21 (1.64%) NetApp
14 20 (1.56%) Ivanti
15 19 (1.48%) Okta
16 18 (1.40%) Palo Alto
17 17 (1.32%) CA
17 17 (1.32%) EMC
18 15 (1.17%) Juniper