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 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 41 40 68
Rank change year-on-year -1 +28 -15
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 631 1,238 1,658
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 4.29% 5.15% 3.73%
As % of the System Software category 43.79% 41.97% 30.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 463 909 1,234
10th Percentile £178 £187 £185
25th Percentile £333 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +1.12%
75th Percentile £608 £586 £564
90th Percentile £675 £700 £638
UK median daily rate £425 £425 £400
% change year-on-year - +6.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 38 53
10th Percentile - £14.43 £13.27
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.27 £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 £78.00 £64.55
UK median hourly rate £17.60 £22.00 £17.25
% change year-on-year -20.02% +27.54% +7.81%

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 1,441 2,950 5,388
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 9.80% 12.27% 12.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,078 2,096 4,014
10th Percentile £290 £283 £319
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £618 £633 £625
90th Percentile £677 £722 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 108 87
10th Percentile - £17.57 £15.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £47.50 £18.15
Median hourly rate £40.25 £65.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.08% +150.00% +6.12%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £58.13
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.98 £66.30
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £54.83 £19.00
% change year-on-year -55.90% +188.58% -5.00%

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 6 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
1 154 (24.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (4.91%) SharePoint
3 21 (3.33%) Confluence
4 19 (3.01%) IIS
5 12 (1.90%) Exchange Server 2007
5 12 (1.90%) Exchange Server 2010
6 11 (1.74%) Exchange Server 2003
6 11 (1.74%) Exchange Server 2013
6 11 (1.74%) Skype for Business
7 8 (1.27%) 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 41 (6.50%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.48%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (1.11%) 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
1 316 (50.08%) Azure
2 216 (34.23%) Microsoft 365
3 199 (31.54%) Entra ID
4 107 (16.96%) AWS
5 43 (6.81%) Azure Monitor
6 39 (6.18%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (4.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 26 (4.12%) OneDrive
9 25 (3.96%) Azure Storage
10 23 (3.65%) PaaS
11 21 (3.33%) GitHub
12 19 (3.01%) Dynamics 365
12 19 (3.01%) Power Platform
13 18 (2.85%) IaaS
14 16 (2.54%) Azure Sentinel
14 16 (2.54%) Azure Service Bus
14 16 (2.54%) SaaS
15 15 (2.38%) GCP
16 11 (1.74%) AWS CloudFormation
17 10 (1.58%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 106 (16.80%) DNS
2 88 (13.95%) Firewall
3 72 (11.41%) DHCP
4 40 (6.34%) SSL
5 36 (5.71%) SAN
5 36 (5.71%) VPN
6 22 (3.49%) Network Security
7 20 (3.17%) TCP/IP
8 16 (2.54%) NAS
9 12 (1.90%) Skype
10 11 (1.74%) VLAN
10 11 (1.74%) WAN
10 11 (1.74%) Wireless
11 10 (1.58%) LAN
12 8 (1.27%) FTP
12 8 (1.27%) Kerberos
12 8 (1.27%) NetScaler
13 6 (0.95%) Remote Desktop
14 4 (0.63%) SD-WAN
14 4 (0.63%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (13.00%) SQL Server
2 21 (3.33%) MySQL
3 18 (2.85%) Amazon RDS
4 15 (2.38%) Oracle Reports
5 10 (1.58%) Relational Database
6 7 (1.11%) Hadoop
6 7 (1.11%) NoSQL
6 7 (1.11%) Oracle Database
7 6 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (0.79%) RDBMS
9 4 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (0.63%) Big Data
9 4 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (0.63%) Power BI
9 4 (0.63%) 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 (5.07%) JIRA
2 31 (4.91%) Git
3 15 (2.38%) Jenkins
4 11 (1.74%) TeamCity
5 8 (1.27%) Selenium
6 5 (0.79%) Visual Studio
7 4 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (0.63%) SpecFlow
7 4 (0.63%) 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
1 135 (21.39%) Social Skills
2 102 (16.16%) Finance
3 79 (12.52%) Public Sector
4 30 (4.75%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (4.44%) Banking
6 20 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
7 16 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
9 14 (2.22%) Financial Institution
10 11 (1.74%) Manufacturing
11 10 (1.58%) Retail
12 9 (1.43%) Back Office
13 8 (1.27%) Telecoms
14 7 (1.11%) Marketing
15 5 (0.79%) French Language
16 4 (0.63%) Automotive
16 4 (0.63%) Front Office
16 4 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 4 (0.63%) Law
16 4 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 80 (12.68%) Architect
2 67 (10.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 62 (9.83%) Senior
4 59 (9.35%) Analyst
5 47 (7.45%) Developer
6 41 (6.50%) Support Engineer
7 37 (5.86%) Consultant
8 34 (5.39%) Service Analyst
9 33 (5.23%) Service Desk Analyst
10 27 (4.28%) Azure Engineer
11 26 (4.12%) Senior Developer
12 25 (3.96%) Support Specialist
13 23 (3.65%) Active Directory Engineer
13 23 (3.65%) Security Engineer
14 22 (3.49%) Active Directory Support
15 20 (3.17%) IT Engineer
16 19 (3.01%) Cloud Engineer
16 19 (3.01%) IT Support
16 19 (3.01%) Support Analyst
17 18 (2.85%) Azure Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (8.40%) Web Services
2 46 (7.29%) .NET
2 46 (7.29%) LDAP
3 38 (6.02%) XML
4 29 (4.60%) SailPoint
5 28 (4.44%) HTML
6 26 (4.12%) ARM Templates
7 25 (3.96%) .NET Core
8 20 (3.17%) SAML
9 19 (3.01%) React
10 18 (2.85%) SOAP
11 16 (2.54%) ASP.NET
11 16 (2.54%) JSP
11 16 (2.54%) Servlets
11 16 (2.54%) SPML
12 15 (2.38%) JDBC
13 13 (2.06%) CSS
13 13 (2.06%) OAuth
14 11 (1.74%) OpenID
15 9 (1.43%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 73 (11.57%) PKI
2 33 (5.23%) Data Centre
3 27 (4.28%) Onboarding
4 26 (4.12%) Self-Motivation
5 25 (3.96%) Replication
6 24 (3.80%) Product Ownership
7 19 (3.01%) Video Conferencing
8 16 (2.54%) Clustering
9 14 (2.22%) Management Information System
10 12 (1.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 10 (1.58%) Mobile App
12 7 (1.11%) Blog
12 7 (1.11%) Virtual Team
13 6 (0.95%) Cloud Native
13 6 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
14 5 (0.79%) Hedge funds
14 5 (0.79%) Smartphone
15 4 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
15 4 (0.63%) Hybrid Cloud
15 4 (0.63%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 339 (53.72%) Windows
2 141 (22.35%) Windows Server
3 98 (15.53%) Windows 10
4 95 (15.06%) Linux
5 58 (9.19%) Windows Server 2016
6 42 (6.66%) Windows Server 2012
7 36 (5.71%) Windows Server 2019
8 17 (2.69%) Windows Server 2003
9 16 (2.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 16 (2.54%) Windows Server 2008
10 15 (2.38%) Apple iOS
10 15 (2.38%) Windows 7
11 14 (2.22%) Unix
12 12 (1.90%) Ubuntu
13 9 (1.43%) VMS
14 8 (1.27%) Android
15 6 (0.95%) Oracle Linux
16 5 (0.79%) CentOS
16 5 (0.79%) Solaris
17 4 (0.63%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (16.64%) DevOps
1 105 (16.64%) Migration
2 88 (13.95%) Agile
3 84 (13.31%) ITIL
4 81 (12.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 76 (12.04%) CI/CD
6 65 (10.30%) Problem-Solving
7 53 (8.40%) Customer Service
8 50 (7.92%) RBAC
9 47 (7.45%) Infrastructure as Code
10 42 (6.66%) Disaster Recovery
11 41 (6.50%) Identity Management
12 39 (6.18%) Identity Access Management
13 38 (6.02%) Cybersecurity
14 35 (5.55%) Cryptography
15 33 (5.23%) Analytics
15 33 (5.23%) Key Management
16 32 (5.07%) Multi-Factor Authentication
17 29 (4.60%) Service Management
18 28 (4.44%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 166 (26.31%) PowerShell
2 74 (11.73%) SQL
3 59 (9.35%) C#
4 47 (7.45%) Bicep
5 40 (6.34%) Python
6 36 (5.71%) JavaScript
7 28 (4.44%) Java
8 25 (3.96%) VB
9 24 (3.80%) VBScript
10 13 (2.06%) TypeScript
11 10 (1.58%) Bash
12 7 (1.11%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.79%) C++
14 4 (0.63%) Perl
15 3 (0.48%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
16 2 (0.32%) Ruby
16 2 (0.32%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.32%) VB.NET
16 2 (0.32%) XPath
Qualifications
1 144 (22.82%) Security Cleared
2 124 (19.65%) SC Cleared
3 110 (17.43%) Degree
4 54 (8.56%) DV Cleared
5 36 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (3.33%) AWS Certification
6 21 (3.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 16 (2.54%) Azure Certification
8 11 (1.74%) MCSA
8 11 (1.74%) MCSE
9 10 (1.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 10 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.79%) CEH
11 5 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (0.79%) MCITP
12 4 (0.63%) OSCP
12 4 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.48%) CREST Certified
13 3 (0.48%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.96%) SLA
2 10 (1.58%) GDPR
2 10 (1.58%) PCI DSS
3 9 (1.43%) Disclosure Scotland
3 9 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (1.43%) NIST
4 8 (1.27%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.27%) WCAG
5 7 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (0.63%) 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 58 (9.19%) VMware Infrastructure
2 41 (6.50%) Virtual Machines
3 32 (5.07%) Virtual Desktop
4 24 (3.80%) Hyper-V
5 22 (3.49%) vSphere
6 21 (3.33%) Docker
7 16 (2.54%) ACF2
7 16 (2.54%) IAG
7 16 (2.54%) RACF
8 15 (2.38%) XenApp
9 11 (1.74%) VMware ESXi
10 10 (1.58%) XenDesktop
11 7 (1.11%) HDFS
11 7 (1.11%) NFS
12 6 (0.95%) 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 95 (15.06%) SCCM
2 70 (11.09%) Microsoft Intune
3 43 (6.81%) Kubernetes
4 32 (5.07%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 29 (4.60%) WSUS
6 25 (3.96%) SCOM
6 25 (3.96%) Terraform
7 24 (3.80%) Single Sign-On
8 20 (3.17%) Ansible
9 6 (0.95%) Kibana
9 6 (0.95%) Nessus
9 6 (0.95%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.79%) EMC NetWorker
10 5 (0.79%) Jamf Pro
10 5 (0.79%) Netcool
10 5 (0.79%) Puppet
10 5 (0.79%) Tivoli
10 5 (0.79%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 5 (0.79%) vCenter Server
11 4 (0.63%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 298 (47.23%) Microsoft
2 88 (13.95%) VMware
3 56 (8.87%) ServiceNow
4 55 (8.72%) Citrix
5 48 (7.61%) Oracle
6 30 (4.75%) Cisco
6 30 (4.75%) HP
7 27 (4.28%) CyberArk
8 20 (3.17%) Qualys
9 17 (2.69%) SAP
10 15 (2.38%) CA
10 15 (2.38%) Sybase
11 14 (2.22%) Avaya
11 14 (2.22%) Dell
11 14 (2.22%) EMC
11 14 (2.22%) Okta
11 14 (2.22%) Zscaler
12 12 (1.90%) CheckPoint
12 12 (1.90%) Isilon
13 11 (1.74%) Apple