Active Directory Contracts in the East Midlands

Microsoft Active Directory
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 17 9
Rank change year-on-year +1 -8 -3
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 60 96 165
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 7.84% 9.47% 11.84%
As % of the System Software category 63.83% 56.80% 72.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 72 111
10th Percentile £145 £117 £106
25th Percentile £160 £161 £134
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £250 £220
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +13.64% +3.53%
75th Percentile £403 £399 £338
90th Percentile £546 £549 £450
England median daily rate £425 £425 £399
% change year-on-year - +6.58% +4.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 13 17
10th Percentile - £11.54 £9.07
25th Percentile £45.22 £14.52 £13.25
Median hourly rate £48.56 £17.72 £16.25
Median % change year-on-year +174.04% +9.05% +35.33%
75th Percentile £51.91 £26.48 £22.75
90th Percentile - £40.25 £23.45
England median hourly rate £17.50 £19.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year -10.26% +11.43% +9.38%

All System Software Skills
East Midlands

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 Midlands with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 94 169 229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 12.29% 16.67% 16.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 130 156
10th Percentile £145 £122 £126
25th Percentile £192 £223 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £375 £256
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +46.34% -16.67%
75th Percentile £468 £573 £443
90th Percentile £566 £691 £523
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 17 18
10th Percentile - £12.12 £9.17
25th Percentile £45.22 £15.25 £13.28
Median hourly rate £48.56 £26.48 £17.38
Median % change year-on-year +83.38% +52.40% +44.70%
75th Percentile £51.91 £40.25 £22.75
90th Percentile - £65.00 £23.58
England median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £18.68
% change year-on-year -58.00% +167.74% -6.63%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in the East Midlands

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in the East Midlands

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in the East Midlands

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in the East Midlands

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 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
Northamptonshire +1 17 £383 +84.58% 10
Derbyshire 0 17 £160 +31.15% 17
Leicestershire +7 16 £431 +72.50% 9
Nottinghamshire -5 6 £210 -44.00% 13
Lincolnshire +11 4 £368 -34.38% 15
Active Directory
England

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 14 (23.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (15.00%) SharePoint
3 5 (8.33%) JBoss
Applications
1 5 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 28 (46.67%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (18.33%) Azure
3 8 (13.33%) Entra ID
4 5 (8.33%) AWS
4 5 (8.33%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.67%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.67%) TCP/IP
2 6 (10.00%) DNS
3 3 (5.00%) Ethernet
4 2 (3.33%) Firewall
4 2 (3.33%) LAN
4 2 (3.33%) NetScaler
4 2 (3.33%) VoIP
4 2 (3.33%) VPN
4 2 (3.33%) WAN
5 1 (1.67%) DHCP
5 1 (1.67%) DSL
5 1 (1.67%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (1.67%) Internet
5 1 (1.67%) Network Security
5 1 (1.67%) PBX
5 1 (1.67%) SAN
5 1 (1.67%) VLAN
5 1 (1.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 5 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (8.33%) RDBMS
2 5 (8.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.67%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 9 (15.00%) JIRA
2 6 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 5 (8.33%) Bitbucket Server
3 5 (8.33%) CA Release Automation
3 5 (8.33%) Git
3 5 (8.33%) SonarQube
3 5 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
3 5 (8.33%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (13.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (6.67%) Manufacturing
3 3 (5.00%) Banking
3 3 (5.00%) Finance
3 3 (5.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.67%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 21 (35.00%) Support Engineer
2 12 (20.00%) IT Support
3 10 (16.67%) IT Engineer
4 9 (15.00%) Analyst
4 9 (15.00%) Service Desk Analyst
5 8 (13.33%) 2nd Line Support
5 8 (13.33%) IT Support Engineer
5 8 (13.33%) Service Analyst
6 7 (11.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (10.00%) Windows Engineer
8 5 (8.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 5 (8.33%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 5 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (8.33%) Consultant
8 5 (8.33%) DBA
9 4 (6.67%) Architect
9 4 (6.67%) Designer
9 4 (6.67%) SQL DBA
10 3 (5.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
10 3 (5.00%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (8.33%) Spring Boot
2 3 (5.00%) LDAP
2 3 (5.00%) OAuth
2 3 (5.00%) OpenID
2 3 (5.00%) SailPoint
2 3 (5.00%) SAML
2 3 (5.00%) Web Services
3 1 (1.67%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.33%) Driving Licence
2 2 (3.33%) iPad
3 1 (1.67%) Fat Client
3 1 (1.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.67%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.67%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 51 (85.00%) Windows
2 24 (40.00%) Windows Server
3 17 (28.33%) Windows 10
4 7 (11.67%) Linux
5 5 (8.33%) Apple iOS
5 5 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (6.67%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (3.33%) Windows 7
8 2 (3.33%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (1.67%) Mac OS
9 1 (1.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (18.33%) Customer Service
2 10 (16.67%) Migration
3 8 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 7 (11.67%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (10.00%) CI/CD
5 6 (10.00%) DevOps
6 5 (8.33%) Build Automation
6 5 (8.33%) Code Quality
6 5 (8.33%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (8.33%) Data Modelling
6 5 (8.33%) Deployment Automation
6 5 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (8.33%) High Availability
6 5 (8.33%) Mentoring
6 5 (8.33%) Microservices
6 5 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (6.67%) Agile
7 4 (6.67%) Digital Strategy
8 3 (5.00%) RBAC
8 3 (5.00%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (15.00%) PowerShell
1 9 (15.00%) Python
2 6 (10.00%) SQL
3 5 (8.33%) Perl
4 3 (5.00%) Bash
5 1 (1.67%) C#
5 1 (1.67%) Ruby
5 1 (1.67%) VB
Qualifications
1 10 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (15.00%) SC Cleared
2 9 (15.00%) Security Cleared
3 5 (8.33%) Degree
3 5 (8.33%) MCITP
3 5 (8.33%) MCTS
4 2 (3.33%) Citrix Certification
4 2 (3.33%) MCSE
5 1 (1.67%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.67%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.67%) GDPR
1 1 (1.67%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (8.33%) Docker
2 4 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.33%) Hyper-V
3 2 (3.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (3.33%) XenApp
3 2 (3.33%) XenDesktop
4 1 (1.67%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 7 (11.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 7 (11.67%) SCCM
2 6 (10.00%) Progress Chef
3 5 (8.33%) Kibana
3 5 (8.33%) Kubernetes
4 3 (5.00%) Autotask
4 3 (5.00%) SCOM
4 3 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.67%) Terraform
5 1 (1.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 28 (46.67%) Microsoft
2 9 (15.00%) VMware
3 6 (10.00%) ServiceNow
3 6 (10.00%) Splunk
4 5 (8.33%) AppDynamics
4 5 (8.33%) Red Hat
5 4 (6.67%) Citrix
6 3 (5.00%) Cisco
6 3 (5.00%) Okta
6 3 (5.00%) Remedy
7 1 (1.67%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.67%) Oracle
7 1 (1.67%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.67%) SolarWinds