Active Directory Contracts in Leeds

Microsoft Active Directory
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds requiring Active Directory skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Active Directory over the 6 months leading up to 1 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 27 40
Rank change year-on-year +8 +13 +10
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 45 43 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 10.59% 5.21% 4.72%
As % of the System Software category 62.50% 43.00% 46.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 37 60
10th Percentile £220 £203 £156
25th Percentile £243 £313 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +2.63% +105.41%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile - £713 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £400 £363 £413
% change year-on-year +10.34% -12.12% +106.25%

All System Software Skills
Leeds

Active Directory falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 72 100 144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 16.94% 12.12% 10.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 77 117
10th Percentile £222 £263 £195
25th Percentile £288 £313 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £600 £665 £603
West Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £459 £500
% change year-on-year -7.36% -8.25% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £14.06 £61.25
Median hourly rate - £14.63 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year - -77.92% +231.25%
75th Percentile - £15.19 £70.00
90th Percentile - £19.87 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £14.63 £62.50
% change year-on-year - -76.60% +254.31%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Leeds

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in Leeds

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in Leeds over the 6 months to 1 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in Leeds

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in Leeds

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 16 (35.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 12 (26.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (17.78%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.22%) Confluence
4 1 (2.22%) nginx
4 1 (2.22%) Traefik
Applications
1 11 (24.44%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 17 (37.78%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (28.89%) Entra ID
3 12 (26.67%) Azure
4 5 (11.11%) OneDrive
5 3 (6.67%) AWS
5 3 (6.67%) IaaS
5 3 (6.67%) PaaS
6 2 (4.44%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.22%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.22%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (2.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 25 (55.56%) DNS
2 6 (13.33%) VLAN
2 6 (13.33%) VPN
2 6 (13.33%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (11.11%) DHCP
3 5 (11.11%) LAN
3 5 (11.11%) VoIP
3 5 (11.11%) WAN
4 4 (8.89%) Firewall
5 3 (6.67%) Network Security
6 1 (2.22%) Internet
6 1 (2.22%) Kerberos
6 1 (2.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (42.22%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.22%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.22%) GitLab
1 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.22%) JIRA
General
1 21 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.67%) Local Government
2 3 (6.67%) Telecoms
3 2 (4.44%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.22%) Finance
4 1 (2.22%) Legal
4 1 (2.22%) Military
Job Titles
1 15 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (17.78%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 8 (17.78%) IT Engineer
3 7 (15.56%) Engineering Specialist
3 7 (15.56%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (13.33%) Support Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Desktop Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Desktop Support
5 4 (8.89%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Linux Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Network Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Analyst
6 3 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Security Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Architect
7 2 (4.44%) Deployment Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.44%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.44%) LDAP
2 1 (2.22%) cloud-init
2 1 (2.22%) Kafka
2 1 (2.22%) Keycloak
2 1 (2.22%) OAuth
2 1 (2.22%) OpenID
2 1 (2.22%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (37.78%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (4.44%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.22%) CCTV
3 1 (2.22%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.22%) Fat Client
3 1 (2.22%) PKI
3 1 (2.22%) Thin Client
3 1 (2.22%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 35 (77.78%) Windows
2 22 (48.89%) Linux
2 22 (48.89%) Windows Server
3 7 (15.56%) Windows 10
4 3 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.22%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (2.22%) CentOS
5 1 (2.22%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.22%) Unix
5 1 (2.22%) VMS
5 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (53.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (37.78%) Agile
3 16 (35.56%) Microservices
3 16 (35.56%) Security Management
3 16 (35.56%) SOA
4 14 (31.11%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (31.11%) Server Management
5 9 (20.00%) Migration
6 7 (15.56%) Customer Service
6 7 (15.56%) Identity Access Management
7 6 (13.33%) Roadmaps
7 6 (13.33%) Technology Roadmap
8 4 (8.89%) Identity Management
9 3 (6.67%) Attestation
9 3 (6.67%) Data Protection
9 3 (6.67%) Information Security
9 3 (6.67%) Mentoring
9 3 (6.67%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 3 (6.67%) Technical Architecture
10 2 (4.44%) Privileged Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (44.44%) Bash
1 20 (44.44%) PowerShell
2 19 (42.22%) SQL
3 18 (40.00%) PL/SQL
4 16 (35.56%) Perl
5 3 (6.67%) VBA
6 1 (2.22%) Go
6 1 (2.22%) Python
Qualifications
1 22 (48.89%) Cisco Certification
2 20 (44.44%) Security Cleared
3 17 (37.78%) SC Cleared
4 3 (6.67%) CCNA
5 1 (2.22%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.22%) CISSP
5 1 (2.22%) Degree
5 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 3 (6.67%) SOC 2
2 1 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.22%) NCSC
2 1 (2.22%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (15.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (6.67%) vSphere
3 2 (4.44%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (4.44%) VMware NSX
4 1 (2.22%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 9 (20.00%) SCCM
2 8 (17.78%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (11.11%) AppManager
4 3 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (2.22%) Consul
5 1 (2.22%) Grafana
5 1 (2.22%) HAProxy
5 1 (2.22%) Istio
5 1 (2.22%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (2.22%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.22%) linkerd
5 1 (2.22%) Packer
5 1 (2.22%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.22%) Rancher
5 1 (2.22%) Terraform
5 1 (2.22%) vCenter Server
5 1 (2.22%) vRealize
5 1 (2.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 23 (51.11%) Cisco
1 23 (51.11%) Microsoft
2 19 (42.22%) Oracle
3 10 (22.22%) VMware
4 5 (11.11%) Ivanti
4 5 (11.11%) Veeam
5 4 (8.89%) Meraki
6 3 (6.67%) Palo Alto
7 2 (4.44%) Apple
7 2 (4.44%) Red Hat
8 1 (2.22%) Citrix
8 1 (2.22%) ESET
8 1 (2.22%) MobileIron
8 1 (2.22%) Okta
8 1 (2.22%) Splunk