Active Directory Contracts in Bedfordshire

Microsoft Active Directory
East of England > Bedfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 12 16
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 -10
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 15 22 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 6.17% 12.02% 8.93%
As % of the System Software category 83.33% 70.97% 89.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 16 20
10th Percentile £171 £158 £95
25th Percentile £175 £163 £135
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £263 £240 £350
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -31.43% +75.00%
75th Percentile £313 £456 £422
90th Percentile £437 £538 £504
East of England median daily rate £265 £350 £325
% change year-on-year -24.29% +7.69% +47.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £14.16 £15.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year -8.65% - -13.94%

All System Software Skills
Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 18 31 28
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 7.41% 16.94% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 24 22
10th Percentile £173 £157 £98
25th Percentile £175 £198 £148
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £338 £350
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% -3.57% -1.75%
75th Percentile £388 £531 £441
90th Percentile £526 £550 £500
East of England median daily rate £425 £430 £425
% change year-on-year -1.16% +1.18% +4.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £54.13 - -
25th Percentile £58.44 - £42.50
Median hourly rate £66.25 - £45.00
75th Percentile £73.44 - £47.50
90th Percentile £77.38 - -
East of England median hourly rate £14.16 £24.62 £15.50
% change year-on-year -42.49% +58.84% -15.16%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Bedfordshire

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in Bedfordshire

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in Bedfordshire

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in Bedfordshire

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Bedford 0 7 £225 +32.35%
Dunstable -3 2 £375 - 1
Luton -7 1 - - 1
Active Directory
East of England

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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 5 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (26.67%) SharePoint
3 3 (20.00%) Apache
3 3 (20.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (80.00%) Azure
2 5 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.67%) AWS
3 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (6.67%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) Kerberos
2 1 (6.67%) DNS
2 1 (6.67%) Firewall
2 1 (6.67%) MPLS
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) JIRA
General
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Manufacturing
2 4 (26.67%) Marketing
2 4 (26.67%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (6.67%) Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) 2nd Line Support
2 4 (26.67%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Service Delivery Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Support Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Administrator
3 3 (20.00%) IT Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Unix Administrator
4 2 (13.33%) IT Support
4 2 (13.33%) IT Support Technician
4 2 (13.33%) IT Technician
4 2 (13.33%) Support Technician
5 1 (6.67%) Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Business Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Citrix Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Security Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (6.67%) Unix Systems Administrator
5 1 (6.67%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) Middleware
2 2 (13.33%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 13 (86.67%) Windows
2 6 (40.00%) Windows Server
3 5 (33.33%) Windows 10
4 3 (20.00%) AIX
4 3 (20.00%) Linux
4 3 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (20.00%) Solaris
4 3 (20.00%) Unix
5 1 (6.67%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) ITIL
2 4 (26.67%) PRINCE2
2 4 (26.67%) Service Delivery
3 3 (20.00%) High Availability
3 3 (20.00%) Patch Management
4 2 (13.33%) Tech Ops
4 2 (13.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 1 (6.67%) Customer Service
5 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (6.67%) Data Loss Prevention
5 1 (6.67%) Data Management
5 1 (6.67%) Email Migration
5 1 (6.67%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (6.67%) Mobile Device Management
5 1 (6.67%) Project Delivery
5 1 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (6.67%) Translating Business Requirements
5 1 (6.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) Bash
1 1 (6.67%) Korn
1 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) CCNA
1 4 (26.67%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (26.67%) Degree
1 4 (26.67%) MCSA
1 4 (26.67%) MCSE
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (6.67%) Ansible
2 1 (6.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (33.33%) SAP
3 3 (20.00%) Ariba
4 2 (13.33%) VMware
5 1 (6.67%) Citrix
5 1 (6.67%) Oracle
5 1 (6.67%) Qualys