Active Directory Contracts in Berkshire

Microsoft Active Directory
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 43 27
Rank change year-on-year +22 -16 +8
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 137 81 141
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 6.95% 4.46% 5.89%
As % of the System Software category 53.94% 41.12% 44.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 54 99
10th Percentile £278 £186 £128
25th Percentile £478 £350 £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £573 £400
Median % change year-on-year +5.68% +43.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £608 £688 £583
90th Percentile £658 £725 £650
South East median daily rate £480 £425 £375
% change year-on-year +12.94% +13.33% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 3
10th Percentile - £19.09 £11.05
25th Percentile - £36.25 £13.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +260.00% -71.07%
75th Percentile - £78.19 £43.13
90th Percentile - £83.82 £57.75
South East median hourly rate £17.69 £18.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year -4.38% +19.35% +10.71%

All System Software Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 254 197 316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 12.89% 10.85% 13.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 136 227
10th Percentile £205 £320 £148
25th Percentile £335 £413 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £534 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.73% +12.37% +5.56%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £623
90th Percentile £675 £700 £660
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 15 4
10th Percentile - £18.63 £11.70
25th Percentile - £47.95 £14.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £41.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +33.33% -31.54%
75th Percentile - £72.50 £72.50
90th Percentile - £79.12 £81.50
South East median hourly rate £50.75 £54.03 £20.00
% change year-on-year -6.07% +170.15% -4.76%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Berkshire

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in Berkshire

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in Berkshire over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in Berkshire

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in Berkshire

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 28 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
Reading +25 90 £605 -10.37% 18
Bracknell +5 18 £363 - 4
Wokingham +4 11 £315 -40.00%
Newbury +1 3 £525 +144.19% 2
Crowthorne - 1 - -
Active Directory
South East

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 23 (16.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.65%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.46%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (5.84%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (4.38%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 81 (59.12%) Azure
2 42 (30.66%) Entra ID
3 32 (23.36%) Azure Monitor
3 32 (23.36%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (11.68%) Azure Data Factory
4 16 (11.68%) Azure Storage
5 15 (10.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 13 (9.49%) OCI
7 11 (8.03%) AWS
8 10 (7.30%) Azure Functions
8 10 (7.30%) Serverless
9 5 (3.65%) IaaS
9 5 (3.65%) OneDrive
10 3 (2.19%) Azure API Management
10 3 (2.19%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (2.19%) Power Automate
10 3 (2.19%) Power Platform
10 3 (2.19%) PowerApps
10 3 (2.19%) ShareGate
11 2 (1.46%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 46 (33.58%) DNS
2 42 (30.66%) DHCP
3 37 (27.01%) Firewall
4 17 (12.41%) SAN
5 9 (6.57%) LAN
5 9 (6.57%) WAN
6 8 (5.84%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (5.84%) SSL
6 8 (5.84%) TCP/IP
7 4 (2.92%) NAS
7 4 (2.92%) Skype
7 4 (2.92%) VPN
8 2 (1.46%) Network Security
8 2 (1.46%) WebEx
9 1 (0.73%) Cisco ISE
9 1 (0.73%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.73%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.95%) NoSQL
2 5 (3.65%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.92%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (2.92%) MySQL
3 4 (2.92%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.46%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 16 (11.68%) Git
2 2 (1.46%) JIRA
2 2 (1.46%) Selenium
2 2 (1.46%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.73%) Axure RP
3 1 (0.73%) MSI
General
1 69 (50.36%) Social Skills
2 11 (8.03%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (4.38%) Finance
4 5 (3.65%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (2.92%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.46%) Legal
7 1 (0.73%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (22.63%) Support Specialist
2 26 (18.98%) Active Directory Support
2 26 (18.98%) Azure Specialist
3 25 (18.25%) Active Directory Specialist
3 25 (18.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 21 (15.33%) Build Engineer
4 21 (15.33%) Windows Build Engineer
4 21 (15.33%) Windows Engineer
5 15 (10.95%) Developer
5 15 (10.95%) Full Stack Developer
6 14 (10.22%) Azure Developer
7 9 (6.57%) Architect
7 9 (6.57%) Storage Engineer
8 7 (5.11%) Administrator
8 7 (5.11%) Support Engineer
9 6 (4.38%) Full Stack Python Developer
9 6 (4.38%) Python Developer
9 6 (4.38%) Technical Specialist
9 6 (4.38%) Technical Support
9 6 (4.38%) Technical Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (11.68%) ARM Templates
2 15 (10.95%) React
3 10 (7.30%) Web Services
4 4 (2.92%) CSS
5 3 (2.19%) .NET
5 3 (2.19%) HTML
5 3 (2.19%) jQuery
5 3 (2.19%) SPFx
6 2 (1.46%) OLE
7 1 (0.73%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (20.44%) PKI
2 16 (11.68%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (9.49%) Data Centre
3 13 (9.49%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.92%) Fat Client
4 4 (2.92%) Thin Client
5 2 (1.46%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.46%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.46%) Taxonomies
5 2 (1.46%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (0.73%) BYOD
6 1 (0.73%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.73%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.73%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 88 (64.23%) Windows
2 69 (50.36%) Windows Server
3 55 (40.15%) Windows Server 2019
4 51 (37.23%) Windows Server 2016
5 46 (33.58%) Windows 10
6 44 (32.12%) Linux
7 36 (26.28%) Windows Server 2012
8 21 (15.33%) Windows NT
9 13 (9.49%) Windows XP
10 4 (2.92%) Ubuntu
11 3 (2.19%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (37.96%) ITIL
2 40 (29.20%) Release Management
3 38 (27.74%) Service Management
4 34 (24.82%) DevOps
5 32 (23.36%) Customer Service
6 30 (21.90%) CI/CD
7 27 (19.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 26 (18.98%) Agile
9 22 (16.06%) Deployment Automation
10 21 (15.33%) User Acceptance Testing
11 19 (13.87%) Identity Management
12 18 (13.14%) Analytics
12 18 (13.14%) Multi-Factor Authentication
13 17 (12.41%) Log Analytics
13 17 (12.41%) Microservices
13 17 (12.41%) Problem-Solving
14 16 (11.68%) Infrastructure as Code
14 16 (11.68%) Privileged Identity Management
14 16 (11.68%) RBAC
15 15 (10.95%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 39 (28.47%) PowerShell
2 18 (13.14%) C#
2 18 (13.14%) Python
3 16 (11.68%) Bicep
3 16 (11.68%) VB
3 16 (11.68%) VBScript
4 5 (3.65%) Java
5 2 (1.46%) C
5 2 (1.46%) PHP
5 2 (1.46%) Ruby
6 1 (0.73%) R
Qualifications
1 88 (64.23%) Security Cleared
2 74 (54.01%) DV Cleared
3 48 (35.04%) Degree
4 47 (34.31%) SC Cleared
5 16 (11.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 13 (9.49%) CCNA
6 13 (9.49%) CCNP
6 13 (9.49%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.19%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.46%) A+ Certification
8 2 (1.46%) MCITP
9 1 (0.73%) CEH
9 1 (0.73%) CISSP
9 1 (0.73%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.73%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (16.06%) QA
2 7 (5.11%) SLA
3 3 (2.19%) GDPR
4 2 (1.46%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 28 (20.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (15.33%) Firmware
2 21 (15.33%) Virtual Machines
3 18 (13.14%) VMware ESXi
4 16 (11.68%) Hyper-V
4 16 (11.68%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (5.84%) XenApp
6 6 (4.38%) Docker
6 6 (4.38%) XenDesktop
7 1 (0.73%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 69 (50.36%) SCCM
2 58 (42.34%) WSUS
3 34 (24.82%) SCOM
4 21 (15.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 21 (15.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (15.33%) Sysprep
4 21 (15.33%) vCenter Server
5 19 (13.87%) Kubernetes
6 17 (12.41%) EMC NetWorker
7 13 (9.49%) NetBackup
8 6 (4.38%) Nessus
9 4 (2.92%) Ansible
9 4 (2.92%) Red Hat Satellite
9 4 (2.92%) ZABBIX
10 2 (1.46%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 2 (1.46%) Network Intrusion Detection System
10 2 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.46%) Terraform
Vendors
1 75 (54.74%) Microsoft
2 34 (24.82%) VMware
3 19 (13.87%) HP
4 17 (12.41%) Cisco
4 17 (12.41%) EMC
4 17 (12.41%) Oracle
4 17 (12.41%) Veeam
5 16 (11.68%) Citrix
6 14 (10.22%) ServiceNow
7 13 (9.49%) 3PAR
7 13 (9.49%) Dell
7 13 (9.49%) Extreme Networks
7 13 (9.49%) Juniper
7 13 (9.49%) Palo Alto
7 13 (9.49%) Symantec
8 4 (2.92%) CyberArk
8 4 (2.92%) FireEye
8 4 (2.92%) Okta
8 4 (2.92%) Red Hat
8 4 (2.92%) Tanium