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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 43 33
Rank change year-on-year +21 -10 +4
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 134 82 122
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 7.01% 4.73% 5.22%
As % of the System Software category 54.92% 40.39% 41.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 56 83
10th Percentile £305 £186 £127
25th Percentile £495 £350 £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £550 £400
Median % change year-on-year +9.95% +37.56% -5.88%
75th Percentile £608 £688 £565
90th Percentile £656 £725 £638
South East median daily rate £500 £425 £375
% change year-on-year +17.65% +13.33% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 3
10th Percentile - £36.60 £11.05
25th Percentile - £61.50 £13.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +300.00% +14.75%
75th Percentile - £81.37 £43.13
90th Percentile - £85.05 £57.75
South East median hourly rate £17.69 £18.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year -4.38% +23.33% +5.26%

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 244 203 292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 12.77% 11.70% 12.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 139 209
10th Percentile £205 £315 £150
25th Percentile £382 £411 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £543 £463
Median % change year-on-year +5.99% +17.30% -
75th Percentile £608 £638 £604
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +0.20% +5.26% +6.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 14 4
10th Percentile - £28.25 £11.70
25th Percentile - £48.40 £14.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.66 £41.25
Median % change year-on-year +14.73% +37.35% +170.49%
75th Percentile - £73.75 £72.50
90th Percentile - £79.68 £81.50
South East median hourly rate £54.88 £54.56 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.58% +172.80% -9.09%

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 17 May 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 17 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
Reading +29 92 £605 -10.37% 21
Bracknell +7 17 £369 - 2
Wokingham +4 12 £323 -38.57%
Newbury +1 2 £413 +91.86% 3
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 21 (15.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.24%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.49%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (3.73%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (3.73%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 84 (62.69%) Azure
2 46 (34.33%) Entra ID
3 38 (28.36%) Azure Monitor
4 28 (20.90%) Microsoft 365
5 21 (15.67%) Azure Data Factory
6 20 (14.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 17 (12.69%) Azure Storage
8 15 (11.19%) Azure Functions
8 15 (11.19%) Serverless
9 14 (10.45%) OCI
10 12 (8.96%) AWS
11 5 (3.73%) IaaS
12 4 (2.99%) Azure API Management
12 4 (2.99%) Azure Logic Apps
13 3 (2.24%) Azure Event Grid
13 3 (2.24%) Power Automate
13 3 (2.24%) Power Platform
13 3 (2.24%) PowerApps
13 3 (2.24%) SaaS
13 3 (2.24%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 45 (33.58%) DNS
2 43 (32.09%) DHCP
3 37 (27.61%) Firewall
4 18 (13.43%) SAN
5 8 (5.97%) SSL
6 7 (5.22%) LAN
6 7 (5.22%) TCP/IP
6 7 (5.22%) WAN
7 5 (3.73%) Remote Desktop
7 5 (3.73%) VPN
8 4 (2.99%) NAS
9 3 (2.24%) Network Security
10 2 (1.49%) Skype
10 2 (1.49%) WebEx
11 1 (0.75%) NetScaler
11 1 (0.75%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (14.93%) NoSQL
2 4 (2.99%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (2.99%) MySQL
2 4 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (2.99%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.49%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 21 (15.67%) Git
2 6 (4.48%) Selenium
3 3 (2.24%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.49%) JIRA
5 1 (0.75%) MSI
General
1 65 (48.51%) Social Skills
2 12 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (4.48%) Finance
4 5 (3.73%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (22.39%) Support Specialist
2 28 (20.90%) Active Directory Support
3 25 (18.66%) Active Directory Specialist
3 25 (18.66%) Azure Specialist
4 24 (17.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 20 (14.93%) Developer
5 20 (14.93%) Full Stack Developer
6 19 (14.18%) Build Engineer
6 19 (14.18%) Windows Build Engineer
6 19 (14.18%) Windows Engineer
7 17 (12.69%) Azure Developer
8 10 (7.46%) Storage Engineer
9 9 (6.72%) Architect
9 9 (6.72%) Full Stack Python Developer
9 9 (6.72%) Python Developer
9 9 (6.72%) Support Engineer
10 6 (4.48%) Active Directory Engineer
11 5 (3.73%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (3.73%) Technical Specialist
11 5 (3.73%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (14.93%) React
2 18 (13.43%) ARM Templates
3 11 (8.21%) Web Services
4 4 (2.99%) .NET
4 4 (2.99%) CSS
5 3 (2.24%) HTML
5 3 (2.24%) jQuery
5 3 (2.24%) SPFx
6 1 (0.75%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (21.64%) PKI
2 17 (12.69%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (11.19%) Product Ownership
4 14 (10.45%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.99%) Fat Client
5 4 (2.99%) Thin Client
6 3 (2.24%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.49%) Taxonomies
7 2 (1.49%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.75%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 80 (59.70%) Windows
2 67 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 56 (41.79%) Windows Server 2019
4 52 (38.81%) Windows Server 2016
5 45 (33.58%) Linux
6 44 (32.84%) Windows 10
7 35 (26.12%) Windows Server 2012
8 19 (14.18%) Windows NT
9 14 (10.45%) Windows XP
10 4 (2.99%) Ubuntu
11 3 (2.24%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (38.81%) ITIL
2 42 (31.34%) DevOps
3 39 (29.10%) Release Management
4 37 (27.61%) CI/CD
4 37 (27.61%) Service Management
5 30 (22.39%) Agile
6 28 (20.90%) Customer Service
7 26 (19.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 23 (17.16%) Microservices
9 20 (14.93%) Deployment Automation
9 20 (14.93%) Full Stack Development
9 20 (14.93%) Identity Management
9 20 (14.93%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 19 (14.18%) User Acceptance Testing
11 18 (13.43%) Analytics
11 18 (13.43%) Infrastructure as Code
11 18 (13.43%) Log Analytics
12 17 (12.69%) Privileged Identity Management
12 17 (12.69%) RBAC
12 17 (12.69%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 42 (31.34%) PowerShell
2 24 (17.91%) Python
3 20 (14.93%) C#
4 18 (13.43%) Bicep
5 17 (12.69%) VB
5 17 (12.69%) VBScript
6 10 (7.46%) Java
7 3 (2.24%) C
7 3 (2.24%) PHP
7 3 (2.24%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 85 (63.43%) Security Cleared
2 70 (52.24%) DV Cleared
3 50 (37.31%) SC Cleared
4 47 (35.07%) Degree
5 17 (12.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 14 (10.45%) CCNA
6 14 (10.45%) CCNP
6 14 (10.45%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.24%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.75%) CEH
8 1 (0.75%) CISSP
8 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (14.93%) QA
2 6 (4.48%) SLA
3 3 (2.24%) GDPR
4 2 (1.49%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 29 (21.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 22 (16.42%) Virtual Machines
3 19 (14.18%) Firmware
3 19 (14.18%) Hyper-V
3 19 (14.18%) VMware ESXi
4 17 (12.69%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (5.97%) XenApp
6 6 (4.48%) XenDesktop
7 5 (3.73%) Docker
8 1 (0.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 65 (48.51%) SCCM
2 57 (42.54%) WSUS
3 34 (25.37%) SCOM
4 22 (16.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 21 (15.67%) Kubernetes
5 21 (15.67%) vCenter Server
6 19 (14.18%) Microsoft Intune
6 19 (14.18%) Sysprep
7 16 (11.94%) EMC NetWorker
8 14 (10.45%) NetBackup
9 6 (4.48%) Nessus
10 4 (2.99%) Ansible
10 4 (2.99%) Red Hat Satellite
10 4 (2.99%) ZABBIX
11 3 (2.24%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (1.49%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 2 (1.49%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 2 (1.49%) Terraform
Vendors
1 70 (52.24%) Microsoft
2 33 (24.63%) VMware
3 19 (14.18%) HP
4 18 (13.43%) Oracle
4 18 (13.43%) Veeam
5 17 (12.69%) Cisco
6 16 (11.94%) EMC
7 14 (10.45%) 3PAR
7 14 (10.45%) Citrix
7 14 (10.45%) Dell
7 14 (10.45%) Extreme Networks
7 14 (10.45%) Juniper
7 14 (10.45%) Palo Alto
7 14 (10.45%) Symantec
8 11 (8.21%) ServiceNow
9 4 (2.99%) CyberArk
9 4 (2.99%) FireEye
9 4 (2.99%) Okta
9 4 (2.99%) Red Hat
9 4 (2.99%) Tanium