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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 47 29
Rank change year-on-year +22 -18 +2
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 130 79 145
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 6.38% 4.27% 5.98%
As % of the System Software category 51.79% 39.30% 45.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 53 100
10th Percentile £271 £201 £128
25th Percentile £469 £363 £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £588 £418
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% +40.72% +1.21%
75th Percentile £608 £688 £580
90th Percentile £666 £725 £650
South East median daily rate £475 £450 £375
% change year-on-year +5.56% +20.00% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 3
10th Percentile - £15.90 £11.05
25th Percentile - £18.86 £13.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +214.29% -71.07%
75th Percentile - £78.19 £43.13
90th Percentile - £83.82 £57.75
South East median hourly rate £17.69 £18.50 £15.75
% change year-on-year -4.38% +17.46% +12.58%

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 251 201 321
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 12.32% 10.86% 13.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 138 228
10th Percentile £205 £325 £150
25th Percentile £325 £416 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £543 £458
Median % change year-on-year +5.99% +18.58% -1.08%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £623
90th Percentile £675 £696 £660
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 14 4
10th Percentile £23.56 £18.40 £11.70
25th Percentile £30.46 £48.40 £14.63
Median hourly rate £41.98 £56.88 £41.25
Median % change year-on-year -26.20% +37.88% -31.54%
75th Percentile £53.49 £75.56 £72.50
90th Percentile £60.40 £85.66 £81.50
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £52.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% +160.00% -

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 19 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 19 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 +22 82 £605 -10.37% 19
Bracknell +10 17 £363 - 4
Wokingham +8 13 £320 -46.67% 1
Newbury -3 3 £525 +144.19% 1
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 22 (16.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.85%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.54%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (6.15%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (4.62%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.77%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 74 (56.92%) Azure
2 38 (29.23%) Entra ID
3 31 (23.85%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (20.77%) Azure Monitor
5 15 (11.54%) Azure Storage
6 12 (9.23%) Azure Data Factory
6 12 (9.23%) OCI
7 11 (8.46%) AWS
7 11 (8.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 6 (4.62%) Azure Functions
8 6 (4.62%) Serverless
9 5 (3.85%) IaaS
9 5 (3.85%) OneDrive
10 3 (2.31%) Azure API Management
10 3 (2.31%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (2.31%) Power Automate
10 3 (2.31%) Power Platform
10 3 (2.31%) PowerApps
10 3 (2.31%) ShareGate
11 2 (1.54%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 44 (33.85%) DNS
2 40 (30.77%) DHCP
3 34 (26.15%) Firewall
4 16 (12.31%) SAN
5 8 (6.15%) LAN
5 8 (6.15%) Remote Desktop
5 8 (6.15%) SSL
5 8 (6.15%) WAN
6 7 (5.38%) TCP/IP
7 4 (3.08%) NAS
7 4 (3.08%) Skype
7 4 (3.08%) VPN
8 2 (1.54%) FTP
8 2 (1.54%) Network Security
8 2 (1.54%) WebEx
9 1 (0.77%) Cisco ISE
9 1 (0.77%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.77%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.46%) NoSQL
2 5 (3.85%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.08%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (3.08%) MySQL
3 4 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.54%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 12 (9.23%) Git
2 2 (1.54%) JIRA
2 2 (1.54%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.77%) Axure RP
3 1 (0.77%) MSI
General
1 67 (51.54%) Social Skills
2 8 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (4.62%) Finance
4 5 (3.85%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.54%) Legal
7 1 (0.77%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (23.08%) Support Specialist
2 26 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 25 (19.23%) Azure Specialist
4 24 (18.46%) Active Directory Specialist
4 24 (18.46%) Active Directory Support
5 21 (16.15%) Build Engineer
5 21 (16.15%) Windows Build Engineer
5 21 (16.15%) Windows Engineer
6 11 (8.46%) Azure Developer
6 11 (8.46%) Developer
6 11 (8.46%) Full Stack Developer
7 9 (6.92%) Architect
8 8 (6.15%) Storage Engineer
9 7 (5.38%) Administrator
10 6 (4.62%) Senior
10 6 (4.62%) Support Engineer
10 6 (4.62%) Technical Specialist
10 6 (4.62%) Technical Support
10 6 (4.62%) Technical Support Specialist
11 4 (3.08%) Full Stack Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (11.54%) ARM Templates
2 11 (8.46%) React
3 10 (7.69%) Web Services
4 4 (3.08%) CSS
5 3 (2.31%) .NET
5 3 (2.31%) HTML
5 3 (2.31%) jQuery
5 3 (2.31%) SPFx
6 2 (1.54%) OLE
7 1 (0.77%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (20.77%) PKI
2 15 (11.54%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (9.23%) Data Centre
4 11 (8.46%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.08%) Fat Client
5 4 (3.08%) Thin Client
6 2 (1.54%) Clustering
6 2 (1.54%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.54%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.54%) Taxonomies
6 2 (1.54%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.77%) BYOD
7 1 (0.77%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.77%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 86 (66.15%) Windows
2 65 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 53 (40.77%) Windows Server 2019
4 49 (37.69%) Windows Server 2016
5 45 (34.62%) Windows 10
6 42 (32.31%) Linux
7 35 (26.92%) Windows Server 2012
8 21 (16.15%) Windows NT
9 12 (9.23%) Windows XP
10 4 (3.08%) Ubuntu
11 3 (2.31%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (40.00%) ITIL
2 39 (30.00%) Release Management
3 37 (28.46%) Service Management
4 32 (24.62%) Customer Service
5 29 (22.31%) DevOps
6 28 (21.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 25 (19.23%) CI/CD
8 22 (16.92%) Agile
8 22 (16.92%) Deployment Automation
9 21 (16.15%) User Acceptance Testing
10 18 (13.85%) Identity Management
10 18 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (13.08%) Analytics
11 17 (13.08%) Multi-Factor Authentication
12 16 (12.31%) Disaster Recovery
12 16 (12.31%) Log Analytics
13 15 (11.54%) Infrastructure as Code
13 15 (11.54%) Privileged Identity Management
13 15 (11.54%) RBAC
13 15 (11.54%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (27.69%) PowerShell
2 17 (13.08%) C#
3 15 (11.54%) Bicep
3 15 (11.54%) VB
3 15 (11.54%) VBScript
4 14 (10.77%) Python
5 3 (2.31%) Java
6 2 (1.54%) C
6 2 (1.54%) PHP
6 2 (1.54%) Ruby
7 1 (0.77%) R
Qualifications
1 86 (66.15%) Security Cleared
2 71 (54.62%) DV Cleared
3 46 (35.38%) Degree
4 45 (34.62%) SC Cleared
5 15 (11.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 12 (9.23%) CCNA
6 12 (9.23%) CCNP
6 12 (9.23%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.31%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.54%) A+ Certification
8 2 (1.54%) MCITP
9 1 (0.77%) CEH
9 1 (0.77%) CISSP
9 1 (0.77%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.77%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (16.92%) QA
2 7 (5.38%) SLA
3 3 (2.31%) GDPR
4 1 (0.77%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 25 (19.23%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (16.15%) Firmware
3 20 (15.38%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (13.08%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (11.54%) Virtual Desktop
6 14 (10.77%) Hyper-V
7 7 (5.38%) XenApp
8 6 (4.62%) Docker
8 6 (4.62%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.77%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 67 (51.54%) SCCM
2 56 (43.08%) WSUS
3 32 (24.62%) SCOM
4 21 (16.15%) Sysprep
5 20 (15.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 20 (15.38%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (15.38%) vCenter Server
6 18 (13.85%) Kubernetes
7 16 (12.31%) EMC NetWorker
8 12 (9.23%) NetBackup
9 5 (3.85%) Nessus
10 4 (3.08%) Ansible
10 4 (3.08%) Red Hat Satellite
10 4 (3.08%) ZABBIX
11 2 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (1.54%) Terraform
12 1 (0.77%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 1 (0.77%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 72 (55.38%) Microsoft
2 31 (23.85%) VMware
3 18 (13.85%) HP
4 16 (12.31%) EMC
4 16 (12.31%) Oracle
4 16 (12.31%) Veeam
5 15 (11.54%) Cisco
5 15 (11.54%) Citrix
6 14 (10.77%) ServiceNow
7 12 (9.23%) 3PAR
7 12 (9.23%) Dell
7 12 (9.23%) Extreme Networks
7 12 (9.23%) Juniper
7 12 (9.23%) Palo Alto
7 12 (9.23%) Symantec
8 4 (3.08%) CyberArk
8 4 (3.08%) FireEye
8 4 (3.08%) Okta
8 4 (3.08%) Red Hat
8 4 (3.08%) Tanium