Active Directory Contracts in the East of England

Microsoft Active Directory
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 14 16
Rank change year-on-year -15 +2 +1
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 107 207 242
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 5.59% 9.97% 9.33%
As % of the System Software category 65.64% 58.47% 54.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 155 159
10th Percentile £163 £159 £131
25th Percentile £197 £204 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £265 £350 £325
Median % change year-on-year -24.29% +7.69% +47.73%
75th Percentile £550 £569 £450
90th Percentile £723 £700 £500
England median daily rate £400 £425 £400
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 20 54
10th Percentile - £14.14 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £14.16 £15.50 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% - -12.68%
75th Percentile £15.12 £18.50 £19.38
90th Percentile £19.00 £25.80 £24.75
England median hourly rate £17.69 £18.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year -4.38% +5.71% +8.95%

All System Software Skills
East of England

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 the East of England with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 163 354 441
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 8.51% 17.04% 16.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 242 303
10th Percentile £175 £173 £148
25th Percentile £225 £241 £253
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.25%
75th Percentile £563 £575 £538
90th Percentile £713 £700 £625
England median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 41 56
10th Percentile - £14.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.50 £14.25
Median hourly rate £14.16 £24.62 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.49% +58.84% -15.16%
75th Percentile £17.00 £65.75 £19.50
90th Percentile £67.75 £70.00 £25.50
England median hourly rate £21.50 £49.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -56.57% +160.53% -1.30%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Active Directory as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in the East of England

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in the East of England

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in the East of England over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in the East of England

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in the East of England

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Active Directory in the East of England over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Active Directory in the East of England

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 24 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
Cambridgeshire -10 35 £225 -44.62% 36
Hertfordshire -36 28 £575 +43.75% 36
Essex +4 18 £425 +23.19% 14
Bedfordshire -15 13 £250 +2.04% 4
Suffolk +9 12 £188 -16.67% 7
Norfolk -3 1 - - 3
Active Directory
England

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 28 (26.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (11.21%) SharePoint
3 9 (8.41%) IIS
4 3 (2.80%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.93%) Apache
Applications
1 18 (16.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (15.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (4.67%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.93%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 43 (40.19%) Microsoft 365
2 33 (30.84%) Azure
3 5 (4.67%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (2.80%) Entra ID
5 2 (1.87%) AWS
6 1 (0.93%) Google Workspace
6 1 (0.93%) Mimecast
6 1 (0.93%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.28%) Wi-Fi
2 8 (7.48%) VPN
3 4 (3.74%) DHCP
3 4 (3.74%) TCP/IP
3 4 (3.74%) WAN
3 4 (3.74%) Wireless
4 3 (2.80%) LAN
4 3 (2.80%) Structured Cabling
4 3 (2.80%) Wireshark
5 2 (1.87%) Firewall
6 1 (0.93%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.93%) DNS
6 1 (0.93%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.93%) FTP
6 1 (0.93%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.93%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.93%) MPLS
6 1 (0.93%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.93%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.93%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.93%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 3 (2.80%) Fiddler
2 2 (1.87%) JIRA
2 2 (1.87%) MSI
General
1 36 (33.64%) Social Skills
2 7 (6.54%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (3.74%) Manufacturing
3 4 (3.74%) Marketing
3 4 (3.74%) Pharmaceutical
3 4 (3.74%) Public Sector
4 1 (0.93%) Banking
4 1 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (0.93%) Electronics
4 1 (0.93%) Finance
4 1 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (0.93%) Legal
Job Titles
1 36 (33.64%) Analyst
2 30 (28.04%) Service Analyst
2 30 (28.04%) Service Desk Analyst
3 28 (26.17%) Support Engineer
4 15 (14.02%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
5 13 (12.15%) IT Engineer
6 12 (11.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 12 (11.21%) IT Support
7 10 (9.35%) Technical Analyst
8 9 (8.41%) Technical Services Analyst
9 8 (7.48%) Desktop Engineer
9 8 (7.48%) Desktop Support
9 8 (7.48%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 8 (7.48%) IT Support Engineer
10 7 (6.54%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 6 (5.61%) 2nd Line Support
11 6 (5.61%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 6 (5.61%) Design Engineer
12 5 (4.67%) Infrastructure Design Engineer
12 5 (4.67%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.67%) .NET
2 3 (2.80%) .NET Framework
2 3 (2.80%) SAML
3 2 (1.87%) LDAP
3 2 (1.87%) Web Services
4 1 (0.93%) Middleware
4 1 (0.93%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.41%) Onboarding
2 6 (5.61%) iPad
2 6 (5.61%) iPhone
3 5 (4.67%) PKI
4 4 (3.74%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.80%) Clustering
6 2 (1.87%) BYOD
6 2 (1.87%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.87%) Fat Client
6 2 (1.87%) NHS
6 2 (1.87%) Thin Client
7 1 (0.93%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.93%) Replication
7 1 (0.93%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 63 (58.88%) Windows
2 28 (26.17%) Windows Server
3 17 (15.89%) Linux
3 17 (15.89%) Windows 10
4 8 (7.48%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (6.54%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (5.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (4.67%) Android
8 3 (2.80%) Apple iOS
9 2 (1.87%) Unix
9 2 (1.87%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.93%) AIX
10 1 (0.93%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.93%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.93%) Solaris
10 1 (0.93%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (33.64%) ITIL
2 31 (28.97%) Customer Service
3 27 (25.23%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (16.82%) Migration
5 17 (15.89%) Service Delivery
6 16 (14.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 11 (10.28%) Incident Management
7 11 (10.28%) Mathematics
8 9 (8.41%) High Availability
8 9 (8.41%) ITSM
9 7 (6.54%) Project Delivery
10 6 (5.61%) Roadmaps
10 6 (5.61%) Root Cause Analysis
10 6 (5.61%) Technology Roadmap
11 5 (4.67%) DevOps
11 5 (4.67%) Load Balancing
11 5 (4.67%) Release Management
12 4 (3.74%) Inventory Management
12 4 (3.74%) PRINCE2
12 4 (3.74%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (11.21%) PowerShell
2 5 (4.67%) SQL
3 1 (0.93%) Bash
3 1 (0.93%) Korn
3 1 (0.93%) Python
Qualifications
1 21 (19.63%) Microsoft Certification
1 21 (19.63%) Security Cleared
2 18 (16.82%) Degree
3 16 (14.95%) MCSA
4 15 (14.02%) DV Cleared
5 14 (13.08%) CCNA
5 14 (13.08%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (11.21%) A+ Certification
7 9 (8.41%) MCP
8 8 (7.48%) SC Cleared
9 5 (4.67%) MCSE
10 3 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (2.80%) ECDL
10 3 (2.80%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (2.80%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.93%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.93%) HNC
11 1 (0.93%) MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.41%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (14.02%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (7.48%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.80%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.80%) VMware Workstation
4 1 (0.93%) HDFS
4 1 (0.93%) NFS
4 1 (0.93%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 27 (25.23%) SCCM
2 8 (7.48%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (5.61%) SCOM
4 3 (2.80%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (2.80%) WSUS
5 1 (0.93%) Ansible
5 1 (0.93%) Autotask
Vendors
1 58 (54.21%) Microsoft
2 23 (21.50%) Citrix
3 20 (18.69%) VMware
4 13 (12.15%) ServiceNow
5 6 (5.61%) Clearswift
5 6 (5.61%) Proofpoint
5 6 (5.61%) Red Hat
6 5 (4.67%) F5
6 5 (4.67%) SAP
7 3 (2.80%) Ariba
7 3 (2.80%) McAfee
8 2 (1.87%) Cisco
8 2 (1.87%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (1.87%) Google
8 2 (1.87%) Remedy
8 2 (1.87%) Veeam
9 1 (0.93%) Isilon
9 1 (0.93%) MobileIron
9 1 (0.93%) Qualys
9 1 (0.93%) SonicWALL