Active Directory Contracts in England

Microsoft Active Directory
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 31 44
Rank change year-on-year -2 +13 +3
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 2,019 2,870 3,734
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 5.49% 5.85% 5.33%
As % of the System Software category 50.44% 45.20% 38.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,419 2,114 2,689
10th Percentile £160 £163 £150
25th Percentile £213 £225 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £426 £400
Median % change year-on-year -1.88% +6.38% +6.67%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £538
90th Percentile £675 £688 £625
UK median daily rate £425 £428 £400
% change year-on-year -0.70% +7.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 128 215
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £14.16 £15.50 £14.25
Median hourly rate £17.50 £18.76 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.73% +7.21% +9.38%
75th Percentile £22.00 £45.16 £22.60
90th Percentile £40.00 £64.50 £28.75
UK median hourly rate £17.60 £20.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -12.03% +14.29% +8.53%

All System Software Skills
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 England with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,003 6,349 9,740
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.88% 12.94% 13.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,790 4,596 7,048
10th Percentile £200 £203 £196
25th Percentile £325 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £634
90th Percentile £688 £738 £701
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 231 274
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.48 £17.61 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.00% +150.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £58.69 £65.38 £33.59
90th Percentile £71.25 £75.75 £56.44
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £54.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -58.33% +170.00% -2.44%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in England

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in England

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in England

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in England

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Active Directory in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Active Directory in England

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 9 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
London +7 849 £425 -10.53% 242
South East +15 443 £500 +17.65% 210
North of England -9 266 £323 -0.77% 194
South West -14 160 £394 -20.40% 104
Midlands -1 159 £331 -11.67% 155
North West -10 140 £350 - 105
Yorkshire -5 107 £300 +3.90% 68
East of England -14 105 £258 -26.43% 113
West Midlands -7 97 £350 -12.50% 95
East Midlands -1 59 £275 +10.00% 60
North East +13 17 £500 +78.57% 23
Active Directory
UK

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 433 (21.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 180 (8.92%) SharePoint
3 44 (2.18%) IIS
4 38 (1.88%) Confluence
5 32 (1.58%) Skype for Business
6 30 (1.49%) Exchange Server 2010
7 27 (1.34%) Exchange Server 2013
8 18 (0.89%) CMS
9 14 (0.69%) Exchange Server 2007
10 10 (0.50%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 10 (0.50%) Exchange Server 2003
11 7 (0.35%) Apache
12 6 (0.30%) nginx
12 6 (0.30%) Tomcat
13 5 (0.25%) JBoss
14 3 (0.15%) Oracle Self-Service HR
14 3 (0.15%) WordPress
15 2 (0.099%) OpenStack
16 1 (0.050%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 1 (0.050%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 207 (10.25%) Microsoft Office
2 60 (2.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 32 (1.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.50%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.099%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.099%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.050%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.050%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.050%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.050%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
2 7 (0.35%) Teamcenter
3 4 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.15%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.099%) ION MarketView
5 2 (0.099%) SystmOne
6 1 (0.050%) BusinessWorks
6 1 (0.050%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.050%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.050%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.050%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 828 (41.01%) Azure
2 815 (40.37%) Microsoft 365
3 468 (23.18%) Entra ID
4 195 (9.66%) AWS
5 130 (6.44%) Azure DevOps
6 90 (4.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 89 (4.41%) Azure Monitor
8 82 (4.06%) OneDrive
9 65 (3.22%) PaaS
10 61 (3.02%) Azure Service Bus
11 55 (2.72%) IaaS
12 52 (2.58%) Power Platform
13 44 (2.18%) SaaS
14 41 (2.03%) GCP
15 37 (1.83%) Azure Storage
16 34 (1.68%) GitHub
16 34 (1.68%) WhatsApp
17 30 (1.49%) Serverless
18 28 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
19 26 (1.29%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 346 (17.14%) DNS
2 234 (11.59%) Firewall
3 228 (11.29%) DHCP
4 113 (5.60%) VPN
5 108 (5.35%) SAN
6 97 (4.80%) LAN
6 97 (4.80%) WAN
7 72 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
8 70 (3.47%) TCP/IP
9 58 (2.87%) Wireless
10 50 (2.48%) SSL
11 41 (2.03%) Skype
12 37 (1.83%) NAS
13 35 (1.73%) Network Security
14 34 (1.68%) VLAN
15 29 (1.44%) Remote Desktop
16 26 (1.29%) MPLS
16 26 (1.29%) VoIP
17 17 (0.84%) FTP
18 15 (0.74%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 249 (12.33%) SQL Server
2 38 (1.88%) MySQL
3 27 (1.34%) Power BI
4 22 (1.09%) NoSQL
5 21 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
5 21 (1.04%) Oracle Reports
6 20 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
7 19 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
7 19 (0.94%) Relational Database
8 16 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
9 15 (0.74%) Redis
10 13 (0.64%) Hadoop
11 11 (0.54%) Oracle Database
11 11 (0.54%) RDBMS
12 6 (0.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (0.20%) Big Data
13 4 (0.20%) Data Lake
13 4 (0.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 2 (0.099%) Electronic Patient Records
14 2 (0.099%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 85 (4.21%) Git
2 66 (3.27%) JIRA
3 25 (1.24%) Jenkins
4 24 (1.19%) Selenium
5 21 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
6 20 (0.99%) TeamCity
7 17 (0.84%) Robot Framework
8 15 (0.74%) Visual Studio
9 11 (0.54%) SpecFlow
9 11 (0.54%) WebDriver
10 10 (0.50%) SonarQube
11 9 (0.45%) Postman
12 8 (0.40%) GitLab
13 6 (0.30%) Hudson
14 5 (0.25%) Bitbucket Server
14 5 (0.25%) CA Release Automation
15 4 (0.20%) Fiddler
15 4 (0.20%) MSI
16 3 (0.15%) Bitbucket
16 3 (0.15%) Cucumber
General
1 553 (27.39%) Social Skills
2 253 (12.53%) Finance
3 180 (8.92%) Public Sector
4 141 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
5 89 (4.41%) Banking
6 54 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
7 43 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
8 41 (2.03%) Manufacturing
9 36 (1.78%) Legal
10 35 (1.73%) Telecoms
11 31 (1.54%) Financial Institution
12 30 (1.49%) Marketing
13 28 (1.39%) Retail
14 27 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
15 22 (1.09%) Back Office
16 19 (0.94%) Electronics
16 19 (0.94%) Military
17 18 (0.89%) Law
18 17 (0.84%) French Language
19 14 (0.69%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 258 (12.78%) Analyst
2 253 (12.53%) Support Engineer
3 232 (11.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 193 (9.56%) Senior
5 168 (8.32%) Architect
5 168 (8.32%) IT Support
6 125 (6.19%) Service Analyst
7 122 (6.04%) Service Desk Analyst
8 119 (5.89%) Developer
9 115 (5.70%) IT Engineer
10 95 (4.71%) 2nd Line Support
11 93 (4.61%) Desktop Support
12 73 (3.62%) Desktop Engineer
13 71 (3.52%) Windows Engineer
14 69 (3.42%) IT Support Engineer
15 67 (3.32%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 67 (3.32%) Senior Developer
16 64 (3.17%) Consultant
17 63 (3.12%) Azure Engineer
18 61 (3.02%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (6.79%) .NET
2 99 (4.90%) XML
3 85 (4.21%) Web Services
4 82 (4.06%) LDAP
5 73 (3.62%) .NET Core
6 71 (3.52%) SailPoint
7 67 (3.32%) HTML
8 58 (2.87%) React
9 41 (2.03%) CSS
10 38 (1.88%) SAML
11 35 (1.73%) ASP.NET
12 32 (1.58%) .NET Framework
13 31 (1.54%) AngularJS
14 28 (1.39%) SOAP
15 26 (1.29%) JSP
15 26 (1.29%) Servlets
15 26 (1.29%) SPML
16 24 (1.19%) ARM Templates
17 23 (1.14%) REST
18 22 (1.09%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 169 (8.37%) PKI
2 87 (4.31%) Data Centre
3 72 (3.57%) Onboarding
4 63 (3.12%) Replication
5 62 (3.07%) Product Ownership
6 53 (2.63%) Clustering
7 49 (2.43%) Management Information System
8 46 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
8 46 (2.28%) Video Conferencing
9 30 (1.49%) iPhone
10 26 (1.29%) Driving Licence
11 21 (1.04%) Public Cloud
12 20 (0.99%) iPad
13 19 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
13 19 (0.94%) Smartphone
14 18 (0.89%) CMDB
14 18 (0.89%) Linux Command Line
15 17 (0.84%) Mobile App
15 17 (0.84%) NHS
16 15 (0.74%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1,284 (63.60%) Windows
2 540 (26.75%) Windows Server
3 450 (22.29%) Windows 10
4 241 (11.94%) Linux
5 178 (8.82%) Windows Server 2012
6 156 (7.73%) Windows Server 2019
7 151 (7.48%) Windows Server 2016
8 87 (4.31%) Windows 7
9 79 (3.91%) Apple iOS
10 57 (2.82%) Mac OS
11 56 (2.77%) Android
12 53 (2.63%) Unix
12 53 (2.63%) Windows Server 2008
13 44 (2.18%) Ubuntu
14 38 (1.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 36 (1.78%) VMS
16 21 (1.04%) Windows Server 2003
17 20 (0.99%) Windows NT
18 18 (0.89%) Windows XP
19 17 (0.84%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 326 (16.15%) Customer Service
2 301 (14.91%) ITIL
3 274 (13.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 267 (13.22%) Problem-Solving
5 255 (12.63%) Migration
6 243 (12.04%) DevOps
7 240 (11.89%) Agile
8 170 (8.42%) CI/CD
9 102 (5.05%) Service Management
10 100 (4.95%) Identity Access Management
11 99 (4.90%) Disaster Recovery
12 97 (4.80%) RBAC
13 93 (4.61%) Scrum
14 91 (4.51%) Mobile Device Management
15 90 (4.46%) Cybersecurity
16 78 (3.86%) Change Management
17 72 (3.57%) Service Delivery
18 71 (3.52%) Project Delivery
19 66 (3.27%) B2C
20 65 (3.22%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 404 (20.01%) PowerShell
2 191 (9.46%) SQL
3 130 (6.44%) C#
4 108 (5.35%) Python
5 86 (4.26%) Bicep
6 74 (3.67%) JavaScript
7 59 (2.92%) Java
8 36 (1.78%) TypeScript
9 24 (1.19%) Bash
9 24 (1.19%) VB
10 23 (1.14%) VBScript
11 9 (0.45%) C++
11 9 (0.45%) R
12 8 (0.40%) PHP
13 7 (0.35%) PL/SQL
14 6 (0.30%) Perl
15 5 (0.25%) C
15 5 (0.25%) MATLAB
15 5 (0.25%) Ruby
16 4 (0.20%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 459 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 263 (13.03%) SC Cleared
3 259 (12.83%) Degree
4 203 (10.05%) DV Cleared
5 124 (6.14%) Microsoft Certification
6 42 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
7 41 (2.03%) MCSA
8 39 (1.93%) CCNA
9 37 (1.83%) Azure Certification
10 36 (1.78%) MCSE
11 34 (1.68%) ITIL Certification
12 31 (1.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 28 (1.39%) A+ Certification
14 26 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
15 24 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
16 21 (1.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 19 (0.94%) CCNP
17 19 (0.94%) DBS Check
18 17 (0.84%) CISSP
19 16 (0.79%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (4.95%) SLA
2 52 (2.58%) QA
3 20 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (0.94%) NIST
5 17 (0.84%) GDPR
6 15 (0.74%) WCAG
7 14 (0.69%) Accessibility
8 11 (0.54%) PCI DSS
9 10 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (0.40%) ISO 9001
11 7 (0.35%) RMADS
12 5 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 3 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.15%) GRC
14 2 (0.099%) Data Quality
14 2 (0.099%) PMO
15 1 (0.050%) COBIT
15 1 (0.050%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 1 (0.050%) JSP 440
System Software
1 293 (14.51%) VMware Infrastructure
2 108 (5.35%) Hyper-V
3 81 (4.01%) Virtual Machines
4 61 (3.02%) VMware ESXi
5 55 (2.72%) vSphere
6 51 (2.53%) Virtual Desktop
7 39 (1.93%) Docker
8 37 (1.83%) XenApp
9 32 (1.58%) Firmware
10 26 (1.29%) IAG
11 25 (1.24%) ACF2
11 25 (1.24%) RACF
12 24 (1.19%) VMware NSX
13 21 (1.04%) VMware Workstation
14 19 (0.94%) XenDesktop
15 18 (0.89%) NFS
15 18 (0.89%) Virtual Servers
16 13 (0.64%) HDFS
17 12 (0.59%) BitLocker
18 9 (0.45%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 349 (17.29%) SCCM
2 234 (11.59%) Microsoft Intune
3 100 (4.95%) WSUS
4 76 (3.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 74 (3.67%) Single Sign-On
6 71 (3.52%) Terraform
7 68 (3.37%) Kubernetes
8 63 (3.12%) SCOM
9 57 (2.82%) Ansible
10 52 (2.58%) vCenter Server
11 42 (2.08%) Jamf Pro
12 26 (1.29%) NetBackup
13 24 (1.19%) EMC NetWorker
14 20 (0.99%) Sysprep
15 18 (0.89%) Kibana
16 14 (0.69%) Microsoft Clustering
17 13 (0.64%) Failover Clustering
17 13 (0.64%) Tivoli
18 12 (0.59%) Nessus
19 11 (0.54%) Netcool
Vendors
1 1,060 (52.50%) Microsoft
2 409 (20.26%) VMware
3 176 (8.72%) ServiceNow
4 172 (8.52%) Citrix
5 104 (5.15%) Cisco
6 101 (5.00%) Apple
7 98 (4.85%) Oracle
8 67 (3.32%) Veeam
9 66 (3.27%) HP
10 62 (3.07%) CyberArk
11 58 (2.87%) Dell
12 44 (2.18%) SAP
13 43 (2.13%) EMC
14 38 (1.88%) Okta
15 37 (1.83%) Red Hat
16 30 (1.49%) Palo Alto
17 27 (1.34%) Ivanti
18 26 (1.29%) Isilon
19 25 (1.24%) CA
19 25 (1.24%) Google