Active Directory Contracts in Gloucestershire

Microsoft Active Directory
South West > Gloucestershire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 14 21
Rank change year-on-year -15 +7 +6
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 28 71 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 6.65% 14.85% 9.28%
As % of the System Software category 35.90% 47.65% 31.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 56 36
10th Percentile £182 £200 £125
25th Percentile £209 £275 £176
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £400 £200
Median % change year-on-year -43.75% +100.00% -38.46%
75th Percentile £500 £525 £404
90th Percentile £598 £600 £553
South West median daily rate £300 £475 £300
% change year-on-year -36.84% +58.33% -0.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £53.50 -
South West median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year +116.22% -58.43% +160.23%

All System Software Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 78 149 160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 18.53% 31.17% 29.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 111 124
10th Percentile £210 £275 £179
25th Percentile £463 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £578
90th Percentile £725 £713 £680
South West median daily rate £508 £500 £488
% change year-on-year +1.50% +2.56% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £66.50 -
South West median hourly rate £68.75 £60.00 £49.49
% change year-on-year +14.58% +21.24% +23.99%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Gloucestershire

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in Gloucestershire

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in Gloucestershire

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in Gloucestershire

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 27 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
Gloucester -8 9 £450 +12.50% 2
Filton - 6 £220 -
Tewkesbury - 6 £220 - 2
Cheltenham 0 3 £575 +91.67% 1
Cirencester - 2 £575 -
Active Directory
South West

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 4 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (7.14%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.57%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (42.86%) Azure
1 12 (42.86%) Entra ID
2 11 (39.29%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (7.14%) AWS
3 2 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (7.14%) PaaS
3 2 (7.14%) Power Platform
3 2 (7.14%) Serverless
4 1 (3.57%) OneDrive
4 1 (3.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.29%) Firewall
2 2 (7.14%) DNS
3 1 (3.57%) NAS
3 1 (3.57%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (3.57%) SAN
3 1 (3.57%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) Power BI
2 1 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Git
1 1 (3.57%) MSI
General
1 7 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (25.00%) Desktop Support
2 6 (21.43%) Support Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Desktop Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
4 3 (10.71%) 3rd Line Server Support
4 3 (10.71%) 3rd Line Support
4 3 (10.71%) Active Directory Administrator
4 3 (10.71%) Active Directory Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Active Directory Support
4 3 (10.71%) Administrator
4 3 (10.71%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) IT Support
4 3 (10.71%) Server Support
4 3 (10.71%) Windows Server Support
5 2 (7.14%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Azure Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Replication
2 4 (14.29%) CMDB
2 4 (14.29%) Management Information System
3 3 (10.71%) IoT
4 2 (7.14%) PKI
5 1 (3.57%) Clustering
5 1 (3.57%) Fat Client
5 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (3.57%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 24 (85.71%) Windows
2 10 (35.71%) Windows 10
3 7 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (17.86%) Windows Server
5 4 (14.29%) Linux
5 4 (14.29%) Windows 7
6 2 (7.14%) VMS
7 1 (3.57%) Ubuntu
7 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (28.57%) Migration
2 7 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (17.86%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (17.86%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (17.86%) Performance Monitoring
3 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (14.29%) Antivirus Management
4 4 (14.29%) Information Security
4 4 (14.29%) Line Management
4 4 (14.29%) Patch Management
4 4 (14.29%) Preventative Maintenance
4 4 (14.29%) Project Delivery
5 3 (10.71%) Analytics
5 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Management
6 2 (7.14%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (7.14%) Containerisation
6 2 (7.14%) Cost Control
6 2 (7.14%) DevOps
7 1 (3.57%) ITIL
7 1 (3.57%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 8 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 4 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (3.57%) Bash
3 1 (3.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (32.14%) Security Cleared
2 6 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.14%) AWS Certification
3 2 (7.14%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) Hyper-V
1 3 (10.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (7.14%) Docker
2 2 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.57%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (3.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (21.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 6 (21.43%) SCCM
2 4 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (3.57%) Ansible
4 1 (3.57%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (3.57%) Kibana
4 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (32.14%) Microsoft
2 8 (28.57%) VMware
3 3 (10.71%) CA
4 1 (3.57%) Oracle