Active Directory Contracts in Manchester

Microsoft Active Directory
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 43 20 37
Rank change year-on-year -23 +17 -10
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 61 134 148
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 3.98% 7.08% 5.69%
As % of the System Software category 44.85% 46.69% 43.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 88 119
10th Percentile £210 £169 £126
25th Percentile £303 £306 £168
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £469 £325
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +44.23% +41.30%
75th Percentile £544 £538 £506
90th Percentile £714 £586 £640
North West median daily rate £338 £350 £250
% change year-on-year -3.57% +40.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 12
10th Percentile - £13.83 £15.25
25th Percentile - £15.69 £16.00
Median hourly rate £12.00 £20.00 £18.12
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +10.41% +5.49%
75th Percentile - £28.06 £20.03
90th Percentile - £42.24 £27.89
North West median hourly rate £17.29 £20.00 £18.12
% change year-on-year -13.58% +10.41% -23.73%

All System Software Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 136 287 338
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 8.87% 15.16% 13.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 205 273
10th Percentile £282 £300 £159
25th Percentile £366 £388 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £584 £594 £625
90th Percentile £694 £650 £663
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 15 12
10th Percentile - £14.07 £15.25
25th Percentile - £20.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £12.00 £27.50 £18.12
Median % change year-on-year -56.36% +51.81% -60.19%
75th Percentile - £65.00 £20.03
90th Percentile - - £27.89
North West median hourly rate £17.72 £21.21 £18.12
% change year-on-year -16.43% +17.06% -57.38%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Manchester

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in Manchester

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in Manchester over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in Manchester

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in Manchester

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 28 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
Stockport - 6 £438 - 1
Oldham 0 3 £350 +191.67%
Bolton +2 2 £200 +14.29%
Salford +1 2 £255 -51.43% 3
Wigan -4 1 £160 +14.29% 3
Active Directory
North West

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 18 (29.51%) SharePoint
2 11 (18.03%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (14.75%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (8.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (3.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 29 (47.54%) Azure
2 25 (40.98%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (18.03%) Entra ID
4 4 (6.56%) AWS
5 2 (3.28%) IaaS
6 1 (1.64%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.64%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.64%) GitHub
6 1 (1.64%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.64%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.64%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (14.75%) InfiniBand
2 6 (9.84%) Firewall
2 6 (9.84%) LAN
3 5 (8.20%) DNS
3 5 (8.20%) WAN
4 4 (6.56%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (4.92%) VLAN
5 3 (4.92%) VoIP
5 3 (4.92%) VPN
6 2 (3.28%) DHCP
6 2 (3.28%) SAN
7 1 (1.64%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (1.64%) NAS
7 1 (1.64%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.20%) MySQL
2 3 (4.92%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Hudson
1 1 (1.64%) Jenkins
General
1 19 (31.15%) Social Skills
2 9 (14.75%) Public Sector
3 4 (6.56%) Banking
3 4 (6.56%) Manufacturing
3 4 (6.56%) Telecoms
4 3 (4.92%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (4.92%) Electronics
4 3 (4.92%) Finance
4 3 (4.92%) Marketing
5 2 (3.28%) Law
5 2 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.64%) Advertising
6 1 (1.64%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.64%) Automotive
6 1 (1.64%) Retail
6 1 (1.64%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 9 (14.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (13.11%) Analyst
2 8 (13.11%) Consultant
2 8 (13.11%) Senior
2 8 (13.11%) Support Engineer
3 6 (9.84%) Azure Engineer
3 6 (9.84%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (6.56%) 1st/2nd Line Support
4 4 (6.56%) 2nd Line Support
4 4 (6.56%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (6.56%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 4 (6.56%) IT Support
4 4 (6.56%) Security Analyst
4 4 (6.56%) Service Analyst
4 4 (6.56%) Service Desk Analyst
5 3 (4.92%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (4.92%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (4.92%) Infrastructure Manager
5 3 (4.92%) Lead
5 3 (4.92%) Senior IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.56%) SailPoint
2 1 (1.64%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.11%) Onboarding
2 5 (8.20%) Clustering
2 5 (8.20%) Driving Licence
3 3 (4.92%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.28%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.28%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.64%) EPoS
5 1 (1.64%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (1.64%) Freedom of Information Act
5 1 (1.64%) NHS
5 1 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 21 (34.43%) Windows
2 12 (19.67%) Windows 10
3 10 (16.39%) Windows Server
3 10 (16.39%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (4.92%) Mac OS
4 3 (4.92%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (3.28%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.64%) Debian
6 1 (1.64%) Linux
6 1 (1.64%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.64%) VMS
6 1 (1.64%) Windows 7
6 1 (1.64%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (18.03%) Deep Learning
2 10 (16.39%) DevOps
2 10 (16.39%) ITIL
3 9 (14.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 9 (14.75%) Stress Testing
4 8 (13.11%) Mobile Device Management
5 7 (11.48%) Customer Service
5 7 (11.48%) Identity Access Management
6 6 (9.84%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (9.84%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (9.84%) Project Management
7 5 (8.20%) Network Virtualisation
8 4 (6.56%) CI/CD
8 4 (6.56%) Collaborative Working
8 4 (6.56%) Migration
8 4 (6.56%) Remediation Plan
9 3 (4.92%) Data Protection
9 3 (4.92%) Digital Marketing
9 3 (4.92%) Programme Management
9 3 (4.92%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (18.03%) MATLAB
2 7 (11.48%) PowerShell
3 5 (8.20%) PHP
4 3 (4.92%) SQL
5 1 (1.64%) Java
5 1 (1.64%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (18.03%) SC Cleared
1 11 (18.03%) Security Cleared
2 10 (16.39%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (14.75%) Degree
4 4 (6.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (4.92%) Azure Certification
5 3 (4.92%) CCNA
5 3 (4.92%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.28%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (3.28%) MCITP
6 2 (3.28%) MCSE
7 1 (1.64%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.64%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.56%) QA
2 1 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (1.64%) NIST
2 1 (1.64%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.64%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (14.75%) Firmware
2 7 (11.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (6.56%) Hyper-V
4 3 (4.92%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.64%) BitLocker
5 1 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.64%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.64%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.64%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 16 (26.23%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (14.75%) Dell DRAC
3 5 (8.20%) Terraform
4 3 (4.92%) Autotask
4 3 (4.92%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (4.92%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (4.92%) SCCM
5 1 (1.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (1.64%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.64%) VxRail
Vendors
1 40 (65.57%) Microsoft
2 13 (21.31%) Dell
3 11 (18.03%) Isilon
4 9 (14.75%) Red Hat
4 9 (14.75%) VMware
5 5 (8.20%) CyberArk
5 5 (8.20%) Oracle
6 4 (6.56%) HP
6 4 (6.56%) SAP
7 3 (4.92%) Apple
7 3 (4.92%) Cisco
7 3 (4.92%) Datto
7 3 (4.92%) ServiceNow
8 2 (3.28%) Adobe
8 2 (3.28%) BMC
8 2 (3.28%) CA
8 2 (3.28%) Citrix
8 2 (3.28%) iManage
9 1 (1.64%) EMC
9 1 (1.64%) Veeam