Active Directory Contracts in the North of England

Microsoft Active Directory
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 19 20
Rank change year-on-year -8 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 268 408 549
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 5.71% 7.15% 7.69%
As % of the System Software category 48.64% 49.76% 52.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 297 407
10th Percentile £150 £150 £133
25th Percentile £185 £200 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £325 £250
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +30.00% -10.39%
75th Percentile £500 £519 £438
90th Percentile £650 £575 £550
England median daily rate £413 £425 £400
% change year-on-year -2.94% +6.25% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 25 44
10th Percentile - £13.97 £15.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £16.00
Median hourly rate £17.50 £20.00 £17.57
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +13.83% -1.33%
75th Percentile £18.38 £33.75 £20.00
90th Percentile £21.45 £52.13 £27.25
England median hourly rate £17.50 £19.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -7.89% +8.57% +9.38%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 551 820 1,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 11.74% 14.37% 14.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 396 614 771
10th Percentile £178 £182 £156
25th Percentile £275 £306 £207
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% +17.65% +0.26%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £550
90th Percentile £650 £675 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 34 47
10th Percentile - £14.08 £15.00
25th Percentile £14.06 £16.78 £16.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £26.75 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.19% +52.86% -7.89%
75th Percentile £18.97 £63.75 £20.00
90th Percentile £46.18 £65.53 £25.75
England median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -58.00% +150.00% +5.26%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in the North of England

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in the North of England

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in the North of England

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in the North of England

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Active Directory in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Active Directory in the North of England

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in the North 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 8 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
North West -12 139 £325 -7.14% 108
Yorkshire -3 109 £300 +3.90% 62
North East +16 18 £360 +28.57% 26
Active Directory
England

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North 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 60 (22.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 38 (14.18%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.24%) IIS
4 1 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (0.37%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 51 (19.03%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (3.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.75%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 154 (57.46%) Microsoft 365
2 85 (31.72%) Azure
3 49 (18.28%) Entra ID
4 12 (4.48%) AWS
5 10 (3.73%) OneDrive
6 3 (1.12%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (1.12%) GCP
6 3 (1.12%) IaaS
7 2 (0.75%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (0.75%) Azure Stack
7 2 (0.75%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (0.75%) Mimecast
7 2 (0.75%) Power Platform
7 2 (0.75%) PowerApps
7 2 (0.75%) SaaS
8 1 (0.37%) AWS KMS
8 1 (0.37%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.37%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (0.37%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.37%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 32 (11.94%) DNS
2 23 (8.58%) Firewall
3 21 (7.84%) DHCP
4 17 (6.34%) VPN
5 15 (5.60%) LAN
6 13 (4.85%) WAN
7 11 (4.10%) Wi-Fi
8 8 (2.99%) SAN
9 7 (2.61%) Remote Desktop
9 7 (2.61%) Wireless
10 6 (2.24%) TCP/IP
10 6 (2.24%) VLAN
11 5 (1.87%) InfiniBand
11 5 (1.87%) WAAS
12 4 (1.49%) VoIP
13 3 (1.12%) NAS
13 3 (1.12%) Network Security
13 3 (1.12%) WLAN
14 2 (0.75%) SD-WAN
14 2 (0.75%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.24%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.87%) MySQL
3 4 (1.49%) Big Data
4 2 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.37%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.37%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (0.75%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.37%) Git
2 1 (0.37%) GitLab
2 1 (0.37%) Gradle
2 1 (0.37%) Hudson
2 1 (0.37%) JIRA
2 1 (0.37%) Liquibase
2 1 (0.37%) SonarQube
2 1 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 104 (38.81%) Social Skills
2 26 (9.70%) Public Sector
3 17 (6.34%) Banking
4 16 (5.97%) Finance
5 13 (4.85%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (4.10%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (4.10%) Manufacturing
7 10 (3.73%) Law
8 5 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.49%) Legal
10 3 (1.12%) Aviation
10 3 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.12%) Retail
10 3 (1.12%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.75%) Automotive
11 2 (0.75%) Electronics
11 2 (0.75%) Marketing
11 2 (0.75%) Multimedia
11 2 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.37%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 59 (22.01%) Analyst
2 38 (14.18%) Support Engineer
3 36 (13.43%) IT Support
4 28 (10.45%) Service Analyst
4 28 (10.45%) Service Desk Analyst
5 27 (10.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 23 (8.58%) 2nd Line Support
7 21 (7.84%) IT Engineer
7 21 (7.84%) Senior
8 20 (7.46%) IT Technician
9 16 (5.97%) Desktop Support
10 15 (5.60%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 15 (5.60%) Support Analyst
11 14 (5.22%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
12 13 (4.85%) 1st Line Support
13 12 (4.48%) 3rd Line Support
13 12 (4.48%) Azure Engineer
14 11 (4.10%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 11 (4.10%) Consultant
15 10 (3.73%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.73%) SailPoint
2 5 (1.87%) LDAP
3 2 (0.75%) ADSI
3 2 (0.75%) HTML
3 2 (0.75%) SOAP
4 1 (0.37%) CSS
4 1 (0.37%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (0.37%) jQuery
4 1 (0.37%) JSON
4 1 (0.37%) JSP
4 1 (0.37%) Keycloak
4 1 (0.37%) RESTful
4 1 (0.37%) SAML
4 1 (0.37%) Servlets
4 1 (0.37%) Software Packaging
4 1 (0.37%) Spring
4 1 (0.37%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.37%) Swagger
4 1 (0.37%) Web Services
4 1 (0.37%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.22%) Data Centre
2 12 (4.48%) Clustering
3 10 (3.73%) Driving Licence
4 8 (2.99%) Operational Technology
5 7 (2.61%) EPoS
6 6 (2.24%) Mobile App
6 6 (2.24%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.87%) iPhone
7 5 (1.87%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.87%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 5 (1.87%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (1.49%) NHS
8 4 (1.49%) PKI
9 3 (1.12%) CMDB
9 3 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.75%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.37%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.37%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 189 (70.52%) Windows
2 91 (33.96%) Windows 10
3 53 (19.78%) Windows Server
4 15 (5.60%) Windows Server 2016
5 14 (5.22%) Windows Server 2012
6 13 (4.85%) Linux
7 12 (4.48%) Mac OS
8 11 (4.10%) Apple iOS
8 11 (4.10%) Windows Server 2019
9 10 (3.73%) VMS
9 10 (3.73%) Windows 7
10 5 (1.87%) Android
10 5 (1.87%) Ubuntu
11 3 (1.12%) Debian
11 3 (1.12%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.75%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.37%) Windows 8
13 1 (0.37%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (26.87%) Customer Service
2 37 (13.81%) Migration
3 36 (13.43%) ITIL
4 30 (11.19%) Problem-Solving
5 28 (10.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 21 (7.84%) Mobile Device Management
7 16 (5.97%) Cybersecurity
7 16 (5.97%) Identity Access Management
7 16 (5.97%) Service Management
8 12 (4.48%) DevOps
9 11 (4.10%) Project Management
10 9 (3.36%) Asset Management
10 9 (3.36%) Network Monitoring
10 9 (3.36%) Software Deployment
11 8 (2.99%) Remediation Plan
12 7 (2.61%) Customer Requirements
12 7 (2.61%) Information Security
12 7 (2.61%) Runbook
12 7 (2.61%) Server Virtualisation
12 7 (2.61%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 27 (10.07%) PowerShell
2 9 (3.36%) SQL
3 8 (2.99%) JavaScript
3 8 (2.99%) Python
4 6 (2.24%) C++
5 5 (1.87%) MATLAB
5 5 (1.87%) PHP
6 3 (1.12%) Java
7 1 (0.37%) ABAP
7 1 (0.37%) Bash
Qualifications
1 32 (11.94%) Security Cleared
2 23 (8.58%) SC Cleared
3 22 (8.21%) Degree
4 21 (7.84%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (4.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 9 (3.36%) CCNA
6 9 (3.36%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (3.36%) ITIL Certification
7 7 (2.61%) A+ Certification
8 6 (2.24%) CEH
8 6 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (2.24%) CREST Certified
8 6 (2.24%) DV Cleared
8 6 (2.24%) GIAC
8 6 (2.24%) GPEN
8 6 (2.24%) OSCP
9 5 (1.87%) MCSE
10 4 (1.49%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.49%) Network+ Certification
11 3 (1.12%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.22%) SLA
2 12 (4.48%) QA
3 8 (2.99%) NIST
4 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.37%) GDPR
4 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.37%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 40 (14.93%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (7.46%) Hyper-V
3 10 (3.73%) VMware Workstation
4 9 (3.36%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (2.99%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (2.61%) KVM
7 6 (2.24%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (1.87%) Firmware
9 2 (0.75%) BitLocker
9 2 (0.75%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.75%) vSphere
10 1 (0.37%) ACF2
10 1 (0.37%) Docker
10 1 (0.37%) IAG
10 1 (0.37%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.37%) NFS
10 1 (0.37%) RACF
10 1 (0.37%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.37%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 53 (19.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 29 (10.82%) SCCM
3 10 (3.73%) vCenter Server
4 9 (3.36%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 7 (2.61%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (2.24%) Terraform
7 5 (1.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (1.87%) Dell DRAC
7 5 (1.87%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (1.12%) Autotask
8 3 (1.12%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.75%) CA Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.37%) Anchore
10 1 (0.37%) Ansible
10 1 (0.37%) Kibana
10 1 (0.37%) Kubernetes
10 1 (0.37%) Packer
10 1 (0.37%) SolarWinds Orion
10 1 (0.37%) vMotion
10 1 (0.37%) WSUS
Vendors
1 169 (63.06%) Microsoft
2 58 (21.64%) VMware
3 31 (11.57%) ServiceNow
4 14 (5.22%) Apple
5 13 (4.85%) Citrix
6 12 (4.48%) CyberArk
7 11 (4.10%) Cisco
8 7 (2.61%) Dell
9 5 (1.87%) HP
9 5 (1.87%) Isilon
9 5 (1.87%) Oracle
9 5 (1.87%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.87%) Veeam
10 4 (1.49%) CA
10 4 (1.49%) iManage
10 4 (1.49%) SAP
11 3 (1.12%) Datto
11 3 (1.12%) SolarWinds
11 3 (1.12%) Sophos
12 2 (0.75%) BeyondTrust