Active Directory Contracts in South Wales

Microsoft Active Directory
Wales > South Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 21 25
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 0
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 15 39 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 4.35% 7.40% 6.97%
As % of the System Software category 44.12% 60.00% 42.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 32 52
10th Percentile £133 £128 £130
25th Percentile £176 £159 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £240 £400
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -40.00% +105.13%
75th Percentile £285 £438 £450
90th Percentile £373 £550 £588
Wales median daily rate £202 £188 £375
% change year-on-year +7.45% -49.87% +98.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £13.07 -
25th Percentile £12.25 £14.25 £12.24
Median hourly rate £12.50 £16.45 £12.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.99% +31.61% -21.29%
75th Percentile £12.75 £17.38 £12.75
90th Percentile - £17.81 -
Wales median hourly rate £12.50 £15.72 £14.00
% change year-on-year -20.50% +12.30% +16.67%

All System Software Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 34 65 149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 9.86% 12.33% 16.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 57 119
10th Percentile £181 £139 £162
25th Percentile £220 £185 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - +38.46%
75th Percentile £531 £550 £575
90th Percentile £609 £639 £630
Wales median daily rate £425 £425 £450
% change year-on-year - -5.56% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £13.07 -
25th Percentile £12.25 £14.25 £12.24
Median hourly rate £12.50 £16.45 £12.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.99% +31.61% -35.73%
75th Percentile £12.75 £17.38 £12.75
90th Percentile - £17.81 -
Wales median hourly rate £15.84 £15.72 £14.00
% change year-on-year +0.72% +12.30% -6.67%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in South Wales

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in South Wales

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in South Wales over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in South Wales

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in South Wales

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 South Wales region over the 6 months to 23 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
Cardiff 0 7 £220 -48.24% 5
Newport +2 6 £200 -63.64% 1
Rhondda Cynon Taff +5 1 £135 -5.26%
Gwent +1 1 £166 +0.61%
Active Directory
Wales

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 6 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (73.33%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (40.00%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) AWS
3 1 (6.67%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) Firewall
2 3 (20.00%) VPN
3 2 (13.33%) LAN
3 2 (13.33%) SAN
3 2 (13.33%) WLAN
4 1 (6.67%) DHCP
4 1 (6.67%) DNS
4 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (13.33%) Digital Economy
3 2 (13.33%) Legal
4 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) IT Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Desktop Support
2 3 (20.00%) Support Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Support Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Database Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Desktop Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Desktop Support Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Field Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (6.67%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) IT Support
4 1 (6.67%) IT Support Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) .NET
1 1 (6.67%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (6.67%) Driving Licence
1 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 15 (100.00%) Windows
2 9 (60.00%) Windows Server
3 5 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
3 5 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (20.00%) Windows 10
5 2 (13.33%) Mac OS
5 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (26.67%) ITIL
2 4 (26.67%) Mobile Device Management
3 3 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 3 (20.00%) Service Delivery
4 2 (13.33%) Data Protection
4 2 (13.33%) Decision-Making
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (13.33%) Tech Ops
4 2 (13.33%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 1 (6.67%) Change Management
5 1 (6.67%) Converged Infrastructure
5 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (6.67%) Incident Management
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (6.67%) Mentoring
5 1 (6.67%) Migration
5 1 (6.67%) Privileged Access Management
5 1 (6.67%) Project Management
5 1 (6.67%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) DBS Check
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) SLA
2 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (20.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (6.67%) Terminal Services
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (6.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (13.33%) SCCM
2 1 (6.67%) Ansible
2 1 (6.67%) NetBackup
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
2 1 (6.67%) VxRail
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Microsoft
1 7 (46.67%) VMware
2 4 (26.67%) Dell
3 2 (13.33%) Cisco
3 2 (13.33%) HP
3 2 (13.33%) ServiceNow
3 2 (13.33%) SonicWALL
3 2 (13.33%) WatchGuard
4 1 (6.67%) 3PAR
4 1 (6.67%) Brocade
4 1 (6.67%) New Relic
4 1 (6.67%) PagerDuty
4 1 (6.67%) Rackspace