Active Directory Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Active Directory
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 16 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 32 26
Rank change year-on-year +7 -6 +2
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 178 188 241
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 6.44% 6.27% 6.87%
As % of the System Software category 52.05% 50.54% 46.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 150 170
10th Percentile £147 £200 £128
25th Percentile £300 £281 £157
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £450 £350
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +28.57% -12.28%
75th Percentile £608 £551 £534
90th Percentile £615 £688 £626
South East median daily rate £475 £450 £375
% change year-on-year +5.56% +20.00% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 14
10th Percentile £16.08 £15.90 £10.67
25th Percentile £16.19 £18.86 £12.25
Median hourly rate £17.50 £55.00 £13.35
Median % change year-on-year -68.18% +311.99% -0.93%
75th Percentile £30.31 £78.19 £19.69
90th Percentile £51.13 £83.82 £20.00
South East median hourly rate £17.69 £18.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year -4.38% +15.63% +14.29%

All System Software Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 342 372 515
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 12.36% 12.41% 14.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 275 383
10th Percentile £175 £230 £150
25th Percentile £300 £373 £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £485 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% +7.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £608 £574 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £656
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 15 15
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.63 £10.77
25th Percentile £25.78 £48.40 £12.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £13.70
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +301.46% -37.73%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.38 £20.00
90th Percentile - £85.05 £48.50
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £52.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% +160.00% -

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in the Thames Valley

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in the Thames Valley

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in the Thames Valley

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in the Thames Valley

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Active Directory in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Active Directory in the Thames Valley

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 16 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
Berkshire +25 128 £575 -2.13% 27
Buckinghamshire -5 29 £411 -8.67% 26
Oxfordshire +3 21 £145 -51.67% 24
Active Directory
South East

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 41 (23.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (3.93%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.12%) Confluence
3 2 (1.12%) nginx
Applications
1 14 (7.87%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.37%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.12%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 87 (48.88%) Azure
2 50 (28.09%) Microsoft 365
3 40 (22.47%) Entra ID
4 27 (15.17%) Azure Monitor
5 15 (8.43%) Azure Storage
6 13 (7.30%) AWS
7 12 (6.74%) Azure Data Factory
8 11 (6.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 11 (6.18%) OCI
9 7 (3.93%) IaaS
10 6 (3.37%) Azure Functions
10 6 (3.37%) Serverless
11 5 (2.81%) OneDrive
11 5 (2.81%) SaaS
12 4 (2.25%) PaaS
12 4 (2.25%) Power Automate
12 4 (2.25%) Power Platform
12 4 (2.25%) PowerApps
13 3 (1.69%) Azure API Management
13 3 (1.69%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 52 (29.21%) DNS
2 46 (25.84%) DHCP
3 37 (20.79%) Firewall
4 19 (10.67%) SAN
5 13 (7.30%) WAN
6 10 (5.62%) LAN
7 8 (4.49%) Remote Desktop
7 8 (4.49%) SSL
7 8 (4.49%) VPN
8 7 (3.93%) TCP/IP
9 4 (2.25%) NAS
9 4 (2.25%) Skype
10 2 (1.12%) Cisco IOS
10 2 (1.12%) FTP
10 2 (1.12%) Network Security
10 2 (1.12%) WebEx
10 2 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (1.12%) Wireless
11 1 (0.56%) Fibre Channel
11 1 (0.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.18%) NoSQL
2 6 (3.37%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.81%) MySQL
4 3 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.12%) Metadata
6 1 (0.56%) Power BI
6 1 (0.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (6.74%) Git
2 3 (1.69%) JIRA
3 2 (1.12%) Axure RP
3 2 (1.12%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.56%) MSI
General
1 76 (42.70%) Social Skills
2 10 (5.62%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (3.37%) Finance
4 5 (2.81%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (2.81%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (1.12%) Legal
5 2 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (1.12%) Retail
6 1 (0.56%) Police
6 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (19.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 29 (16.29%) Support Specialist
3 27 (15.17%) Active Directory Support
4 25 (14.04%) Azure Specialist
4 25 (14.04%) Windows Engineer
5 23 (12.92%) Active Directory Specialist
6 22 (12.36%) Build Engineer
6 22 (12.36%) Windows Build Engineer
7 15 (8.43%) Active Directory Engineer
8 12 (6.74%) Architect
8 12 (6.74%) Support Engineer
9 11 (6.18%) Azure Developer
9 11 (6.18%) Developer
9 11 (6.18%) Full Stack Developer
9 11 (6.18%) IT Technician
10 10 (5.62%) IT Support
11 9 (5.06%) Senior
12 8 (4.49%) Active Directory Technician
12 8 (4.49%) IT Engineer
13 7 (3.93%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.87%) ARM Templates
2 11 (6.18%) React
3 10 (5.62%) Web Services
4 4 (2.25%) CSS
5 3 (1.69%) .NET
5 3 (1.69%) HTML
5 3 (1.69%) jQuery
5 3 (1.69%) SPFx
6 2 (1.12%) EDI
6 2 (1.12%) OLE
7 1 (0.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (19.10%) PKI
2 17 (9.55%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (6.74%) Product Ownership
4 11 (6.18%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.81%) Video Conferencing
6 4 (2.25%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.69%) Fat Client
7 3 (1.69%) Thin Client
8 2 (1.12%) CCTV
8 2 (1.12%) Clustering
8 2 (1.12%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.12%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.12%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.56%) BYOD
9 1 (0.56%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.56%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 115 (64.61%) Windows
2 69 (38.76%) Windows Server
3 56 (31.46%) Windows 10
4 53 (29.78%) Windows Server 2019
5 48 (26.97%) Windows Server 2016
6 43 (24.16%) Linux
7 37 (20.79%) Windows Server 2012
8 22 (12.36%) Windows NT
9 11 (6.18%) Windows XP
10 6 (3.37%) Ubuntu
11 3 (1.69%) Mac OS
11 3 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (1.69%) Windows 7
12 2 (1.12%) Android
12 2 (1.12%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.56%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.56%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (35.96%) ITIL
2 44 (24.72%) Release Management
3 41 (23.03%) Customer Service
4 38 (21.35%) Service Management
5 37 (20.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 31 (17.42%) Agile
7 28 (15.73%) DevOps
7 28 (15.73%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (13.48%) CI/CD
9 23 (12.92%) Deployment Automation
10 22 (12.36%) User Acceptance Testing
11 18 (10.11%) Identity Management
12 17 (9.55%) Analytics
12 17 (9.55%) Multi-Factor Authentication
13 16 (8.99%) Log Analytics
13 16 (8.99%) Server Management
14 15 (8.43%) Privileged Identity Management
14 15 (8.43%) RBAC
15 14 (7.87%) Disaster Recovery
15 14 (7.87%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 38 (21.35%) PowerShell
2 17 (9.55%) C#
3 15 (8.43%) Python
3 15 (8.43%) VB
3 15 (8.43%) VBScript
4 14 (7.87%) Bicep
5 3 (1.69%) Java
5 3 (1.69%) SQL
6 2 (1.12%) C
6 2 (1.12%) PHP
6 2 (1.12%) Ruby
7 1 (0.56%) R
Qualifications
1 100 (56.18%) Security Cleared
2 78 (43.82%) DV Cleared
3 57 (32.02%) SC Cleared
4 56 (31.46%) Degree
5 15 (8.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 11 (6.18%) CCNA
6 11 (6.18%) CCNP
6 11 (6.18%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.81%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (2.25%) A+ Certification
8 4 (2.25%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.69%) DBS Check
10 2 (1.12%) MCITP
11 1 (0.56%) CEH
11 1 (0.56%) CISSP
11 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.56%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (12.92%) QA
2 10 (5.62%) SLA
3 3 (1.69%) GDPR
4 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 25 (14.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 22 (12.36%) Firmware
3 20 (11.24%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (9.55%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (8.43%) Virtual Desktop
6 13 (7.30%) Hyper-V
7 7 (3.93%) XenApp
7 7 (3.93%) XenDesktop
8 6 (3.37%) Docker
9 2 (1.12%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.56%) Postfix
10 1 (0.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 77 (43.26%) SCCM
2 55 (30.90%) WSUS
3 31 (17.42%) SCOM
4 24 (13.48%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (12.36%) Sysprep
6 19 (10.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 18 (10.11%) Kubernetes
7 18 (10.11%) vCenter Server
8 15 (8.43%) EMC NetWorker
9 11 (6.18%) NetBackup
10 5 (2.81%) Ansible
10 5 (2.81%) Nessus
11 3 (1.69%) Red Hat Satellite
11 3 (1.69%) ZABBIX
12 2 (1.12%) PaperCut
12 2 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (1.12%) Terraform
13 1 (0.56%) Failover Clustering
13 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Clustering
13 1 (0.56%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 99 (55.62%) Microsoft
2 35 (19.66%) VMware
3 21 (11.80%) HP
4 19 (10.67%) Cisco
5 17 (9.55%) Citrix
5 17 (9.55%) Veeam
6 15 (8.43%) EMC
6 15 (8.43%) ServiceNow
7 14 (7.87%) Oracle
8 11 (6.18%) 3PAR
8 11 (6.18%) Dell
8 11 (6.18%) Extreme Networks
8 11 (6.18%) Juniper
8 11 (6.18%) Palo Alto
8 11 (6.18%) Symantec
9 7 (3.93%) Red Hat
10 4 (2.25%) CyberArk
10 4 (2.25%) FireEye
10 4 (2.25%) Okta
10 4 (2.25%) Tanium