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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 35 30
Rank change year-on-year +13 -5 -1
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 179 163 232
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 6.79% 5.70% 6.52%
As % of the System Software category 55.08% 47.52% 46.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 131 153
10th Percentile £163 £185 £130
25th Percentile £364 £263 £170
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £450 £375
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% +20.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £608 £567 £525
90th Percentile £650 £688 £625
South East median daily rate £513 £448 £375
% change year-on-year +14.53% +19.33% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 15
10th Percentile - £62.55 £12.25
25th Percentile - £64.13 -
Median hourly rate £16.00 £75.69 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year -78.86% +482.19% -7.96%
75th Percentile - £82.90 £19.38
90th Percentile - £85.66 £20.00
South East median hourly rate £17.80 £18.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year -3.78% +23.33% +5.26%

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 325 343 498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 12.32% 11.98% 13.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 249 362
10th Percentile £205 £206 £157
25th Percentile £363 £358 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £481 £459
Median % change year-on-year +14.50% +4.75% +4.86%
75th Percentile £608 £590 £598
90th Percentile £650 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £529 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +5.70% +5.26% +7.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 14 17
10th Percentile £46.25 £47.77 £12.25
25th Percentile £47.50 £49.94 £13.00
Median hourly rate £58.49 £56.88 £13.70
Median % change year-on-year +2.84% +315.15% -37.73%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.75 £20.00
90th Percentile - £79.68 £67.42
South East median hourly rate £54.88 £56.25 £20.00
% change year-on-year -2.44% +181.25% -14.89%

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 31 May 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
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 31 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
Berkshire +20 131 £605 +5.68% 27
Buckinghamshire +9 30 £411 -8.67% 25
Oxfordshire +2 18 £141 -50.87% 14
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 40 (22.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.12%) Confluence
2 2 (1.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (5.03%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.68%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 104 (58.10%) Azure
2 51 (28.49%) Entra ID
3 41 (22.91%) Azure Monitor
3 41 (22.91%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (11.73%) Azure Data Factory
5 20 (11.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 20 (11.17%) Azure Storage
6 17 (9.50%) Azure Functions
6 17 (9.50%) Serverless
7 14 (7.82%) AWS
7 14 (7.82%) OCI
8 6 (3.35%) IaaS
8 6 (3.35%) SaaS
9 5 (2.79%) PaaS
10 4 (2.23%) Azure API Management
10 4 (2.23%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (1.68%) Azure Event Grid
12 2 (1.12%) Azure Stack
12 2 (1.12%) Power Automate
12 2 (1.12%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 56 (31.28%) DNS
2 53 (29.61%) DHCP
3 41 (22.91%) Firewall
4 20 (11.17%) SAN
5 10 (5.59%) WAN
6 9 (5.03%) LAN
7 8 (4.47%) SSL
7 8 (4.47%) VPN
8 5 (2.79%) TCP/IP
9 4 (2.23%) NAS
10 3 (1.68%) Network Security
10 3 (1.68%) Remote Desktop
11 2 (1.12%) WebEx
11 2 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
12 1 (0.56%) NetScaler
12 1 (0.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.17%) NoSQL
2 4 (2.23%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (2.23%) MySQL
2 4 (2.23%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (2.23%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.56%) Power BI
3 1 (0.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (11.73%) Git
2 8 (4.47%) Selenium
3 3 (1.68%) JIRA
3 3 (1.68%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.56%) MSI
General
1 67 (37.43%) Social Skills
2 14 (7.82%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (2.79%) Finance
4 4 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (2.23%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (1.12%) Manufacturing
5 2 (1.12%) Retail
6 1 (0.56%) Automotive
6 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.56%) Police
6 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 39 (21.79%) Active Directory Support
2 34 (18.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 29 (16.20%) Support Specialist
4 26 (14.53%) Active Directory Specialist
4 26 (14.53%) Azure Specialist
5 24 (13.41%) Active Directory Engineer
6 21 (11.73%) Support Engineer
7 20 (11.17%) Developer
7 20 (11.17%) Full Stack Developer
8 19 (10.61%) Windows Engineer
9 17 (9.50%) Azure Developer
9 17 (9.50%) Build Engineer
9 17 (9.50%) Windows Build Engineer
10 12 (6.70%) Active Directory Support Engineer
10 12 (6.70%) Azure Engineer
11 11 (6.15%) Architect
12 10 (5.59%) Full Stack Python Developer
12 10 (5.59%) Python Developer
12 10 (5.59%) Storage Engineer
13 8 (4.47%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (11.73%) ARM Templates
2 20 (11.17%) React
3 11 (6.15%) Web Services
4 4 (2.23%) .NET
5 2 (1.12%) CSS
6 1 (0.56%) HTML
6 1 (0.56%) jQuery
6 1 (0.56%) SPFx
6 1 (0.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (22.35%) PKI
2 20 (11.17%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (8.94%) Product Ownership
4 14 (7.82%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.23%) Fat Client
5 4 (2.23%) Thin Client
5 4 (2.23%) Video Conferencing
6 3 (1.68%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.68%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.56%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.56%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 102 (56.98%) Windows
2 73 (40.78%) Windows Server
3 56 (31.28%) Windows Server 2019
4 52 (29.05%) Windows Server 2016
5 48 (26.82%) Linux
5 48 (26.82%) Windows 10
6 32 (17.88%) Windows Server 2012
7 17 (9.50%) Windows NT
8 14 (7.82%) Windows XP
9 4 (2.23%) Ubuntu
10 3 (1.68%) Mac OS
10 3 (1.68%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (35.20%) ITIL
2 45 (25.14%) DevOps
3 44 (24.58%) Release Management
4 43 (24.02%) Agile
5 40 (22.35%) CI/CD
6 38 (21.23%) Service Management
7 37 (20.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 30 (16.76%) Customer Service
9 23 (12.85%) Microservices
9 23 (12.85%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 22 (12.29%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (11.73%) Analytics
11 21 (11.73%) Identity Management
11 21 (11.73%) Infrastructure as Code
11 21 (11.73%) Log Analytics
12 20 (11.17%) Full Stack Development
12 20 (11.17%) Privileged Identity Management
12 20 (11.17%) RBAC
13 18 (10.06%) Deployment Automation
14 17 (9.50%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 49 (27.37%) PowerShell
2 25 (13.97%) Python
3 23 (12.85%) C#
4 21 (11.73%) Bicep
5 20 (11.17%) VB
5 20 (11.17%) VBScript
6 12 (6.70%) Java
7 3 (1.68%) C
7 3 (1.68%) PHP
7 3 (1.68%) Ruby
8 1 (0.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 101 (56.42%) Security Cleared
2 77 (43.02%) DV Cleared
3 72 (40.22%) SC Cleared
4 55 (30.73%) Degree
5 20 (11.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 14 (7.82%) CCNA
6 14 (7.82%) CCNP
6 14 (7.82%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.68%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.56%) CEH
8 1 (0.56%) CISSP
8 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.56%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.56%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.06%) QA
2 6 (3.35%) SLA
3 3 (1.68%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.56%) COBIT
4 1 (0.56%) GDPR
4 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 31 (17.32%) VMware Infrastructure
2 24 (13.41%) Virtual Machines
3 21 (11.73%) VMware ESXi
4 20 (11.17%) Virtual Desktop
5 19 (10.61%) Hyper-V
6 17 (9.50%) Firmware
7 7 (3.91%) XenApp
8 5 (2.79%) XenDesktop
9 3 (1.68%) Docker
10 1 (0.56%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 69 (38.55%) SCCM
2 57 (31.84%) WSUS
3 35 (19.55%) SCOM
4 25 (13.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 24 (13.41%) Kubernetes
5 24 (13.41%) Microsoft Intune
6 20 (11.17%) vCenter Server
7 17 (9.50%) Sysprep
8 14 (7.82%) EMC NetWorker
8 14 (7.82%) NetBackup
9 6 (3.35%) Ansible
9 6 (3.35%) Nessus
10 4 (2.23%) Red Hat Satellite
10 4 (2.23%) ZABBIX
11 3 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (1.12%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 2 (1.12%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 2 (1.12%) Terraform
13 1 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 93 (51.96%) Microsoft
2 35 (19.55%) VMware
3 19 (10.61%) Cisco
3 19 (10.61%) HP
4 18 (10.06%) Oracle
4 18 (10.06%) Veeam
5 15 (8.38%) Dell
6 14 (7.82%) 3PAR
6 14 (7.82%) EMC
6 14 (7.82%) Extreme Networks
6 14 (7.82%) Juniper
6 14 (7.82%) Palo Alto
6 14 (7.82%) Symantec
7 13 (7.26%) Citrix
8 9 (5.03%) ServiceNow
9 6 (3.35%) Red Hat
10 4 (2.23%) CyberArk
10 4 (2.23%) FireEye
10 4 (2.23%) Okta
10 4 (2.23%) Tanium