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

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 33 26
Rank change year-on-year +10 -7 +1
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 190 178 261
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.15% 6.14% 7.42%
As % of the System Software category 54.76% 49.58% 48.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 143 186
10th Percentile £148 £190 £130
25th Percentile £310 £275 £161
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £450 £375
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% +20.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £608 £551 £538
90th Percentile £638 £686 £634
South East median daily rate £492 £425 £375
% change year-on-year +15.76% +13.33% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 13
10th Percentile £16.08 £36.25 £10.73
25th Percentile £16.19 £54.75 £12.25
Median hourly rate £17.50 £66.50 £13.70
Median % change year-on-year -73.68% +385.40% -10.16%
75th Percentile £30.31 £79.78 £20.00
90th Percentile £51.13 £84.44 -
South East median hourly rate £17.69 £18.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year -4.38% +19.35% +10.71%

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 347 359 537
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.05% 12.39% 15.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 268 401
10th Percentile £175 £230 £150
25th Percentile £311 £364 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £480 £455
Median % change year-on-year +14.52% +5.56% +3.41%
75th Percentile £608 £574 £600
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 13 16 14
10th Percentile £16.25 £33.75 £10.92
25th Percentile £46.25 £48.40 £12.44
Median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £14.85
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +270.37% -40.60%
75th Percentile £65.00 £71.25 £20.00
90th Percentile - £78.56 £53.25
South East median hourly rate £51.50 £54.56 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.61% +172.80% -9.09%

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 5 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Active Directory in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 5 May 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 5 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 +19 139 £605 +9.95% 28
Buckinghamshire +1 30 £411 -8.67% 27
Oxfordshire +2 21 £145 -51.67% 19
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 42 (22.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.16%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.05%) Confluence
3 2 (1.05%) nginx
Applications
1 14 (7.37%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.16%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.05%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 100 (52.63%) Azure
2 53 (27.89%) Microsoft 365
3 46 (24.21%) Entra ID
4 34 (17.89%) Azure Monitor
5 17 (8.95%) Azure Data Factory
5 17 (8.95%) Azure Storage
6 16 (8.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 14 (7.37%) AWS
7 14 (7.37%) OCI
8 11 (5.79%) Azure Functions
8 11 (5.79%) Serverless
9 8 (4.21%) IaaS
10 6 (3.16%) SaaS
11 5 (2.63%) OneDrive
11 5 (2.63%) PaaS
12 4 (2.11%) Azure API Management
12 4 (2.11%) Azure Logic Apps
12 4 (2.11%) Power Automate
12 4 (2.11%) Power Platform
12 4 (2.11%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 57 (30.00%) DNS
2 52 (27.37%) DHCP
3 43 (22.63%) Firewall
4 22 (11.58%) SAN
5 13 (6.84%) WAN
6 10 (5.26%) LAN
7 9 (4.74%) VPN
8 8 (4.21%) Remote Desktop
8 8 (4.21%) SSL
8 8 (4.21%) TCP/IP
9 4 (2.11%) NAS
10 3 (1.58%) Network Security
11 2 (1.05%) Cisco IOS
11 2 (1.05%) Skype
11 2 (1.05%) WebEx
11 2 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (1.05%) Wireless
12 1 (0.53%) NetScaler
12 1 (0.53%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.42%) NoSQL
2 6 (3.16%) MySQL
2 6 (3.16%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.05%) Metadata
5 1 (0.53%) Power BI
5 1 (0.53%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (8.95%) Git
2 3 (1.58%) JIRA
2 3 (1.58%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.05%) Selenium
4 1 (0.53%) Axure RP
4 1 (0.53%) MSI
General
1 81 (42.63%) Social Skills
2 14 (7.37%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (3.16%) Finance
4 5 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.05%) Legal
6 2 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.05%) Retail
7 1 (0.53%) Police
7 1 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (18.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 32 (16.84%) Active Directory Support
2 32 (16.84%) Support Specialist
3 27 (14.21%) Azure Specialist
4 26 (13.68%) Active Directory Specialist
5 24 (12.63%) Windows Engineer
6 21 (11.05%) Build Engineer
6 21 (11.05%) Windows Build Engineer
7 17 (8.95%) Active Directory Engineer
8 16 (8.42%) Developer
8 16 (8.42%) Full Stack Developer
9 15 (7.89%) Azure Developer
9 15 (7.89%) Support Engineer
10 11 (5.79%) Architect
10 11 (5.79%) IT Technician
11 10 (5.26%) IT Support
11 10 (5.26%) Storage Engineer
12 9 (4.74%) IT Engineer
13 8 (4.21%) Active Directory Technician
14 7 (3.68%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.95%) ARM Templates
2 16 (8.42%) React
3 11 (5.79%) Web Services
4 4 (2.11%) .NET
4 4 (2.11%) CSS
5 3 (1.58%) HTML
5 3 (1.58%) jQuery
5 3 (1.58%) SPFx
6 2 (1.05%) EDI
6 2 (1.05%) OLE
7 1 (0.53%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (19.47%) PKI
2 19 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (7.37%) Data Centre
3 14 (7.37%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.63%) Video Conferencing
5 4 (2.11%) Fat Client
5 4 (2.11%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.11%) Thin Client
6 3 (1.58%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.05%) CCTV
7 2 (1.05%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.05%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.53%) BYOD
8 1 (0.53%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.53%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.53%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.53%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 119 (62.63%) Windows
2 76 (40.00%) Windows Server
3 59 (31.05%) Windows Server 2019
4 58 (30.53%) Windows 10
5 53 (27.89%) Windows Server 2016
6 48 (25.26%) Linux
7 39 (20.53%) Windows Server 2012
8 21 (11.05%) Windows NT
9 14 (7.37%) Windows XP
10 6 (3.16%) Ubuntu
11 3 (1.58%) Mac OS
11 3 (1.58%) Windows 7
12 2 (1.05%) Android
12 2 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (1.05%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.53%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (34.74%) ITIL
2 45 (23.68%) Release Management
3 41 (21.58%) Customer Service
4 39 (20.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 39 (20.53%) Service Management
5 37 (19.47%) Agile
5 37 (19.47%) DevOps
6 32 (16.84%) CI/CD
7 29 (15.26%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (11.58%) Deployment Automation
9 21 (11.05%) User Acceptance Testing
10 20 (10.53%) Identity Management
10 20 (10.53%) Multi-Factor Authentication
11 19 (10.00%) Analytics
11 19 (10.00%) Microservices
12 18 (9.47%) Log Analytics
13 17 (8.95%) Infrastructure as Code
13 17 (8.95%) Privileged Identity Management
13 17 (8.95%) RBAC
13 17 (8.95%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 47 (24.74%) PowerShell
2 21 (11.05%) Python
3 20 (10.53%) C#
4 17 (8.95%) Bicep
4 17 (8.95%) VB
4 17 (8.95%) VBScript
5 6 (3.16%) Java
6 3 (1.58%) PHP
6 3 (1.58%) Ruby
6 3 (1.58%) SQL
7 2 (1.05%) C
8 1 (0.53%) R
Qualifications
1 105 (55.26%) Security Cleared
2 81 (42.63%) DV Cleared
3 65 (34.21%) SC Cleared
4 60 (31.58%) Degree
5 17 (8.95%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 14 (7.37%) CCNA
6 14 (7.37%) CCNP
6 14 (7.37%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (2.11%) A+ Certification
8 4 (2.11%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.58%) DBS Check
10 2 (1.05%) MCITP
11 1 (0.53%) CEH
11 1 (0.53%) CISSP
11 1 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.53%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (11.58%) QA
2 10 (5.26%) SLA
3 3 (1.58%) GDPR
3 3 (1.58%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.53%) COBIT
4 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 32 (16.84%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (12.11%) Virtual Machines
3 21 (11.05%) Firmware
3 21 (11.05%) VMware ESXi
4 19 (10.00%) Hyper-V
5 17 (8.95%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (4.21%) XenApp
7 6 (3.16%) XenDesktop
8 5 (2.63%) Docker
9 2 (1.05%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.53%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 81 (42.63%) SCCM
2 60 (31.58%) WSUS
3 34 (17.89%) SCOM
4 25 (13.16%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (11.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 22 (11.58%) vCenter Server
6 21 (11.05%) Kubernetes
6 21 (11.05%) Sysprep
7 16 (8.42%) EMC NetWorker
8 14 (7.37%) NetBackup
9 6 (3.16%) Ansible
9 6 (3.16%) Nessus
10 4 (2.11%) Red Hat Satellite
10 4 (2.11%) ZABBIX
11 3 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (1.05%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 2 (1.05%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 2 (1.05%) PaperCut
12 2 (1.05%) Terraform
13 1 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 107 (56.32%) Microsoft
2 40 (21.05%) VMware
3 25 (13.16%) HP
4 21 (11.05%) Cisco
5 20 (10.53%) Veeam
6 18 (9.47%) Oracle
7 16 (8.42%) EMC
8 15 (7.89%) Citrix
8 15 (7.89%) Dell
9 14 (7.37%) 3PAR
9 14 (7.37%) Extreme Networks
9 14 (7.37%) Juniper
9 14 (7.37%) Palo Alto
9 14 (7.37%) Symantec
10 13 (6.84%) ServiceNow
11 8 (4.21%) Red Hat
12 4 (2.11%) CyberArk
12 4 (2.11%) FireEye
12 4 (2.11%) Okta
12 4 (2.11%) Tanium