Active Directory Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Active Directory
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 22 22
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 -2
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 1,286 1,797 2,268
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.28% 7.66% 7.46%
As % of the System Software category 53.25% 50.79% 49.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 905 1,317 1,610
10th Percentile £150 £156 £131
25th Percentile £200 £200 £170
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £375 £288
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +30.43% -11.54%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £475
90th Percentile £650 £663 £588
UK median daily rate £425 £428 £400
% change year-on-year -0.70% +7.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 105 198
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £14.16 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £18.00 £17.38
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.60% +13.93%
75th Percentile £19.00 £39.60 £20.88
90th Percentile £40.00 £62.98 £27.77
UK median hourly rate £17.60 £20.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -12.03% +14.29% +8.53%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 2,415 3,538 4,592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.79% 15.08% 15.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,631 2,553 3,250
10th Percentile £178 £181 £158
25th Percentile £285 £313 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £485 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.64% +7.78% +6.51%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £559
90th Percentile £650 £676 £644
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 185 239
10th Percentile £14.01 £14.25 £13.10
25th Percentile £14.16 £16.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £19.95 £46.11 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -56.73% +149.22% +5.11%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £23.88
90th Percentile £77.40 £72.25 £52.15
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £54.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -58.33% +170.00% -2.44%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Active Directory as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in the UK excluding London

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in the UK excluding London

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in the UK excluding London

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in the UK excluding London

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Active Directory in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Active Directory in the UK excluding London

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
South East +15 443 £500 +17.65% 213
North of England -9 266 £323 -0.77% 195
South West -14 160 £394 -20.40% 105
Midlands -1 159 £331 -11.67% 152
North West -10 140 £350 - 106
Scotland +11 136 £340 +10.57% 48
Yorkshire -5 107 £300 +3.90% 68
East of England -14 105 £258 -26.43% 115
West Midlands -7 97 £350 -12.50% 95
East Midlands -1 59 £275 +10.00% 57
North East +13 17 £500 +78.57% 23
Wales -6 16 £220 +17.02% 18
Northern Ireland -11 4 £438 +143.06% 8
Active Directory
UK

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 274 (21.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 114 (8.86%) SharePoint
3 30 (2.33%) Confluence
4 28 (2.18%) IIS
5 12 (0.93%) Skype for Business
6 5 (0.39%) Apache
6 5 (0.39%) JBoss
7 4 (0.31%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 4 (0.31%) nginx
7 4 (0.31%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.23%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.16%) WordPress
10 1 (0.078%) Exchange Server 2007
10 1 (0.078%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 140 (10.89%) Microsoft Office
2 48 (3.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.54%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.16%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.078%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.078%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.078%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.078%) Trello
6 1 (0.078%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 7 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
1 7 (0.54%) Teamcenter
2 3 (0.23%) Dynamics GP
2 3 (0.23%) Sage X3
3 1 (0.078%) assyst
3 1 (0.078%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.078%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.078%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 518 (40.28%) Microsoft 365
2 414 (32.19%) Azure
3 221 (17.19%) Entra ID
4 108 (8.40%) AWS
5 47 (3.65%) Azure Monitor
6 46 (3.58%) OneDrive
7 25 (1.94%) Power Platform
8 21 (1.63%) Azure Data Factory
9 20 (1.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 20 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
9 20 (1.56%) IaaS
10 17 (1.32%) Serverless
11 16 (1.24%) Azure Functions
11 16 (1.24%) Azure Storage
12 14 (1.09%) OCI
13 13 (1.01%) PowerApps
14 12 (0.93%) Azure Logic Apps
14 12 (0.93%) PaaS
14 12 (0.93%) Power Automate
14 12 (0.93%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 247 (19.21%) DNS
2 186 (14.46%) DHCP
3 146 (11.35%) Firewall
4 82 (6.38%) VPN
5 75 (5.83%) SAN
6 70 (5.44%) LAN
6 70 (5.44%) WAN
7 57 (4.43%) Wi-Fi
8 48 (3.73%) SSL
9 46 (3.58%) TCP/IP
10 39 (3.03%) Wireless
11 30 (2.33%) Remote Desktop
12 21 (1.63%) VLAN
13 19 (1.48%) Skype
14 18 (1.40%) NAS
14 18 (1.40%) Network Security
15 14 (1.09%) NetScaler
16 13 (1.01%) VoIP
17 10 (0.78%) Fibre Channel
17 10 (0.78%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (5.05%) SQL Server
2 20 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
3 19 (1.48%) NoSQL
4 16 (1.24%) Power BI
5 15 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
6 13 (1.01%) MySQL
7 11 (0.86%) Oracle Database
8 9 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (0.47%) RDBMS
10 6 (0.47%) Relational Database
11 4 (0.31%) Big Data
12 3 (0.23%) Oracle Reports
13 2 (0.16%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (0.16%) Metadata
14 1 (0.078%) Hadoop
14 1 (0.078%) MongoDB
14 1 (0.078%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 48 (3.73%) JIRA
2 36 (2.80%) Git
3 21 (1.63%) Sonatype Nexus
4 15 (1.17%) Jenkins
5 14 (1.09%) Robot Framework
6 9 (0.70%) Bitbucket
7 7 (0.54%) Selenium
7 7 (0.54%) SonarQube
8 6 (0.47%) GitLab
9 5 (0.39%) Bitbucket Server
9 5 (0.39%) CA Release Automation
9 5 (0.39%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.31%) MSI
11 3 (0.23%) Fiddler
11 3 (0.23%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.16%) JMeter
13 1 (0.078%) GoCD
13 1 (0.078%) Gradle
13 1 (0.078%) Liquibase
13 1 (0.078%) Oracle APEX
General
1 411 (31.96%) Social Skills
2 111 (8.63%) Public Sector
3 86 (6.69%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (3.81%) Finance
5 34 (2.64%) Organisational Skills
6 32 (2.49%) Manufacturing
7 29 (2.26%) Banking
7 29 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
8 18 (1.40%) Military
9 17 (1.32%) Retail
10 14 (1.09%) Telecoms
11 13 (1.01%) Legal
12 12 (0.93%) Aerospace
13 11 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
14 10 (0.78%) Marketing
15 9 (0.70%) Law
15 9 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (0.54%) Electronics
17 6 (0.47%) Automotive
18 4 (0.31%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 189 (14.70%) Analyst
2 169 (13.14%) Support Engineer
3 154 (11.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 120 (9.33%) IT Support
5 116 (9.02%) Architect
6 101 (7.85%) Service Desk Analyst
7 100 (7.78%) Service Analyst
8 81 (6.30%) IT Engineer
9 70 (5.44%) 2nd Line Support
10 65 (5.05%) Senior
11 57 (4.43%) Desktop Support
12 49 (3.81%) Windows Engineer
13 48 (3.73%) Support Analyst
14 47 (3.65%) Desktop Engineer
15 46 (3.58%) IT Support Engineer
16 45 (3.50%) 2nd Line Engineer
16 45 (3.50%) IT Technician
17 43 (3.34%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
17 43 (3.34%) Active Directory Support
18 42 (3.27%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (4.35%) Web Services
2 24 (1.87%) LDAP
3 23 (1.79%) SailPoint
4 20 (1.56%) SAML
5 19 (1.48%) ARM Templates
5 19 (1.48%) React
6 16 (1.24%) .NET
6 16 (1.24%) Elastic Stack
6 16 (1.24%) OpenID
7 9 (0.70%) ADO
7 9 (0.70%) RESTful
7 9 (0.70%) XML
8 8 (0.62%) OAuth
9 7 (0.54%) CSS
9 7 (0.54%) JSON
10 6 (0.47%) Spring Boot
11 5 (0.39%) HTML
11 5 (0.39%) OAuth2
12 4 (0.31%) jQuery
12 4 (0.31%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 150 (11.66%) PKI
2 62 (4.82%) Data Centre
3 39 (3.03%) Clustering
4 33 (2.57%) Self-Motivation
5 25 (1.94%) Driving Licence
5 25 (1.94%) Onboarding
6 24 (1.87%) Product Ownership
7 19 (1.48%) iPhone
8 18 (1.40%) Replication
9 16 (1.24%) iPad
10 15 (1.17%) CMDB
11 13 (1.01%) Digital Signage
11 13 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
11 13 (1.01%) Management Information System
11 13 (1.01%) Video Conferencing
12 10 (0.78%) Fat Client
12 10 (0.78%) Public Cloud
12 10 (0.78%) Thin Client
13 9 (0.70%) Blog
13 9 (0.70%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 877 (68.20%) Windows
2 376 (29.24%) Windows Server
3 349 (27.14%) Windows 10
4 171 (13.30%) Linux
5 126 (9.80%) Windows Server 2019
6 125 (9.72%) Windows Server 2012
7 120 (9.33%) Windows Server 2016
8 67 (5.21%) Apple iOS
9 53 (4.12%) Windows 7
10 39 (3.03%) Ubuntu
11 31 (2.41%) Mac OS
12 28 (2.18%) Android
13 25 (1.94%) Windows Server 2008
14 23 (1.79%) VMS
15 22 (1.71%) Unix
16 21 (1.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 20 (1.56%) Windows NT
18 15 (1.17%) Windows XP
19 14 (1.09%) Windows Server 2003
20 11 (0.86%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (19.36%) Customer Service
2 238 (18.51%) ITIL
3 180 (14.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 173 (13.45%) Problem-Solving
5 123 (9.56%) Migration
6 99 (7.70%) Agile
7 78 (6.07%) Service Management
8 73 (5.68%) DevOps
9 63 (4.90%) Mobile Device Management
10 61 (4.74%) Identity Access Management
11 60 (4.67%) CI/CD
11 60 (4.67%) Cybersecurity
12 57 (4.43%) Release Management
13 56 (4.35%) Service Delivery
14 50 (3.89%) Change Management
14 50 (3.89%) High Availability
15 49 (3.81%) Cryptography
16 47 (3.65%) Disaster Recovery
17 45 (3.50%) Key Management
18 44 (3.42%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 226 (17.57%) PowerShell
2 87 (6.77%) SQL
3 65 (5.05%) Python
4 23 (1.79%) VBScript
5 20 (1.56%) C#
6 18 (1.40%) Bicep
7 17 (1.32%) VB
8 14 (1.09%) Bash
8 14 (1.09%) Java
9 10 (0.78%) JavaScript
10 9 (0.70%) C
11 8 (0.62%) C++
11 8 (0.62%) PHP
11 8 (0.62%) R
12 7 (0.54%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.47%) Go
14 5 (0.39%) MATLAB
14 5 (0.39%) Perl
15 4 (0.31%) Ruby
16 3 (0.23%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 401 (31.18%) Security Cleared
2 253 (19.67%) SC Cleared
3 216 (16.80%) Degree
4 178 (13.84%) DV Cleared
5 102 (7.93%) Microsoft Certification
6 46 (3.58%) MCSE
7 42 (3.27%) MCSA
8 41 (3.19%) CCNA
8 41 (3.19%) Cisco Certification
9 33 (2.57%) A+ Certification
10 29 (2.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 25 (1.94%) ITIL Certification
12 22 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
13 21 (1.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 19 (1.48%) Azure Certification
14 19 (1.48%) CCNP
15 18 (1.40%) MCP
16 17 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
16 17 (1.32%) DBS Check
17 11 (0.86%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (5.60%) SLA
2 41 (3.19%) QA
3 12 (0.93%) Disclosure Scotland
4 9 (0.70%) GDPR
5 8 (0.62%) NIST
6 7 (0.54%) RMADS
7 5 (0.39%) ISO 9001
7 5 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 4 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.31%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.078%) COBIT
10 1 (0.078%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.078%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 224 (17.42%) VMware Infrastructure
2 96 (7.47%) Hyper-V
3 70 (5.44%) VMware ESXi
4 58 (4.51%) Virtual Machines
5 38 (2.95%) Virtual Desktop
6 34 (2.64%) vSphere
6 34 (2.64%) XenApp
7 26 (2.02%) Firmware
8 21 (1.63%) VMware Workstation
9 18 (1.40%) Docker
9 18 (1.40%) VMware NSX
10 17 (1.32%) XenDesktop
11 16 (1.24%) BitLocker
12 15 (1.17%) Virtual Servers
13 13 (1.01%) KVM
14 9 (0.70%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 9 (0.70%) Microsoft App-V
14 9 (0.70%) Terminal Services
15 8 (0.62%) iptables
16 6 (0.47%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 274 (21.31%) SCCM
2 150 (11.66%) Microsoft Intune
3 98 (7.62%) WSUS
4 56 (4.35%) vCenter Server
5 49 (3.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 47 (3.65%) SCOM
7 38 (2.95%) Single Sign-On
8 37 (2.88%) Kubernetes
9 30 (2.33%) Ansible
10 29 (2.26%) Terraform
11 22 (1.71%) NetBackup
12 20 (1.56%) Sysprep
13 16 (1.24%) EMC NetWorker
13 16 (1.24%) Jamf Pro
13 16 (1.24%) Kibana
14 13 (1.01%) Microsoft Clustering
15 10 (0.78%) Autotask
15 10 (0.78%) Nessus
16 9 (0.70%) Failover Clustering
16 9 (0.70%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 653 (50.78%) Microsoft
2 317 (24.65%) VMware
3 122 (9.49%) Citrix
4 85 (6.61%) ServiceNow
5 65 (5.05%) Cisco
6 60 (4.67%) Apple
7 55 (4.28%) Oracle
8 37 (2.88%) HP
9 36 (2.80%) Red Hat
10 34 (2.64%) Veeam
11 31 (2.41%) Dell
12 29 (2.26%) CyberArk
13 24 (1.87%) SAP
13 24 (1.87%) Symantec
14 20 (1.56%) EMC
15 19 (1.48%) Ivanti
15 19 (1.48%) NetApp
16 18 (1.40%) Okta
16 18 (1.40%) Palo Alto
17 15 (1.17%) Juniper