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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 24 21
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 +3
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 1,283 1,702 2,279
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.16% 7.47% 7.47%
As % of the System Software category 51.40% 49.39% 49.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 908 1,228 1,634
10th Percentile £150 £155 £135
25th Percentile £200 £200 £170
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £350 £285
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +22.81% -12.31%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £473
90th Percentile £650 £675 £575
UK median daily rate £425 £425 £400
% change year-on-year - +6.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 91 195
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.25 £12.52
25th Percentile £14.16 £15.38 £14.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £18.50 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year -13.51% +10.45% +9.84%
75th Percentile £18.56 £40.25 £20.33
90th Percentile £40.00 £64.50 £25.00
UK median hourly rate £17.50 £22.00 £17.25
% change year-on-year -20.45% +27.54% +7.81%

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 2,496 3,446 4,591
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.98% 15.13% 15.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,707 2,431 3,274
10th Percentile £184 £181 £158
25th Percentile £313 £308 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £479 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.84% +6.44% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £551
90th Percentile £650 £680 £643
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 166 230
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.25 £12.72
25th Percentile £14.16 £16.51 £14.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £48.40 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.18% +176.57% -3.39%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £23.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £49.50
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £55.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -56.04% +189.47% -5.00%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +14 453 £516 +15.20% 201
North of England -13 244 £305 +1.67% 203
Midlands -1 172 £338 -4.93% 137
South West -17 164 £445 -11.08% 117
Scotland +17 141 £340 +19.30% 59
North West -12 131 £363 +11.54% 112
West Midlands -4 107 £350 -6.67% 75
Yorkshire -9 96 £282 +9.85% 75
East of England -18 96 £250 -28.57% 76
East Midlands -1 62 £325 +45.74% 62
Wales -9 19 £165 -10.83% 17
North East +11 15 £500 +78.57% 19
Northern Ireland -21 2 £363 +16.00% 1
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
1 272 (21.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 119 (9.28%) SharePoint
3 32 (2.49%) Confluence
4 31 (2.42%) IIS
5 8 (0.62%) Skype for Business
6 6 (0.47%) Tomcat
7 5 (0.39%) Apache
7 5 (0.39%) JBoss
8 4 (0.31%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2013
9 2 (0.16%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.16%) WordPress
10 1 (0.078%) Exchange Server 2007
10 1 (0.078%) Exchange Server 2010
10 1 (0.078%) nginx
Applications
1 147 (11.46%) Microsoft Office
2 50 (3.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.47%) 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%) PTC Creo
6 1 (0.078%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.078%) Trello
6 1 (0.078%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 7 (0.55%) Teamcenter
2 5 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.31%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.078%) assyst
4 1 (0.078%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.078%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.078%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 505 (39.36%) Microsoft 365
2 424 (33.05%) Azure
3 235 (18.32%) Entra ID
4 107 (8.34%) AWS
5 54 (4.21%) Azure Monitor
6 44 (3.43%) OneDrive
7 29 (2.26%) Power Platform
8 22 (1.71%) Azure Data Factory
9 21 (1.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 21 (1.64%) Azure Functions
9 21 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
9 21 (1.64%) Serverless
10 20 (1.56%) Azure Storage
11 17 (1.33%) IaaS
12 15 (1.17%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (1.17%) PaaS
13 14 (1.09%) Azure Logic Apps
13 14 (1.09%) OCI
13 14 (1.09%) PowerApps
14 13 (1.01%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 240 (18.71%) DNS
2 180 (14.03%) DHCP
3 139 (10.83%) Firewall
4 82 (6.39%) VPN
5 70 (5.46%) SAN
6 61 (4.75%) LAN
7 60 (4.68%) WAN
8 51 (3.98%) Wi-Fi
9 46 (3.59%) SSL
9 46 (3.59%) TCP/IP
10 38 (2.96%) Wireless
11 23 (1.79%) Remote Desktop
11 23 (1.79%) VLAN
12 20 (1.56%) NAS
13 17 (1.33%) Network Security
14 15 (1.17%) Skype
15 14 (1.09%) NetScaler
16 13 (1.01%) Kerberos
16 13 (1.01%) VoIP
17 10 (0.78%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (5.07%) SQL Server
2 21 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
3 20 (1.56%) NoSQL
3 20 (1.56%) Power BI
4 13 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
5 11 (0.86%) Oracle Database
6 10 (0.78%) MySQL
7 8 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (0.47%) RDBMS
8 6 (0.47%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.31%) Big Data
10 3 (0.23%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (0.16%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.078%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.078%) MongoDB
12 1 (0.078%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 47 (3.66%) JIRA
2 39 (3.04%) Git
3 21 (1.64%) Sonatype Nexus
4 15 (1.17%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.17%) Robot Framework
5 10 (0.78%) Selenium
6 9 (0.70%) Bitbucket
7 7 (0.55%) SonarQube
8 5 (0.39%) Bitbucket Server
8 5 (0.39%) CA Release Automation
8 5 (0.39%) GitLab
8 5 (0.39%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.31%) Fiddler
9 4 (0.31%) MSI
9 4 (0.31%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.16%) JMeter
10 2 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.078%) Gradle
11 1 (0.078%) Hudson
11 1 (0.078%) Liquibase
General
1 409 (31.88%) Social Skills
2 121 (9.43%) Public Sector
3 97 (7.56%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (3.66%) Finance
5 30 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
6 29 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
6 29 (2.26%) Manufacturing
7 24 (1.87%) Banking
8 21 (1.64%) Military
9 17 (1.33%) Retail
10 15 (1.17%) Legal
11 12 (0.94%) Aerospace
12 11 (0.86%) Automotive
13 10 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
13 10 (0.78%) Telecoms
14 8 (0.62%) Law
15 7 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
16 6 (0.47%) Marketing
17 5 (0.39%) Financial Institution
17 5 (0.39%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 191 (14.89%) Analyst
2 175 (13.64%) Support Engineer
3 152 (11.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 121 (9.43%) IT Support
5 117 (9.12%) Architect
6 94 (7.33%) Service Desk Analyst
7 93 (7.25%) Service Analyst
8 77 (6.00%) IT Engineer
9 71 (5.53%) 2nd Line Support
10 60 (4.68%) Desktop Support
11 59 (4.60%) Senior
12 55 (4.29%) Support Analyst
13 53 (4.13%) Desktop Engineer
14 51 (3.98%) Active Directory Support
15 46 (3.59%) Windows Engineer
16 45 (3.51%) 2nd Line Engineer
16 45 (3.51%) Active Directory Engineer
16 45 (3.51%) IT Analyst
17 43 (3.35%) IT Support Engineer
18 42 (3.27%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (4.44%) Web Services
2 26 (2.03%) LDAP
3 25 (1.95%) ARM Templates
3 25 (1.95%) SailPoint
4 23 (1.79%) SAML
5 20 (1.56%) React
6 18 (1.40%) .NET
6 18 (1.40%) OpenID
7 17 (1.33%) Elastic Stack
8 11 (0.86%) OAuth
8 11 (0.86%) RESTful
9 9 (0.70%) ADO
10 7 (0.55%) JSON
10 7 (0.55%) OAuth2
10 7 (0.55%) XML
11 6 (0.47%) .NET Framework
11 6 (0.47%) Spring Boot
12 5 (0.39%) .NET Core
12 5 (0.39%) CSS
13 4 (0.31%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 160 (12.47%) PKI
2 53 (4.13%) Data Centre
3 40 (3.12%) Self-Motivation
4 36 (2.81%) Clustering
5 24 (1.87%) Product Ownership
6 23 (1.79%) Replication
7 21 (1.64%) Driving Licence
8 19 (1.48%) iPhone
8 19 (1.48%) Onboarding
9 16 (1.25%) iPad
10 15 (1.17%) CMDB
10 15 (1.17%) Linux Command Line
11 13 (1.01%) Digital Signage
12 12 (0.94%) Management Information System
12 12 (0.94%) Video Conferencing
13 11 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
13 11 (0.86%) Fat Client
13 11 (0.86%) Thin Client
14 10 (0.78%) NHS
15 9 (0.70%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 874 (68.12%) Windows
2 376 (29.31%) Windows Server
3 343 (26.73%) Windows 10
4 170 (13.25%) Linux
5 126 (9.82%) Windows Server 2019
6 125 (9.74%) Windows Server 2016
7 122 (9.51%) Windows Server 2012
8 66 (5.14%) Apple iOS
9 51 (3.98%) Windows 7
10 36 (2.81%) Ubuntu
11 30 (2.34%) Mac OS
12 25 (1.95%) Android
13 23 (1.79%) VMS
14 22 (1.71%) Unix
15 19 (1.48%) Windows Server 2008
16 18 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 17 (1.33%) Windows NT
18 15 (1.17%) Windows XP
19 12 (0.94%) CentOS
20 11 (0.86%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 252 (19.64%) ITIL
2 242 (18.86%) Customer Service
3 179 (13.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 175 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
5 121 (9.43%) Migration
6 111 (8.65%) Agile
7 82 (6.39%) DevOps
8 77 (6.00%) Service Management
9 69 (5.38%) CI/CD
10 65 (5.07%) Identity Access Management
11 62 (4.83%) Cybersecurity
12 61 (4.75%) Service Delivery
13 60 (4.68%) Release Management
14 59 (4.60%) Mobile Device Management
15 53 (4.13%) Change Management
16 49 (3.82%) Disaster Recovery
16 49 (3.82%) High Availability
16 49 (3.82%) Identity Management
17 46 (3.59%) Cryptography
17 46 (3.59%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 231 (18.00%) PowerShell
2 91 (7.09%) SQL
3 69 (5.38%) Python
4 27 (2.10%) VBScript
5 26 (2.03%) C#
6 22 (1.71%) Bicep
7 21 (1.64%) VB
8 17 (1.33%) Java
9 11 (0.86%) Bash
10 10 (0.78%) JavaScript
11 9 (0.70%) C
12 8 (0.62%) C++
12 8 (0.62%) PHP
12 8 (0.62%) R
13 7 (0.55%) PL/SQL
14 6 (0.47%) Go
15 5 (0.39%) Perl
16 4 (0.31%) Ruby
17 3 (0.23%) VB.NET
18 2 (0.16%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 421 (32.81%) Security Cleared
2 277 (21.59%) SC Cleared
3 209 (16.29%) Degree
4 180 (14.03%) DV Cleared
5 103 (8.03%) Microsoft Certification
6 51 (3.98%) MCSE
7 44 (3.43%) MCSA
8 33 (2.57%) A+ Certification
9 31 (2.42%) CCNA
9 31 (2.42%) Cisco Certification
10 29 (2.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 26 (2.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 25 (1.95%) ITIL Certification
13 21 (1.64%) Azure Certification
13 21 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
14 17 (1.33%) DBS Check
14 17 (1.33%) MCP
15 14 (1.09%) CCNP
15 14 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
16 11 (0.86%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (5.38%) SLA
2 36 (2.81%) QA
3 13 (1.01%) Disclosure Scotland
4 8 (0.62%) GDPR
4 8 (0.62%) NIST
5 7 (0.55%) RMADS
6 5 (0.39%) ISO 9001
6 5 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 5 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.31%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.078%) COBIT
10 1 (0.078%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 230 (17.93%) VMware Infrastructure
2 98 (7.64%) Hyper-V
3 58 (4.52%) VMware ESXi
4 57 (4.44%) Virtual Machines
5 51 (3.98%) Virtual Desktop
6 38 (2.96%) vSphere
7 33 (2.57%) XenApp
8 18 (1.40%) Firmware
9 17 (1.33%) Docker
9 17 (1.33%) VMware NSX
10 16 (1.25%) BitLocker
10 16 (1.25%) VMware Workstation
10 16 (1.25%) XenDesktop
11 13 (1.01%) Virtual Servers
12 9 (0.70%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 8 (0.62%) iptables
13 8 (0.62%) KVM
14 7 (0.55%) Microsoft App-V
14 7 (0.55%) Terminal Services
15 6 (0.47%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 267 (20.81%) SCCM
2 155 (12.08%) Microsoft Intune
3 110 (8.57%) WSUS
4 52 (4.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 51 (3.98%) SCOM
6 44 (3.43%) vCenter Server
7 42 (3.27%) Kubernetes
8 40 (3.12%) Single Sign-On
9 30 (2.34%) Ansible
9 30 (2.34%) Terraform
10 22 (1.71%) NetBackup
11 17 (1.33%) Kibana
11 17 (1.33%) Sysprep
12 16 (1.25%) Jamf Pro
12 16 (1.25%) Nessus
13 14 (1.09%) EMC NetWorker
14 12 (0.94%) Microsoft Clustering
15 10 (0.78%) Autotask
15 10 (0.78%) Failover Clustering
15 10 (0.78%) logstash
Vendors
1 655 (51.05%) Microsoft
2 305 (23.77%) VMware
3 118 (9.20%) Citrix
4 80 (6.24%) ServiceNow
5 66 (5.14%) Cisco
6 57 (4.44%) Apple
7 55 (4.29%) Oracle
8 30 (2.34%) CyberArk
9 29 (2.26%) HP
10 28 (2.18%) Veeam
11 27 (2.10%) Red Hat
12 25 (1.95%) Dell
13 24 (1.87%) Symantec
14 20 (1.56%) Ivanti
14 20 (1.56%) NetApp
15 19 (1.48%) Okta
16 18 (1.40%) Palo Alto
17 17 (1.33%) CA
17 17 (1.33%) EMC
17 17 (1.33%) SAP