Active Directory Contracts in Wales

Microsoft Active Directory
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 19 20
Rank change year-on-year -10 +1 +6
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 18 50 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 4.49% 7.92% 7.91%
As % of the System Software category 45.00% 60.24% 46.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 41 63
10th Percentile £136 £135 £140
25th Percentile £180 £158 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £185 £375
Median % change year-on-year +18.92% -50.67% +98.68%
75th Percentile £356 £438 £450
90th Percentile £431 £519 £598
UK median daily rate £414 £425 £411
% change year-on-year -2.65% +3.32% +5.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - £15.24 £12.59
25th Percentile £12.25 £15.61 £13.12
Median hourly rate £12.50 £16.45 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.99% +17.46% +16.67%
75th Percentile £12.75 £17.38 £20.75
90th Percentile - £17.81 £24.80
UK median hourly rate £17.69 £20.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -11.55% +14.29% +7.83%

All System Software Skills
Wales

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 Wales with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 40 83 171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 9.98% 13.15% 16.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 70 133
10th Percentile £187 £145 £158
25th Percentile £339 £180 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -5.56% +20.00%
75th Percentile £531 £538 £575
90th Percentile £594 £633 £665
UK median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile £12.94 £15.24 £12.59
25th Percentile £13.98 £15.61 £13.12
Median hourly rate £15.84 £16.45 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.71% +17.46% -6.67%
75th Percentile £17.57 £17.38 £20.75
90th Percentile £18.53 £17.81 £24.80
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £53.75 £20.00
% change year-on-year -58.14% +168.75% -

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing Active Directory as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Wales

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in Wales.

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in Wales

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in Wales over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in Wales

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in Wales.

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in Wales

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 27 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
South Wales -6 13 £210 - 9
North Wales +1 1 - - 3
Dyfed - 1 £450 - 1
Active Directory
UK

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 9 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (72.22%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (44.44%) Azure
3 2 (11.11%) OneDrive
4 1 (5.56%) AWS
4 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.56%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (33.33%) Firewall
2 3 (16.67%) VPN
3 2 (11.11%) LAN
3 2 (11.11%) WLAN
4 1 (5.56%) DHCP
4 1 (5.56%) DNS
4 1 (5.56%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 2 (11.11%) Digital Economy
4 1 (5.56%) Legal
4 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) IT Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Analyst
2 3 (16.67%) Desktop Support
2 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Support Analyst
2 3 (16.67%) Support Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Database Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Desktop Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Desktop Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Desktop Support Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Field Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (5.56%) Administrator
4 1 (5.56%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) IT Support Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (5.56%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) .NET
1 1 (5.56%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 16 (88.89%) Windows
2 8 (44.44%) Windows Server
3 5 (27.78%) Windows 10
4 4 (22.22%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (22.22%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (11.11%) Mac OS
5 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (22.22%) Mobile Device Management
3 3 (16.67%) Customer Service
3 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (16.67%) ITIL
4 2 (11.11%) Data Extraction
4 2 (11.11%) Decision-Making
4 2 (11.11%) Migration
4 2 (11.11%) Privileged Access Management
4 2 (11.11%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 1 (5.56%) Data Protection
5 1 (5.56%) Incident Management
5 1 (5.56%) Mentoring
5 1 (5.56%) Service Delivery
5 1 (5.56%) SIEM
5 1 (5.56%) Software Deployment
5 1 (5.56%) Tech Ops
5 1 (5.56%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.56%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (16.67%) Hyper-V
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (5.56%) Terminal Services
4 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (5.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (22.22%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 7 (38.89%) VMware
3 3 (16.67%) Dell
4 2 (11.11%) Cisco
4 2 (11.11%) SonicWALL
4 2 (11.11%) WatchGuard
5 1 (5.56%) HP
5 1 (5.56%) New Relic
5 1 (5.56%) PagerDuty
5 1 (5.56%) Qualys
5 1 (5.56%) Rackspace
5 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow
5 1 (5.56%) Zscaler