Active Directory Contracts in Wiltshire

Microsoft Active Directory
South West > Wiltshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 59 15 18
Rank change year-on-year -44 +3 0
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 35 129 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 3.71% 11.68% 7.91%
As % of the System Software category 37.23% 64.82% 41.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 111 44
10th Percentile £175 £200 £174
25th Percentile £263 £453 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +15.79% +5.56%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £538
90th Percentile £711 £719 £643
South West median daily rate £300 £475 £300
% change year-on-year -36.84% +58.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - £78.00 -
25th Percentile - £78.75 -
Median hourly rate - £90.00 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year - +500.00% -18.92%
75th Percentile - £106.25 £16.81
90th Percentile - £110.00 £17.90
South West median hourly rate £40.00 £18.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year +122.22% -59.55% +160.23%

All System Software Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 94 199 172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 9.96% 18.03% 19.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 173 113
10th Percentile £263 £200 £271
25th Percentile £463 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £510
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.84% +16.57%
75th Percentile £581 £675 £575
90th Percentile £710 £724 £638
South West median daily rate £508 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +1.50% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 7
10th Percentile - - £15.00
25th Percentile - £60.00 £15.44
Median hourly rate - £63.00 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year - +24.75% +172.97%
75th Percentile - £87.50 £61.90
90th Percentile - £102.50 £69.05
South West median hourly rate £68.75 £60.00 £49.49
% change year-on-year +14.58% +21.24% +23.99%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Wiltshire

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in Wiltshire

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in Wiltshire

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in Wiltshire

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 28 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
Corsham -38 22 £544 -11.59% 1
Swindon -3 5 £145 -27.50% 8
Salisbury +3 2 £275 -50.00% 3
Trowbridge - 1 £175 - 1
Active Directory
South West

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 13 (37.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (22.86%) Confluence
3 6 (17.14%) SharePoint
4 2 (5.71%) Skype for Business
5 1 (2.86%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (2.86%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 13 (37.14%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (5.71%) Azure
2 2 (5.71%) Entra ID
3 1 (2.86%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (40.00%) DNS
2 13 (37.14%) DHCP
3 6 (17.14%) Skype
4 3 (8.57%) LAN
4 3 (8.57%) VSAN
4 3 (8.57%) WAN
5 2 (5.71%) Firewall
5 2 (5.71%) Internet
5 2 (5.71%) Network Security
5 2 (5.71%) SMTP
5 2 (5.71%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (5.71%) TCP/IP
5 2 (5.71%) Unified Communications
6 1 (2.86%) ADSL
6 1 (2.86%) NAS
6 1 (2.86%) SAN
6 1 (2.86%) VPN
6 1 (2.86%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (25.71%) JIRA
2 1 (2.86%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.86%) GitLab
2 1 (2.86%) GoCD
2 1 (2.86%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 9 (25.71%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (22.86%) Military
4 5 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.86%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.86%) Electronics
5 1 (2.86%) Finance
5 1 (2.86%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.86%) Marketing
5 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (22.86%) Wintel Engineer
2 6 (17.14%) Integration Engineer
2 6 (17.14%) Test and Integration Engineer
2 6 (17.14%) Test Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Support Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Active Directory Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Architect
5 3 (8.57%) Service Desk Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) 1st Line Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) 2nd Line Support
6 2 (5.71%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Active Directory Architect
6 2 (5.71%) IT Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) IT Support
6 2 (5.71%) Windows Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Field Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.86%) .NET
1 1 (2.86%) .NET Framework
1 1 (2.86%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (2.86%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 15 (42.86%) PKI
2 2 (5.71%) Clustering
2 2 (5.71%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.71%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.86%) Fat Client
3 1 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.86%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 25 (71.43%) Windows
2 20 (57.14%) Windows Server
3 10 (28.57%) Windows Server 2012
4 8 (22.86%) Windows 10
5 3 (8.57%) Linux
5 3 (8.57%) Windows 7
6 2 (5.71%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (37.14%) Agile
2 9 (25.71%) Critical Thinking
3 7 (20.00%) ITIL
4 6 (17.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (17.14%) Regression Testing
4 6 (17.14%) Test Scripting
5 4 (11.43%) Change Management
5 4 (11.43%) Service Management
6 3 (8.57%) Customer Service
6 3 (8.57%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (8.57%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (8.57%) Project Management
7 2 (5.71%) NsoIT
7 2 (5.71%) Office Automation
7 2 (5.71%) Performance Monitoring
7 2 (5.71%) Proactive Monitoring
7 2 (5.71%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (5.71%) RBAC
7 2 (5.71%) Security Patching
7 2 (5.71%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (37.14%) SQL
2 5 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 28 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 20 (57.14%) SC Cleared
3 12 (34.29%) DV Cleared
4 11 (31.43%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (25.71%) MCSE
6 7 (20.00%) Degree
6 7 (20.00%) MCSA
6 7 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (8.57%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (5.71%) CCNA
9 1 (2.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (2.86%) CCNP
9 1 (2.86%) CISM
9 1 (2.86%) CISSP
9 1 (2.86%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (2.86%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) SLA
2 1 (2.86%) GDPR
2 1 (2.86%) JSP 440
System Software
1 16 (45.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 4 (11.43%) Virtual Servers
2 4 (11.43%) VMware NSX
3 3 (8.57%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (5.71%) Hyper-V
4 2 (5.71%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (2.86%) NFS
5 1 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.86%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (2.86%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (11.43%) SCCM
1 4 (11.43%) SCOM
2 3 (8.57%) OPNET
2 3 (8.57%) vCenter Server
3 2 (5.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (5.71%) Ansible
3 2 (5.71%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (5.71%) WSUS
4 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 1 (2.86%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.86%) Puppet
Vendors
1 23 (65.71%) Microsoft
2 18 (51.43%) VMware
3 5 (14.29%) SolarWinds
4 3 (8.57%) Veeam
5 2 (5.71%) Atlassian
5 2 (5.71%) Cisco
5 2 (5.71%) Remedy
5 2 (5.71%) SAP
5 2 (5.71%) Splunk
6 1 (2.86%) BEA
6 1 (2.86%) Citrix
6 1 (2.86%) HP
6 1 (2.86%) Meraki
6 1 (2.86%) ServiceNow