Active Directory Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Active Directory
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 41 40 70
Rank change year-on-year -1 +30 -17
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 646 1,289 1,664
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 4.29% 5.14% 3.79%
As % of the System Software category 44.92% 41.34% 30.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 466 955 1,219
10th Percentile £178 £200 £181
25th Percentile £319 £308 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £453
Median % change year-on-year - +4.97% +2.55%
75th Percentile £608 £575 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £638
UK median daily rate £425 £428 £400
% change year-on-year -0.70% +7.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 36 67
10th Percentile - £14.62 £13.67
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.76 £15.75
Median hourly rate £16.00 £54.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -70.37% +151.16% +2.38%
75th Percentile £18.91 £66.00 £24.88
90th Percentile £21.85 £80.00 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £17.60 £20.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -12.03% +14.29% +8.53%

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,438 3,118 5,423
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 9.54% 12.43% 12.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,056 2,232 4,034
10th Percentile £273 £300 £322
25th Percentile £405 £417 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £619 £631 £625
90th Percentile £688 £718 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 101 103
10th Percentile £15.50 £19.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £15.88 £47.50 £17.75
Median hourly rate £43.32 £65.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.35% +165.31% -38.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £54.25
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.00 £65.91
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £54.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -58.33% +170.00% -2.44%

Active Directory
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Active Directory as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Active Directory trend for jobs with a WFH option

Active Directory
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Active Directory.

Active Directory daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Active Directory over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Active Directory daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Active Directory.

Active Directory hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Active Directory over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Active Directory hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 149 (23.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (4.49%) SharePoint
3 25 (3.87%) IIS
4 20 (3.10%) Confluence
5 12 (1.86%) Exchange Server 2007
5 12 (1.86%) Exchange Server 2010
6 11 (1.70%) Exchange Server 2003
6 11 (1.70%) Skype for Business
7 10 (1.55%) Exchange Server 2013
8 8 (1.24%) CMS
9 3 (0.46%) Apache
9 3 (0.46%) JBoss
10 2 (0.31%) nginx
10 2 (0.31%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.31%) Oracle Self-Service HR
11 1 (0.15%) IBM Notes
11 1 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.15%) SAS
11 1 (0.15%) SharePoint 2013
11 1 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 39 (6.04%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.31%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.15%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (1.08%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.15%) assyst
2 1 (0.15%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 327 (50.62%) Azure
2 224 (34.67%) Microsoft 365
3 194 (30.03%) Entra ID
4 109 (16.87%) AWS
5 45 (6.97%) Azure DevOps
6 42 (6.50%) Azure Monitor
7 28 (4.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 28 (4.33%) PaaS
8 27 (4.18%) OneDrive
9 26 (4.02%) IaaS
10 20 (3.10%) GitHub
11 19 (2.94%) Azure Storage
11 19 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
11 19 (2.94%) GCP
11 19 (2.94%) Power Platform
12 18 (2.79%) SaaS
13 16 (2.48%) Azure Service Bus
14 14 (2.17%) Azure Sentinel
15 11 (1.70%) AWS CloudFormation
15 11 (1.70%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 106 (16.41%) DNS
2 98 (15.17%) Firewall
3 71 (10.99%) DHCP
4 44 (6.81%) SSL
5 41 (6.35%) SAN
6 36 (5.57%) VPN
7 25 (3.87%) Network Security
8 20 (3.10%) LAN
9 19 (2.94%) WAN
10 18 (2.79%) NAS
10 18 (2.79%) TCP/IP
11 11 (1.70%) Skype
11 11 (1.70%) VLAN
12 10 (1.55%) Wireless
13 8 (1.24%) Kerberos
14 7 (1.08%) FTP
14 7 (1.08%) Remote Desktop
15 6 (0.93%) NetScaler
15 6 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
16 4 (0.62%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (12.54%) SQL Server
2 20 (3.10%) MySQL
3 18 (2.79%) Amazon RDS
4 15 (2.32%) Oracle Reports
5 9 (1.39%) Relational Database
6 8 (1.24%) NoSQL
7 7 (1.08%) Hadoop
7 7 (1.08%) Oracle Database
8 5 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (0.62%) Big Data
9 4 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (0.62%) Power BI
9 4 (0.62%) RDBMS
9 4 (0.62%) Redis
10 3 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.31%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.31%) MariaDB
11 2 (0.31%) Metadata
11 2 (0.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 36 (5.57%) Git
2 30 (4.64%) JIRA
3 15 (2.32%) Jenkins
4 13 (2.01%) TeamCity
5 7 (1.08%) Selenium
6 5 (0.77%) Visual Studio
7 4 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (0.62%) SpecFlow
7 4 (0.62%) WebDriver
8 3 (0.46%) Bitbucket Server
8 3 (0.46%) CA Release Automation
8 3 (0.46%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.31%) GitLab
9 2 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.15%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.15%) MSI
General
1 139 (21.52%) Social Skills
2 111 (17.18%) Finance
3 80 (12.38%) Public Sector
4 30 (4.64%) Banking
5 26 (4.02%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (3.56%) Organisational Skills
7 19 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
8 18 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
9 13 (2.01%) Financial Institution
9 13 (2.01%) Manufacturing
10 12 (1.86%) Telecoms
11 10 (1.55%) Marketing
12 8 (1.24%) Back Office
12 8 (1.24%) Legal
13 7 (1.08%) Retail
14 6 (0.93%) Electronics
15 5 (0.77%) French Language
15 5 (0.77%) Law
15 5 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (0.62%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 88 (13.62%) Architect
2 66 (10.22%) Senior
3 64 (9.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 61 (9.44%) Analyst
5 46 (7.12%) Developer
6 44 (6.81%) Consultant
7 41 (6.35%) Support Engineer
8 36 (5.57%) Service Analyst
8 36 (5.57%) Service Desk Analyst
9 26 (4.02%) Senior Developer
10 25 (3.87%) Azure Engineer
10 25 (3.87%) Support Specialist
11 24 (3.72%) IT Engineer
12 23 (3.56%) Security Engineer
13 21 (3.25%) IT Support
14 19 (2.94%) Active Directory Engineer
14 19 (2.94%) Cloud Engineer
15 18 (2.79%) Azure Developer
15 18 (2.79%) Azure Specialist
15 18 (2.79%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (8.67%) Web Services
2 53 (8.20%) LDAP
3 45 (6.97%) .NET
4 38 (5.88%) XML
5 30 (4.64%) SailPoint
6 27 (4.18%) HTML
7 26 (4.02%) ARM Templates
8 24 (3.72%) .NET Core
9 20 (3.10%) React
10 17 (2.63%) SOAP
11 16 (2.48%) ASP.NET
11 16 (2.48%) JSP
11 16 (2.48%) Servlets
11 16 (2.48%) SPML
12 15 (2.32%) JDBC
13 14 (2.17%) SAML
14 12 (1.86%) CSS
15 11 (1.70%) REST
16 10 (1.55%) OAuth
17 9 (1.39%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 66 (10.22%) PKI
2 36 (5.57%) Data Centre
3 31 (4.80%) Onboarding
4 26 (4.02%) Product Ownership
5 24 (3.72%) Replication
6 21 (3.25%) Self-Motivation
7 18 (2.79%) Clustering
7 18 (2.79%) Video Conferencing
8 12 (1.86%) Management Information System
9 10 (1.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 10 (1.55%) Mobile App
10 7 (1.08%) Blog
10 7 (1.08%) NHS
10 7 (1.08%) Virtual Team
11 6 (0.93%) Cloud Native
12 5 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (0.77%) Public Cloud
12 5 (0.77%) Smartphone
13 4 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (0.62%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 345 (53.41%) Windows
2 140 (21.67%) Windows Server
3 101 (15.63%) Windows 10
4 98 (15.17%) Linux
5 54 (8.36%) Windows Server 2016
6 38 (5.88%) Windows Server 2012
7 31 (4.80%) Windows Server 2019
8 17 (2.63%) Windows 7
8 17 (2.63%) Windows Server 2003
9 16 (2.48%) Windows Server 2008
10 15 (2.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 15 (2.32%) Ubuntu
11 14 (2.17%) Apple iOS
12 13 (2.01%) VMS
13 12 (1.86%) Unix
14 9 (1.39%) Android
15 8 (1.24%) Oracle Linux
16 7 (1.08%) Solaris
17 4 (0.62%) CentOS
17 4 (0.62%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (16.87%) DevOps
1 109 (16.87%) Migration
2 84 (13.00%) Agile
3 83 (12.85%) ITIL
4 77 (11.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 73 (11.30%) CI/CD
6 67 (10.37%) Problem-Solving
7 58 (8.98%) Customer Service
8 49 (7.59%) RBAC
9 48 (7.43%) Infrastructure as Code
10 44 (6.81%) Cybersecurity
11 42 (6.50%) Disaster Recovery
12 37 (5.73%) Cryptography
13 35 (5.42%) Identity Access Management
13 35 (5.42%) Identity Management
13 35 (5.42%) Key Management
14 32 (4.95%) High Availability
15 29 (4.49%) Roadmaps
16 28 (4.33%) Analytics
17 27 (4.18%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 170 (26.32%) PowerShell
2 76 (11.76%) SQL
3 54 (8.36%) C#
4 42 (6.50%) Bicep
5 41 (6.35%) Python
6 35 (5.42%) JavaScript
7 29 (4.49%) Java
8 21 (3.25%) VB
9 20 (3.10%) VBScript
10 16 (2.48%) Bash
11 13 (2.01%) TypeScript
12 7 (1.08%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.77%) C++
14 4 (0.62%) Perl
15 2 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.31%) Ruby
15 2 (0.31%) VB.NET
15 2 (0.31%) XPath
16 1 (0.15%) DataFlex
16 1 (0.15%) PHP
Qualifications
1 142 (21.98%) Security Cleared
2 119 (18.42%) SC Cleared
3 106 (16.41%) Degree
4 52 (8.05%) DV Cleared
5 33 (5.11%) Microsoft Certification
6 18 (2.79%) AWS Certification
7 17 (2.63%) Azure Certification
7 17 (2.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 10 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (1.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 9 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (1.24%) MCSA
11 7 (1.08%) CCNA
11 7 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
12 6 (0.93%) MCSE
13 5 (0.77%) CEH
13 5 (0.77%) MCITP
13 5 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.62%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (4.02%) SLA
2 11 (1.70%) GDPR
3 9 (1.39%) Disclosure Scotland
3 9 (1.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 8 (1.24%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (1.24%) NIST
4 8 (1.24%) PCI DSS
4 8 (1.24%) WCAG
5 7 (1.08%) QA
6 2 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.31%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.15%) GLBA
7 1 (0.15%) ISAE 3402
7 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.15%) NIST 800
System Software
1 61 (9.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 38 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
3 26 (4.02%) Virtual Desktop
4 25 (3.87%) Hyper-V
5 21 (3.25%) Docker
5 21 (3.25%) vSphere
6 16 (2.48%) ACF2
6 16 (2.48%) IAG
6 16 (2.48%) RACF
7 15 (2.32%) VMware ESXi
7 15 (2.32%) XenApp
8 9 (1.39%) XenDesktop
9 7 (1.08%) HDFS
9 7 (1.08%) NFS
10 6 (0.93%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.46%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.46%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.46%) VMware Server
12 1 (0.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.15%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 100 (15.48%) SCCM
2 74 (11.46%) Microsoft Intune
3 41 (6.35%) Kubernetes
4 29 (4.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 26 (4.02%) Single Sign-On
5 26 (4.02%) Terraform
6 25 (3.87%) WSUS
7 23 (3.56%) Ansible
8 19 (2.94%) SCOM
9 9 (1.39%) vCenter Server
10 8 (1.24%) Jamf Pro
11 7 (1.08%) EMC NetWorker
11 7 (1.08%) Netcool
11 7 (1.08%) Tivoli
11 7 (1.08%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 6 (0.93%) Kibana
12 6 (0.93%) Progress Chef
13 5 (0.77%) Nessus
13 5 (0.77%) Puppet
14 2 (0.31%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 299 (46.28%) Microsoft
2 94 (14.55%) VMware
3 59 (9.13%) ServiceNow
4 53 (8.20%) Citrix
5 47 (7.28%) Oracle
6 35 (5.42%) Cisco
7 30 (4.64%) HP
8 24 (3.72%) CyberArk
9 23 (3.56%) SAP
10 20 (3.10%) Qualys
11 18 (2.79%) Dell
12 15 (2.32%) EMC
12 15 (2.32%) Isilon
12 15 (2.32%) Sybase
13 14 (2.17%) Zscaler
14 12 (1.86%) Okta
14 12 (1.86%) Splunk
15 11 (1.70%) Avaya
15 11 (1.70%) CrowdStrike
15 11 (1.70%) IBM