Active Directory Contracts in Bedfordshire

Microsoft Active Directory
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Active Directory skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Active Directory over the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 21 14
Rank change year-on-year -1 -7 +2
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 12 13 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 8.00% 5.39% 10.53%
As % of the System Software category 66.67% 81.25% 62.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 13
10th Percentile £182 £171 £161
25th Percentile £225 £175 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £263 £210
Median % change year-on-year +80.95% +25.00% -42.07%
75th Percentile £525 £313 £275
90th Percentile - £437 £500
East of England median daily rate £500 £250 £350
% change year-on-year +100.00% -28.57% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £27.94 - -
East of England median hourly rate £15.14 £14.16 £17.00
% change year-on-year +6.92% -16.71% +9.68%

All System Software Skills
Bedfordshire

Active Directory falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 18 16 29
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 12.00% 6.64% 16.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 21
10th Percentile £182 £173 £160
25th Percentile £225 £175 £181
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £275 £250
Median % change year-on-year +72.73% +10.00% -31.03%
75th Percentile £525 £388 £550
90th Percentile - £526 -
East of England median daily rate £500 £350 £450
% change year-on-year +42.86% -22.22% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £47.63 £74.38 -
25th Percentile £69.13 £75.31 -
Median hourly rate £85.00 £78.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.94% - -
75th Percentile £90.25 £80.94 -
90th Percentile £92.50 £81.13 -
East of England median hourly rate £15.44 £14.16 £24.62
% change year-on-year +9.04% -42.49% +58.84%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Bedfordshire

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in Bedfordshire

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in Bedfordshire

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in Bedfordshire

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 22 May 2025. 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
Bedford -1 6 £225 -
Luton +4 5 £500 - 6
Active Directory
East of England

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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:

Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (8.33%) CANalyzer
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (58.33%) Azure
2 7 (58.33%) Entra ID
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (16.67%) AWS
3 2 (16.67%) AWS CloudTrail
3 2 (16.67%) AWS KMS
3 2 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) SSL
1 2 (16.67%) X.509
2 1 (8.33%) Ethernet
2 1 (8.33%) LAN
2 1 (8.33%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) CANoe
General
1 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (41.67%) Public Sector
3 2 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (8.33%) Automotive
4 1 (8.33%) Electronics
4 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) IT Support
1 5 (41.67%) Support Officer
2 2 (16.67%) Deskside Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Active Directory Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Desktop Support
3 1 (8.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Performance Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Performance Test Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Support Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (58.33%) Driving Licence
2 2 (16.67%) Algorithms
2 2 (16.67%) PKI
3 1 (8.33%) EPoS
3 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (8.33%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Windows
1 4 (33.33%) Windows 10
2 1 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (41.67%) Collaborative Working
2 5 (41.67%) IT Strategy
3 2 (16.67%) Cloud Security
3 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
3 2 (16.67%) Key Management
3 2 (16.67%) RBAC
4 1 (8.33%) Data Analysis
4 1 (8.33%) Data Collection
4 1 (8.33%) Incident Response
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (8.33%) Migration
4 1 (8.33%) Service Delivery
4 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) MATLAB
1 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (41.67%) Accessibility
2 2 (16.67%) FIPS 140-2
2 2 (16.67%) GDPR
2 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (16.67%) NIST
2 2 (16.67%) NIST 800
2 2 (16.67%) SOC 2
3 1 (8.33%) SLA
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) Microsoft