Active Directory Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Microsoft Active Directory
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Active Directory skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 38 22
Rank change year-on-year +8 -16 +3
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 39 30 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 6.54% 4.20% 6.88%
As % of the System Software category 37.50% 69.77% 52.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 23 41
10th Percentile £106 £130 £185
25th Percentile £127 - £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £190 £375
Median % change year-on-year +64.47% -49.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £488 £298 £444
90th Percentile - £520 £725
West Midlands median daily rate £390 £256 £350
% change year-on-year +52.20% -26.79% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £18.35
25th Percentile - - £18.50
Median hourly rate - £16.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year - -15.79% -57.78%
75th Percentile - - £19.50
90th Percentile - - £19.65
West Midlands median hourly rate - £16.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year - -36.00% +42.86%

All System Software Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 104 43 111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 17.45% 6.02% 13.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 28 61
10th Percentile £116 £143 £193
25th Percentile £266 £190 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £200 £400
Median % change year-on-year +118.75% -50.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £488 £444 £575
90th Percentile £545 £659 £725
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £425
% change year-on-year - +17.65% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £18.35
25th Percentile - - £18.50
Median hourly rate - £16.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year - -15.79% -57.78%
75th Percentile - - £19.50
90th Percentile - - £19.65
West Midlands median hourly rate £56.50 £16.00 £22.25
% change year-on-year +253.13% -28.09% +27.14%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Birmingham

Active Directory
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Active Directory.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Active Directory

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in Birmingham over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in Birmingham

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Active Directory.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Active Directory

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 12 (30.77%) Confluence
2 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (5.13%) IIS
4 1 (2.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.56%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 15 (38.46%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (30.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 12 (30.77%) Amazon EC2
2 12 (30.77%) Amazon ELB
2 12 (30.77%) Amazon Glacier
2 12 (30.77%) Amazon S3
2 12 (30.77%) AWS
2 12 (30.77%) AWS KMS
2 12 (30.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 8 (20.51%) Azure
3 8 (20.51%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.56%) Azure Storage
4 1 (2.56%) OneDrive
4 1 (2.56%) SaaS
4 1 (2.56%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 20 (51.28%) DNS
2 13 (33.33%) Firewall
3 12 (30.77%) FTP
3 12 (30.77%) HTTP
3 12 (30.77%) SMTP
3 12 (30.77%) SSH
4 8 (20.51%) DHCP
5 6 (15.38%) VPN
6 5 (12.82%) TCP/IP
7 4 (10.26%) VoIP
8 1 (2.56%) BGP
8 1 (2.56%) Broadband
8 1 (2.56%) IP Telephony
8 1 (2.56%) Network Security
8 1 (2.56%) OSPF
8 1 (2.56%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (2.56%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (2.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (30.77%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (5.13%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (5.13%) NoSQL
2 2 (5.13%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (33.33%) JIRA
2 12 (30.77%) Git
2 12 (30.77%) Jenkins
2 12 (30.77%) Vagrant
General
1 16 (41.03%) Public Sector
2 14 (35.90%) Social Skills
3 6 (15.38%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.13%) Legal
6 1 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.56%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (30.77%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (25.64%) Analyst
3 7 (17.95%) 1st Line Support
3 7 (17.95%) AWS DevOps
3 7 (17.95%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 7 (17.95%) AWS Engineer
3 7 (17.95%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 7 (17.95%) Platform Engineer
4 6 (15.38%) Support Officer
5 5 (12.82%) Support Analyst
6 4 (10.26%) IT Support
6 4 (10.26%) Service Analyst
6 4 (10.26%) Service Desk Analyst
7 3 (7.69%) 1st/2nd Line Support
7 3 (7.69%) 2nd Line Support
7 3 (7.69%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
7 3 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (7.69%) IT Analyst
7 3 (7.69%) IT Engineer
7 3 (7.69%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.13%) .NET
1 2 (5.13%) HTML
1 2 (5.13%) Middleware
1 2 (5.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (30.77%) Replication
2 3 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (7.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 3 (7.69%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.56%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 31 (79.49%) Windows
2 12 (30.77%) Amazon Linux
2 12 (30.77%) Linux
2 12 (30.77%) VMS
3 6 (15.38%) Android
3 6 (15.38%) Windows 10
4 2 (5.13%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (43.59%) Change Management
2 15 (38.46%) ITIL
3 14 (35.90%) Customer Service
4 13 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (30.77%) Cloud Security
5 12 (30.77%) Configuration Management
5 12 (30.77%) DevOps
5 12 (30.77%) Patch Management
5 12 (30.77%) Platform Engineering
6 5 (12.82%) Problem Management
7 4 (10.26%) Migration
7 4 (10.26%) Service Management
8 3 (7.69%) CRM
8 3 (7.69%) Disk Encryption
8 3 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (7.69%) ITSM
8 3 (7.69%) Mobile Device Management
8 3 (7.69%) Service Delivery
9 2 (5.13%) Performance Tuning
9 2 (5.13%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 19 (48.72%) PowerShell
2 12 (30.77%) Groovy
2 12 (30.77%) Java
2 12 (30.77%) Perl
2 12 (30.77%) Python
3 2 (5.13%) C#
3 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
3 2 (5.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (43.59%) Security Cleared
2 13 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 4 (10.26%) MCP
3 4 (10.26%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (7.69%) Degree
4 3 (7.69%) DV Cleared
4 3 (7.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 3 (7.69%) MCDST
5 2 (5.13%) CCNA
5 2 (5.13%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (5.13%) Tableau Certification
6 1 (2.56%) CCNP
6 1 (2.56%) DBS Check
6 1 (2.56%) MCSA
System Software
1 12 (30.77%) DFS Replication
1 12 (30.77%) Docker
2 1 (2.56%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.56%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (35.90%) Grafana
2 12 (30.77%) Prometheus
2 12 (30.77%) Terraform
3 6 (15.38%) SCCM
4 2 (5.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (56.41%) Microsoft
2 12 (30.77%) ServiceNow
3 4 (10.26%) Cisco
4 3 (7.69%) iManage
4 3 (7.69%) Mitel
5 2 (5.13%) VMware