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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 42 23
Rank change year-on-year +9 -19 -4
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 40 29 58
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 6.21% 4.03% 7.16%
As % of the System Software category 32.26% 63.04% 54.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 23 42
10th Percentile £112 £130 £186
25th Percentile £128 - £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £190 £375
Median % change year-on-year +71.05% -49.33% +17.19%
75th Percentile £488 £298 £419
90th Percentile - £520 £550
West Midlands median daily rate £370 £213 £350
% change year-on-year +74.12% -39.29% +27.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £19.25
Median hourly rate - £16.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year - -17.95% -56.67%
75th Percentile - - £19.75
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate - £16.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year - -17.95% +13.97%

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 124 46 106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 19.25% 6.40% 13.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 32 65
10th Percentile £128 £151 £196
25th Percentile £300 £182 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £200 £400
Median % change year-on-year +137.50% -50.00% +6.67%
75th Percentile £500 £444 £525
90th Percentile £606 £643 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £510 £490 £418
% change year-on-year +4.08% +17.37% +4.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £19.25
Median hourly rate - £16.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year - -17.95% -56.67%
75th Percentile - - £19.75
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £56.50 £16.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +253.13% -15.79% +11.05%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Active Directory relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Active Directory job vacancy trend 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 October 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 & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 12 (30.00%) Confluence
2 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (5.00%) IIS
4 1 (2.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.50%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 15 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (30.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 12 (30.00%) Amazon EC2
2 12 (30.00%) Amazon ELB
2 12 (30.00%) Amazon Glacier
2 12 (30.00%) Amazon S3
2 12 (30.00%) AWS
2 12 (30.00%) AWS KMS
2 12 (30.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 7 (17.50%) Azure
3 7 (17.50%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (2.50%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (2.50%) Azure Storage
4 1 (2.50%) OneDrive
4 1 (2.50%) SaaS
4 1 (2.50%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 22 (55.00%) DNS
2 14 (35.00%) Firewall
3 12 (30.00%) FTP
3 12 (30.00%) HTTP
3 12 (30.00%) SMTP
3 12 (30.00%) SSH
4 10 (25.00%) DHCP
5 9 (22.50%) VPN
6 7 (17.50%) TCP/IP
7 4 (10.00%) VoIP
8 1 (2.50%) BGP
8 1 (2.50%) Broadband
8 1 (2.50%) IP Telephony
8 1 (2.50%) Network Security
8 1 (2.50%) OSPF
8 1 (2.50%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (2.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (30.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (5.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (32.50%) Git
1 13 (32.50%) JIRA
2 12 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 12 (30.00%) Vagrant
General
1 17 (42.50%) Public Sector
2 14 (35.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Legal
6 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (30.00%) Analyst
1 12 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (17.50%) AWS DevOps
2 7 (17.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 7 (17.50%) AWS Engineer
2 7 (17.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 7 (17.50%) Platform Engineer
2 7 (17.50%) Support Analyst
3 6 (15.00%) IT Support
4 5 (12.50%) 1st Line Support
4 5 (12.50%) 1st/2nd Line Support
4 5 (12.50%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
4 5 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support
4 5 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 5 (12.50%) IT Analyst
4 5 (12.50%) IT Support Analyst
5 4 (10.00%) Service Analyst
5 4 (10.00%) Service Desk Analyst
5 4 (10.00%) Support Officer
6 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.00%) .NET
1 2 (5.00%) HTML
1 2 (5.00%) Middleware
1 2 (5.00%) Web Services
2 1 (2.50%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 12 (30.00%) Replication
2 5 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (12.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 3 (7.50%) Video Conferencing
4 2 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.50%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 31 (77.50%) Windows
2 12 (30.00%) Amazon Linux
2 12 (30.00%) Linux
2 12 (30.00%) VMS
3 8 (20.00%) Windows 10
4 4 (10.00%) Android
5 2 (5.00%) Windows Server
6 1 (2.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (47.50%) Change Management
2 16 (40.00%) ITIL
3 14 (35.00%) Customer Service
4 13 (32.50%) DevOps
4 13 (32.50%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (30.00%) Cloud Security
5 12 (30.00%) Configuration Management
5 12 (30.00%) Patch Management
5 12 (30.00%) Platform Engineering
6 7 (17.50%) Problem Management
7 5 (12.50%) CRM
7 5 (12.50%) Disk Encryption
7 5 (12.50%) Mobile Device Management
7 5 (12.50%) Service Delivery
8 4 (10.00%) Migration
8 4 (10.00%) Service Management
9 3 (7.50%) Agile
9 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 3 (7.50%) ITSM
10 2 (5.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 20 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 13 (32.50%) Python
3 12 (30.00%) Groovy
3 12 (30.00%) Java
3 12 (30.00%) Perl
4 2 (5.00%) C#
4 2 (5.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.00%) SQL
5 1 (2.50%) Bash
Qualifications
1 18 (45.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (35.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (17.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (15.00%) MCP
5 5 (12.50%) MCDST
6 3 (7.50%) Degree
6 3 (7.50%) DV Cleared
6 3 (7.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (5.00%) CCNA
7 2 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (5.00%) Tableau Certification
8 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
8 1 (2.50%) CCNP
8 1 (2.50%) DBS Check
8 1 (2.50%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.50%) NCSC
System Software
1 12 (30.00%) DFS Replication
1 12 (30.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.50%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.50%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (35.00%) Grafana
2 13 (32.50%) Terraform
3 12 (30.00%) Prometheus
4 8 (20.00%) SCCM
5 2 (5.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 23 (57.50%) Microsoft
2 12 (30.00%) ServiceNow
3 5 (12.50%) iManage
3 5 (12.50%) Mitel
4 4 (10.00%) Cisco
5 2 (5.00%) VMware