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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 30 34
Rank change year-on-year -16 +4 -19
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 28 36 37
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 3.68% 5.65% 5.29%
As % of the System Software category 22.05% 69.23% 50.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 34 34
10th Percentile £126 £160 £183
25th Percentile £137 £190 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £263 £290 £400
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% -27.50% +25.49%
75th Percentile £488 £567 £452
90th Percentile £506 £674 £546
West Midlands median daily rate £425 £225 £375
% change year-on-year +88.89% -40.00% +17.19%

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 127 52 73
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 16.71% 8.16% 10.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 45 57
10th Percentile £143 £158 £195
25th Percentile £360 £190 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £413
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -3.03% +17.86%
75th Percentile £543 £575 £525
90th Percentile £624 £700 £694
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £471 £425
% change year-on-year +11.41% +10.88% +6.25%

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 12 January 2026.

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 6 (21.43%) Confluence
2 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (3.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (3.57%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 17 (60.71%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (25.00%) AWS
2 7 (25.00%) Azure
3 6 (21.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 6 (21.43%) Amazon EC2
3 6 (21.43%) Amazon ELB
3 6 (21.43%) Amazon Glacier
3 6 (21.43%) Amazon S3
3 6 (21.43%) AWS KMS
3 6 (21.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 5 (17.86%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Storage
5 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (3.57%) OneDrive
5 1 (3.57%) SaaS
5 1 (3.57%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 14 (50.00%) DNS
2 9 (32.14%) VPN
3 8 (28.57%) DHCP
3 8 (28.57%) Firewall
4 6 (21.43%) FTP
4 6 (21.43%) HTTP
4 6 (21.43%) SMTP
4 6 (21.43%) SSH
4 6 (21.43%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.57%) Network Security
5 1 (3.57%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (21.43%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 7 (25.00%) Git
1 7 (25.00%) JIRA
2 6 (21.43%) Jenkins
2 6 (21.43%) Vagrant
General
1 13 (46.43%) Social Skills
2 8 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 5 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) IT Support
2 6 (21.43%) 1st/2nd Line Support
2 6 (21.43%) 2nd Line Support
2 6 (21.43%) AWS DevOps
2 6 (21.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 6 (21.43%) AWS Engineer
2 6 (21.43%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 6 (21.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (21.43%) IT Engineer
2 6 (21.43%) Platform Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
3 5 (17.86%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
3 5 (17.86%) Analyst
3 5 (17.86%) IT Analyst
3 5 (17.86%) IT Support Analyst
3 5 (17.86%) Support Analyst
3 5 (17.86%) Support Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) IT Support Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Administrator
5 2 (7.14%) Exchange Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) Replication
1 6 (21.43%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 5 (17.86%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (7.14%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.57%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 22 (78.57%) Windows
2 10 (35.71%) Windows 10
3 6 (21.43%) Amazon Linux
3 6 (21.43%) Linux
3 6 (21.43%) VMS
4 3 (10.71%) Windows Server
5 1 (3.57%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (42.86%) Change Management
2 10 (35.71%) Customer Service
3 8 (28.57%) ITIL
4 7 (25.00%) DevOps
5 6 (21.43%) Cloud Security
5 6 (21.43%) Configuration Management
5 6 (21.43%) Patch Management
5 6 (21.43%) Platform Engineering
5 6 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (17.86%) CRM
6 5 (17.86%) Disk Encryption
6 5 (17.86%) Mobile Device Management
6 5 (17.86%) Problem Management
6 5 (17.86%) Service Delivery
7 4 (14.29%) Migration
8 2 (7.14%) Identity Access Management
8 2 (7.14%) RBAC
8 2 (7.14%) Service Management
9 1 (3.57%) CI/CD
9 1 (3.57%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 11 (39.29%) PowerShell
2 7 (25.00%) Python
3 6 (21.43%) Groovy
3 6 (21.43%) Java
3 6 (21.43%) Perl
4 1 (3.57%) Bash
Qualifications
1 7 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (21.43%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (17.86%) MCDST
3 5 (17.86%) MCP
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.57%) DBS Check
4 1 (3.57%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) GxP
1 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.57%) NCSC
1 1 (3.57%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (21.43%) DFS Replication
1 6 (21.43%) Docker
2 1 (3.57%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (25.00%) Terraform
2 6 (21.43%) Grafana
2 6 (21.43%) Prometheus
2 6 (21.43%) SCCM
3 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 18 (64.29%) Microsoft
2 8 (28.57%) ServiceNow
3 5 (17.86%) iManage
3 5 (17.86%) Mitel
4 1 (3.57%) Barracuda Networks
4 1 (3.57%) BeyondTrust
4 1 (3.57%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (3.57%) SolarWinds
4 1 (3.57%) Veeam
4 1 (3.57%) Workday