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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 33 37
Rank change year-on-year -16 +4 -22
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 28 35 35
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 3.58% 5.43% 4.84%
As % of the System Software category 21.71% 57.38% 49.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 33 32
10th Percentile £126 £160 £188
25th Percentile £130 £190 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £355 £394
Median % change year-on-year -43.66% -9.84% +23.05%
75th Percentile £488 £613 £442
90th Percentile £525 £700 £550
West Midlands median daily rate £365 £330 £375
% change year-on-year +10.61% -12.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £19.95
West Midlands median hourly rate - £18.13 £18.50
% change year-on-year - -2.00% -7.50%

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 129 61 71
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 16.48% 9.47% 9.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 51 54
10th Percentile £132 £158 £193
25th Percentile £368 £190 £238
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £406
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +23.08% +15.99%
75th Percentile £546 £689 £519
90th Percentile £623 £700 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £490 £425
% change year-on-year +5.10% +15.29% +3.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £19.95
Median % change year-on-year - - -83.98%
West Midlands median hourly rate - £18.13 £18.50
% change year-on-year - -2.00% -23.71%

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 26 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 4 (14.29%) Confluence
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (3.57%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 18 (64.29%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (35.71%) Azure
3 7 (25.00%) Entra ID
4 6 (21.43%) AWS
5 4 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (14.29%) Amazon ELB
5 4 (14.29%) Amazon Glacier
5 4 (14.29%) Amazon S3
5 4 (14.29%) AWS KMS
5 4 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Storage
6 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (3.57%) OneDrive
6 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.57%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 13 (46.43%) DNS
2 11 (39.29%) VPN
3 9 (32.14%) DHCP
4 7 (25.00%) Firewall
5 6 (21.43%) TCP/IP
6 4 (14.29%) FTP
6 4 (14.29%) HTTP
6 4 (14.29%) SMTP
6 4 (14.29%) SSH
7 2 (7.14%) Network Security
8 1 (3.57%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Git
1 5 (17.86%) JIRA
2 4 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 4 (14.29%) Vagrant
General
1 17 (60.71%) Social Skills
2 6 (21.43%) Public Sector
3 5 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (35.71%) IT Support
2 7 (25.00%) IT Engineer
3 6 (21.43%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 6 (21.43%) 2nd Line Support
3 6 (21.43%) Analyst
3 6 (21.43%) Support Engineer
4 5 (17.86%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
4 5 (17.86%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 5 (17.86%) IT Analyst
4 5 (17.86%) IT Support Analyst
4 5 (17.86%) IT Support Engineer
4 5 (17.86%) Support Analyst
5 4 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
5 4 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) IT Technician
6 2 (7.14%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) Self-Motivation
1 6 (21.43%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 4 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 4 (14.29%) Replication
3 2 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (7.14%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 23 (82.14%) Windows
2 12 (42.86%) Windows 10
3 4 (14.29%) Amazon Linux
3 4 (14.29%) Linux
3 4 (14.29%) VMS
3 4 (14.29%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.57%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (42.86%) Customer Service
2 10 (35.71%) Change Management
3 9 (32.14%) ITIL
4 6 (21.43%) Problem Management
4 6 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (21.43%) Service Delivery
5 5 (17.86%) CRM
5 5 (17.86%) DevOps
5 5 (17.86%) Disk Encryption
5 5 (17.86%) Mobile Device Management
6 4 (14.29%) Cloud Security
6 4 (14.29%) Configuration Management
6 4 (14.29%) Patch Management
6 4 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
6 4 (14.29%) Service Management
7 3 (10.71%) Identity Access Management
8 2 (7.14%) High Availability
8 2 (7.14%) Migration
8 2 (7.14%) Network Optimisation
8 2 (7.14%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 5 (17.86%) Python
3 4 (14.29%) Groovy
3 4 (14.29%) Java
3 4 (14.29%) Perl
4 1 (3.57%) Bash
Qualifications
1 6 (21.43%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (17.86%) MCDST
2 5 (17.86%) MCP
2 5 (17.86%) SC Cleared
2 5 (17.86%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.57%) DBS Check
3 1 (3.57%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) GxP
2 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.57%) NCSC
2 1 (3.57%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (14.29%) DFS Replication
1 4 (14.29%) Docker
2 1 (3.57%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (21.43%) Microsoft Intune
1 6 (21.43%) SCCM
2 5 (17.86%) Terraform
3 4 (14.29%) Grafana
3 4 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 20 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 7 (25.00%) ServiceNow
3 5 (17.86%) iManage
3 5 (17.86%) Mitel
4 2 (7.14%) Workday
5 1 (3.57%) Barracuda Networks
5 1 (3.57%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (3.57%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (3.57%) SolarWinds
5 1 (3.57%) Veeam