Active Directory Contracts in Birmingham

Microsoft Active Directory
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 33 19
Rank change year-on-year +11 -14 +19
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 33 32 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 6.16% 4.13% 7.72%
As % of the System Software category 42.31% 66.67% 59.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 26 47
10th Percentile £106 £150 £162
25th Percentile £165 £190 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £225 £375
Median % change year-on-year +77.78% -40.00% -
75th Percentile £486 £350 £450
90th Percentile £488 £620 £731
West Midlands median daily rate £400 £338 £375
% change year-on-year +18.52% -10.00% +36.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - £14.31 £15.44
25th Percentile - £14.94 £15.74
Median hourly rate - £16.00 £16.48
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% +19.16%
75th Percentile - £17.98 £17.74
90th Percentile - £19.16 £18.35
West Midlands median hourly rate - £16.00 £21.75
% change year-on-year - -26.44% +29.85%

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 78 48 117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 14.55% 6.20% 12.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 36 64
10th Percentile £110 £150 £176
25th Percentile £275 £190 £290
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £350 £400
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £500 £438 £631
90th Percentile £700 £628 £731
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £475 £425
% change year-on-year - +11.76% +3.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - £14.31 £15.44
25th Percentile - £14.94 £15.74
Median hourly rate - £16.00 £16.48
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% +19.16%
75th Percentile - £17.98 £17.74
90th Percentile - £19.16 £18.35
West Midlands median hourly rate £36.65 £16.00 £21.75
% change year-on-year +129.03% -26.44% +31.82%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in Birmingham

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in Birmingham over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in Birmingham

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in Birmingham

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 6 (18.18%) Confluence
2 3 (9.09%) IIS
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (42.42%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 9 (27.27%) Azure
4 6 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 6 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (18.18%) Amazon ELB
4 6 (18.18%) Amazon Glacier
4 6 (18.18%) Amazon S3
4 6 (18.18%) AWS
4 6 (18.18%) AWS KMS
4 6 (18.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (3.03%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 10 (30.30%) DNS
2 7 (21.21%) Firewall
2 7 (21.21%) SMTP
3 6 (18.18%) FTP
3 6 (18.18%) HTTP
3 6 (18.18%) SSH
4 4 (12.12%) DHCP
5 3 (9.09%) VoIP
6 2 (6.06%) TCP/IP
6 2 (6.06%) VPN
7 1 (3.03%) BGP
7 1 (3.03%) Broadband
7 1 (3.03%) IP Telephony
7 1 (3.03%) Network Security
7 1 (3.03%) OSPF
7 1 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (3.03%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (9.09%) SQL Server
3 2 (6.06%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (6.06%) NoSQL
3 2 (6.06%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (18.18%) Git
1 6 (18.18%) Jenkins
1 6 (18.18%) JIRA
1 6 (18.18%) Vagrant
General
1 16 (48.48%) Social Skills
2 10 (30.30%) Public Sector
3 6 (18.18%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (6.06%) Legal
6 1 (3.03%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (27.27%) Analyst
2 6 (18.18%) 1st Line Support
2 6 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (18.18%) Service Analyst
2 6 (18.18%) Service Desk Analyst
2 6 (18.18%) Support Officer
3 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (6.06%) IT Engineer
3 2 (6.06%) IT Manager
3 2 (6.06%) Support Analyst
4 1 (3.03%) 1st/2nd Line Support
4 1 (3.03%) Active Directory Engineer
4 1 (3.03%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (3.03%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (3.03%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (3.03%) Junior
4 1 (3.03%) Service Delivery Manager
4 1 (3.03%) Service Manager
4 1 (3.03%) Support Engineer
4 1 (3.03%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.09%) .NET
1 3 (9.09%) HTML
1 3 (9.09%) Middleware
2 2 (6.06%) Software Packaging
2 2 (6.06%) Web Services
3 1 (3.03%) ASP.NET
3 1 (3.03%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.18%) Replication
2 2 (6.06%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (6.06%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (3.03%) Educational Technology
3 1 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (72.73%) Windows
2 8 (24.24%) Android
3 6 (18.18%) Amazon Linux
3 6 (18.18%) Linux
3 6 (18.18%) VMS
4 3 (9.09%) Windows 10
5 2 (6.06%) Apple iOS
5 2 (6.06%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (39.39%) ITIL
2 12 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (33.33%) Customer Service
4 9 (27.27%) Change Management
5 6 (18.18%) Cloud Security
5 6 (18.18%) Configuration Management
5 6 (18.18%) DevOps
5 6 (18.18%) Patch Management
5 6 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
6 5 (15.15%) Service Management
7 4 (12.12%) ITSM
8 3 (9.09%) Incident Management
8 3 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
8 3 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
9 2 (6.06%) Agile
9 2 (6.06%) Continuous Improvement
9 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 2 (6.06%) Problem Management
9 2 (6.06%) Service Delivery
9 2 (6.06%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 15 (45.45%) PowerShell
2 6 (18.18%) Groovy
2 6 (18.18%) Java
2 6 (18.18%) Perl
2 6 (18.18%) Python
3 3 (9.09%) C#
3 3 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 3 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 4 (12.12%) DV Cleared
4 3 (9.09%) Degree
5 2 (6.06%) CCNA
5 2 (6.06%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (6.06%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (6.06%) Tableau Certification
6 1 (3.03%) CCNP
6 1 (3.03%) DBS Check
6 1 (3.03%) MCP
6 1 (3.03%) MCSA
6 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (18.18%) DFS Replication
1 6 (18.18%) Docker
2 1 (3.03%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (24.24%) Grafana
2 6 (18.18%) Prometheus
2 6 (18.18%) Terraform
3 5 (15.15%) SCCM
4 2 (6.06%) Kubernetes
5 1 (3.03%) Ansible
5 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 23 (69.70%) Microsoft
2 8 (24.24%) ServiceNow
3 3 (9.09%) Cisco
4 2 (6.06%) Dell
4 2 (6.06%) HP
4 2 (6.06%) VMware
5 1 (3.03%) Citrix
5 1 (3.03%) Snow