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 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 28 21
Rank change year-on-year -7 -7 -4
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 36 40 57
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 5.25% 5.59% 7.36%
As % of the System Software category 27.91% 70.18% 57.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 35 43
10th Percentile £126 £152 £182
25th Percentile £189 £182 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £200 £375
Median % change year-on-year +97.50% -46.67% +36.36%
75th Percentile £488 £531 £431
90th Percentile - £613 £548
West Midlands median daily rate £400 £225 £350
% change year-on-year +77.78% -35.71% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £19.25
Median hourly rate - - £19.50
75th Percentile - - £19.75
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate - £32.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year - +71.05% +0.74%

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 57 99
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 18.80% 7.96% 12.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 45 66
10th Percentile £185 £155 £191
25th Percentile £360 £174 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £213 £406
Median % change year-on-year +123.53% -47.69% +10.92%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £525
90th Percentile £617 £644 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £508 £500 £418
% change year-on-year +1.50% +19.76% +4.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £19.25
Median hourly rate - - £19.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -56.67%
75th Percentile - - £19.75
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £56.50 £32.50 £18.50
% change year-on-year +73.85% +75.68% -7.50%

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 13 November 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 (33.33%) Confluence
2 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.78%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 14 (38.89%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 12 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 12 (33.33%) Amazon ELB
2 12 (33.33%) Amazon Glacier
2 12 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 12 (33.33%) AWS
2 12 (33.33%) AWS KMS
2 12 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 4 (11.11%) Azure
3 4 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.78%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (2.78%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (2.78%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (2.78%) Azure Storage
4 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (2.78%) OneDrive
4 1 (2.78%) SaaS
4 1 (2.78%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 22 (61.11%) DNS
2 14 (38.89%) Firewall
3 12 (33.33%) FTP
3 12 (33.33%) HTTP
3 12 (33.33%) SMTP
3 12 (33.33%) SSH
4 10 (27.78%) DHCP
5 9 (25.00%) VPN
6 8 (22.22%) TCP/IP
7 4 (11.11%) VoIP
8 1 (2.78%) BGP
8 1 (2.78%) Broadband
8 1 (2.78%) IP Telephony
8 1 (2.78%) Network Security
8 1 (2.78%) OSPF
8 1 (2.78%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (2.78%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 13 (36.11%) Git
1 13 (36.11%) JIRA
2 12 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 12 (33.33%) Vagrant
General
1 15 (41.67%) Public Sector
2 10 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 5 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.56%) Legal
5 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.78%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (25.00%) Analyst
3 7 (19.44%) AWS DevOps
3 7 (19.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 7 (19.44%) AWS Engineer
3 7 (19.44%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 7 (19.44%) Platform Engineer
4 6 (16.67%) IT Support
5 5 (13.89%) 1st/2nd Line Support
5 5 (13.89%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
5 5 (13.89%) 2nd Line Support
5 5 (13.89%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
5 5 (13.89%) IT Analyst
5 5 (13.89%) IT Support Analyst
5 5 (13.89%) Support Analyst
6 4 (11.11%) IT Engineer
7 3 (8.33%) Service Analyst
7 3 (8.33%) Service Desk Analyst
8 2 (5.56%) Exchange Administrator
8 2 (5.56%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.78%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 12 (33.33%) Replication
2 5 (13.89%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (13.89%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 3 (8.33%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (2.78%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 29 (80.56%) Windows
2 12 (33.33%) Amazon Linux
2 12 (33.33%) Linux
2 12 (33.33%) VMS
3 9 (25.00%) Windows 10
4 2 (5.56%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.78%) Android
5 1 (2.78%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (50.00%) Change Management
2 13 (36.11%) DevOps
3 12 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 12 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 12 (33.33%) Customer Service
3 12 (33.33%) ITIL
3 12 (33.33%) Patch Management
3 12 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
4 8 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (13.89%) CRM
5 5 (13.89%) Disk Encryption
5 5 (13.89%) Mobile Device Management
5 5 (13.89%) Problem Management
5 5 (13.89%) Service Delivery
6 4 (11.11%) ITSM
6 4 (11.11%) Migration
7 3 (8.33%) Service Management
8 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 2 (5.56%) RBAC
9 1 (2.78%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 18 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 13 (36.11%) Python
3 12 (33.33%) Groovy
3 12 (33.33%) Java
3 12 (33.33%) Perl
4 1 (2.78%) Bash
Qualifications
1 16 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 14 (38.89%) SC Cleared
3 7 (19.44%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (16.67%) MCP
5 5 (13.89%) MCDST
6 3 (8.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (5.56%) CCNA
7 2 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (5.56%) DV Cleared
8 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
8 1 (2.78%) CCNP
8 1 (2.78%) DBS Check
8 1 (2.78%) Degree
8 1 (2.78%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (2.78%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.78%) NCSC
1 1 (2.78%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (33.33%) DFS Replication
1 12 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (2.78%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.78%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (36.11%) Terraform
2 12 (33.33%) Grafana
2 12 (33.33%) Prometheus
3 8 (22.22%) SCCM
Vendors
1 19 (52.78%) Microsoft
2 12 (33.33%) ServiceNow
3 5 (13.89%) iManage
3 5 (13.89%) Mitel
4 4 (11.11%) Cisco
5 1 (2.78%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (2.78%) VMware