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 20 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 19 37
Rank change year-on-year -12 +18 -2
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 32 68 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 4.18% 7.65% 4.67%
As % of the System Software category 65.31% 56.67% 53.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 43 46
10th Percentile £150 £154 £191
25th Percentile £189 £210 £214
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £380 £410
Median % change year-on-year -34.21% -7.32% +55.60%
75th Percentile £350 £459 £538
90th Percentile £611 £731 £581
West Midlands median daily rate £338 £375 £275
% change year-on-year -10.00% +36.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £14.31 £15.44 £12.89
25th Percentile £14.94 £15.74 £13.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.48 £13.83
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +19.16% -7.80%
75th Percentile £17.98 £17.74 £14.42
90th Percentile £19.16 £18.35 £14.77
West Midlands median hourly rate £16.00 £18.50 £16.75
% change year-on-year -13.51% +10.45% +15.52%

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 49 120 114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 6.40% 13.50% 8.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 63 82
10th Percentile £175 £185 £201
25th Percentile £190 £331 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% -15.00% +29.03%
75th Percentile £434 £618 £575
90th Percentile £617 £728 £625
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £450 £412
% change year-on-year +5.56% +9.36% +17.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £14.31 £15.44 £12.89
25th Percentile £14.94 £15.74 £13.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.48 £13.83
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +19.16% -7.80%
75th Percentile £17.98 £17.74 £14.42
90th Percentile £19.16 £18.35 £14.77
West Midlands median hourly rate £16.00 £18.50 £16.50
% change year-on-year -13.51% +12.12% +13.79%

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 20 June 2024.

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 13 (40.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (25.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (6.25%) IIS
3 2 (6.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 26 (81.25%) Microsoft 365
2 17 (53.13%) Azure
3 9 (28.13%) Entra ID
4 8 (25.00%) OneDrive
5 6 (18.75%) Power Automate
5 6 (18.75%) Power Platform
5 6 (18.75%) PowerApps
6 1 (3.13%) AWS
6 1 (3.13%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 8 (25.00%) DNS
2 6 (18.75%) Unified Communications
2 6 (18.75%) VPN
3 5 (15.63%) Firewall
3 5 (15.63%) LAN
3 5 (15.63%) WAN
4 4 (12.50%) DHCP
5 3 (9.38%) SAN
5 3 (9.38%) VLAN
5 3 (9.38%) VoIP
5 3 (9.38%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (6.25%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (6.25%) iSCSI
6 2 (6.25%) NAS
6 2 (6.25%) TCP/IP
6 2 (6.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.75%) Power BI
2 2 (6.25%) SQL Server
General
1 19 (59.38%) Social Skills
2 6 (18.75%) Public Sector
3 3 (9.38%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Finance
5 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.13%) Legal
5 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (31.25%) 2nd Line Support
2 9 (28.13%) 1st/2nd Line Support
2 9 (28.13%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
2 9 (28.13%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 9 (28.13%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 9 (28.13%) Support Engineer
3 7 (21.88%) Analyst
4 6 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (18.75%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 6 (18.75%) Microsoft Engineer
5 5 (15.63%) Service Analyst
5 5 (15.63%) Service Desk Analyst
6 3 (9.38%) 1st/2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
6 3 (9.38%) 2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
6 3 (9.38%) IT Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) IT Support
7 2 (6.25%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Service Desk Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Service Desk Support
7 2 (6.25%) Service Desk Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) LAMP
2 1 (3.13%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) Digital Signage
1 6 (18.75%) PKI
2 3 (9.38%) Clustering
2 3 (9.38%) Driving Licence
3 2 (6.25%) iPad
3 2 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (6.25%) Replication
4 1 (3.13%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.13%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (3.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (81.25%) Windows
2 15 (46.88%) Windows Server
3 11 (34.38%) Windows 10
3 11 (34.38%) Windows Server 2019
4 8 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (12.50%) Linux
6 3 (9.38%) Mac OS
6 3 (9.38%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (6.25%) Ubuntu
7 2 (6.25%) VMS
8 1 (3.13%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (34.38%) Customer Service
2 6 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (18.75%) ITIL
2 6 (18.75%) Mobile Device Management
2 6 (18.75%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 6 (18.75%) Service Delivery
3 5 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (9.38%) Decision-Making
4 3 (9.38%) Quality Management
5 2 (6.25%) Asset Management
5 2 (6.25%) Server Management
5 2 (6.25%) Server Patching
6 1 (3.13%) Antivirus Management
6 1 (3.13%) Data Protection
6 1 (3.13%) Identity Access Management
6 1 (3.13%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (3.13%) Server Monitoring
6 1 (3.13%) Server Virtualisation
6 1 (3.13%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (37.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (9.38%) Degree
1 3 (9.38%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (12.50%) Hyper-V
1 4 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (6.25%) vSphere
3 1 (3.13%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (3.13%) XenApp
3 1 (3.13%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 12 (37.50%) Microsoft Intune
1 12 (37.50%) SCCM
2 7 (21.88%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (9.38%) Autotask
3 3 (9.38%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (9.38%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (6.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (3.13%) Proxmox
5 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (65.63%) Microsoft
2 9 (28.13%) VMware
3 6 (18.75%) Oracle
4 4 (12.50%) Citrix
5 3 (9.38%) Apple
5 3 (9.38%) Datto
5 3 (9.38%) ServiceNow
6 2 (6.25%) Aruba
6 2 (6.25%) Palo Alto
6 2 (6.25%) ProCurve
6 2 (6.25%) Synology
6 2 (6.25%) Veeam
6 2 (6.25%) Zerto
7 1 (3.13%) Commvault
7 1 (3.13%) Fortinet
7 1 (3.13%) Ivanti
7 1 (3.13%) NetApp
7 1 (3.13%) Sophos
7 1 (3.13%) Zscaler