Active Directory Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Microsoft Active Directory
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 24 16
Rank change year-on-year +9 -8 -2
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 32 35 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 11.59% 7.07% 8.59%
As % of the System Software category 64.00% 77.78% 58.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 31
10th Percentile £274 £120 £200
25th Percentile £338 £166 £219
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £383 £213 £413
Median % change year-on-year +80.00% -48.48% +6.45%
75th Percentile £470 £245 £494
90th Percentile £471 £248 £500
East of England median daily rate £375 £265 £350
% change year-on-year +41.51% -24.29% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 25 13
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £15.14 £14.16 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.92% -2.34% -
75th Percentile £16.95 - £18.50
90th Percentile £21.46 £15.12 -
East of England median hourly rate £15.44 £14.16 £15.50
% change year-on-year +9.04% -8.65% -

All System Software Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 50 45 87
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 18.12% 9.09% 14.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 11 54
10th Percentile £333 £120 £200
25th Percentile £379 £178 £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £225 £450
Median % change year-on-year +111.11% -50.00% +5.88%
75th Percentile £550 £245 £500
90th Percentile £575 £275 £532
East of England median daily rate £470 £425 £430
% change year-on-year +10.59% -1.16% +1.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 26 15
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £15.14 £14.16 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.92% -2.34% -
75th Percentile £16.95 £14.88 £18.50
90th Percentile £21.46 £15.12 £32.90
East of England median hourly rate £21.46 £14.16 £24.62
% change year-on-year +51.55% -42.49% +58.84%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Job postings citing Active Directory as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Cambridgeshire

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in Cambridgeshire

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in Cambridgeshire

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in Cambridgeshire

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Active Directory within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Peterborough +6 20 - - 20
Cambridge +7 2 - - 26
Huntingdon 0 2 £383 +91.25% 2
Wisbech - 1 £185 -
Active Directory
East of England

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 1 (3.13%) Apache
1 1 (3.13%) IIS
Applications
1 22 (68.75%) Microsoft Excel
1 22 (68.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 23 (71.88%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (12.50%) Nutanix
3 2 (6.25%) Azure
3 2 (6.25%) Power Platform
3 2 (6.25%) PowerApps
4 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.13%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 22 (68.75%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (12.50%) Fibre Channel
3 3 (9.38%) DNS
4 1 (3.13%) DHCP
4 1 (3.13%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (3.13%) JIRA
General
1 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
1 1 (3.13%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (68.75%) Analyst
1 22 (68.75%) Service Analyst
1 22 (68.75%) Service Desk Analyst
2 18 (56.25%) Technical Analyst
2 18 (56.25%) Technical Services Analyst
3 7 (21.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Senior
5 3 (9.38%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Applications Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Power Apps Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Applications Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Power Apps Developer
7 1 (3.13%) 2nd Line Support
7 1 (3.13%) Firewall Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Switch Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Clustering
1 4 (12.50%) Replication
2 2 (6.25%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.75%) Windows
1 6 (18.75%) Windows Server
2 1 (3.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (87.50%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (84.38%) ITIL
3 26 (81.25%) Customer Service
4 23 (71.88%) Service Delivery
5 22 (68.75%) Incident Management
5 22 (68.75%) Mathematics
6 7 (21.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (12.50%) Capacity Management
7 4 (12.50%) CI/CD
7 4 (12.50%) Proactive Maintenance
7 4 (12.50%) Proactive Management
7 4 (12.50%) Problem Management
7 4 (12.50%) Virtual Environments
8 3 (9.38%) Agile
9 2 (6.25%) Re-Platforming
9 2 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
9 2 (6.25%) Waterfall
9 2 (6.25%) Zero Trust
10 1 (3.13%) Full-Stack Development
10 1 (3.13%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.50%) Shell Script
2 2 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (68.75%) A+ Certification
1 22 (68.75%) MCSA
1 22 (68.75%) Microsoft Certification
2 18 (56.25%) Security Cleared
3 17 (53.13%) SC Cleared
4 4 (12.50%) DBS Check
5 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 5 (15.63%) Hyper-V
1 5 (15.63%) VMware NSX
2 4 (12.50%) Docker
2 4 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (12.50%) Failover Clustering
1 4 (12.50%) Podman
2 2 (6.25%) Ansible
2 2 (6.25%) Avamar
2 2 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (6.25%) VxRail
3 1 (3.13%) SCCM
3 1 (3.13%) vRealize
Vendors
1 25 (78.13%) Microsoft
2 23 (71.88%) ServiceNow
3 22 (68.75%) Citrix
4 6 (18.75%) VMware
5 4 (12.50%) LogicMonitor
6 2 (6.25%) Dell
6 2 (6.25%) SolarWinds
7 1 (3.13%) Apple
7 1 (3.13%) Atlassian
7 1 (3.13%) Cisco
7 1 (3.13%) Google
7 1 (3.13%) LogRhythm
7 1 (3.13%) Palo Alto
7 1 (3.13%) Red Hat