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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 24 17
Rank change year-on-year +10 -7 -2
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 32 38 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 11.47% 7.60% 8.22%
As % of the System Software category 64.00% 79.17% 55.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 31
10th Percentile £274 £120 £200
25th Percentile £338 £178 £219
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £383 £225 £413
Median % change year-on-year +70.00% -45.45% -
75th Percentile £470 £245 £494
90th Percentile £471 - £500
East of England median daily rate £450 £258 £350
% change year-on-year +74.76% -26.43% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 27 11
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 £15.40 - £18.50
90th Percentile £19.65 £15.12 -
East of England median hourly rate £15.33 £14.16 £17.00
% change year-on-year +8.26% -16.71% +9.68%

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 48 84
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 17.92% 9.60% 14.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 12 56
10th Percentile £333 £124 £200
25th Percentile £379 £189 £378
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 £272 £530
East of England median daily rate £490 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +15.29% -5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 28 12
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £15.14 £14.16 £15.75
Median % change year-on-year +6.92% -10.10% +8.62%
75th Percentile £15.40 £14.40 £18.50
90th Percentile £19.65 £15.12 -
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 13 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 13 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 +9 18 - - 6
Cambridge +7 4 - - 18
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 2 (6.25%) OpenStack
2 1 (3.13%) Apache
2 1 (3.13%) IIS
Applications
1 20 (62.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 20 (62.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 21 (65.63%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (12.50%) Nutanix
3 2 (6.25%) AWS
3 2 (6.25%) Azure
3 2 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (6.25%) Power Platform
3 2 (6.25%) PowerApps
4 1 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.13%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 20 (62.50%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (15.63%) DNS
3 4 (12.50%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (3.13%) DHCP
4 1 (3.13%) Firewall
4 1 (3.13%) iSCSI
4 1 (3.13%) SAN
Development Applications
1 3 (9.38%) JIRA
2 2 (6.25%) GitLab
2 2 (6.25%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (9.38%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 20 (62.50%) Analyst
1 20 (62.50%) Service Analyst
1 20 (62.50%) 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%) Administrator
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
6 2 (6.25%) Systems Administrator
7 1 (3.13%) 2nd Line Support
7 1 (3.13%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Clustering
1 4 (12.50%) Replication
2 2 (6.25%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.25%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.75%) Windows
1 6 (18.75%) Windows Server
2 2 (6.25%) Linux
3 1 (3.13%) CentOS
3 1 (3.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (81.25%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (78.13%) ITIL
3 24 (75.00%) Customer Service
4 21 (65.63%) Service Delivery
5 20 (62.50%) Incident Management
5 20 (62.50%) Mathematics
6 7 (21.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (15.63%) CI/CD
8 4 (12.50%) Capacity Management
8 4 (12.50%) Proactive Maintenance
8 4 (12.50%) Proactive Management
8 4 (12.50%) Problem Management
8 4 (12.50%) Virtual Environments
9 3 (9.38%) Agile
9 3 (9.38%) ITSM
10 2 (6.25%) Computer Science
10 2 (6.25%) Disaster Recovery
10 2 (6.25%) Re-Platforming
10 2 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
10 2 (6.25%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.75%) Shell Script
2 2 (6.25%) Python
2 2 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (62.50%) A+ Certification
1 20 (62.50%) MCSA
1 20 (62.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 16 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 15 (46.88%) SC Cleared
4 4 (12.50%) DBS Check
5 2 (6.25%) Degree
6 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (21.88%) Hyper-V
2 5 (15.63%) VMware NSX
3 4 (12.50%) Docker
3 4 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (12.50%) Ansible
1 4 (12.50%) Failover Clustering
1 4 (12.50%) Podman
2 2 (6.25%) Avamar
2 2 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (6.25%) VxRail
3 1 (3.13%) Progress Chef
3 1 (3.13%) Puppet
3 1 (3.13%) Salt
3 1 (3.13%) SCCM
3 1 (3.13%) Terraform
3 1 (3.13%) vRealize
Vendors
1 25 (78.13%) Microsoft
2 23 (71.88%) ServiceNow
3 20 (62.50%) Citrix
4 8 (25.00%) 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