Active Directory Contracts in Cheshire

Microsoft Active Directory
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for Active Directory skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Active Directory over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 24 13
Rank change year-on-year 0 -11 +10
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 34 44 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 6.79% 8.16% 10.73%
As % of the System Software category 77.27% 42.31% 59.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 35 39
10th Percentile £125 £175 £158
25th Percentile £126 £200 £166
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £215 £210
Median % change year-on-year +62.79% +2.38% -46.50%
75th Percentile £400 £338 £538
90th Percentile £523 £525 £631
North West median daily rate £338 £350 £250
% change year-on-year -3.57% +40.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 2
10th Percentile £16.69 £11.80 £16.53
25th Percentile £17.26 £12.63 £16.94
Median hourly rate £17.72 £14.00 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year +26.57% -23.29% -
75th Percentile - £18.21 £18.94
90th Percentile £17.74 £20.73 £18.98
North West median hourly rate £17.29 £20.00 £18.12
% change year-on-year -13.58% +10.41% -23.73%

All System Software Skills
Cheshire

Active Directory is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 44 104 96
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 8.78% 19.29% 18.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 89 62
10th Percentile £125 £198 £163
25th Percentile £128 £215 £182
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £463 £417
Median % change year-on-year -21.62% +10.91% +15.83%
75th Percentile £428 £575 £538
90th Percentile £560 £638 £631
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 3
10th Percentile £16.69 £12.08 £16.80
25th Percentile £17.26 £13.31 £17.63
Median hourly rate £17.72 £18.21 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.66% -4.18% -44.12%
75th Percentile - £33.25 £19.50
90th Percentile £17.74 £52.75 £19.80
North West median hourly rate £17.72 £21.21 £18.12
% change year-on-year -16.43% +17.06% -57.38%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Cheshire

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in Cheshire

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in Cheshire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in Cheshire

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in Cheshire

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Warrington -4 9 £413 +106.25% 12
Macclesfield - 9 £122 -
Wilmslow -1 5 £350 +21.74% 2
Northwich -10 3 - - 5
Runcorn - 3 £128 -
Active Directory
North West

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 10 (29.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (29.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 25 (73.53%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (23.53%) Azure
3 7 (20.59%) OneDrive
4 5 (14.71%) Entra ID
5 2 (5.88%) AWS
5 2 (5.88%) SaaS
6 1 (2.94%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (2.94%) Azure Stack
6 1 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.94%) GCP
6 1 (2.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (2.94%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 5 (14.71%) WAAS
2 4 (11.76%) Firewall
3 2 (5.88%) DNS
3 2 (5.88%) VPN
4 1 (2.94%) DHCP
4 1 (2.94%) LAN
4 1 (2.94%) Skype
4 1 (2.94%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.94%) VLAN
4 1 (2.94%) VSAN
4 1 (2.94%) WAN
4 1 (2.94%) Wireless
4 1 (2.94%) WLAN
General
1 9 (26.47%) Social Skills
2 8 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.82%) Aviation
4 2 (5.88%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (23.53%) IT Engineer
1 8 (23.53%) Senior
2 6 (17.65%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) Administrator
3 5 (14.71%) Desktop Support
3 5 (14.71%) IT Support
3 5 (14.71%) PowerShell Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) SCCM Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) Senior Systems Administrator
3 5 (14.71%) Systems Administrator
4 4 (11.76%) 1st/2nd Line Support
4 4 (11.76%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) 2nd Line Support
4 4 (11.76%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Support Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Desktop Technician
5 3 (8.82%) IT Technician
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.82%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (5.88%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.94%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.94%) PKI
3 1 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.94%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 26 (76.47%) Windows
2 15 (44.12%) Windows 10
3 10 (29.41%) Apple iOS
4 8 (23.53%) Mac OS
5 5 (14.71%) Windows Server
6 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (23.53%) Asset Management
1 8 (23.53%) Customer Service
1 8 (23.53%) Software Deployment
2 6 (17.65%) Customer Experience
2 6 (17.65%) Inventory Management
2 6 (17.65%) Service Management
3 5 (14.71%) Change Control
4 4 (11.76%) Customer Requirements
4 4 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (5.88%) Cloud Security
5 2 (5.88%) Information Security
5 2 (5.88%) Migration
5 2 (5.88%) RBAC
6 1 (2.94%) Application Security
6 1 (2.94%) Identity Access Management
6 1 (2.94%) Information Governance
6 1 (2.94%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (2.94%) ITIL
6 1 (2.94%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (2.94%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 14 (41.18%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.94%) Bash
2 1 (2.94%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 7 (20.59%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (23.53%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (8.82%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.94%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (47.06%) SCCM
2 12 (35.29%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (26.47%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 3 (8.82%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (2.94%) SolarWinds Orion
5 1 (2.94%) vCenter Server
5 1 (2.94%) WSUS
Vendors
1 26 (76.47%) Microsoft
2 12 (35.29%) VMware
3 9 (26.47%) Apple
4 7 (20.59%) ServiceNow
5 2 (5.88%) Cisco
5 2 (5.88%) Veeam
6 1 (2.94%) Google
6 1 (2.94%) Meraki
6 1 (2.94%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.94%) Proofpoint
6 1 (2.94%) SolarWinds
6 1 (2.94%) Sophos
6 1 (2.94%) Symantec
6 1 (2.94%) Ubiquiti