Active Directory Contracts in Cheshire

Microsoft Active Directory
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 23 25 23
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 -11
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 37 34 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 8.24% 6.75% 8.11%
As % of the System Software category 59.68% 77.27% 42.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 17 34
10th Percentile £230 £125 £175
25th Percentile £263 £126 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £367 £350 £208
Median % change year-on-year +4.86% +68.67% +3.75%
75th Percentile £413 £400 £325
90th Percentile £470 £523 £525
North West median daily rate £350 £350 £350
% change year-on-year - - +40.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 3
10th Percentile - £16.69 £11.80
25th Percentile - £17.26 £12.63
Median hourly rate - £17.72 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year - +26.57% -23.29%
75th Percentile - - £18.21
90th Percentile - £17.74 £20.73
North West median hourly rate £29.00 £17.39 £20.00
% change year-on-year +66.74% -13.04% +10.41%

All System Software Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 62 44 102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 13.81% 8.73% 19.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 18 87
10th Percentile £230 £125 £200
25th Percentile £339 £128 £215
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £389 £363 £463
Median % change year-on-year +7.38% -21.62% +19.05%
75th Percentile £463 £428 £575
90th Percentile £537 £560 £638
North West median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 4
10th Percentile - £16.69 £12.08
25th Percentile - £17.26 £13.31
Median hourly rate - £17.72 £18.21
Median % change year-on-year - -2.66% -4.18%
75th Percentile - - £33.25
90th Percentile - £17.74 £52.75
North West median hourly rate £55.75 £17.72 £22.41
% change year-on-year +214.62% -20.93% +23.71%

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 1 May 2025.

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 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
Warrington +4 20 £350 -15.15% 5
Knutsford - 6 £393 -
Chester - 5 - - 7
Runcorn +1 1 £210 +64.71% 4
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 15 (40.54%) Microsoft Exchange
1 15 (40.54%) SharePoint
2 5 (13.51%) JBoss
2 5 (13.51%) Mattermost
2 5 (13.51%) Skype for Business
3 3 (8.11%) IIS
4 2 (5.41%) Confluence
5 1 (2.70%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (2.70%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (45.95%) Azure
2 15 (40.54%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (37.84%) Entra ID
4 9 (24.32%) SaaS
5 5 (13.51%) AWS
5 5 (13.51%) OpenShift
6 2 (5.41%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 11 (29.73%) DHCP
2 9 (24.32%) DNS
3 5 (13.51%) Skype
3 5 (13.51%) Softphone
3 5 (13.51%) Unified Communications
3 5 (13.51%) WebEx
4 2 (5.41%) DMZ
4 2 (5.41%) Firewall
5 1 (2.70%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.70%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.51%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (13.51%) RDBMS
1 5 (13.51%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.70%) DTS
2 1 (2.70%) GIS
2 1 (2.70%) MSDE
2 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (21.62%) JIRA
2 5 (13.51%) Bitbucket Server
2 5 (13.51%) CA Release Automation
2 5 (13.51%) Git
2 5 (13.51%) Jenkins
2 5 (13.51%) SonarQube
2 5 (13.51%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (13.51%) TeamCity
3 3 (8.11%) GitLab
4 1 (2.70%) MSI
General
1 9 (24.32%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.81%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.70%) Finance
3 1 (2.70%) Military
3 1 (2.70%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 12 (32.43%) Support Engineer
2 7 (18.92%) Administrator
2 7 (18.92%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 6 (16.22%) VMWare Administrator
3 6 (16.22%) Wintel Administrator
4 5 (13.51%) Messaging Engineer
4 5 (13.51%) Messaging Support
4 5 (13.51%) Messaging Support Engineer
4 5 (13.51%) Operations Engineer
4 5 (13.51%) Operations Support Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Analyst
5 4 (10.81%) Messaging Analyst
5 4 (10.81%) Messaging Support Analyst
5 4 (10.81%) Operational Support Analyst
5 4 (10.81%) Operations Analyst
5 4 (10.81%) Operations Support Analyst
5 4 (10.81%) Support Analyst
6 3 (8.11%) Build Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Windows Build Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.51%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (13.51%) Spring Boot
1 5 (13.51%) XMPP
2 1 (2.70%) .NET
2 1 (2.70%) ASP.NET
2 1 (2.70%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.70%) Clustering
3 1 (2.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 20 (54.05%) Windows
2 12 (32.43%) Windows Server
3 10 (27.03%) Linux
4 7 (18.92%) Windows Server 2016
4 7 (18.92%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (16.22%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (13.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (5.41%) Apple iOS
7 2 (5.41%) Windows 10
8 1 (2.70%) Android
8 1 (2.70%) Mac OS
8 1 (2.70%) Unix
8 1 (2.70%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (43.24%) ITIL
2 15 (40.54%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (37.84%) Migration
4 10 (27.03%) Problem Management
5 9 (24.32%) Agile
5 9 (24.32%) DevOps
5 9 (24.32%) Root Cause Analysis
6 8 (21.62%) CI/CD
6 8 (21.62%) ITSM
7 7 (18.92%) Patch Management
8 5 (13.51%) B2B
8 5 (13.51%) Build Automation
8 5 (13.51%) Code Quality
8 5 (13.51%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (13.51%) Deployment Automation
8 5 (13.51%) Microservices
8 5 (13.51%) Procure-to-Pay
8 5 (13.51%) Task Automation
9 4 (10.81%) Analytics
9 4 (10.81%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 17 (45.95%) PowerShell
2 6 (16.22%) SQL
3 5 (13.51%) Perl
3 5 (13.51%) Python
4 3 (8.11%) Java
5 1 (2.70%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.70%) VB
5 1 (2.70%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 21 (56.76%) SC Cleared
1 21 (56.76%) Security Cleared
2 5 (13.51%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (2.70%) Degree
3 1 (2.70%) MCP
3 1 (2.70%) MCSA
3 1 (2.70%) MCSE
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.11%) SLA
2 1 (2.70%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (21.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (16.22%) Hyper-V
2 6 (16.22%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (13.51%) Docker
4 3 (8.11%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.70%) BitLocker
5 1 (2.70%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (2.70%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (27.03%) Microsoft Intune
1 10 (27.03%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (16.22%) vCenter Server
3 5 (13.51%) Kibana
3 5 (13.51%) Kubernetes
3 5 (13.51%) Progress Chef
3 5 (13.51%) SCOM
4 4 (10.81%) WSUS
5 3 (8.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (8.11%) Dell DRAC
5 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Clustering
5 3 (8.11%) NetApp OnCommand
5 3 (8.11%) vMotion
6 2 (5.41%) SCCM
Vendors
1 28 (75.68%) Microsoft
2 10 (27.03%) Red Hat
2 10 (27.03%) Splunk
3 9 (24.32%) VMware
4 5 (13.51%) AppDynamics
4 5 (13.51%) Cisco
5 3 (8.11%) Cloudera
5 3 (8.11%) Dell
6 2 (5.41%) CyberArk
7 1 (2.70%) McAfee
7 1 (2.70%) Symantec