Active Directory Contracts in County Antrim

Microsoft Active Directory
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in County Antrim 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 20 12
Rank change year-on-year -4 -8 +8
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 14 2 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in County Antrim 7.04% 1.54% 8.84%
As % of the System Software category 77.78% 50.00% 65.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 4
10th Percentile £147 £231 £172
25th Percentile £150 £278 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £160 £363 £313
Median % change year-on-year -55.86% +16.00% +0.18%
75th Percentile £165 £453 £450
90th Percentile - £504 -
Northern Ireland median daily rate £160 £363 £425
% change year-on-year -55.86% -14.71% +36.25%

All System Software Skills
County Antrim

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 County Antrim.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 18 4 20
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim 9.05% 3.08% 13.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 10
10th Percentile £150 £231 £165
25th Percentile £155 £278 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £285 £363 £425
Median % change year-on-year -21.38% -14.71% -15.00%
75th Percentile £410 £453 £638
90th Percentile £493 £504 £650
Northern Ireland median daily rate £285 £363 £425
% change year-on-year -21.38% -14.71% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £31.25 -
Northern Ireland median hourly rate - £31.25 -

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in County Antrim

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in County Antrim

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in County Antrim

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in County Antrim

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in County Antrim

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in County Antrim

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 County Antrim region over the 6 months to 5 July 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
Belfast +1 14 £160 -55.86% 21
Active Directory
Northern Ireland

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in County Antrim 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 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) Azure
1 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (7.14%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) DNS
1 5 (35.71%) Firewall
1 5 (35.71%) TCP/IP
2 4 (28.57%) DHCP
3 3 (21.43%) VoIP
General
1 3 (21.43%) Banking
1 3 (21.43%) Finance
1 3 (21.43%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) IT Support
2 5 (35.71%) Support Officer
3 4 (28.57%) Analyst
3 4 (28.57%) Support Analyst
4 3 (21.43%) ICT Support
4 3 (21.43%) ICT Support Technician
4 3 (21.43%) ICT Technician
4 3 (21.43%) Support Technician
5 2 (14.29%) Help Desk Analyst
5 2 (14.29%) Help Desk Support
5 2 (14.29%) Help Desk Support Analyst
5 2 (14.29%) IT Analyst
5 2 (14.29%) IT Support Analyst
5 2 (14.29%) Support Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) IT Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) IT Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Blackberry
1 3 (21.43%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 12 (85.71%) Windows
2 5 (35.71%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (28.57%) Windows 10
4 3 (21.43%) Android
5 1 (7.14%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Patch Management
2 4 (28.57%) Incident Management
3 3 (21.43%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (21.43%) Fault Analysis
3 3 (21.43%) IT Strategy
4 1 (7.14%) Customer Service
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) Degree
2 5 (35.71%) HND
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) AirWatch
2 1 (7.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (21.43%) Apple
2 3 (21.43%) Avaya
2 3 (21.43%) Citrix
2 3 (21.43%) VMware
3 1 (7.14%) Bloomberg
3 1 (7.14%) Sun