Active Directory Contracts in Coventry

Microsoft Active Directory
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Coventry 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 8 7 20
Rank change year-on-year -1 +13 -9
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 11 23 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Coventry 11.34% 16.08% 7.27%
As % of the System Software category 100.00% 71.88% 64.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 13 10
10th Percentile £196 £363 £210
25th Percentile - £400 £278
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £425 £413
Median % change year-on-year -52.94% +3.03% +10.00%
75th Percentile - £675 £528
90th Percentile £356 - £708
West Midlands median daily rate £400 £350 £380
% change year-on-year +14.29% -7.89% +26.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £12.50
Median hourly rate - - £13.00
75th Percentile - - £13.50
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £17.16 £17.80 £16.48
% change year-on-year -3.60% +8.01% -4.46%

All System Software Skills
Coventry

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 Coventry.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 11 32 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 11.34% 22.38% 11.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 22 19
10th Percentile £196 £284 £242
25th Percentile - £381 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year -57.89% -1.04% +20.00%
75th Percentile - £675 £519
90th Percentile £356 - £700
West Midlands median daily rate £476 £400 £475
% change year-on-year +19.00% -15.79% +15.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £12.50
Median hourly rate - - £13.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.04%
75th Percentile - - £13.50
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.13 £17.80 £17.72
% change year-on-year +1.85% +0.47% +5.78%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Coventry

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in Coventry

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in Coventry

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

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in Coventry

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Coventry

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in Coventry

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Coventry 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) Entra ID
3 2 (18.18%) AWS
General
1 8 (72.73%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Deployment Engineer
1 5 (45.45%) Windows Deployment Engineer
1 5 (45.45%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Active Directory Technician
2 1 (9.09%) Applications Specialist
2 1 (9.09%) Applications Support
2 1 (9.09%) Applications Support Specialist
2 1 (9.09%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Desktop Support
2 1 (9.09%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Hardware Technician
2 1 (9.09%) IT Technician
2 1 (9.09%) Support Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Support Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (18.18%) Replication
2 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 10 (90.91%) Windows
2 6 (54.55%) Windows 10
3 2 (18.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) Roadmaps
2 2 (18.18%) Identity Management
2 2 (18.18%) Patch Management
2 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (18.18%) RBAC
2 2 (18.18%) Risk Management
2 2 (18.18%) Validation
3 1 (9.09%) Data Protection
3 1 (9.09%) ITIL
3 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (9.09%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) GDPR
1 2 (18.18%) NIST
2 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) SCCM
2 6 (54.55%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow