Active Directory Contract Job Trends in Crawley

Microsoft Active Directory
West Sussex > Crawley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Crawley requiring Active Directory skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 9 12
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 +7
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 4 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in Crawley 5.19% 6.06% 7.94%
As % of the System Software category 66.67% 100.00% 27.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile £540 £173 £148
25th Percentile £563 £178 £168
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £185 £200
Median % change year-on-year +224.32% -7.50% -
75th Percentile - £193 £363
90th Percentile - £197 £460
West Sussex median daily rate £600 £208 £425
% change year-on-year +189.16% -51.18% +43.22%

All System Software Skills
Crawley

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 Crawley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 6 2 18
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Crawley 7.79% 6.06% 28.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 14
10th Percentile £423 £173 £277
25th Percentile £513 £178 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £185 £525
Median % change year-on-year +197.30% -64.76% -9.95%
75th Percentile £600 £193 £588
90th Percentile - £197 -
West Sussex median daily rate £525 £325 £463
% change year-on-year +61.54% -29.73% -19.57%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Crawley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Active Directory relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Crawley.

Active Directory job vacancy trend in Crawley

Active Directory
Daily Rate Trend in Crawley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Crawley citing Active Directory.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Crawley citing Active Directory

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Trend in Crawley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Crawley citing Active Directory.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Crawley citing Active Directory

Active Directory
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Crawley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (50.00%) Azure
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (25.00%) AWS
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Control Tower
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (25.00%) Serverless
4 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Unified Communications
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Military
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Leader
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Agile
1 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (25.00%) Critical Thinking
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (25.00%) Open Source
1 1 (25.00%) Refactoring
1 1 (25.00%) Software Deployment
1 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (25.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Firmware
2 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (25.00%) Puppet
1 1 (25.00%) Salt
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) Fortinet