Active Directory Contracts in Cumbria

Microsoft Active Directory
North West > Cumbria

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cumbria 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 25 - 7
Rank change year-on-year - - +10
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 14 0 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cumbria 7.18% - 17.54%
As % of the System Software category 46.67% - 83.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 5
10th Percentile £188 - -
25th Percentile £263 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £426
Median % change year-on-year - - +0.24%
75th Percentile £538 - £475
90th Percentile £558 - £565
North West median daily rate £350 £350 £350
% change year-on-year - - +40.00%

All System Software Skills
Cumbria

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 Cumbria.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 30 22 12
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria 15.38% 8.49% 21.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 18 7
10th Percentile £200 £463 £420
25th Percentile £338 £508 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £426
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% +20.91% +0.24%
75th Percentile £538 £662 £463
90th Percentile - £670 £535
North West median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £83.55 -
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 Cumbria

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Cumbria

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cumbria

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in Cumbria

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in Cumbria

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

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in Cumbria

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cumbria

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in Cumbria

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in Cumbria

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 Cumbria 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
Barrow-in-Furness - 2 £625 -
Carlisle - 2 £213 - 4
Active Directory
North West

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cumbria 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 9 (64.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (57.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (78.57%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (64.29%) Azure
2 9 (64.29%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 9 (64.29%) DHCP
1 9 (64.29%) DNS
2 3 (21.43%) WAN
3 2 (14.29%) Firewall
4 1 (7.14%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (7.14%) LAN
4 1 (7.14%) NetScaler
4 1 (7.14%) SD-WAN
4 1 (7.14%) Skype
4 1 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (7.14%) Wireless
General
1 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (7.14%) Military
2 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) IT Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) IT Support
4 1 (7.14%) Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Field Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) IT Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) IT Support Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Network Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Service Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Support Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
1 1 (7.14%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 10 (71.43%) Windows
2 7 (50.00%) VMS
2 7 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.14%) Android
3 1 (7.14%) Apple iOS
3 1 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (57.14%) ITIL
3 7 (50.00%) DevOps
3 7 (50.00%) ITSM
4 5 (35.71%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (14.29%) Business Continuity
5 2 (14.29%) Customer Service
6 1 (7.14%) Agile
6 1 (7.14%) Antivirus Management
6 1 (7.14%) Application Security
6 1 (7.14%) Collaborative Engineering
6 1 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (7.14%) Impact Assessments
6 1 (7.14%) Load Balancing
6 1 (7.14%) Migration
6 1 (7.14%) Network Design
6 1 (7.14%) Patch Management
6 1 (7.14%) Service Management
6 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (7.14%) Storage Management
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) DBS Check
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 8 (57.14%) WSUS
2 7 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (7.14%) FortiGate
3 1 (7.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (78.57%) Microsoft
1 11 (78.57%) VMware
2 2 (14.29%) Cisco
3 1 (7.14%) Apple
3 1 (7.14%) Meraki
3 1 (7.14%) Palo Alto
3 1 (7.14%) Wyse