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 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 - 23
Rank change year-on-year - - -9
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 1 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cumbria 0.68% - 6.00%
As % of the System Software category 7.69% - 40.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £215
25th Percentile £413 - £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.50%
75th Percentile £438 - £550
90th Percentile - - £595
North West median daily rate £325 £425 £270
% change year-on-year -23.53% +57.41% -1.82%

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 13 23 15
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria 8.84% 8.78% 15.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 18 11
10th Percentile £416 £463 £413
25th Percentile £424 £508 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £515 £450
Median % change year-on-year -13.22% +14.47% +7.14%
75th Percentile £463 £662 -
90th Percentile £499 £670 £475
North West median daily rate £450 £503 £450
% change year-on-year -10.45% +11.67% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £84.67 -
North West median hourly rate £74.50 £31.00 £18.75
% change year-on-year +140.32% +65.33% +7.14%

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

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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
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) NetScaler
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Impact Assessments
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Network Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Meraki
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto