Active Directory Contracts in Derbyshire

Microsoft Active Directory
East Midlands > Derbyshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Derbyshire 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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 13 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 -5 -2
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 6 14 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Derbyshire 5.22% 8.09% 11.39%
As % of the System Software category 35.29% 87.50% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 13 14
10th Percentile £139 - £115
25th Percentile £147 £160 £118
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £160 £350 £206
Median % change year-on-year -54.29% +69.70% +14.58%
75th Percentile £180 £388 £344
90th Percentile £192 £468 £551
East Midlands median daily rate £371 £359 £223
% change year-on-year +3.27% +61.10% +12.91%

All System Software Skills
Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 17 16 36
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derbyshire 14.78% 9.25% 22.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 14 23
10th Percentile £160 £160 £115
25th Percentile £238 £168 £152
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £350 £300
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% +16.67% +66.67%
75th Percentile £600 £388 £388
90th Percentile £700 £464 £506
East Midlands median daily rate £415 £375 £350
% change year-on-year +10.67% +7.14% +40.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £55.00
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +258.21%
75th Percentile - - £65.00
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £15.09 £24.20 £20.50
% change year-on-year -37.64% +18.05% +10.81%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Derbyshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Derbyshire

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Derbyshire

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in Derbyshire

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Derbyshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in Derbyshire

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire region over the 6 months to 2 August 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
Chesterfield +2 3 £134 -71.79% 4
Derby -8 2 £160 -48.80% 6
Bakewell - 1 £200 -
Active Directory
East Midlands

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Derbyshire 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:

Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) PuTTY
1 3 (50.00%) SSH
1 3 (50.00%) Telnet
2 1 (16.67%) SMTP
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Break Fix Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Deployment Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Hardware Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) IT Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) IT Support
2 1 (16.67%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Support
2 1 (16.67%) Network Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) Linux
2 4 (66.67%) Windows 10
3 3 (50.00%) Windows 7
3 3 (50.00%) Windows 8
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Break/Fix
2 2 (33.33%) Customer Experience
2 2 (33.33%) Line Management
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Data Management
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) BitLocker
1 3 (50.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco
2 3 (50.00%) Dell
2 3 (50.00%) Draytek
2 3 (50.00%) McAfee