Active Directory Contracts in the East Midlands

Microsoft Active Directory
England > East Midlands

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

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 20 14
Rank change year-on-year -9 -6 -5
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 24 55 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 4.45% 7.08% 9.15%
As % of the System Software category 46.15% 63.95% 56.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 42 69
10th Percentile £185 £145 £116
25th Percentile £190 £160 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £233 £250
Median % change year-on-year +98.92% -7.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £533 £373 £434
90th Percentile £537 £562 £550
England median daily rate £450 £414 £425
% change year-on-year +8.76% -2.65% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 14
10th Percentile - - £11.69
25th Percentile - £45.22 £14.70
Median hourly rate £15.09 £48.56 £17.61
Median % change year-on-year -68.93% +175.75% +5.13%
75th Percentile - £51.91 £26.48
90th Percentile - - £40.25
England median hourly rate £21.46 £17.69 £19.50
% change year-on-year +21.31% -9.28% +11.43%

All System Software Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 52 86 168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 9.65% 11.07% 16.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 61 128
10th Percentile £189 £145 £144
25th Percentile £250 £185 £223
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £338 £375
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -10.00% +50.00%
75th Percentile £537 £498 £579
90th Percentile £550 £577 £693
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 18
10th Percentile - - £12.27
25th Percentile - £45.22 £15.25
Median hourly rate £15.09 £48.56 £23.24
Median % change year-on-year -68.93% +108.95% +25.62%
75th Percentile - £51.91 £40.25
90th Percentile - - £65.00
England median hourly rate £27.97 £21.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +30.09% -57.00% +163.16%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Active Directory as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in the East Midlands

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in the East Midlands

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in the East Midlands

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in the East Midlands

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 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
Nottinghamshire +13 10 £190 -9.52% 19
Leicestershire -2 6 £530 +22.96% 12
Northamptonshire -4 6 £488 +36.94% 9
Lincolnshire 0 2 £180 -48.57% 13
Active Directory
England

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (8.33%) JBoss
3 1 (4.17%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (25.00%) Azure
2 5 (20.83%) Entra ID
2 5 (20.83%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (12.50%) AWS
3 3 (12.50%) OneDrive
4 2 (8.33%) OpenShift
5 1 (4.17%) Azure AKS
5 1 (4.17%) Azure API Management
5 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (4.17%) IaaS
5 1 (4.17%) PaaS
5 1 (4.17%) SaaS
5 1 (4.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.83%) LAN
2 4 (16.67%) Cisco ISE
3 3 (12.50%) VLAN
4 2 (8.33%) WAN
5 1 (4.17%) DHCP
5 1 (4.17%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (4.17%) RDBMS
2 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Bitbucket Server
1 2 (8.33%) CA Release Automation
1 2 (8.33%) Git
1 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (8.33%) JIRA
1 2 (8.33%) SonarQube
1 2 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
1 2 (8.33%) TeamCity
2 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket
General
1 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Law
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Analyst
1 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) IT Support
2 4 (16.67%) Service Analyst
2 4 (16.67%) Service Desk Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Consultant
3 3 (12.50%) Field Support Technician
3 3 (12.50%) IT Support Technician
3 3 (12.50%) IT Technician
3 3 (12.50%) Support Technician
4 2 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Desktop Support
4 2 (8.33%) IT Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Windows Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) 1st/2nd Line Desktop Support
5 1 (4.17%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
5 1 (4.17%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Build Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (8.33%) Spring Boot
2 1 (4.17%) OAuth
2 1 (4.17%) OpenID
2 1 (4.17%) SAML
2 1 (4.17%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Security Posture
1 3 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.17%) iPhone
3 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.17%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 15 (62.50%) Windows
2 5 (20.83%) Windows Server
2 5 (20.83%) Windows Server 2012
3 4 (16.67%) Windows 10
4 2 (8.33%) Linux
4 2 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (4.17%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 7 (29.17%) Migration
3 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (12.50%) Compliance Management
4 3 (12.50%) DevOps
4 3 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (12.50%) ITIL
4 3 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (8.33%) Build Automation
5 2 (8.33%) CI/CD
5 2 (8.33%) Code Quality
5 2 (8.33%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (8.33%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (8.33%) Microservices
5 2 (8.33%) Non-Functional Testing
6 1 (4.17%) API Management
6 1 (4.17%) Design Patterns
6 1 (4.17%) Knowledge Transfer
6 1 (4.17%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.50%) Python
2 2 (8.33%) Perl
2 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.17%) Bash
3 1 (4.17%) C#
3 1 (4.17%) Java
3 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (29.17%) SC Cleared
1 7 (29.17%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.50%) CCENT
2 3 (12.50%) CCNA
2 3 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (12.50%) Network+ Certification
3 2 (8.33%) Degree
4 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 8 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (20.83%) Hyper-V
3 2 (8.33%) Docker
4 1 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (4.17%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (4.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (37.50%) SCCM
2 8 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (12.50%) AirWatch
3 3 (12.50%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (8.33%) Kibana
4 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
4 2 (8.33%) Progress Chef
4 2 (8.33%) SCOM
Vendors
1 13 (54.17%) Microsoft
2 8 (33.33%) VMware
3 5 (20.83%) Cisco
4 2 (8.33%) AppDynamics
4 2 (8.33%) Red Hat
4 2 (8.33%) Splunk
5 1 (4.17%) Citrix
5 1 (4.17%) Ivanti
5 1 (4.17%) Workday