Active Directory Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Active Directory
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Active Directory skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 10 28
Rank change year-on-year -22 +18 -13
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 92 116 101
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 4.15% 11.90% 5.36%
As % of the System Software category 50.00% 71.60% 67.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 59 59
10th Percentile £163 £178 £165
25th Percentile £189 £228 £197
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £500 £250
Median % change year-on-year -22.50% +100.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £488 £575 £550
90th Percentile £518 - £683
England median daily rate £450 £450 £425
% change year-on-year - +5.88% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 19 33
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.00 £14.99 £14.00
Median hourly rate £22.41 £15.14 £14.16
Median % change year-on-year +48.00% +6.92% -16.71%
75th Percentile £23.75 £46.22 £15.12
90th Percentile - £64.80 £16.75
England median hourly rate £26.22 £19.97 £17.50
% change year-on-year +31.30% +14.11% -10.26%

All System Software Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 184 162 149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 8.30% 16.62% 7.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 84 84
10th Percentile £167 £179 £175
25th Percentile £233 £353 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £363
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +37.93% -19.44%
75th Percentile £515 £575 £556
90th Percentile £585 £593 £693
England median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 27 39
10th Percentile £19.00 - £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £14.99 £14.08
Median hourly rate £34.13 £27.94 £14.16
Median % change year-on-year +22.15% +97.32% -42.49%
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.00 £16.38
90th Percentile £71.00 £92.50 £80.25
England median hourly rate £52.50 £31.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +66.67% +50.00% -58.00%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Active Directory job vacancy trend in the East of England

Active Directory
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Active Directory.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Active Directory

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in the East of England over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in the East of England

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Active Directory.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Active Directory

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 21 May 2026. 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
Hertfordshire -31 32 £470 -14.55% 17
Norfolk +3 31 £200 +26.98% 7
Essex -9 12 £338 +37.76% 12
Cambridgeshire -15 9 £475 +1.82% 7
Suffolk -17 6 £325 +75.68% 8
Bedfordshire -19 1 £525 +10.53% 4
East Anglia - 1 £470 - 5
Active Directory
England

Active Directory
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 9 (9.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (7.61%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.09%) Apache
3 1 (1.09%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.09%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 45 (48.91%) Microsoft 365
2 19 (20.65%) Azure
3 11 (11.96%) Entra ID
4 6 (6.52%) Cohesity
5 4 (4.35%) AWS
6 2 (2.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.17%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (2.17%) AWS CloudTrail
6 2 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.17%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (2.17%) Datadog
6 2 (2.17%) Route 53
6 2 (2.17%) Serverless
6 2 (2.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.09%) IaaS
7 1 (1.09%) Mimecast
7 1 (1.09%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 23 (25.00%) DNS
2 19 (20.65%) Firewall
2 19 (20.65%) WAN
3 15 (16.30%) LAN
4 14 (15.22%) VPN
5 7 (7.61%) TCP/IP
5 7 (7.61%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (6.52%) DHCP
6 6 (6.52%) Skype
7 3 (3.26%) 4G
7 3 (3.26%) IPsec
7 3 (3.26%) MPLS
7 3 (3.26%) SAN
7 3 (3.26%) SSL
7 3 (3.26%) VLAN
8 2 (2.17%) iSCSI
8 2 (2.17%) NAS
9 1 (1.09%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (14.13%) Git
2 12 (13.04%) GitLab
2 12 (13.04%) Jenkins
3 7 (7.61%) JIRA
General
1 43 (46.74%) Social Skills
2 16 (17.39%) Documentation Skills
3 10 (10.87%) Manufacturing
4 9 (9.78%) Aerospace
4 9 (9.78%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.52%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.17%) Finance
6 2 (2.17%) Legal
6 2 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (42.39%) IT Support
2 28 (30.43%) IT Engineer
3 27 (29.35%) Support Engineer
4 25 (27.17%) IT Support Engineer
5 13 (14.13%) Administrator
6 12 (13.04%) Analyst
7 11 (11.96%) Linux Administrator
8 10 (10.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (6.52%) IT Analyst
9 6 (6.52%) IT Support Analyst
9 6 (6.52%) Support Analyst
10 5 (5.43%) 3rd Line Support
10 5 (5.43%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
10 5 (5.43%) 3rd Line Technical Support
10 5 (5.43%) Architect
10 5 (5.43%) Technical Analyst
10 5 (5.43%) Technical Support
10 5 (5.43%) Technical Support Analyst
11 4 (4.35%) Network Architect
12 3 (3.26%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (13.04%) LDAP
2 11 (11.96%) Middleware
3 1 (1.09%) OAuth
3 1 (1.09%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.09%) OpenID
3 1 (1.09%) REST
3 1 (1.09%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.96%) Data Centre
2 9 (9.78%) Management Information System
3 8 (8.70%) Onboarding
4 7 (7.61%) Driving Licence
5 6 (6.52%) Smartcard
5 6 (6.52%) YubiKey
6 5 (5.43%) NHS
7 4 (4.35%) Operational Technology
8 3 (3.26%) SCADA
9 2 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (2.17%) Fat Client
9 2 (2.17%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (2.17%) Security Posture
9 2 (2.17%) Thin Client
9 2 (2.17%) Video Conferencing
10 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Storage
10 1 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (1.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 67 (72.83%) Windows
2 29 (31.52%) Windows 10
3 27 (29.35%) Windows Server
4 13 (14.13%) Linux
5 12 (13.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (11.96%) CentOS
7 4 (4.35%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (3.26%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (1.09%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (1.09%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (28.26%) ITIL
2 12 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 11 (11.96%) Information Management
3 11 (11.96%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 9 (9.78%) Customer Service
5 7 (7.61%) ITSM
5 7 (7.61%) Proactive Monitoring
5 7 (7.61%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (6.52%) SIEM
7 5 (5.43%) Migration
8 4 (4.35%) Agile
8 4 (4.35%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (4.35%) Service Delivery
9 3 (3.26%) User Experience
9 3 (3.26%) Vulnerability Scanning
9 3 (3.26%) Zero Trust
10 2 (2.17%) Architectural Patterns
10 2 (2.17%) CI/CD
10 2 (2.17%) Observability
10 2 (2.17%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (11.96%) MATLAB
1 11 (11.96%) Shell Script
2 6 (6.52%) PowerShell
3 3 (3.26%) Bash
4 2 (2.17%) Groovy
4 2 (2.17%) Python
5 1 (1.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 19 (20.65%) SC Cleared
3 14 (15.22%) Degree
4 9 (9.78%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.26%) CCNA
5 3 (3.26%) CCNP
5 3 (3.26%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.17%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (2.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.09%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (17.39%) SLA
2 1 (1.09%) GxP
2 1 (1.09%) PMO
2 1 (1.09%) QA
System Software
1 9 (9.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (8.70%) Hyper-V
3 3 (3.26%) vSphere
4 2 (2.17%) Squid
4 2 (2.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 18 (19.57%) Ansible
2 17 (18.48%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (11.96%) Check_MK
3 11 (11.96%) Podman
3 11 (11.96%) Red Hat Satellite
4 8 (8.70%) SCCM
5 7 (7.61%) WSUS
6 6 (6.52%) Nessus
7 5 (5.43%) Terraform
8 4 (4.35%) vCenter Server
9 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 1 (1.09%) Packer
9 1 (1.09%) Puppet
Vendors
1 55 (59.78%) Microsoft
2 19 (20.65%) VMware
3 12 (13.04%) Red Hat
4 6 (6.52%) Cisco
4 6 (6.52%) Tenable
5 5 (5.43%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.26%) Qualys
7 2 (2.17%) Infoblox
7 2 (2.17%) NetApp
7 2 (2.17%) PagerDuty
7 2 (2.17%) Rockwell
7 2 (2.17%) Trend Micro
8 1 (1.09%) Citrix
8 1 (1.09%) Dell
8 1 (1.09%) Google
8 1 (1.09%) HP
8 1 (1.09%) McAfee
8 1 (1.09%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.09%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.09%) Veeam