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 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 11 32
Rank change year-on-year -25 +21 -18
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 95 128 88
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 4.26% 10.36% 4.97%
As % of the System Software category 49.48% 64.65% 67.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 61 52
10th Percentile £163 £170 £183
25th Percentile £188 £200 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £450 £295
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% +52.54% -4.84%
75th Percentile £488 £575 £494
90th Percentile £547 - £675
England median daily rate £450 £450 £450
% change year-on-year - - +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 17 23
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.00 £14.99 -
Median hourly rate £22.50 £15.33 £14.16
Median % change year-on-year +46.77% +8.26% -17.91%
75th Percentile £23.75 £21.21 £15.12
90th Percentile £63.75 £50.67 £15.63
England median hourly rate £26.66 £23.00 £17.80
% change year-on-year +15.91% +29.21% -8.72%

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 192 198 130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 8.61% 16.02% 7.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 90 70
10th Percentile £163 £177 £200
25th Percentile £240 £225 £226
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £356
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% +37.54% -20.83%
75th Percentile £537 £575 £560
90th Percentile £579 - £700
England median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 38 29
10th Percentile £19.00 £14.99 -
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.44 £14.16
Median hourly rate £62.50 £63.25 £14.80
Median % change year-on-year -1.19% +327.36% -77.23%
75th Percentile £71.00 £88.00 £17.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £91.50 £65.65
England median hourly rate £55.00 £34.50 £22.15
% change year-on-year +59.42% +55.76% -46.63%

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 20 July 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Active Directory in the East of England over the 6 months to 20 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Active Directory in the East of England

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 20 July 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
Norfolk +6 31 £175 +11.11% 1
Hertfordshire -25 28 £479 -12.95% 19
Essex -8 17 £338 +50.00% 8
Cambridgeshire -10 10 £478 +24.84% 10
Suffolk -16 5 £425 +129.73% 5
Bedfordshire -29 3 £525 +133.33% 5
East Anglia - 1 £470 - 10
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 12 (12.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (6.32%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.05%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.05%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 49 (51.58%) Microsoft 365
2 26 (27.37%) Azure
3 15 (15.79%) Entra ID
4 7 (7.37%) AWS
5 6 (6.32%) Cohesity
6 4 (4.21%) SaaS
7 2 (2.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.11%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.11%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.11%) AWS CloudTrail
7 2 (2.11%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.11%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.11%) Datadog
7 2 (2.11%) IaaS
7 2 (2.11%) Serverless
7 2 (2.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (1.05%) AWS KMS
8 1 (1.05%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 24 (25.26%) Firewall
2 23 (24.21%) DNS
3 16 (16.84%) WAN
4 13 (13.68%) LAN
5 11 (11.58%) VPN
6 9 (9.47%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (8.42%) DHCP
7 8 (8.42%) TCP/IP
8 6 (6.32%) Skype
9 3 (3.16%) 4G
9 3 (3.16%) IPsec
9 3 (3.16%) MPLS
9 3 (3.16%) NAS
9 3 (3.16%) Network Security
9 3 (3.16%) SSL
9 3 (3.16%) VLAN
9 3 (3.16%) Wireless
10 2 (2.11%) Cisco ISE
10 2 (2.11%) iSCSI
10 2 (2.11%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.05%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (7.37%) JIRA
2 6 (6.32%) Git
3 5 (5.26%) GitLab
3 5 (5.26%) Jenkins
General
1 51 (53.68%) Social Skills
2 10 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (9.47%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (7.37%) Manufacturing
5 4 (4.21%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.16%) Aerospace
7 2 (2.11%) Legal
7 2 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.05%) Advertising
8 1 (1.05%) Finance
8 1 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.05%) Retail
8 1 (1.05%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (42.11%) IT Support
2 30 (31.58%) IT Engineer
3 29 (30.53%) Support Engineer
4 28 (29.47%) IT Support Engineer
5 11 (11.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (10.53%) Analyst
7 8 (8.42%) Architect
8 6 (6.32%) Administrator
9 5 (5.26%) IT Analyst
9 5 (5.26%) Lead
10 4 (4.21%) 3rd Line Support
10 4 (4.21%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
10 4 (4.21%) 3rd Line Technical Support
10 4 (4.21%) IT Support Analyst
10 4 (4.21%) Network Engineer
10 4 (4.21%) Support Analyst
10 4 (4.21%) Technical Analyst
10 4 (4.21%) Technical Architect
10 4 (4.21%) Technical Support
10 4 (4.21%) Technical Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.26%) LDAP
2 4 (4.21%) Middleware
2 4 (4.21%) SailPoint
3 2 (2.11%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.05%) OAuth
4 1 (1.05%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.05%) OpenID
4 1 (1.05%) REST
4 1 (1.05%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.47%) Onboarding
2 8 (8.42%) Driving Licence
3 6 (6.32%) Smartcard
3 6 (6.32%) YubiKey
4 4 (4.21%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.21%) NHS
4 4 (4.21%) Operational Technology
4 4 (4.21%) Virtual Team
5 3 (3.16%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.16%) SCADA
6 2 (2.11%) Fat Client
6 2 (2.11%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (2.11%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.11%) Thin Client
7 1 (1.05%) Clustering
7 1 (1.05%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.05%) Life Science
7 1 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 71 (74.74%) Windows
2 30 (31.58%) Windows 10
3 28 (29.47%) Windows Server
4 7 (7.37%) Linux
5 5 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (4.21%) CentOS
7 3 (3.16%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (1.05%) Android
8 1 (1.05%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.05%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (1.05%) Mac OS
8 1 (1.05%) Mac OS X
8 1 (1.05%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (31.58%) ITIL
2 12 (12.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 10 (10.53%) Migration
3 10 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (8.42%) Proactive Monitoring
4 8 (8.42%) SIEM
5 6 (6.32%) Customer Service
5 6 (6.32%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (5.26%) Identity Access Management
6 5 (5.26%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (4.21%) Agile
7 4 (4.21%) Information Management
7 4 (4.21%) Infrastructure Monitoring
7 4 (4.21%) ITSM
7 4 (4.21%) RBAC
7 4 (4.21%) Service Delivery
7 4 (4.21%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (3.16%) Change Management
8 3 (3.16%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 3 (3.16%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (6.32%) PowerShell
2 4 (4.21%) MATLAB
2 4 (4.21%) Shell Script
3 3 (3.16%) Bash
4 2 (2.11%) Groovy
4 2 (2.11%) Python
5 1 (1.05%) SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (23.16%) Security Cleared
2 13 (13.68%) DV Cleared
3 12 (12.63%) SC Cleared
4 11 (11.58%) Degree
5 5 (5.26%) CCNA
5 5 (5.26%) CCNP
5 5 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.05%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.05%) CISM
7 1 (1.05%) CISSP
7 1 (1.05%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.47%) SLA
2 3 (3.16%) GDPR
2 3 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.05%) GxP
3 1 (1.05%) PMO
3 1 (1.05%) QA
System Software
1 10 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (6.32%) Hyper-V
3 3 (3.16%) vSphere
4 2 (2.11%) Squid
4 2 (2.11%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.05%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 24 (25.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (10.53%) Ansible
3 8 (8.42%) SCCM
4 7 (7.37%) WSUS
5 6 (6.32%) Nessus
5 6 (6.32%) Terraform
6 4 (4.21%) Check_MK
6 4 (4.21%) Podman
6 4 (4.21%) Red Hat Satellite
6 4 (4.21%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.05%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (1.05%) Packer
7 1 (1.05%) Puppet
7 1 (1.05%) SCOM
Vendors
1 63 (66.32%) Microsoft
2 13 (13.68%) VMware
3 8 (8.42%) Cisco
4 6 (6.32%) Tenable
5 5 (5.26%) Red Hat
6 3 (3.16%) Qualys
6 3 (3.16%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.11%) Citrix
7 2 (2.11%) Infoblox
7 2 (2.11%) Meraki
7 2 (2.11%) NetApp
7 2 (2.11%) PagerDuty
7 2 (2.11%) Rockwell
7 2 (2.11%) Trend Micro
8 1 (1.05%) Adobe
8 1 (1.05%) Apple
8 1 (1.05%) Google
8 1 (1.05%) HP
8 1 (1.05%) Sophos
8 1 (1.05%) Wyse