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 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 14 28
Rank change year-on-year -21 +14 -15
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 94 98 109
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 4.26% 10.38% 5.71%
As % of the System Software category 47.72% 67.12% 66.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 41 63
10th Percentile £186 £170 £167
25th Percentile £191 £181 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £375 £265
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +41.51% -24.29%
75th Percentile £492 £525 £550
90th Percentile £540 £600 £723
England median daily rate £450 £450 £411
% change year-on-year - +9.49% -3.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 23 34
10th Percentile £16.89 - -
25th Percentile £19.00 £14.99 £14.00
Median hourly rate £21.66 £15.44 £14.16
Median % change year-on-year +40.27% +9.04% -8.65%
75th Percentile £23.75 £24.70 £15.12
90th Percentile - £64.50 £19.00
England median hourly rate £27.00 £21.46 £17.69
% change year-on-year +25.82% +21.31% -6.89%

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 197 146 163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 8.92% 15.47% 8.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 66 88
10th Percentile £188 £178 £175
25th Percentile £240 £243 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £470 £425
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% +10.59% -1.16%
75th Percentile £535 £570 £556
90th Percentile £600 £613 £713
England median daily rate £500 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.69% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 31 39
10th Percentile £19.00 - -
25th Percentile £19.95 £14.99 £14.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £21.46 £14.16
Median % change year-on-year +4.85% +51.55% -42.49%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £18.00
90th Percentile - £88.00 £81.75
England median hourly rate £58.88 £27.97 £21.00
% change year-on-year +110.52% +33.19% -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 30 April 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 30 April 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 30 April 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 -15 35 £475 -9.52% 16
Norfolk -3 28 £203 +28.57% 3
Essex -6 13 £289 +17.86% 8
Cambridgeshire -13 8 £363 -5.23% 8
Suffolk -13 7 £225 +21.62% 7
Bedfordshire -19 2 £373 -0.67% 5
East Anglia - 1 £470 - 6
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 10 (10.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (8.51%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.19%) Apache
3 3 (3.19%) IIS
4 1 (1.06%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.13%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 45 (47.87%) Microsoft 365
2 21 (22.34%) Azure
3 13 (13.83%) Entra ID
4 5 (5.32%) Cohesity
5 3 (3.19%) AWS
5 3 (3.19%) Mimecast
5 3 (3.19%) Nutanix
6 2 (2.13%) Google Workspace
6 2 (2.13%) OneDrive
6 2 (2.13%) Route 53
7 1 (1.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.06%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.06%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.06%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.06%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (1.06%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.06%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.06%) Datadog
7 1 (1.06%) IaaS
7 1 (1.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 25 (26.60%) DNS
2 20 (21.28%) Firewall
3 18 (19.15%) WAN
4 15 (15.96%) LAN
5 14 (14.89%) VPN
6 10 (10.64%) Wi-Fi
7 9 (9.57%) DHCP
8 8 (8.51%) TCP/IP
9 5 (5.32%) SAN
9 5 (5.32%) Skype
10 3 (3.19%) 4G
10 3 (3.19%) IPsec
10 3 (3.19%) MPLS
10 3 (3.19%) VLAN
11 2 (2.13%) iSCSI
11 2 (2.13%) NAS
11 2 (2.13%) SSL
12 1 (1.06%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.06%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (10.64%) Git
1 10 (10.64%) GitLab
2 9 (9.57%) Jenkins
3 6 (6.38%) JIRA
General
1 40 (42.55%) Social Skills
2 15 (15.96%) Documentation Skills
3 9 (9.57%) Aerospace
3 9 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.51%) Manufacturing
4 8 (8.51%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.19%) Legal
6 2 (2.13%) Finance
6 2 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.06%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (39.36%) IT Support
2 25 (26.60%) IT Engineer
2 25 (26.60%) Support Engineer
3 22 (23.40%) IT Support Engineer
4 14 (14.89%) Analyst
4 14 (14.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 11 (11.70%) Administrator
6 9 (9.57%) Linux Administrator
7 7 (7.45%) IT Analyst
7 7 (7.45%) IT Support Analyst
7 7 (7.45%) Support Analyst
8 6 (6.38%) Senior
9 5 (5.32%) 3rd Line Support
9 5 (5.32%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
9 5 (5.32%) 3rd Line Technical Support
9 5 (5.32%) Architect
9 5 (5.32%) Technical Analyst
9 5 (5.32%) Technical Support
9 5 (5.32%) Technical Support Analyst
10 4 (4.26%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.64%) LDAP
2 9 (9.57%) Middleware
3 1 (1.06%) OAuth
3 1 (1.06%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.06%) OpenID
3 1 (1.06%) REST
3 1 (1.06%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.57%) Data Centre
1 9 (9.57%) Onboarding
2 8 (8.51%) Driving Licence
2 8 (8.51%) Management Information System
3 6 (6.38%) NHS
4 5 (5.32%) Smartcard
4 5 (5.32%) YubiKey
5 4 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (4.26%) Operational Technology
6 3 (3.19%) SCADA
6 3 (3.19%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.13%) Fat Client
7 2 (2.13%) PKI
7 2 (2.13%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (2.13%) Thin Client
7 2 (2.13%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (1.06%) Clustering
8 1 (1.06%) CMDB
8 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (1.06%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 72 (76.60%) Windows
2 32 (34.04%) Windows Server
3 26 (27.66%) Windows 10
4 10 (10.64%) Linux
5 9 (9.57%) CentOS
5 9 (9.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (5.32%) Apple iOS
6 5 (5.32%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (4.26%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (2.13%) Android
8 2 (2.13%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (1.06%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (1.06%) Mac OS
9 1 (1.06%) Mac OS X
9 1 (1.06%) VMS
9 1 (1.06%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (25.53%) ITIL
2 18 (19.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 13 (13.83%) Customer Service
4 9 (9.57%) Information Management
4 9 (9.57%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 9 (9.57%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (8.51%) ITSM
6 7 (7.45%) Proactive Monitoring
7 5 (5.32%) Agile
7 5 (5.32%) Migration
7 5 (5.32%) SIEM
8 4 (4.26%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (4.26%) Server Building
8 4 (4.26%) Service Delivery
8 4 (4.26%) Zero Trust
9 3 (3.19%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (3.19%) Disaster Recovery
9 3 (3.19%) PRINCE2
9 3 (3.19%) Software Deployment
9 3 (3.19%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 9 (9.57%) MATLAB
1 9 (9.57%) PowerShell
1 9 (9.57%) Shell Script
2 1 (1.06%) Bash
2 1 (1.06%) Groovy
2 1 (1.06%) Python
2 1 (1.06%) SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (25.53%) Security Cleared
2 18 (19.15%) SC Cleared
3 14 (14.89%) Degree
4 11 (11.70%) DV Cleared
5 5 (5.32%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (3.19%) CCNA
6 3 (3.19%) CCNP
6 3 (3.19%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (2.13%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.13%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (2.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (2.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (1.06%) HNC
8 1 (1.06%) HND
8 1 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.06%) MCSE
8 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (15.96%) SLA
2 1 (1.06%) GxP
2 1 (1.06%) PMO
2 1 (1.06%) QA
System Software
1 13 (13.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (10.64%) Hyper-V
3 3 (3.19%) vSphere
4 2 (2.13%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.06%) Sendmail
5 1 (1.06%) Squid
Systems Management
1 15 (15.96%) Ansible
2 14 (14.89%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (14.89%) SCCM
3 9 (9.57%) Check_MK
3 9 (9.57%) Podman
3 9 (9.57%) Red Hat Satellite
4 6 (6.38%) WSUS
5 5 (5.32%) Nessus
6 4 (4.26%) vCenter Server
7 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 2 (2.13%) Terraform
8 1 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 55 (58.51%) Microsoft
2 21 (22.34%) VMware
3 9 (9.57%) Red Hat
4 8 (8.51%) Cisco
5 5 (5.32%) Tenable
6 3 (3.19%) Palo Alto
6 3 (3.19%) Qualys
6 3 (3.19%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.19%) SolarWinds
7 2 (2.13%) Google
7 2 (2.13%) HP
7 2 (2.13%) NetApp
7 2 (2.13%) Rockwell
7 2 (2.13%) Veeam
8 1 (1.06%) Apple
8 1 (1.06%) Citrix
8 1 (1.06%) Dell
8 1 (1.06%) McAfee
8 1 (1.06%) Progress
8 1 (1.06%) Wyse