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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 22 22
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -12
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 95 85 131
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 6.06% 6.87% 7.32%
As % of the System Software category 48.22% 61.15% 47.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 39 94
10th Percentile £183 £175 £154
25th Percentile £200 £220 £252
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £350 £556
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% -37.08% +71.15%
75th Percentile £414 £531 £713
90th Percentile £538 £603 £805
England median daily rate £446 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +4.82% +6.25% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 13 17
10th Percentile £6.00 - £14.00
25th Percentile £12.86 £21.46 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £30.00 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% +106.90% -
75th Percentile £16.50 £64.50 £19.25
90th Percentile £18.32 £66.00 £26.69
England median hourly rate £23.00 £23.80 £19.06
% change year-on-year -3.36% +24.87% -1.70%

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 197 139 275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 12.57% 11.24% 15.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 54 165
10th Percentile £185 £182 £172
25th Percentile £213 £227 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £375 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -25.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £531 £675
90th Percentile £638 £609 £765
England median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 19 41
10th Percentile £12.79 - £14.25
25th Percentile £15.50 £21.46 £17.00
Median hourly rate £54.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -15.38% +282.35%
75th Percentile £73.75 £66.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £91.50 £75.00 £84.36
England median hourly rate £37.73 £43.08 £40.00
% change year-on-year -12.44% +7.71% +58.42%

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 6 December 2025.

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 6 December 2025.

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 6 December 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
Hertfordshire -19 23 £438 -14.63% 47
Norfolk -4 20 £225 -6.14% 10
Bedfordshire 0 18 £218 -33.08% 13
Suffolk +1 12 £220 - 15
Cambridgeshire -2 12 £363 -3.33% 28
Essex -4 10 £213 -28.57% 23
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 16 (16.84%) SharePoint
2 15 (15.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.11%) Apache
3 2 (2.11%) IIS
4 1 (1.05%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (1.05%) OpenStack
Applications
1 14 (14.74%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (3.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.05%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 44 (46.32%) Microsoft 365
2 24 (25.26%) Azure
3 14 (14.74%) Entra ID
4 8 (8.42%) OneDrive
5 3 (3.16%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (3.16%) Google Workspace
5 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (2.11%) AWS
6 2 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.11%) Mimecast
6 2 (2.11%) Nutanix
6 2 (2.11%) Serverless
7 1 (1.05%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.05%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.05%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (1.05%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.05%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.05%) IaaS
7 1 (1.05%) PaaS
7 1 (1.05%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 17 (17.89%) DNS
1 17 (17.89%) Firewall
1 17 (17.89%) TCP/IP
2 14 (14.74%) DHCP
3 13 (13.68%) LAN
3 13 (13.68%) WAN
4 12 (12.63%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (8.42%) SAN
5 8 (8.42%) VPN
5 8 (8.42%) Wireless
6 6 (6.32%) Cisco IOS
6 6 (6.32%) Structured Cabling
7 3 (3.16%) VLAN
8 2 (2.11%) iSCSI
8 2 (2.11%) NAS
9 1 (1.05%) Fibre Channel
9 1 (1.05%) Internet
9 1 (1.05%) Kerberos
9 1 (1.05%) RTP
9 1 (1.05%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 5 (5.26%) JIRA
2 4 (4.21%) GitLab
3 1 (1.05%) Git
3 1 (1.05%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.05%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (1.05%) TeamCity
General
1 36 (37.89%) Social Skills
2 14 (14.74%) Public Sector
3 6 (6.32%) Games
4 5 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.16%) Legal
5 3 (3.16%) Polish Language
5 3 (3.16%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.11%) Electronics
6 2 (2.11%) Finance
6 2 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.11%) Local Government
6 2 (2.11%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.11%) Marketing
6 2 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.05%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (30.53%) Analyst
2 23 (24.21%) Support Engineer
3 21 (22.11%) IT Support
4 17 (17.89%) Support Analyst
5 15 (15.79%) Technical Analyst
6 14 (14.74%) IT Engineer
7 13 (13.68%) IT Support Engineer
8 11 (11.58%) Technical Support
8 11 (11.58%) Technical Support Analyst
9 10 (10.53%) Desktop Engineer
9 10 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (10.53%) IT Analyst
9 10 (10.53%) Senior
10 9 (9.47%) Asset Management Analyst
10 9 (9.47%) Desktop Support
10 9 (9.47%) Desktop Support Engineer
10 9 (9.47%) Service Analyst
10 9 (9.47%) Service Desk Analyst
11 7 (7.37%) 2nd Line Support
11 7 (7.37%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.11%) LDAP
1 2 (2.11%) REST
2 1 (1.05%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (1.05%) RESTful
2 1 (1.05%) Software Packaging
2 1 (1.05%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.74%) Driving Licence
2 11 (11.58%) NHS
3 10 (10.53%) CMDB
4 6 (6.32%) Management Information System
5 5 (5.26%) Onboarding
5 5 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (4.21%) iPad
6 4 (4.21%) iPhone
6 4 (4.21%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (3.16%) Operational Technology
7 3 (3.16%) PKI
7 3 (3.16%) Smartphone
8 2 (2.11%) Data Centre
8 2 (2.11%) Video Conferencing
9 1 (1.05%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (1.05%) Replication
9 1 (1.05%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 79 (83.16%) Windows
2 28 (29.47%) Windows Server
3 27 (28.42%) Windows 10
4 14 (14.74%) Apple iOS
5 11 (11.58%) Android
5 11 (11.58%) Linux
6 9 (9.47%) Mac OS
7 5 (5.26%) CentOS
7 5 (5.26%) Windows Server 2003
7 5 (5.26%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (3.16%) Oracle Linux
8 3 (3.16%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (2.11%) Mac OS X
9 2 (2.11%) Ubuntu
9 2 (2.11%) VMS
9 2 (2.11%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (27.37%) Customer Service
1 26 (27.37%) ITIL
2 23 (24.21%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (14.74%) ITSM
4 12 (12.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 10 (10.53%) Asset Management
5 10 (10.53%) Identity Access Management
6 8 (8.42%) Agile
6 8 (8.42%) Antivirus Management
6 8 (8.42%) Network Management
6 8 (8.42%) Service Management
7 7 (7.37%) Service Delivery
8 6 (6.32%) E-Commerce
8 6 (6.32%) Network Monitoring
8 6 (6.32%) Time Management
8 6 (6.32%) Zero Trust
9 5 (5.26%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (5.26%) DevOps
9 5 (5.26%) Process Improvement
9 5 (5.26%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 23 (24.21%) PowerShell
2 5 (5.26%) Python
3 3 (3.16%) Shell Script
3 3 (3.16%) SQL
4 1 (1.05%) Bash
4 1 (1.05%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 24 (25.26%) Security Cleared
2 18 (18.95%) SC Cleared
3 14 (14.74%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (10.53%) Degree
5 8 (8.42%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (6.32%) A+ Certification
6 6 (6.32%) ECDL
7 5 (5.26%) DV Cleared
8 4 (4.21%) HNC
8 4 (4.21%) HND
8 4 (4.21%) MCP
8 4 (4.21%) MCSE
9 3 (3.16%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (3.16%) MCSA
10 2 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (2.11%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (1.05%) BC Cleared
11 1 (1.05%) CEH
11 1 (1.05%) CISSP
11 1 (1.05%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (4.21%) NIST
1 4 (4.21%) SLA
2 3 (3.16%) GDPR
2 3 (3.16%) GxP
2 3 (3.16%) HIPAA
3 2 (2.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (12.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (7.37%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.11%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.05%) Docker
4 1 (1.05%) Firmware
4 1 (1.05%) Sendmail
4 1 (1.05%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 29 (30.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (20.00%) SCCM
3 4 (4.21%) Ansible
3 4 (4.21%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (4.21%) Terraform
4 3 (3.16%) PingFederate
5 2 (2.11%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.05%) HAProxy
6 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 1 (1.05%) Nagios
6 1 (1.05%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.05%) Puppet
6 1 (1.05%) SCOM
Vendors
1 55 (57.89%) Microsoft
2 14 (14.74%) VMware
3 11 (11.58%) Cisco
3 11 (11.58%) ServiceNow
4 8 (8.42%) Citrix
5 6 (6.32%) Meraki
5 6 (6.32%) Splunk
6 5 (5.26%) Dell
7 4 (4.21%) McAfee
7 4 (4.21%) Palo Alto
7 4 (4.21%) Starlink
8 3 (3.16%) Google
8 3 (3.16%) HP
8 3 (3.16%) LabWare
8 3 (3.16%) Oracle
8 3 (3.16%) Veeam
9 2 (2.11%) Barracuda Networks
9 2 (2.11%) Intel
9 2 (2.11%) SAP
9 2 (2.11%) SolarWinds