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 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 27 19
Rank change year-on-year +5 -8 -8
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 104 73 144
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 6.88% 5.73% 7.83%
As % of the System Software category 52.53% 55.30% 48.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 32 109
10th Percentile £185 £180 £157
25th Percentile £202 £220 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £333 £525
Median % change year-on-year -32.33% -36.67% +75.00%
75th Percentile £440 £497 £713
90th Percentile £575 £598 £830
England median daily rate £445 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +4.71% +6.25% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 9 12
10th Percentile £6.00 - -
25th Percentile £12.92 - £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £21.46 £15.25
Median % change year-on-year -25.44% +40.72% +5.17%
75th Percentile £16.50 £53.00 £24.36
90th Percentile £21.59 £66.00 £30.60
England median hourly rate £23.00 £23.80 £19.50
% change year-on-year -3.36% +22.05% +3.50%

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 198 132 298
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 13.10% 10.37% 16.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 50 185
10th Percentile £185 £185 £170
25th Percentile £213 £227 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £369 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.86% -26.25% +11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £531 £675
90th Percentile £628 £619 £775
England median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 17 37
10th Percentile £12.82 - £14.25
25th Percentile £15.50 £21.46 £24.73
Median hourly rate £54.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -15.38% +302.91%
75th Percentile £78.13 £66.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £91.50 £75.00 £84.36
England median hourly rate £32.32 £50.00 £43.84
% change year-on-year -35.37% +14.06% +75.34%

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 19 November 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 19 November 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 19 November 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
Bedfordshire 0 24 £220 -32.31% 3
Hertfordshire -17 24 £444 -11.25% 40
Norfolk -4 21 £225 -6.14% 4
Cambridgeshire -1 13 £404 +29.20% 19
Suffolk +6 12 £220 - 4
Essex -1 10 £213 -39.29% 20
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 21 (20.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (16.35%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.88%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.92%) Apache
4 2 (1.92%) IIS
5 1 (0.96%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 14 (13.46%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.96%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 48 (46.15%) Microsoft 365
2 27 (25.96%) Azure
3 16 (15.38%) Entra ID
4 10 (9.62%) OneDrive
5 5 (4.81%) Azure Sentinel
5 5 (4.81%) Microsoft Purview
6 4 (3.85%) AWS
7 3 (2.88%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.92%) Cohesity
8 2 (1.92%) Google Workspace
8 2 (1.92%) Mimecast
8 2 (1.92%) Nutanix
8 2 (1.92%) Serverless
9 1 (0.96%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.96%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (0.96%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.96%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.96%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.96%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 21 (20.19%) DNS
2 19 (18.27%) Firewall
3 17 (16.35%) TCP/IP
4 14 (13.46%) DHCP
5 12 (11.54%) LAN
5 12 (11.54%) WAN
5 12 (11.54%) Wi-Fi
6 11 (10.58%) SAN
7 8 (7.69%) Cisco IOS
7 8 (7.69%) Wireless
8 6 (5.77%) Structured Cabling
8 6 (5.77%) VPN
9 4 (3.85%) iSCSI
10 3 (2.88%) VLAN
11 2 (1.92%) NAS
12 1 (0.96%) Fibre Channel
12 1 (0.96%) Internet
12 1 (0.96%) RTP
12 1 (0.96%) Skype
12 1 (0.96%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.92%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 7 (6.73%) JIRA
2 6 (5.77%) GitLab
3 3 (2.88%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.96%) Git
4 1 (0.96%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.96%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 42 (40.38%) Social Skills
2 13 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 8 (7.69%) Games
4 5 (4.81%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.85%) Legal
6 3 (2.88%) Finance
6 3 (2.88%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.88%) Polish Language
6 3 (2.88%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.92%) Electronics
7 2 (1.92%) Local Government
7 2 (1.92%) Marketing
8 1 (0.96%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.96%) French Language
8 1 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 29 (27.88%) Analyst
2 21 (20.19%) Support Engineer
3 18 (17.31%) IT Support
4 16 (15.38%) Support Analyst
5 15 (14.42%) Technical Analyst
6 12 (11.54%) IT Engineer
7 11 (10.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (10.58%) IT Support Engineer
7 11 (10.58%) Technical Support
7 11 (10.58%) Technical Support Analyst
8 10 (9.62%) Senior
8 10 (9.62%) Service Analyst
8 10 (9.62%) Service Desk Analyst
9 9 (8.65%) Asset Management Analyst
9 9 (8.65%) Desktop Engineer
9 9 (8.65%) IT Analyst
9 9 (8.65%) Platform Engineer
10 8 (7.69%) Desktop Support
10 8 (7.69%) Desktop Support Engineer
11 7 (6.73%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.92%) LDAP
1 2 (1.92%) REST
2 1 (0.96%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (0.96%) FIDO
2 1 (0.96%) J2EE
2 1 (0.96%) RESTful
2 1 (0.96%) Software Packaging
2 1 (0.96%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.46%) Driving Licence
2 11 (10.58%) NHS
3 10 (9.62%) CMDB
4 6 (5.77%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (5.77%) Management Information System
5 5 (4.81%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (3.85%) Data Centre
6 4 (3.85%) iPad
6 4 (3.85%) iPhone
6 4 (3.85%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.85%) Operational Technology
7 3 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.88%) Enterprise Storage
7 3 (2.88%) PKI
7 3 (2.88%) Smartphone
8 1 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.96%) LIMS
8 1 (0.96%) Replication
8 1 (0.96%) Smartcard
8 1 (0.96%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 84 (80.77%) Windows
2 29 (27.88%) Windows Server
3 24 (23.08%) Windows 10
4 13 (12.50%) Android
4 13 (12.50%) Apple iOS
4 13 (12.50%) Linux
5 10 (9.62%) Mac OS
6 7 (6.73%) CentOS
7 5 (4.81%) Windows Server 2003
7 5 (4.81%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (3.85%) Ubuntu
9 3 (2.88%) Oracle Linux
9 3 (2.88%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (2.88%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (1.92%) VMS
10 2 (1.92%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.96%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (25.00%) Customer Service
1 26 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (24.04%) ITIL
3 15 (14.42%) ITSM
4 13 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
5 12 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 10 (9.62%) Asset Management
7 8 (7.69%) Agile
7 8 (7.69%) E-Commerce
7 8 (7.69%) Network Management
7 8 (7.69%) Service Management
7 8 (7.69%) Zero Trust
8 7 (6.73%) Antivirus Management
8 7 (6.73%) Containerisation
8 7 (6.73%) Identity Management
8 7 (6.73%) Service Delivery
9 6 (5.77%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (5.77%) Disaster Recovery
9 6 (5.77%) Performance Optimisation
9 6 (5.77%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 30 (28.85%) PowerShell
2 7 (6.73%) Python
3 5 (4.81%) Shell Script
4 4 (3.85%) SQL
5 1 (0.96%) Bash
5 1 (0.96%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 24 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 17 (16.35%) SC Cleared
3 15 (14.42%) Microsoft Certification
4 14 (13.46%) Degree
5 8 (7.69%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (5.77%) A+ Certification
6 6 (5.77%) DV Cleared
6 6 (5.77%) ECDL
7 4 (3.85%) HNC
7 4 (3.85%) HND
7 4 (3.85%) MCP
7 4 (3.85%) MCSE
8 3 (2.88%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.88%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.88%) MCSA
8 3 (2.88%) VCAP
9 2 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.92%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.96%) BC Cleared
10 1 (0.96%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (6.73%) NIST
2 6 (5.77%) GDPR
2 6 (5.77%) HIPAA
3 5 (4.81%) GxP
4 4 (3.85%) PCI DSS
5 3 (2.88%) SLA
6 1 (0.96%) GMP
System Software
1 15 (14.42%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (9.62%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.88%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.92%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.96%) Docker
5 1 (0.96%) Firmware
5 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (0.96%) Sendmail
5 1 (0.96%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 30 (28.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (20.19%) SCCM
3 7 (6.73%) Ansible
4 6 (5.77%) Terraform
5 4 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (2.88%) PingFederate
7 2 (1.92%) vCenter Server
7 2 (1.92%) WSUS
8 1 (0.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.96%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 1 (0.96%) Nagios
8 1 (0.96%) Nessus
8 1 (0.96%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.96%) Puppet
8 1 (0.96%) SCOM
8 1 (0.96%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 63 (60.58%) Microsoft
2 19 (18.27%) VMware
3 13 (12.50%) Cisco
4 12 (11.54%) ServiceNow
5 10 (9.62%) Citrix
6 9 (8.65%) Splunk
7 8 (7.69%) Meraki
8 5 (4.81%) Dell
9 4 (3.85%) LabWare
9 4 (3.85%) Oracle
9 4 (3.85%) Palo Alto
9 4 (3.85%) Starlink
10 3 (2.88%) HP
10 3 (2.88%) McAfee
10 3 (2.88%) SAP
10 3 (2.88%) Veeam
11 2 (1.92%) Barracuda Networks
11 2 (1.92%) Google
11 2 (1.92%) Red Hat
11 2 (1.92%) Wyse