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

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 29 19
Rank change year-on-year +12 -10 -7
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 113 73 143
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 7.92% 5.56% 7.69%
As % of the System Software category 55.39% 55.73% 48.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 32 110
10th Percentile £185 £180 £158
25th Percentile £213 £220 £188
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £333 £513
Median % change year-on-year +22.18% -35.12% +90.70%
75th Percentile £575 £527 £709
90th Percentile - £600 £814
England median daily rate £438 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +2.94% +6.25% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 8 12
10th Percentile £6.00 £19.27 -
25th Percentile £12.92 £21.46 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £25.73 £15.25
Median % change year-on-year -37.82% +68.72% +8.31%
75th Percentile £16.50 £56.25 £24.36
90th Percentile £21.59 £66.00 £30.60
England median hourly rate £22.00 £23.80 £19.50
% change year-on-year -7.56% +22.05% +5.41%

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 204 131 295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 14.30% 9.97% 15.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 50 188
10th Percentile £185 £185 £170
25th Percentile £220 £227 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £381 £500
Median % change year-on-year +19.08% -23.75% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £536 £675
90th Percentile £625 £614 £775
England median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 16 36
10th Percentile £12.84 £21.46 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.50 £27.87 £23.86
Median hourly rate £54.00 £56.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -13.46% +317.74%
75th Percentile £80.00 £67.81 £74.06
90th Percentile £91.50 £75.00 £84.36
England median hourly rate £30.00 £51.25 £43.75
% change year-on-year -41.46% +17.14% +86.17%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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
Hertfordshire +4 37 £550 +8.64% 43
Bedfordshire +3 24 £413 +26.92% 11
Norfolk -3 20 £225 -6.14% 14
Suffolk +3 11 £220 - 9
Cambridgeshire +1 11 £445 +78.00% 25
Essex -1 10 £213 -39.29% 25
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 20 (17.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (14.16%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.65%) OpenStack
Applications
1 14 (12.39%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 47 (41.59%) Microsoft 365
2 26 (23.01%) Azure
3 19 (16.81%) Cohesity
4 14 (12.39%) Entra ID
5 10 (8.85%) OneDrive
6 5 (4.42%) Azure Sentinel
6 5 (4.42%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (3.54%) AWS
8 3 (2.65%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.77%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.77%) Google Workspace
9 2 (1.77%) Serverless
10 1 (0.88%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.88%) AWS Fargate
10 1 (0.88%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.88%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.88%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.88%) IaaS
10 1 (0.88%) PaaS
10 1 (0.88%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 33 (29.20%) DNS
2 26 (23.01%) SAN
3 17 (15.04%) Firewall
3 17 (15.04%) TCP/IP
4 12 (10.62%) LAN
4 12 (10.62%) WAN
5 11 (9.73%) Wi-Fi
6 10 (8.85%) DHCP
7 8 (7.08%) Cisco IOS
7 8 (7.08%) Wireless
8 6 (5.31%) Structured Cabling
8 6 (5.31%) VPN
9 4 (3.54%) iSCSI
10 3 (2.65%) VLAN
11 2 (1.77%) NAS
12 1 (0.88%) Fibre Channel
12 1 (0.88%) Internet
12 1 (0.88%) Kerberos
12 1 (0.88%) RTP
12 1 (0.88%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.77%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 7 (6.19%) JIRA
2 6 (5.31%) GitLab
3 3 (2.65%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.88%) Git
4 1 (0.88%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.88%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 40 (35.40%) Social Skills
2 12 (10.62%) Public Sector
3 8 (7.08%) Games
4 5 (4.42%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.65%) Finance
5 3 (2.65%) Legal
5 3 (2.65%) Manufacturing
5 3 (2.65%) Polish Language
5 3 (2.65%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.77%) Electronics
6 2 (1.77%) Local Government
6 2 (1.77%) Marketing
7 1 (0.88%) French Language
7 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 29 (25.66%) Analyst
2 19 (16.81%) Support Engineer
3 17 (15.04%) IT Support
4 16 (14.16%) Support Analyst
5 15 (13.27%) Technical Analyst
6 11 (9.73%) IT Engineer
6 11 (9.73%) Technical Support
6 11 (9.73%) Technical Support Analyst
7 10 (8.85%) IT Support Engineer
7 10 (8.85%) Platform Engineer
7 10 (8.85%) Service Analyst
7 10 (8.85%) Service Desk Analyst
8 9 (7.96%) Asset Management Analyst
8 9 (7.96%) IT Analyst
9 7 (6.19%) 2nd Line Support
9 7 (6.19%) Desktop Engineer
9 7 (6.19%) Desktop Support
9 7 (6.19%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 7 (6.19%) Senior
10 6 (5.31%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.77%) LDAP
1 2 (1.77%) REST
2 1 (0.88%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (0.88%) FIDO
2 1 (0.88%) J2EE
2 1 (0.88%) RESTful
2 1 (0.88%) Software Packaging
2 1 (0.88%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.39%) Driving Licence
2 11 (9.73%) NHS
3 9 (7.96%) CMDB
4 6 (5.31%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (5.31%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.54%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.54%) iPad
5 4 (3.54%) iPhone
5 4 (3.54%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.54%) Operational Technology
6 3 (2.65%) Enterprise Storage
6 3 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.65%) Smartphone
7 2 (1.77%) PKI
8 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.88%) EPoS
8 1 (0.88%) LIMS
8 1 (0.88%) Replication
8 1 (0.88%) Smartcard
8 1 (0.88%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 93 (82.30%) Windows
2 40 (35.40%) Windows Server
3 23 (20.35%) Windows 10
4 19 (16.81%) Windows Server 2016
4 19 (16.81%) Windows Server 2019
5 14 (12.39%) Linux
6 12 (10.62%) Android
7 11 (9.73%) Apple iOS
8 10 (8.85%) Mac OS
9 7 (6.19%) CentOS
10 5 (4.42%) Windows Server 2003
11 4 (3.54%) Ubuntu
11 4 (3.54%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (2.65%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (1.77%) VMS
13 2 (1.77%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.88%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (22.12%) Customer Service
1 25 (22.12%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (19.47%) ITIL
3 19 (16.81%) SIEM
4 18 (15.93%) Build Automation
4 18 (15.93%) Deployment Automation
4 18 (15.93%) Operations Management
5 15 (13.27%) ITSM
6 13 (11.50%) Identity Access Management
7 10 (8.85%) Asset Management
8 8 (7.08%) E-Commerce
8 8 (7.08%) Network Management
8 8 (7.08%) Service Delivery
8 8 (7.08%) Service Management
9 7 (6.19%) Containerisation
9 7 (6.19%) Identity Management
9 7 (6.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 7 (6.19%) Zero Trust
10 6 (5.31%) Antivirus Management
10 6 (5.31%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 45 (39.82%) PowerShell
2 7 (6.19%) Python
3 5 (4.42%) Shell Script
4 4 (3.54%) SQL
5 1 (0.88%) Bash
5 1 (0.88%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 36 (31.86%) Security Cleared
2 21 (18.58%) DV Cleared
3 14 (12.39%) Degree
3 14 (12.39%) Microsoft Certification
3 14 (12.39%) SC Cleared
4 8 (7.08%) ITIL Certification
5 6 (5.31%) A+ Certification
5 6 (5.31%) ECDL
6 4 (3.54%) HNC
6 4 (3.54%) HND
6 4 (3.54%) MCP
6 4 (3.54%) MCSE
7 3 (2.65%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.65%) MCSA
7 3 (2.65%) VCAP
8 2 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.88%) CISSP
9 1 (0.88%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.88%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (6.19%) NIST
2 6 (5.31%) GDPR
2 6 (5.31%) HIPAA
3 5 (4.42%) GxP
4 4 (3.54%) PCI DSS
4 4 (3.54%) SLA
5 1 (0.88%) GMP
System Software
1 28 (24.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (15.93%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 18 (15.93%) Virtual Servers
3 7 (6.19%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.65%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.77%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.88%) Docker
6 1 (0.88%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 35 (30.97%) SCCM
2 28 (24.78%) Microsoft Intune
3 22 (19.47%) Ansible
4 19 (16.81%) WSUS
5 6 (5.31%) Terraform
6 3 (2.65%) PingFederate
6 3 (2.65%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.77%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.88%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.88%) Nagios
8 1 (0.88%) Nessus
8 1 (0.88%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.88%) Puppet
8 1 (0.88%) SCOM
8 1 (0.88%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 75 (66.37%) Microsoft
2 32 (28.32%) VMware
3 26 (23.01%) Splunk
4 18 (15.93%) NetApp
5 12 (10.62%) ServiceNow
6 11 (9.73%) Cisco
7 10 (8.85%) Citrix
8 8 (7.08%) Meraki
9 5 (4.42%) Dell
10 4 (3.54%) LabWare
10 4 (3.54%) Oracle
10 4 (3.54%) Starlink
11 3 (2.65%) McAfee
11 3 (2.65%) SAP
12 2 (1.77%) Barracuda Networks
12 2 (1.77%) Google
12 2 (1.77%) HP
12 2 (1.77%) Intel
12 2 (1.77%) Red Hat
12 2 (1.77%) Wyse