Active Directory Contracts in the East of England

Microsoft Active Directory
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring Active Directory skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Active Directory over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 25 11
Rank change year-on-year +11 -14 +5
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 98 106 206
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 10.46% 5.54% 10.06%
As % of the System Software category 67.59% 65.84% 57.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 63 156
10th Percentile £170 £167 £157
25th Percentile £181 £200 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £265 £350
Median % change year-on-year +41.51% -24.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £566
90th Percentile £600 £723 £700
England median daily rate £450 £414 £425
% change year-on-year +8.76% -2.65% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 33 19
10th Percentile - - £14.02
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £15.44 £14.16 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.04% -14.18% +6.45%
75th Percentile £24.70 £15.12 £18.50
90th Percentile £64.50 £18.60 £30.10
England median hourly rate £21.46 £17.69 £19.50
% change year-on-year +21.31% -9.28% +11.43%

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 145 161 356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 15.47% 8.41% 17.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 88 244
10th Percentile £178 £175 £165
25th Percentile £243 £225 £239
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £425 £430
Median % change year-on-year +10.59% -1.16% +1.18%
75th Percentile £570 £556 £583
90th Percentile £613 £713 £700
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 39 39
10th Percentile - - £14.25
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £21.46 £14.16 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +51.55% -42.49% +58.84%
75th Percentile £65.63 £18.00 £65.75
90th Percentile £88.45 £81.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £27.97 £21.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +30.09% -57.00% +163.16%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Active Directory as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in the East of England

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in the East of England

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 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in the East of England

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in the East of England

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 2 May 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 2 May 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
Cambridgeshire +11 32 £383 +80.00% 21
Hertfordshire +28 26 £525 -7.00% 29
Suffolk +1 17 £185 -6.92% 11
Bedfordshire -2 11 £375 +42.86% 18
Essex +4 9 £245 -42.35% 34
Norfolk +6 3 £158 - 14
Active Directory
England

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (11.22%) Microsoft Exchange
1 11 (11.22%) SharePoint
2 7 (7.14%) WebSphere
3 5 (5.10%) Skype for Business
4 4 (4.08%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 4 (4.08%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (1.02%) Apache
5 1 (1.02%) IIS
Applications
1 31 (31.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (24.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (11.22%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.02%) CANalyzer
Cloud Services
1 49 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 21 (21.43%) Azure
3 13 (13.27%) Entra ID
4 8 (8.16%) Cohesity
5 4 (4.08%) Nutanix
5 4 (4.08%) OneDrive
6 3 (3.06%) AWS
6 3 (3.06%) IaaS
7 2 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.04%) AWS CloudTrail
7 2 (2.04%) AWS KMS
7 2 (2.04%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.04%) PowerApps
7 2 (2.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (1.02%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.02%) Azure Event Grid
8 1 (1.02%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.02%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.02%) Mimecast
8 1 (1.02%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 25 (25.51%) Wi-Fi
2 12 (12.24%) DNS
2 12 (12.24%) Firewall
3 11 (11.22%) VPN
4 10 (10.20%) VLAN
5 7 (7.14%) Skype
6 6 (6.12%) SAN
7 5 (5.10%) LAN
7 5 (5.10%) WAN
8 4 (4.08%) DHCP
8 4 (4.08%) Fibre Channel
8 4 (4.08%) IMAP
8 4 (4.08%) SMTP
9 3 (3.06%) VoIP
10 2 (2.04%) SSL
10 2 (2.04%) Wireless
10 2 (2.04%) X.509
11 1 (1.02%) Intrusion Detection
11 1 (1.02%) Remote Desktop
11 1 (1.02%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.14%) DB2
2 2 (2.04%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (1.02%) CANoe
1 1 (1.02%) GitLab
1 1 (1.02%) JIRA
General
1 26 (26.53%) Social Skills
2 14 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 7 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.08%) Finance
4 4 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (4.08%) Manufacturing
5 3 (3.06%) Electronics
6 2 (2.04%) Automotive
6 2 (2.04%) Law
6 2 (2.04%) Marketing
6 2 (2.04%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.04%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.02%) Military
7 1 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (29.59%) Analyst
2 23 (23.47%) Service Analyst
2 23 (23.47%) Service Desk Analyst
3 19 (19.39%) Technical Analyst
4 18 (18.37%) Technical Services Analyst
5 14 (14.29%) Support Engineer
6 11 (11.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (10.20%) Desktop Engineer
7 10 (10.20%) Desktop Support
7 10 (10.20%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 10 (10.20%) Senior
8 8 (8.16%) Architect
8 8 (8.16%) IT Support
9 5 (5.10%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (5.10%) Support Officer
9 5 (5.10%) Systems Architect
10 4 (4.08%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 4 (4.08%) Information Systems Architect
10 4 (4.08%) IT Engineer
10 4 (4.08%) Messaging Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.02%) ARM Templates
1 1 (1.02%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.22%) Driving Licence
2 9 (9.18%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (7.14%) iPad
3 7 (7.14%) iPhone
3 7 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 7 (7.14%) Operational Technology
4 5 (5.10%) Blackberry
5 4 (4.08%) Clustering
5 4 (4.08%) PKI
5 4 (4.08%) Replication
6 2 (2.04%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.04%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (2.04%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.04%) Smartcard
6 2 (2.04%) YubiKey
7 1 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.02%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.02%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 42 (42.86%) Windows
2 18 (18.37%) Windows Server
3 16 (16.33%) Windows 10
4 9 (9.18%) Linux
5 7 (7.14%) Apple iOS
6 2 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (2.04%) Unix
6 2 (2.04%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (2.04%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.02%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (54.08%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (38.78%) Customer Service
3 35 (35.71%) ITIL
4 29 (29.59%) Incident Management
5 24 (24.49%) Service Delivery
6 22 (22.45%) Mathematics
7 14 (14.29%) Agile
8 12 (12.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 9 (9.18%) Validation
10 8 (8.16%) Coaching
10 8 (8.16%) Root Cause Analysis
10 8 (8.16%) Time Management
11 7 (7.14%) Antivirus Management
11 7 (7.14%) Collaborative Working
11 7 (7.14%) Computer Security
11 7 (7.14%) Information Management
11 7 (7.14%) Inventory Management
11 7 (7.14%) Software Testing
12 6 (6.12%) Project Management
12 6 (6.12%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 10 (10.20%) SQL
2 5 (5.10%) PowerShell
3 4 (4.08%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.02%) Bicep
4 1 (1.02%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 41 (41.84%) Security Cleared
2 33 (33.67%) SC Cleared
3 24 (24.49%) Microsoft Certification
4 22 (22.45%) A+ Certification
4 22 (22.45%) MCSA
5 9 (9.18%) DBS Check
5 9 (9.18%) DV Cleared
6 7 (7.14%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (5.10%) Degree
8 2 (2.04%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.02%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.02%) CISM
9 1 (1.02%) CISSP
9 1 (1.02%) ECDL
9 1 (1.02%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (1.02%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.14%) GxP
2 5 (5.10%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.08%) GDPR
3 4 (4.08%) NIST
4 3 (3.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.06%) SOC 2
5 2 (2.04%) FIPS 140-2
5 2 (2.04%) NIST 800
6 1 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (1.02%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (11.22%) Virtual Machines
1 11 (11.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (7.14%) Hyper-V
3 5 (5.10%) Docker
3 5 (5.10%) VMware NSX
4 2 (2.04%) vSphere
5 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (1.02%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 12 (12.24%) SCCM
2 8 (8.16%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (6.12%) Ansible
4 5 (5.10%) WSUS
5 4 (4.08%) Failover Clustering
5 4 (4.08%) Podman
5 4 (4.08%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (3.06%) AppManager
7 2 (2.04%) Avamar
7 2 (2.04%) Kubernetes
7 2 (2.04%) Nessus
7 2 (2.04%) VxRail
8 1 (1.02%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (1.02%) SCOM
8 1 (1.02%) Terraform
8 1 (1.02%) vRealize
Vendors
1 67 (68.37%) Microsoft
2 32 (32.65%) ServiceNow
3 22 (22.45%) Citrix
4 17 (17.35%) VMware
5 7 (7.14%) McAfee
6 6 (6.12%) NetApp
7 4 (4.08%) LogicMonitor
8 3 (3.06%) Ivanti
8 3 (3.06%) Red Hat
8 3 (3.06%) Tenable
9 2 (2.04%) Apple
9 2 (2.04%) Cisco
9 2 (2.04%) Dell
9 2 (2.04%) Oracle
9 2 (2.04%) Palo Alto
9 2 (2.04%) SAP
9 2 (2.04%) SolarWinds
9 2 (2.04%) Splunk
9 2 (2.04%) ZyXEL
10 1 (1.02%) LogRhythm