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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 12 34
Rank change year-on-year -20 +22 -23
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 105 100 103
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 5.01% 10.57% 5.42%
As % of the System Software category 51.98% 66.23% 60.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 42 60
10th Percentile £185 £171 £162
25th Percentile £191 £186 £192
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £375 £275
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +36.36% -19.12%
75th Percentile £490 £525 £603
90th Percentile £540 £600 £725
England median daily rate £450 £460 £400
% change year-on-year -2.17% +15.00% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 24 29
10th Percentile £6.00 £14.99 -
25th Percentile £15.50 £15.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £21.46 £14.16
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% +51.55% -14.18%
75th Percentile £23.74 £64.50 £15.12
90th Percentile £23.75 £66.00 £19.95
England median hourly rate £23.83 £22.50 £17.69
% change year-on-year +5.89% +27.19% -4.38%

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 202 151 169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 9.63% 15.96% 8.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 65 92
10th Percentile £188 £178 £175
25th Percentile £215 £243 £233
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £473 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.88%
75th Percentile £523 £550 £622
90th Percentile £625 £613 £725
England median daily rate £500 £525 £485
% change year-on-year -4.76% +8.36% -7.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 33 33
10th Percentile £6.00 £14.99 -
25th Percentile £17.24 £15.44 £14.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £53.00 £14.80
Median % change year-on-year -57.55% +258.11% -30.55%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £19.00
90th Percentile - £88.00 £81.75
England median hourly rate £51.75 £28.71 £21.00
% change year-on-year +80.28% +36.69% -47.50%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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
Norfolk -2 35 £203 +28.57% 6
Hertfordshire -19 35 £477 -8.14% 25
Essex -6 14 £240 -2.04% 7
Suffolk -6 9 £223 +20.27% 8
Cambridgeshire -19 8 £363 -13.84% 10
Bedfordshire -13 3 £413 +10.00% 4
East Anglia - 1 £470 - 10
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 9 (8.57%) SharePoint
2 6 (5.71%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.86%) Apache
3 3 (2.86%) IIS
4 1 (0.95%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 6 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.90%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 51 (48.57%) Microsoft 365
2 22 (20.95%) Azure
3 15 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 4 (3.81%) AWS
4 4 (3.81%) OneDrive
5 3 (2.86%) Google Workspace
5 3 (2.86%) Mimecast
5 3 (2.86%) Nutanix
5 3 (2.86%) Route 53
6 2 (1.90%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.90%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.90%) Cohesity
6 2 (1.90%) Serverless
7 1 (0.95%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.95%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.95%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (0.95%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (0.95%) Datadog
7 1 (0.95%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (24.76%) DNS
2 19 (18.10%) Firewall
3 18 (17.14%) WAN
4 16 (15.24%) LAN
5 15 (14.29%) VPN
6 14 (13.33%) Wi-Fi
7 13 (12.38%) TCP/IP
8 12 (11.43%) DHCP
9 5 (4.76%) SAN
10 3 (2.86%) 4G
10 3 (2.86%) IPsec
10 3 (2.86%) MPLS
10 3 (2.86%) VLAN
10 3 (2.86%) Wireless
11 2 (1.90%) iSCSI
11 2 (1.90%) NAS
11 2 (1.90%) Skype
11 2 (1.90%) SSL
11 2 (1.90%) Structured Cabling
12 1 (0.95%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.90%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 12 (11.43%) GitLab
2 11 (10.48%) Git
3 10 (9.52%) Jenkins
4 7 (6.67%) JIRA
5 1 (0.95%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 44 (41.90%) Social Skills
2 15 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
3 11 (10.48%) Public Sector
4 10 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (8.57%) Aerospace
6 8 (7.62%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.86%) Legal
7 3 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.90%) Finance
9 1 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.95%) Polish Language
9 1 (0.95%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (38.10%) IT Support
2 29 (27.62%) Support Engineer
3 28 (26.67%) IT Engineer
4 25 (23.81%) IT Support Engineer
5 21 (20.00%) Analyst
6 13 (12.38%) Support Analyst
7 12 (11.43%) Administrator
7 12 (11.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (9.52%) IT Analyst
8 10 (9.52%) Senior
8 10 (9.52%) Technical Analyst
9 9 (8.57%) IT Support Analyst
9 9 (8.57%) Linux Administrator
9 9 (8.57%) Technical Support
9 9 (8.57%) Technical Support Analyst
10 5 (4.76%) 3rd Line Support
10 5 (4.76%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
10 5 (4.76%) Architect
10 5 (4.76%) Field Engineer
10 5 (4.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.48%) LDAP
2 9 (8.57%) Middleware
3 2 (1.90%) REST
4 1 (0.95%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (0.95%) RESTful
4 1 (0.95%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.48%) Driving Licence
1 11 (10.48%) NHS
2 10 (9.52%) Management Information System
3 9 (8.57%) Data Centre
4 8 (7.62%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.81%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.81%) Operational Technology
6 3 (2.86%) CMDB
6 3 (2.86%) PKI
6 3 (2.86%) SCADA
6 3 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.86%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (1.90%) Fat Client
7 2 (1.90%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.90%) Smartcard
7 2 (1.90%) Thin Client
7 2 (1.90%) YubiKey
8 1 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.95%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 82 (78.10%) Windows
2 32 (30.48%) Windows Server
3 30 (28.57%) Windows 10
4 13 (12.38%) Linux
5 10 (9.52%) Apple iOS
5 10 (9.52%) CentOS
5 10 (9.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (4.76%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (4.76%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (4.76%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (3.81%) Android
7 4 (3.81%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (1.90%) VMS
9 1 (0.95%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.95%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.95%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.95%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (25.71%) ITIL
2 21 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 16 (15.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 14 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (11.43%) ITSM
6 9 (8.57%) Information Management
6 9 (8.57%) Infrastructure Monitoring
7 6 (5.71%) Proactive Monitoring
8 5 (4.76%) Agile
8 5 (4.76%) Logistics
8 5 (4.76%) Migration
8 5 (4.76%) Service Management
8 5 (4.76%) SIEM
8 5 (4.76%) Software Deployment
8 5 (4.76%) Zero Trust
9 4 (3.81%) Cybersecurity
9 4 (3.81%) DevOps
9 4 (3.81%) Information Governance
9 4 (3.81%) Infrastructure Automation
9 4 (3.81%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 12 (11.43%) PowerShell
2 9 (8.57%) MATLAB
2 9 (8.57%) Shell Script
3 3 (2.86%) Python
4 1 (0.95%) Bash
4 1 (0.95%) Groovy
4 1 (0.95%) SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (21.90%) Security Cleared
2 20 (19.05%) SC Cleared
3 15 (14.29%) Degree
4 9 (8.57%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (7.62%) DV Cleared
6 5 (4.76%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (3.81%) HNC
7 4 (3.81%) HND
7 4 (3.81%) MCSE
7 4 (3.81%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 3 (2.86%) AWS Certification
8 3 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (2.86%) CCNA
8 3 (2.86%) CCNP
8 3 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.90%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (1.90%) ECDL
9 2 (1.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (1.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.95%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (14.29%) SLA
2 1 (0.95%) GxP
2 1 (0.95%) PMO
2 1 (0.95%) QA
System Software
1 14 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (6.67%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.86%) vSphere
4 2 (1.90%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.95%) Docker
5 1 (0.95%) Firmware
5 1 (0.95%) Sendmail
5 1 (0.95%) Squid
Systems Management
1 18 (17.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (15.24%) Ansible
3 13 (12.38%) SCCM
4 9 (8.57%) Check_MK
4 9 (8.57%) Podman
4 9 (8.57%) Red Hat Satellite
5 5 (4.76%) vCenter Server
6 4 (3.81%) Terraform
7 3 (2.86%) WSUS
8 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 2 (1.90%) Nessus
9 1 (0.95%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.95%) Nagios
9 1 (0.95%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.95%) Puppet
9 1 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 59 (56.19%) Microsoft
2 22 (20.95%) VMware
3 9 (8.57%) Cisco
3 9 (8.57%) Red Hat
4 5 (4.76%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.86%) Citrix
5 3 (2.86%) Google
5 3 (2.86%) HP
5 3 (2.86%) Palo Alto
5 3 (2.86%) Qualys
5 3 (2.86%) SolarWinds
6 2 (1.90%) Dell
6 2 (1.90%) NetApp
6 2 (1.90%) Rockwell
6 2 (1.90%) Tenable
6 2 (1.90%) Veeam
6 2 (1.90%) Wyse
7 1 (0.95%) Metaswitch
7 1 (0.95%) Starlink
7 1 (0.95%) Trend Micro