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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 36 14
Rank change year-on-year +26 -22 +5
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 126 88 173
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 11.10% 4.60% 8.68%
As % of the System Software category 68.85% 64.71% 50.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 53 134
10th Percentile £178 £176 £159
25th Percentile £214 £220 £186
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £250 £345
Median % change year-on-year +86.60% -27.54% +6.15%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £628
90th Percentile - £675 £700
England median daily rate £450 £450 £425
% change year-on-year - +5.88% +10.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 23 12
10th Percentile - £14.03 -
25th Percentile £14.99 - £14.25
Median hourly rate £15.33 £14.16 £18.51
Median % change year-on-year +8.26% -23.51% +19.44%
75th Percentile £21.21 £15.12 £24.36
90th Percentile £50.67 - £60.67
England median hourly rate £23.00 £17.72 £21.00
% change year-on-year +29.80% -15.62% +20.00%

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 183 136 340
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 16.12% 7.11% 17.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 77 222
10th Percentile £178 £189 £170
25th Percentile £236 £225 £240
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +15.29% -5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £563 £630
90th Percentile - £700 £700
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 29 35
10th Percentile - £14.13 £14.75
25th Percentile £14.99 - £21.28
Median hourly rate £41.45 £14.16 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +192.73% -78.38% +319.33%
75th Percentile £88.00 £15.76 £73.13
90th Percentile £91.70 £65.65 £74.50
England median hourly rate £29.50 £22.30 £50.00
% change year-on-year +32.29% -55.40% +150.00%

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 4 July 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 4 July 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 4 July 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 +36 39 £550 +9.56% 69
Bedfordshire +13 29 £475 +8.57% 16
Cambridgeshire +14 28 £425 +88.67% 55
Suffolk -3 16 £185 -13.95% 12
Essex +13 9 £225 -10.00% 28
Norfolk -1 5 £158 +1.99% 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 22 (17.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (10.32%) SharePoint
3 8 (6.35%) IBM Domino
4 5 (3.97%) OpenStack
5 3 (2.38%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.79%) Apache
6 1 (0.79%) IIS
6 1 (0.79%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 23 (18.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (13.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (7.94%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.79%) CANalyzer
Cloud Services
1 58 (46.03%) Microsoft 365
2 27 (21.43%) Azure
3 24 (19.05%) Cohesity
4 19 (15.08%) Entra ID
5 8 (6.35%) AWS
6 7 (5.56%) OneDrive
7 6 (4.76%) Azure Sentinel
7 6 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (3.97%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (2.38%) IaaS
9 3 (2.38%) Nutanix
10 2 (1.59%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (1.59%) AWS CloudTrail
10 2 (1.59%) AWS KMS
10 2 (1.59%) PaaS
10 2 (1.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (0.79%) Azure Event Grid
11 1 (0.79%) Mimecast
11 1 (0.79%) SaaS
11 1 (0.79%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 36 (28.57%) DNS
2 27 (21.43%) SAN
3 19 (15.08%) Firewall
4 17 (13.49%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (7.14%) VLAN
6 8 (6.35%) Cisco IOS
6 8 (6.35%) VPN
7 5 (3.97%) iSCSI
8 4 (3.17%) DHCP
8 4 (3.17%) Fibre Channel
8 4 (3.17%) LAN
8 4 (3.17%) Skype
8 4 (3.17%) WAN
9 3 (2.38%) TCP/IP
10 2 (1.59%) SSL
10 2 (1.59%) Wireless
10 2 (1.59%) X.509
11 1 (0.79%) NAS
11 1 (0.79%) Remote Desktop
11 1 (0.79%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.38%) DB2
2 1 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (7.14%) JIRA
2 6 (4.76%) GitLab
3 5 (3.97%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.79%) CANoe
General
1 39 (30.95%) Social Skills
2 11 (8.73%) Public Sector
3 8 (6.35%) Games
4 6 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.38%) Finance
6 3 (2.38%) Legal
6 3 (2.38%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.59%) Automotive
7 2 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.79%) Electronics
8 1 (0.79%) French Language
8 1 (0.79%) Law
8 1 (0.79%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 27 (21.43%) Analyst
2 22 (17.46%) Service Analyst
2 22 (17.46%) Service Desk Analyst
3 16 (12.70%) Technical Analyst
4 15 (11.90%) Technical Services Analyst
5 13 (10.32%) Support Engineer
6 12 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
8 8 (6.35%) IT Support
9 7 (5.56%) Architect
9 7 (5.56%) Desktop Engineer
9 7 (5.56%) Desktop Support
9 7 (5.56%) Desktop Support Engineer
10 6 (4.76%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
11 5 (3.97%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 5 (3.97%) Design Engineer
11 5 (3.97%) IT Engineer
11 5 (3.97%) Security Engineer
11 5 (3.97%) Senior
11 5 (3.97%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.79%) ARM Templates
1 1 (0.79%) Azure Blueprints
1 1 (0.79%) FIDO
1 1 (0.79%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.73%) Driving Licence
2 8 (6.35%) Operational Technology
2 8 (6.35%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (4.76%) iPad
3 6 (4.76%) iPhone
4 5 (3.97%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (3.17%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.17%) Enterprise Storage
5 4 (3.17%) PKI
5 4 (3.17%) Replication
6 3 (2.38%) Clustering
6 3 (2.38%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.38%) Smartcard
6 3 (2.38%) YubiKey
7 2 (1.59%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.79%) Blackberry
8 1 (0.79%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.79%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 76 (60.32%) Windows
2 36 (28.57%) Windows Server
3 21 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
3 21 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
4 17 (13.49%) Windows 10
5 13 (10.32%) Linux
6 9 (7.14%) Mac OS
7 8 (6.35%) Android
8 5 (3.97%) Apple iOS
9 4 (3.17%) CentOS
9 4 (3.17%) Ubuntu
10 2 (1.59%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.79%) Unix
11 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (36.51%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (23.81%) Customer Service
3 27 (21.43%) ITIL
4 21 (16.67%) Incident Management
4 21 (16.67%) Service Delivery
4 21 (16.67%) SIEM
5 20 (15.87%) Build Automation
5 20 (15.87%) Deployment Automation
5 20 (15.87%) Operations Management
6 15 (11.90%) Mathematics
7 13 (10.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 12 (9.52%) Agile
9 11 (8.73%) ITSM
10 8 (6.35%) Containerisation
10 8 (6.35%) E-Commerce
10 8 (6.35%) Zero Trust
11 7 (5.56%) Coaching
11 7 (5.56%) Collaborative Working
11 7 (5.56%) Disaster Recovery
11 7 (5.56%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (32.54%) PowerShell
2 8 (6.35%) Shell Script
3 6 (4.76%) Python
3 6 (4.76%) SQL
4 1 (0.79%) Bash
4 1 (0.79%) Bicep
4 1 (0.79%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 48 (38.10%) Security Cleared
2 26 (20.63%) DV Cleared
3 22 (17.46%) Microsoft Certification
3 22 (17.46%) SC Cleared
4 18 (14.29%) A+ Certification
5 15 (11.90%) Degree
5 15 (11.90%) MCSA
6 9 (7.14%) DBS Check
7 6 (4.76%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (2.38%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.38%) VCAP
9 2 (1.59%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.79%) ECDL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.14%) GDPR
1 9 (7.14%) GxP
2 8 (6.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (6.35%) NIST
3 6 (4.76%) HIPAA
4 5 (3.97%) Accessibility
4 5 (3.97%) PCI DSS
5 3 (2.38%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.59%) FIPS 140-2
6 2 (1.59%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.79%) GMP
7 1 (0.79%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (23.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (15.87%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 20 (15.87%) Virtual Servers
3 14 (11.11%) Hyper-V
4 4 (3.17%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (3.17%) VMware NSX
5 3 (2.38%) Docker
5 3 (2.38%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.79%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 40 (31.75%) SCCM
2 28 (22.22%) Ansible
3 25 (19.84%) WSUS
4 15 (11.90%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (3.97%) Terraform
6 3 (2.38%) Failover Clustering
6 3 (2.38%) Nessus
6 3 (2.38%) Podman
7 2 (1.59%) Avamar
7 2 (1.59%) VxRail
8 1 (0.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.79%) AppManager
8 1 (0.79%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.79%) Puppet
8 1 (0.79%) Salt
8 1 (0.79%) SCOM
8 1 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.79%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.79%) vRealize
Vendors
1 94 (74.60%) Microsoft
2 38 (30.16%) VMware
3 29 (23.02%) ServiceNow
3 29 (23.02%) Splunk
4 21 (16.67%) NetApp
5 19 (15.08%) Citrix
6 10 (7.94%) Cisco
7 8 (6.35%) Meraki
8 6 (4.76%) McAfee
9 4 (3.17%) Tenable
10 3 (2.38%) Dell
10 3 (2.38%) LabWare
10 3 (2.38%) LogicMonitor
11 2 (1.59%) Apple
11 2 (1.59%) HP
11 2 (1.59%) Oracle
11 2 (1.59%) Palo Alto
11 2 (1.59%) SolarWinds
11 2 (1.59%) ZyXEL
12 1 (0.79%) SAP