Active Directory Contract Job Trends in East Sussex

Microsoft Active Directory
South East > East Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in East Sussex requiring Active Directory skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 18 18
Rank change year-on-year +5 0 +2
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 7 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in East Sussex 6.25% 4.17% 1.96%
As % of the System Software category 58.33% 42.86% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £159 £379 -
25th Percentile £160 £384 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £170 £413 -
Median % change year-on-year -58.79% - -
75th Percentile £195 £434 -
90th Percentile £438 £436 -
South East median daily rate £430 £475 £325
% change year-on-year -9.47% +46.15% +8.33%

All System Software Skills
East Sussex

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 East Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 12 7 10
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East Sussex 10.71% 9.72% 9.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 8
10th Percentile £160 £351 £398
25th Percentile £160 £360 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £413 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% -21.43% +5.00%
75th Percentile £573 £453 £541
90th Percentile £578 £463 £595
South East median daily rate £500 £503 £500
% change year-on-year -0.50% +0.50% +5.26%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in East Sussex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Active Directory relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in East Sussex.

Active Directory job vacancy trend in East Sussex

Active Directory
Daily Rate Trend in East Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing Active Directory.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing Active Directory

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in East Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in East Sussex over the 6 months to 1 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in East Sussex

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Trend in East Sussex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing Active Directory.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing Active Directory

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in East Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 1 October 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
Eastbourne - 3 £170 -
Brighton +5 2 £550 +33.33% 11
St Leonards-on-Sea - 1 £190 - 1
Active Directory
South East

Active Directory
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East Sussex 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 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) LAN
1 1 (14.29%) WAN
1 1 (14.29%) Wireless
General
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Senior
2 3 (42.86%) Support Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Support
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Administrator
4 1 (14.29%) IT Administrator
4 1 (14.29%) IT Support
4 1 (14.29%) IT Systems Administrator
4 1 (14.29%) Lead
4 1 (14.29%) Senior IT Administrator
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Systems Administrator
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Windows Administrator
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Windows Systems Administrator
4 1 (14.29%) Support Team Leader
4 1 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (14.29%) Team Leader
4 1 (14.29%) Windows Administrator
4 1 (14.29%) Windows Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Mentoring
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Migration
3 2 (28.57%) ITIL
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Business Continuity
4 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (14.29%) Patch Management
4 1 (14.29%) Process Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Validation
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
1 3 (42.86%) VMware