Active Directory Contracts in England

Microsoft Active Directory
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Active Directory skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Active Directory over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 31 43
Rank change year-on-year -1 +12 +3
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 2,038 2,992 3,844
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 5.51% 5.92% 5.40%
As % of the System Software category 50.66% 45.15% 38.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,427 2,207 2,765
10th Percentile £156 £163 £150
25th Percentile £213 £223 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year -3.53% +6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £538
90th Percentile £675 £688 £635
UK median daily rate £414 £425 £411
% change year-on-year -2.65% +3.32% +5.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 139 218
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £14.16 £15.34 £14.25
Median hourly rate £17.69 £19.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.89% +8.57% +9.38%
75th Percentile £23.75 £42.00 £22.53
90th Percentile £40.00 £64.80 £28.75
UK median hourly rate £17.69 £20.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -11.55% +14.29% +7.83%

All System Software Skills
England

Active Directory is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,023 6,627 9,943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.88% 13.11% 13.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,784 4,805 7,184
10th Percentile £190 £204 £195
25th Percentile £325 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £710
UK median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 247 277
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.25 £13.31
25th Percentile £14.48 £17.72 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.00% +163.16% -
75th Percentile £57.80 £65.00 £28.75
90th Percentile £72.38 £75.60 £55.18
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £53.75 £20.00
% change year-on-year -58.14% +168.75% -

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in England

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in England

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in England

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in England

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Active Directory in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Active Directory in England

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
London +10 844 £425 -8.94% 228
South East +17 443 £480 +8.16% 203
North of England -7 273 £320 -1.54% 182
South West -10 176 £300 -36.84% 85
Midlands -4 153 £338 -10.00% 156
North West -15 140 £338 -3.57% 107
Yorkshire -2 110 £300 +6.67% 55
East of England -15 109 £265 -24.29% 102
West Midlands -3 98 £350 -7.89% 104
East Midlands -4 51 £233 -7.00% 52
North East +23 21 £208 -25.89% 24
Active Directory
UK

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 450 (22.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 188 (9.22%) SharePoint
3 45 (2.21%) IIS
4 39 (1.91%) Confluence
5 35 (1.72%) Skype for Business
6 31 (1.52%) Exchange Server 2010
7 28 (1.37%) Exchange Server 2013
8 18 (0.88%) CMS
9 14 (0.69%) Exchange Server 2007
10 10 (0.49%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 10 (0.49%) Exchange Server 2003
11 8 (0.39%) Apache
12 7 (0.34%) Tomcat
13 6 (0.29%) nginx
14 5 (0.25%) JBoss
15 3 (0.15%) WordPress
16 2 (0.098%) IBM Notes
16 2 (0.098%) OpenStack
17 1 (0.049%) BizTalk Server
17 1 (0.049%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 222 (10.89%) Microsoft Office
2 62 (3.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 30 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.44%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.098%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.098%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.049%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.049%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.049%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.049%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
2 7 (0.34%) Teamcenter
3 4 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.15%) assyst
4 3 (0.15%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.098%) ION MarketView
5 2 (0.098%) SystmOne
6 1 (0.049%) BusinessWorks
6 1 (0.049%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.049%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.049%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.049%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.049%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.049%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 849 (41.66%) Microsoft 365
2 839 (41.17%) Azure
3 461 (22.62%) Entra ID
4 188 (9.22%) AWS
5 124 (6.08%) Azure DevOps
6 86 (4.22%) OneDrive
7 84 (4.12%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 84 (4.12%) Azure Monitor
8 66 (3.24%) PaaS
9 56 (2.75%) IaaS
10 53 (2.60%) Azure Service Bus
10 53 (2.60%) Power Platform
11 44 (2.16%) SaaS
12 39 (1.91%) Azure Storage
13 36 (1.77%) GitHub
14 35 (1.72%) GCP
14 35 (1.72%) WhatsApp
15 29 (1.42%) Mimecast
16 27 (1.32%) PowerApps
16 27 (1.32%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 358 (17.57%) DNS
2 238 (11.68%) Firewall
3 232 (11.38%) DHCP
4 116 (5.69%) VPN
5 108 (5.30%) SAN
6 101 (4.96%) WAN
7 100 (4.91%) LAN
8 76 (3.73%) TCP/IP
9 69 (3.39%) Wi-Fi
10 57 (2.80%) Wireless
11 49 (2.40%) SSL
12 46 (2.26%) Skype
13 40 (1.96%) NAS
14 36 (1.77%) VLAN
15 35 (1.72%) Network Security
16 28 (1.37%) Remote Desktop
17 26 (1.28%) MPLS
17 26 (1.28%) VoIP
18 17 (0.83%) FTP
18 17 (0.83%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 233 (11.43%) SQL Server
2 38 (1.86%) MySQL
3 26 (1.28%) Power BI
4 25 (1.23%) Oracle Reports
5 21 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
6 20 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
7 17 (0.83%) NoSQL
8 15 (0.74%) Relational Database
9 14 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
10 13 (0.64%) Hadoop
10 13 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
11 11 (0.54%) Oracle Database
12 7 (0.34%) RDBMS
12 7 (0.34%) Redis
13 4 (0.20%) Big Data
13 4 (0.20%) Data Lake
13 4 (0.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 2 (0.098%) Electronic Patient Records
14 2 (0.098%) Metadata
14 2 (0.098%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 77 (3.78%) Git
2 66 (3.24%) JIRA
3 23 (1.13%) Jenkins
4 22 (1.08%) Selenium
5 21 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
6 20 (0.98%) TeamCity
7 17 (0.83%) Robot Framework
8 15 (0.74%) Visual Studio
9 12 (0.59%) SpecFlow
10 11 (0.54%) WebDriver
11 10 (0.49%) Postman
11 10 (0.49%) SonarQube
12 8 (0.39%) GitLab
13 7 (0.34%) Hudson
14 5 (0.25%) Bitbucket Server
14 5 (0.25%) CA Release Automation
15 4 (0.20%) Bitbucket
15 4 (0.20%) Fiddler
15 4 (0.20%) MSI
16 3 (0.15%) Cucumber
General
1 567 (27.82%) Social Skills
2 259 (12.71%) Finance
3 183 (8.98%) Public Sector
4 135 (6.62%) Analytical Skills
5 85 (4.17%) Banking
6 52 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
7 50 (2.45%) Organisational Skills
8 46 (2.26%) Legal
8 46 (2.26%) Manufacturing
9 40 (1.96%) Telecoms
10 31 (1.52%) Marketing
11 30 (1.47%) Financial Institution
12 29 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
13 28 (1.37%) Retail
14 24 (1.18%) Law
15 22 (1.08%) Back Office
16 20 (0.98%) Electronics
17 19 (0.93%) French Language
17 19 (0.93%) Military
18 13 (0.64%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 264 (12.95%) Support Engineer
2 261 (12.81%) Analyst
3 238 (11.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 191 (9.37%) Senior
5 171 (8.39%) IT Support
6 163 (8.00%) Architect
7 127 (6.23%) Service Analyst
8 123 (6.04%) IT Engineer
8 123 (6.04%) Service Desk Analyst
9 109 (5.35%) Developer
10 103 (5.05%) 2nd Line Support
11 97 (4.76%) Desktop Support
12 77 (3.78%) Desktop Engineer
13 75 (3.68%) IT Support Engineer
14 73 (3.58%) Windows Engineer
15 68 (3.34%) 2nd Line Engineer
16 65 (3.19%) Support Analyst
17 64 (3.14%) Administrator
18 63 (3.09%) Azure Engineer
19 62 (3.04%) Active Directory Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (6.18%) .NET
2 93 (4.56%) XML
3 87 (4.27%) LDAP
4 85 (4.17%) Web Services
5 70 (3.43%) SailPoint
6 65 (3.19%) .NET Core
7 58 (2.85%) HTML
8 45 (2.21%) React
9 37 (1.82%) SAML
10 34 (1.67%) .NET Framework
11 31 (1.52%) AngularJS
11 31 (1.52%) CSS
11 31 (1.52%) SOAP
12 29 (1.42%) JSP
12 29 (1.42%) Servlets
12 29 (1.42%) SPML
13 28 (1.37%) ASP.NET
14 23 (1.13%) ARM Templates
15 22 (1.08%) OAuth
16 21 (1.03%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 164 (8.05%) PKI
2 84 (4.12%) Data Centre
3 69 (3.39%) Onboarding
4 66 (3.24%) Replication
5 61 (2.99%) Management Information System
6 56 (2.75%) Product Ownership
7 53 (2.60%) Video Conferencing
8 52 (2.55%) Clustering
9 45 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
10 32 (1.57%) iPhone
11 27 (1.32%) Driving Licence
12 22 (1.08%) iPad
13 20 (0.98%) Public Cloud
14 19 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
14 19 (0.93%) NHS
15 18 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
15 18 (0.88%) Smartphone
16 17 (0.83%) CMDB
17 16 (0.79%) Cloud Native
17 16 (0.79%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1,300 (63.79%) Windows
2 535 (26.25%) Windows Server
3 461 (22.62%) Windows 10
4 230 (11.29%) Linux
5 180 (8.83%) Windows Server 2012
6 160 (7.85%) Windows Server 2019
7 152 (7.46%) Windows Server 2016
8 87 (4.27%) Windows 7
9 86 (4.22%) Apple iOS
10 62 (3.04%) Android
11 58 (2.85%) Mac OS
12 54 (2.65%) Windows Server 2008
13 48 (2.36%) Unix
14 41 (2.01%) Ubuntu
15 37 (1.82%) VMS
16 31 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 21 (1.03%) Windows NT
17 21 (1.03%) Windows Server 2003
18 18 (0.88%) Mac OS X
19 16 (0.79%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 322 (15.80%) Customer Service
2 310 (15.21%) ITIL
3 282 (13.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 268 (13.15%) Problem-Solving
5 257 (12.61%) Migration
6 230 (11.29%) Agile
7 222 (10.89%) DevOps
8 155 (7.61%) CI/CD
9 111 (5.45%) Service Management
10 103 (5.05%) RBAC
11 97 (4.76%) Disaster Recovery
11 97 (4.76%) Identity Access Management
12 95 (4.66%) Cybersecurity
12 95 (4.66%) Mobile Device Management
13 86 (4.22%) Scrum
14 77 (3.78%) Service Delivery
15 75 (3.68%) Change Management
16 69 (3.39%) Project Delivery
17 68 (3.34%) ITSM
18 65 (3.19%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 396 (19.43%) PowerShell
2 182 (8.93%) SQL
3 120 (5.89%) C#
4 102 (5.00%) Python
5 75 (3.68%) Bicep
6 68 (3.34%) JavaScript
7 56 (2.75%) Java
8 27 (1.32%) TypeScript
9 24 (1.18%) VB
10 23 (1.13%) Bash
10 23 (1.13%) VBScript
11 11 (0.54%) MATLAB
12 10 (0.49%) R
13 9 (0.44%) C++
14 7 (0.34%) PHP
14 7 (0.34%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.29%) Perl
16 5 (0.25%) VBA
17 4 (0.20%) C
18 3 (0.15%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 458 (22.47%) Security Cleared
2 265 (13.00%) Degree
2 265 (13.00%) SC Cleared
3 207 (10.16%) DV Cleared
4 119 (5.84%) Microsoft Certification
5 42 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
6 41 (2.01%) Azure Certification
6 41 (2.01%) MCSA
7 38 (1.86%) CCNA
7 38 (1.86%) MCSE
8 36 (1.77%) ITIL Certification
9 31 (1.52%) A+ Certification
9 31 (1.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 27 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
11 23 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
12 22 (1.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 20 (0.98%) DBS Check
14 19 (0.93%) MCP
15 17 (0.83%) CCNP
16 15 (0.74%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (4.96%) SLA
2 49 (2.40%) QA
3 20 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (0.93%) GDPR
5 18 (0.88%) NIST
6 15 (0.74%) Accessibility
6 15 (0.74%) WCAG
7 10 (0.49%) PCI DSS
7 10 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 9 (0.44%) ISO 9001
9 7 (0.34%) RMADS
10 5 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 4 (0.20%) GRC
12 3 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.098%) Data Quality
13 2 (0.098%) PMO
14 1 (0.049%) COBIT
14 1 (0.049%) JSP 440
14 1 (0.049%) NIST 800
System Software
1 284 (13.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 104 (5.10%) Hyper-V
3 82 (4.02%) Virtual Machines
4 58 (2.85%) VMware ESXi
5 51 (2.50%) Virtual Desktop
6 50 (2.45%) vSphere
7 39 (1.91%) Docker
8 36 (1.77%) Firmware
8 36 (1.77%) XenApp
9 29 (1.42%) IAG
10 28 (1.37%) ACF2
10 28 (1.37%) RACF
11 23 (1.13%) VMware Workstation
12 21 (1.03%) VMware NSX
13 19 (0.93%) Virtual Servers
13 19 (0.93%) XenDesktop
14 17 (0.83%) NFS
15 13 (0.64%) HDFS
16 10 (0.49%) BitLocker
17 9 (0.44%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 368 (18.06%) SCCM
2 248 (12.17%) Microsoft Intune
3 96 (4.71%) WSUS
4 84 (4.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 67 (3.29%) Terraform
6 66 (3.24%) Kubernetes
6 66 (3.24%) Single Sign-On
7 65 (3.19%) SCOM
8 58 (2.85%) Ansible
9 49 (2.40%) vCenter Server
10 46 (2.26%) Jamf Pro
11 25 (1.23%) EMC NetWorker
11 25 (1.23%) NetBackup
12 21 (1.03%) Sysprep
13 18 (0.88%) Kibana
14 15 (0.74%) Microsoft Clustering
15 13 (0.64%) Failover Clustering
15 13 (0.64%) Tivoli
16 12 (0.59%) Nessus
17 11 (0.54%) Netcool
Vendors
1 1,059 (51.96%) Microsoft
2 406 (19.92%) VMware
3 187 (9.18%) ServiceNow
4 185 (9.08%) Citrix
5 106 (5.20%) Cisco
6 103 (5.05%) Apple
7 93 (4.56%) Oracle
8 70 (3.43%) Veeam
9 66 (3.24%) Dell
10 65 (3.19%) HP
11 53 (2.60%) CyberArk
12 46 (2.26%) EMC
13 44 (2.16%) SAP
14 40 (1.96%) Red Hat
15 35 (1.72%) Okta
16 32 (1.57%) Isilon
17 30 (1.47%) Palo Alto
18 27 (1.32%) Ivanti
19 26 (1.28%) CA
19 26 (1.28%) SolarWinds