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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 31 44
Rank change year-on-year 0 +13 +2
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 2,040 2,930 3,816
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 5.53% 5.87% 5.37%
As % of the System Software category 50.56% 45.09% 38.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,435 2,162 2,751
10th Percentile £158 £163 £150
25th Percentile £213 £223 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% +6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £538
90th Percentile £675 £688 £630
UK median daily rate £425 £425 £406
% change year-on-year - +4.62% +1.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 131 219
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £14.16 £15.50 £14.25
Median hourly rate £17.60 £19.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.39% +8.57% +9.38%
75th Percentile £22.44 £42.00 £22.60
90th Percentile £40.00 £64.50 £28.75
UK median hourly rate £17.69 £20.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -11.55% +14.29% +8.53%

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 4,035 6,498 9,914
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.94% 13.01% 13.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,801 4,713 7,180
10th Percentile £193 £204 £195
25th Percentile £325 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £634
90th Percentile £688 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £495 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -5.71% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 210 237 278
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.25 £13.37
25th Percentile £14.48 £17.72 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.00% +150.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £58.69 £65.00 £32.28
90th Percentile £75.30 £75.60 £56.09
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £54.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -58.33% +170.00% -

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 5 May 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 5 May 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 5 May 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 +5 849 £425 -10.53% 276
South East +17 445 £492 +15.76% 229
North of England -8 271 £325 - 191
South West -12 166 £325 -33.67% 109
Midlands 0 163 £338 -10.00% 160
North West -13 139 £350 - 105
Yorkshire -3 111 £300 +4.35% 65
East of England -13 106 £265 -28.38% 119
West Midlands -5 100 £350 -12.50% 99
East Midlands +1 60 £275 +10.00% 61
North East +18 19 £220 -21.43% 26
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
1 438 (21.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 185 (9.07%) SharePoint
3 44 (2.16%) IIS
4 38 (1.86%) Confluence
5 32 (1.57%) Skype for Business
6 30 (1.47%) Exchange Server 2010
7 27 (1.32%) 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 7 (0.34%) Apache
12 6 (0.29%) nginx
12 6 (0.29%) Tomcat
13 5 (0.25%) JBoss
14 3 (0.15%) WordPress
15 2 (0.098%) IBM Notes
15 2 (0.098%) OpenStack
16 1 (0.049%) BizTalk Server
16 1 (0.049%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 217 (10.64%) Microsoft Office
2 60 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 31 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.49%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.15%) 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 9 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
2 7 (0.34%) Teamcenter
3 4 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.15%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.098%) assyst
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%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.049%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 843 (41.32%) Microsoft 365
2 839 (41.13%) Azure
3 465 (22.79%) Entra ID
4 189 (9.26%) AWS
5 129 (6.32%) Azure DevOps
6 85 (4.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 85 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
7 84 (4.12%) OneDrive
8 67 (3.28%) PaaS
9 59 (2.89%) Azure Service Bus
10 57 (2.79%) IaaS
11 51 (2.50%) Power Platform
12 44 (2.16%) SaaS
13 39 (1.91%) Azure Storage
14 37 (1.81%) WhatsApp
15 36 (1.76%) GCP
16 33 (1.62%) GitHub
17 27 (1.32%) Mimecast
17 27 (1.32%) Serverless
18 26 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 354 (17.35%) DNS
2 234 (11.47%) Firewall
3 232 (11.37%) DHCP
4 114 (5.59%) VPN
5 110 (5.39%) SAN
6 99 (4.85%) LAN
7 98 (4.80%) WAN
8 72 (3.53%) TCP/IP
9 70 (3.43%) Wi-Fi
10 56 (2.75%) Wireless
11 50 (2.45%) SSL
12 42 (2.06%) Skype
13 40 (1.96%) NAS
14 36 (1.76%) Network Security
15 33 (1.62%) VLAN
16 31 (1.52%) Remote Desktop
17 27 (1.32%) MPLS
18 26 (1.27%) VoIP
19 18 (0.88%) Internet
20 17 (0.83%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 240 (11.76%) SQL Server
2 35 (1.72%) MySQL
3 27 (1.32%) Power BI
4 21 (1.03%) Oracle Reports
5 20 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
5 20 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
6 18 (0.88%) NoSQL
7 16 (0.78%) Relational Database
8 15 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
9 14 (0.69%) Redis
10 13 (0.64%) Hadoop
10 13 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
11 11 (0.54%) Oracle Database
12 8 (0.39%) RDBMS
13 6 (0.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 4 (0.20%) Big Data
14 4 (0.20%) Data Lake
14 4 (0.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 2 (0.098%) Electronic Patient Records
15 2 (0.098%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 80 (3.92%) Git
2 66 (3.24%) JIRA
3 25 (1.23%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.03%) Selenium
4 21 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
5 20 (0.98%) TeamCity
6 17 (0.83%) Robot Framework
7 15 (0.74%) Visual Studio
8 11 (0.54%) SpecFlow
8 11 (0.54%) WebDriver
9 10 (0.49%) SonarQube
10 9 (0.44%) Postman
11 8 (0.39%) GitLab
12 6 (0.29%) Hudson
13 5 (0.25%) Bitbucket Server
13 5 (0.25%) CA Release Automation
14 4 (0.20%) Fiddler
14 4 (0.20%) MSI
15 3 (0.15%) Bitbucket
15 3 (0.15%) Cucumber
General
1 570 (27.94%) Social Skills
2 256 (12.55%) Finance
3 185 (9.07%) Public Sector
4 137 (6.72%) Analytical Skills
5 87 (4.26%) Banking
6 53 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
7 47 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
8 43 (2.11%) Manufacturing
9 42 (2.06%) Legal
10 39 (1.91%) Telecoms
11 31 (1.52%) Marketing
12 30 (1.47%) Financial Institution
13 29 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
14 27 (1.32%) Retail
15 22 (1.08%) Back Office
16 20 (0.98%) Electronics
16 20 (0.98%) Law
17 19 (0.93%) Military
18 18 (0.88%) French Language
19 14 (0.69%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 264 (12.94%) Analyst
2 259 (12.70%) Support Engineer
3 235 (11.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 193 (9.46%) Senior
5 168 (8.24%) IT Support
6 165 (8.09%) Architect
7 129 (6.32%) Service Analyst
8 125 (6.13%) Service Desk Analyst
9 117 (5.74%) IT Engineer
10 114 (5.59%) Developer
11 99 (4.85%) 2nd Line Support
12 96 (4.71%) Desktop Support
13 74 (3.63%) Desktop Engineer
14 73 (3.58%) Windows Engineer
15 71 (3.48%) IT Support Engineer
16 67 (3.28%) 2nd Line Engineer
17 65 (3.19%) Azure Engineer
17 65 (3.19%) Senior Developer
18 64 (3.14%) Support Analyst
19 63 (3.09%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (6.62%) .NET
2 97 (4.75%) XML
3 84 (4.12%) LDAP
3 84 (4.12%) Web Services
4 71 (3.48%) .NET Core
5 70 (3.43%) SailPoint
6 64 (3.14%) HTML
7 53 (2.60%) React
8 39 (1.91%) CSS
9 37 (1.81%) SAML
10 34 (1.67%) ASP.NET
11 32 (1.57%) .NET Framework
12 31 (1.52%) AngularJS
13 28 (1.37%) SOAP
14 26 (1.27%) JSP
14 26 (1.27%) Servlets
14 26 (1.27%) SPML
15 24 (1.18%) ARM Templates
16 23 (1.13%) REST
17 22 (1.08%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 170 (8.33%) PKI
2 87 (4.26%) Data Centre
3 71 (3.48%) Onboarding
4 63 (3.09%) Replication
5 60 (2.94%) Product Ownership
6 55 (2.70%) Management Information System
7 53 (2.60%) Clustering
8 49 (2.40%) Video Conferencing
9 47 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
10 30 (1.47%) iPhone
11 27 (1.32%) Driving Licence
12 21 (1.03%) Public Cloud
13 20 (0.98%) iPad
14 18 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
14 18 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
14 18 (0.88%) Smartphone
15 17 (0.83%) CMDB
15 17 (0.83%) NHS
16 16 (0.78%) Cloud Native
16 16 (0.78%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1,300 (63.73%) Windows
2 545 (26.72%) Windows Server
3 461 (22.60%) Windows 10
4 233 (11.42%) Linux
5 181 (8.87%) Windows Server 2012
6 160 (7.84%) Windows Server 2019
7 154 (7.55%) Windows Server 2016
8 84 (4.12%) Windows 7
9 82 (4.02%) Apple iOS
10 57 (2.79%) Android
11 56 (2.75%) Mac OS
12 53 (2.60%) Windows Server 2008
13 50 (2.45%) Unix
14 43 (2.11%) Ubuntu
15 36 (1.76%) VMS
16 35 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 21 (1.03%) Windows NT
17 21 (1.03%) Windows Server 2003
18 18 (0.88%) Windows XP
19 17 (0.83%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 325 (15.93%) Customer Service
2 305 (14.95%) ITIL
3 276 (13.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 271 (13.28%) Problem-Solving
5 255 (12.50%) Migration
6 240 (11.76%) Agile
7 235 (11.52%) DevOps
8 165 (8.09%) CI/CD
9 106 (5.20%) Service Management
10 101 (4.95%) RBAC
11 99 (4.85%) Disaster Recovery
12 98 (4.80%) Identity Access Management
13 96 (4.71%) Cybersecurity
14 93 (4.56%) Mobile Device Management
15 92 (4.51%) Scrum
16 78 (3.82%) Service Delivery
17 75 (3.68%) Change Management
18 72 (3.53%) Project Delivery
19 67 (3.28%) ITSM
20 65 (3.19%) B2C
Programming Languages
1 409 (20.05%) PowerShell
2 185 (9.07%) SQL
3 129 (6.32%) C#
4 106 (5.20%) Python
5 83 (4.07%) Bicep
6 72 (3.53%) JavaScript
7 56 (2.75%) Java
8 34 (1.67%) TypeScript
9 25 (1.23%) VB
10 24 (1.18%) Bash
10 24 (1.18%) VBScript
11 10 (0.49%) R
12 9 (0.44%) C++
12 9 (0.44%) MATLAB
13 8 (0.39%) PHP
14 7 (0.34%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.29%) Perl
16 5 (0.25%) Ruby
17 4 (0.20%) C
17 4 (0.20%) VBA
Qualifications
1 461 (22.60%) Security Cleared
2 264 (12.94%) SC Cleared
3 263 (12.89%) Degree
4 205 (10.05%) DV Cleared
5 127 (6.23%) Microsoft Certification
6 42 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
7 40 (1.96%) Azure Certification
7 40 (1.96%) MCSA
8 39 (1.91%) CCNA
9 35 (1.72%) ITIL Certification
9 35 (1.72%) MCSE
10 32 (1.57%) A+ Certification
11 31 (1.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 28 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
13 24 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
14 23 (1.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 20 (0.98%) DBS Check
16 19 (0.93%) CCNP
17 17 (0.83%) MCP
18 16 (0.78%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (4.80%) SLA
2 51 (2.50%) QA
3 21 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (0.93%) NIST
5 18 (0.88%) GDPR
6 14 (0.69%) Accessibility
6 14 (0.69%) WCAG
7 11 (0.54%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 9 (0.44%) ISO 9001
10 7 (0.34%) RMADS
11 5 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 4 (0.20%) GRC
13 3 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.098%) Data Quality
14 2 (0.098%) PMO
15 1 (0.049%) COBIT
15 1 (0.049%) JSP 440
15 1 (0.049%) NIST 800
System Software
1 291 (14.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 109 (5.34%) Hyper-V
3 83 (4.07%) Virtual Machines
4 61 (2.99%) VMware ESXi
5 57 (2.79%) vSphere
6 52 (2.55%) Virtual Desktop
7 39 (1.91%) Docker
8 37 (1.81%) XenApp
9 35 (1.72%) Firmware
10 26 (1.27%) IAG
11 25 (1.23%) ACF2
11 25 (1.23%) RACF
11 25 (1.23%) VMware NSX
12 22 (1.08%) VMware Workstation
13 20 (0.98%) XenDesktop
14 18 (0.88%) Virtual Servers
15 17 (0.83%) NFS
16 13 (0.64%) HDFS
17 12 (0.59%) BitLocker
18 9 (0.44%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 359 (17.60%) SCCM
2 241 (11.81%) Microsoft Intune
3 100 (4.90%) WSUS
4 82 (4.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 71 (3.48%) Single Sign-On
6 68 (3.33%) Kubernetes
6 68 (3.33%) Terraform
7 65 (3.19%) SCOM
8 57 (2.79%) Ansible
9 52 (2.55%) vCenter Server
10 42 (2.06%) Jamf Pro
11 26 (1.27%) NetBackup
12 24 (1.18%) EMC NetWorker
13 21 (1.03%) Sysprep
14 18 (0.88%) Kibana
15 16 (0.78%) Microsoft Clustering
16 14 (0.69%) Failover Clustering
17 13 (0.64%) Tivoli
18 12 (0.59%) Nessus
19 11 (0.54%) Netcool
Vendors
1 1,080 (52.94%) Microsoft
2 409 (20.05%) VMware
3 179 (8.77%) ServiceNow
4 177 (8.68%) Citrix
5 102 (5.00%) Cisco
6 101 (4.95%) Apple
7 92 (4.51%) Oracle
8 68 (3.33%) Veeam
9 66 (3.24%) HP
10 62 (3.04%) Dell
11 57 (2.79%) CyberArk
12 45 (2.21%) SAP
13 44 (2.16%) EMC
14 38 (1.86%) Red Hat
15 37 (1.81%) Okta
16 31 (1.52%) Palo Alto
17 30 (1.47%) Isilon
18 27 (1.32%) Ivanti
19 25 (1.23%) CA
19 25 (1.23%) Google