Active Directory Contracts in Essex

Microsoft Active Directory
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 14 22
Rank change year-on-year +4 +8 +11
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 9 15 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 11.39% 6.79% 6.30%
As % of the System Software category 56.25% 57.69% 32.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 10
10th Percentile £206 £194 £158
25th Percentile £234 £222 £251
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £245 £425 £345
Median % change year-on-year -42.35% +23.19% +4.15%
75th Percentile £353 £475 £578
90th Percentile £494 £550 £663
East of England median daily rate £375 £265 £350
% change year-on-year +41.51% -24.29% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £14.31 -
East of England median hourly rate £15.44 £14.16 £16.50
% change year-on-year +9.04% -14.18% +6.45%

All System Software Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 16 26 46
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 20.25% 11.76% 19.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 16 22
10th Percentile £221 £194 £226
25th Percentile £243 £288 £336
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £450 £489
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -7.93% -8.64%
75th Percentile £600 £489 £529
90th Percentile £645 £550 £621
East of England median daily rate £470 £425 £430
% change year-on-year +10.59% -1.16% +1.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile - £13.15 £22.30
25th Percentile - £13.59 £23.79
Median hourly rate £200.00 £14.31 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +1297.62% -41.88% +32.72%
75th Percentile - £15.04 £34.90
90th Percentile - £15.47 £53.41
East of England median hourly rate £21.46 £14.16 £24.62
% change year-on-year +51.55% -42.49% +58.84%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Essex

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in Essex

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in Essex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in Essex over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in Essex

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in Essex

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in Essex

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 Essex region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Basildon - 3 £375 - 4
Braintree - 1 £188 - 4
Active Directory
East of England

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 4 (44.44%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (44.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (44.44%) OneDrive
3 2 (22.22%) Azure
3 2 (22.22%) IaaS
4 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) DNS
2 3 (33.33%) DHCP
2 3 (33.33%) Firewall
2 3 (33.33%) LAN
2 3 (33.33%) VLAN
2 3 (33.33%) VoIP
2 3 (33.33%) VPN
2 3 (33.33%) WAN
2 3 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (11.11%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (11.11%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (11.11%) Automotive
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Desktop Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Desktop Support
1 3 (33.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Desktop Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Desktop Support
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Desktop Support Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Network Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Network Integration Engineer
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Windows
2 4 (44.44%) Windows 10
3 2 (22.22%) Windows Server
4 1 (11.11%) Linux
4 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Customer Service
2 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
4 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (11.11%) High Availability
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (11.11%) ITSM
4 1 (11.11%) Migration
4 1 (11.11%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
4 1 (11.11%) Task Automation
4 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) AppManager
1 3 (33.33%) SCCM
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (44.44%) VMware
3 3 (33.33%) Ivanti
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco
4 1 (11.11%) Juniper
4 1 (11.11%) Palo Alto
4 1 (11.11%) Red Hat