Active Directory Contracts in Essex

Microsoft Active Directory
East of England > Essex

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 23 32
Rank change year-on-year +4 +9 -18
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 14 13 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 6.39% 5.46% 7.11%
As % of the System Software category 56.00% 28.89% 37.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 8 13
10th Percentile £193 £260 £155
25th Percentile £208 £329 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £388 £400
Median % change year-on-year +12.90% -3.13% +114.77%
75th Percentile £475 £631 £550
90th Percentile £550 £688 £600
East of England median daily rate £265 £375 £325
% change year-on-year -29.33% +15.38% +47.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 9
10th Percentile £13.15 - £17.82
25th Percentile £13.59 - -
Median hourly rate £14.31 - £18.55
75th Percentile £15.04 - £28.41
90th Percentile £15.47 - -
East of England median hourly rate £14.16 £16.75 £15.50
% change year-on-year -15.46% +8.06% -12.68%

All System Software Skills
Essex

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 Essex with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 25 45 75
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 11.42% 18.91% 19.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 20 41
10th Percentile £194 £304 £163
25th Percentile £275 £394 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +53.85%
75th Percentile £493 £549 £613
90th Percentile £550 £628 £631
East of England median daily rate £375 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -16.67% +5.88% +3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 9
10th Percentile £13.15 £22.30 £17.82
25th Percentile £13.59 £23.79 -
Median hourly rate £14.31 £24.62 £18.55
Median % change year-on-year -41.88% +32.72% +0.95%
75th Percentile £15.04 £34.90 £28.41
90th Percentile £15.47 £53.41 -
East of England median hourly rate £14.16 £24.62 £15.50
% change year-on-year -42.49% +58.84% -15.16%

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 4 May 2024.

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 4 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
Colchester +3 7 £450 -25.00% 2
Chelmsford - 3 £190 - 3
Saffron Walden 0 2 £213 +41.67%
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 5 (35.71%) IIS
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (21.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) Azure
2 5 (35.71%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) TCP/IP
1 3 (21.43%) Wireshark
2 2 (14.29%) LAN
2 2 (14.29%) Structured Cabling
2 2 (14.29%) WAN
2 2 (14.29%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Fiddler
General
1 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Administrator
1 3 (21.43%) SharePoint Administrator
2 2 (14.29%) 2nd/3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Service Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Service Desk Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Support Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Web Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
3 1 (7.14%) ICT Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) ICT Support Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Support
3 1 (7.14%) Messaging Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) .NET
2 3 (21.43%) .NET Framework
2 3 (21.43%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 11 (78.57%) Windows
2 8 (57.14%) Windows Server
3 2 (14.29%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) DevOps
1 5 (35.71%) Load Balancing
2 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (14.29%) ITIL
2 2 (14.29%) Migration
3 1 (7.14%) Coaching
3 1 (7.14%) Commercial Awareness
3 1 (7.14%) Network Management
3 1 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (7.14%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) PowerShell
2 2 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
1 2 (14.29%) ECDL
1 2 (14.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (7.14%) DBS Check
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) SCOM
2 3 (21.43%) SCCM
2 3 (21.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (35.71%) F5
3 3 (21.43%) Clearswift
3 3 (21.43%) Proofpoint
3 3 (21.43%) VMware
4 2 (14.29%) Citrix
5 1 (7.14%) Apple
5 1 (7.14%) Google