Active Directory Contracts in Gloucester

Microsoft Active Directory
Gloucestershire > Gloucester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucester 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 14 6
Rank change year-on-year +6 -8 +2
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 15 9 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucester 16.48% 10.71% 34.01%
As % of the System Software category 60.00% 52.94% 72.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 41
10th Percentile £206 - £200
25th Percentile £225 £400 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +12.50% +117.69%
75th Percentile £750 £500 £525
90th Percentile £900 - £600
Gloucestershire median daily rate £425 £225 £400
% change year-on-year +88.89% -43.75% +100.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £11.00
Median hourly rate - - £12.00
75th Percentile - - £13.00
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate - - £12.00

All System Software Skills
Gloucester

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 Gloucester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 25 17 69
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucester 27.47% 20.24% 46.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 8 53
10th Percentile £210 £400 £200
25th Percentile £400 £438 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £573 £400
Median % change year-on-year +7.42% +43.13% +116.22%
75th Percentile £700 £625 £525
90th Percentile £900 - £600
Gloucestershire median daily rate £600 £550 £500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £17.70
25th Percentile - - £27.75
Median hourly rate - - £45.00
75th Percentile - - £61.75
90th Percentile - - £71.50
Gloucestershire median hourly rate - - £66.50

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucester

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Gloucester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucester

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in Gloucester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in Gloucester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in Gloucester

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucester

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in Gloucester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucester 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 8 (53.33%) SharePoint
2 5 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (13.33%) Confluence
4 1 (6.67%) IIS
4 1 (6.67%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (86.67%) Azure
2 8 (53.33%) Entra ID
3 5 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (20.00%) SaaS
5 1 (6.67%) AWS
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Stack
5 1 (6.67%) Google Workspace
5 1 (6.67%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) VPN
2 2 (13.33%) DNS
3 1 (6.67%) DHCP
3 1 (6.67%) Remote Desktop
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Architect
1 4 (26.67%) Support Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Security Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Administrator
3 2 (13.33%) Desktop Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Desktop Support
3 2 (13.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) IT Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) IT Technician
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365 Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Wintel Administrator
4 1 (6.67%) Wintel Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Wintel Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Wintel Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (20.00%) iPad
1 3 (20.00%) iPhone
1 3 (20.00%) Security Posture
1 3 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (53.33%) Windows
2 4 (26.67%) Windows 10
3 3 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (6.67%) Android
5 1 (6.67%) Apple iOS
5 1 (6.67%) Linux
5 1 (6.67%) Mac OS
5 1 (6.67%) Rocky
5 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (33.33%) ITIL
2 5 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (26.67%) Task Automation
4 3 (20.00%) Antivirus Management
4 3 (20.00%) Customer Service
4 3 (20.00%) Inventory Management
4 3 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
4 3 (20.00%) Time Management
4 3 (20.00%) Zero Trust
5 2 (13.33%) Agile
6 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Architecture
6 1 (6.67%) GAP Analysis
6 1 (6.67%) Identity Access Management
6 1 (6.67%) ITSM
6 1 (6.67%) Migration
6 1 (6.67%) Patch Management
6 1 (6.67%) Problem Management
6 1 (6.67%) Resource Management
6 1 (6.67%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.67%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) VB
2 1 (6.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 13 (86.67%) Security Cleared
2 12 (80.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (33.33%) DV Cleared
4 3 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (13.33%) Degree
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
6 1 (6.67%) MCP
6 1 (6.67%) MCSA
6 1 (6.67%) MCSE
6 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (6.67%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) PMO
2 1 (6.67%) NCSC
2 1 (6.67%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (13.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (6.67%) BitLocker
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (6.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (6.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (6.67%) NetApp OnCommand
3 1 (6.67%) SCCM
3 1 (6.67%) vCenter Server
3 1 (6.67%) vMotion
3 1 (6.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 14 (93.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (26.67%) McAfee
3 3 (20.00%) VMware
4 1 (6.67%) Citrix
4 1 (6.67%) Dell
4 1 (6.67%) Symantec