Active Directory Contracts in Ipswich

Microsoft Active Directory
Suffolk > Ipswich

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Ipswich 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 4 6 19
Rank change year-on-year +2 +13 -5
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 10 5 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Ipswich 28.57% 13.16% 4.27%
As % of the System Software category 76.92% 100.00% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 2
10th Percentile £157 £178 £129
25th Percentile £170 £178 £131
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £183 £186 £144
Median % change year-on-year -2.01% +29.57% -29.01%
75th Percentile £193 £193 £158
90th Percentile £363 £194 £162
Suffolk median daily rate £185 £199 £189
% change year-on-year -6.92% +5.30% -6.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £17.00 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year - +3.03% -34.00%
Suffolk median hourly rate - £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year - +3.03% -19.12%

All System Software Skills
Ipswich

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 Ipswich.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 13 5 10
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Ipswich 37.14% 13.16% 8.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 6
10th Percentile £161 £178 £134
25th Percentile £170 £178 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £185 £186 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% -66.14% +12.82%
75th Percentile £196 £193 £700
90th Percentile £505 £194 -
Suffolk median daily rate £188 £210 £313
% change year-on-year -10.71% -32.80% -35.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £17.00 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year - +3.03% -34.00%
Suffolk median hourly rate - £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year - +3.03% -19.12%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Ipswich

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Ipswich

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Ipswich

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in Ipswich

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Daily Rate Histogram in Ipswich

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

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in Ipswich

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Ipswich

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in Ipswich

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Ipswich 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Event Grid
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (10.00%) GCP
2 1 (10.00%) IaaS
2 1 (10.00%) PaaS
2 1 (10.00%) SaaS
2 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (70.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 2 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Analyst
1 3 (30.00%) IT Analyst
1 3 (30.00%) IT Support
1 3 (30.00%) IT Support Analyst
1 3 (30.00%) Support Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 2 (20.00%) IT Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) 1st Line Support
3 1 (10.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 1 (10.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Database Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Deployment Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Cloud Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Deployment Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (10.00%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (10.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (10.00%) Cost Management
1 1 (10.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (10.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (10.00%) DevOps
1 1 (10.00%) High Availability
1 1 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (10.00%) ITIL
1 1 (10.00%) Migration
1 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (10.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Bicep
1 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) DBS Check
2 1 (10.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
1 1 (10.00%) SLA
1 1 (10.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) ZyXEL
3 1 (10.00%) Apple
3 1 (10.00%) Okta
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (10.00%) Zscaler