Active Directory Contracts in Kent

Microsoft Active Directory
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Kent 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 6 20 12
Rank change year-on-year +14 -8 -6
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 17 9 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Kent 16.19% 4.46% 10.05%
As % of the System Software category 65.38% 60.00% 78.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 9 20
10th Percentile £206 £148 £120
25th Percentile £253 £155 £133
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £263 £205 £231
Median % change year-on-year +28.05% -11.35% +17.09%
75th Percentile £603 £208 £749
90th Percentile £623 £321 £788
South East median daily rate £525 £480 £425
% change year-on-year +9.38% +12.94% +13.33%

All System Software Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 26 15 28
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 24.76% 7.43% 12.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 14 26
10th Percentile £205 £152 £123
25th Percentile £255 £169 £156
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £333 £248 £346
Median % change year-on-year +34.34% -28.52% +35.12%
75th Percentile £603 £344 £651
90th Percentile £623 £416 £768
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £51.50 -
South East median hourly rate £57.50 £50.75 £54.03
% change year-on-year +13.30% -6.07% +170.15%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Kent

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Kent

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in Kent

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in Kent

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

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in Kent

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Kent

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in Kent

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in Kent

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 Kent region over the 6 months to 1 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
Maidstone - 9 £569 - 21
Chatham - 5 £263 - 4
Active Directory
South East

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (52.94%) Azure
2 6 (35.29%) IaaS
3 3 (17.65%) Entra ID
3 3 (17.65%) PaaS
4 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (35.29%) DHCP
1 6 (35.29%) DNS
1 6 (35.29%) Firewall
1 6 (35.29%) SAN
2 4 (23.53%) WebEx
3 3 (17.65%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (11.76%) NetScaler
4 2 (11.76%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (5.88%) Internet
General
1 5 (29.41%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) 2nd Line Support
1 6 (35.29%) Azure Engineer
1 6 (35.29%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (35.29%) VMware Engineer
1 6 (35.29%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
2 4 (23.53%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Analyst
2 4 (23.53%) Support Analyst
2 4 (23.53%) Support Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
3 3 (17.65%) 3rd Line Support
3 3 (17.65%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Support
3 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) VMware Support Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Desktop Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (64.71%) Windows
2 1 (5.88%) Mac OS
2 1 (5.88%) Windows 10
2 1 (5.88%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) ITIL
2 7 (41.18%) Mobile Device Management
3 6 (35.29%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (35.29%) Security Patching
4 5 (29.41%) DevOps
5 2 (11.76%) Analytics
5 2 (11.76%) Computer Science
5 2 (11.76%) Incident Management
5 2 (11.76%) ITSM
5 2 (11.76%) Knowledge Management
6 1 (5.88%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (5.88%) Customer Service
6 1 (5.88%) Inventory Management
6 1 (5.88%) Line Management
6 1 (5.88%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (5.88%) Process Improvement
6 1 (5.88%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) A+ Certification
1 2 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
1 2 (11.76%) MCP
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (35.29%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (35.29%) DFS Replication
1 6 (35.29%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (35.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 14 (82.35%) Microsoft
2 6 (35.29%) Citrix
2 6 (35.29%) ServiceNow
2 6 (35.29%) VMware
3 4 (23.53%) Sage