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 27 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 7 13
Rank change year-on-year 0 +6 -7
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Active Directory 21 14 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Kent 15.67% 7.49% 10.05%
As % of the System Software category 53.85% 93.33% 62.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 9 17
10th Percentile - £149 £131
25th Percentile £153 £153 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £263 £160 £365
Median % change year-on-year +64.06% -56.16% +46.00%
75th Percentile £513 £170 £388
90th Percentile £623 £304 £525
South East median daily rate £500 £475 £325
% change year-on-year +5.26% +46.15% +4.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £22.40 -
South East median hourly rate £30.39 £17.80 £21.25
% change year-on-year +70.70% -16.22% +39.31%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 39 15 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 29.10% 8.02% 15.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 9 28
10th Percentile £153 £149 £144
25th Percentile £256 £153 £226
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £333 £160 £365
Median % change year-on-year +107.81% -56.16% +36.45%
75th Percentile £459 £170 £506
90th Percentile £603 £304 £615
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £36.95 -
South East median hourly rate £67.25 £54.88 £53.53
% change year-on-year +22.55% +2.51% +143.32%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Kent

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing Active Directory.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing Active Directory

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in Kent

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in Kent over the 6 months to 27 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in Kent

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Trend in Kent

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing Active Directory.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing Active Directory

Active Directory
DemandTrendContract 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 27 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Chatham - 9 £263 -
Tonbridge - 5 £155 -
Maidstone -2 2 £615 +272.73% 6
Gravesend - 2 £128 - 1
West Malling - 1 £615 - 1
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 6 (28.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (23.81%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (38.10%) Azure
2 7 (33.33%) IaaS
2 7 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 3 (14.29%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (47.62%) DNS
1 10 (47.62%) Firewall
2 6 (28.57%) WebEx
3 5 (23.81%) DHCP
3 5 (23.81%) Remote Desktop
3 5 (23.81%) SAN
3 5 (23.81%) TCP/IP
3 5 (23.81%) VPN
4 3 (14.29%) Fibre Channel
General
1 7 (33.33%) Finance
2 5 (23.81%) Law
2 5 (23.81%) Legal
3 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) IT Support
2 6 (28.57%) 2nd Line Support
2 6 (28.57%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
2 6 (28.57%) Analyst
2 6 (28.57%) Support Analyst
3 5 (23.81%) Help Desk Officer
3 5 (23.81%) Help Desk Support
3 5 (23.81%) Service Desk Officer
3 5 (23.81%) Service Desk Support
3 5 (23.81%) Support Officer
4 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) Support Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) VMware Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Junior IT Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Operational Technology
2 1 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (61.90%) Windows
2 5 (23.81%) Windows 10
2 5 (23.81%) Windows Server
2 5 (23.81%) Windows Server 2012
2 5 (23.81%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) ITIL
2 7 (33.33%) Mobile Device Management
3 5 (23.81%) Creative Problem-Solving
3 5 (23.81%) CRM
3 5 (23.81%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (23.81%) Preventative Maintenance
3 5 (23.81%) PRINCE2
3 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (19.05%) DevOps
4 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (19.05%) Security Patching
5 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (9.52%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (4.76%) Line Management
6 1 (4.76%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.52%) Bicep
1 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (23.81%) GDPR
1 5 (23.81%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (47.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (23.81%) DFS Replication
2 5 (23.81%) Hyper-V
2 5 (23.81%) Terminal Services
2 5 (23.81%) vSphere
3 2 (9.52%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (52.38%) Citrix
3 10 (47.62%) VMware
4 6 (28.57%) Sage
4 6 (28.57%) ServiceNow