Active Directory Contracts in Kent

Microsoft Active Directory
South East > Kent

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Kent 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 13 5
Rank change year-on-year -8 -8 +16
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 9 22 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Kent 4.39% 10.14% 13.72%
As % of the System Software category 60.00% 78.57% 79.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 20 34
10th Percentile £148 £120 £150
25th Percentile £155 £133 £173
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £205 £231 £198
Median % change year-on-year -11.35% +17.09% -18.97%
75th Percentile £208 £749 £463
90th Percentile £321 £788 £588
South East median daily rate £480 £450 £375
% change year-on-year +6.67% +20.00% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £16.35
25th Percentile - - £16.71
Median hourly rate - - £17.56
75th Percentile - - £18.65
90th Percentile - - £19.16
South East median hourly rate £17.69 £18.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year -4.38% +19.35% +10.71%

All System Software Skills
Kent

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 Kent with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 15 28 48
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 7.32% 12.90% 17.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 26 42
10th Percentile £152 £123 £150
25th Percentile £169 £156 £181
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £248 £346 £256
Median % change year-on-year -28.52% +35.12% -39.71%
75th Percentile £344 £651 £552
90th Percentile £416 £768 £588
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £16.35
25th Percentile £50.75 - £16.71
Median hourly rate £51.50 - £17.56
75th Percentile £52.25 - £18.65
90th Percentile - - £19.16
South East median hourly rate £50.75 £53.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.25% +165.00% -

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 26 April 2024.

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 26 April 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
West Malling -2 1 £400 +190.91%
Sittingbourne - 1 £140 - 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 4 (44.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (33.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (11.11%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (33.33%) OneDrive
3 1 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) DHCP
1 3 (33.33%) DNS
1 3 (33.33%) LAN
1 3 (33.33%) VLAN
1 3 (33.33%) VPN
1 3 (33.33%) WAN
1 3 (33.33%) WebEx
1 3 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (11.11%) Banking
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Desktop Support
2 3 (33.33%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
2 3 (33.33%) 2nd Line Support
2 3 (33.33%) Deskside Support
3 2 (22.22%) Desktop Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Help Desk Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) IT Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Active Directory Administrator
4 1 (11.11%) Administrator
4 1 (11.11%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Exchange Administrator
4 1 (11.11%) IT Administrator
4 1 (11.11%) IT Systems Administrator
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
4 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (11.11%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (44.44%) Windows 10
3 3 (33.33%) Windows Server
4 1 (11.11%) Android
4 1 (11.11%) Mac OS X
4 1 (11.11%) Windows 7
4 1 (11.11%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Customer Service
2 1 (11.11%) Application Packaging
2 1 (11.11%) Break/Fix
2 1 (11.11%) Budget Responsibility
2 1 (11.11%) Data Management
2 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
2 1 (11.11%) ITIL
2 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (11.11%) Security Patching
2 1 (11.11%) Server Patching
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) AppManager
1 3 (33.33%) SCCM
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Microsoft
2 4 (44.44%) Ivanti
3 3 (33.33%) Cisco
3 3 (33.33%) VMware
4 1 (11.11%) Adobe
4 1 (11.11%) Apple