Active Directory Contracts in Knutsford

Microsoft Active Directory
Cheshire > Knutsford

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

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 34 27
Rank change year-on-year -5 -7 -4
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 10 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Knutsford 4.12% 0.57% 0.84%
As % of the System Software category 37.04% 5.26% 4.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 1
10th Percentile £330 - -
25th Percentile £373 £613 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £625 £515
Median % change year-on-year -37.12% +21.36% -18.32%
75th Percentile £405 £638 -
90th Percentile £483 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £367 £385 £215
% change year-on-year -4.68% +79.07% +2.38%

All System Software Skills
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 27 19 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 11.11% 10.86% 20.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 16 24
10th Percentile £336 £494 -
25th Percentile £360 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £391 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -27.63% -1.77% -12.70%
75th Percentile £425 £599 £575
90th Percentile £530 £726 £620
Cheshire median daily rate £391 £532 £538
% change year-on-year -26.43% -1.12% +24.28%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Knutsford

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in Knutsford

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

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

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in Knutsford

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in Knutsford

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Knutsford 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 (80.00%) JBoss
2 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) AWS
2 8 (80.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (10.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DHCP
1 1 (10.00%) DMZ
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (80.00%) Elasticsearch
1 8 (80.00%) RDBMS
1 8 (80.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (90.00%) JIRA
2 8 (80.00%) Bitbucket Server
2 8 (80.00%) CA Release Automation
2 8 (80.00%) Git
2 8 (80.00%) Jenkins
2 8 (80.00%) SonarQube
2 8 (80.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 8 (80.00%) TeamCity
3 1 (10.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) AWS DevOps
1 3 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) DevOps Specialist
2 1 (10.00%) Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Applications Support
2 1 (10.00%) Build Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Lead
2 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Platform Specialist
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Build Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (80.00%) Elastic Stack
1 8 (80.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (10.00%) LDAP
2 1 (10.00%) OAuth
2 1 (10.00%) SailPoint
2 1 (10.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) PMI
1 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (90.00%) Windows
2 8 (80.00%) Linux
2 8 (80.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (10.00%) Unix
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (90.00%) DevOps
2 8 (80.00%) Build Automation
2 8 (80.00%) Code Quality
2 8 (80.00%) Continuous Integration
2 8 (80.00%) Deployment Automation
2 8 (80.00%) Microservices
2 8 (80.00%) Migration
3 6 (60.00%) Analytics
3 6 (60.00%) Change Management
3 6 (60.00%) Observability
3 6 (60.00%) Runbook
3 6 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (10.00%) Agile
4 1 (10.00%) Business Analysis
4 1 (10.00%) Identity Management
4 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (10.00%) Scrum
4 1 (10.00%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) Perl
1 8 (80.00%) Python
2 6 (60.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) CBAP
1 1 (10.00%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
1 1 (10.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (10.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (80.00%) Kibana
1 8 (80.00%) Kubernetes
1 8 (80.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (10.00%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) AppDynamics
1 8 (80.00%) Red Hat
1 8 (80.00%) Splunk
2 6 (60.00%) Cloudera
3 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (10.00%) CyberArk
4 1 (10.00%) Dell
4 1 (10.00%) Okta
4 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow