Active Directory Contract Job Trends in Leatherhead

Microsoft Active Directory
Surrey > Leatherhead

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leatherhead requiring Active Directory skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 9 3
Rank change year-on-year +6 -6 -1
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 5 2 15
As % of all contract jobs in Leatherhead 22.73% 6.90% 26.79%
As % of the System Software category 100.00% 100.00% 83.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 14
10th Percentile £272 £529 -
25th Percentile £398 £553 £158
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £600 £165
Median % change year-on-year -12.92% +263.64% -67.80%
75th Percentile £565 £641 £205
90th Percentile - £661 -
Surrey median daily rate £268 £295 £215
% change year-on-year -9.17% +36.98% -17.31%

All System Software Skills
Leatherhead

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 Leatherhead.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 5 2 18
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leatherhead 22.73% 6.90% 32.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 17
10th Percentile £272 £529 -
25th Percentile £398 £553 £158
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £600 £168
Median % change year-on-year -12.92% +257.14% -69.45%
75th Percentile £565 £641 £205
90th Percentile - £661 £571
Surrey median daily rate £410 £350 £340
% change year-on-year +17.14% +2.94% -28.42%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Leatherhead

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Active Directory relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leatherhead.

Active Directory job vacancy trend in Leatherhead

Active Directory
Daily Rate Trend in Leatherhead

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

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

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in Leatherhead

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in Leatherhead over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in Leatherhead

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Trend in Leatherhead

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

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

Active Directory
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leatherhead by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (60.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (20.00%) Akamai
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (40.00%) DHCP
2 2 (40.00%) DNS
3 1 (20.00%) Firewall
3 1 (20.00%) Unified Communications
3 1 (20.00%) VLAN
3 1 (20.00%) VoIP
3 1 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
2 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Desktop Support
2 1 (20.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Security Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Security Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (20.00%) Smartphone
1 1 (20.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (20.00%) Change Control
3 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) Patch Management
3 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) Server Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) Service Management
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (60.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (20.00%) SCCM
2 1 (20.00%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Citrix
2 1 (20.00%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (20.00%) CyberArk
2 1 (20.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (20.00%) Imperva
2 1 (20.00%) NetApp
2 1 (20.00%) Okta
2 1 (20.00%) Proofpoint
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) Tenable
2 1 (20.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Zscaler