Active Directory Contracts in Leeds

Microsoft Active Directory
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 39 34
Rank change year-on-year +25 -5 -2
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 65 26 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 10.87% 3.63% 5.11%
As % of the System Software category 62.50% 30.23% 47.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 21 40
10th Percentile £185 £350 £154
25th Percentile £235 £400 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £550 £408
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +34.97% +48.18%
75th Percentile £555 £600 £575
90th Percentile £588 £650 £635
West Yorkshire median daily rate £400 £550 £338
% change year-on-year -27.27% +62.96% +50.00%

All System Software Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 104 86 118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 17.39% 11.99% 10.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 65 76
10th Percentile £200 £288 £156
25th Percentile £276 £400 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.53% -19.05% +12.00%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £621
90th Percentile £588 £626 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £410 £438 £500
% change year-on-year -6.29% -12.50% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £14.63 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £14.63 £13.49
% change year-on-year - +8.45% -37.28%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Leeds

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in Leeds

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in Leeds over the 6 months to 17 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in Leeds

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in Leeds

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 14 (21.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (15.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (4.62%) SharePoint
Applications
1 26 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 39 (60.00%) Entra ID
2 31 (47.69%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (10.77%) Azure
4 2 (3.08%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (3.08%) AWS
4 2 (3.08%) IaaS
4 2 (3.08%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (16.92%) DNS
2 7 (10.77%) VPN
3 2 (3.08%) Firewall
3 2 (3.08%) Network Security
4 1 (1.54%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (18.46%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.54%) SQL Server
General
1 50 (76.92%) Social Skills
2 21 (32.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 19 (29.23%) Retail
4 4 (6.15%) Finance
5 3 (4.62%) Legal
6 2 (3.08%) Electronics
6 2 (3.08%) Local Government
6 2 (3.08%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.08%) Marketing
6 2 (3.08%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.08%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.54%) Banking
Job Titles
1 29 (44.62%) Support Manager
2 13 (20.00%) IT Support
3 12 (18.46%) 1st Line Support
3 12 (18.46%) 1st Line Support Manager
3 12 (18.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 12 (18.46%) IT Manager
3 12 (18.46%) IT Support Manager
4 8 (12.31%) Desktop Engineer
5 7 (10.77%) IT Engineer
5 7 (10.77%) Support Engineer
6 6 (9.23%) Desktop Support
6 6 (9.23%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 6 (9.23%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (9.23%) Support Assistant
7 5 (7.69%) Deployment Engineer
7 5 (7.69%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 4 (6.15%) Engineering Specialist
9 3 (4.62%) Linux Engineer
9 3 (4.62%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (4.62%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 19 (29.23%) iPhone
1 19 (29.23%) Smartphone
2 11 (16.92%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (3.08%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.54%) CCTV
4 1 (1.54%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.54%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.54%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 30 (46.15%) Mac OS
2 27 (41.54%) Windows
3 17 (26.15%) Linux
3 17 (26.15%) Windows Server
4 3 (4.62%) Windows 10
5 2 (3.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.54%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (1.54%) VMS
6 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (53.85%) Customer Service
2 25 (38.46%) ITIL
2 25 (38.46%) ITSM
3 20 (30.77%) Incident Management
4 19 (29.23%) Mobile Device Management
4 19 (29.23%) Service Management
5 17 (26.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 16 (24.62%) Service Delivery
7 14 (21.54%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (15.38%) Agile
8 10 (15.38%) Microservices
8 10 (15.38%) Security Management
8 10 (15.38%) Security Patching
8 10 (15.38%) SOA
9 9 (13.85%) Service Desk Management
10 8 (12.31%) Server Management
11 6 (9.23%) Case Management
11 6 (9.23%) Collaborative Working
12 5 (7.69%) Migration
13 3 (4.62%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 16 (24.62%) PowerShell
2 12 (18.46%) Bash
2 12 (18.46%) SQL
3 11 (16.92%) PL/SQL
4 9 (13.85%) Perl
Qualifications
1 14 (21.54%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (18.46%) ACSP
2 12 (18.46%) ACTC
2 12 (18.46%) Security Cleared
3 11 (16.92%) SC Cleared
4 6 (9.23%) Degree
4 6 (9.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (3.08%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (3.08%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (3.08%) VMware NSX
1 2 (3.08%) vSphere
2 1 (1.54%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 30 (46.15%) Jamf Pro
2 10 (15.38%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (7.69%) SCCM
4 1 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.54%) vCenter Server
4 1 (1.54%) vRealize
Vendors
1 46 (70.77%) Microsoft
2 36 (55.38%) ServiceNow
3 31 (47.69%) Apple
4 14 (21.54%) Cisco
5 12 (18.46%) Oracle
6 6 (9.23%) Citrix
7 4 (6.15%) Veeam
7 4 (6.15%) VMware
8 3 (4.62%) Computacenter
9 2 (3.08%) Meraki
9 2 (3.08%) Palo Alto
9 2 (3.08%) Red Hat
9 2 (3.08%) SAP
10 1 (1.54%) MobileIron