Active Directory Contracts in Manchester

Microsoft Active Directory
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 34 24
Rank change year-on-year -20 -10 +14
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 27 62 121
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.82% 4.32% 6.63%
As % of the System Software category 26.47% 44.93% 40.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 55 82
10th Percentile £165 £213 £172
25th Percentile £196 £325 £228
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £450 £375
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +20.00% +50.00%
75th Percentile £479 £513 £500
90th Percentile £518 £665 £573
North West median daily rate £350 £425 £325
% change year-on-year -17.65% +30.77% +30.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 12
10th Percentile - £13.75 £13.98
25th Percentile - £16.38 £15.56
Median hourly rate - £21.50 £18.73
Median % change year-on-year - +14.79% +1.24%
75th Percentile - £27.38 £26.69
90th Percentile - £30.45 £38.52
North West median hourly rate - £17.39 £17.50
% change year-on-year - -0.61% -

All System Software Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 102 138 296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 10.65% 9.61% 16.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 115 217
10th Percentile £244 £281 £238
25th Percentile £402 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.76% -7.50% -2.53%
75th Percentile £545 £588 £575
90th Percentile £625 £675 £643
North West median daily rate £438 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -7.89% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 15
10th Percentile - £13.75 £14.07
25th Percentile £76.25 £16.38 £15.72
Median hourly rate £82.50 £21.50 £17.46
Median % change year-on-year +283.72% +23.14% -5.62%
75th Percentile £88.75 £27.38 £27.38
90th Percentile - £30.45 £54.09
North West median hourly rate £82.50 £17.72 £17.50
% change year-on-year +365.58% +1.26% -

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Manchester

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in Manchester

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in Manchester

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in Manchester

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 6 July 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bolton - 4 £190 - 15
Oldham -1 1 - - 3
Stockport - 1 £145 - 12
Active Directory
North West

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 12 (44.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (7.41%) IIS
2 2 (7.41%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.70%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 16 (59.26%) Microsoft 365
2 15 (55.56%) Azure
3 12 (44.44%) Entra ID
4 7 (25.93%) IaaS
5 4 (14.81%) AWS
6 2 (7.41%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (7.41%) Amazon S3
6 2 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (7.41%) Nutanix
6 2 (7.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Stack
7 1 (3.70%) Cloudflare
7 1 (3.70%) GCP
7 1 (3.70%) Google Workspace
7 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (3.70%) PaaS
7 1 (3.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (33.33%) Firewall
2 7 (25.93%) DHCP
2 7 (25.93%) Network Security
3 6 (22.22%) Intrusion Detection
4 5 (18.52%) DNS
5 3 (11.11%) VPN
6 2 (7.41%) Kerberos
7 1 (3.70%) DMZ
7 1 (3.70%) SAN
7 1 (3.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) GitLab
General
1 9 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (22.22%) Telecoms
3 3 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.70%) Banking
4 1 (3.70%) Finance
4 1 (3.70%) Military
4 1 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (25.93%) Analyst
2 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 4 (14.81%) IT Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Windows Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Deployment Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Linux Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Support Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) 1st Line Support
5 2 (7.41%) IT Support
5 2 (7.41%) IT Support Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Service Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Service Desk Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Windows Deployment Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) 1st Line Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Service Desk Support
6 1 (3.70%) Service Desk Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) LDAP
2 1 (3.70%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) Clustering
1 2 (7.41%) NHS
2 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.70%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.70%) Private Cloud
2 1 (3.70%) Reinsurance
2 1 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.70%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 24 (88.89%) Windows
2 15 (55.56%) Windows Server
3 8 (29.63%) Windows 10
4 7 (25.93%) Linux
5 3 (11.11%) VMS
6 2 (7.41%) CentOS
6 2 (7.41%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (3.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (29.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (25.93%) Change Management
2 7 (25.93%) High Availability
2 7 (25.93%) Project Delivery
3 6 (22.22%) Business Continuity
3 6 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (22.22%) ITIL
3 6 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (22.22%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 5 (18.52%) Analytics
4 5 (18.52%) BCP
4 5 (18.52%) Business Continuity Planning
4 5 (18.52%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (18.52%) Enterprise Architecture
4 5 (18.52%) Information Security
4 5 (18.52%) Line Management
4 5 (18.52%) Risk Assessment
4 5 (18.52%) Web Operations
5 4 (14.81%) Customer Service
6 3 (11.11%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (29.63%) PowerShell
2 2 (7.41%) Bash
2 2 (7.41%) Python
3 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (25.93%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (22.22%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.70%) DBS Check
3 1 (3.70%) Degree
3 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) PCI DSS
1 2 (7.41%) SLA
2 1 (3.70%) NCSC
System Software
1 9 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (22.22%) vSphere
3 2 (7.41%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (7.41%) VMware NSX
4 1 (3.70%) BitLocker
4 1 (3.70%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.70%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (44.44%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (18.52%) SCCM
3 4 (14.81%) Ansible
3 4 (14.81%) ZABBIX
4 2 (7.41%) Grafana
4 2 (7.41%) Kubernetes
4 2 (7.41%) Nagios
4 2 (7.41%) Prometheus
4 2 (7.41%) Puppet
4 2 (7.41%) Terraform
5 1 (3.70%) Dell DRAC
5 1 (3.70%) Graylog
5 1 (3.70%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (3.70%) WSUS
Vendors
1 18 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 11 (40.74%) VMware
3 4 (14.81%) Dell
3 4 (14.81%) HP
4 3 (11.11%) IBM
5 2 (7.41%) Citrix
5 2 (7.41%) CyberArk
5 2 (7.41%) Oracle
5 2 (7.41%) SolarWinds
6 1 (3.70%) CheckPoint
6 1 (3.70%) Cisco
6 1 (3.70%) F5
6 1 (3.70%) Google
6 1 (3.70%) Meraki
6 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.70%) Zscaler