Active Directory Contracts in the Midlands

Microsoft Active Directory
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 24 20 21
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 -6
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 153 291 409
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 5.58% 8.43% 8.06%
As % of the System Software category 62.20% 59.88% 58.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 210 296
10th Percentile £145 £135 £120
25th Percentile £185 £173 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £358 £241
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +48.29% -9.81%
75th Percentile £469 £523 £419
90th Percentile £633 £664 £548
England median daily rate £410 £425 £400
% change year-on-year -3.60% +6.25% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 19 37
10th Percentile £14.59 £12.25 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.65 £14.88 £13.50
Median hourly rate £19.95 £16.94 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.80% -0.38% +21.43%
75th Percentile £23.75 £23.24 £20.51
90th Percentile £40.64 £40.25 £23.75
England median hourly rate £17.69 £19.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -6.89% +8.57% +9.38%

All System Software Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 246 486 697
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 8.97% 14.09% 13.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 343 490
10th Percentile £150 £158 £135
25th Percentile £205 £250 £201
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £450 £375
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% +14.16%
75th Percentile £550 £569 £500
90th Percentile £640 £690 £588
England median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 26 40
10th Percentile £14.59 £12.60 £10.73
25th Percentile £15.65 £15.25 £13.47
Median hourly rate £19.95 £19.25 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% +14.93% +15.52%
75th Percentile £23.75 £48.13 £20.51
90th Percentile £40.64 £65.00 £23.75
England median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -58.00% +163.16% -

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in the Midlands

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in the Midlands

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in the Midlands over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in the Midlands

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in the Midlands

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Active Directory in the Midlands over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Active Directory in the Midlands

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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 Midlands -6 98 £350 -6.67% 105
East Midlands -3 51 £233 -7.00% 54
Active Directory
England

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 38 (24.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (16.99%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.27%) JBoss
4 2 (1.31%) IIS
4 2 (1.31%) WordPress
5 1 (0.65%) nginx
Applications
1 13 (8.50%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.65%) Acrobat
3 1 (0.65%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 85 (55.56%) Microsoft 365
2 57 (37.25%) Azure
3 30 (19.61%) Entra ID
4 16 (10.46%) OneDrive
5 12 (7.84%) AWS
6 11 (7.19%) Power Platform
7 9 (5.88%) PowerApps
8 8 (5.23%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (3.92%) Power Automate
10 5 (3.27%) CloudFront
10 5 (3.27%) OpenShift
10 5 (3.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (1.96%) SaaS
12 2 (1.31%) Dynamics 365
13 1 (0.65%) Azure DevOps
13 1 (0.65%) Azure Functions
13 1 (0.65%) Azure Storage
13 1 (0.65%) Mimecast
13 1 (0.65%) Nutanix
13 1 (0.65%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 38 (24.84%) DNS
2 20 (13.07%) VPN
3 14 (9.15%) DHCP
3 14 (9.15%) LAN
4 12 (7.84%) WAN
5 11 (7.19%) Firewall
5 11 (7.19%) TCP/IP
6 9 (5.88%) NetScaler
6 9 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (5.23%) VoIP
8 7 (4.58%) SAN
9 6 (3.92%) Network Security
9 6 (3.92%) Unified Communications
10 4 (2.61%) Ethernet
10 4 (2.61%) Fibre Channel
10 4 (2.61%) VLAN
11 3 (1.96%) Wireless
12 2 (1.31%) iSCSI
12 2 (1.31%) NAS
12 2 (1.31%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.15%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (5.23%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.92%) Power BI
4 5 (3.27%) RDBMS
4 5 (3.27%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.65%) MySQL
5 1 (0.65%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 10 (6.54%) JIRA
2 5 (3.27%) Bitbucket Server
2 5 (3.27%) CA Release Automation
2 5 (3.27%) Git
2 5 (3.27%) Jenkins
2 5 (3.27%) SonarQube
2 5 (3.27%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (3.27%) TeamCity
General
1 46 (30.07%) Social Skills
2 13 (8.50%) Public Sector
3 10 (6.54%) Finance
4 9 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.58%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.27%) Legal
6 5 (3.27%) Retail
7 4 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.65%) Banking
9 1 (0.65%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.65%) Fire and Rescue
9 1 (0.65%) Law
9 1 (0.65%) Military
9 1 (0.65%) Police
9 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (20.92%) Support Engineer
2 22 (14.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 19 (12.42%) 2nd Line Support
4 18 (11.76%) Analyst
5 17 (11.11%) IT Support
6 15 (9.80%) IT Engineer
7 14 (9.15%) Service Desk Analyst
8 13 (8.50%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 13 (8.50%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 13 (8.50%) Service Analyst
9 11 (7.19%) 1st/2nd Line Support
9 11 (7.19%) IT Support Engineer
10 10 (6.54%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
10 10 (6.54%) Architect
10 10 (6.54%) Cloud Engineer
10 10 (6.54%) Deployment Engineer
11 9 (5.88%) SIEM Engineer
12 7 (4.58%) Desktop Engineer
12 7 (4.58%) Senior
13 6 (3.92%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (9.15%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (5.88%) SAML
3 8 (5.23%) OAuth
4 5 (3.27%) LDAP
4 5 (3.27%) OAuth2
4 5 (3.27%) Spring Boot
5 3 (1.96%) OpenID
5 3 (1.96%) SailPoint
5 3 (1.96%) Web Services
6 2 (1.31%) LAMP
7 1 (0.65%) ADO
7 1 (0.65%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.65%) EDI
7 1 (0.65%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.84%) Linux Command Line
2 11 (7.19%) Driving Licence
3 7 (4.58%) PKI
4 6 (3.92%) Digital Signage
5 5 (3.27%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.61%) Clustering
6 4 (2.61%) Fat Client
6 4 (2.61%) iPad
6 4 (2.61%) Thin Client
7 3 (1.96%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (1.31%) IVR
8 2 (1.31%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.31%) Replication
8 2 (1.31%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.65%) Grid Computing
9 1 (0.65%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.65%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.65%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.65%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 130 (84.97%) Windows
2 55 (35.95%) Windows Server
3 48 (31.37%) Windows 10
4 24 (15.69%) Linux
5 15 (9.80%) Windows Server 2019
6 12 (7.84%) Ubuntu
6 12 (7.84%) Windows Server 2012
7 10 (6.54%) Windows Server 2016
8 7 (4.58%) Mac OS
8 7 (4.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (3.92%) Windows 7
10 5 (3.27%) Apple iOS
11 3 (1.96%) VMS
12 2 (1.31%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.65%) Android
13 1 (0.65%) CentOS
13 1 (0.65%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.65%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (18.30%) Customer Service
2 25 (16.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 19 (12.42%) ITIL
3 19 (12.42%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (9.15%) RBAC
5 13 (8.50%) Change Management
6 11 (7.19%) Migration
6 11 (7.19%) Mobile Device Management
7 10 (6.54%) Application Packaging
7 10 (6.54%) CI/CD
7 10 (6.54%) Infrastructure Monitoring
7 10 (6.54%) Patch Management
8 9 (5.88%) SIEM
8 9 (5.88%) Visualisation
9 8 (5.23%) Asset Management
9 8 (5.23%) Data Pipeline
9 8 (5.23%) DataOps
10 7 (4.58%) Service Delivery
11 6 (3.92%) Application Security
11 6 (3.92%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 31 (20.26%) PowerShell
2 11 (7.19%) Python
3 10 (6.54%) SQL
4 8 (5.23%) R
5 5 (3.27%) Bash
5 5 (3.27%) Perl
6 1 (0.65%) VB
Qualifications
1 22 (14.38%) Security Cleared
2 20 (13.07%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.19%) Degree
4 8 (5.23%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (3.27%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.61%) MCSE
7 3 (1.96%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.31%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.31%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.31%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (1.31%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.65%) Citrix Certification
9 1 (0.65%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.65%) MCDST
9 1 (0.65%) MCP
9 1 (0.65%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.61%) SLA
2 1 (0.65%) GDPR
System Software
1 13 (8.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (7.19%) Virtual Desktop
3 10 (6.54%) Docker
4 9 (5.88%) XenApp
4 9 (5.88%) XenDesktop
5 8 (5.23%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 8 (5.23%) Hyper-V
5 8 (5.23%) iptables
6 7 (4.58%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (3.92%) vSphere
8 4 (2.61%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (1.96%) BitLocker
10 2 (1.31%) VMware NSX
10 2 (1.31%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 32 (20.92%) SCCM
2 26 (16.99%) Microsoft Intune
3 14 (9.15%) Kibana
4 10 (6.54%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (5.88%) logstash
6 6 (3.92%) Autotask
6 6 (3.92%) vCenter Server
7 5 (3.27%) Kubernetes
7 5 (3.27%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.96%) Failover Clustering
8 3 (1.96%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (1.96%) SCOM
9 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (0.65%) PaperCut
9 1 (0.65%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.65%) Terraform
9 1 (0.65%) VxRail
9 1 (0.65%) WSUS
Vendors
1 72 (47.06%) Microsoft
2 28 (18.30%) VMware
3 14 (9.15%) Citrix
4 9 (5.88%) NetApp
4 9 (5.88%) ServiceNow
5 7 (4.58%) Oracle
6 6 (3.92%) Apple
6 6 (3.92%) Cisco
6 6 (3.92%) Red Hat
6 6 (3.92%) Splunk
7 5 (3.27%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.96%) Aruba
8 3 (1.96%) Datto
8 3 (1.96%) Okta
8 3 (1.96%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.96%) Remedy
8 3 (1.96%) Veeam
9 2 (1.31%) ProCurve
9 2 (1.31%) Synology
9 2 (1.31%) Zerto