Active Directory Contracts in the North of England

Microsoft Active Directory
England > North of England

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 27 19
Rank change year-on-year +6 -8 +1
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 279 272 412
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 8.47% 5.70% 7.07%
As % of the System Software category 55.14% 48.66% 49.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 209 305
10th Percentile £156 £150 £150
25th Percentile £200 £185 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £325 £325
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - +40.54%
75th Percentile £455 £525 £513
90th Percentile £575 £650 £575
England median daily rate £450 £413 £425
% change year-on-year +9.09% -2.94% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 23 26
10th Percentile - - £13.98
25th Percentile - £15.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £17.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.71% -12.50% +13.83%
75th Percentile - £18.38 £32.50
90th Percentile - £21.45 £52.13
England median hourly rate £21.46 £17.69 £19.00
% change year-on-year +21.31% -6.89% +8.57%

All System Software Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 506 559 840
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.36% 11.72% 14.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 337 405 631
10th Percentile £184 £178 £178
25th Percentile £263 £275 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £430 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.07% -14.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £578
90th Percentile £603 £650 £670
England median daily rate £525 £494 £525
% change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 50 36
10th Percentile £33.73 - £14.13
25th Percentile £40.81 £14.06 £17.44
Median hourly rate £55.75 £16.00 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year +248.44% -40.19% +52.86%
75th Percentile £73.81 £18.56 £64.06
90th Percentile £82.78 £43.21 £65.38
England median hourly rate £27.94 £21.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +33.05% -58.00% +163.16%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in the North of England

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in the North of England

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in the North of England

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in the North of England

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North West +14 152 £350 - 227
Yorkshire +12 110 £400 +33.33% 198
North East -4 16 £300 +36.36% 86
Active Directory
England

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 90 (32.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 57 (20.43%) SharePoint
3 16 (5.73%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 5 (1.79%) IIS
4 5 (1.79%) JBoss
4 5 (1.79%) Mattermost
4 5 (1.79%) Skype for Business
5 3 (1.08%) Confluence
6 1 (0.36%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.36%) nginx
6 1 (0.36%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.36%) Traefik
Applications
1 56 (20.07%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (3.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (3.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (3.58%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 139 (49.82%) Microsoft 365
2 104 (37.28%) Entra ID
3 95 (34.05%) Azure
4 17 (6.09%) OneDrive
5 16 (5.73%) IaaS
6 13 (4.66%) AWS
7 10 (3.58%) SaaS
8 9 (3.23%) GitHub
9 6 (2.15%) PaaS
10 5 (1.79%) Microsoft Purview
10 5 (1.79%) OpenShift
11 4 (1.43%) Google Workspace
12 3 (1.08%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (1.08%) Nutanix
12 3 (1.08%) Power Platform
12 3 (1.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 2 (0.72%) Amazon EC2
13 2 (0.72%) Amazon EKS
13 2 (0.72%) Amazon S3
14 1 (0.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 67 (24.01%) DNS
2 38 (13.62%) DHCP
3 30 (10.75%) Firewall
4 24 (8.60%) VPN
5 18 (6.45%) Network Security
6 17 (6.09%) LAN
7 12 (4.30%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (3.94%) Intrusion Detection
8 11 (3.94%) SAN
8 11 (3.94%) WAN
9 10 (3.58%) Remote Desktop
10 9 (3.23%) SMTP
11 7 (2.51%) VLAN
11 7 (2.51%) VoIP
12 6 (2.15%) Skype
12 6 (2.15%) TCP/IP
12 6 (2.15%) WebEx
13 5 (1.79%) Softphone
13 5 (1.79%) Unified Communications
14 4 (1.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.17%) SQL Server
2 19 (6.81%) Oracle Database
3 5 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (1.79%) RDBMS
3 5 (1.79%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.72%) Power BI
5 1 (0.36%) DTS
5 1 (0.36%) GIS
5 1 (0.36%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.36%) MSDE
5 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (3.94%) JIRA
2 9 (3.23%) Git
2 9 (3.23%) GitLab
2 9 (3.23%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.79%) Bitbucket Server
3 5 (1.79%) CA Release Automation
3 5 (1.79%) SonarQube
3 5 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
3 5 (1.79%) TeamCity
4 3 (1.08%) Hudson
5 1 (0.36%) MSI
General
1 108 (38.71%) Social Skills
2 23 (8.24%) Public Sector
3 16 (5.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 15 (5.38%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (5.02%) Telecoms
6 13 (4.66%) Retail
7 8 (2.87%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (2.87%) Finance
8 6 (2.15%) Banking
9 5 (1.79%) Legal
9 5 (1.79%) Local Government
9 5 (1.79%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.79%) Military
9 5 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.36%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.36%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 53 (19.00%) Support Engineer
2 40 (14.34%) Analyst
3 36 (12.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 23 (8.24%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 22 (7.89%) Desktop Support
6 21 (7.53%) Desktop Engineer
6 21 (7.53%) IT Support
7 20 (7.17%) 1st Line Support
7 20 (7.17%) Service Analyst
7 20 (7.17%) Support Manager
8 19 (6.81%) 2nd Line Support
8 19 (6.81%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 19 (6.81%) Service Desk Analyst
9 17 (6.09%) IT Engineer
10 15 (5.38%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 15 (5.38%) Windows Engineer
11 14 (5.02%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 14 (5.02%) Infrastructure Specialist
12 13 (4.66%) Support Analyst
13 12 (4.30%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.23%) REST
2 6 (2.15%) LDAP
3 5 (1.79%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (1.79%) Spring Boot
3 5 (1.79%) XMPP
4 4 (1.43%) Middleware
5 3 (1.08%) Software Packaging
6 2 (0.72%) OAuth
6 2 (0.72%) OpenID
7 1 (0.36%) .NET
7 1 (0.36%) 802.1X
7 1 (0.36%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.36%) Kafka
7 1 (0.36%) Keycloak
7 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (0.36%) Next.js
7 1 (0.36%) Node.js
7 1 (0.36%) React
7 1 (0.36%) SailPoint
7 1 (0.36%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.24%) Management Information System
2 18 (6.45%) Linux Command Line
3 14 (5.02%) iPhone
3 14 (5.02%) Smartphone
4 12 (4.30%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (2.87%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.51%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.15%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.79%) NHS
9 4 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.08%) Clustering
10 3 (1.08%) Driving Licence
10 3 (1.08%) IVR
11 2 (0.72%) PKI
11 2 (0.72%) Video Conferencing
12 1 (0.36%) Blog
12 1 (0.36%) CCTV
12 1 (0.36%) Fat Client
12 1 (0.36%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 202 (72.40%) Windows
2 91 (32.62%) Windows Server
3 58 (20.79%) Linux
4 53 (19.00%) Windows 10
5 22 (7.89%) Windows Server 2016
6 21 (7.53%) Mac OS
7 15 (5.38%) Windows Server 2012
7 15 (5.38%) Windows Server 2019
8 14 (5.02%) VMS
9 10 (3.58%) Unix
10 9 (3.23%) Android
10 9 (3.23%) Windows Server 2003
11 8 (2.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 6 (2.15%) Windows 7
13 5 (1.79%) Apple iOS
13 5 (1.79%) Windows 8
13 5 (1.79%) Windows Server 2008
13 5 (1.79%) Windows XP
14 3 (1.08%) CentOS
15 1 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (29.75%) ITIL
2 69 (24.73%) Problem-Solving
3 63 (22.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 59 (21.15%) Customer Service
5 50 (17.92%) ITSM
6 36 (12.90%) Agile
6 36 (12.90%) Migration
7 26 (9.32%) Incident Management
8 25 (8.96%) DevOps
9 21 (7.53%) Microservices
9 21 (7.53%) Service Management
10 18 (6.45%) Collaborative Working
10 18 (6.45%) Cybersecurity
11 17 (6.09%) Patch Management
11 17 (6.09%) Service Delivery
12 16 (5.73%) Business Continuity
12 16 (5.73%) Change Management
12 16 (5.73%) Information Security
12 16 (5.73%) Security Management
12 16 (5.73%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 68 (24.37%) PowerShell
2 25 (8.96%) SQL
3 24 (8.60%) Bash
4 21 (7.53%) Perl
5 18 (6.45%) PL/SQL
6 14 (5.02%) Python
7 4 (1.43%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.08%) Java
8 3 (1.08%) VBA
9 1 (0.36%) Go
9 1 (0.36%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.36%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.36%) VB
9 1 (0.36%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 52 (18.64%) Security Cleared
2 48 (17.20%) SC Cleared
3 31 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
4 22 (7.89%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (5.73%) Degree
6 11 (3.94%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 5 (1.79%) ACSP
8 5 (1.79%) ACTC
8 5 (1.79%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (1.79%) MCSE
9 4 (1.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (1.08%) CCNA
10 3 (1.08%) CISSP
10 3 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.08%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.36%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.36%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.36%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.73%) SLA
2 6 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (1.08%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.08%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.72%) GDPR
5 2 (0.72%) NCSC
5 2 (0.72%) NIST
6 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 40 (14.34%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (6.45%) vSphere
3 14 (5.02%) VMware ESXi
4 12 (4.30%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (2.87%) VMware NSX
6 7 (2.51%) Hyper-V
7 6 (2.15%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (1.79%) BitLocker
8 5 (1.79%) Docker
9 4 (1.43%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.36%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.36%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 60 (21.51%) Microsoft Intune
2 36 (12.90%) SCCM
3 22 (7.89%) Single Sign-On
4 21 (7.53%) WSUS
5 19 (6.81%) Jamf Pro
6 18 (6.45%) vCenter Server
7 17 (6.09%) Ansible
8 8 (2.87%) Kubernetes
9 5 (1.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (1.79%) AppManager
9 5 (1.79%) Kibana
9 5 (1.79%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.79%) SCOM
9 5 (1.79%) vRealize
9 5 (1.79%) ZABBIX
10 4 (1.43%) Dell DRAC
11 3 (1.08%) Backup Exec
11 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Clustering
11 3 (1.08%) NetApp OnCommand
11 3 (1.08%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 188 (67.38%) Microsoft
2 60 (21.51%) VMware
3 46 (16.49%) ServiceNow
4 34 (12.19%) Cisco
5 25 (8.96%) Apple
6 20 (7.17%) Oracle
7 13 (4.66%) Citrix
8 12 (4.30%) Red Hat
9 11 (3.94%) Splunk
10 9 (3.23%) CyberArk
10 9 (3.23%) Dell
11 8 (2.87%) Veeam
12 6 (2.15%) HP
12 6 (2.15%) Meraki
12 6 (2.15%) Tanium
13 5 (1.79%) AppDynamics
13 5 (1.79%) Bomgar
13 5 (1.79%) Canon
13 5 (1.79%) Ivanti
13 5 (1.79%) SolarWinds