Active Directory Contracts in the North West

Microsoft Active Directory
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 34 19 25
Rank change year-on-year -15 +6 -5
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 141 244 289
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 5.08% 7.58% 7.19%
As % of the System Software category 53.82% 47.56% 52.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 168 211
10th Percentile £143 £154 £135
25th Percentile £203 £200 £174
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £350 £250
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +40.00% -
75th Percentile £475 £506 £472
90th Percentile £644 £570 £631
England median daily rate £410 £425 £400
% change year-on-year -3.60% +6.25% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 24 25
10th Percentile - £13.97 £15.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £15.83 £15.25
Median hourly rate £17.29 £20.00 £18.12
Median % change year-on-year -13.58% +10.41% -4.66%
75th Percentile £17.75 £31.46 £20.00
90th Percentile £18.84 £52.13 £35.95
England median hourly rate £17.69 £19.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -6.89% +8.57% +9.38%

All System Software Skills
North West

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 North West with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 262 513 552
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 9.45% 15.93% 13.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 374 413
10th Percentile £178 £200 £159
25th Percentile £301 £325 £230
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £499 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.77% +10.83% +20.00%
75th Percentile £556 £575 £606
90th Percentile £670 £650 £650
England median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 30 26
10th Percentile - £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £17.72 £21.21 £18.12
Median % change year-on-year -16.43% +17.06% -56.61%
75th Percentile £19.25 £52.13 £20.00
90th Percentile £46.18 £65.00 £34.75
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 North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in the North West

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in the North West

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in the North West

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in the North West

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester -25 61 £450 -4.00% 47
Cheshire -3 35 £350 +68.67% 28
Merseyside +15 26 £213 -11.46% 11
Lancashire -4 10 £190 +18.75% 19
Active Directory
England

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 28 (19.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (15.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 28 (19.86%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.42%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.71%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 84 (59.57%) Microsoft 365
2 47 (33.33%) Azure
3 24 (17.02%) Entra ID
4 7 (4.96%) AWS
4 7 (4.96%) OneDrive
5 2 (1.42%) Azure Stack
5 2 (1.42%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (1.42%) IaaS
5 2 (1.42%) Mimecast
5 2 (1.42%) SaaS
6 1 (0.71%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.71%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (0.71%) AWS KMS
6 1 (0.71%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (0.71%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (0.71%) GCP
6 1 (0.71%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (0.71%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.71%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.71%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 15 (10.64%) DNS
2 12 (8.51%) Firewall
3 9 (6.38%) DHCP
3 9 (6.38%) InfiniBand
4 7 (4.96%) LAN
5 6 (4.26%) VPN
5 6 (4.26%) WAN
6 5 (3.55%) WAAS
6 5 (3.55%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (2.84%) SAN
7 4 (2.84%) VLAN
8 3 (2.13%) VoIP
9 2 (1.42%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.71%) Cisco ASA
10 1 (0.71%) NAS
10 1 (0.71%) Network Security
10 1 (0.71%) Skype
10 1 (0.71%) VSAN
10 1 (0.71%) Wireless
10 1 (0.71%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.55%) MySQL
1 5 (3.55%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Hudson
1 1 (0.71%) Jenkins
General
1 41 (29.08%) Social Skills
2 22 (15.60%) Public Sector
3 9 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (4.26%) Banking
4 6 (4.26%) Finance
4 6 (4.26%) Manufacturing
5 5 (3.55%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (2.84%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.13%) Aviation
7 3 (2.13%) Electronics
7 3 (2.13%) Marketing
8 2 (1.42%) Law
8 2 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.71%) Advertising
9 1 (0.71%) Automotive
9 1 (0.71%) Retail
9 1 (0.71%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 30 (21.28%) Analyst
2 19 (13.48%) Senior
3 18 (12.77%) Support Engineer
4 17 (12.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 16 (11.35%) Service Analyst
5 16 (11.35%) Service Desk Analyst
6 13 (9.22%) 2nd Line Support
6 13 (9.22%) IT Support
7 12 (8.51%) IT Engineer
8 11 (7.80%) 1st/2nd Line Support
8 11 (7.80%) Consultant
9 10 (7.09%) Azure Engineer
10 9 (6.38%) Desktop Support
11 8 (5.67%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
11 8 (5.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 8 (5.67%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 8 (5.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 8 (5.67%) IT Technician
12 6 (4.26%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (4.26%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.84%) SailPoint
2 1 (0.71%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.67%) Onboarding
2 7 (4.96%) Driving Licence
3 5 (3.55%) Clustering
3 5 (3.55%) Management Information System
3 5 (3.55%) Video Conferencing
4 4 (2.84%) NHS
5 3 (2.13%) PKI
6 2 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.42%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.71%) EPoS
7 1 (0.71%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.71%) Freedom of Information Act
7 1 (0.71%) iPhone
7 1 (0.71%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.71%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.71%) Smartphone
7 1 (0.71%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 82 (58.16%) Windows
2 44 (31.21%) Windows 10
3 16 (11.35%) Windows Server
4 12 (8.51%) Mac OS
5 11 (7.80%) Apple iOS
5 11 (7.80%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (3.55%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (2.84%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (2.13%) Android
8 3 (2.13%) Windows 7
9 2 (1.42%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.71%) Debian
10 1 (0.71%) Linux
10 1 (0.71%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.71%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (24.82%) Customer Service
2 24 (17.02%) ITIL
3 16 (11.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 16 (11.35%) Mobile Device Management
3 16 (11.35%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (10.64%) Migration
5 11 (7.80%) Deep Learning
5 11 (7.80%) DevOps
6 10 (7.09%) Service Management
7 9 (6.38%) Identity Access Management
7 9 (6.38%) Software Deployment
7 9 (6.38%) Stress Testing
8 8 (5.67%) Asset Management
9 6 (4.26%) Customer Experience
9 6 (4.26%) Customer Requirements
9 6 (4.26%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (4.26%) Desktop Virtualisation
9 6 (4.26%) Inventory Management
9 6 (4.26%) Project Management
10 5 (3.55%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 22 (15.60%) PowerShell
2 11 (7.80%) MATLAB
3 5 (3.55%) PHP
4 3 (2.13%) SQL
5 2 (1.42%) Python
6 1 (0.71%) Bash
6 1 (0.71%) Java
Qualifications
1 22 (15.60%) Security Cleared
2 20 (14.18%) SC Cleared
3 17 (12.06%) Microsoft Certification
4 12 (8.51%) Degree
5 9 (6.38%) ITIL Certification
6 5 (3.55%) MCSE
7 4 (2.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (2.13%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.13%) CCNA
8 3 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (2.13%) MCP
9 2 (1.42%) MCITP
9 2 (1.42%) MCSA
9 2 (1.42%) MOS
10 1 (0.71%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.71%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.09%) SLA
2 4 (2.84%) QA
3 2 (1.42%) NIST
4 1 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.71%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (12.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (6.38%) Firmware
2 9 (6.38%) Hyper-V
3 5 (3.55%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.42%) BitLocker
4 2 (1.42%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (1.42%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.71%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.71%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 37 (26.24%) Microsoft Intune
2 26 (18.44%) SCCM
3 9 (6.38%) Dell DRAC
3 9 (6.38%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 5 (3.55%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (3.55%) Terraform
5 4 (2.84%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (2.13%) Autotask
6 3 (2.13%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (1.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (1.42%) CA Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.42%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.71%) SCOM
8 1 (0.71%) SolarWinds Orion
8 1 (0.71%) VxRail
8 1 (0.71%) WSUS
Vendors
1 96 (68.09%) Microsoft
2 29 (20.57%) VMware
3 24 (17.02%) ServiceNow
4 14 (9.93%) Apple
4 14 (9.93%) Dell
5 11 (7.80%) Isilon
6 9 (6.38%) Citrix
6 9 (6.38%) Red Hat
7 6 (4.26%) CyberArk
8 5 (3.55%) Cisco
8 5 (3.55%) Oracle
9 4 (2.84%) CA
9 4 (2.84%) HP
9 4 (2.84%) iManage
9 4 (2.84%) SAP
10 3 (2.13%) Datto
10 3 (2.13%) Sophos
10 3 (2.13%) Veeam
11 2 (1.42%) Bomgar
11 2 (1.42%) Meraki