Active Directory Contracts in Northampton

Microsoft Active Directory
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northampton 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 19 14 12
Rank change year-on-year -5 -2 0
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 6 7 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northampton 4.88% 5.51% 8.15%
As % of the System Software category 37.50% 50.00% 61.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 9
10th Percentile £400 £271 £161
25th Percentile £434 - £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £356 £225
Median % change year-on-year +36.94% +58.22% +60.71%
75th Percentile £525 £366 £538
90th Percentile £531 £428 £555
Northamptonshire median daily rate £488 £356 £225
% change year-on-year +36.94% +58.22% +21.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £14.52
Northamptonshire median hourly rate - - £14.52
% change year-on-year - - -32.47%

All System Software Skills
Northampton

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 Northampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 16 14 18
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 13.01% 11.02% 13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 10 15
10th Percentile £357 £339 £163
25th Percentile £373 £356 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £380 £365
Median % change year-on-year +22.89% +4.11% +21.67%
75th Percentile £528 £497 £519
90th Percentile £537 £579 £558
Northamptonshire median daily rate £467 £359 £338
% change year-on-year +29.99% +6.44% +35.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £14.52
Median % change year-on-year - - -32.47%
Northamptonshire median hourly rate - - £14.52
% change year-on-year - - -32.47%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Northampton

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in Northampton

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northampton

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in Northampton

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northampton 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 2 (33.33%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Entra ID
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) AWS
3 2 (33.33%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
2 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Bitbucket Server
1 2 (33.33%) CA Release Automation
1 2 (33.33%) Git
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
1 2 (33.33%) SonarQube
1 2 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
1 2 (33.33%) TeamCity
2 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Consultant
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 1 (16.67%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Migration
2 3 (50.00%) Compliance Management
2 3 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (33.33%) Build Automation
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 2 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
4 1 (16.67%) API Integration
4 1 (16.67%) CRM
4 1 (16.67%) Identity Management
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Perl
1 2 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) AirWatch
1 3 (50.00%) Jamf Pro
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (50.00%) SCCM
2 2 (33.33%) Kibana
2 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (33.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) AppDynamics
2 2 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 2 (33.33%) Splunk
3 1 (16.67%) Workday