Active Directory Contract Job Trends in Northampton

Microsoft Active Directory
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northampton requiring Active Directory skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 18 5
Rank change year-on-year -22 -13 +8
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 10 14 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northampton 3.55% 6.45% 20.00%
As % of the System Software category 32.26% 66.67% 82.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 11 20
10th Percentile £374 £383 £163
25th Percentile £375 - £189
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £400 £220
Median % change year-on-year +12.13% +81.82% +35.38%
75th Percentile £484 £450 £491
90th Percentile £505 £488 £539
Northamptonshire median daily rate £449 £400 £225
% change year-on-year +12.13% +77.78% +34.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £14.52
Northamptonshire median hourly rate - £24.20 £16.01
% change year-on-year - +51.16% -3.93%

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 31 21 29
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 10.99% 9.68% 24.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 17 23
10th Percentile £366 £383 £168
25th Percentile £383 £400 £189
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £450 £225
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% +100.00% -18.18%
75th Percentile £474 £500 £494
90th Percentile £497 £525 £538
Northamptonshire median daily rate £429 £411 £225
% change year-on-year +4.38% +82.67% -26.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £14.52
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.87%
Northamptonshire median hourly rate - £24.20 £16.01
% change year-on-year - +51.16% -3.93%

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

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Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing Active Directory.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing Active Directory

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Daily Rate Histogram in Northampton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in Northampton over the 6 months to 27 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in Northampton

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Hourly Rate Trend in Northampton

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing Active Directory.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing Active Directory

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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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) AWS
1 9 (90.00%) Azure
1 9 (90.00%) GCP
2 5 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 5 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 10 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 4 (40.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Analyst
1 3 (30.00%) Business Analyst
1 3 (30.00%) Programme Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Programme Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) LDAP
1 4 (40.00%) REST
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Windows
2 5 (50.00%) Mac OS
3 1 (10.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 5 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 5 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 5 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (50.00%) Thought Leadership
2 5 (50.00%) User Experience
2 5 (50.00%) Zero Trust
3 4 (40.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) Biometrics
3 4 (40.00%) Budgeting
3 4 (40.00%) Digital Identity
3 4 (40.00%) Facial Recognition
3 4 (40.00%) Project Management
3 4 (40.00%) Scrum
3 4 (40.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 4 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
3 4 (40.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (50.00%) Bash
3 4 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) GDPR
1 5 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (40.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (60.00%) VMware
2 5 (50.00%) Citrix