Active Directory Contracts in Northamptonshire

Microsoft Active Directory
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire 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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 11 7
Rank change year-on-year -31 -4 +2
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 10 27 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 3.32% 10.15% 14.29%
As % of the System Software category 30.30% 79.41% 76.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 17 25
10th Percentile £374 £314 £163
25th Percentile £375 £356 £189
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £225
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +77.78% +38.46%
75th Percentile £484 £411 £375
90th Percentile £526 £465 £523
East Midlands median daily rate £315 £375 £223
% change year-on-year -16.00% +68.16% +15.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £24.20 £14.52
Median % change year-on-year - +66.67% -32.47%
East Midlands median hourly rate £15.09 £24.20 £17.26
% change year-on-year -37.64% +40.21% -19.72%

All System Software Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 33 34 38
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 10.96% 12.78% 18.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 22 33
10th Percentile £365 £356 £167
25th Percentile £375 £363 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £400 £225
Median % change year-on-year +7.25% +77.78% +2.27%
75th Percentile £475 £497 £455
90th Percentile £527 £572 £530
East Midlands median daily rate £413 £375 £350
% change year-on-year +10.00% +7.14% +44.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £24.20 £14.52
Median % change year-on-year - +66.67% -32.47%
East Midlands median hourly rate £15.09 £24.20 £20.50
% change year-on-year -37.64% +18.05% -4.65%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Northamptonshire

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in Northamptonshire

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in Northamptonshire

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in Northamptonshire

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 14 August 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
Northampton -23 10 £425 +6.25% 4
Active Directory
East Midlands

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 (20.00%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) AWS
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) GCP
3 3 (30.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (20.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Bitbucket Server
1 2 (20.00%) CA Release Automation
1 2 (20.00%) Git
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
1 2 (20.00%) SonarQube
1 2 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
1 2 (20.00%) TeamCity
2 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
General
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Analyst
1 3 (30.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) LDAP
1 4 (40.00%) REST
2 2 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (20.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (10.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (60.00%) Identity Access Management
3 5 (50.00%) Migration
4 4 (40.00%) Agile
4 4 (40.00%) Biometrics
4 4 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (40.00%) Digital Identity
4 4 (40.00%) Facial Recognition
4 4 (40.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 4 (40.00%) Project Management
4 4 (40.00%) Scrum
4 4 (40.00%) SDLC
4 4 (40.00%) Visualisation
5 3 (30.00%) Decision-Making
5 3 (30.00%) Verification and Validation
6 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 2 (20.00%) Code Quality
6 2 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) Perl
2 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) AirWatch
1 2 (20.00%) Jamf Pro
1 2 (20.00%) Kibana
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (20.00%) Progress Chef
1 2 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) AppDynamics
2 2 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (20.00%) Splunk
3 1 (10.00%) VMware
3 1 (10.00%) Workday