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 20 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 15 8
Rank change year-on-year -1 -7 -1
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 23 23 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 8.21% 9.83% 12.40%
As % of the System Software category 74.19% 67.65% 70.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 21 37
10th Percentile £229 £163 £129
25th Percentile £356 £185 £130
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £392 £215 £175
Median % change year-on-year +82.09% +22.86% -14.63%
75th Percentile £421 £269 £344
90th Percentile £469 £538 £460
East Midlands median daily rate £331 £223 £210
% change year-on-year +48.54% +6.19% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - £15.20
25th Percentile - - £18.13
Median hourly rate - £14.52 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year - -32.47% +40.98%
75th Percentile - - £22.88
90th Percentile - - £23.10
East Midlands median hourly rate £48.56 £17.75 £18.50
% change year-on-year +173.58% -4.05% +54.17%

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 31 34 64
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 11.07% 14.53% 17.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 31 55
10th Percentile £250 £163 £130
25th Percentile £356 £189 £144
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £263 £250
Median % change year-on-year +52.38% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £488 £363 £488
90th Percentile £525 £538 £533
East Midlands median daily rate £356 £350 £250
% change year-on-year +1.71% +40.00% -17.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - £15.85
25th Percentile - - £19.75
Median hourly rate - £14.52 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year - -32.47% +40.98%
75th Percentile - - £23.25
90th Percentile - - £23.40
East Midlands median hourly rate £48.56 £26.48 £18.50
% change year-on-year +83.38% +43.14% +54.17%

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 20 June 2024.

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 20 June 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
Northampton -8 17 £400 +92.77% 6
Kettering 0 5 £195 +21.88% 3
Towcester - 1 £250 -
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 5 (21.74%) JBoss
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (17.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 11 (47.83%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (26.09%) AWS
3 5 (21.74%) OpenShift
4 4 (17.39%) Azure
5 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.35%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 4 (17.39%) DHCP
1 4 (17.39%) DNS
2 2 (8.70%) SAN
3 1 (4.35%) DSL
3 1 (4.35%) Internet
3 1 (4.35%) PBX
3 1 (4.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (21.74%) RDBMS
1 5 (21.74%) Relational Database
1 5 (21.74%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (26.09%) Jenkins
1 6 (26.09%) JIRA
2 5 (21.74%) Bitbucket Server
2 5 (21.74%) CA Release Automation
2 5 (21.74%) Git
2 5 (21.74%) SonarQube
2 5 (21.74%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (21.74%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Public Sector
3 3 (13.04%) Banking
3 3 (13.04%) Local Government
4 2 (8.70%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Finance
5 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Support Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) DBA
2 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Designer
3 4 (17.39%) IT Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) SQL DBA
4 3 (13.04%) 1st Line Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) 1st Line Support
4 3 (13.04%) 1st Line Support Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) SQL Server DBA
5 2 (8.70%) IT Support
6 1 (4.35%) 2nd Line Support
6 1 (4.35%) Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) IT Infrastructure Manager
6 1 (4.35%) IT Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Messaging Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Service Desk Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (21.74%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 21 (91.30%) Windows
2 12 (52.17%) Windows Server
3 5 (21.74%) Linux
3 5 (21.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (21.74%) Windows 10
4 3 (13.04%) Mac OS
4 3 (13.04%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (13.04%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (13.04%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) Migration
2 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
2 6 (26.09%) DevOps
2 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 5 (21.74%) Build Automation
3 5 (21.74%) Code Quality
3 5 (21.74%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (21.74%) Data Modelling
3 5 (21.74%) Deployment Automation
3 5 (21.74%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (21.74%) High Availability
3 5 (21.74%) Mentoring
3 5 (21.74%) Microservices
3 5 (21.74%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (13.04%) Customer Service
5 1 (4.35%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (4.35%) Critical Thinking
5 1 (4.35%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 6 (26.09%) PowerShell
2 5 (21.74%) Perl
2 5 (21.74%) Python
3 1 (4.35%) C#
3 1 (4.35%) Ruby
3 1 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (30.43%) Degree
2 5 (21.74%) MCITP
2 5 (21.74%) MCTS
2 5 (21.74%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.35%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (4.35%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (26.09%) Virtual Desktop
1 6 (26.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (21.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) Progress Chef
2 5 (21.74%) Kibana
2 5 (21.74%) Kubernetes
2 5 (21.74%) SCOM
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (43.48%) Microsoft
2 6 (26.09%) VMware
3 5 (21.74%) AppDynamics
3 5 (21.74%) Red Hat
3 5 (21.74%) SolarWinds
3 5 (21.74%) Splunk
4 4 (17.39%) Citrix
5 1 (4.35%) Atlassian
5 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow