Active Directory Contracts in Nottinghamshire

Microsoft Active Directory
East Midlands > Nottinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Nottinghamshire 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 22 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 13 12
Rank change year-on-year -5 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 7 11 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 4.29% 7.43% 8.79%
As % of the System Software category 77.78% 52.38% 70.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 14
10th Percentile £227 £188 £153
25th Percentile £283 £205 £192
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £288 £223
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% +28.92% -25.67%
75th Percentile £493 £388 £388
90th Percentile £550 - £428
East Midlands median daily rate £375 £356 £223
% change year-on-year +5.34% +59.64% +11.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £11.00
25th Percentile - - £13.25
Median hourly rate - - £13.50
75th Percentile - - £20.00
90th Percentile - - £23.89
East Midlands median hourly rate £15.09 £33.44 £17.26
% change year-on-year -54.87% +93.74% -6.70%

All System Software Skills
Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 9 21 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 5.52% 14.19% 12.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 15 21
10th Percentile £255 £205 £159
25th Percentile £353 £245 £223
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £375 £375
Median % change year-on-year +38.67% - -25.00%
75th Percentile £556 £466 £513
90th Percentile £575 £506 £700
East Midlands median daily rate £429 £375 £350
% change year-on-year +14.40% +7.14% +48.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £11.00
25th Percentile - - £13.25
Median hourly rate - - £13.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -40.00%
75th Percentile - - £20.00
90th Percentile - - £23.89
East Midlands median hourly rate £15.09 £33.44 £21.00
% change year-on-year -54.87% +59.24% +5.00%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Nottinghamshire

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in Nottinghamshire

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in Nottinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in Nottinghamshire over the 6 months to 22 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in Nottinghamshire

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in Nottinghamshire

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire region over the 6 months to 22 July 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
Nottingham -5 7 £388 +19.23% 17
Active Directory
East Midlands

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Nottinghamshire 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 1 (14.29%) BizTalk Server
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure API Management
1 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Event Grid
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
1 1 (14.29%) IaaS
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (14.29%) PaaS
1 1 (14.29%) SaaS
1 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (14.29%) DHCP
2 1 (14.29%) DNS
2 1 (14.29%) LAN
2 1 (14.29%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Architect
2 1 (14.29%) IT Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) IT Support
2 1 (14.29%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) OAuth
1 1 (14.29%) OpenID
1 1 (14.29%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Windows
2 5 (71.43%) Windows Server
2 5 (71.43%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (14.29%) API Management
2 1 (14.29%) Business Case
2 1 (14.29%) Coaching
2 1 (14.29%) Customer Service
2 1 (14.29%) Design Patterns
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) ITSM
2 1 (14.29%) Migration
2 1 (14.29%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (14.29%) RBAC
2 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
2 1 (14.29%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Bash
1 1 (14.29%) C#
1 1 (14.29%) Java
1 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 1 (14.29%) Python
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Hyper-V
1 5 (71.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (14.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Cisco
1 5 (71.43%) VMware
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow