Active Directory Contract Job Trends in Oxford

Microsoft Active Directory
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxford requiring Active Directory skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 9 6
Rank change year-on-year -3 -3 +2
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 6 3 12
As % of all contract jobs in Oxford 11.11% 5.00% 11.65%
As % of the System Software category 54.55% 60.00% 70.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 11
10th Percentile £320 - £140
25th Percentile £425 - £170
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £160 £200
Median % change year-on-year +275.00% -20.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile - - £216
90th Percentile - - £275
Oxfordshire median daily rate £263 £413 £190
% change year-on-year -36.36% +117.11% -10.59%

All System Software Skills
Oxford

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 Oxford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 11 5 17
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxford 20.37% 8.33% 16.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 15
10th Percentile £310 - £152
25th Percentile £400 £160 £170
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £210 £195
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% +7.69% -44.29%
75th Percentile £600 £330 £216
90th Percentile - £447 £320
Oxfordshire median daily rate £319 £438 £275
% change year-on-year -27.14% +59.09% -21.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £72.86 - -
25th Percentile £75.66 - -
Median hourly rate £83.32 - -
75th Percentile £87.97 - -
90th Percentile £88.97 - -
Oxfordshire median hourly rate £83.32 - -

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Active Directory relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxford.

Active Directory job vacancy trend in Oxford

Active Directory
Daily Rate Trend in Oxford

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

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

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxford

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

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in Oxford

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Trend in Oxford

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

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

Active Directory
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxford by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (33.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) VPN
General
1 2 (33.33%) Legal
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Build Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Desktop Build Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Migration Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Driving Licence
1 3 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
1 2 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Transformation
1 2 (33.33%) Migration
1 2 (33.33%) RBAC
1 2 (33.33%) Runbook
1 2 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (16.67%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) DBS Check
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (16.67%) SLA
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) SCCM
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) Sophos