Active Directory Contracts in Oxfordshire

Microsoft Active Directory
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 7 9
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 0
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 11 21 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 10.48% 9.21% 11.20%
As % of the System Software category 91.67% 52.50% 62.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 17 26
10th Percentile £245 - £188
25th Percentile £250 £128 £222
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £263 £145 £300
Median % change year-on-year +81.03% -51.67% +50.00%
75th Percentile £288 £158 £400
90th Percentile £493 £499 £544
South East median daily rate £525 £480 £434
% change year-on-year +9.38% +10.65% +15.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £17.50 -
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £17.69 £18.50
% change year-on-year +58.28% -4.38% +19.35%

All System Software Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 12 40 45
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 11.43% 17.54% 18.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 25 29
10th Percentile £249 £128 £195
25th Percentile £250 £133 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £145 £350
Median % change year-on-year +89.66% -58.57% +55.56%
75th Percentile £388 £500 £450
90th Percentile £538 £565 £548
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 1
Median hourly rate - £48.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -11.36% +175.00%
South East median hourly rate £57.50 £51.50 £54.56
% change year-on-year +11.65% -5.61% +172.80%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Oxfordshire

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in Oxfordshire

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in Oxfordshire

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in Oxfordshire

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Wantage - 3 £275 - 1
Abingdon +2 1 - - 3
Oxford -1 1 £213 +57.41% 7
Active Directory
South East

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 (18.18%) SharePoint
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (54.55%) Entra ID
3 5 (45.45%) Azure
4 1 (9.09%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) DHCP
1 1 (9.09%) DNS
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
1 1 (9.09%) Internet
1 1 (9.09%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (9.09%) IP Telephony
1 1 (9.09%) LAN
1 1 (9.09%) MPLS
1 1 (9.09%) NAS
1 1 (9.09%) NetScaler
1 1 (9.09%) SAN
1 1 (9.09%) SD-WAN
1 1 (9.09%) Skype
1 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
1 1 (9.09%) Unified Communications
1 1 (9.09%) VPN
1 1 (9.09%) WAN
1 1 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (9.09%) Wireless
General
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Automotive
2 1 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
2 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Desktop Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Support Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Active Directory Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Desktop Support
3 2 (18.18%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Field Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Support
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 1 (9.09%) IT Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) IT Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) IT Support
4 1 (9.09%) Support Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (90.91%) Windows
2 3 (27.27%) Windows 10
3 2 (18.18%) Windows Server
4 1 (9.09%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (18.18%) Logistics
2 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (9.09%) Computer Science
3 1 (9.09%) Customer Service
3 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (9.09%) Inventory Management
3 1 (9.09%) ITIL
3 1 (9.09%) Project Governance
3 1 (9.09%) Project Management
3 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (9.09%) Threat Management
3 1 (9.09%) Ticket Management
3 1 (9.09%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) A+ Certification
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
1 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) MCP
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) SLA
2 1 (9.09%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
1 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (9.09%) vSphere
1 1 (9.09%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) SCCM
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco
2 1 (9.09%) Citrix
2 1 (9.09%) F5
2 1 (9.09%) VMware