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

6 months to
21 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 10 9
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 +15
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 19 24 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 7.72% 10.48% 11.90%
As % of the System Software category 51.35% 53.33% 71.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 22 27
10th Percentile - £176 £143
25th Percentile £128 £198 £169
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £145 £238 £195
Median % change year-on-year -38.95% +21.79% -32.17%
75th Percentile £160 £338 £413
90th Percentile £474 £450 £800
South East median daily rate £525 £425 £375
% change year-on-year +23.53% +13.33% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
Median hourly rate £16.00 - £20.00
South East median hourly rate £17.80 £27.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year -34.07% +74.19% +10.71%

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 37 45 45
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 15.04% 19.65% 16.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 27 38
10th Percentile £128 £178 £139
25th Percentile £131 £199 £161
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £153 £275 £195
Median % change year-on-year -44.55% +41.03% -48.00%
75th Percentile £475 £438 £434
90th Percentile £568 £497 £669
South East median daily rate £538 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +7.50% +5.26% +7.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 3
10th Percentile £34.15 - -
25th Percentile £48.13 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +175.00% -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £54.88 £57.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.57% +187.50% -9.09%

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 21 June 2024.

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 21 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
Abingdon -3 3 £145 -19.44% 2
Oxford -5 3 £135 -55.00% 6
Faringdon - 3 £138 -
Bicester -2 1 £160 +6.31%
Wantage - 1 £450 -
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 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (21.05%) Azure
3 3 (15.79%) SaaS
4 2 (10.53%) AWS
4 2 (10.53%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (10.53%) Entra ID
4 2 (10.53%) Google Workspace
4 2 (10.53%) IaaS
4 2 (10.53%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) DNS
1 2 (10.53%) Firewall
1 2 (10.53%) LAN
1 2 (10.53%) VPN
1 2 (10.53%) WAN
1 2 (10.53%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.26%) Automotive
3 1 (5.26%) Legal
3 1 (5.26%) Police
3 1 (5.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Active Directory Technician
1 7 (36.84%) IT Technician
2 6 (31.58%) Hardware Technician
3 4 (21.05%) IT Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) IT Support
4 3 (15.79%) IT Support Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Support Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) 1st Line Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Active Directory Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Business Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Support Technician
5 2 (10.53%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Technical Business Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) 1st Line Support Technician
6 1 (5.26%) Active Directory Support
6 1 (5.26%) Desktop Support
6 1 (5.26%) Desktop Technician
6 1 (5.26%) Risk Business Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
1 1 (5.26%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 14 (73.68%) Windows
2 2 (10.53%) Windows 10
2 2 (10.53%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.26%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (21.05%) Customer Service
2 3 (15.79%) Time Management
3 2 (10.53%) Information Security
3 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (10.53%) Server Management
3 2 (10.53%) Use Case
4 1 (5.26%) Asset Management
4 1 (5.26%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (5.26%) Computer Science
4 1 (5.26%) E-Commerce
4 1 (5.26%) ITIL
4 1 (5.26%) Mobile Device Management
4 1 (5.26%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Degree
2 1 (5.26%) A+ Certification
2 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.26%) DBS Check
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.26%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) SCCM
2 1 (5.26%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (52.63%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) Cisco
2 2 (10.53%) Google
2 2 (10.53%) Meraki
2 2 (10.53%) VMware
3 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.26%) Workday