Active Directory Contracts in Shropshire

Microsoft Active Directory
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Shropshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 24 55
Rank change year-on-year -5 +31 +26
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 3 5 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Shropshire 2.31% 3.73% 2.34%
As % of the System Software category 37.50% 83.33% 21.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £117 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £210 £159 £145
Median % change year-on-year +32.49% +9.31% -57.51%
75th Percentile - £200 £385
90th Percentile - - £529
West Midlands median daily rate £400 £350 £380
% change year-on-year +14.29% -7.89% +26.67%

All System Software Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 8 6 19
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 6.15% 4.48% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 13
10th Percentile - - £211
25th Percentile £210 £117 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £200 £540
Median % change year-on-year +130.00% -62.96% +9.09%
75th Percentile £469 - £553
90th Percentile £510 £400 £597
West Midlands median daily rate £476 £400 £475
% change year-on-year +19.00% -15.79% +15.15%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Shropshire

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in Shropshire

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in Shropshire

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

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 Shropshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Shrewsbury -2 2 £210 +5.00% 17
Telford -3 1 - - 17
Active Directory
West Midlands

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Shropshire 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 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (66.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (100.00%) OneDrive
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) VPN
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Legal
3 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (33.33%) Desktop Engineer
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows 10
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (33.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Patch Management
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Time Management
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) MCSE
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Apple
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow