Active Directory Contracts in Solihull

Microsoft Active Directory
West Midlands > Solihull

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

6 months to
21 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 26 16
Rank change year-on-year +11 -10 -5
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 4 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Solihull 6.78% 1.72% 3.13%
As % of the System Software category 19.05% 66.67% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £366 £143 -
25th Percentile £372 £154 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £183 £525
Median % change year-on-year +124.66% -65.24% +40.00%
75th Percentile £471 £214 -
90th Percentile £476 £228 -
West Midlands median daily rate £400 £344 £375
% change year-on-year +16.36% -8.33% +36.36%

All System Software Skills
Solihull

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 Solihull.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 21 3 14
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Solihull 35.59% 2.59% 21.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 5
10th Percentile £374 £151 £205
25th Percentile £410 £174 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £225 £300
Median % change year-on-year +92.22% -25.00% -25.00%
75th Percentile £463 £291 £340
90th Percentile £482 £324 £451
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -5.00% +17.65% +1.19%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Solihull

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Solihull

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Solihull

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in Solihull

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Solihull

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in Solihull

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Solihull 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 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DKIM
1 1 (25.00%) DMARC
1 1 (25.00%) Unified Communications
General
1 2 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (25.00%) Legal
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) SCCM Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (75.00%) SCCM
2 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Veeam
2 1 (25.00%) VMware