Active Directory Contracts in Somerset

Microsoft Active Directory
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Somerset 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 17 9 20
Rank change year-on-year -8 +11 -4
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 7 21 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Somerset 5.04% 10.34% 6.76%
As % of the System Software category 63.64% 91.30% 38.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 6
10th Percentile - £127 £170
25th Percentile £140 £138 £195
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £208 £150 £225
Median % change year-on-year +38.33% -33.33% -
75th Percentile £288 £173 £284
90th Percentile £369 £234 £300
South West median daily rate £450 £300 £475
% change year-on-year +50.00% -36.84% +58.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 3
10th Percentile - - £15.60
25th Percentile - - £15.84
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - +128.57% -
75th Percentile - - £19.13
90th Percentile - - £19.35
South West median hourly rate £18.25 £40.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year -54.38% +122.22% -59.55%

All System Software Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 11 23 36
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 7.91% 11.33% 17.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 22
10th Percentile £140 £129 £213
25th Percentile £171 £139 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £343 £158 £450
Median % change year-on-year +117.46% -65.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £419 £249 £725
90th Percentile £467 £381 £842
South West median daily rate £550 £508 £500
% change year-on-year +8.37% +1.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 4
10th Percentile - - £15.68
25th Percentile - - £16.05
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year - +119.18% -
75th Percentile - - £27.13
90th Percentile - - £40.85
South West median hourly rate £40.63 £68.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year -40.91% +14.58% +21.24%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Somerset

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in Somerset

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in Somerset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in Somerset over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in Somerset

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in Somerset

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

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 Somerset 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
Bath -9 3 £140 -15.15% 18
Bridgwater 0 1 - - 2
Street -3 1 £450 +80.00% 1
Active Directory
South West

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Somerset 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 (14.29%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Internet
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Analyst
2 3 (42.86%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
2 3 (42.86%) Service Analyst
2 3 (42.86%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Desktop Support
3 1 (14.29%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
3 1 (14.29%) Support Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (42.86%) Customer Service
2 3 (42.86%) Incident Management
2 3 (42.86%) ITIL
2 3 (42.86%) Service Delivery
2 3 (42.86%) Time Management
3 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (14.29%) Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Application Packaging
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
4 1 (14.29%) Customer Experience
4 1 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (14.29%) Network Management
4 1 (14.29%) Server Management
4 1 (14.29%) Software Deployment
4 1 (14.29%) Threat Detection
4 1 (14.29%) Two-Factor Authentication
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) A+ Certification
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft