Active Directory Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Active Directory
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Active Directory skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Active Directory over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 32 24
Rank change year-on-year +17 -8 -8
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 443 413 614
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 8.02% 7.09% 7.90%
As % of the System Software category 57.01% 48.19% 48.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 294 438
10th Percentile £160 £185 £145
25th Percentile £269 £252 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £444 £375
Median % change year-on-year +8.16% +18.34% -6.25%
75th Percentile £608 £588 £538
90th Percentile £638 £688 £620
England median daily rate £410 £425 £400
% change year-on-year -3.53% +6.25% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 18 43
10th Percentile £14.74 £16.44 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.61 £18.25 £13.18
Median hourly rate £17.69 £18.50 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.38% +19.35% +10.71%
75th Percentile £18.51 £54.06 £22.25
90th Percentile £43.18 £76.91 -
England median hourly rate £17.69 £19.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -6.89% +8.57% +9.38%

All System Software Skills
South East

Active Directory is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 777 857 1,276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.06% 14.70% 16.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 487 601 902
10th Percentile £200 £205 £163
25th Percentile £331 £358 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £600
90th Percentile £647 £675 £675
England median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 46 57
10th Percentile £17.26 £17.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £17.80 £18.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £50.75 £54.03 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.07% +170.15% -4.76%
75th Percentile £62.81 £69.38 £24.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £67.71
England median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -58.00% +163.16% -

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Active Directory as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in the South East

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in the South East

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in the South East

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in the South East

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Active Directory in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Active Directory in the South East

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Thames Valley +4 187 £575 +27.78% 70
Hampshire +5 168 £525 -4.33% 50
Berkshire +22 137 £605 +2.98% 27
Surrey +5 29 £290 -6.45% 8
Buckinghamshire -4 29 £411 -8.67% 21
West Sussex +10 27 £450 +55.17% 20
Oxfordshire +3 21 £145 -51.67% 22
Kent -9 9 £205 -11.35% 28
East Sussex +2 7 £448 -43.35% 8
Middlesex +6 4 £275 -15.38% 1
Home Counties +4 1 £600 +34.83%
Sussex -3 1 - -
Active Directory
England

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 62 (14.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (4.06%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.93%) Confluence
4 2 (0.45%) Apache
4 2 (0.45%) nginx
4 2 (0.45%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.23%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.23%) IIS
5 1 (0.23%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 37 (8.35%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.35%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (1.13%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.45%) assyst
2 2 (0.45%) Sage X3
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 163 (36.79%) Azure
2 140 (31.60%) Microsoft 365
3 71 (16.03%) AWS
4 65 (14.67%) Entra ID
5 32 (7.22%) Azure Monitor
6 16 (3.61%) Azure Data Factory
6 16 (3.61%) Azure Storage
7 15 (3.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 13 (2.93%) OCI
9 10 (2.26%) Azure Functions
9 10 (2.26%) Serverless
10 9 (2.03%) IaaS
10 9 (2.03%) OneDrive
11 8 (1.81%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (1.35%) PaaS
12 6 (1.35%) SaaS
13 5 (1.13%) Amazon EC2
14 4 (0.90%) Azure DevOps
14 4 (0.90%) Power Automate
14 4 (0.90%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 112 (25.28%) DNS
2 94 (21.22%) DHCP
3 70 (15.80%) Firewall
4 42 (9.48%) SSL
5 33 (7.45%) SAN
6 24 (5.42%) Wireless
7 22 (4.97%) WAN
8 19 (4.29%) LAN
9 17 (3.84%) TCP/IP
10 14 (3.16%) Wi-Fi
11 13 (2.93%) VPN
12 11 (2.48%) Remote Desktop
13 10 (2.26%) NAS
14 7 (1.58%) Network Security
15 6 (1.35%) VLAN
16 5 (1.13%) Skype
16 5 (1.13%) WebEx
17 4 (0.90%) VSAN
18 3 (0.68%) NetScaler
19 2 (0.45%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.39%) NoSQL
2 13 (2.93%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.58%) MySQL
3 7 (1.58%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.45%) Metadata
7 1 (0.23%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.23%) Power BI
7 1 (0.23%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.23%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (4.29%) Git
2 15 (3.39%) JIRA
3 14 (3.16%) Robot Framework
3 14 (3.16%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (0.90%) GitLab
4 4 (0.90%) Selenium
5 3 (0.68%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.45%) JMeter
6 2 (0.45%) MSI
6 2 (0.45%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.23%) Axure RP
7 1 (0.23%) Hudson
7 1 (0.23%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.23%) SonarQube
General
1 124 (27.99%) Social Skills
2 32 (7.22%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (6.32%) Organisational Skills
4 18 (4.06%) Public Sector
5 12 (2.71%) Finance
6 11 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.03%) Military
8 8 (1.81%) Retail
9 6 (1.35%) Legal
10 5 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (0.90%) Automotive
11 4 (0.90%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.68%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.68%) Front Office
12 3 (0.68%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.45%) French Language
13 2 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.45%) Portuguese Language
13 2 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.45%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 69 (15.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 64 (14.45%) Architect
3 37 (8.35%) Senior
4 36 (8.13%) IT Support
5 33 (7.45%) Active Directory Support
5 33 (7.45%) Support Engineer
5 33 (7.45%) Support Specialist
6 30 (6.77%) Windows Engineer
7 28 (6.32%) Azure Specialist
8 27 (6.09%) Active Directory Specialist
9 21 (4.74%) Build Engineer
9 21 (4.74%) IT Engineer
9 21 (4.74%) Windows Build Engineer
10 20 (4.51%) Integration Engineer
11 19 (4.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 17 (3.84%) Active Directory Engineer
12 17 (3.84%) IT Technician
13 16 (3.61%) 1st Line Support
13 16 (3.61%) Developer
14 15 (3.39%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (9.48%) Web Services
2 16 (3.61%) ARM Templates
3 15 (3.39%) React
4 9 (2.03%) .NET
5 8 (1.81%) ADO
6 4 (0.90%) CSS
6 4 (0.90%) HTML
6 4 (0.90%) XMPP
7 3 (0.68%) jQuery
7 3 (0.68%) SPFx
8 2 (0.45%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.45%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.45%) EDI
8 2 (0.45%) Kafka
8 2 (0.45%) Keycloak
8 2 (0.45%) LDAP
8 2 (0.45%) Middleware
8 2 (0.45%) Node.js
8 2 (0.45%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (0.45%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 101 (22.80%) PKI
2 22 (4.97%) Self-Motivation
3 21 (4.74%) Data Centre
4 14 (3.16%) Product Ownership
5 6 (1.35%) Digital Signage
5 6 (1.35%) Management Information System
5 6 (1.35%) Onboarding
6 5 (1.13%) Public Cloud
6 5 (1.13%) Video Conferencing
7 4 (0.90%) Clustering
7 4 (0.90%) Fat Client
7 4 (0.90%) Thin Client
8 3 (0.68%) CCTV
9 2 (0.45%) CMDB
9 2 (0.45%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.45%) NHS
9 2 (0.45%) Smartphone
9 2 (0.45%) Tandem
9 2 (0.45%) Taxonomies
10 1 (0.23%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 301 (67.95%) Windows
2 152 (34.31%) Windows Server
3 124 (27.99%) Windows 10
4 93 (20.99%) Linux
5 84 (18.96%) Windows Server 2019
6 74 (16.70%) Windows Server 2012
7 59 (13.32%) Windows Server 2016
8 36 (8.13%) Apple iOS
9 21 (4.74%) Windows NT
10 18 (4.06%) Ubuntu
11 17 (3.84%) Windows 7
12 13 (2.93%) Windows Server 2008
12 13 (2.93%) Windows XP
13 11 (2.48%) Unix
14 6 (1.35%) Android
14 6 (1.35%) Windows Server 2003
15 5 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 3 (0.68%) Mac OS
16 3 (0.68%) VMS
17 1 (0.23%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (19.41%) ITIL
2 76 (17.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 73 (16.48%) Customer Service
4 64 (14.45%) Agile
5 54 (12.19%) Service Management
6 49 (11.06%) Release Management
7 47 (10.61%) Cryptography
8 44 (9.93%) Problem-Solving
9 42 (9.48%) Key Management
10 36 (8.13%) DevOps
11 32 (7.22%) CI/CD
12 26 (5.87%) Deployment Automation
13 25 (5.64%) Infrastructure as Code
14 23 (5.19%) Migration
15 22 (4.97%) Change Management
15 22 (4.97%) Proactive Monitoring
15 22 (4.97%) Project Management
16 21 (4.74%) User Acceptance Testing
17 20 (4.51%) Identity Management
17 20 (4.51%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 85 (19.19%) PowerShell
2 38 (8.58%) Python
3 26 (5.87%) SQL
4 22 (4.97%) VBScript
5 18 (4.06%) C#
6 16 (3.61%) Bicep
6 16 (3.61%) VB
7 6 (1.35%) Java
8 3 (0.68%) VB.NET
9 2 (0.45%) C
9 2 (0.45%) C++
9 2 (0.45%) PHP
9 2 (0.45%) Ruby
10 1 (0.23%) Bash
10 1 (0.23%) R
10 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 206 (46.50%) Security Cleared
2 121 (27.31%) DV Cleared
3 112 (25.28%) Degree
4 107 (24.15%) SC Cleared
5 23 (5.19%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (3.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 13 (2.93%) CCNA
7 13 (2.93%) CCNP
7 13 (2.93%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (2.26%) DBS Check
8 10 (2.26%) MCSA
8 10 (2.26%) MCSE
9 9 (2.03%) Azure Certification
9 9 (2.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 8 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (1.35%) A+ Certification
11 6 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.90%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 3 (0.68%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.68%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.09%) SLA
2 22 (4.97%) QA
3 8 (1.81%) GDPR
4 7 (1.58%) RMADS
5 5 (1.13%) ISO 9001
5 5 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 3 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.68%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.23%) COBIT
System Software
1 96 (21.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 32 (7.22%) Hyper-V
3 26 (5.87%) Virtual Machines
3 26 (5.87%) VMware ESXi
4 21 (4.74%) Firmware
4 21 (4.74%) XenApp
5 19 (4.29%) vSphere
6 17 (3.84%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (1.35%) Docker
7 6 (1.35%) XenDesktop
8 4 (0.90%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.45%) BitLocker
9 2 (0.45%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.23%) DFS Replication
10 1 (0.23%) UAG
Systems Management
1 116 (26.19%) SCCM
2 78 (17.61%) WSUS
3 45 (10.16%) Microsoft Intune
4 36 (8.13%) SCOM
5 25 (5.64%) Kubernetes
5 25 (5.64%) vCenter Server
6 23 (5.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 23 (5.19%) Ansible
7 21 (4.74%) Sysprep
8 20 (4.51%) Terraform
9 17 (3.84%) EMC NetWorker
10 13 (2.93%) NetBackup
11 10 (2.26%) Nessus
12 5 (1.13%) IBM BigFix
12 5 (1.13%) Tivoli
13 4 (0.90%) Red Hat Satellite
13 4 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.90%) ZABBIX
14 3 (0.68%) AppManager
14 3 (0.68%) vRealize
Vendors
1 210 (47.40%) Microsoft
2 125 (28.22%) VMware
3 33 (7.45%) Citrix
4 31 (7.00%) Apple
5 26 (5.87%) Cisco
5 26 (5.87%) Oracle
5 26 (5.87%) ServiceNow
6 23 (5.19%) HP
7 21 (4.74%) Veeam
8 20 (4.51%) Symantec
9 19 (4.29%) EMC
10 17 (3.84%) Dell
11 16 (3.61%) Ivanti
12 14 (3.16%) Juniper
13 13 (2.93%) 3PAR
13 13 (2.93%) Extreme Networks
13 13 (2.93%) Palo Alto
13 13 (2.93%) Red Hat
14 12 (2.71%) MobileIron
15 8 (1.81%) Remedy