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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 30 23
Rank change year-on-year +14 -7 -3
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 445 378 600
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 8.14% 6.70% 7.76%
As % of the System Software category 57.27% 46.78% 47.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 303 263 410
10th Percentile £176 £185 £140
25th Percentile £310 £250 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £375
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% +13.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £608 £563 £520
90th Percentile £638 £675 £600
England median daily rate £425 £425 £399
% change year-on-year - +6.58% +4.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 45
10th Percentile £14.74 £15.50 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.61 £16.51 £13.00
Median hourly rate £17.69 £18.50 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.38% +23.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £18.51 £48.94 £22.25
90th Percentile £43.18 £78.19 -
England median hourly rate £17.50 £19.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year -10.26% +11.43% +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 777 808 1,268
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.22% 14.33% 16.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 491 559 875
10th Percentile £203 £205 £164
25th Percentile £363 £350 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.20% +5.26% +6.74%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £662
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 44 58
10th Percentile £17.11 £15.50 £12.54
25th Percentile £17.80 £18.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £54.88 £54.56 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.58% +172.80% -9.09%
75th Percentile £64.38 £70.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £67.66
England median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £18.68
% change year-on-year -58.00% +167.74% -6.63%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 May 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 +13 183 £575 +27.78% 65
Hampshire +8 177 £538 +1.42% 48
Berkshire +20 133 £605 +8.52% 28
Buckinghamshire +3 32 £411 +2.75% 19
West Sussex +18 30 £450 +63.64% 18
Surrey +5 24 £253 -18.52% 20
Oxfordshire +1 18 £138 -54.17% 18
Kent -2 10 £185 -20.00% 25
East Sussex +4 5 £475 +131.71% 13
Middlesex +4 4 £275 -15.38%
Home Counties +4 1 £600 +34.83%
Sussex - 1 - - 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 60 (13.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (3.37%) SharePoint
3 14 (3.15%) Confluence
4 2 (0.45%) Apache
4 2 (0.45%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.22%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.22%) IIS
5 1 (0.22%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 30 (6.74%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.12%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.90%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 160 (35.96%) Azure
2 126 (28.31%) Microsoft 365
3 70 (15.73%) AWS
4 69 (15.51%) Entra ID
5 38 (8.54%) Azure Monitor
6 21 (4.72%) Azure Data Factory
7 20 (4.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 17 (3.82%) Azure Storage
9 15 (3.37%) Azure Functions
9 15 (3.37%) Serverless
10 14 (3.15%) OCI
11 9 (2.02%) IaaS
12 8 (1.80%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (1.57%) PaaS
13 7 (1.57%) SaaS
14 6 (1.35%) OneDrive
15 4 (0.90%) Azure API Management
15 4 (0.90%) Azure DevOps
15 4 (0.90%) Azure Logic Apps
16 3 (0.67%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 113 (25.39%) DNS
2 98 (22.02%) DHCP
3 68 (15.28%) Firewall
4 41 (9.21%) SSL
5 31 (6.97%) SAN
6 22 (4.94%) Wireless
7 21 (4.72%) WAN
8 20 (4.49%) LAN
9 15 (3.37%) TCP/IP
9 15 (3.37%) Wi-Fi
10 14 (3.15%) VPN
11 10 (2.25%) NAS
12 7 (1.57%) Network Security
12 7 (1.57%) VLAN
13 6 (1.35%) Remote Desktop
14 5 (1.12%) WebEx
15 3 (0.67%) NetScaler
15 3 (0.67%) Skype
15 3 (0.67%) VSAN
16 2 (0.45%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (4.49%) NoSQL
2 14 (3.15%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.12%) MySQL
5 4 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (0.67%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.22%) Metadata
8 1 (0.22%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.22%) Power BI
8 1 (0.22%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.22%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (5.39%) Git
2 15 (3.37%) JIRA
3 14 (3.15%) Robot Framework
3 14 (3.15%) Sonatype Nexus
4 8 (1.80%) Selenium
5 4 (0.90%) GitLab
6 3 (0.67%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.67%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.45%) JMeter
7 2 (0.45%) MSI
8 1 (0.22%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.22%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.22%) SonarQube
General
1 124 (27.87%) Social Skills
2 32 (7.19%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (5.39%) Organisational Skills
4 18 (4.04%) Public Sector
5 12 (2.70%) Finance
6 11 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (2.25%) Military
8 9 (2.02%) Retail
9 5 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (0.90%) Automotive
10 4 (0.90%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.67%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.67%) Front Office
12 2 (0.45%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.45%) French Language
12 2 (0.45%) Legal
12 2 (0.45%) Portuguese Language
12 2 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.45%) Spanish Language
12 2 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 71 (15.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 66 (14.83%) Architect
3 35 (7.87%) IT Support
4 34 (7.64%) Active Directory Support
4 34 (7.64%) Support Engineer
5 32 (7.19%) Support Specialist
6 31 (6.97%) Senior
7 28 (6.29%) Windows Engineer
8 27 (6.07%) Active Directory Specialist
8 27 (6.07%) Azure Specialist
9 26 (5.84%) IT Engineer
10 21 (4.72%) Developer
11 20 (4.49%) Full Stack Developer
12 19 (4.27%) Build Engineer
12 19 (4.27%) Integration Engineer
12 19 (4.27%) Windows Build Engineer
13 18 (4.04%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 17 (3.82%) Active Directory Engineer
14 17 (3.82%) Azure Developer
15 16 (3.60%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (9.44%) Web Services
2 20 (4.49%) React
3 18 (4.04%) ARM Templates
4 10 (2.25%) .NET
5 8 (1.80%) ADO
6 4 (0.90%) XMPP
7 3 (0.67%) CSS
8 2 (0.45%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.45%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.45%) HTML
8 2 (0.45%) jQuery
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
8 2 (0.45%) SPFx
9 1 (0.22%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 102 (22.92%) PKI
2 24 (5.39%) Self-Motivation
3 22 (4.94%) Data Centre
4 16 (3.60%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.02%) Onboarding
6 7 (1.57%) Digital Signage
7 6 (1.35%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.12%) Video Conferencing
9 4 (0.90%) Clustering
9 4 (0.90%) Fat Client
9 4 (0.90%) Thin Client
10 2 (0.45%) CMDB
10 2 (0.45%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.45%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.45%) NHS
10 2 (0.45%) Smartphone
10 2 (0.45%) Tandem
11 1 (0.22%) Cloud Native
11 1 (0.22%) Enterprise Cloud
11 1 (0.22%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 298 (66.97%) Windows
2 162 (36.40%) Windows Server
3 119 (26.74%) Windows 10
4 92 (20.67%) Linux
5 82 (18.43%) Windows Server 2019
6 75 (16.85%) Windows Server 2012
7 62 (13.93%) Windows Server 2016
8 33 (7.42%) Apple iOS
9 19 (4.27%) Windows 7
9 19 (4.27%) Windows NT
10 16 (3.60%) Ubuntu
11 14 (3.15%) Windows XP
12 10 (2.25%) Unix
12 10 (2.25%) Windows Server 2008
13 6 (1.35%) Windows Server 2003
14 5 (1.12%) Android
15 3 (0.67%) Mac OS
15 3 (0.67%) VMS
16 2 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 1 (0.22%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (18.43%) ITIL
2 78 (17.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 74 (16.63%) Customer Service
4 69 (15.51%) Agile
5 51 (11.46%) Service Management
6 48 (10.79%) Release Management
7 47 (10.56%) Cryptography
8 44 (9.89%) DevOps
9 43 (9.66%) Problem-Solving
10 42 (9.44%) Key Management
11 39 (8.76%) CI/CD
12 27 (6.07%) Change Management
12 27 (6.07%) Infrastructure as Code
13 25 (5.62%) Deployment Automation
13 25 (5.62%) Migration
14 24 (5.39%) Proactive Monitoring
14 24 (5.39%) Test Automation
15 23 (5.17%) Microservices
16 22 (4.94%) Server Management
17 21 (4.72%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 93 (20.90%) PowerShell
2 44 (9.89%) Python
3 26 (5.84%) SQL
4 23 (5.17%) VBScript
5 20 (4.49%) C#
6 18 (4.04%) Bicep
7 17 (3.82%) VB
8 11 (2.47%) Java
9 3 (0.67%) C
9 3 (0.67%) PHP
9 3 (0.67%) Ruby
9 3 (0.67%) VB.NET
10 2 (0.45%) C++
11 1 (0.22%) Bash
11 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 213 (47.87%) Security Cleared
2 124 (27.87%) DV Cleared
3 113 (25.39%) SC Cleared
4 105 (23.60%) Degree
5 21 (4.72%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (3.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 14 (3.15%) CCNA
7 14 (3.15%) CCNP
7 14 (3.15%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (2.47%) MCSA
8 11 (2.47%) MCSE
9 10 (2.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 7 (1.57%) Azure Certification
10 7 (1.57%) DBS Check
11 6 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.90%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 3 (0.67%) A+ Certification
14 3 (0.67%) PMI Certification
14 3 (0.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.39%) SLA
2 20 (4.49%) QA
3 7 (1.57%) RMADS
4 6 (1.35%) GDPR
5 4 (0.90%) ISO 9001
5 4 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 3 (0.67%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.22%) COBIT
System Software
1 111 (24.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 42 (9.44%) Hyper-V
3 28 (6.29%) VMware ESXi
4 27 (6.07%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (5.17%) XenApp
6 20 (4.49%) vSphere
7 19 (4.27%) Firmware
8 17 (3.82%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (1.35%) XenDesktop
10 5 (1.12%) BitLocker
10 5 (1.12%) Docker
11 4 (0.90%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.45%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.22%) DFS Replication
13 1 (0.22%) UAG
Systems Management
1 113 (25.39%) SCCM
2 85 (19.10%) WSUS
3 43 (9.66%) Microsoft Intune
4 36 (8.09%) SCOM
5 27 (6.07%) Kubernetes
6 24 (5.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 24 (5.39%) vCenter Server
7 23 (5.17%) Ansible
8 20 (4.49%) Terraform
9 19 (4.27%) Sysprep
10 16 (3.60%) EMC NetWorker
11 14 (3.15%) NetBackup
12 11 (2.47%) Nessus
13 5 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.90%) FortiGate
14 4 (0.90%) IBM BigFix
14 4 (0.90%) Red Hat Satellite
14 4 (0.90%) Tivoli
14 4 (0.90%) ZABBIX
15 3 (0.67%) AppManager
Vendors
1 205 (46.07%) Microsoft
2 137 (30.79%) VMware
3 33 (7.42%) Citrix
4 27 (6.07%) Apple
5 26 (5.84%) Oracle
6 24 (5.39%) Cisco
7 22 (4.94%) HP
8 21 (4.72%) Symantec
8 21 (4.72%) Veeam
9 20 (4.49%) ServiceNow
10 18 (4.04%) Dell
10 18 (4.04%) EMC
10 18 (4.04%) Ivanti
11 15 (3.37%) Juniper
12 14 (3.15%) 3PAR
12 14 (3.15%) Extreme Networks
12 14 (3.15%) Palo Alto
13 12 (2.70%) MobileIron
14 9 (2.02%) Red Hat
15 7 (1.57%) Remedy