Real-Time IT Contract Trends & Actionable Insights

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 19 Apr 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory, Azure AD)	71	Up 32 places+32	£500	-8.25%	171 3.00%	90
Active Directory	31	Down -4 places-4	£500	-7.23%	321 5.63%	149
Active Directory Engineer	201	Down -49 places-49	£500	-9.09%	8 0.14%	3
Active Directory Architect	208	Down -74 places-74	£640	-1.53%	1 0.018%
Active Directory Consultant	207	New entry-	£465	-	2 0.035%
Active Directory Specialist	204	New entry-	£508	-	5 0.088%
Active Directory Federation Services	189	Down -33 places-33	£525	-16.00%	20 0.35%	2
Senior Active Directory Engineer	206	Down -46 places-46	£413	-28.26%	3 0.053%	2
Azure	5	Up 1 place+1	£500	-4.76%	774 13.58%	632
Azure Data Factory	186	Down -61 places-61	£575	+5.50%	23 0.40%	24
Azure AI	200	Down -41 places-41	£600	-4.00%	9 0.16%	40
Azure AKS	191	Down -54 places-54	£550	+27.16%	18 0.32%	10
Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations (PERC)	207	New entry-	£525	-	2 0.035%	1