Real-Time IT Contract Trends & Actionable Insights

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 30 May 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)	60	Up 23 places+23	£500	-	200 3.33%	103
Active Directory	31	Down -9 places-9	£500	-	352 5.86%	147
Active Directory Support	209	Down -64 places-64	£238	-60.74%	1 0.017%	1
Active Directory Engineer	203	Down -61 places-61	£500	+21.21%	7 0.12%	2
Active Directory Specialist	207	New entry-	-	-	3 0.050%	2
Active Directory Consultant	207	New entry-	£465	-	3 0.050%	1
Active Directory Support Engineer	209	Down -64 places-64	£238	-60.74%	1 0.017%	1
Active Directory Federation Services	182	Down -41 places-41	£525	+196.61%	28 0.47%	4
Azure	5	Up 2 places+2	£503	+0.60%	823 13.71%	494
Azure Data Factory	180	Down -61 places-61	£575	+17.94%	30 0.50%	20
Azure AI	199	Down -54 places-54	£600	-4.00%	11 0.18%	19
Azure AKS	193	Down -72 places-72	£600	+38.72%	17 0.28%	11
Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations (PERC)	208	New entry-	£525	-	2 0.033%	1