Real-Time IT Contract Trends & Actionable Insights

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 9 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)	65	Up 18 places+18	£500	-	186 3.16%	90
Active Directory	29	Down -5 places-5	£500	-4.76%	350 5.94%	158
Active Directory Support	214	Down -67 places-67	£238	-45.40%	1 0.017%
Active Directory Engineer	209	Down -65 places-65	£500	+14.94%	6 0.10%	5
Active Directory Architect	214	Down -91 places-91	£640	-1.53%	1 0.017%
Active Directory Consultant	212	New entry-	£465	-	3 0.051%	1
Active Directory Specialist	212	New entry-	-	-	3 0.051%	2
Active Directory Support Engineer	214	Down -67 places-67	£238	-45.40%	1 0.017%
Active Directory Federation Services	195	Down -48 places-48	£525	-19.23%	20 0.34%	4
Azure	4	Up 2 places+2	£500	-4.76%	831 14.10%	663
Azure Data Factory	189	Down -69 places-69	£575	+15.00%	26 0.44%	24
Azure AI	204	Down -55 places-55	£600	-4.00%	11 0.19%	41
Azure AKS	197	Down -70 places-70	£550	+22.90%	18 0.31%	15
Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations (PERC)	213	New entry-	£525	-	2 0.034%