Active Directory Contracts in South Wales

Microsoft Active Directory
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales requiring Active Directory skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Active Directory over the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 29 23
Rank change year-on-year +12 -6 +1
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 18 12 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 7.53% 3.60% 6.96%
As % of the System Software category 45.00% 38.71% 52.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 9 30
10th Percentile £185 £133 £127
25th Percentile £188 £166 £158
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £220 £210
Median % change year-on-year +81.82% +4.76% -45.81%
75th Percentile £438 £350 £438
90th Percentile £459 £386 £550
Wales median daily rate £365 £220 £183
% change year-on-year +65.91% +20.55% -49.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £28.50 - £16.40
25th Percentile £31.88 £12.25 £16.67
Median hourly rate £37.50 £12.50 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year +200.00% -27.55% +38.08%
75th Percentile £41.25 £12.75 £17.73
90th Percentile - - £17.95
Wales median hourly rate £37.50 £12.50 £16.45
% change year-on-year +200.00% -23.99% +17.46%

All System Software Skills
South Wales

Active Directory falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 40 31 69
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 16.74% 9.31% 13.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 27 59
10th Percentile £185 £177 £140
25th Percentile £217 £354 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £472 £531 £550
90th Percentile £545 £619 £650
Wales median daily rate £388 £500 £444
% change year-on-year -22.50% +12.68% -0.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £28.50 - £16.40
25th Percentile £31.88 £12.25 £16.67
Median hourly rate £37.50 £12.50 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year +200.00% -27.55% +38.08%
75th Percentile £41.25 £12.75 £17.73
90th Percentile - - £17.95
Wales median hourly rate £37.50 £15.84 £16.45
% change year-on-year +136.82% -3.71% +17.46%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in South Wales

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in South Wales

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in South Wales over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in South Wales

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in South Wales

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 7 May 2025. 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
Newport +11 9 £365 +31.53% 3
Cardiff +4 5 £425 +93.18% 9
Bridgend - 2 £425 - 5
Monmouthshire - 1 £700 -
Torfaen - 1 £200 -
Active Directory
Wales

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.56%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (5.56%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (5.56%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (72.22%) Azure
2 10 (55.56%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (38.89%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Stack
4 1 (5.56%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 8 (44.44%) Firewall
2 2 (11.11%) DHCP
2 2 (11.11%) DNS
2 2 (11.11%) Remote Desktop
2 2 (11.11%) SAN
2 2 (11.11%) TCP/IP
2 2 (11.11%) VPN
3 1 (5.56%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) 2nd Line Support
3 4 (22.22%) Analyst
3 4 (22.22%) IT Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Support Specialist
4 3 (16.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) IT Support
5 2 (11.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) IT Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) IT Support Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Support Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Support Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) 1st Line Support
6 1 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) IT Support Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Senior
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Technical Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Service Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Video Conferencing
2 4 (22.22%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 16 (88.89%) Windows
2 7 (38.89%) Windows Server
2 7 (38.89%) Windows Server 2012
2 7 (38.89%) Windows Server 2019
3 6 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (22.22%) Windows 10
5 1 (5.56%) Linux
5 1 (5.56%) Mac OS
5 1 (5.56%) Rocky
5 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (5.56%) Windows Vista
5 1 (5.56%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) ITIL
2 8 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (38.89%) Customer Service
4 6 (33.33%) Incident Management
4 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (22.22%) Application Packaging
5 4 (22.22%) Computer Science
6 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (5.56%) Agile
7 1 (5.56%) Change Management
7 1 (5.56%) Containerisation
7 1 (5.56%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity
7 1 (5.56%) High Availability
7 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Management
7 1 (5.56%) ITSM
7 1 (5.56%) Mobile Device Management
7 1 (5.56%) Roadmaps
7 1 (5.56%) Root Cause Analysis
7 1 (5.56%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) Network+ Certification
2 5 (27.78%) A+ Certification
2 5 (27.78%) Degree
3 3 (16.67%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Hyper-V
1 1 (5.56%) Terminal Services
1 1 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (5.56%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Jamf Pro
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) Sysprep
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) ServiceNow
1 5 (27.78%) VMware
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco
3 1 (5.56%) Citrix
3 1 (5.56%) Dell