Active Directory Contracts in the South West

Microsoft Active Directory
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 34 21
Rank change year-on-year +4 -13 +2
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 107 160 248
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 5.90% 4.88% 7.13%
As % of the System Software category 41.63% 37.38% 50.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 118 168
10th Percentile £182 £143 £177
25th Percentile £209 £186 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £481 £500
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% -3.75% +53.85%
75th Percentile £547 £600 £613
90th Percentile £611 £681 £709
England median daily rate £450 £450 £425
% change year-on-year - +5.88% +10.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 23
10th Percentile £15.75 £14.00 -
25th Percentile £16.64 - £13.25
Median hourly rate £18.25 £40.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -54.38% +128.57% -20.45%
75th Percentile £45.44 - £58.57
90th Percentile £61.68 - £83.20
England median hourly rate £23.00 £17.72 £21.00
% change year-on-year +29.80% -15.62% +20.00%

All System Software Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 257 428 492
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 14.16% 13.05% 14.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 310 363
10th Percentile £208 £197 £200
25th Percentile £316 £463 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £513
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +4.88% +5.13%
75th Percentile £623 £600 £621
90th Percentile £688 £672 £719
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 26 38
10th Percentile £16.34 - £13.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £40.00 £16.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.25 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.35% +12.08% +24.30%
75th Percentile £78.70 £85.00 £73.13
90th Percentile £79.48 £90.00 £88.25
England median hourly rate £29.50 £22.30 £50.00
% change year-on-year +32.29% -55.40% +150.00%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in the South West

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in the South West

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in the South West over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in the South West

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in the South West

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Active Directory in the South West over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Active Directory in the South West

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 4 July 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
Wiltshire +23 30 £550 +2.33% 42
Gloucestershire +27 24 £250 -44.44% 46
Bristol +15 23 £235 -59.66% 34
Dorset +16 14 £210 +2.44% 16
Somerset -4 12 £250 +28.21% 37
Devon -14 4 £200 +23.08% 29
Avon - 2 £275 - 8
Active Directory
England

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 36 (33.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (22.43%) SharePoint
3 7 (6.54%) Confluence
3 7 (6.54%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.93%) Apache
4 1 (0.93%) IIS
Applications
1 34 (31.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.87%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.93%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 41 (38.32%) Microsoft 365
2 21 (19.63%) Azure
3 13 (12.15%) Entra ID
4 7 (6.54%) OneDrive
5 5 (4.67%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (3.74%) SaaS
7 3 (2.80%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (1.87%) AWS
9 1 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.93%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.93%) IaaS
9 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.93%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.93%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 22 (20.56%) DNS
2 15 (14.02%) Skype
3 14 (13.08%) DHCP
3 14 (13.08%) VPN
4 10 (9.35%) VoIP
5 9 (8.41%) Firewall
6 7 (6.54%) LAN
6 7 (6.54%) WAN
7 6 (5.61%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (4.67%) Unified Communications
9 4 (3.74%) VSAN
10 3 (2.80%) Cisco ISE
10 3 (2.80%) NetScaler
10 3 (2.80%) VLAN
11 1 (0.93%) Kerberos
11 1 (0.93%) SMTP
11 1 (0.93%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.80%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.93%) Power BI
2 1 (0.93%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (8.41%) JIRA
2 3 (2.80%) Bitbucket
General
1 45 (42.06%) Social Skills
2 16 (14.95%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (9.35%) Finance
3 10 (9.35%) Public Sector
4 9 (8.41%) Legal
5 5 (4.67%) Billing
6 3 (2.80%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.80%) Military
7 2 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.87%) Law
8 1 (0.93%) Electronics
8 1 (0.93%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.93%) Italian Language
8 1 (0.93%) Marketing
8 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (25.23%) Support Engineer
2 15 (14.02%) Analyst
3 12 (11.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 11 (10.28%) Desktop Engineer
4 11 (10.28%) Desktop Support
4 11 (10.28%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 11 (10.28%) Service Analyst
4 11 (10.28%) Service Desk Analyst
5 8 (7.48%) IT Support
5 8 (7.48%) Wintel Engineer
6 7 (6.54%) Architect
6 7 (6.54%) IT Engineer
6 7 (6.54%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 7 (6.54%) Technical Support
7 6 (5.61%) IT Support Engineer
7 6 (5.61%) Senior
7 6 (5.61%) Technical Engineer
7 6 (5.61%) Technical Support Engineer
8 5 (4.67%) Deployment Engineer
9 4 (3.74%) Senior Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.74%) SailPoint
2 2 (1.87%) .NET
2 2 (1.87%) LDAP
3 1 (0.93%) SOAP
3 1 (0.93%) Software Packaging
3 1 (0.93%) Web Services
3 1 (0.93%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.95%) PKI
2 7 (6.54%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (5.61%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (3.74%) iPad
4 4 (3.74%) iPhone
5 3 (2.80%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.87%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.87%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.87%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.93%) Clustering
7 1 (0.93%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.93%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.93%) Replication
7 1 (0.93%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 70 (65.42%) Windows
2 31 (28.97%) Windows 10
3 24 (22.43%) Windows Server
4 12 (11.21%) Windows Server 2012
5 7 (6.54%) Linux
5 7 (6.54%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (3.74%) Mac OS
7 3 (2.80%) Android
8 2 (1.87%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.93%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (30.84%) ITIL
2 24 (22.43%) Customer Service
3 16 (14.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 16 (14.95%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (13.08%) ITSM
4 14 (13.08%) Service Delivery
5 13 (12.15%) Agile
6 12 (11.21%) Service Management
7 10 (9.35%) Collaborative Working
8 9 (8.41%) Critical Thinking
8 9 (8.41%) Time Management
9 7 (6.54%) Case Management
9 7 (6.54%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (6.54%) System Testing
10 6 (5.61%) Incident Management
10 6 (5.61%) Migration
10 6 (5.61%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 6 (5.61%) NsoIT
10 6 (5.61%) Stakeholder Management
11 5 (4.67%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 17 (15.89%) PowerShell
2 14 (13.08%) SQL
3 3 (2.80%) Bash
3 3 (2.80%) Python
4 1 (0.93%) Java
Qualifications
1 49 (45.79%) Security Cleared
2 38 (35.51%) SC Cleared
3 21 (19.63%) DV Cleared
4 20 (18.69%) Degree
5 8 (7.48%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (6.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 6 (5.61%) MCSE
8 5 (4.67%) A+ Certification
9 4 (3.74%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (1.87%) MCSA
10 2 (1.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (8.41%) SLA
2 3 (2.80%) PMO
3 2 (1.87%) GDPR
3 2 (1.87%) NIST
4 1 (0.93%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (20.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (10.28%) Hyper-V
3 7 (6.54%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (5.61%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 6 (5.61%) Virtual Servers
4 6 (5.61%) vSphere
5 4 (3.74%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (3.74%) VMware NSX
6 3 (2.80%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 21 (19.63%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (13.08%) SCCM
3 10 (9.35%) WSUS
4 6 (5.61%) VxRail
5 4 (3.74%) Ansible
6 3 (2.80%) AppManager
6 3 (2.80%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (2.80%) vRealize
7 2 (1.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (1.87%) Kubernetes
7 2 (1.87%) Nessus
7 2 (1.87%) PingFederate
7 2 (1.87%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 1 (0.93%) Packer
8 1 (0.93%) SCOM
8 1 (0.93%) Terraform
Vendors
1 65 (60.75%) Microsoft
2 25 (23.36%) VMware
3 17 (15.89%) ServiceNow
4 10 (9.35%) Citrix
5 6 (5.61%) Ivanti
5 6 (5.61%) Remedy
6 5 (4.67%) Cisco
6 5 (4.67%) Veeam
7 4 (3.74%) McAfee
8 3 (2.80%) Atlassian
8 3 (2.80%) F5
8 3 (2.80%) Infoblox
9 2 (1.87%) iManage
9 2 (1.87%) Meraki
9 2 (1.87%) Oracle
10 1 (0.93%) Apple
10 1 (0.93%) Dell
10 1 (0.93%) Okta
10 1 (0.93%) SAP
10 1 (0.93%) Veritas