Active Directory Contracts in South Yorkshire

Microsoft Active Directory
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 31 37
Rank change year-on-year +8 +6 -21
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 26 25 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 6.97% 5.47% 3.77%
As % of the System Software category 35.62% 23.81% 48.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 21 16
10th Percentile £185 - £150
25th Percentile £346 £185 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £220 £220
Median % change year-on-year +104.55% - -26.67%
75th Percentile £628 £475 £636
90th Percentile £663 £500 £688
Yorkshire median daily rate £400 £300 £281
% change year-on-year +33.33% +6.67% +40.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.50
Median hourly rate - £22.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +16.79%
75th Percentile - - £22.50
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £22.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year - - +25.21%

All System Software Skills
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 73 105 41
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 19.57% 22.98% 7.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 75 33
10th Percentile £350 £186 £163
25th Percentile £400 £390 £235
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £430 £500
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% -14.00% +24.22%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £675
90th Percentile £650 £642 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £413 £430 £425
% change year-on-year -4.07% +1.18% +8.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.50
Median hourly rate - £22.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +15.21%
75th Percentile - - £22.50
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £14.63 £62.50
% change year-on-year - -76.60% +257.14%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in South Yorkshire

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in South Yorkshire

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in South Yorkshire

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in South Yorkshire

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Sheffield +17 26 £450 +136.84% 27
Active Directory
Yorkshire

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 (7.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (15.38%) MS Visio
2 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (34.62%) GitHub
2 6 (23.08%) Azure
3 5 (19.23%) Entra ID
3 5 (19.23%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.85%) AWS
4 1 (3.85%) Azure Storage
4 1 (3.85%) GCP
4 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (3.85%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 9 (34.62%) SMTP
2 4 (15.38%) DNS
2 4 (15.38%) NAS
2 4 (15.38%) SAN
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Git
1 4 (15.38%) GitLab
2 3 (11.54%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Banking
3 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Finance
4 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Investment Banking
4 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (23.08%) Architect
2 4 (15.38%) Analyst
3 3 (11.54%) IT Analyst
3 3 (11.54%) IT Support
3 3 (11.54%) IT Support Analyst
3 3 (11.54%) Support Analyst
3 3 (11.54%) Technical Architect
3 3 (11.54%) Windows Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) IT Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Systems Architect
5 1 (3.85%) 2nd Line Support
5 1 (3.85%) Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Security Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) SharePoint Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Technical Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Virtualisation Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (34.62%) REST
2 4 (15.38%) Middleware
3 1 (3.85%) LDAP
3 1 (3.85%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 7 (26.92%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (15.38%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (11.54%) Management Information System
4 2 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.85%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 18 (69.23%) Windows
2 7 (26.92%) Linux
3 4 (15.38%) Unix
3 4 (15.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (34.62%) ITSM
1 9 (34.62%) Problem-Solving
1 9 (34.62%) SIEM
2 8 (30.77%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (19.23%) Agile
3 5 (19.23%) Migration
4 4 (15.38%) Identity Access Management
4 4 (15.38%) ITIL
4 4 (15.38%) Kanban
4 4 (15.38%) Scrum
5 3 (11.54%) Computer Science
5 3 (11.54%) ERP
5 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (7.69%) Data Protection
6 2 (7.69%) DevOps
6 2 (7.69%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (7.69%) Privileged Access Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (53.85%) PowerShell
2 6 (23.08%) Python
3 4 (15.38%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.85%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (11.54%) Degree
2 2 (7.69%) CISSP
3 1 (3.85%) CISA
3 1 (3.85%) CISM
3 1 (3.85%) PMI Certification
3 1 (3.85%) PMP
3 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) GDPR
1 2 (7.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.85%) NIST
2 1 (3.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (15.38%) Virtual Machines
1 4 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (15.38%) VMware NSX
1 4 (15.38%) vSphere
2 1 (3.85%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (50.00%) Ansible
2 4 (15.38%) vCenter Server
2 4 (15.38%) vRealize
3 1 (3.85%) SCCM
3 1 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (3.85%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 8 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 4 (15.38%) Veritas
2 4 (15.38%) VMware
3 2 (7.69%) Commvault
4 1 (3.85%) Centrify
4 1 (3.85%) CyberArk
4 1 (3.85%) Okta
4 1 (3.85%) Thycotic