Active Directory Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Active Directory
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Active Directory skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Active Directory over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 31 22
Rank change year-on-year +16 -9 -6
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 442 392 613
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 8.06% 6.89% 7.96%
As % of the System Software category 57.48% 47.29% 47.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 296 274 431
10th Percentile £174 £185 £145
25th Percentile £300 £250 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £375
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% +13.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £608 £571 £525
90th Percentile £638 £675 £615
England median daily rate £413 £425 £400
% change year-on-year -2.94% +6.25% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 18 41
10th Percentile £14.74 £15.50 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.61 £18.25 £13.38
Median hourly rate £17.69 £18.50 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.38% +15.63% +14.29%
75th Percentile £18.51 £54.06 £22.25
90th Percentile £43.18 £76.91 -
England median hourly rate £17.60 £19.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -7.39% +8.57% +9.38%

All System Software Skills
South East

Active Directory is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 769 829 1,280
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.03% 14.57% 16.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 483 581 890
10th Percentile £200 £205 £163
25th Percentile £350 £353 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 46 55
10th Percentile £17.11 £16.55 £12.52
25th Percentile £17.80 £18.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £51.50 £54.56 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.61% +172.80% -9.09%
75th Percentile £63.13 £69.38 £34.63
90th Percentile £67.00 £75.00 £67.81
England median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -58.00% +150.00% +5.26%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in the South East

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in the South East

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in the South East over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in the South East

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in the South East

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Active Directory in the South East over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Active Directory in the South East

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 East region over the 6 months to 7 May 2024. 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
Thames Valley +9 186 £575 +27.78% 65
Hampshire +8 172 £538 -1.01% 51
Berkshire +18 134 £605 +9.95% 26
Buckinghamshire +4 31 £411 -8.67% 23
West Sussex +16 28 £450 +55.17% 23
Surrey +8 26 £333 +7.26% 14
Oxfordshire +3 21 £145 -51.67% 16
Kent -4 9 £205 -13.68% 33
East Sussex +6 5 £475 +134.57% 12
Middlesex +5 4 £275 -15.38%
Home Counties +4 1 £600 +34.83%
Sussex -3 1 - -
Active Directory
England

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 61 (13.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (3.85%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.94%) Confluence
4 2 (0.45%) Apache
4 2 (0.45%) nginx
4 2 (0.45%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.23%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.23%) IIS
5 1 (0.23%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 31 (7.01%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.36%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (1.13%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.45%) Sage X3
3 1 (0.23%) assyst
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 161 (36.43%) Azure
2 132 (29.86%) Microsoft 365
3 71 (16.06%) AWS
4 66 (14.93%) Entra ID
5 33 (7.47%) Azure Monitor
6 17 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
7 16 (3.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 16 (3.62%) Azure Storage
8 14 (3.17%) OCI
9 11 (2.49%) Azure Functions
9 11 (2.49%) Serverless
10 10 (2.26%) IaaS
11 8 (1.81%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (1.81%) OneDrive
12 7 (1.58%) PaaS
12 7 (1.58%) SaaS
13 4 (0.90%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (0.90%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (0.90%) Power Automate
13 4 (0.90%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 111 (25.11%) DNS
2 94 (21.27%) DHCP
3 71 (16.06%) Firewall
4 43 (9.73%) SSL
5 33 (7.47%) SAN
6 24 (5.43%) Wireless
7 21 (4.75%) WAN
8 18 (4.07%) LAN
9 15 (3.39%) TCP/IP
10 14 (3.17%) VPN
10 14 (3.17%) Wi-Fi
11 10 (2.26%) NAS
12 8 (1.81%) Network Security
12 8 (1.81%) Remote Desktop
13 6 (1.36%) VLAN
14 5 (1.13%) WebEx
15 3 (0.68%) NetScaler
15 3 (0.68%) Skype
15 3 (0.68%) VSAN
16 2 (0.45%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.62%) NoSQL
2 12 (2.71%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.58%) MySQL
3 7 (1.58%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.45%) Metadata
7 1 (0.23%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.23%) Power BI
7 1 (0.23%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.23%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (4.52%) Git
2 15 (3.39%) JIRA
3 14 (3.17%) Robot Framework
3 14 (3.17%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (0.90%) GitLab
4 4 (0.90%) Selenium
5 3 (0.68%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.68%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.45%) JMeter
6 2 (0.45%) MSI
7 1 (0.23%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.23%) SonarQube
General
1 123 (27.83%) Social Skills
2 30 (6.79%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (6.33%) Organisational Skills
4 18 (4.07%) Public Sector
5 12 (2.71%) Finance
6 11 (2.49%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.04%) Military
8 8 (1.81%) Retail
9 5 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (0.90%) Automotive
10 4 (0.90%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.68%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.68%) Front Office
11 3 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.68%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.45%) French Language
12 2 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.45%) Legal
12 2 (0.45%) Portuguese Language
12 2 (0.45%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 69 (15.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 66 (14.93%) Architect
3 34 (7.69%) Active Directory Support
3 34 (7.69%) IT Support
4 33 (7.47%) Senior
4 33 (7.47%) Support Specialist
5 32 (7.24%) Support Engineer
6 29 (6.56%) Windows Engineer
7 27 (6.11%) Active Directory Specialist
7 27 (6.11%) Azure Specialist
8 21 (4.75%) Integration Engineer
8 21 (4.75%) IT Engineer
9 20 (4.52%) Build Engineer
9 20 (4.52%) Windows Build Engineer
10 19 (4.30%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 18 (4.07%) Active Directory Engineer
12 17 (3.85%) Developer
13 16 (3.62%) Full Stack Developer
13 16 (3.62%) IT Technician
14 15 (3.39%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (9.95%) Web Services
2 17 (3.85%) ARM Templates
3 16 (3.62%) React
4 10 (2.26%) .NET
5 8 (1.81%) ADO
6 4 (0.90%) CSS
6 4 (0.90%) HTML
6 4 (0.90%) XMPP
7 3 (0.68%) jQuery
7 3 (0.68%) SPFx
8 2 (0.45%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.45%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.45%) EDI
8 2 (0.45%) Kafka
8 2 (0.45%) Keycloak
8 2 (0.45%) LDAP
8 2 (0.45%) Middleware
8 2 (0.45%) Node.js
8 2 (0.45%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (0.45%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 102 (23.08%) PKI
2 22 (4.98%) Data Centre
2 22 (4.98%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (3.17%) Product Ownership
4 7 (1.58%) Onboarding
5 6 (1.36%) Digital Signage
5 6 (1.36%) Public Cloud
6 5 (1.13%) Video Conferencing
7 4 (0.90%) Clustering
7 4 (0.90%) Fat Client
7 4 (0.90%) Thin Client
8 3 (0.68%) CCTV
8 3 (0.68%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.45%) CMDB
9 2 (0.45%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.45%) NHS
9 2 (0.45%) Tandem
9 2 (0.45%) Taxonomies
10 1 (0.23%) BYOD
10 1 (0.23%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 298 (67.42%) Windows
2 157 (35.52%) Windows Server
3 123 (27.83%) Windows 10
4 93 (21.04%) Linux
5 84 (19.00%) Windows Server 2019
6 76 (17.19%) Windows Server 2012
7 60 (13.57%) Windows Server 2016
8 36 (8.14%) Apple iOS
9 20 (4.52%) Windows NT
10 18 (4.07%) Ubuntu
10 18 (4.07%) Windows 7
11 14 (3.17%) Windows XP
12 13 (2.94%) Windows Server 2008
13 11 (2.49%) Unix
14 6 (1.36%) Android
14 6 (1.36%) Windows Server 2003
15 4 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 3 (0.68%) Mac OS
16 3 (0.68%) VMS
17 1 (0.23%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (19.23%) ITIL
2 76 (17.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 73 (16.52%) Customer Service
4 65 (14.71%) Agile
5 52 (11.76%) Service Management
6 49 (11.09%) Cryptography
7 48 (10.86%) Release Management
8 44 (9.95%) Key Management
9 42 (9.50%) Problem-Solving
10 39 (8.82%) DevOps
11 34 (7.69%) CI/CD
12 26 (5.88%) Deployment Automation
12 26 (5.88%) Infrastructure as Code
13 24 (5.43%) Change Management
13 24 (5.43%) Migration
14 23 (5.20%) Proactive Monitoring
14 23 (5.20%) Project Management
15 21 (4.75%) Server Management
16 20 (4.52%) Disaster Recovery
16 20 (4.52%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 90 (20.36%) PowerShell
2 40 (9.05%) Python
3 26 (5.88%) SQL
4 22 (4.98%) VBScript
5 19 (4.30%) C#
6 17 (3.85%) Bicep
7 16 (3.62%) VB
8 7 (1.58%) Java
9 3 (0.68%) PHP
9 3 (0.68%) Ruby
9 3 (0.68%) VB.NET
10 2 (0.45%) C
10 2 (0.45%) C++
11 1 (0.23%) Bash
11 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 211 (47.74%) Security Cleared
2 122 (27.60%) DV Cleared
3 110 (24.89%) SC Cleared
4 109 (24.66%) Degree
5 19 (4.30%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (3.62%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 14 (3.17%) CCNA
7 14 (3.17%) CCNP
7 14 (3.17%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (2.26%) MCSA
8 10 (2.26%) MCSE
9 9 (2.04%) DBS Check
9 9 (2.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 7 (1.58%) Azure Certification
11 6 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (1.36%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.90%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 3 (0.68%) A+ Certification
13 3 (0.68%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.68%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (5.66%) SLA
2 21 (4.75%) QA
3 8 (1.81%) GDPR
4 7 (1.58%) RMADS
5 5 (1.13%) ISO 9001
5 5 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 3 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.68%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.23%) COBIT
System Software
1 103 (23.30%) VMware Infrastructure
2 38 (8.60%) Hyper-V
3 27 (6.11%) Virtual Machines
3 27 (6.11%) VMware ESXi
4 22 (4.98%) XenApp
5 20 (4.52%) Firmware
6 19 (4.30%) vSphere
7 16 (3.62%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (1.36%) XenDesktop
9 5 (1.13%) Docker
10 4 (0.90%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.68%) BitLocker
12 2 (0.45%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.23%) DFS Replication
13 1 (0.23%) UAG
Systems Management
1 115 (26.02%) SCCM
2 82 (18.55%) WSUS
3 44 (9.95%) Microsoft Intune
4 35 (7.92%) SCOM
5 26 (5.88%) Kubernetes
6 25 (5.66%) vCenter Server
7 23 (5.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 23 (5.20%) Ansible
8 20 (4.52%) Sysprep
8 20 (4.52%) Terraform
9 16 (3.62%) EMC NetWorker
10 14 (3.17%) NetBackup
11 10 (2.26%) Nessus
12 5 (1.13%) IBM BigFix
12 5 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (1.13%) Tivoli
13 4 (0.90%) Red Hat Satellite
13 4 (0.90%) ZABBIX
14 3 (0.68%) AppManager
15 2 (0.45%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 205 (46.38%) Microsoft
2 131 (29.64%) VMware
3 31 (7.01%) Apple
3 31 (7.01%) Citrix
4 27 (6.11%) Oracle
5 26 (5.88%) Cisco
6 25 (5.66%) HP
7 23 (5.20%) ServiceNow
8 22 (4.98%) Veeam
9 21 (4.75%) Symantec
10 18 (4.07%) Dell
10 18 (4.07%) EMC
11 17 (3.85%) Ivanti
12 15 (3.39%) Juniper
13 14 (3.17%) 3PAR
13 14 (3.17%) Extreme Networks
13 14 (3.17%) Palo Alto
14 12 (2.71%) MobileIron
14 12 (2.71%) Red Hat
15 8 (1.81%) Remedy