Active Directory Contract Job Trends in Staffordshire

Microsoft Active Directory
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring Active Directory skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 8 15
Rank change year-on-year -10 +7 -10
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 10 7 6
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire 5.38% 12.07% 4.72%
As % of the System Software category 71.43% 87.50% 31.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 5
10th Percentile £140 £194 £134
25th Percentile £183 £200 £140
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £210 £185
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +13.51% -38.33%
75th Percentile £423 £220 £200
90th Percentile £510 £253 £308
West Midlands median daily rate £300 £325 £213
% change year-on-year -7.69% +52.94% -39.29%

All System Software Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 14 8 19
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 7.53% 13.79% 14.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 12
10th Percentile £144 £194 £145
25th Percentile £183 £200 £196
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £210 £377
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -44.30% -20.63%
75th Percentile £488 £220 £475
90th Percentile £690 £253 £588
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £500 £490
% change year-on-year -10.00% +2.15% +17.25%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Active Directory relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire.

Active Directory job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

Active Directory
Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Active Directory.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Active Directory

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in Staffordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in Staffordshire over the 6 months to 4 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in Staffordshire

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Trend in Staffordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Active Directory.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Active Directory

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 4 October 2026. 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
Stoke-on-Trent -2 3 £185 -11.90% 4
Uttoxeter -2 2 £140 -33.33%
Tamworth - 1 £220 - 3
Active Directory
West Midlands

Active Directory
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (60.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (20.00%) Azure
4 1 (10.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) DNS
1 2 (20.00%) SSL
1 2 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (10.00%) SMS
2 1 (10.00%) SMTP
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Help Desk Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Service Desk Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) IT Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) IT Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) IT Support
2 2 (20.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Junior
2 2 (20.00%) Junior Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Windows Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Service Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Service Desk Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Windows Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Windows
2 2 (20.00%) Windows 10
2 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) Customer Service
1 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (20.00%) Server Patching
2 1 (10.00%) Architecture Governance
2 1 (10.00%) CRM
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (10.00%) ERP
2 1 (10.00%) Migration
2 1 (10.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (10.00%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (20.00%) DBS Check
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (10.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Aruba
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (20.00%) Cisco
3 2 (20.00%) VMware