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 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 15 5
Rank change year-on-year +7 -10 0
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 7 6 26
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire 11.86% 4.80% 14.21%
As % of the System Software category 100.00% 31.58% 54.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 18
10th Percentile £194 £134 -
25th Percentile £200 £140 £160
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £210 £185 £375
Median % change year-on-year +13.51% -50.67% +97.37%
75th Percentile £220 £200 £569
90th Percentile £253 £308 £629
West Midlands median daily rate £351 £213 £350
% change year-on-year +65.29% -39.29% +27.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £23.63
25th Percentile - - £25.31
Median hourly rate - - £27.50
75th Percentile - - £28.75
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate - £16.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year - -17.95% +13.97%

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 7 19 48
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 11.86% 15.20% 26.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 34
10th Percentile £194 £145 £160
25th Percentile £200 £196 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £210 £377 £450
Median % change year-on-year -44.30% -16.22% +125.00%
75th Percentile £220 £475 £575
90th Percentile £253 £588 £618
West Midlands median daily rate £507 £490 £418
% change year-on-year +3.58% +17.25% +4.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £23.63
25th Percentile - - £25.31
Median hourly rate - - £27.50
75th Percentile - - £28.75
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £56.50 £16.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +253.13% -15.79% +11.05%

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
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 15 October 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
Stafford +1 2 £190 -34.48%
Stoke-on-Trent - 2 £210 - 3
Uttoxeter -1 1 £210 +29.23%
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:

Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DHCP
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
1 1 (14.29%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (14.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Desktop Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Deployment Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Desktop Support
2 2 (28.57%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Active Directory Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Rollout Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Server Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Deployment Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) Windows 10
3 1 (14.29%) Mac OS
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Customer Service
2 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (28.57%) ITIL
3 1 (14.29%) Application Packaging
3 1 (14.29%) Business Continuity
3 1 (14.29%) Business Strategy
3 1 (14.29%) Change Management
3 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (14.29%) Data Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
3 1 (14.29%) Inventory Management
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Mobile Device Management
3 1 (14.29%) Patch Management
3 1 (14.29%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) A+ Certification
1 1 (14.29%) MCP
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) SCCM
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow