Active Directory Contracts in Suffolk

Microsoft Active Directory
East of England > Suffolk

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Suffolk 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 26 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 3 18
Rank change year-on-year -4 +15 -5
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 16 11 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Suffolk 21.62% 21.15% 5.23%
As % of the System Software category 84.21% 73.33% 61.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 6
10th Percentile £170 £177 £114
25th Percentile £178 £179 £131
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £185 £210 £160
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% +31.25% -8.57%
75th Percentile £230 £220 £222
90th Percentile £350 £224 £238
East of England median daily rate £467 £265 £350
% change year-on-year +76.04% -24.29% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £17.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £15.24 £14.16 £18.53
% change year-on-year +7.59% -23.56% +23.50%

All System Software Skills
Suffolk

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 Suffolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 19 15 13
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 25.68% 28.85% 8.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 11 10
10th Percentile £170 £178 £125
25th Percentile £178 £193 £146
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £188 £220 £225
Median % change year-on-year -14.77% -2.22% -51.03%
75th Percentile £275 £453 £638
90th Percentile £575 £538 £700
East of England median daily rate £490 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +15.29% -5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £17.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £34.70 £14.16 £65.50
% change year-on-year +145.02% -78.38% +322.58%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Suffolk

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Suffolk

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in Suffolk

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in Suffolk

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in Suffolk over the 6 months to 26 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in Suffolk

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Suffolk

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in Suffolk

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in Suffolk

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 Suffolk region over the 6 months to 26 June 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
Ipswich -1 10 £185 -0.67% 2
Leiston -3 5 £235 +6.82%
Active Directory
East of England

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Suffolk 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 6 (37.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 1 (6.25%) AWS
4 1 (6.25%) Azure AKS
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (6.25%) GCP
4 1 (6.25%) IaaS
4 1 (6.25%) PaaS
4 1 (6.25%) SaaS
4 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (43.75%) VLAN
2 6 (37.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (12.50%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (6.25%) French Language
4 1 (6.25%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Support Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Desktop Support
2 4 (25.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) IT Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) IT Support
3 3 (18.75%) IT Support Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) Support Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (12.50%) IT Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) 1st/2nd Line Support
5 1 (6.25%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365 Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Senior
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) ARM Templates
1 1 (6.25%) Azure Blueprints
1 1 (6.25%) FIDO
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) iPad
1 6 (37.50%) iPhone
1 6 (37.50%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (12.50%) Driving Licence
3 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (6.25%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 13 (81.25%) Windows
2 7 (43.75%) Windows 10
3 1 (6.25%) Linux
3 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Customer Service
1 7 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (37.50%) Antivirus Management
2 6 (37.50%) Inventory Management
2 6 (37.50%) ITIL
2 6 (37.50%) Root Cause Analysis
2 6 (37.50%) Time Management
3 2 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (6.25%) Change Management
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Security
4 1 (6.25%) Cost Management
4 1 (6.25%) Data Privacy
4 1 (6.25%) Data Protection
4 1 (6.25%) DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) High Availability
4 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (6.25%) Migration
4 1 (6.25%) PRINCE2
4 1 (6.25%) Project Governance
4 1 (6.25%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) Bicep
1 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
1 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) ITIL Certification
1 6 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 5 (31.25%) DBS Check
3 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) GDPR
2 1 (6.25%) HIPAA
2 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.25%) NIST
2 1 (6.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (6.25%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 6 (37.50%) McAfee
3 2 (12.50%) ZyXEL
4 1 (6.25%) Apple