Active Directory Contracts in Surrey

Microsoft Active Directory
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey 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 21 27 34
Rank change year-on-year +6 +7 -20
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 18 29 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 6.04% 4.94% 5.16%
As % of the System Software category 75.00% 51.79% 39.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 18 30
10th Percentile £188 £158 £194
25th Percentile £194 £203 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £290 £310
Median % change year-on-year +62.07% -6.45% +19.23%
75th Percentile £563 £397 £347
90th Percentile £656 £525 £589
South East median daily rate £525 £480 £425
% change year-on-year +9.38% +12.94% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 0
Median hourly rate £28.00 £17.80 -
Median % change year-on-year +57.30% - -
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £17.69 £18.50
% change year-on-year +58.28% -4.38% +19.35%

All System Software Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 24 56 89
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 8.05% 9.54% 13.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 39 82
10th Percentile £188 £196 £161
25th Percentile £203 £298 £253
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -20.00% +72.41%
75th Percentile £550 £475 £594
90th Percentile £632 £582 £607
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 0
Median hourly rate £28.00 £17.80 -
Median % change year-on-year +57.30% - -
South East median hourly rate £57.50 £50.75 £54.03
% change year-on-year +13.30% -6.07% +170.15%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Surrey

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in Surrey

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

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

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in Surrey

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in Surrey

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey 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
Guildford +5 5 £550 +46.67% 17
Leatherhead +9 3 £195 +18.18% 4
Reigate -2 3 £500 +38.89%
Weybridge +7 1 £151 - 1
Woking 0 1 £550 +22.22% 20
Horley - 1 £470 -
Staines - 1 - - 1
Warlingham - 1 £200 -
Caterham - 1 £200 -
Active Directory
South East

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (11.11%) Apache Solr
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (11.11%) WebLogic
3 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (16.67%) Azure
2 3 (16.67%) SaaS
3 2 (11.11%) AWS
3 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.56%) Akamai
4 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.56%) Google Workspace
4 1 (5.56%) Nutanix
4 1 (5.56%) OneDrive
4 1 (5.56%) Serverless
4 1 (5.56%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) VPN
1 3 (16.67%) WAN
2 2 (11.11%) LAN
2 2 (11.11%) Remote Desktop
2 2 (11.11%) TCP/IP
2 2 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (5.56%) DHCP
3 1 (5.56%) DNS
3 1 (5.56%) Firewall
3 1 (5.56%) Network Security
3 1 (5.56%) SD-WAN
3 1 (5.56%) Softphone
3 1 (5.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) GitLab
1 2 (11.11%) Maven
1 2 (11.11%) Selenium
1 2 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Finance
2 1 (5.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) 2nd Line Support
2 3 (16.67%) Analyst
2 3 (16.67%) IT Support
2 3 (16.67%) Support Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Technical Support
3 2 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support Technician
3 2 (11.11%) Desktop Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Desktop Support
3 2 (11.11%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) IT Support Technician
3 2 (11.11%) IT Technician
3 2 (11.11%) Senior Technical Specialist
3 2 (11.11%) Senior Technical Support
3 2 (11.11%) Support Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Support Specialist
3 2 (11.11%) Support Technician
3 2 (11.11%) Technical Specialist
3 2 (11.11%) Technical Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) Ajax
1 2 (11.11%) JAXB
1 2 (11.11%) JAX-RS
1 2 (11.11%) JAX-WS
1 2 (11.11%) JSON
1 2 (11.11%) React
1 2 (11.11%) REST
1 2 (11.11%) SOAP
1 2 (11.11%) Web Services
1 2 (11.11%) XML
1 2 (11.11%) XSD
1 2 (11.11%) XSL
1 2 (11.11%) XSLT
2 1 (5.56%) 802.1X
2 1 (5.56%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.56%) NHS
2 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 13 (72.22%) Windows
2 5 (27.78%) Windows 10
3 3 (16.67%) Mac OS
4 2 (11.11%) Windows Server
5 1 (5.56%) Android
5 1 (5.56%) Apple iOS
5 1 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (44.44%) ITIL
3 4 (22.22%) Service Management
4 3 (16.67%) Agile
4 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 3 (16.67%) Customer Service
4 3 (16.67%) Service Delivery
5 2 (11.11%) BPEL
5 2 (11.11%) Coaching
5 2 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (11.11%) Data Science
5 2 (11.11%) Decision-Making
5 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (11.11%) Knowledge Management
5 2 (11.11%) Line Management
5 2 (11.11%) Mentoring
5 2 (11.11%) Patch Management
5 2 (11.11%) Situational Awareness
5 2 (11.11%) Software Deployment
5 2 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) SQL
2 4 (22.22%) PowerShell
3 2 (11.11%) Java
3 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 2 (11.11%) Python
3 2 (11.11%) T-SQL
3 2 (11.11%) XPath
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) A+ Certification
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
1 2 (11.11%) ITIL Certification
1 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.56%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) SCCM
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 4 (22.22%) VMware
3 2 (11.11%) Cisco
3 2 (11.11%) Citrix
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle
3 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.56%) Apple
4 1 (5.56%) Dell KACE
4 1 (5.56%) Google
4 1 (5.56%) Meraki
4 1 (5.56%) Okta
4 1 (5.56%) Palo Alto
4 1 (5.56%) SolarWinds
4 1 (5.56%) Ubiquiti