Active Directory Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Microsoft Active Directory
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Active Directory skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 20 21
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 +2
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 31 36 58
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 7.54% 8.49% 8.92%
As % of the System Software category 68.89% 66.67% 46.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 24 49
10th Percentile £156 £217 £158
25th Percentile £200 £243 £164
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £268 £295 £215
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% +36.98% -17.31%
75th Percentile £519 £477 £288
90th Percentile £565 £526 £365
South East median daily rate £476 £439 £313
% change year-on-year +8.55% +40.40% -20.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £32.77 - -
South East median hourly rate £84.00 £19.97 £24.75
% change year-on-year +320.63% -19.31% +33.78%

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 45 54 124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 10.95% 12.74% 19.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 32 87
10th Percentile £182 £217 £158
25th Percentile £231 £251 £195
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £350 £340
Median % change year-on-year +17.14% +2.94% -28.42%
75th Percentile £525 £480 £560
90th Percentile £575 £534 £659
South East median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 13
10th Percentile - - £37.92
25th Percentile - - £54.50
Median hourly rate £32.77 - £76.53
Median % change year-on-year - - +200.12%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £81.00 £57.25 £58.75
% change year-on-year +41.48% -2.55% +144.79%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Active Directory job vacancy trend in Surrey

Active Directory
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

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

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in Surrey over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in Surrey

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

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

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

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 19 December 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
Leatherhead +6 5 £523 -12.92%
Epsom - 4 £288 -
Guildford -1 3 £200 -20.00% 3
Horley +1 2 - -
Reigate +1 2 £550 +108.33% 7
Redhill +11 1 £500 +53.85%
Camberley -1 1 - -
Weybridge - 1 £165 - 1
Active Directory
South East

Active Directory
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 7 (22.58%) Mattermost
1 7 (22.58%) Skype for Business
2 5 (16.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (6.45%) SharePoint
4 1 (3.23%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 11 (35.48%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (22.58%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (3.23%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 16 (51.61%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (32.26%) Azure
3 9 (29.03%) Entra ID
4 2 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.45%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (6.45%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (6.45%) SaaS
5 1 (3.23%) Akamai
5 1 (3.23%) AWS
5 1 (3.23%) Azure AKS
5 1 (3.23%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (3.23%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (3.23%) GitHub
5 1 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.23%) Google Workspace
5 1 (3.23%) IaaS
5 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (22.58%) DHCP
1 7 (22.58%) DNS
1 7 (22.58%) Skype
2 5 (16.13%) TCP/IP
3 3 (9.68%) Firewall
3 3 (9.68%) VLAN
3 3 (9.68%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (6.45%) VPN
5 1 (3.23%) LAN
5 1 (3.23%) NGFW
5 1 (3.23%) Unified Communications
5 1 (3.23%) VoIP
5 1 (3.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Git
General
1 15 (48.39%) Social Skills
2 8 (25.81%) Finance
3 3 (9.68%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Aerospace
4 1 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.23%) Legal
4 1 (3.23%) Local Government
4 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (35.48%) Analyst
2 7 (22.58%) Messaging Analyst
2 7 (22.58%) Messaging Support
2 7 (22.58%) Messaging Support Analyst
2 7 (22.58%) Support Analyst
2 7 (22.58%) Support Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) Desktop Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) IT Support
3 4 (12.90%) Service Analyst
3 4 (12.90%) Service Desk Analyst
4 3 (9.68%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) 2nd Line Support
4 3 (9.68%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Desktop Support
4 3 (9.68%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) IT Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) 1st/2nd Line Support
5 2 (6.45%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.23%) .NET
1 1 (3.23%) .NET Core
1 1 (3.23%) .NET Framework
1 1 (3.23%) Azure Blueprints
1 1 (3.23%) Blazor
1 1 (3.23%) Entity Framework
1 1 (3.23%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.68%) Onboarding
2 2 (6.45%) CMDB
2 2 (6.45%) Driving Licence
2 2 (6.45%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.23%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (3.23%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.23%) PKI
3 1 (3.23%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 20 (64.52%) Windows
2 8 (25.81%) Linux
2 8 (25.81%) Windows 10
3 5 (16.13%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.23%) Mac OS
4 1 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.23%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (45.16%) ITIL
2 9 (29.03%) ITSM
3 8 (25.81%) Problem Management
4 7 (22.58%) B2B
4 7 (22.58%) Information Security
4 7 (22.58%) Validation
5 4 (12.90%) Application Packaging
5 4 (12.90%) Customer Service
5 4 (12.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (9.68%) Migration
6 3 (9.68%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (6.45%) Cyber Resilience
7 2 (6.45%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (6.45%) DevOps
7 2 (6.45%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (6.45%) Performance Optimisation
7 2 (6.45%) Software Engineering
7 2 (6.45%) Technical Leadership
7 2 (6.45%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (6.45%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 9 (29.03%) PowerShell
1 9 (29.03%) SQL
2 1 (3.23%) Bash
2 1 (3.23%) Bicep
2 1 (3.23%) C#
2 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
2 1 (3.23%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (22.58%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (6.45%) A+ Certification
3 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.45%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.23%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.23%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.23%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.23%) JSP 440
2 1 (3.23%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (3.23%) Hyper-V
1 1 (3.23%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (29.03%) SCCM
2 7 (22.58%) HP SiteScope
2 7 (22.58%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (22.58%) SCOM
3 3 (9.68%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (3.23%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.23%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (3.23%) Terraform
4 1 (3.23%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 22 (70.97%) Microsoft
2 8 (25.81%) Splunk
3 7 (22.58%) Cisco
3 7 (22.58%) Remedy
4 3 (9.68%) Citrix
5 2 (6.45%) VMware
6 1 (3.23%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (3.23%) CyberArk
6 1 (3.23%) Fortinet
6 1 (3.23%) Google
6 1 (3.23%) HP
6 1 (3.23%) Imperva
6 1 (3.23%) NetApp
6 1 (3.23%) Okta
6 1 (3.23%) Palo Alto
6 1 (3.23%) Progress
6 1 (3.23%) Proofpoint
6 1 (3.23%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.23%) Wyse
6 1 (3.23%) Zscaler