Active Directory Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Active Directory
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Active Directory skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Active Directory over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 33 24
Rank change year-on-year +9 -9 +4
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 187 177 244
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.10% 6.23% 6.96%
As % of the System Software category 55.99% 49.86% 47.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 142 169
10th Percentile £148 £189 £130
25th Percentile £313 £271 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £450 £363
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% +24.14% -9.38%
75th Percentile £608 £551 £525
90th Percentile £649 £688 £623
South East median daily rate £500 £425 £375
% change year-on-year +17.65% +13.33% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 14
10th Percentile £16.08 £36.25 £12.25
25th Percentile £16.19 £54.75 £13.00
Median hourly rate £17.50 £66.50 £13.35
Median % change year-on-year -73.68% +398.13% -12.46%
75th Percentile £30.31 £79.78 £19.69
90th Percentile £51.13 £84.44 £20.00
South East median hourly rate £17.69 £18.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year -4.38% +19.35% +8.77%

All System Software Skills
Thames Valley

Active Directory is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 334 355 511
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 12.69% 12.50% 14.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 265 378
10th Percentile £175 £220 £150
25th Percentile £313 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £481 £454
Median % change year-on-year +14.45% +5.91% +0.83%
75th Percentile £608 £588 £575
90th Percentile £650 £675 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 16 15
10th Percentile £16.25 £33.75 £12.25
25th Percentile £46.25 £48.40 £13.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £13.70
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +301.46% -37.73%
75th Percentile £65.00 £71.25 £20.00
90th Percentile - £78.56 £48.50
South East median hourly rate £53.19 £54.56 £20.00
% change year-on-year -2.52% +172.80% -9.09%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Active Directory as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in the Thames Valley

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in the Thames Valley

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in the Thames Valley

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in the Thames Valley

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Active Directory in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Active Directory in the Thames Valley

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 13 May 2024. 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
Berkshire +19 136 £605 +8.52% 28
Buckinghamshire +5 30 £411 -8.67% 20
Oxfordshire +2 21 £145 -51.67% 14
Active Directory
South East

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 40 (21.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.14%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.07%) Confluence
3 2 (1.07%) nginx
Applications
1 12 (6.42%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.21%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.07%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 98 (52.41%) Azure
2 48 (25.67%) Microsoft 365
3 46 (24.60%) Entra ID
4 36 (19.25%) Azure Monitor
5 20 (10.70%) Azure Data Factory
6 19 (10.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 16 (8.56%) Azure Storage
8 14 (7.49%) AWS
8 14 (7.49%) Azure Functions
8 14 (7.49%) OCI
8 14 (7.49%) Serverless
9 8 (4.28%) IaaS
10 6 (3.21%) SaaS
11 5 (2.67%) PaaS
12 4 (2.14%) Azure API Management
12 4 (2.14%) Azure Logic Apps
12 4 (2.14%) Power Automate
12 4 (2.14%) Power Platform
12 4 (2.14%) PowerApps
13 3 (1.60%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 56 (29.95%) DNS
2 51 (27.27%) DHCP
3 41 (21.93%) Firewall
4 22 (11.76%) SAN
5 13 (6.95%) WAN
6 10 (5.35%) LAN
7 9 (4.81%) VPN
8 8 (4.28%) SSL
8 8 (4.28%) TCP/IP
9 6 (3.21%) Remote Desktop
10 4 (2.14%) NAS
11 3 (1.60%) Network Security
12 2 (1.07%) Cisco IOS
12 2 (1.07%) Skype
12 2 (1.07%) WebEx
12 2 (1.07%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (1.07%) Wireless
13 1 (0.53%) NetScaler
13 1 (0.53%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.16%) NoSQL
2 6 (3.21%) MySQL
2 6 (3.21%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.14%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.07%) Metadata
5 1 (0.53%) Power BI
5 1 (0.53%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (10.70%) Git
2 5 (2.67%) Selenium
3 3 (1.60%) JIRA
3 3 (1.60%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.53%) MSI
General
1 77 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 14 (7.49%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (3.21%) Finance
4 5 (2.67%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.07%) Retail
7 1 (0.53%) Police
7 1 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (19.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 32 (17.11%) Active Directory Support
2 32 (17.11%) Support Specialist
3 26 (13.90%) Active Directory Specialist
3 26 (13.90%) Azure Specialist
4 22 (11.76%) Windows Engineer
5 20 (10.70%) Build Engineer
5 20 (10.70%) Windows Build Engineer
6 19 (10.16%) Developer
6 19 (10.16%) Full Stack Developer
7 17 (9.09%) Azure Developer
8 15 (8.02%) Active Directory Engineer
8 15 (8.02%) Support Engineer
9 11 (5.88%) Architect
10 10 (5.35%) IT Technician
10 10 (5.35%) Storage Engineer
11 9 (4.81%) IT Engineer
11 9 (4.81%) IT Support
12 8 (4.28%) Full Stack Python Developer
12 8 (4.28%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (10.16%) React
2 17 (9.09%) ARM Templates
3 11 (5.88%) Web Services
4 4 (2.14%) .NET
4 4 (2.14%) CSS
5 3 (1.60%) HTML
5 3 (1.60%) jQuery
5 3 (1.60%) SPFx
6 2 (1.07%) EDI
7 1 (0.53%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (19.25%) PKI
2 18 (9.63%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (8.56%) Product Ownership
4 14 (7.49%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.67%) Video Conferencing
6 4 (2.14%) Fat Client
6 4 (2.14%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.14%) Thin Client
7 3 (1.60%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.07%) CCTV
8 2 (1.07%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.53%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.53%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.53%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.53%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 113 (60.43%) Windows
2 76 (40.64%) Windows Server
3 58 (31.02%) Windows Server 2019
4 57 (30.48%) Windows 10
5 52 (27.81%) Windows Server 2016
6 48 (25.67%) Linux
7 38 (20.32%) Windows Server 2012
8 20 (10.70%) Windows NT
9 14 (7.49%) Windows XP
10 6 (3.21%) Ubuntu
11 4 (2.14%) Windows 7
12 3 (1.60%) Mac OS
13 2 (1.07%) Android
13 2 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 2 (1.07%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.53%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (34.22%) ITIL
2 43 (22.99%) Release Management
3 40 (21.39%) Customer Service
3 40 (21.39%) DevOps
4 39 (20.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 38 (20.32%) Agile
6 37 (19.79%) Service Management
7 35 (18.72%) CI/CD
8 27 (14.44%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (11.76%) Microservices
10 21 (11.23%) Deployment Automation
11 20 (10.70%) User Acceptance Testing
12 19 (10.16%) Full Stack Development
12 19 (10.16%) Identity Management
12 19 (10.16%) Multi-Factor Authentication
13 17 (9.09%) Change Management
13 17 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
13 17 (9.09%) Log Analytics
13 17 (9.09%) Project Management
13 17 (9.09%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 46 (24.60%) PowerShell
2 24 (12.83%) Python
3 19 (10.16%) C#
4 17 (9.09%) Bicep
5 16 (8.56%) VB
5 16 (8.56%) VBScript
6 9 (4.81%) Java
7 3 (1.60%) C
7 3 (1.60%) PHP
7 3 (1.60%) Ruby
7 3 (1.60%) SQL
Qualifications
1 103 (55.08%) Security Cleared
2 79 (42.25%) DV Cleared
3 64 (34.22%) SC Cleared
4 58 (31.02%) Degree
5 16 (8.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 14 (7.49%) CCNA
6 14 (7.49%) CCNP
6 14 (7.49%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.60%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.07%) A+ Certification
8 2 (1.07%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.53%) CEH
9 1 (0.53%) CISSP
9 1 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.53%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (11.23%) QA
2 10 (5.35%) SLA
3 3 (1.60%) GDPR
3 3 (1.60%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.53%) COBIT
4 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 32 (17.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 22 (11.76%) Virtual Machines
3 21 (11.23%) VMware ESXi
4 20 (10.70%) Firmware
5 19 (10.16%) Hyper-V
6 16 (8.56%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (4.28%) XenApp
8 6 (3.21%) XenDesktop
9 5 (2.67%) Docker
10 2 (1.07%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.53%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 77 (41.18%) SCCM
2 58 (31.02%) WSUS
3 33 (17.65%) SCOM
4 23 (12.30%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (11.76%) vCenter Server
6 21 (11.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 20 (10.70%) Kubernetes
7 20 (10.70%) Sysprep
8 16 (8.56%) EMC NetWorker
9 14 (7.49%) NetBackup
10 6 (3.21%) Ansible
10 6 (3.21%) Nessus
11 4 (2.14%) Red Hat Satellite
11 4 (2.14%) ZABBIX
12 3 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (1.07%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 2 (1.07%) Network Intrusion Detection System
13 2 (1.07%) PaperCut
13 2 (1.07%) Terraform
14 1 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 101 (54.01%) Microsoft
2 40 (21.39%) VMware
3 25 (13.37%) HP
4 21 (11.23%) Cisco
5 20 (10.70%) Veeam
6 18 (9.63%) Oracle
7 16 (8.56%) EMC
8 15 (8.02%) Citrix
8 15 (8.02%) Dell
9 14 (7.49%) 3PAR
9 14 (7.49%) Extreme Networks
9 14 (7.49%) Juniper
9 14 (7.49%) Palo Alto
9 14 (7.49%) Symantec
10 13 (6.95%) ServiceNow
11 8 (4.28%) Red Hat
12 4 (2.14%) CyberArk
12 4 (2.14%) FireEye
12 4 (2.14%) Okta
12 4 (2.14%) Tanium