Active Directory Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Active Directory
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 23 21
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 +1
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 1,256 1,740 2,291
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.19% 7.56% 7.52%
As % of the System Software category 52.40% 49.84% 49.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 883 1,264 1,626
10th Percentile £150 £155 £131
25th Percentile £200 £200 £166
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £365 £283
Median % change year-on-year +9.59% +29.20% -13.08%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £465
90th Percentile £650 £663 £588
UK median daily rate £425 £425 £400
% change year-on-year - +6.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 99 204
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.25 £12.60
25th Percentile £14.16 £15.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £18.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +8.28%
75th Percentile £18.94 £39.93 £20.51
90th Percentile £40.00 £64.50 £27.05
UK median hourly rate £17.50 £20.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% +7.76%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 2,397 3,491 4,625
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.81% 15.17% 15.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,627 2,495 3,283
10th Percentile £178 £181 £158
25th Percentile £300 £313 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +6.67% +6.82%
75th Percentile £587 £588 £553
90th Percentile £650 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 175 237
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £14.16 £16.58 £14.25
Median hourly rate £19.18 £46.11 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -58.41% +163.46% -4.21%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £23.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £74.50 £49.05
UK median hourly rate £22.40 £54.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -58.52% +176.92% -9.30%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Active Directory as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in the UK excluding London

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in the UK excluding London

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in the UK excluding London

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in the UK excluding London

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Active Directory in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Active Directory in the UK excluding London

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 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
South East +18 441 £500 +17.65% 234
North of England -8 249 £300 -7.69% 208
Midlands -2 158 £331 -11.67% 161
South West -17 156 £439 -11.27% 118
North West -13 134 £350 - 110
Scotland +16 133 £325 +10.54% 55
East of England -13 103 £250 -28.57% 123
West Midlands -7 98 £350 -7.89% 100
Yorkshire -12 97 £300 +9.09% 80
East Midlands -2 58 £263 +5.00% 61
North East +13 16 £360 +28.57% 20
Wales -11 16 £220 +17.02% 18
Northern Ireland -15 3 £525 +191.67% 6
Active Directory
UK

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 264 (21.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 113 (9.00%) SharePoint
3 32 (2.55%) Confluence
4 24 (1.91%) IIS
5 11 (0.88%) Skype for Business
6 5 (0.40%) Apache
6 5 (0.40%) JBoss
7 4 (0.32%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 4 (0.32%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.24%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.16%) WordPress
10 1 (0.080%) Exchange Server 2007
10 1 (0.080%) Exchange Server 2010
10 1 (0.080%) nginx
Applications
1 138 (10.99%) Microsoft Office
2 48 (3.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.48%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.16%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.080%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.080%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.080%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.080%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (0.56%) Teamcenter
2 6 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.32%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.080%) assyst
4 1 (0.080%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.080%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.080%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 506 (40.29%) Microsoft 365
2 407 (32.40%) Azure
3 221 (17.60%) Entra ID
4 104 (8.28%) AWS
5 49 (3.90%) Azure Monitor
6 44 (3.50%) OneDrive
7 27 (2.15%) Power Platform
8 22 (1.75%) Azure Data Factory
8 22 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
9 21 (1.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 18 (1.43%) IaaS
11 17 (1.35%) Azure Functions
11 17 (1.35%) Azure Storage
11 17 (1.35%) Serverless
12 14 (1.11%) OCI
13 13 (1.04%) PowerApps
14 12 (0.96%) Azure Logic Apps
14 12 (0.96%) PaaS
14 12 (0.96%) Power Automate
14 12 (0.96%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 240 (19.11%) DNS
2 181 (14.41%) DHCP
3 138 (10.99%) Firewall
4 80 (6.37%) VPN
5 70 (5.57%) SAN
6 61 (4.86%) LAN
7 59 (4.70%) WAN
8 52 (4.14%) Wi-Fi
9 47 (3.74%) SSL
10 46 (3.66%) TCP/IP
11 35 (2.79%) Wireless
12 25 (1.99%) Remote Desktop
13 23 (1.83%) VLAN
14 20 (1.59%) Skype
15 19 (1.51%) NAS
16 17 (1.35%) Network Security
17 14 (1.11%) NetScaler
18 13 (1.04%) VoIP
19 10 (0.80%) Fibre Channel
19 10 (0.80%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (4.86%) SQL Server
2 20 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
2 20 (1.59%) NoSQL
3 16 (1.27%) Power BI
4 14 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (0.88%) Oracle Database
6 10 (0.80%) MySQL
7 9 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (0.48%) RDBMS
9 6 (0.48%) Relational Database
10 4 (0.32%) Big Data
11 3 (0.24%) Oracle Reports
12 2 (0.16%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (0.16%) Metadata
13 1 (0.080%) Hadoop
13 1 (0.080%) MongoDB
13 1 (0.080%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 48 (3.82%) JIRA
2 37 (2.95%) Git
3 21 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
4 15 (1.19%) Jenkins
5 14 (1.11%) Robot Framework
6 9 (0.72%) Bitbucket
7 8 (0.64%) Selenium
8 7 (0.56%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.48%) GitLab
10 5 (0.40%) Bitbucket Server
10 5 (0.40%) CA Release Automation
10 5 (0.40%) TeamCity
11 4 (0.32%) Fiddler
11 4 (0.32%) MSI
12 3 (0.24%) Visual Studio
13 2 (0.16%) JMeter
14 1 (0.080%) Gradle
14 1 (0.080%) Hudson
14 1 (0.080%) Liquibase
14 1 (0.080%) Oracle APEX
General
1 406 (32.32%) Social Skills
2 112 (8.92%) Public Sector
3 89 (7.09%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (3.66%) Finance
5 33 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
6 29 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
6 29 (2.31%) Manufacturing
7 25 (1.99%) Banking
8 20 (1.59%) Military
9 17 (1.35%) Retail
10 13 (1.04%) Telecoms
11 12 (0.96%) Aerospace
12 11 (0.88%) Legal
12 11 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
13 9 (0.72%) Law
13 9 (0.72%) Marketing
14 8 (0.64%) Automotive
15 7 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
16 6 (0.48%) Electronics
17 4 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 189 (15.05%) Analyst
2 169 (13.46%) Support Engineer
3 154 (12.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 116 (9.24%) IT Support
5 111 (8.84%) Architect
6 102 (8.12%) Service Desk Analyst
7 101 (8.04%) Service Analyst
8 80 (6.37%) IT Engineer
9 69 (5.49%) 2nd Line Support
10 59 (4.70%) Senior
11 58 (4.62%) Desktop Support
12 49 (3.90%) Desktop Engineer
12 49 (3.90%) Windows Engineer
13 48 (3.82%) Support Analyst
14 45 (3.58%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 45 (3.58%) IT Support Engineer
15 43 (3.42%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
15 43 (3.42%) Active Directory Support
16 41 (3.26%) IT Analyst
16 41 (3.26%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (4.30%) Web Services
2 23 (1.83%) SailPoint
3 22 (1.75%) LDAP
4 21 (1.67%) SAML
5 20 (1.59%) ARM Templates
5 20 (1.59%) React
6 16 (1.27%) .NET
6 16 (1.27%) Elastic Stack
6 16 (1.27%) OpenID
7 9 (0.72%) ADO
7 9 (0.72%) RESTful
7 9 (0.72%) XML
8 8 (0.64%) OAuth
9 7 (0.56%) CSS
9 7 (0.56%) JSON
10 6 (0.48%) Spring Boot
11 5 (0.40%) HTML
11 5 (0.40%) OAuth2
12 4 (0.32%) Middleware
12 4 (0.32%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 153 (12.18%) PKI
2 55 (4.38%) Data Centre
3 38 (3.03%) Clustering
4 33 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
5 24 (1.91%) Product Ownership
6 22 (1.75%) Driving Licence
6 22 (1.75%) Onboarding
7 19 (1.51%) iPhone
8 18 (1.43%) Replication
9 15 (1.19%) CMDB
9 15 (1.19%) iPad
10 13 (1.04%) Digital Signage
10 13 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
10 13 (1.04%) Video Conferencing
11 11 (0.88%) Fat Client
11 11 (0.88%) Management Information System
11 11 (0.88%) Thin Client
12 10 (0.80%) Public Cloud
13 9 (0.72%) Blog
13 9 (0.72%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 861 (68.55%) Windows
2 372 (29.62%) Windows Server
3 344 (27.39%) Windows 10
4 167 (13.30%) Linux
5 124 (9.87%) Windows Server 2012
6 120 (9.55%) Windows Server 2016
6 120 (9.55%) Windows Server 2019
7 66 (5.25%) Apple iOS
8 51 (4.06%) Windows 7
9 36 (2.87%) Ubuntu
10 28 (2.23%) Mac OS
11 25 (1.99%) Android
12 23 (1.83%) VMS
13 21 (1.67%) Unix
13 21 (1.67%) Windows Server 2008
14 19 (1.51%) Windows NT
15 18 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 15 (1.19%) Windows XP
17 12 (0.96%) CentOS
17 12 (0.96%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 244 (19.43%) Customer Service
2 240 (19.11%) ITIL
3 181 (14.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 169 (13.46%) Problem-Solving
5 119 (9.47%) Migration
6 104 (8.28%) Agile
7 77 (6.13%) Service Management
8 74 (5.89%) DevOps
9 63 (5.02%) CI/CD
10 62 (4.94%) Cybersecurity
11 60 (4.78%) Identity Access Management
11 60 (4.78%) Mobile Device Management
12 57 (4.54%) Release Management
13 56 (4.46%) Service Delivery
14 51 (4.06%) Change Management
15 50 (3.98%) High Availability
16 48 (3.82%) Disaster Recovery
17 47 (3.74%) Cryptography
18 45 (3.58%) Identity Management
19 44 (3.50%) Key Management
Programming Languages
1 222 (17.68%) PowerShell
2 88 (7.01%) SQL
3 65 (5.18%) Python
4 24 (1.91%) VBScript
5 21 (1.67%) C#
6 19 (1.51%) Bicep
7 18 (1.43%) VB
8 15 (1.19%) Java
9 11 (0.88%) Bash
10 10 (0.80%) JavaScript
11 9 (0.72%) C
12 8 (0.64%) C++
12 8 (0.64%) PHP
12 8 (0.64%) R
13 7 (0.56%) PL/SQL
14 6 (0.48%) Go
15 5 (0.40%) Perl
16 4 (0.32%) Ruby
17 3 (0.24%) VB.NET
18 1 (0.080%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 400 (31.85%) Security Cleared
2 256 (20.38%) SC Cleared
3 212 (16.88%) Degree
4 175 (13.93%) DV Cleared
5 107 (8.52%) Microsoft Certification
6 52 (4.14%) MCSE
7 44 (3.50%) MCSA
8 36 (2.87%) CCNA
8 36 (2.87%) Cisco Certification
9 34 (2.71%) A+ Certification
10 27 (2.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 25 (1.99%) ITIL Certification
12 22 (1.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 21 (1.67%) Azure Certification
13 21 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
14 18 (1.43%) MCP
15 15 (1.19%) CCNP
15 15 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
16 14 (1.11%) DBS Check
17 10 (0.80%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (5.73%) SLA
2 39 (3.11%) QA
3 12 (0.96%) Disclosure Scotland
4 9 (0.72%) GDPR
5 8 (0.64%) NIST
6 7 (0.56%) RMADS
7 4 (0.32%) ISO 9001
7 4 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 4 (0.32%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.080%) COBIT
10 1 (0.080%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.080%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 224 (17.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 97 (7.72%) Hyper-V
3 61 (4.86%) VMware ESXi
4 52 (4.14%) Virtual Machines
5 41 (3.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 35 (2.79%) vSphere
7 34 (2.71%) XenApp
8 21 (1.67%) Firmware
9 19 (1.51%) Docker
9 19 (1.51%) VMware NSX
10 17 (1.35%) BitLocker
10 17 (1.35%) VMware Workstation
10 17 (1.35%) XenDesktop
11 15 (1.19%) Virtual Servers
12 9 (0.72%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 9 (0.72%) KVM
13 8 (0.64%) iptables
13 8 (0.64%) Microsoft App-V
13 8 (0.64%) Terminal Services
14 6 (0.48%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 270 (21.50%) SCCM
2 146 (11.62%) Microsoft Intune
3 101 (8.04%) WSUS
4 50 (3.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 49 (3.90%) SCOM
5 49 (3.90%) vCenter Server
6 39 (3.11%) Kubernetes
6 39 (3.11%) Single Sign-On
7 30 (2.39%) Ansible
8 29 (2.31%) Terraform
9 22 (1.75%) NetBackup
10 19 (1.51%) Sysprep
11 16 (1.27%) EMC NetWorker
11 16 (1.27%) Jamf Pro
11 16 (1.27%) Kibana
12 13 (1.04%) Microsoft Clustering
13 11 (0.88%) Nessus
14 10 (0.80%) Autotask
14 10 (0.80%) Failover Clustering
15 9 (0.72%) logstash
Vendors
1 641 (51.04%) Microsoft
2 304 (24.20%) VMware
3 122 (9.71%) Citrix
4 83 (6.61%) ServiceNow
5 64 (5.10%) Cisco
6 57 (4.54%) Apple
7 54 (4.30%) Oracle
8 32 (2.55%) Veeam
9 29 (2.31%) CyberArk
9 29 (2.31%) HP
10 28 (2.23%) Red Hat
11 27 (2.15%) Dell
12 23 (1.83%) Symantec
13 22 (1.75%) SAP
14 20 (1.59%) EMC
14 20 (1.59%) Ivanti
14 20 (1.59%) NetApp
15 18 (1.43%) Okta
15 18 (1.43%) Palo Alto
16 15 (1.19%) Juniper