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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 20 22
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 -2
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 1,316 1,913 2,295
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.34% 7.89% 7.37%
As % of the System Software category 53.02% 51.77% 49.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 928 1,407 1,631
10th Percentile £150 £156 £131
25th Percentile £200 £200 £169
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £375 £283
Median % change year-on-year - +32.74% -13.08%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £475
90th Percentile £650 £675 £588
UK median daily rate £411 £425 £413
% change year-on-year -3.29% +3.03% +4.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 120 204
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.08 £12.79
25th Percentile £14.16 £14.97 £14.25
Median hourly rate £17.14 £17.86 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.02% +5.06% +9.68%
75th Percentile £19.43 £30.00 £20.51
90th Percentile £40.00 £64.65 £25.70
UK median hourly rate £17.69 £19.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -6.89% +8.57% +7.69%

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 2,482 3,695 4,648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.95% 15.24% 14.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,669 2,686 3,294
10th Percentile £175 £181 £158
25th Percentile £275 £313 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £485 £446
Median % change year-on-year -5.15% +8.68% +7.53%
75th Percentile £583 £588 £563
90th Percentile £650 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +8.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 205 249
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £12.88
25th Percentile £14.16 £16.50 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £39.60 £18.12
Median % change year-on-year -46.97% +118.60% +1.02%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £70.90 £72.25 £52.15
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £51.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -56.31% +157.50% -

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 23 April 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 +14 442 £475 +5.56% 201
North of England -6 281 £323 -0.77% 184
South West -10 180 £300 -36.00% 84
Midlands -1 155 £344 -8.33% 150
North West -16 144 £338 -3.57% 108
Scotland +11 131 £420 +40.00% 63
Yorkshire -2 114 £300 +9.09% 58
East of England -13 106 £270 -22.86% 97
West Midlands -3 101 £350 -10.26% 93
East Midlands -5 50 £233 -7.00% 57
Wales -9 22 £202 +7.45% 14
North East +24 21 £208 -25.89% 21
Northern Ireland -10 4 £438 +143.06% 8
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
1 283 (21.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 124 (9.42%) SharePoint
3 36 (2.74%) Confluence
4 33 (2.51%) IIS
5 14 (1.06%) Skype for Business
6 5 (0.38%) JBoss
7 4 (0.30%) Apache
7 4 (0.30%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 4 (0.30%) nginx
8 3 (0.23%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
8 3 (0.23%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.15%) WordPress
10 1 (0.076%) Exchange Server 2007
10 1 (0.076%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 140 (10.64%) Microsoft Office
2 41 (3.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (1.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.46%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.23%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.076%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.076%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.076%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.076%) Trello
7 1 (0.076%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 7 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
1 7 (0.53%) Teamcenter
2 4 (0.30%) assyst
3 3 (0.23%) Dynamics GP
3 3 (0.23%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.076%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.076%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.076%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 551 (41.87%) Microsoft 365
2 431 (32.75%) Azure
3 220 (16.72%) Entra ID
4 115 (8.74%) AWS
5 48 (3.65%) OneDrive
6 42 (3.19%) Azure Monitor
7 30 (2.28%) Power Platform
8 22 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
9 21 (1.60%) IaaS
10 16 (1.22%) Azure Storage
11 15 (1.14%) Azure Data Factory
12 14 (1.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 14 (1.06%) PowerApps
12 14 (1.06%) SaaS
13 13 (0.99%) PaaS
14 12 (0.91%) OCI
14 12 (0.91%) Serverless
15 10 (0.76%) Azure Logic Apps
15 10 (0.76%) Azure Sentinel
15 10 (0.76%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 250 (19.00%) DNS
2 176 (13.37%) DHCP
3 145 (11.02%) Firewall
4 77 (5.85%) VPN
5 76 (5.78%) SAN
6 73 (5.55%) WAN
7 72 (5.47%) LAN
8 57 (4.33%) Wi-Fi
9 52 (3.95%) TCP/IP
10 47 (3.57%) SSL
11 37 (2.81%) Wireless
12 28 (2.13%) Remote Desktop
13 24 (1.82%) Skype
14 21 (1.60%) VLAN
15 20 (1.52%) NAS
16 18 (1.37%) Network Security
17 14 (1.06%) VoIP
18 12 (0.91%) NetScaler
19 11 (0.84%) MPLS
20 10 (0.76%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (4.86%) SQL Server
2 20 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
3 17 (1.29%) Power BI
4 15 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
5 14 (1.06%) NoSQL
6 13 (0.99%) MySQL
7 11 (0.84%) Oracle Database
8 9 (0.68%) Relational Database
9 8 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
10 7 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (0.46%) RDBMS
12 4 (0.30%) Big Data
13 3 (0.23%) Oracle Reports
14 2 (0.15%) Amazon Redshift
14 2 (0.15%) Metadata
15 1 (0.076%) Hadoop
15 1 (0.076%) MongoDB
15 1 (0.076%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 53 (4.03%) JIRA
2 35 (2.66%) Git
3 20 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
4 14 (1.06%) Jenkins
5 13 (0.99%) Robot Framework
6 10 (0.76%) Bitbucket
7 7 (0.53%) SonarQube
8 6 (0.46%) GitLab
9 5 (0.38%) Bitbucket Server
9 5 (0.38%) CA Release Automation
9 5 (0.38%) MSI
9 5 (0.38%) TeamCity
9 5 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
10 4 (0.30%) Selenium
11 3 (0.23%) Fiddler
12 2 (0.15%) Hudson
12 2 (0.15%) JMeter
12 2 (0.15%) Visual Studio
13 1 (0.076%) Axure RP
13 1 (0.076%) Liquibase
General
1 420 (31.91%) Social Skills
2 119 (9.04%) Public Sector
3 89 (6.76%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (3.80%) Finance
5 38 (2.89%) Organisational Skills
6 36 (2.74%) Manufacturing
7 34 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
8 28 (2.13%) Banking
9 22 (1.67%) Legal
10 18 (1.37%) Military
11 17 (1.29%) Telecoms
12 16 (1.22%) Retail
13 12 (0.91%) Aerospace
13 12 (0.91%) Law
14 11 (0.84%) Marketing
14 11 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
15 10 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
16 8 (0.61%) Electronics
17 6 (0.46%) Automotive
18 4 (0.30%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 190 (14.44%) Analyst
2 176 (13.37%) Support Engineer
3 163 (12.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 130 (9.88%) IT Support
5 109 (8.28%) Architect
6 104 (7.90%) Service Desk Analyst
7 103 (7.83%) Service Analyst
8 91 (6.91%) IT Engineer
9 75 (5.70%) 2nd Line Support
10 74 (5.62%) Senior
11 56 (4.26%) IT Support Engineer
12 53 (4.03%) Desktop Support
13 51 (3.88%) Windows Engineer
14 49 (3.72%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 47 (3.57%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
16 46 (3.50%) Support Analyst
17 45 (3.42%) Desktop Engineer
17 45 (3.42%) IT Technician
18 40 (3.04%) Active Directory Support
19 39 (2.96%) Active Directory Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (4.10%) Web Services
2 26 (1.98%) LDAP
3 23 (1.75%) SailPoint
4 19 (1.44%) .NET
5 17 (1.29%) SAML
6 16 (1.22%) ARM Templates
6 16 (1.22%) Elastic Stack
7 14 (1.06%) React
8 13 (0.99%) OpenID
9 12 (0.91%) XML
10 10 (0.76%) JSON
11 9 (0.68%) ADO
11 9 (0.68%) OAuth
11 9 (0.68%) RESTful
12 7 (0.53%) REST
13 6 (0.46%) CSS
13 6 (0.46%) Spring Boot
14 5 (0.38%) HTML
14 5 (0.38%) OAuth2
15 4 (0.30%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 146 (11.09%) PKI
2 64 (4.86%) Data Centre
3 45 (3.42%) Clustering
4 35 (2.66%) Self-Motivation
5 28 (2.13%) Driving Licence
6 25 (1.90%) Onboarding
7 22 (1.67%) Management Information System
8 19 (1.44%) Product Ownership
9 18 (1.37%) Replication
10 16 (1.22%) iPhone
11 14 (1.06%) CMDB
12 13 (0.99%) iPad
12 13 (0.99%) Linux Command Line
12 13 (0.99%) Video Conferencing
13 12 (0.91%) Digital Signage
13 12 (0.91%) Fat Client
13 12 (0.91%) Thin Client
14 11 (0.84%) NHS
15 10 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
16 9 (0.68%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 900 (68.39%) Windows
2 379 (28.80%) Windows Server
3 346 (26.29%) Windows 10
4 167 (12.69%) Linux
5 131 (9.95%) Windows Server 2019
6 128 (9.73%) Windows Server 2012
7 122 (9.27%) Windows Server 2016
8 68 (5.17%) Apple iOS
9 45 (3.42%) Windows 7
10 35 (2.66%) Ubuntu
11 30 (2.28%) Android
11 30 (2.28%) Mac OS
12 27 (2.05%) Windows Server 2008
13 25 (1.90%) VMS
14 21 (1.60%) Unix
14 21 (1.60%) Windows NT
15 18 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 15 (1.14%) Windows Server 2003
17 12 (0.91%) Windows XP
18 9 (0.68%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (18.16%) Customer Service
2 235 (17.86%) ITIL
3 187 (14.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 175 (13.30%) Problem-Solving
5 128 (9.73%) Migration
6 101 (7.67%) Agile
7 87 (6.61%) Service Management
8 67 (5.09%) DevOps
9 64 (4.86%) Cybersecurity
10 62 (4.71%) Identity Access Management
10 62 (4.71%) Mobile Device Management
11 57 (4.33%) Release Management
12 54 (4.10%) Service Delivery
13 50 (3.80%) CI/CD
14 49 (3.72%) Change Management
14 49 (3.72%) Project Management
15 47 (3.57%) Cryptography
16 45 (3.42%) Data Protection
16 45 (3.42%) Disaster Recovery
16 45 (3.42%) Key Management
Programming Languages
1 236 (17.93%) PowerShell
2 89 (6.76%) SQL
3 62 (4.71%) Python
4 22 (1.67%) VBScript
5 17 (1.29%) C#
6 16 (1.22%) VB
7 15 (1.14%) Bicep
8 12 (0.91%) Bash
9 11 (0.84%) MATLAB
10 10 (0.76%) Java
11 9 (0.68%) JavaScript
11 9 (0.68%) R
12 8 (0.61%) C
12 8 (0.61%) C++
13 7 (0.53%) PHP
13 7 (0.53%) PL/SQL
14 6 (0.46%) Go
15 5 (0.38%) Perl
16 3 (0.23%) VB.NET
17 2 (0.15%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 399 (30.32%) Security Cleared
2 249 (18.92%) SC Cleared
3 216 (16.41%) Degree
4 180 (13.68%) DV Cleared
5 100 (7.60%) Microsoft Certification
6 45 (3.42%) MCSE
7 43 (3.27%) MCSA
8 42 (3.19%) Cisco Certification
9 41 (3.12%) CCNA
10 29 (2.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 28 (2.13%) A+ Certification
12 26 (1.98%) ITIL Certification
13 24 (1.82%) Azure Certification
14 21 (1.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 20 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
16 19 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
16 19 (1.44%) DBS Check
17 17 (1.29%) CCNP
17 17 (1.29%) MCP
18 14 (1.06%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (5.55%) SLA
2 42 (3.19%) QA
3 12 (0.91%) GDPR
4 11 (0.84%) Disclosure Scotland
5 8 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (0.61%) NIST
6 7 (0.53%) RMADS
7 5 (0.38%) ISO 9001
7 5 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 5 (0.38%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.076%) COBIT
10 1 (0.076%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.076%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 217 (16.49%) VMware Infrastructure
2 93 (7.07%) Hyper-V
3 69 (5.24%) VMware ESXi
4 58 (4.41%) Virtual Machines
5 40 (3.04%) Virtual Desktop
6 34 (2.58%) vSphere
7 31 (2.36%) XenApp
8 30 (2.28%) Firmware
9 24 (1.82%) VMware Workstation
10 19 (1.44%) Docker
11 18 (1.37%) BitLocker
12 17 (1.29%) VMware NSX
13 16 (1.22%) Virtual Servers
13 16 (1.22%) XenDesktop
14 13 (0.99%) KVM
15 10 (0.76%) Microsoft App-V
16 9 (0.68%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 9 (0.68%) Terminal Services
17 8 (0.61%) iptables
18 4 (0.30%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 277 (21.05%) SCCM
2 160 (12.16%) Microsoft Intune
3 86 (6.53%) WSUS
4 55 (4.18%) vCenter Server
5 54 (4.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 49 (3.72%) SCOM
7 36 (2.74%) Kubernetes
7 36 (2.74%) Single Sign-On
8 34 (2.58%) Ansible
9 30 (2.28%) Terraform
10 23 (1.75%) NetBackup
11 21 (1.60%) Sysprep
12 17 (1.29%) Microsoft Clustering
13 16 (1.22%) EMC NetWorker
13 16 (1.22%) Jamf Pro
13 16 (1.22%) Kibana
14 11 (0.84%) Failover Clustering
15 10 (0.76%) Autotask
16 9 (0.68%) Dell DRAC
16 9 (0.68%) logstash
Vendors
1 655 (49.77%) Microsoft
2 324 (24.62%) VMware
3 124 (9.42%) Citrix
4 96 (7.29%) ServiceNow
5 64 (4.86%) Apple
6 56 (4.26%) Cisco
7 54 (4.10%) Oracle
8 40 (3.04%) Red Hat
9 39 (2.96%) Dell
9 39 (2.96%) HP
10 34 (2.58%) Veeam
11 29 (2.20%) CyberArk
12 25 (1.90%) SAP
13 23 (1.75%) NetApp
13 23 (1.75%) Symantec
14 21 (1.60%) EMC
15 17 (1.29%) Ivanti
16 16 (1.22%) 3PAR
16 16 (1.22%) Palo Alto
16 16 (1.22%) SolarWinds