Active Directory Contracts

Microsoft Active Directory
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 32 42 49
Rank change year-on-year +10 +7 -8
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 2,617 4,283 4,735
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 5.83% 5.58% 5.29%
As % of the System Software category 46.00% 40.49% 37.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,780 3,035 3,264
10th Percentile £158 £155 £135
25th Percentile £208 £208 £198
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £400
75th Percentile £556 £550 £538
90th Percentile £675 £649 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £329 £275
% change year-on-year +6.46% +19.55% -26.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 227 330
10th Percentile £13.28 £13.41 £12.23
25th Percentile £16.25 £14.95 £13.25
Median hourly rate £19.50 £18.50 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.38% +15.63% +6.67%
75th Percentile £27.25 £34.00 £22.25
90th Percentile £60.00 £68.00 £32.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.00 £17.50 £15.12
% change year-on-year +8.57% +15.74% +8.00%

All System Software Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 5,689 10,577 12,590
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.68% 13.78% 14.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,867 7,473 8,993
10th Percentile £198 £200 £200
25th Percentile £359 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +7.89%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £611
90th Percentile £700 £738 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £460 £426
% change year-on-year +3.26% +7.98% +0.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 326 400
10th Percentile £15.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £18.00 £16.25 £13.75
Median hourly rate £43.75 £25.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% +42.86% -7.89%
75th Percentile £66.00 £62.88 £27.99
90th Percentile £77.50 £70.38 £62.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £21.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year +74.42% +34.38% -5.88%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in the UK

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in the UK

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in the UK

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in the UK

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Active Directory over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

Hourly rate histogram for Active Directory in the UK

Active Directory
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 7 December 2023. 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
England +11 2,285 £400 +6.67% 1,453
UK excluding London -3 1,462 £350 +6.46% 1,179
London +21 970 £425 - 320
Work from Home +14 839 £450 - 461
South East -4 408 £313 -19.35% 319
North of England -5 323 £311 +3.67% 311
Midlands 0 212 £350 +38.61% 228
South West -1 201 £475 +11.76% 133
North West -7 188 £323 -7.86% 148
Scotland +18 153 £471 +38.47% 57
West Midlands +14 151 £350 +17.65% 141
East of England -13 128 £556 +71.15% 131
Yorkshire -9 112 £325 +38.30% 113
East Midlands -9 56 £225 - 87
Wales +15 47 £200 -21.95% 19
North East +38 23 £175 -22.22% 54
Northern Ireland -2 12 £425 +144.46% 16

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 281 (10.74%) SharePoint
2 155 (5.92%) MS Exchange
3 78 (2.98%) IIS
4 41 (1.57%) Confluence
5 40 (1.53%) Skype for Business
6 22 (0.84%) Apache
7 17 (0.65%) nginx
8 16 (0.61%) CMS
8 16 (0.61%) Exchange Server 2010
9 11 (0.42%) Tomcat
10 9 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2013
11 8 (0.31%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 8 (0.31%) Content Management Server
12 7 (0.27%) SharePoint Server
13 5 (0.19%) IBM Notes
14 4 (0.15%) IBM Domino
14 4 (0.15%) JBoss
14 4 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 4 (0.15%) WebSphere
15 2 (0.076%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 305 (11.65%) Microsoft Office
2 50 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 42 (1.60%) MS Visio
4 34 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.11%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.076%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.076%) InCopy
6 2 (0.076%) InDesign
6 2 (0.076%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.038%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.038%) InfoPath
7 1 (0.038%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.038%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 17 (0.65%) Remedy ITSM
2 15 (0.57%) assyst
3 9 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.15%) Elite 3E
4 4 (0.15%) iTrent
4 4 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
5 3 (0.11%) Sage X3
5 3 (0.11%) SystmOne
6 2 (0.076%) GoldMine
6 2 (0.076%) ION MarketView
6 2 (0.076%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.038%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.038%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.038%) Endur
7 1 (0.038%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.038%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.038%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 1,129 (43.14%) Microsoft 365
2 1,044 (39.89%) Azure
3 591 (22.58%) Entra ID
4 224 (8.56%) AWS
5 136 (5.20%) OneDrive
6 97 (3.71%) SaaS
7 95 (3.63%) Power Platform
8 92 (3.52%) IaaS
9 84 (3.21%) Azure DevOps
10 74 (2.83%) Azure Monitor
11 60 (2.29%) PaaS
12 49 (1.87%) Cloud Computing
13 48 (1.83%) PowerApps
13 48 (1.83%) WhatsApp
14 45 (1.72%) GCP
15 43 (1.64%) Azure Storage
16 33 (1.26%) Azure Service Bus
16 33 (1.26%) GitHub
16 33 (1.26%) Power Automate
17 31 (1.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 505 (19.30%) DNS
2 330 (12.61%) Firewall
3 320 (12.23%) DHCP
4 201 (7.68%) VPN
5 176 (6.73%) WAN
6 171 (6.53%) LAN
7 155 (5.92%) TCP/IP
8 154 (5.88%) SAN
9 88 (3.36%) Wireless
10 76 (2.90%) Skype
11 71 (2.71%) Wi-Fi
12 66 (2.52%) VLAN
13 64 (2.45%) Remote Desktop
14 60 (2.29%) Network Security
15 48 (1.83%) SSL
16 45 (1.72%) NAS
17 36 (1.38%) Kerberos
18 33 (1.26%) VoIP
19 31 (1.18%) SMTP
20 27 (1.03%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 220 (8.41%) SQL Server
2 53 (2.03%) MySQL
3 45 (1.72%) Power BI
4 31 (1.18%) Oracle Reports
5 25 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
6 22 (0.84%) DB2
7 17 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
8 14 (0.53%) Data Lake
8 14 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (0.34%) Big Data
10 9 (0.34%) Relational Database
11 8 (0.31%) MongoDB
11 8 (0.31%) Oracle Database
11 8 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (0.23%) Sybase ASE
13 5 (0.19%) Metadata
13 5 (0.19%) NoSQL
13 5 (0.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 76 (2.90%) JIRA
2 72 (2.75%) Git
3 34 (1.30%) Jenkins
4 16 (0.61%) Hudson
5 13 (0.50%) Axure RP
5 13 (0.50%) TeamCity
6 12 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
7 11 (0.42%) GitLab
7 11 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
8 10 (0.38%) Subversion
9 9 (0.34%) MSI
10 8 (0.31%) Bitbucket
11 7 (0.27%) Visual Studio
12 6 (0.23%) Robot Framework
13 5 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
14 4 (0.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 4 (0.15%) Selenium
14 4 (0.15%) SonarQube
15 3 (0.11%) Octopus Deploy
15 3 (0.11%) Postman
General
1 640 (24.46%) Social Skills
2 274 (10.47%) Finance
3 222 (8.48%) Public Sector
4 133 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
5 113 (4.32%) Legal
6 87 (3.32%) Banking
7 63 (2.41%) Law
8 59 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
9 49 (1.87%) Telecoms
10 42 (1.60%) Manufacturing
10 42 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
11 38 (1.45%) Retail
12 35 (1.34%) Financial Institution
13 33 (1.26%) Marketing
14 27 (1.03%) Electronics
15 26 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
16 23 (0.88%) French Language
17 20 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 16 (0.61%) Back Office
18 16 (0.61%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 365 (13.95%) Support Engineer
2 324 (12.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 294 (11.23%) Analyst
4 194 (7.41%) IT Support
5 174 (6.65%) Architect
6 161 (6.15%) Service Analyst
7 158 (6.04%) 2nd Line Support
8 157 (6.00%) Service Desk Analyst
9 156 (5.96%) Senior
10 141 (5.39%) IT Engineer
11 113 (4.32%) Desktop Support
12 110 (4.20%) Administrator
13 109 (4.17%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 108 (4.13%) Consultant
14 108 (4.13%) Desktop Engineer
15 96 (3.67%) Azure Engineer
16 92 (3.52%) Windows Engineer
17 89 (3.40%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
17 89 (3.40%) Active Directory Engineer
18 88 (3.36%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (6.88%) LDAP
2 91 (3.48%) SailPoint
3 87 (3.32%) SAML
4 80 (3.06%) .NET
5 79 (3.02%) Web Services
6 71 (2.71%) HTML
7 63 (2.41%) XML
8 52 (1.99%) OAuth
8 52 (1.99%) OpenID
9 46 (1.76%) SOAP
10 44 (1.68%) REST
11 37 (1.41%) SPML
12 34 (1.30%) JSP
12 34 (1.30%) Servlets
13 33 (1.26%) JDBC
14 31 (1.18%) JSON
15 29 (1.11%) ARM Templates
16 27 (1.03%) CSS
17 24 (0.92%) .NET Framework
17 24 (0.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 198 (7.57%) PKI
2 162 (6.19%) Data Centre
3 125 (4.78%) Management Information System
4 85 (3.25%) Onboarding
5 66 (2.52%) Replication
6 62 (2.37%) Clustering
7 50 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
8 46 (1.76%) NHS
9 43 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
10 42 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
11 40 (1.53%) Video Conferencing
12 38 (1.45%) CMDB
12 38 (1.45%) Public Cloud
13 35 (1.34%) Driving Licence
14 30 (1.15%) Smartphone
15 26 (0.99%) Product Ownership
16 25 (0.96%) iPhone
17 22 (0.84%) Enterprise Storage
18 21 (0.80%) Client/Server
19 19 (0.73%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 1,692 (64.65%) Windows
2 718 (27.44%) Windows Server
3 512 (19.56%) Windows 10
4 293 (11.20%) Linux
5 187 (7.15%) Windows Server 2012
6 153 (5.85%) Windows Server 2016
6 153 (5.85%) Windows Server 2019
7 101 (3.86%) Apple iOS
8 100 (3.82%) Android
9 94 (3.59%) Windows 7
10 77 (2.94%) Windows Server 2008
11 58 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 51 (1.95%) Mac OS
13 46 (1.76%) Unix
14 39 (1.49%) Ubuntu
15 32 (1.22%) VMS
16 26 (0.99%) CentOS
16 26 (0.99%) Mac OS X
16 26 (0.99%) Windows Server 2003
17 19 (0.73%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 423 (16.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 394 (15.06%) ITIL
3 346 (13.22%) Customer Service
4 299 (11.43%) Migration
5 278 (10.62%) Problem-Solving
6 244 (9.32%) Agile
7 207 (7.91%) DevOps
8 194 (7.41%) Service Management
9 139 (5.31%) RBAC
10 137 (5.24%) ITSM
11 135 (5.16%) Identity Access Management
12 133 (5.08%) Cybersecurity
13 121 (4.62%) Change Management
14 112 (4.28%) Roadmaps
15 106 (4.05%) Identity Management
16 103 (3.94%) Disaster Recovery
17 99 (3.78%) Service Delivery
18 94 (3.59%) Multi-Factor Authentication
19 83 (3.17%) Incident Management
19 83 (3.17%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 555 (21.21%) PowerShell
2 227 (8.67%) SQL
3 129 (4.93%) Python
4 96 (3.67%) Java
5 70 (2.67%) C#
6 63 (2.41%) Bash
7 59 (2.25%) JavaScript
8 31 (1.18%) VBScript
9 26 (0.99%) VB
10 18 (0.69%) Bicep
11 14 (0.53%) BeanShell
12 13 (0.50%) Shell Script
13 11 (0.42%) MATLAB
14 9 (0.34%) T-SQL
14 9 (0.34%) VBA
15 7 (0.27%) C++
15 7 (0.27%) VB.NET
16 6 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
17 5 (0.19%) C
17 5 (0.19%) PHP
Qualifications
1 595 (22.74%) Security Cleared
2 338 (12.92%) SC Cleared
3 324 (12.38%) Degree
4 246 (9.40%) DV Cleared
5 141 (5.39%) Microsoft Certification
6 65 (2.48%) Azure Certification
7 57 (2.18%) MCSE
8 49 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
8 49 (1.87%) ITIL Certification
9 47 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
9 47 (1.80%) DBS Check
10 36 (1.38%) MCP
11 35 (1.34%) CCNA
12 33 (1.26%) MCSA
13 25 (0.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 24 (0.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 23 (0.88%) A+ Certification
16 15 (0.57%) AWS Certification
17 14 (0.53%) CCNP
18 9 (0.34%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (5.20%) SLA
2 35 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 31 (1.18%) QA
4 23 (0.88%) GDPR
5 19 (0.73%) NIST
6 16 (0.61%) JSP 440
6 16 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 14 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
8 9 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
8 9 (0.34%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 6 (0.23%) ISO 9001
11 5 (0.19%) ISAE 3402
12 4 (0.15%) NCSC
13 3 (0.11%) GRC
13 3 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 2 (0.076%) Accessibility
14 2 (0.076%) Data Quality
14 2 (0.076%) NIST 800
14 2 (0.076%) PMO
System Software
1 395 (15.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 181 (6.92%) Hyper-V
3 122 (4.66%) Virtual Desktop
4 101 (3.86%) Virtual Machines
5 97 (3.71%) VMware ESXi
6 64 (2.45%) Docker
6 64 (2.45%) vSphere
7 44 (1.68%) VMware NSX
8 39 (1.49%) BitLocker
9 34 (1.30%) IAG
10 33 (1.26%) RACF
11 31 (1.18%) ACF2
11 31 (1.18%) XenDesktop
12 30 (1.15%) XenApp
13 27 (1.03%) Firmware
14 21 (0.80%) Microsoft App-V
15 16 (0.61%) OpenAM
16 13 (0.50%) Terminal Services
16 13 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
16 13 (0.50%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 487 (18.61%) SCCM
2 374 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
3 147 (5.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 115 (4.39%) Single Sign-On
5 112 (4.28%) Terraform
6 102 (3.90%) Ansible
7 99 (3.78%) SCOM
8 94 (3.59%) WSUS
9 67 (2.56%) vCenter Server
10 64 (2.45%) Kubernetes
11 44 (1.68%) Jamf Pro
12 32 (1.22%) Microsoft Clustering
13 28 (1.07%) EMC NetWorker
14 26 (0.99%) vRealize
15 20 (0.76%) VxRail
16 19 (0.73%) SCOrch
17 17 (0.65%) Failover Clustering
18 16 (0.61%) FortiGate
18 16 (0.61%) FreeIPA
19 15 (0.57%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 1,354 (51.74%) Microsoft
2 645 (24.65%) VMware
3 299 (11.43%) ServiceNow
4 258 (9.86%) Citrix
5 188 (7.18%) Cisco
6 105 (4.01%) Apple
7 101 (3.86%) HP
7 101 (3.86%) Oracle
8 71 (2.71%) Veeam
9 70 (2.67%) Red Hat
10 69 (2.64%) Dell
11 66 (2.52%) EMC
12 60 (2.29%) SAP
13 55 (2.10%) Google
14 44 (1.68%) NetApp
14 44 (1.68%) Palo Alto
15 39 (1.49%) SolarWinds
16 38 (1.45%) Remedy
16 38 (1.45%) Sybase
17 34 (1.30%) Okta