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

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 31 47
Rank change year-on-year 0 +16 -2
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 2,291 3,615 4,539
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 5.25% 5.96% 5.05%
As % of the System Software category 48.73% 44.71% 37.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,595 2,636 3,212
10th Percentile £160 £163 £150
25th Percentile £213 £225 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £425 £413
Median % change year-on-year -3.53% +3.03% +6.80%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £550
90th Percentile £675 £675 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £375 £283
% change year-on-year - +32.74% -15.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 171 261
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.16 £12.75
25th Percentile £14.16 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £17.69 £19.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.89% +8.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £23.75 £40.25 £22.75
90th Percentile £40.00 £66.00 £37.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.14 £17.72 £16.83
% change year-on-year -3.26% +5.32% +8.55%

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 4,701 8,086 12,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.77% 13.33% 13.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,214 5,794 8,756
10th Percentile £195 £205 £200
25th Percentile £325 £400 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +9.38%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £488 £440
% change year-on-year -5.64% +10.80% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 301 340
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.75 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £50.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.00% +150.00% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £66.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £71.07 £75.00 £58.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £38.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year -45.45% +120.00% -0.99%

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 19 April 2024.

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 19 April 2024.

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 19 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
England -1 2,044 £400 -5.88% 999
UK excluding London -4 1,312 £375 - 815
London +10 846 £410 -12.21% 227
Work from Home 0 673 £465 -2.11% 323
South East +13 438 £475 +5.56% 219
North of England -7 285 £320 -1.54% 186
South West -7 180 £300 -36.00% 87
Midlands -4 150 £344 -8.33% 155
North West -13 145 £350 - 106
Scotland +13 130 £420 +37.70% 67
Yorkshire +1 115 £300 +9.09% 62
East of England -14 107 £265 -24.29% 103
West Midlands -5 99 £350 -10.26% 97
East Midlands -7 47 £213 -15.00% 58
North East +26 23 £195 -30.36% 22
Wales -7 22 £202 +7.45% 12
Northern Ireland -12 5 £500 +177.78% 5

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
1 501 (21.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 209 (9.12%) SharePoint
3 68 (2.97%) IIS
4 55 (2.40%) Confluence
5 44 (1.92%) Skype for Business
6 31 (1.35%) Exchange Server 2010
7 28 (1.22%) Exchange Server 2013
8 18 (0.79%) CMS
9 15 (0.65%) Exchange Server 2007
10 11 (0.48%) Exchange Server 2003
11 9 (0.39%) Apache
11 9 (0.39%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 9 (0.39%) nginx
12 7 (0.31%) JBoss
12 7 (0.31%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
14 3 (0.13%) OpenStack
14 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
14 3 (0.13%) WordPress
15 2 (0.087%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 240 (10.48%) Microsoft Office
2 64 (2.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.35%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.13%) Acrobat
6 3 (0.13%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.087%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.044%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.044%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.044%) Trello
8 1 (0.044%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 11 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
2 10 (0.44%) Teamcenter
3 8 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.17%) assyst
5 3 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
5 3 (0.13%) Sage X3
6 2 (0.087%) SystmOne
7 1 (0.044%) BusinessWorks
7 1 (0.044%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.044%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.044%) ION MarketView
7 1 (0.044%) iTrent
7 1 (0.044%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.044%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.044%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.044%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.044%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 959 (41.86%) Microsoft 365
2 918 (40.07%) Azure
3 513 (22.39%) Entra ID
4 212 (9.25%) AWS
5 119 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
6 99 (4.32%) OneDrive
7 80 (3.49%) Azure Monitor
8 75 (3.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 73 (3.19%) PaaS
10 65 (2.84%) Power Platform
11 64 (2.79%) IaaS
12 47 (2.05%) SaaS
13 43 (1.88%) GitHub
14 42 (1.83%) Azure Service Bus
15 39 (1.70%) Azure Storage
16 38 (1.66%) GCP
16 38 (1.66%) WhatsApp
17 36 (1.57%) Dynamics 365
18 35 (1.53%) Azure Sentinel
19 28 (1.22%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 409 (17.85%) DNS
2 272 (11.87%) Firewall
3 262 (11.44%) DHCP
4 135 (5.89%) VPN
5 118 (5.15%) SAN
6 108 (4.71%) WAN
7 107 (4.67%) LAN
8 88 (3.84%) TCP/IP
9 68 (2.97%) Wi-Fi
10 59 (2.58%) SSL
11 57 (2.49%) Wireless
12 55 (2.40%) Skype
13 44 (1.92%) Network Security
14 40 (1.75%) NAS
15 39 (1.70%) VLAN
16 37 (1.62%) Remote Desktop
17 27 (1.18%) MPLS
17 27 (1.18%) VoIP
18 22 (0.96%) Kerberos
19 21 (0.92%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 246 (10.74%) SQL Server
2 48 (2.10%) MySQL
3 33 (1.44%) Oracle Reports
4 32 (1.40%) Power BI
5 27 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
6 22 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
7 21 (0.92%) Relational Database
8 20 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
9 17 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
10 16 (0.70%) Hadoop
11 15 (0.65%) Oracle Database
12 11 (0.48%) NoSQL
13 7 (0.31%) RDBMS
14 5 (0.22%) Data Lake
15 4 (0.17%) Big Data
15 4 (0.17%) Metadata
15 4 (0.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 2 (0.087%) Amazon Redshift
16 2 (0.087%) MariaDB
16 2 (0.087%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 83 (3.62%) JIRA
2 79 (3.45%) Git
3 35 (1.53%) Jenkins
4 21 (0.92%) TeamCity
5 20 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
6 17 (0.74%) Selenium
7 15 (0.65%) Robot Framework
7 15 (0.65%) Visual Studio
8 12 (0.52%) SpecFlow
9 11 (0.48%) GitLab
9 11 (0.48%) WebDriver
10 10 (0.44%) Bitbucket
10 10 (0.44%) Postman
10 10 (0.44%) SonarQube
11 8 (0.35%) Hudson
12 5 (0.22%) Bitbucket Server
12 5 (0.22%) CA Release Automation
12 5 (0.22%) MSI
12 5 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
13 4 (0.17%) Fiddler
General
1 623 (27.19%) Social Skills
2 272 (11.87%) Finance
3 239 (10.43%) Public Sector
4 136 (5.94%) Analytical Skills
5 88 (3.84%) Banking
6 60 (2.62%) Organisational Skills
7 59 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
8 55 (2.40%) Legal
9 51 (2.23%) Manufacturing
10 49 (2.14%) Telecoms
11 37 (1.62%) Financial Institution
12 35 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
13 34 (1.48%) Marketing
14 28 (1.22%) Retail
15 25 (1.09%) Law
16 22 (0.96%) Electronics
17 21 (0.92%) French Language
18 19 (0.83%) Back Office
18 19 (0.83%) Military
19 12 (0.52%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 291 (12.70%) Support Engineer
2 287 (12.53%) Analyst
3 266 (11.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 201 (8.77%) Senior
5 192 (8.38%) Architect
5 192 (8.38%) IT Support
6 139 (6.07%) IT Engineer
7 132 (5.76%) Service Analyst
8 128 (5.59%) Service Desk Analyst
9 116 (5.06%) 2nd Line Support
10 109 (4.76%) Developer
11 97 (4.23%) Desktop Support
12 86 (3.75%) IT Support Engineer
13 81 (3.54%) Consultant
13 81 (3.54%) Desktop Engineer
13 81 (3.54%) Support Analyst
14 77 (3.36%) Windows Engineer
15 76 (3.32%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 76 (3.32%) Administrator
16 72 (3.14%) Active Directory Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (5.33%) LDAP
2 119 (5.19%) .NET
3 112 (4.89%) XML
4 101 (4.41%) Web Services
5 92 (4.02%) SailPoint
6 63 (2.75%) HTML
7 55 (2.40%) .NET Core
8 46 (2.01%) SOAP
9 45 (1.96%) SAML
10 44 (1.92%) SPML
11 42 (1.83%) JSP
11 42 (1.83%) Servlets
12 34 (1.48%) .NET Framework
13 30 (1.31%) AngularJS
13 30 (1.31%) React
14 28 (1.22%) JDBC
15 26 (1.13%) ARM Templates
16 25 (1.09%) CSS
16 25 (1.09%) JSON
16 25 (1.09%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 173 (7.55%) PKI
2 100 (4.36%) Data Centre
3 79 (3.45%) Onboarding
4 74 (3.23%) Replication
5 67 (2.92%) Management Information System
6 64 (2.79%) Clustering
7 54 (2.36%) Video Conferencing
8 52 (2.27%) Product Ownership
9 47 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
10 35 (1.53%) iPhone
11 32 (1.40%) Driving Licence
12 29 (1.27%) NHS
13 24 (1.05%) CMDB
14 23 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
14 23 (1.00%) iPad
15 22 (0.96%) Public Cloud
16 21 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
16 21 (0.92%) Smartphone
17 18 (0.79%) Mainframe
18 17 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1,456 (63.55%) Windows
2 620 (27.06%) Windows Server
3 503 (21.96%) Windows 10
4 255 (11.13%) Linux
5 200 (8.73%) Windows Server 2012
6 181 (7.90%) Windows Server 2016
7 176 (7.68%) Windows Server 2019
8 98 (4.28%) Apple iOS
9 90 (3.93%) Windows 7
10 67 (2.92%) Android
11 63 (2.75%) Windows Server 2008
12 55 (2.40%) Mac OS
13 48 (2.10%) Unix
14 43 (1.88%) Ubuntu
15 42 (1.83%) VMS
16 32 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 28 (1.22%) Windows Server 2003
18 21 (0.92%) Windows NT
19 20 (0.87%) Mac OS X
20 15 (0.65%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 337 (14.71%) Customer Service
2 333 (14.54%) ITIL
3 316 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 289 (12.61%) Problem-Solving
5 288 (12.57%) Migration
6 233 (10.17%) Agile
7 221 (9.65%) DevOps
8 145 (6.33%) CI/CD
9 124 (5.41%) RBAC
10 116 (5.06%) Cybersecurity
10 116 (5.06%) Service Management
11 109 (4.76%) Identity Access Management
12 106 (4.63%) Disaster Recovery
13 99 (4.32%) Mobile Device Management
14 85 (3.71%) Service Delivery
15 82 (3.58%) ITSM
16 79 (3.45%) Project Delivery
17 78 (3.40%) Change Management
18 77 (3.36%) Scrum
19 74 (3.23%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 462 (20.17%) PowerShell
2 216 (9.43%) SQL
3 107 (4.67%) C#
4 104 (4.54%) Python
5 73 (3.19%) JavaScript
6 65 (2.84%) Bicep
7 64 (2.79%) Java
8 27 (1.18%) Bash
9 24 (1.05%) VBScript
10 23 (1.00%) VB
11 18 (0.79%) TypeScript
12 11 (0.48%) MATLAB
12 11 (0.48%) R
13 10 (0.44%) C
13 10 (0.44%) C++
13 10 (0.44%) PL/SQL
14 8 (0.35%) Go
14 8 (0.35%) PHP
15 7 (0.31%) Perl
16 4 (0.17%) VBA
Qualifications
1 521 (22.74%) Security Cleared
2 317 (13.84%) SC Cleared
3 292 (12.75%) Degree
4 225 (9.82%) DV Cleared
5 137 (5.98%) Microsoft Certification
6 53 (2.31%) Azure Certification
7 52 (2.27%) MCSE
8 49 (2.14%) MCSA
9 48 (2.10%) Cisco Certification
10 44 (1.92%) CCNA
11 36 (1.57%) ITIL Certification
12 32 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
12 32 (1.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 31 (1.35%) A+ Certification
14 26 (1.13%) DBS Check
15 22 (0.96%) AWS Certification
15 22 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
16 21 (0.92%) CCNP
16 21 (0.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 18 (0.79%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (4.45%) SLA
2 56 (2.44%) QA
3 26 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (0.87%) GDPR
5 18 (0.79%) NIST
6 14 (0.61%) Accessibility
6 14 (0.61%) WCAG
7 12 (0.52%) PCI DSS
8 11 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
8 11 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 9 (0.39%) ISO 9001
10 7 (0.31%) RMADS
11 6 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 4 (0.17%) Data Quality
13 4 (0.17%) GRC
14 3 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.087%) PMO
16 1 (0.044%) GLBA
16 1 (0.044%) NIST 800
System Software
1 306 (13.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 129 (5.63%) Hyper-V
3 84 (3.67%) Virtual Machines
4 77 (3.36%) VMware ESXi
5 55 (2.40%) vSphere
6 52 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
7 42 (1.83%) IAG
8 41 (1.79%) ACF2
8 41 (1.79%) RACF
9 40 (1.75%) Docker
10 36 (1.57%) Firmware
11 35 (1.53%) XenApp
12 25 (1.09%) VMware NSX
12 25 (1.09%) VMware Workstation
13 21 (0.92%) NFS
14 20 (0.87%) Virtual Servers
15 19 (0.83%) BitLocker
15 19 (0.83%) XenDesktop
16 16 (0.70%) HDFS
17 13 (0.57%) KVM
Systems Management
1 407 (17.77%) SCCM
2 272 (11.87%) Microsoft Intune
3 107 (4.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 95 (4.15%) WSUS
5 72 (3.14%) Terraform
6 69 (3.01%) Kubernetes
7 68 (2.97%) Single Sign-On
8 66 (2.88%) SCOM
9 65 (2.84%) Ansible
10 61 (2.66%) vCenter Server
11 49 (2.14%) Jamf Pro
12 25 (1.09%) NetBackup
13 24 (1.05%) EMC NetWorker
14 21 (0.92%) Sysprep
15 20 (0.87%) Microsoft Clustering
16 18 (0.79%) Kibana
17 15 (0.65%) Failover Clustering
18 13 (0.57%) Tivoli
19 11 (0.48%) Netcool
19 11 (0.48%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1,162 (50.72%) Microsoft
2 470 (20.52%) VMware
3 215 (9.38%) Citrix
4 211 (9.21%) ServiceNow
5 113 (4.93%) Apple
5 113 (4.93%) Cisco
6 110 (4.80%) Oracle
7 78 (3.40%) HP
8 72 (3.14%) Dell
9 70 (3.06%) Veeam
10 68 (2.97%) CyberArk
11 52 (2.27%) SAP
12 48 (2.10%) Red Hat
13 45 (1.96%) EMC
14 37 (1.62%) Okta
15 35 (1.53%) Isilon
16 29 (1.27%) Palo Alto
16 29 (1.27%) Sybase
17 28 (1.22%) Google
18 27 (1.18%) CA