Real-Time IT Contract Trends & Actionable Insights

Description	Rank 6 Months to 19 Nov 2025	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory, Azure AD)	129	+7	£500	-	793 2.22%	606
Active Directory	48	-10	£438	+2.94%	1,674 4.69%	1,204
Active Directory Support	586	-68	£375	-34.49%	4 0.011%
Active Directory Analyst	588	-35	£350	-24.32%	2 0.006%
Active Directory Engineer	574	-107	£413	-16.75%	16 0.045%	3
Active Directory Architect	588	-70	£556	-11.00%	2 0.006%
Active Directory Consultant	584	-34	£600	+20.00%	6 0.017%
Active Directory Specialist	587	-34	£508	-27.50%	3 0.008%	4
Active Directory Administrator	588	-36	-	-	2 0.006%
Active Directory Support Analyst	589	-	£350	-	1 0.003%
Active Directory Support Engineer	588	-68	£300	-47.59%	2 0.006%
Active Directory Federation Services	518	-21	£550	+10.00%	72 0.20%	23
Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services	588	-	£519	-	2 0.006%
Senior Active Directory Engineer	586	-39	£413	-19.51%	4 0.011%
Active Directory Migration Consultant	588	-	-	-	2 0.006%
Azure	6	-1	£520	-0.95%	5,577 15.62%	6,251
Azure Data Factory	285	-14	£525	-4.54%	345 0.97%	267
Azure AI	509	+14	£600	+26.31%	81 0.23%	229
Creative Director	589	-	£713	-	1 0.003%	1
Azure AKS	372	-5	£523	-9.13%	224 0.63%	164
Art Director	589	-39	£530	+63.07%	1 0.003%
NetIQ eDirectory (formerly Novell Directory Services NDS)	585	-31	£600	+50.00%	5 0.014%
Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations (PERC)	574	-31	£788	+85.29%	16 0.045%	20