Real-Time IT Contract Trends & Actionable Insights

Description	Rank 6 Months to 29 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)	125	+8	£500	-	813 2.26%	367
Active Directory	50	-12	£445	+4.70%	1,652 4.58%	802
Active Directory Support	580	-52	£375	-29.90%	4 0.011%
Active Directory Analyst	582	-24	£350	-13.84%	2 0.006%	1
Active Directory Engineer	569	-87	£406	-11.87%	15 0.042%	1
Active Directory Architect	580	-63	£620	-0.80%	4 0.011%
Active Directory Consultant	578	-21	-	-	6 0.017%	1
Active Directory Specialist	581	-22	£508	-27.50%	3 0.008%	25
Active Directory Administrator	582	-24	-	-	2 0.006%
Active Directory Support Analyst	583	-23	£350	-	1 0.003%
Active Directory Support Engineer	582	-51	£300	-43.92%	2 0.006%
Active Directory Federation Services	507	-5	£550	+6.02%	77 0.21%	18
Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services	582	-	£519	-	2 0.006%
Senior Active Directory Engineer	580	-27	£413	-19.51%	4 0.011%
Active Directory Migration Consultant	582	-	-	-	2 0.006%
Azure	6	-1	£520	-0.95%	5,651 15.68%	3,667
Azure Data Factory	268	-9	£525	-0.94%	358 0.99%	169
Azure AI	497	+32	£600	+26.31%	87 0.24%	178
Creative Director	583	-	£713	-	1 0.003%
Azure AKS	359	+20	£520	-8.37%	232 0.64%	73
Art Director	583	-27	£530	+63.07%	1 0.003%	1
NetIQ eDirectory (formerly Novell Directory Services NDS)	579	-19	£600	+50.00%	5 0.014%
Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations (PERC)	565	-15	£588	+20.51%	19 0.053%	10