Real-Time IT Contract Trends & Actionable Insights

Description	Rank 6 Months to 14 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)	127	+9	£500	-	788 2.22%	611
Active Directory	47	-9	£440	+3.52%	1,659 4.67%	1,208
Active Directory Support	561	-42	£375	-38.01%	4 0.011%
Active Directory Analyst	563	-9	£350	-24.32%	2 0.006%
Active Directory Engineer	548	-80	£400	-19.27%	17 0.048%	2
Active Directory Architect	562	-45	£600	-4.00%	3 0.008%	1
Active Directory Consultant	557	-7	£600	+13.20%	8 0.023%	1
Active Directory Specialist	562	-8	£508	-27.50%	3 0.008%	2
Active Directory Administrator	563	-10	-	-	2 0.006%
Active Directory Support Analyst	564	-	£350	-	1 0.003%
Active Directory Support Engineer	563	-42	£300	-50.41%	2 0.006%
Active Directory Federation Services	494	+3	£550	+8.64%	71 0.20%	27
Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services	563	-	£519	-	2 0.006%	1
Senior Active Directory Engineer	561	-13	£413	-19.51%	4 0.011%
Active Directory Migration Consultant	563	-	-	-	2 0.006%
Azure	6	-1	£520	-0.95%	5,538 15.58%	6,344
Azure Data Factory	264	+13	£525	-4.54%	343 0.97%	247
Azure AI	484	+39	£600	+26.31%	81 0.23%	234
Creative Director	564	-	£713	-	1 0.003%	2
Azure AKS	348	+26	£520	-11.86%	223 0.63%	146
Art Director	564	-13	£530	+63.07%	1 0.003%	1
NetIQ eDirectory (formerly Novell Directory Services NDS)	560	-5	£600	+50.00%	5 0.014%
Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations (PERC)	550	-7	£788	+85.29%	15 0.042%	18