Real-Time IT Contract Trends & Actionable Insights

Description	Rank 6 Months to 18 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)	128	+7	£500	-	784 2.21%	667
Active Directory	47	-9	£438	+2.94%	1,652 4.67%	1,230
Active Directory Support	566	-46	£375	-34.49%	4 0.011%
Active Directory Analyst	568	-13	£350	-24.32%	2 0.006%
Active Directory Engineer	555	-86	£406	-18.01%	15 0.042%	2
Active Directory Architect	568	-48	£556	-11.00%	2 0.006%	1
Active Directory Consultant	563	-11	£600	+20.00%	7 0.020%	1
Active Directory Specialist	567	-12	£508	-27.50%	3 0.009%	4
Active Directory Administrator	568	-14	-	-	2 0.006%
Active Directory Support Analyst	569	-	£350	-	1 0.003%
Active Directory Support Engineer	568	-46	£300	-47.59%	2 0.006%
Active Directory Federation Services	500	-1	£550	+10.00%	70 0.20%	27
Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services	568	-	£519	-	2 0.006%	1
Senior Active Directory Engineer	566	-17	£413	-19.51%	4 0.011%
Active Directory Migration Consultant	568	-	-	-	2 0.006%
Azure	6	-1	£520	-0.95%	5,525 15.61%	6,358
Azure Data Factory	280	-7	£525	-4.54%	341 0.96%	279
Azure AI	489	+36	£600	+26.31%	81 0.23%	229
Creative Director	569	-	£713	-	1 0.003%	1
Azure AKS	356	+18	£520	-9.56%	222 0.63%	159
Art Director	569	-17	£530	+63.07%	1 0.003%
NetIQ eDirectory (formerly Novell Directory Services NDS)	565	-9	£600	+50.00%	5 0.014%
Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations (PERC)	555	-10	£788	+85.29%	15 0.042%	19