Real-Time IT Contract Trends & Actionable Insights

Description	Rank 6 Months to 28 Dec 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	-2	£500	-	829 2.24%	740
Active Directory	51	-15	£450	+6.38%	1,658 4.49%	969
Active Directory Expert	582	-	£560	-	2 0.005%	3
Active Directory Analyst	578	-41	£525	+29.23%	6 0.016%	2
Active Directory Support	582	-61	£375	-13.79%	2 0.005%
Active Directory Engineer	568	-85	£413	-10.52%	16 0.043%	10
Active Directory Architect	580	-83	£620	-0.80%	4 0.011%	7
Active Directory Specialist	576	-38	£510	-27.14%	8 0.022%
Active Directory Consultant	576	-39	£563	-	8 0.022%
Active Directory Administrator	582	-45	-	-	2 0.005%
Active Directory Support Analyst	583	-44	£350	-	1 0.003%
Active Directory Support Engineer	583	-59	£400	-8.04%	1 0.003%
Active Directory Federation Services	487	-6	£550	+12.82%	97 0.26%	41
Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services	579	-	£372	-	5 0.014%	4
Senior Active Directory Engineer	580	-49	£413	-19.51%	4 0.011%
Active Directory Migration Consultant	582	-	-	-	2 0.005%
Azure	6	-1	£520	-0.95%	5,886 15.93%	8,003
Azure Data Factory	258	-24	£525	-	397 1.07%	367
Azure AI	485	+25	£620	+30.57%	99 0.27%	191
Creative Director	583	-	£713	-	1 0.003%	8
Azure AKS	352	+2	£520	-0.95%	244 0.66%	195
NetIQ eDirectory (formerly Novell Directory Services NDS)	579	-	£600	-	5 0.014%
Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations (PERC)	561	-32	£563	+2.27%	23 0.062%	11