Real-Time IT Contract Trends & Actionable Insights

Description	Rank 6 Months to 6 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)	130	-3	£500	-	815 2.24%	440
Active Directory	50	-13	£439	+3.23%	1,659 4.55%	938
Active Directory Support	590	-72	£375	-25.00%	4 0.011%
Active Directory Analyst	591	-47	£438	+7.69%	3 0.008%	1
Active Directory Engineer	578	-106	£413	-9.29%	16 0.044%	6
Active Directory Architect	590	-87	£620	-0.80%	4 0.011%
Active Directory Consultant	587	-44	£563	-	7 0.019%	1
Active Directory Specialist	591	-46	£508	-27.50%	3 0.008%	3
Active Directory Administrator	592	-48	-	-	2 0.006%
Active Directory Support Analyst	593	-47	£350	-	1 0.003%
Active Directory Support Engineer	592	-71	£300	-42.02%	2 0.006%
Active Directory Federation Services	512	-24	£550	-	82 0.23%	22
Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services	592	-	£519	-	2 0.006%	1
Senior Active Directory Engineer	590	-52	£413	-19.51%	4 0.011%
Active Directory Migration Consultant	592	-	-	-	2 0.006%
Azure	6	-1	£520	-0.95%	5,671 15.56%	3,814
Azure Data Factory	275	-24	£525	-0.94%	363 1.00%	162
Azure AI	503	+14	£616	+29.57%	91 0.25%	134
Creative Director	593	-	£713	-	1 0.003%
Azure AKS	365	-2	£520	-7.96%	236 0.65%	71
Art Director	593	-50	£530	+28.48%	1 0.003%
NetIQ eDirectory (formerly Novell Directory Services NDS)	589	-43	£600	+50.00%	5 0.014%
Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations (PERC)	570	-34	£563	+15.38%	24 0.066%	11