Real-Time IT Contract Trends & Actionable Insights

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 24 Apr 2026	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)	104	Up 11 places+11	£500	-	1,075 2.31%	315
Active Directory	57	Down -21 places-21	£450	-	1,749 3.76%	532
Active Directory Expert	628	New entry-	£500	-	3 0.007%
Active Directory Support	630	Down -127 places-127	£238	-36.66%	1 0.002%
Active Directory Analyst	621	Down -104 places-104	£525	+7.69%	10 0.022%
Active Directory Engineer	615	Down -141 places-141	£500	+21.21%	16 0.034%	6
Active Directory Architect	628	Down -150 places-150	£640	-1.53%	3 0.007%
Active Directory Consultant	621	Down -105 places-105	£465	-15.45%	10 0.022%
Active Directory Specialist	622	Down -109 places-109	£530	+17.77%	9 0.019%
Active Directory Team Leader	630	New entry-	-	-	1 0.002%
Active Directory Support Engineer	630	Down -124 places-124	£238	+5.55%	1 0.002%
Active Directory Federation Services	521	Down -34 places-34	£575	-6.50%	110 0.24%	4
Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services	622	New entry-	£483	-	9 0.019%
Senior Active Directory Engineer	627	Down -113 places-113	£413	-28.26%	4 0.009%	3
Azure	6	No change0	£520	-0.95%	7,215 15.53%	2,623
Azure Data Factory	234	Up 26 places+26	£500	-	510 1.10%	98
Azure AI	444	Up 55 places+55	£600	+4.34%	188 0.40%	150
Creative Director	629	Down -111 places-111	£700	-	2 0.004%
Azure AKS	348	Down -3 places-3	£525	+13.26%	302 0.65%	76
Art Director	630	Down -112 places-112	£450	-	1 0.002%
Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations (PERC)	605	Down -94 places-94	£488	+28.28%	26 0.056%	66