Real-Time IT Contract Trends & Actionable Insights

Description	Rank 6 Months to 16 Jan 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)	130	+3	£500	-	833 2.24%	447
Active Directory	51	-14	£450	+9.09%	1,657 4.46%	778
Active Directory Expert	587	-	£500	-	3 0.008%
Active Directory Analyst	583	-49	£525	+50.00%	7 0.019%
Active Directory Support	588	-67	£375	-13.79%	2 0.005%	1
Active Directory Engineer	574	-82	£413	-16.75%	16 0.043%	3
Active Directory Architect	586	-92	£620	-0.80%	4 0.011%	7
Active Directory Specialist	582	-48	£510	-	8 0.022%
Active Directory Consultant	582	-50	£563	-	8 0.022%
Active Directory Administrator	589	-57	-	-	1 0.003%	1
Active Directory Support Analyst	589	-55	£350	-	1 0.003%
Active Directory Support Engineer	589	-65	£400	-8.04%	1 0.003%
Active Directory Federation Services	492	-3	£555	+11.00%	98 0.26%	23
Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services	581	-	£483	-	9 0.024%	5
Senior Active Directory Engineer	586	-57	£413	-28.26%	4 0.011%
Active Directory Migration Consultant	588	-	-	-	2 0.005%
Azure	6	-1	£518	-1.42%	5,972 16.06%	3,640
Azure Data Factory	246	-8	£513	-1.91%	416 1.12%	127
Azure AI	482	+32	£625	+31.57%	108 0.29%	198
Creative Director	589	-	£713	-	1 0.003%
Azure AKS	354	-1	£513	-0.72%	245 0.66%	128
NetIQ eDirectory (formerly Novell Directory Services NDS)	585	-	£600	-	5 0.013%
Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations (PERC)	569	-45	£563	+2.27%	21 0.057%	4