Real-Time IT Contract Trends & Actionable Insights

Description	Rank 6 Months to 2 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)	119	+9	£500	-	832 2.24%	381
Active Directory	50	-13	£450	+6.47%	1,646 4.44%	739
Active Directory Expert	573	-	£560	-	2 0.005%
Active Directory Analyst	569	-31	£525	+50.00%	6 0.016%	2
Active Directory Support	573	-52	£375	-13.79%	2 0.005%
Active Directory Engineer	559	-74	£413	-13.02%	16 0.043%	10
Active Directory Architect	571	-73	£620	-0.80%	4 0.011%	7
Active Directory Specialist	567	-29	£510	-27.14%	8 0.022%
Active Directory Consultant	567	-30	£563	-	8 0.022%
Active Directory Administrator	573	-36	-	-	2 0.005%
Active Directory Support Analyst	574	-35	£350	-	1 0.003%
Active Directory Support Engineer	574	-50	£400	-8.04%	1 0.003%
Active Directory Federation Services	476	+6	£550	+10.00%	99 0.27%	28
Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services	570	-	£372	-	5 0.014%	5
Senior Active Directory Engineer	571	-40	£413	-19.51%	4 0.011%
Active Directory Migration Consultant	573	-	-	-	2 0.005%
Azure	6	-1	£520	-0.95%	5,929 15.99%	3,358
Azure Data Factory	246	-6	£520	-0.95%	404 1.09%	146
Azure AI	470	+44	£625	+25.00%	105 0.28%	101
Creative Director	574	-	£713	-	1 0.003%	4
Azure AKS	338	+21	£520	-0.95%	250 0.67%	71
NetIQ eDirectory (formerly Novell Directory Services NDS)	570	-	£600	-	5 0.014%
Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations (PERC)	553	-24	£563	+2.27%	22 0.059%	5