Active Directory Contracts in Warrington

Microsoft Active Directory
Cheshire > Warrington

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Warrington requiring Active Directory skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Active Directory over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 11 7
Rank change year-on-year +4 -4 -3
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 20 9 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Warrington 32.26% 10.98% 23.08%
As % of the System Software category 95.24% 100.00% 82.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 4 19
10th Percentile £230 £390 £175
25th Percentile £271 £396 £194
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £413 £200
Median % change year-on-year -15.15% +106.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £413 £481 £425
90th Percentile £440 £560 £600
Cheshire median daily rate £367 £350 £208
% change year-on-year +4.86% +68.67% +3.75%

All System Software Skills
Warrington

Active Directory falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in Warrington.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 21 9 29
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Warrington 33.87% 10.98% 27.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 4 24
10th Percentile £230 £390 £179
25th Percentile £292 £396 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £413 £325
Median % change year-on-year -15.15% +26.92% +83.10%
75th Percentile £425 £481 £469
90th Percentile £450 £560 £578
Cheshire median daily rate £389 £363 £463
% change year-on-year +7.38% -21.62% +19.05%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Warrington

Job postings citing Active Directory as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Warrington.

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Warrington

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Warrington

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in Warrington.

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in Warrington

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Daily Rate Histogram in Warrington

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in Warrington over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in Warrington

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Warrington

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in Warrington.

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in Warrington

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Warrington by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (60.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 12 (60.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (15.00%) IIS
3 2 (10.00%) Confluence
4 1 (5.00%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (65.00%) Azure
2 12 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (55.00%) Entra ID
4 9 (45.00%) SaaS
5 2 (10.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 8 (40.00%) DNS
2 7 (35.00%) DHCP
3 1 (5.00%) WAAS
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) MSI
General
1 4 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Military
3 1 (5.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Administrator
1 6 (30.00%) VMWare Administrator
1 6 (30.00%) Wintel Administrator
2 5 (25.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365 Architect
4 1 (5.00%) SCCM Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Technical Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Wintel Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Wintel Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (50.00%) Windows
2 8 (40.00%) Windows Server
3 7 (35.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 7 (35.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 6 (30.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (10.00%) Windows 10
6 1 (5.00%) Android
6 1 (5.00%) Apple iOS
6 1 (5.00%) Mac OS
6 1 (5.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) ITIL
2 10 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (45.00%) Agile
3 9 (45.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 8 (40.00%) ITSM
4 8 (40.00%) Migration
5 7 (35.00%) Patch Management
6 5 (25.00%) Problem Management
6 5 (25.00%) Task Automation
7 4 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
7 4 (20.00%) Decision-Making
8 3 (15.00%) High Availability
8 3 (15.00%) Performance Tuning
8 3 (15.00%) Resource Management
9 2 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
9 2 (10.00%) Identity Management
9 2 (10.00%) Line Management
9 2 (10.00%) Service Delivery
9 2 (10.00%) Use Case
10 1 (5.00%) Privileged Access Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (45.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.00%) VB
2 1 (5.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 19 (95.00%) SC Cleared
1 19 (95.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) MCP
2 1 (5.00%) MCSA
2 1 (5.00%) MCSE
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) SLA
2 1 (5.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (30.00%) Hyper-V
2 6 (30.00%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (15.00%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (5.00%) BitLocker
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (5.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
2 9 (45.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (30.00%) vCenter Server
4 4 (20.00%) WSUS
5 3 (15.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Clustering
5 3 (15.00%) NetApp OnCommand
5 3 (15.00%) vMotion
6 2 (10.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 17 (85.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (45.00%) VMware
3 1 (5.00%) McAfee
3 1 (5.00%) Symantec