Active Directory Contracts in the West Midlands

Microsoft Active Directory
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Active Directory skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Active Directory over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 26 26
Rank change year-on-year -6 0 -3
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 98 182 233
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 5.08% 7.61% 6.55%
As % of the System Software category 61.64% 60.26% 50.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 132 172
10th Percentile £150 £145 £123
25th Percentile £190 £173 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £375 £285
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +31.58% -4.20%
75th Percentile £541 £538 £453
90th Percentile £675 £700 £593
England median daily rate £410 £425 £400
% change year-on-year -3.60% +6.25% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 23
10th Percentile £14.41 £13.60 £13.10
25th Percentile £15.21 £15.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £17.80 £16.48 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.01% -3.06% +13.33%
75th Percentile £20.90 £17.33 £20.00
90th Percentile £22.61 £18.18 £23.10
England median hourly rate £17.69 £19.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -6.89% +8.57% +9.38%

All System Software Skills
West Midlands

Active Directory is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 159 302 457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 8.25% 12.63% 12.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 203 322
10th Percentile £178 £158 £164
25th Percentile £231 £263 £227
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £403
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +17.94% +15.07%
75th Percentile £566 £551 £538
90th Percentile £675 £698 £624
England median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 25
10th Percentile £14.41 £14.42 £11.75
25th Percentile £15.21 £15.98 £13.75
Median hourly rate £17.80 £17.72 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% +7.38% +10.00%
75th Percentile £20.90 £51.19 £20.00
90th Percentile £22.61 £52.50 £22.45
England median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -58.00% +163.16% -

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Active Directory as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in the West Midlands

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in the West Midlands

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in the West Midlands

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in the West Midlands

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Active Directory within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Birmingham -19 29 £350 -6.67% 27
Coventry +15 23 £425 +13.33% 6
Warwickshire -1 13 £300 -42.86% 11
Herefordshire +2 10 £550 +22.22% 6
Staffordshire -6 6 £375 +114.29% 19
Shropshire +32 5 £159 +9.31% 13
Solihull -12 4 £225 -57.14% 3
Worcestershire -1 3 £295 -41.00% 14
Active Directory
England

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 25 (25.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (17.35%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.04%) IIS
3 2 (2.04%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (10.20%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.02%) Acrobat
3 1 (1.02%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 58 (59.18%) Microsoft 365
2 44 (44.90%) Azure
3 22 (22.45%) Entra ID
4 16 (16.33%) OneDrive
5 10 (10.20%) Power Platform
6 8 (8.16%) Azure Monitor
6 8 (8.16%) PowerApps
7 7 (7.14%) AWS
8 6 (6.12%) Power Automate
9 5 (5.10%) CloudFront
9 5 (5.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (3.06%) SaaS
11 1 (1.02%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (1.02%) Azure Functions
11 1 (1.02%) Azure Storage
11 1 (1.02%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (1.02%) IaaS
11 1 (1.02%) Mimecast
11 1 (1.02%) PaaS
11 1 (1.02%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 31 (31.63%) DNS
2 16 (16.33%) VPN
3 12 (12.24%) DHCP
4 9 (9.18%) LAN
5 8 (8.16%) NetScaler
6 7 (7.14%) Firewall
6 7 (7.14%) WAN
6 7 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (6.12%) SAN
7 6 (6.12%) Unified Communications
8 5 (5.10%) Network Security
8 5 (5.10%) VoIP
9 4 (4.08%) TCP/IP
10 3 (3.06%) Fibre Channel
10 3 (3.06%) VLAN
11 2 (2.04%) iSCSI
11 2 (2.04%) NAS
11 2 (2.04%) SSL
11 2 (2.04%) Wireless
12 1 (1.02%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.18%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (6.12%) Power BI
3 3 (3.06%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.04%) JIRA
General
1 39 (39.80%) Social Skills
2 12 (12.24%) Public Sector
3 8 (8.16%) Finance
4 6 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.10%) Legal
5 5 (5.10%) Retail
6 3 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.02%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.02%) Fire and Rescue
8 1 (1.02%) Law
8 1 (1.02%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.02%) Military
8 1 (1.02%) Police
8 1 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (16.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (12.24%) Support Engineer
3 11 (11.22%) 2nd Line Support
3 11 (11.22%) Analyst
4 10 (10.20%) Deployment Engineer
5 9 (9.18%) 1st/2nd Line Support
5 9 (9.18%) SIEM Engineer
6 8 (8.16%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
6 8 (8.16%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 8 (8.16%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 7 (7.14%) Desktop Engineer
7 7 (7.14%) Senior
7 7 (7.14%) Service Analyst
7 7 (7.14%) Service Desk Analyst
8 6 (6.12%) Architect
8 6 (6.12%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 6 (6.12%) Microsoft Engineer
8 6 (6.12%) Support Analyst
9 5 (5.10%) Security Engineer
9 5 (5.10%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.18%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (6.12%) SAML
3 5 (5.10%) OAuth
3 5 (5.10%) OAuth2
4 2 (2.04%) LAMP
4 2 (2.04%) LDAP
5 1 (1.02%) ADO
5 1 (1.02%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.24%) Linux Command Line
2 7 (7.14%) PKI
3 6 (6.12%) Digital Signage
4 5 (5.10%) Cloud Native
5 4 (4.08%) Driving Licence
6 3 (3.06%) Clustering
6 3 (3.06%) Fat Client
6 3 (3.06%) Thin Client
6 3 (3.06%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (2.04%) iPad
7 2 (2.04%) IVR
7 2 (2.04%) Replication
7 2 (2.04%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.02%) CMDB
8 1 (1.02%) Cyberattack
8 1 (1.02%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.02%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.02%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.02%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 85 (86.73%) Windows
2 36 (36.73%) Windows Server
3 32 (32.65%) Windows 10
4 16 (16.33%) Linux
5 12 (12.24%) Windows Server 2019
6 11 (11.22%) Ubuntu
7 8 (8.16%) Windows Server 2016
8 7 (7.14%) Windows Server 2012
9 6 (6.12%) Mac OS
10 4 (4.08%) Windows 7
11 2 (2.04%) VMS
12 1 (1.02%) CentOS
12 1 (1.02%) Mac OS X
12 1 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (1.02%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (19.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (17.35%) Customer Service
3 14 (14.29%) ITIL
4 12 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (11.22%) RBAC
6 10 (10.20%) Application Packaging
6 10 (10.20%) Change Management
6 10 (10.20%) Infrastructure Monitoring
6 10 (10.20%) Mobile Device Management
6 10 (10.20%) Patch Management
7 9 (9.18%) SIEM
7 9 (9.18%) Visualisation
8 8 (8.16%) Data Pipeline
8 8 (8.16%) DataOps
9 6 (6.12%) Application Security
9 6 (6.12%) Cloud Security
9 6 (6.12%) Identity Access Management
9 6 (6.12%) Infrastructure Management
9 6 (6.12%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 6 (6.12%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 25 (25.51%) PowerShell
2 8 (8.16%) R
3 3 (3.06%) SQL
4 2 (2.04%) Bash
4 2 (2.04%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 12 (12.24%) SC Cleared
3 10 (10.20%) Degree
4 5 (5.10%) AWS Certification
5 4 (4.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (4.08%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.04%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.04%) DBS Check
6 2 (2.04%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (2.04%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.04%) MCSE
7 1 (1.02%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.02%) MCDST
7 1 (1.02%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.06%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (10.20%) Virtual Desktop
1 10 (10.20%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (8.16%) Citrix Hypervisor
2 8 (8.16%) iptables
2 8 (8.16%) XenApp
2 8 (8.16%) XenDesktop
3 6 (6.12%) Hyper-V
3 6 (6.12%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (5.10%) Docker
4 5 (5.10%) vSphere
5 4 (4.08%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (3.06%) BitLocker
7 1 (1.02%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (1.02%) VMware NSX
7 1 (1.02%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 23 (23.47%) SCCM
2 17 (17.35%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (9.18%) Kibana
3 9 (9.18%) logstash
4 7 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (5.10%) vCenter Server
6 3 (3.06%) Autotask
6 3 (3.06%) Failover Clustering
6 3 (3.06%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (1.02%) Proxmox
7 1 (1.02%) SCOM
Vendors
1 49 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 19 (19.39%) VMware
3 13 (13.27%) Citrix
4 9 (9.18%) NetApp
5 6 (6.12%) Oracle
6 5 (5.10%) Apple
6 5 (5.10%) ServiceNow
7 3 (3.06%) Datto
8 2 (2.04%) Aruba
8 2 (2.04%) Cisco
8 2 (2.04%) Genesys
8 2 (2.04%) Palo Alto
8 2 (2.04%) ProCurve
8 2 (2.04%) Synology
8 2 (2.04%) Veeam
8 2 (2.04%) Zerto
9 1 (1.02%) Adobe
9 1 (1.02%) Atlassian
9 1 (1.02%) Commvault
9 1 (1.02%) Fortinet