Active Directory Contracts in West Yorkshire

Microsoft Active Directory
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 27 33
Rank change year-on-year +20 +6 +1
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 74 58 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 13.50% 5.81% 5.14%
As % of the System Software category 74.00% 52.73% 53.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 49 74
10th Percentile £182 £162 £157
25th Percentile £232 £188 £232
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £370 £425
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -12.94% +100.61%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £575
90th Percentile £575 £688 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £400 £300 £281
% change year-on-year +33.33% +6.67% +40.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £31.25
Median hourly rate - - £32.50
75th Percentile - - £33.75
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £22.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year - - +25.21%

All System Software Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 100 110 157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 18.25% 11.01% 9.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 87 128
10th Percentile £185 £178 £201
25th Percentile £235 £313 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -14.29% +20.00%
75th Percentile £547 £576 £575
90th Percentile £600 £646 £606
Yorkshire median daily rate £413 £430 £425
% change year-on-year -4.07% +1.18% +8.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 5
10th Percentile - - £43.25
25th Percentile - £14.06 £61.25
Median hourly rate - £14.63 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - -76.60% +254.31%
75th Percentile - £15.19 £70.00
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £14.63 £62.50
% change year-on-year - -76.60% +257.14%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in West Yorkshire

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in West Yorkshire

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in West Yorkshire

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in West Yorkshire

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Leeds +18 69 £400 -14.67% 38
Bradford +9 3 £185 - 18
Halifax - 1 £188 - 1
Huddersfield - 1 £320 - 2
Active Directory
Yorkshire

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 18 (24.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (21.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 8 (10.81%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.35%) Confluence
4 1 (1.35%) nginx
4 1 (1.35%) Traefik
Applications
1 28 (37.84%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 36 (48.65%) Microsoft 365
2 32 (43.24%) Entra ID
3 13 (17.57%) Azure
4 5 (6.76%) OneDrive
5 3 (4.05%) AWS
5 3 (4.05%) IaaS
5 3 (4.05%) PaaS
6 2 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.35%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.35%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.35%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (1.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 25 (33.78%) DNS
2 10 (13.51%) VPN
3 6 (8.11%) VLAN
3 6 (8.11%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (6.76%) DHCP
4 5 (6.76%) LAN
4 5 (6.76%) VoIP
4 5 (6.76%) WAN
5 4 (5.41%) Firewall
6 3 (4.05%) Network Security
7 1 (1.35%) Internet
7 1 (1.35%) Kerberos
7 1 (1.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (25.68%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.35%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.35%) GitLab
1 1 (1.35%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.35%) JIRA
General
1 43 (58.11%) Social Skills
2 15 (20.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 13 (17.57%) Retail
4 3 (4.05%) Local Government
4 3 (4.05%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.70%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.35%) Finance
6 1 (1.35%) Legal
6 1 (1.35%) Military
Job Titles
1 19 (25.68%) Support Manager
2 16 (21.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 11 (14.86%) Support Engineer
4 10 (13.51%) Desktop Engineer
5 9 (12.16%) 1st Line Support
5 9 (12.16%) IT Manager
5 9 (12.16%) IT Support
5 9 (12.16%) IT Support Manager
6 8 (10.81%) 1st Line Support Manager
6 8 (10.81%) Desktop Support
6 8 (10.81%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 8 (10.81%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 8 (10.81%) IT Engineer
7 7 (9.46%) Engineering Specialist
7 7 (9.46%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (6.76%) Support Assistant
9 4 (5.41%) Deployment Engineer
9 4 (5.41%) Linux Engineer
9 4 (5.41%) Network Engineer
9 4 (5.41%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.70%) LDAP
2 1 (1.35%) cloud-init
2 1 (1.35%) Kafka
2 1 (1.35%) Keycloak
2 1 (1.35%) OAuth
2 1 (1.35%) OpenID
2 1 (1.35%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (22.97%) Linux Command Line
2 13 (17.57%) iPhone
2 13 (17.57%) Smartphone
3 2 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.35%) CCTV
4 1 (1.35%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.35%) Fat Client
4 1 (1.35%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.35%) PKI
4 1 (1.35%) Thin Client
4 1 (1.35%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 42 (56.76%) Windows
2 24 (32.43%) Linux
3 23 (31.08%) Windows Server
4 19 (25.68%) Mac OS
5 8 (10.81%) Windows 10
6 3 (4.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.35%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (1.35%) CentOS
7 1 (1.35%) Unix
7 1 (1.35%) VMS
7 1 (1.35%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (39.19%) Customer Service
2 25 (33.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 18 (24.32%) ITIL
4 17 (22.97%) Agile
4 17 (22.97%) ITSM
5 16 (21.62%) Microservices
5 16 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (21.62%) Security Management
5 16 (21.62%) SOA
6 14 (18.92%) Incident Management
6 14 (18.92%) Mobile Device Management
6 14 (18.92%) Server Management
6 14 (18.92%) Service Management
7 10 (13.51%) Service Delivery
8 9 (12.16%) Migration
9 7 (9.46%) Identity Access Management
10 6 (8.11%) Roadmaps
10 6 (8.11%) Technology Roadmap
11 5 (6.76%) Security Patching
11 5 (6.76%) Service Desk Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (27.03%) Bash
1 20 (27.03%) PowerShell
2 19 (25.68%) SQL
3 18 (24.32%) PL/SQL
4 16 (21.62%) Perl
5 3 (4.05%) VBA
6 1 (1.35%) Go
6 1 (1.35%) Python
Qualifications
1 22 (29.73%) Cisco Certification
2 20 (27.03%) Security Cleared
3 17 (22.97%) SC Cleared
4 5 (6.76%) ACSP
4 5 (6.76%) ACTC
4 5 (6.76%) Degree
5 4 (5.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (4.05%) CCNA
7 1 (1.35%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.35%) CISSP
7 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (4.05%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.35%) NCSC
3 1 (1.35%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (9.46%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (4.05%) vSphere
3 2 (2.70%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (2.70%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.35%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 19 (25.68%) Jamf Pro
2 13 (17.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (12.16%) SCCM
4 5 (6.76%) AppManager
5 3 (4.05%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.35%) Consul
6 1 (1.35%) Grafana
6 1 (1.35%) HAProxy
6 1 (1.35%) Istio
6 1 (1.35%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.35%) linkerd
6 1 (1.35%) Packer
6 1 (1.35%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.35%) Rancher
6 1 (1.35%) Terraform
6 1 (1.35%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.35%) vRealize
6 1 (1.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 49 (66.22%) Microsoft
2 23 (31.08%) Cisco
3 22 (29.73%) ServiceNow
4 20 (27.03%) Apple
5 19 (25.68%) Oracle
6 10 (13.51%) VMware
7 5 (6.76%) Citrix
7 5 (6.76%) Ivanti
7 5 (6.76%) Veeam
8 4 (5.41%) Meraki
9 3 (4.05%) Palo Alto
10 2 (2.70%) Red Hat
11 1 (1.35%) ESET
11 1 (1.35%) MobileIron
11 1 (1.35%) Okta
11 1 (1.35%) Splunk