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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 25 28
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 -1
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 100 175 224
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 5.19% 7.43% 6.32%
As % of the System Software category 62.50% 58.33% 51.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 132 165
10th Percentile £150 £145 £120
25th Percentile £190 £176 £171
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £400 £283
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +41.59% -5.04%
75th Percentile £513 £538 £450
90th Percentile £675 £700 £593
England median daily rate £413 £425 £400
% change year-on-year -2.94% +6.25% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 23
10th Percentile £14.59 £13.60 £13.10
25th Percentile £15.65 £15.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.48 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -3.06% +13.33%
75th Percentile £19.95 £17.33 £20.00
90th Percentile £22.23 £18.18 £23.10
England median hourly rate £17.60 £19.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -7.39% +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 160 300 437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 8.31% 12.73% 12.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 201 306
10th Percentile £178 £158 £160
25th Percentile £244 £270 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +18.75% +14.29%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £538
90th Percentile £675 £700 £625
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 24
10th Percentile £14.59 £14.42 £12.65
25th Percentile £15.65 £15.98 £14.69
Median hourly rate £16.00 £17.72 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +5.78% +10.74%
75th Percentile £19.95 £51.19 £20.00
90th Percentile £22.23 £52.50 £22.78
England median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -58.00% +150.00% +2.56%

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 5 May 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 5 May 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 -14 28 £350 -12.50% 26
Coventry +11 22 £413 -8.33% 6
Warwickshire -1 12 £300 -42.86% 13
Herefordshire +2 10 £550 +22.22% 7
Shropshire +30 9 £249 +71.72% 7
Staffordshire -4 7 £338 +92.86% 19
Solihull -11 4 £225 -57.14% 2
Worcestershire -1 3 £295 -41.00% 11
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 26 (26.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (16.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.00%) IIS
3 2 (2.00%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.00%) Acrobat
3 1 (1.00%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 57 (57.00%) Microsoft 365
2 42 (42.00%) Azure
3 22 (22.00%) Entra ID
4 16 (16.00%) OneDrive
5 8 (8.00%) Azure Monitor
5 8 (8.00%) Power Platform
6 7 (7.00%) AWS
7 6 (6.00%) Power Automate
7 6 (6.00%) PowerApps
8 5 (5.00%) CloudFront
8 5 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (3.00%) SaaS
10 1 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.00%) Azure Functions
10 1 (1.00%) Azure Storage
10 1 (1.00%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.00%) IaaS
10 1 (1.00%) Mimecast
10 1 (1.00%) PaaS
10 1 (1.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 35 (35.00%) DNS
2 16 (16.00%) DHCP
2 16 (16.00%) VPN
3 12 (12.00%) LAN
4 10 (10.00%) SAN
4 10 (10.00%) WAN
5 8 (8.00%) NetScaler
6 7 (7.00%) Fibre Channel
6 7 (7.00%) Firewall
6 7 (7.00%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (6.00%) Unified Communications
8 5 (5.00%) Network Security
8 5 (5.00%) Remote Desktop
8 5 (5.00%) VoIP
9 4 (4.00%) TCP/IP
10 3 (3.00%) VLAN
11 2 (2.00%) iSCSI
11 2 (2.00%) NAS
11 2 (2.00%) SSL
11 2 (2.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.00%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (6.00%) Power BI
3 3 (3.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.00%) JIRA
General
1 40 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (13.00%) Public Sector
3 8 (8.00%) Finance
4 5 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.00%) Retail
5 4 (4.00%) Legal
6 3 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.00%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.00%) Fire and Rescue
8 1 (1.00%) Law
8 1 (1.00%) Military
8 1 (1.00%) Police
8 1 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (12.00%) Analyst
3 11 (11.00%) Support Engineer
4 10 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support
5 9 (9.00%) Deployment Engineer
5 9 (9.00%) SIEM Engineer
6 8 (8.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support
6 8 (8.00%) Service Analyst
6 8 (8.00%) Service Desk Analyst
7 7 (7.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
7 7 (7.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 7 (7.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 7 (7.00%) Desktop Engineer
7 7 (7.00%) Senior
8 6 (6.00%) Administrator
8 6 (6.00%) Architect
8 6 (6.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 6 (6.00%) Microsoft Engineer
8 6 (6.00%) Support Analyst
9 5 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.00%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (6.00%) SAML
3 5 (5.00%) OAuth
3 5 (5.00%) OAuth2
4 2 (2.00%) LAMP
4 2 (2.00%) LDAP
5 1 (1.00%) ADO
5 1 (1.00%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.00%) Linux Command Line
2 11 (11.00%) PKI
3 6 (6.00%) Digital Signage
4 5 (5.00%) Cloud Native
5 4 (4.00%) Driving Licence
6 3 (3.00%) Clustering
6 3 (3.00%) Fat Client
6 3 (3.00%) Thin Client
6 3 (3.00%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (2.00%) iPad
7 2 (2.00%) IVR
7 2 (2.00%) Replication
7 2 (2.00%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.00%) Cyberattack
8 1 (1.00%) Hedge funds
8 1 (1.00%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.00%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.00%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 88 (88.00%) Windows
2 40 (40.00%) Windows Server
3 32 (32.00%) Windows 10
4 19 (19.00%) Linux
5 14 (14.00%) Ubuntu
6 12 (12.00%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (8.00%) Windows Server 2016
8 7 (7.00%) Windows Server 2012
9 6 (6.00%) Mac OS
10 4 (4.00%) CentOS
10 4 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (4.00%) Windows 7
11 2 (2.00%) VMS
12 1 (1.00%) Apple iOS
12 1 (1.00%) Mac OS X
12 1 (1.00%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (19.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 18 (18.00%) Customer Service
3 13 (13.00%) Patch Management
3 13 (13.00%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (12.00%) ITIL
5 11 (11.00%) RBAC
6 10 (10.00%) Application Packaging
6 10 (10.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
7 9 (9.00%) Mobile Device Management
7 9 (9.00%) SIEM
7 9 (9.00%) Task Automation
7 9 (9.00%) Visualisation
8 8 (8.00%) Change Management
8 8 (8.00%) Data Pipeline
8 8 (8.00%) DataOps
9 7 (7.00%) Cybersecurity
10 6 (6.00%) Application Security
10 6 (6.00%) Business Intelligence
10 6 (6.00%) Infrastructure Management
10 6 (6.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 28 (28.00%) PowerShell
2 8 (8.00%) R
3 5 (5.00%) Bash
4 3 (3.00%) SQL
5 2 (2.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (13.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (11.00%) SC Cleared
3 9 (9.00%) Degree
4 5 (5.00%) AWS Certification
5 4 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.00%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.00%) DBS Check
6 2 (2.00%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (2.00%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.00%) MCSE
7 1 (1.00%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.00%) MCDST
7 1 (1.00%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.00%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (14.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (10.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 10 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
3 9 (9.00%) vSphere
4 8 (8.00%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 8 (8.00%) iptables
4 8 (8.00%) XenApp
4 8 (8.00%) XenDesktop
5 6 (6.00%) Hyper-V
6 5 (5.00%) Docker
6 5 (5.00%) VMware NSX
6 5 (5.00%) VMware Server
7 4 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (3.00%) BitLocker
9 1 (1.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 22 (22.00%) SCCM
2 16 (16.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (9.00%) Kibana
3 9 (9.00%) logstash
3 9 (9.00%) vCenter Server
4 7 (7.00%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (3.00%) Autotask
5 3 (3.00%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (3.00%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (1.00%) Proxmox
6 1 (1.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 53 (53.00%) Microsoft
2 23 (23.00%) VMware
3 12 (12.00%) Citrix
4 9 (9.00%) NetApp
5 6 (6.00%) Oracle
6 5 (5.00%) Apple
6 5 (5.00%) ServiceNow
7 3 (3.00%) Datto
8 2 (2.00%) Aruba
8 2 (2.00%) Cisco
8 2 (2.00%) Genesys
8 2 (2.00%) Palo Alto
8 2 (2.00%) ProCurve
8 2 (2.00%) Synology
8 2 (2.00%) Veeam
8 2 (2.00%) Zerto
9 1 (1.00%) Adobe
9 1 (1.00%) Commvault
9 1 (1.00%) Salesforce
9 1 (1.00%) Sophos