Active Directory Contracts in Wiltshire

Microsoft Active Directory
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire 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 20 55 15
Rank change year-on-year +35 -40 +4
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 37 34 129
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 8.24% 3.60% 11.68%
As % of the System Software category 38.54% 36.17% 64.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 31 111
10th Percentile £310 £173 £200
25th Percentile £500 £263 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% +15.79%
75th Percentile £606 £588 £675
90th Percentile £638 £713 £719
South West median daily rate £450 £300 £475
% change year-on-year +50.00% -36.84% +58.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £78.00
25th Percentile - - £78.75
Median hourly rate - - £90.00
75th Percentile - - £106.25
90th Percentile - - £110.00
South West median hourly rate £18.25 £40.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year -54.38% +122.22% -59.55%

All System Software Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 96 94 199
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 21.38% 9.96% 18.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 83 173
10th Percentile £453 £264 £200
25th Percentile £513 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% +7.58%
75th Percentile £616 £581 £675
90th Percentile £688 £710 £724
South West median daily rate £550 £508 £500
% change year-on-year +8.37% +1.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £60.00
Median hourly rate - - £63.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +24.75%
75th Percentile - - £87.50
90th Percentile - - £102.50
South West median hourly rate £40.63 £68.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year -40.91% +14.58% +21.24%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Wiltshire

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in Wiltshire

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in Wiltshire

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in Wiltshire

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire 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
Corsham +38 29 £550 - 5
Swindon -2 3 £500 +244.83% 18
Chippenham - 2 £250 - 1
Salisbury -10 1 £650 +136.36% 1
Active Directory
South West

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 11 (29.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (24.32%) SharePoint
2 9 (24.32%) Skype for Business
3 5 (13.51%) Confluence
4 1 (2.70%) Apache
4 1 (2.70%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (13.51%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (8.11%) Azure
1 3 (8.11%) Entra ID
1 3 (8.11%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (5.41%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (2.70%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (43.24%) DNS
2 10 (27.03%) DHCP
2 10 (27.03%) Skype
3 5 (13.51%) Unified Communications
4 4 (10.81%) VPN
4 4 (10.81%) VSAN
5 3 (8.11%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (5.41%) Firewall
6 2 (5.41%) SSL
7 1 (2.70%) LAN
7 1 (2.70%) SMTP
7 1 (2.70%) TCP/IP
7 1 (2.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.81%) SQL Server
2 3 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (18.92%) JIRA
2 3 (8.11%) Bitbucket
General
1 9 (24.32%) Public Sector
1 9 (24.32%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.11%) Billing
3 3 (8.11%) Military
4 1 (2.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (29.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (16.22%) Architect
3 4 (10.81%) Technical Architect
3 4 (10.81%) Wintel Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Consultant
5 2 (5.41%) Infrastructure Manager
5 2 (5.41%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 2 (5.41%) Project Manager
5 2 (5.41%) Server Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Test Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Windows Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Windows Server Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) HP Storage Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Lead Architect
6 1 (2.70%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) SCCM Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Service Architect
6 1 (2.70%) Test and Integration Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.70%) LDAP
1 1 (2.70%) SOAP
1 1 (2.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (29.73%) PKI
2 2 (5.41%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (5.41%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (2.70%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 28 (75.68%) Windows
2 20 (54.05%) Windows Server
3 9 (24.32%) Windows Server 2016
4 8 (21.62%) Windows 10
5 5 (13.51%) Linux
5 5 (13.51%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (13.51%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (5.41%) Apple iOS
6 2 (5.41%) Ubuntu
7 1 (2.70%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (40.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (18.92%) Agile
2 7 (18.92%) ITIL
3 5 (13.51%) Critical Thinking
3 5 (13.51%) Service Management
3 5 (13.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (10.81%) Security Hardening
5 3 (8.11%) Change Management
5 3 (8.11%) Dashboard Development
5 3 (8.11%) Information Security
5 3 (8.11%) ITSM
5 3 (8.11%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 3 (8.11%) Performance Monitoring
5 3 (8.11%) Service Delivery
5 3 (8.11%) System Testing
5 3 (8.11%) Two-Factor Authentication
5 3 (8.11%) Waterfall
6 2 (5.41%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (5.41%) Security Monitoring
6 2 (5.41%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 9 (24.32%) SQL
2 5 (13.51%) PowerShell
3 3 (8.11%) Bash
3 3 (8.11%) Python
4 1 (2.70%) Java
Qualifications
1 32 (86.49%) Security Cleared
2 22 (59.46%) SC Cleared
3 15 (40.54%) DV Cleared
4 6 (16.22%) Degree
5 4 (10.81%) MCSA
5 4 (10.81%) MCSE
5 4 (10.81%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (5.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.70%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (32.43%) Hyper-V
2 11 (29.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (16.22%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 6 (16.22%) Virtual Servers
4 5 (13.51%) vSphere
5 4 (10.81%) VMware NSX
6 3 (8.11%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (2.70%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (18.92%) SCCM
2 6 (16.22%) WSUS
3 4 (10.81%) Ansible
3 4 (10.81%) VxRail
4 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (8.11%) vRealize
5 2 (5.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (5.41%) Kubernetes
5 2 (5.41%) Nessus
5 2 (5.41%) OPNET
6 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 1 (2.70%) Packer
6 1 (2.70%) SCOM
6 1 (2.70%) Terraform
6 1 (2.70%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 18 (48.65%) Microsoft
2 13 (35.14%) VMware
3 5 (13.51%) Veeam
4 3 (8.11%) Atlassian
4 3 (8.11%) Cisco
4 3 (8.11%) F5
4 3 (8.11%) HP
4 3 (8.11%) Infoblox
4 3 (8.11%) Remedy
5 2 (5.41%) Apple
5 2 (5.41%) Dell
6 1 (2.70%) Fujitsu
6 1 (2.70%) Oracle
6 1 (2.70%) SolarWinds