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 15 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 63 14 19
Rank change year-on-year -49 +5 +5
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 34 124 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 3.56% 11.71% 8.89%
As % of the System Software category 24.46% 59.62% 45.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 100 50
10th Percentile £138 £179 £200
25th Percentile £334 £295 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £469
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +22.67% +10.29%
75th Percentile £580 £678 £538
90th Percentile £674 £719 £656
South West median daily rate £450 £500 £300
% change year-on-year -10.00% +66.67% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £90.00 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year - +500.00% -18.92%
South West median hourly rate £40.00 £18.00 £33.32
% change year-on-year +122.22% -45.98% +112.23%

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 139 208 169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 14.57% 19.64% 19.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 176 124
10th Percentile £416 £200 £275
25th Percentile £463 £425 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £506
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +8.64% +12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £588
90th Percentile £672 £719 £638
South West median daily rate £538 £506 £475
% change year-on-year +6.17% +6.58% +7.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 1
Median hourly rate - £63.00 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year - +320.00% -18.92%
South West median hourly rate £70.00 £60.00 £48.38
% change year-on-year +16.67% +24.03% +22.47%

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 15 June 2024.

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 15 June 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
Corsham -39 23 £538 -12.60% 10
Swindon -6 5 £185 -7.50% 11
Salisbury +8 1 £110 -80.00%
Chippenham - 1 £488 - 4
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 14 (41.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (26.47%) Confluence
3 4 (11.76%) SharePoint
4 3 (8.82%) IIS
5 2 (5.88%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 7 (20.59%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 11 (32.35%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (11.76%) Azure
2 4 (11.76%) Entra ID
3 2 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (5.88%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (2.94%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (38.24%) DNS
2 12 (35.29%) DHCP
3 4 (11.76%) Skype
4 3 (8.82%) Kerberos
5 2 (5.88%) Network Security
6 1 (2.94%) ADSL
6 1 (2.94%) Firewall
6 1 (2.94%) FTP
6 1 (2.94%) Internet
6 1 (2.94%) LAN
6 1 (2.94%) NAS
6 1 (2.94%) SAN
6 1 (2.94%) SMTP
6 1 (2.94%) TCP/IP
6 1 (2.94%) VSAN
6 1 (2.94%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (26.47%) JIRA
General
1 17 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (35.29%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (29.41%) Military
4 1 (2.94%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (26.47%) Test Engineer
2 8 (23.53%) Integration Engineer
2 8 (23.53%) Test and Integration Engineer
3 7 (20.59%) Wintel Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) Architect
4 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Support Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) IT Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Security Architect
7 2 (5.88%) 1st Line Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Active Directory Architect
7 2 (5.88%) Active Directory Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (5.88%) Cloud Security Architect
7 2 (5.88%) IT Support
7 2 (5.88%) IT Support Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) Server Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) Technical Writer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.82%) LDAP
2 1 (2.94%) SailPoint
2 1 (2.94%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (55.88%) PKI
2 3 (8.82%) Replication
3 2 (5.88%) Clustering
3 2 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.94%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.94%) Fat Client
4 1 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.94%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 24 (70.59%) Windows
2 17 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 13 (38.24%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (14.71%) Windows 10
5 2 (5.88%) CentOS
5 2 (5.88%) Linux
5 2 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (2.94%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (35.29%) Critical Thinking
2 11 (32.35%) Agile
3 9 (26.47%) Regression Testing
3 9 (26.47%) Test Scripting
4 8 (23.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (14.71%) Change Management
5 5 (14.71%) ITIL
6 4 (11.76%) Customer Service
6 4 (11.76%) Identity Access Management
6 4 (11.76%) Service Management
6 4 (11.76%) Validation
7 3 (8.82%) Cloud Security
7 3 (8.82%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (8.82%) Identity Management
8 2 (5.88%) Customer Value Proposition
8 2 (5.88%) Data Flow Diagram
8 2 (5.88%) ITSM
8 2 (5.88%) Project Management
8 2 (5.88%) Value Proposition
8 2 (5.88%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 13 (38.24%) SQL
2 4 (11.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 26 (76.47%) Security Cleared
2 20 (58.82%) SC Cleared
3 12 (35.29%) MCSE
3 12 (35.29%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (29.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 9 (26.47%) MCSA
6 6 (17.65%) DV Cleared
7 5 (14.71%) Degree
8 3 (8.82%) OSCP
9 2 (5.88%) DBS Check
10 1 (2.94%) CISA
10 1 (2.94%) CISM
10 1 (2.94%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.94%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (38.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (8.82%) Hyper-V
3 2 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (5.88%) VMware NSX
4 1 (2.94%) Citrix Presentation Server
4 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (2.94%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (2.94%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (2.94%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.94%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (11.76%) SCCM
1 4 (11.76%) WSUS
2 2 (5.88%) Failover Clustering
2 2 (5.88%) SCDPM
2 2 (5.88%) SCVMM
3 1 (2.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (2.94%) Backup Exec
3 1 (2.94%) HP SIM
3 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
3 1 (2.94%) NetIQ Identity Manager
3 1 (2.94%) OPNET
3 1 (2.94%) SCOM
3 1 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.94%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
3 1 (2.94%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 24 (70.59%) Microsoft
2 15 (44.12%) VMware
3 3 (8.82%) CA
4 2 (5.88%) Oracle
4 2 (5.88%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.94%) BEA
5 1 (2.94%) Cisco
5 1 (2.94%) Citrix
5 1 (2.94%) Commvault
5 1 (2.94%) ForgeRock
5 1 (2.94%) HP
5 1 (2.94%) Meraki
5 1 (2.94%) NetIQ
5 1 (2.94%) Okta
5 1 (2.94%) Remedy
5 1 (2.94%) SolarWinds
5 1 (2.94%) Symantec
5 1 (2.94%) Veritas