Active Directory Contract Job Trends in Wokingham

Microsoft Active Directory
Berkshire > Wokingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wokingham requiring Active Directory skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 10 15
Rank change year-on-year -23 +5 -5
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 7 18 4
As % of all contract jobs in Wokingham 2.99% 17.31% 6.06%
As % of the System Software category 18.92% 41.86% 57.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 2
10th Percentile £407 £242 £303
25th Percentile £468 £313 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £375 £313
Median % change year-on-year +30.60% +20.00% +150.00%
75th Percentile £498 £488 £319
90th Percentile £519 £561 £323
Berkshire median daily rate £375 £605 £475
% change year-on-year -38.02% +27.37% +26.67%

All System Software Skills
Wokingham

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 Wokingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 37 43 7
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wokingham 15.81% 41.35% 10.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 29 2
10th Percentile £219 £313 £303
25th Percentile £238 £330 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £350 £313
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% +12.00% +140.38%
75th Percentile £519 £488 £319
90th Percentile £538 £575 £323
Berkshire median daily rate £478 £579 £500
% change year-on-year -17.53% +15.80% +4.17%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Wokingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Active Directory relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wokingham.

Active Directory job vacancy trend in Wokingham

Active Directory
Daily Rate Trend in Wokingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wokingham citing Active Directory.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wokingham citing Active Directory

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in Wokingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in Wokingham over the 6 months to 24 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in Wokingham

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Trend in Wokingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wokingham citing Active Directory.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wokingham citing Active Directory

Active Directory
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wokingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 5 (71.43%) AWS
3 4 (57.14%) GCP
4 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DHCP
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
2 1 (14.29%) VPN
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Coordinator
2 1 (14.29%) Deskside Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Deskside Support
2 1 (14.29%) Deskside Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Desktop Support
2 1 (14.29%) IT Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) IT Support
2 1 (14.29%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Project Coordinator
2 1 (14.29%) Rollout Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Coordinator
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Project Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
3 1 (14.29%) Android
3 1 (14.29%) Apple iOS
3 1 (14.29%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) DevSecOps
2 4 (57.14%) SIEM
3 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Budget Management
4 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (14.29%) Patch Management
4 1 (14.29%) Project Management
4 1 (14.29%) Server Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) PowerShell
1 4 (57.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 4 (57.14%) CISM
2 4 (57.14%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) GDPR
1 4 (57.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (57.14%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
1 1 (14.29%) Terminal Services
1 1 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (14.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) BeyondTrust
1 4 (57.14%) CyberArk
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) Intel
3 1 (14.29%) VMware