Active Directory Contract Job Trends in Worcestershire

Microsoft Active Directory
West Midlands > Worcestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Worcestershire 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 25 15 13
Rank change year-on-year -10 -2 -7
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 4 3 6
As % of all contract jobs in Worcestershire 3.77% 3.53% 6.98%
As % of the System Software category 10.26% 75.00% 54.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 5
10th Percentile - £127 -
25th Percentile £525 £128 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £130 £175
Median % change year-on-year +323.08% -25.71% -30.00%
75th Percentile £594 £190 £319
90th Percentile £628 £226 £338
West Midlands median daily rate £375 £225 £350
% change year-on-year +66.67% -35.71% +27.27%

All System Software Skills
Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 39 4 11
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 36.79% 4.71% 12.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 4 8
10th Percentile £525 £127 -
25th Percentile £563 £129 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £190 £256
Median % change year-on-year +242.11% -25.85% -10.87%
75th Percentile £700 £275 £414
90th Percentile £850 £320 £622
West Midlands median daily rate £503 £500 £418
% change year-on-year +0.50% +19.76% +4.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.75
Median hourly rate - - £18.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.40%
75th Percentile - - £19.25
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £56.50 £24.25 £19.00
% change year-on-year +132.99% +27.63% +7.22%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcestershire

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

Active Directory job vacancy trend in Worcestershire

Active Directory
Daily Rate Trend in Worcestershire

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

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

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Trend in Worcestershire

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

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

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire region over the 6 months to 24 October 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
Malvern - 4 £550 - 2
Active Directory
West Midlands

Active Directory
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Worcestershire 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 3 (75.00%) Amazon EKS
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) Multicast
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
1 3 (75.00%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Server Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Server Engineer
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Change Control
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (75.00%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Security Hardening
3 1 (25.00%) Server Patching
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (75.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Certification
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) Terminal Services
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Nessus
2 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Dell
2 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (25.00%) Veeam
2 1 (25.00%) VMware