Active Directory Contracts in Yorkshire

Microsoft Active Directory
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 10 22 19
Rank change year-on-year +12 -3 0
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 110 110 157
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 10.82% 6.51% 6.81%
As % of the System Software category 57.89% 42.15% 60.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 92 130
10th Percentile £185 £151 £150
25th Percentile £229 £181 £182
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £300 £281
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +6.67% +40.63%
75th Percentile £556 £502 £538
90th Percentile £600 £650 £575
England median daily rate £450 £413 £425
% change year-on-year +9.09% -2.94% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - £15.00 £18.40
25th Percentile - £17.63 £19.75
Median hourly rate - £22.00 £22.00
75th Percentile - - £28.13
90th Percentile - - £31.50
England median hourly rate £21.46 £17.69 £19.00
% change year-on-year +21.31% -6.89% +8.57%

All System Software Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 190 261 259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 18.68% 15.45% 11.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 191 207
10th Percentile £186 £178 £154
25th Percentile £279 £275 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £430 £425
Median % change year-on-year -4.07% +1.18% +8.97%
75th Percentile £574 £575 £575
90th Percentile £649 £638 £625
England median daily rate £525 £494 £525
% change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 23 7
10th Percentile - - £20.20
25th Percentile - £14.06 £26.63
Median hourly rate - £14.63 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - -76.60% +257.14%
75th Percentile - £15.19 £66.88
90th Percentile - £15.64 £70.00
England median hourly rate £27.94 £21.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +33.05% -58.00% +163.16%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Yorkshire

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in Yorkshire

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in Yorkshire

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in Yorkshire

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
West Yorkshire +20 74 £400 +8.11% 30
South Yorkshire +8 26 £450 +104.55% 10
North Yorkshire +2 8 £300 +76.47% 10
Active Directory
England

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 20 (18.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (14.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 11 (10.00%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.91%) Confluence
4 1 (0.91%) nginx
4 1 (0.91%) Traefik
Applications
1 33 (30.00%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (3.64%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 47 (42.73%) Microsoft 365
2 38 (34.55%) Entra ID
3 20 (18.18%) Azure
4 9 (8.18%) GitHub
5 7 (6.36%) OneDrive
6 4 (3.64%) AWS
7 3 (2.73%) IaaS
7 3 (2.73%) PaaS
8 2 (1.82%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.82%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.91%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.91%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.91%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (0.91%) Azure Storage
9 1 (0.91%) GCP
9 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 30 (27.27%) DNS
2 11 (10.00%) VPN
3 9 (8.18%) SMTP
4 7 (6.36%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (5.45%) DHCP
5 6 (5.45%) VLAN
6 5 (4.55%) LAN
6 5 (4.55%) VoIP
6 5 (4.55%) WAN
7 4 (3.64%) Firewall
7 4 (3.64%) NAS
7 4 (3.64%) SAN
8 3 (2.73%) Network Security
8 3 (2.73%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (1.82%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.91%) Internet
10 1 (0.91%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (17.27%) Oracle Database
2 2 (1.82%) Power BI
3 1 (0.91%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.91%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (4.55%) GitLab
2 4 (3.64%) Git
2 4 (3.64%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.73%) JIRA
General
1 59 (53.64%) Social Skills
2 15 (13.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 13 (11.82%) Retail
4 4 (3.64%) Banking
5 3 (2.73%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.73%) Finance
5 3 (2.73%) Local Government
5 3 (2.73%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.73%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.91%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.91%) Legal
6 1 (0.91%) Military
Job Titles
1 19 (17.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 19 (17.27%) Support Manager
2 15 (13.64%) IT Support
2 15 (13.64%) Support Engineer
3 11 (10.00%) Analyst
4 10 (9.09%) Desktop Engineer
4 10 (9.09%) IT Engineer
5 9 (8.18%) 1st Line Support
5 9 (8.18%) Desktop Support
5 9 (8.18%) IT Manager
5 9 (8.18%) IT Support Manager
6 8 (7.27%) 1st Line Support Manager
6 8 (7.27%) Architect
6 8 (7.27%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 8 (7.27%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 7 (6.36%) Engineering Specialist
7 7 (6.36%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (5.45%) Windows Engineer
9 5 (4.55%) Support Analyst
9 5 (4.55%) Support Assistant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.18%) REST
2 4 (3.64%) Middleware
3 3 (2.73%) LDAP
4 1 (0.91%) cloud-init
4 1 (0.91%) Kafka
4 1 (0.91%) Keycloak
4 1 (0.91%) OAuth
4 1 (0.91%) OpenID
4 1 (0.91%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.91%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (15.45%) Linux Command Line
2 14 (12.73%) iPhone
2 14 (12.73%) Smartphone
3 7 (6.36%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (3.64%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (3.64%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.73%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.91%) CCTV
6 1 (0.91%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.91%) Fat Client
6 1 (0.91%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.91%) PKI
6 1 (0.91%) Taxonomies
6 1 (0.91%) Thin Client
6 1 (0.91%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 66 (60.00%) Windows
2 31 (28.18%) Linux
3 27 (24.55%) Windows Server
4 20 (18.18%) Mac OS
5 14 (12.73%) Windows 10
6 5 (4.55%) Unix
7 3 (2.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.91%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.91%) CentOS
8 1 (0.91%) VMS
8 1 (0.91%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (29.09%) Customer Service
2 30 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 28 (25.45%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (24.55%) ITSM
5 24 (21.82%) Agile
6 22 (20.00%) ITIL
7 16 (14.55%) Microservices
7 16 (14.55%) Security Management
7 16 (14.55%) SOA
8 14 (12.73%) Incident Management
8 14 (12.73%) Migration
8 14 (12.73%) Mobile Device Management
8 14 (12.73%) Server Management
8 14 (12.73%) Service Management
9 11 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
10 10 (9.09%) Service Delivery
11 9 (8.18%) Cybersecurity
11 9 (8.18%) SIEM
12 7 (6.36%) Roadmaps
13 6 (5.45%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 34 (30.91%) PowerShell
2 21 (19.09%) Bash
3 19 (17.27%) SQL
4 18 (16.36%) PL/SQL
5 16 (14.55%) Perl
6 7 (6.36%) Python
7 4 (3.64%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.73%) VBA
9 1 (0.91%) Go
Qualifications
1 22 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 22 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 18 (16.36%) SC Cleared
3 10 (9.09%) Degree
4 5 (4.55%) ACSP
4 5 (4.55%) ACTC
5 4 (3.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (2.73%) CCNA
6 3 (2.73%) CISSP
6 3 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.91%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.91%) CISA
7 1 (0.91%) CISM
7 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.91%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.91%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (4.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (2.73%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.82%) GDPR
4 2 (1.82%) NIST
5 1 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.91%) NCSC
5 1 (0.91%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (6.36%) vSphere
3 6 (5.45%) VMware NSX
4 4 (3.64%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.82%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.91%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 19 (17.27%) Jamf Pro
2 16 (14.55%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (11.82%) Ansible
4 11 (10.00%) SCCM
5 5 (4.55%) AppManager
5 5 (4.55%) vCenter Server
5 5 (4.55%) vRealize
6 4 (3.64%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.91%) Consul
7 1 (0.91%) Grafana
7 1 (0.91%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.91%) Istio
7 1 (0.91%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.91%) linkerd
7 1 (0.91%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.91%) Rancher
7 1 (0.91%) Terraform
7 1 (0.91%) vRealize Orchestrator
7 1 (0.91%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 62 (56.36%) Microsoft
2 23 (20.91%) Cisco
3 22 (20.00%) ServiceNow
4 21 (19.09%) Apple
5 19 (17.27%) Oracle
6 14 (12.73%) VMware
7 5 (4.55%) Citrix
7 5 (4.55%) Ivanti
7 5 (4.55%) Veeam
8 4 (3.64%) Meraki
8 4 (3.64%) Veritas
9 3 (2.73%) Palo Alto
10 2 (1.82%) Commvault
10 2 (1.82%) Okta
10 2 (1.82%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.91%) Centrify
11 1 (0.91%) ESET
11 1 (0.91%) HP
11 1 (0.91%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.91%) Thycotic