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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 26 20
Rank change year-on-year +10 -6 -1
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 112 102 144
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 9.33% 5.91% 6.64%
As % of the System Software category 50.00% 41.80% 58.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 82 110
10th Percentile £185 £150 £143
25th Percentile £235 £178 £171
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £295 £250
Median % change year-on-year +35.59% +18.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £488
90th Percentile £600 £639 £575
England median daily rate £450 £450 £425
% change year-on-year - +5.88% +10.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 5
10th Percentile - £15.43 £19.30
25th Percentile - £18.69 -
Median hourly rate - £21.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - -2.27% +24.72%
75th Percentile - £22.00 £33.75
90th Percentile - - £40.20
England median hourly rate £23.00 £17.69 £20.50
% change year-on-year +30.02% -13.71% +17.14%

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 224 244 247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 18.65% 14.14% 11.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 171 177
10th Percentile £211 £178 £155
25th Percentile £360 £275 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £460 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +8.24% +11.84%
75th Percentile £569 £580 £575
90th Percentile £623 £645 £638
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 24 7
10th Percentile - - £20.20
25th Percentile - £14.06 £22.00
Median hourly rate - £14.63 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year - -55.00% +84.97%
75th Percentile - £15.19 £54.13
90th Percentile - £19.78 £63.75
England median hourly rate £28.75 £22.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +27.78% -55.00% +150.00%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 +15 73 £400 -5.88% 58
South Yorkshire -1 28 £438 +88.17% 27
North Yorkshire +1 8 £294 +67.86% 16
East Yorkshire -6 1 £200 -33.33% 8
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 16 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
1 16 (14.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (4.46%) SharePoint
Applications
1 33 (29.46%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (5.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (3.57%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 54 (48.21%) Microsoft 365
2 51 (45.54%) Entra ID
3 25 (22.32%) Azure
4 10 (8.93%) AWS
5 9 (8.04%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (7.14%) GCP
7 7 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (6.25%) Azure AKS
7 7 (6.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 7 (6.25%) SaaS
8 5 (4.46%) GitHub
9 3 (2.68%) IaaS
9 3 (2.68%) PaaS
10 2 (1.79%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.89%) Azure Storage
11 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (0.89%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 22 (19.64%) DNS
2 8 (7.14%) VPN
3 5 (4.46%) SMTP
4 4 (3.57%) NAS
4 4 (3.57%) SAN
5 3 (2.68%) Firewall
5 3 (2.68%) Network Security
5 3 (2.68%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (1.79%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.89%) Internet
7 1 (0.89%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (16.96%) Oracle Database
2 2 (1.79%) Power BI
3 1 (0.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (3.57%) Git
1 4 (3.57%) GitLab
2 3 (2.68%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.79%) JIRA
General
1 74 (66.07%) Social Skills
2 20 (17.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 19 (16.96%) Retail
4 6 (5.36%) Banking
5 3 (2.68%) Finance
5 3 (2.68%) Legal
5 3 (2.68%) Local Government
5 3 (2.68%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.68%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.79%) Law
7 1 (0.89%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.89%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (24.11%) Support Manager
2 19 (16.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 16 (14.29%) IT Support
4 15 (13.39%) Analyst
5 14 (12.50%) 1st Line Support
6 12 (10.71%) 1st Line Support Manager
6 12 (10.71%) IT Manager
6 12 (10.71%) IT Support Manager
7 9 (8.04%) Support Engineer
8 8 (7.14%) Business Analyst
8 8 (7.14%) Desktop Engineer
8 8 (7.14%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 8 (7.14%) IT Engineer
9 7 (6.25%) Architect
9 7 (6.25%) Desktop Support
9 7 (6.25%) Engineering Specialist
9 7 (6.25%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (5.36%) Deployment Engineer
10 6 (5.36%) Desktop Support Engineer
10 6 (5.36%) Support Assistant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.14%) OAuth
1 8 (7.14%) OpenID
1 8 (7.14%) SAML
2 7 (6.25%) JSON
3 6 (5.36%) OAuth2
4 5 (4.46%) REST
5 4 (3.57%) Middleware
6 3 (2.68%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 20 (17.86%) iPhone
2 19 (16.96%) Smartphone
3 17 (15.18%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (6.25%) Cloud Native
4 7 (6.25%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.79%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.79%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.89%) CCTV
8 1 (0.89%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.89%) Fat Client
8 1 (0.89%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.89%) Thin Client
8 1 (0.89%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 52 (46.43%) Windows
2 30 (26.79%) Linux
3 28 (25.00%) Mac OS
3 28 (25.00%) Windows Server
4 9 (8.04%) Windows 10
5 4 (3.57%) Unix
6 2 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.89%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.89%) Android
7 1 (0.89%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.89%) VMS
7 1 (0.89%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (33.93%) Customer Service
2 31 (27.68%) ITSM
3 29 (25.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 29 (25.89%) ITIL
4 27 (24.11%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (20.54%) Agile
6 20 (17.86%) Incident Management
6 20 (17.86%) Mobile Device Management
7 19 (16.96%) Service Management
8 16 (14.29%) Microservices
8 16 (14.29%) Security Management
8 16 (14.29%) SOA
9 15 (13.39%) Service Delivery
10 14 (12.50%) Migration
10 14 (12.50%) Server Management
11 11 (9.82%) Cybersecurity
12 10 (8.93%) Stakeholder Management
13 9 (8.04%) Security Patching
14 8 (7.14%) Collaborative Working
14 8 (7.14%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 31 (27.68%) PowerShell
2 19 (16.96%) Bash
2 19 (16.96%) SQL
3 18 (16.07%) PL/SQL
4 16 (14.29%) Perl
5 5 (4.46%) Python
6 4 (3.57%) Shell Script
7 3 (2.68%) VBA
Qualifications
1 22 (19.64%) Cisco Certification
2 20 (17.86%) Security Cleared
3 16 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 12 (10.71%) Degree
5 9 (8.04%) ACSP
5 9 (8.04%) ACTC
6 6 (5.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 3 (2.68%) CCNA
7 3 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.79%) CISSP
9 1 (0.89%) CISM
9 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.89%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.89%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (2.68%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.79%) NIST
5 1 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.89%) GDPR
5 1 (0.89%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (6.25%) vSphere
2 6 (5.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (5.36%) VMware NSX
3 4 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.79%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.89%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 27 (24.11%) Jamf Pro
2 19 (16.96%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (9.82%) Single Sign-On
4 9 (8.04%) Ansible
5 8 (7.14%) SCCM
6 7 (6.25%) Kubernetes
6 7 (6.25%) Terraform
7 5 (4.46%) vCenter Server
7 5 (4.46%) vRealize
8 1 (0.89%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 59 (52.68%) Microsoft
2 33 (29.46%) ServiceNow
3 29 (25.89%) Apple
4 22 (19.64%) Cisco
5 19 (16.96%) Oracle
6 9 (8.04%) VMware
7 7 (6.25%) Alibaba
7 7 (6.25%) Citrix
8 5 (4.46%) Veeam
9 4 (3.57%) Veritas
10 3 (2.68%) Meraki
10 3 (2.68%) Palo Alto
11 2 (1.79%) Commvault
11 2 (1.79%) Red Hat
12 1 (0.89%) Centrify
12 1 (0.89%) CyberArk
12 1 (0.89%) HP
12 1 (0.89%) MobileIron
12 1 (0.89%) Thycotic