Active Directory Contracts in Berkshire

Microsoft Active Directory
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for Active Directory skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Active Directory over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 43 35
Rank change year-on-year +20 -8 -1
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 134 83 121
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 6.98% 4.70% 5.12%
As % of the System Software category 55.14% 40.29% 41.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 59 81
10th Percentile £310 £187 £126
25th Percentile £538 £350 £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £558 £400
Median % change year-on-year +8.52% +39.38% -5.88%
75th Percentile £608 £688 £565
90th Percentile £655 £725 £638
South East median daily rate £501 £405 £375
% change year-on-year +23.70% +8.00% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 3
10th Percentile - £36.60 £11.05
25th Percentile - £61.50 £13.00
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - +300.00% +14.75%
75th Percentile - £81.37 £43.13
90th Percentile - £85.05 £57.75
South East median hourly rate £17.69 £18.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year -4.38% +23.33% +5.26%

All System Software Skills
Berkshire

Active Directory is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 243 206 290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 12.66% 11.67% 12.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 141 206
10th Percentile £206 £315 £150
25th Percentile £409 £408 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £543 £463
Median % change year-on-year +5.89% +17.41% -
75th Percentile £608 £638 £603
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +2.75% +5.26% +7.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 14 4
10th Percentile - £28.25 £11.70
25th Percentile - £48.40 £14.63
Median hourly rate - £56.66 £41.25
Median % change year-on-year - +37.35% +170.49%
75th Percentile - £73.75 £72.50
90th Percentile - £79.68 £81.50
South East median hourly rate £54.88 £54.56 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.58% +172.80% -14.89%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Berkshire

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in Berkshire

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in Berkshire over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in Berkshire

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in Berkshire

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 23 May 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
Reading +28 94 £605 -10.37% 23
Bracknell +14 17 £369 - 1
Wokingham +4 11 £315 -40.00%
Newbury 0 2 £413 +91.86% 3
Windsor -10 1 £513 - 1
Active Directory
South East

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 21 (15.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.49%) Confluence
2 2 (1.49%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (2.99%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 89 (66.42%) Azure
2 48 (35.82%) Entra ID
3 40 (29.85%) Azure Monitor
4 27 (20.15%) Microsoft 365
5 22 (16.42%) Azure Data Factory
6 21 (15.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 18 (13.43%) Azure Storage
8 17 (12.69%) Azure Functions
8 17 (12.69%) Serverless
9 14 (10.45%) OCI
10 12 (8.96%) AWS
11 5 (3.73%) IaaS
12 4 (2.99%) Azure API Management
12 4 (2.99%) Azure Logic Apps
13 3 (2.24%) Azure Event Grid
13 3 (2.24%) PaaS
13 3 (2.24%) SaaS
14 2 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
14 2 (1.49%) OneDrive
14 2 (1.49%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 45 (33.58%) DNS
2 44 (32.84%) DHCP
3 38 (28.36%) Firewall
4 18 (13.43%) SAN
5 8 (5.97%) SSL
6 6 (4.48%) LAN
6 6 (4.48%) TCP/IP
6 6 (4.48%) WAN
7 5 (3.73%) VPN
8 4 (2.99%) NAS
8 4 (2.99%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (2.24%) Network Security
10 2 (1.49%) WebEx
11 1 (0.75%) NetScaler
11 1 (0.75%) Skype
11 1 (0.75%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (15.67%) NoSQL
2 4 (2.99%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (2.99%) MySQL
2 4 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (2.99%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.75%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 22 (16.42%) Git
2 6 (4.48%) Selenium
3 3 (2.24%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.49%) JIRA
5 1 (0.75%) MSI
General
1 63 (47.01%) Social Skills
2 13 (9.70%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (4.48%) Finance
4 5 (3.73%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (23.13%) Active Directory Support
2 29 (21.64%) Support Specialist
3 25 (18.66%) Active Directory Specialist
3 25 (18.66%) Azure Specialist
4 24 (17.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 21 (15.67%) Developer
5 21 (15.67%) Full Stack Developer
6 18 (13.43%) Azure Developer
6 18 (13.43%) Build Engineer
6 18 (13.43%) Windows Build Engineer
6 18 (13.43%) Windows Engineer
7 12 (8.96%) Support Engineer
8 10 (7.46%) Active Directory Engineer
8 10 (7.46%) Full Stack Python Developer
8 10 (7.46%) Python Developer
8 10 (7.46%) Storage Engineer
9 9 (6.72%) Architect
10 8 (5.97%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (4.48%) Active Directory Support Engineer
12 4 (2.99%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (15.67%) React
2 19 (14.18%) ARM Templates
3 11 (8.21%) Web Services
4 4 (2.99%) .NET
5 3 (2.24%) CSS
6 2 (1.49%) HTML
6 2 (1.49%) jQuery
6 2 (1.49%) SPFx
7 1 (0.75%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (22.39%) PKI
2 18 (13.43%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (11.94%) Product Ownership
4 14 (10.45%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.99%) Fat Client
5 4 (2.99%) Thin Client
6 3 (2.24%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.49%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.75%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.75%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 78 (58.21%) Windows
2 66 (49.25%) Windows Server
3 56 (41.79%) Windows Server 2019
4 52 (38.81%) Windows Server 2016
5 45 (33.58%) Linux
6 42 (31.34%) Windows 10
7 34 (25.37%) Windows Server 2012
8 18 (13.43%) Windows NT
9 14 (10.45%) Windows XP
10 4 (2.99%) Ubuntu
11 3 (2.24%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (38.81%) ITIL
2 44 (32.84%) DevOps
3 39 (29.10%) CI/CD
3 39 (29.10%) Release Management
4 37 (27.61%) Service Management
5 32 (23.88%) Agile
6 26 (19.40%) Customer Service
6 26 (19.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 24 (17.91%) Microservices
8 21 (15.67%) Full Stack Development
8 21 (15.67%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 20 (14.93%) Identity Management
10 19 (14.18%) Analytics
10 19 (14.18%) Deployment Automation
10 19 (14.18%) Infrastructure as Code
10 19 (14.18%) Log Analytics
11 18 (13.43%) Privileged Identity Management
11 18 (13.43%) RBAC
11 18 (13.43%) SDLC
11 18 (13.43%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 43 (32.09%) PowerShell
2 25 (18.66%) Python
3 21 (15.67%) C#
4 19 (14.18%) Bicep
5 18 (13.43%) VB
5 18 (13.43%) VBScript
6 10 (7.46%) Java
7 3 (2.24%) C
7 3 (2.24%) PHP
7 3 (2.24%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 84 (62.69%) Security Cleared
2 69 (51.49%) DV Cleared
3 53 (39.55%) SC Cleared
4 46 (34.33%) Degree
5 18 (13.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 14 (10.45%) CCNA
6 14 (10.45%) CCNP
6 14 (10.45%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.24%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.75%) CEH
8 1 (0.75%) CISSP
8 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (14.18%) QA
2 5 (3.73%) SLA
3 2 (1.49%) GDPR
3 2 (1.49%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 29 (21.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (17.16%) Virtual Machines
3 19 (14.18%) Hyper-V
3 19 (14.18%) VMware ESXi
4 18 (13.43%) Firmware
4 18 (13.43%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (5.97%) XenApp
6 6 (4.48%) XenDesktop
7 4 (2.99%) Docker
8 1 (0.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 63 (47.01%) SCCM
2 57 (42.54%) WSUS
3 34 (25.37%) SCOM
4 23 (17.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 22 (16.42%) Kubernetes
6 21 (15.67%) vCenter Server
7 20 (14.93%) Microsoft Intune
8 18 (13.43%) Sysprep
9 15 (11.19%) EMC NetWorker
10 14 (10.45%) NetBackup
11 6 (4.48%) Nessus
12 4 (2.99%) Ansible
12 4 (2.99%) Red Hat Satellite
12 4 (2.99%) ZABBIX
13 3 (2.24%) Single Sign-On
14 2 (1.49%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
14 2 (1.49%) Network Intrusion Detection System
14 2 (1.49%) Terraform
Vendors
1 68 (50.75%) Microsoft
2 32 (23.88%) VMware
3 18 (13.43%) HP
3 18 (13.43%) Oracle
3 18 (13.43%) Veeam
4 17 (12.69%) Cisco
5 15 (11.19%) EMC
6 14 (10.45%) 3PAR
6 14 (10.45%) Dell
6 14 (10.45%) Extreme Networks
6 14 (10.45%) Juniper
6 14 (10.45%) Palo Alto
6 14 (10.45%) Symantec
7 13 (9.70%) Citrix
8 10 (7.46%) ServiceNow
9 4 (2.99%) CyberArk
9 4 (2.99%) FireEye
9 4 (2.99%) Okta
9 4 (2.99%) Red Hat
9 4 (2.99%) Tanium