Active Directory Contracts in Hertfordshire

Microsoft Active Directory
East of England > Hertfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 45 10 18
Rank change year-on-year -35 +8 +4
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 25 92 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 3.00% 12.15% 7.61%
As % of the System Software category 50.00% 60.93% 46.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 79 49
10th Percentile £240 £165 £125
25th Percentile £331 £218 £135
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £215
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +97.67% -33.13%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £400
90th Percentile £725 £703 £540
East of England median daily rate £250 £350 £325
% change year-on-year -28.57% +7.69% +46.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 4
10th Percentile - £16.89 £12.08
25th Percentile - £17.47 £14.28
Median hourly rate - £41.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year - +115.79% -20.83%
75th Percentile - £64.88 £23.44
90th Percentile - £65.55 £24.23
East of England median hourly rate £14.16 £17.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year -16.71% +9.68% -13.94%

All System Software Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 50 151 126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 6.00% 19.95% 16.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 112 98
10th Percentile £250 £176 £131
25th Percentile £332 £286 £209
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £451 £420
Median % change year-on-year +8.03% +7.44% -12.32%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £619
90th Percentile £723 £749 £625
East of England median daily rate £350 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -22.22% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 17 6
10th Percentile - £38.62 £13.06
25th Percentile £86.25 £60.00 £16.88
Median hourly rate £87.50 £66.00 £23.25
Median % change year-on-year +32.58% +183.87% -3.13%
75th Percentile £89.38 £70.00 £43.31
90th Percentile £89.75 £73.75 £49.75
East of England median hourly rate £14.16 £52.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year -73.03% +238.71% -15.16%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Hertfordshire

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in Hertfordshire

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in Hertfordshire

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in Hertfordshire

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire 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
Hemel Hempstead -3 11 £650 -7.14% 5
Stevenage -18 7 £340 -2.86% 4
Watford -6 3 £240 +25.65% 6
Hatfield -8 2 £245 -55.45% 1
Welwyn Garden City -1 1 £165 -45.00% 1
Active Directory
East of England

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 5 (20.00%) IIS
2 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (16.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (8.00%) AutoCAD
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (4.00%) PTC Creo
2 1 (4.00%) Windchill
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (4.00%) Azure
2 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (4.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) DHCP
2 1 (4.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (4.00%) DNS
2 1 (4.00%) Firewall
2 1 (4.00%) FTP
2 1 (4.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (4.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.00%) Unified Communications
2 1 (4.00%) VLAN
2 1 (4.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (24.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 13 (52.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) Support Engineer
2 6 (24.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Design Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure Design Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Analyst
4 4 (16.00%) Applications Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Applications Support
4 4 (16.00%) Applications Support Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Designer
5 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Designer
5 2 (8.00%) Service Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Service Desk Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Field Support Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Implementation Specialist
6 1 (4.00%) IT Support Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Network Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Server Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Windows Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) Web Services
2 1 (4.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) PKI
2 3 (12.00%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (8.00%) BYOD
3 2 (8.00%) iPad
3 2 (8.00%) iPhone
4 1 (4.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (52.00%) Windows
2 12 (48.00%) Linux
3 9 (36.00%) Windows Server
3 9 (36.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 7 (28.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (16.00%) Android
7 3 (12.00%) Windows 10
8 2 (8.00%) Apple iOS
9 1 (4.00%) Unix
9 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (48.00%) Migration
2 10 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (36.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (24.00%) Project Delivery
5 5 (20.00%) High Availability
5 5 (20.00%) Roadmaps
5 5 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 5 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
6 4 (16.00%) Change Management
6 4 (16.00%) Problem Management
6 4 (16.00%) Release Management
6 4 (16.00%) Security Patching
7 2 (8.00%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (8.00%) ITIL
8 1 (4.00%) Capacity Management
8 1 (4.00%) Data Protection
8 1 (4.00%) Identity Access Management
8 1 (4.00%) Information Assurance
8 1 (4.00%) Security Architecture
8 1 (4.00%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.00%) SQL
2 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (68.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (64.00%) DV Cleared
3 5 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (24.00%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (44.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (8.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (4.00%) HDFS
4 1 (4.00%) NFS
4 1 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (20.00%) SCCM
2 3 (12.00%) WSUS
3 1 (4.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 12 (48.00%) Microsoft
1 12 (48.00%) VMware
2 5 (20.00%) Red Hat
3 3 (12.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.00%) Cisco
4 1 (4.00%) Isilon