Active Directory Contracts in Manchester

Microsoft Active Directory
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 43 16 42
Rank change year-on-year -27 +26 -11
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 55 134 145
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 3.81% 7.51% 5.52%
As % of the System Software category 41.35% 44.52% 40.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 89 118
10th Percentile £210 £189 £128
25th Percentile £305 £300 £159
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £281
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +51.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £500 £513 £464
90th Percentile £700 £575 £632
North West median daily rate £363 £350 £250
% change year-on-year +3.57% +40.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 11 10
10th Percentile - £13.96 £15.25
25th Percentile - £15.13 £16.25
Median hourly rate £12.00 £20.00 £18.31
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +9.24% +12.80%
75th Percentile - £27.38 £20.10
90th Percentile - £39.60 £28.75
North West median hourly rate £17.11 £18.75 £17.81
% change year-on-year -8.75% +5.29% +9.72%

All System Software Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 133 301 355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 9.22% 16.87% 13.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 215 285
10th Percentile £281 £266 £159
25th Percentile £363 £375 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £693 £638 £660
North West median daily rate £450 £481 £450
% change year-on-year -6.49% +6.94% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 14 10
10th Percentile - £14.04 £15.25
25th Percentile - £15.79 £16.25
Median hourly rate £12.00 £20.00 £18.31
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +9.24% -42.44%
75th Percentile - £36.89 £20.10
90th Percentile - £65.00 £28.75
North West median hourly rate £17.72 £20.00 £18.12
% change year-on-year -11.40% +10.41% -

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Manchester

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in Manchester

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in Manchester over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in Manchester

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in Manchester

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 31 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
Oldham - 3 £350 - 1
Bolton -2 2 £200 +6.67% 6
Wigan -4 1 £160 +14.29% 3
Active Directory
North West

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (36.36%) SharePoint
2 14 (25.45%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (12.73%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (3.64%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 30 (54.55%) Azure
2 27 (49.09%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (27.27%) Entra ID
4 6 (10.91%) AWS
5 2 (3.64%) GitHub
5 2 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (3.64%) IaaS
6 1 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.82%) Azure App Service
6 1 (1.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (1.82%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.82%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (1.82%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.82%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.82%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.82%) Cloudflare
6 1 (1.82%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.82%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.73%) DNS
2 5 (9.09%) Firewall
2 5 (9.09%) LAN
2 5 (9.09%) WAN
3 4 (7.27%) VLAN
3 4 (7.27%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (5.45%) SAN
4 3 (5.45%) TCP/IP
4 3 (5.45%) VoIP
4 3 (5.45%) VPN
5 2 (3.64%) DHCP
5 2 (3.64%) NAS
6 1 (1.82%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (1.82%) HTTP
6 1 (1.82%) HTTPS
6 1 (1.82%) IPsec
6 1 (1.82%) Network Security
6 1 (1.82%) SNMP
6 1 (1.82%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.09%) MySQL
2 3 (5.45%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.64%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Hudson
1 1 (1.82%) Jenkins
General
1 17 (30.91%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.73%) Public Sector
3 4 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (7.27%) Banking
4 3 (5.45%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.82%) Advertising
5 1 (1.82%) Automotive
5 1 (1.82%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.82%) Publishing
5 1 (1.82%) Retail
5 1 (1.82%) Social Housing
5 1 (1.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (16.36%) Senior
3 8 (14.55%) Analyst
3 8 (14.55%) Support Engineer
4 7 (12.73%) Azure Engineer
5 6 (10.91%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (9.09%) IT Support
7 4 (7.27%) 1st/2nd Line Support
7 4 (7.27%) 2nd Line Support
7 4 (7.27%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (7.27%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 4 (7.27%) Security Analyst
8 3 (5.45%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) Infrastructure Manager
8 3 (5.45%) Lead
8 3 (5.45%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) Service Analyst
8 3 (5.45%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.09%) SailPoint
2 1 (1.82%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.82%) LDAP
2 1 (1.82%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.09%) Driving Licence
2 4 (7.27%) Clustering
3 2 (3.64%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.64%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.64%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (3.64%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (1.82%) EPoS
4 1 (1.82%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (1.82%) Freedom of Information Act
4 1 (1.82%) NHS
4 1 (1.82%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.82%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 20 (36.36%) Windows
2 11 (20.00%) Windows 10
2 11 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 9 (16.36%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (7.27%) Mac OS
5 3 (5.45%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (3.64%) Linux
6 2 (3.64%) Ubuntu
6 2 (3.64%) VMS
7 1 (1.82%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.82%) Debian
7 1 (1.82%) Windows 7
7 1 (1.82%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (20.00%) DevOps
2 10 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (14.55%) ITIL
3 8 (14.55%) Mobile Device Management
4 7 (12.73%) Identity Access Management
4 7 (12.73%) Network Virtualisation
5 6 (10.91%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (10.91%) Migration
5 6 (10.91%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (10.91%) Project Management
6 5 (9.09%) CI/CD
6 5 (9.09%) Customer Service
7 4 (7.27%) Change Management
7 4 (7.27%) Remediation Plan
8 3 (5.45%) Agile
8 3 (5.45%) Business Continuity
8 3 (5.45%) Disaster Recovery
8 3 (5.45%) PRINCE2
8 3 (5.45%) Quality Management
8 3 (5.45%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (14.55%) PowerShell
2 5 (9.09%) PHP
3 4 (7.27%) SQL
4 1 (1.82%) Bicep
4 1 (1.82%) Java
4 1 (1.82%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (14.55%) Degree
3 5 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 5 (9.09%) Security Cleared
4 3 (5.45%) Azure Certification
4 3 (5.45%) CCNA
4 3 (5.45%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (5.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (3.64%) MCITP
5 2 (3.64%) MCSE
6 1 (1.82%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.82%) CISSP
6 1 (1.82%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.82%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.27%) QA
2 2 (3.64%) SLA
3 1 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.82%) NIST
3 1 (1.82%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (12.73%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (7.27%) Hyper-V
3 2 (3.64%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.82%) BitLocker
4 1 (1.82%) Firmware
4 1 (1.82%) NFS
4 1 (1.82%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.82%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 15 (27.27%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (10.91%) Terraform
3 4 (7.27%) Jamf Pro
3 4 (7.27%) SCCM
4 3 (5.45%) Autotask
4 3 (5.45%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (1.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.82%) Nessus
Vendors
1 40 (72.73%) Microsoft
2 12 (21.82%) VMware
3 6 (10.91%) CyberArk
4 5 (9.09%) Oracle
5 4 (7.27%) Cisco
6 3 (5.45%) Apple
6 3 (5.45%) Datto
6 3 (5.45%) ServiceNow
7 2 (3.64%) Adobe
7 2 (3.64%) CA
7 2 (3.64%) HP
8 1 (1.82%) Citrix
8 1 (1.82%) Dell
8 1 (1.82%) ForeScout
8 1 (1.82%) Meraki
8 1 (1.82%) Nimble Storage
8 1 (1.82%) SAP
8 1 (1.82%) Veeam