Active Directory Contracts in Wiltshire

Microsoft Active Directory
South West > Wiltshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire 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 52 12 19
Rank change year-on-year -40 +7 +3
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 31 127 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 3.37% 11.79% 8.06%
As % of the System Software category 33.33% 61.95% 43.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 106 41
10th Percentile £140 £180 £163
25th Percentile £291 £452 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £560 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.02% +17.89% -5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £538
90th Percentile £713 £719 £656
South West median daily rate £439 £500 £300
% change year-on-year -12.15% +66.67% -3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - £78.00 -
25th Percentile - £78.75 -
Median hourly rate - £90.00 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year - +500.00% -18.92%
75th Percentile - £106.25 £16.81
90th Percentile - £110.00 £17.90
South West median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +110.53% -11.63% +36.94%

All System Software Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 93 205 161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 10.11% 19.03% 18.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 176 108
10th Percentile £323 £200 £292
25th Percentile £463 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £523
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +5.26% +17.75%
75th Percentile £561 £669 £588
90th Percentile £701 £719 £638
South West median daily rate £525 £513 £486
% change year-on-year +2.44% +5.40% +11.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 6
10th Percentile - £60.00 £15.00
25th Percentile - £60.38 £15.22
Median hourly rate - £63.00 £33.88
Median % change year-on-year - +85.98% +83.11%
75th Percentile - £81.75 £64.73
90th Percentile - £100.00 £69.05
South West median hourly rate £68.75 £60.35 £48.27
% change year-on-year +13.92% +25.03% +21.69%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Wiltshire

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in Wiltshire

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in Wiltshire

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in Wiltshire

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire 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
Corsham -39 20 £544 -11.59% 10
Salisbury +7 3 £275 -50.00% 1
Swindon -4 3 £145 -27.50% 10
Chippenham - 1 £488 - 4
Active Directory
South West

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 12 (38.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (22.58%) Confluence
3 3 (9.68%) SharePoint
4 1 (3.23%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (22.58%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 10 (32.26%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.23%) AWS
2 1 (3.23%) Azure
2 1 (3.23%) Entra ID
2 1 (3.23%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (38.71%) DNS
2 11 (35.48%) DHCP
3 6 (19.35%) Skype
4 2 (6.45%) Firewall
4 2 (6.45%) Internet
4 2 (6.45%) LAN
4 2 (6.45%) Network Security
4 2 (6.45%) SMTP
4 2 (6.45%) TCP/IP
4 2 (6.45%) VSAN
4 2 (6.45%) WAN
5 1 (3.23%) ADSL
5 1 (3.23%) NAS
5 1 (3.23%) SAN
5 1 (3.23%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (25.81%) JIRA
2 1 (3.23%) GitLab
2 1 (3.23%) GoCD
2 1 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (48.39%) Social Skills
2 10 (32.26%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (29.03%) Military
4 1 (3.23%) Aerospace
4 1 (3.23%) Electronics
4 1 (3.23%) Finance
4 1 (3.23%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.23%) Marketing
4 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (29.03%) Wintel Engineer
2 7 (22.58%) Integration Engineer
2 7 (22.58%) Test and Integration Engineer
2 7 (22.58%) Test Engineer
3 6 (19.35%) Support Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) IT Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) 1st Line Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) 2nd Line Support
6 2 (6.45%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Active Directory Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Architect
6 2 (6.45%) IT Support
6 2 (6.45%) IT Support Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Service Desk Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Security Architect
7 1 (3.23%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (3.23%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 15 (48.39%) PKI
2 2 (6.45%) Clustering
2 2 (6.45%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (6.45%) Private Cloud
3 1 (3.23%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.23%) Fat Client
3 1 (3.23%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 23 (74.19%) Windows
2 18 (58.06%) Windows Server
3 9 (29.03%) Windows Server 2012
4 7 (22.58%) Windows 10
5 4 (12.90%) Linux
6 2 (6.45%) CentOS
7 1 (3.23%) Windows 7
7 1 (3.23%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (35.48%) Agile
2 10 (32.26%) Critical Thinking
3 7 (22.58%) Regression Testing
3 7 (22.58%) Test Scripting
4 6 (19.35%) Change Management
4 6 (19.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (19.35%) ITIL
5 5 (16.13%) Service Management
6 4 (12.90%) Customer Service
7 3 (9.68%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (9.68%) ITSM
7 3 (9.68%) Project Management
8 2 (6.45%) Data Protection
8 2 (6.45%) Matrix Management
8 2 (6.45%) PRINCE2
8 2 (6.45%) Proactive Monitoring
8 2 (6.45%) Problem Management
8 2 (6.45%) Root Cause Analysis
8 2 (6.45%) Statistical Analysis
8 2 (6.45%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (45.16%) SQL
2 5 (16.13%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 25 (80.65%) Security Cleared
2 18 (58.06%) SC Cleared
3 10 (32.26%) MCSE
3 10 (32.26%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (25.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 7 (22.58%) DV Cleared
5 7 (22.58%) MCSA
6 6 (19.35%) Degree
7 2 (6.45%) DBS Check
8 1 (3.23%) CISA
8 1 (3.23%) CISM
8 1 (3.23%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (45.16%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (9.68%) VMware NSX
3 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 2 (6.45%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (6.45%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (6.45%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (3.23%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.23%) NFS
4 1 (3.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (9.68%) SCCM
1 3 (9.68%) SCOM
2 2 (6.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (6.45%) Failover Clustering
2 2 (6.45%) OPNET
2 2 (6.45%) vCenter Server
2 2 (6.45%) WSUS
3 1 (3.23%) Ansible
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 19 (61.29%) Microsoft
2 16 (51.61%) VMware
3 2 (6.45%) Red Hat
3 2 (6.45%) Remedy
3 2 (6.45%) SolarWinds
4 1 (3.23%) BEA
4 1 (3.23%) Cisco
4 1 (3.23%) Citrix
4 1 (3.23%) Meraki
4 1 (3.23%) SAP
4 1 (3.23%) Splunk