Active Directory Contracts in England

Microsoft Active Directory
UK > England

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 32 46
Rank change year-on-year -1 +14 +1
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 1,990 2,763 3,684
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 5.39% 5.79% 5.21%
As % of the System Software category 48.64% 44.87% 38.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,409 2,030 2,693
10th Percentile £163 £163 £150
25th Percentile £225 £219 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £430 £400
Median % change year-on-year -1.16% +7.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £579 £538
90th Percentile £675 £688 £625
UK median daily rate £425 £425 £400
% change year-on-year - +6.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 109 203
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.25 £12.67
25th Percentile £14.16 £15.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £17.50 £20.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +17.65% +7.87%
75th Percentile £23.75 £52.13 £22.02
90th Percentile £40.00 £66.00 £28.41
UK median hourly rate £17.50 £22.00 £17.25
% change year-on-year -20.45% +27.54% +7.81%

All System Software Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,091 6,158 9,609
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.08% 12.90% 13.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,873 4,422 6,984
10th Percentile £204 £200 £195
25th Percentile £350 £380 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.35%
75th Percentile £608 £650 £633
90th Percentile £688 £738 £710
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 205 254
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.56 £13.00
25th Percentile £14.48 £17.50 £14.75
Median hourly rate £22.23 £52.13 £18.58
Median % change year-on-year -57.37% +180.65% -2.24%
75th Percentile £58.69 £66.00 £28.41
90th Percentile £76.50 £76.30 £52.50
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £54.92 £19.00
% change year-on-year -55.97% +189.03% -5.00%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in England

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in England

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in England

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in England

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Active Directory in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Active Directory in England

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
London +6 836 £438 -9.69% 227
South East +15 453 £516 +15.84% 202
North of England -11 244 £305 +1.67% 204
Midlands +2 172 £338 -3.71% 139
South West -17 164 £445 -11.08% 115
North West -11 131 £363 +11.54% 112
West Midlands -4 107 £350 -6.67% 75
Yorkshire -9 96 £282 +9.85% 76
East of England -17 96 £250 -28.57% 78
East Midlands 0 62 £325 +45.74% 64
North East +11 15 £500 +78.57% 19
Active Directory
UK

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 414 (20.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 177 (8.89%) SharePoint
3 49 (2.46%) IIS
4 37 (1.86%) Confluence
5 28 (1.41%) Skype for Business
6 27 (1.36%) Exchange Server 2010
7 26 (1.31%) Exchange Server 2013
8 18 (0.90%) CMS
9 14 (0.70%) Exchange Server 2007
10 10 (0.50%) Exchange Server 2003
11 8 (0.40%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 7 (0.35%) Apache
12 7 (0.35%) Tomcat
13 5 (0.25%) JBoss
14 4 (0.20%) nginx
14 4 (0.20%) Oracle Self-Service HR
15 2 (0.10%) OpenStack
15 2 (0.10%) WordPress
16 1 (0.050%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 1 (0.050%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 199 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
2 62 (3.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 31 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.35%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.10%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.050%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.050%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.050%) PTC Creo
7 1 (0.050%) Trello
7 1 (0.050%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 7 (0.35%) Teamcenter
2 6 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.10%) ION MarketView
4 2 (0.10%) SystmOne
5 1 (0.050%) BusinessWorks
5 1 (0.050%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.050%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.050%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 826 (41.51%) Azure
2 769 (38.64%) Microsoft 365
3 484 (24.32%) Entra ID
4 193 (9.70%) AWS
5 132 (6.63%) Azure DevOps
6 96 (4.82%) Azure Monitor
7 91 (4.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 75 (3.77%) OneDrive
9 63 (3.17%) PaaS
10 62 (3.12%) Azure Service Bus
11 54 (2.71%) Power Platform
12 46 (2.31%) IaaS
13 44 (2.21%) Azure Storage
14 42 (2.11%) SaaS
15 38 (1.91%) GCP
16 35 (1.76%) GitHub
17 34 (1.71%) Serverless
18 30 (1.51%) Azure Functions
18 30 (1.51%) Dynamics 365
19 28 (1.41%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 333 (16.73%) DNS
2 216 (10.85%) Firewall
3 214 (10.75%) DHCP
4 106 (5.33%) VPN
5 103 (5.18%) SAN
6 89 (4.47%) LAN
7 88 (4.42%) WAN
8 73 (3.67%) TCP/IP
9 67 (3.37%) Wi-Fi
10 54 (2.71%) Wireless
11 49 (2.46%) SSL
12 37 (1.86%) Skype
13 35 (1.76%) VLAN
14 34 (1.71%) NAS
15 33 (1.66%) Network Security
16 27 (1.36%) VoIP
17 26 (1.31%) Remote Desktop
18 23 (1.16%) MPLS
19 21 (1.06%) Kerberos
20 18 (0.90%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 257 (12.91%) SQL Server
2 38 (1.91%) MySQL
3 32 (1.61%) Power BI
4 24 (1.21%) NoSQL
5 23 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
6 22 (1.11%) Relational Database
7 21 (1.06%) Oracle Reports
8 20 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
9 18 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
10 16 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
11 15 (0.75%) Redis
12 13 (0.65%) Hadoop
12 13 (0.65%) RDBMS
13 11 (0.55%) Oracle Database
14 7 (0.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 6 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 4 (0.20%) Big Data
16 4 (0.20%) Data Lake
17 2 (0.10%) Electronic Patient Records
17 2 (0.10%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 87 (4.37%) Git
2 67 (3.37%) JIRA
3 27 (1.36%) Jenkins
3 27 (1.36%) Selenium
4 21 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
5 18 (0.90%) Robot Framework
6 17 (0.85%) TeamCity
7 16 (0.80%) Visual Studio
8 11 (0.55%) SpecFlow
8 11 (0.55%) WebDriver
9 10 (0.50%) Postman
9 10 (0.50%) SonarQube
10 8 (0.40%) GitLab
11 5 (0.25%) Bitbucket Server
11 5 (0.25%) CA Release Automation
11 5 (0.25%) Fiddler
11 5 (0.25%) Hudson
12 4 (0.20%) MSI
12 4 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 3 (0.15%) Bitbucket
General
1 542 (27.24%) Social Skills
2 256 (12.86%) Finance
3 181 (9.10%) Public Sector
4 150 (7.54%) Analytical Skills
5 89 (4.47%) Banking
6 52 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
7 37 (1.86%) Financial Institution
7 37 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
8 36 (1.81%) Manufacturing
9 31 (1.56%) Telecoms
10 30 (1.51%) Legal
11 28 (1.41%) Retail
12 24 (1.21%) Marketing
13 23 (1.16%) Back Office
14 22 (1.11%) Military
14 22 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
15 19 (0.95%) Law
16 15 (0.75%) Local Government
17 13 (0.65%) Advertising
17 13 (0.65%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 258 (12.96%) Support Engineer
2 247 (12.41%) Analyst
3 230 (11.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 192 (9.65%) Senior
5 172 (8.64%) Architect
6 165 (8.29%) IT Support
7 125 (6.28%) Developer
8 114 (5.73%) IT Engineer
8 114 (5.73%) Service Analyst
9 111 (5.58%) Service Desk Analyst
10 93 (4.67%) 2nd Line Support
11 92 (4.62%) Desktop Support
12 72 (3.62%) Desktop Engineer
13 70 (3.52%) Azure Engineer
13 70 (3.52%) Senior Developer
14 68 (3.42%) IT Support Engineer
15 67 (3.37%) Active Directory Engineer
16 65 (3.27%) Consultant
16 65 (3.27%) Windows Engineer
17 64 (3.22%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (6.83%) .NET
2 101 (5.08%) XML
3 81 (4.07%) Web Services
4 80 (4.02%) LDAP
5 77 (3.87%) SailPoint
6 72 (3.62%) .NET Core
7 69 (3.47%) HTML
8 61 (3.07%) React
9 44 (2.21%) SAML
10 41 (2.06%) CSS
11 35 (1.76%) ASP.NET
12 33 (1.66%) .NET Framework
13 32 (1.61%) AngularJS
14 29 (1.46%) SOAP
15 28 (1.41%) ARM Templates
16 27 (1.36%) JSP
17 26 (1.31%) Servlets
17 26 (1.31%) SPML
18 25 (1.26%) OAuth
19 24 (1.21%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 181 (9.10%) PKI
2 80 (4.02%) Data Centre
3 66 (3.32%) Onboarding
4 64 (3.22%) Replication
5 63 (3.17%) Product Ownership
6 54 (2.71%) Self-Motivation
7 51 (2.56%) Management Information System
8 50 (2.51%) Clustering
9 45 (2.26%) Video Conferencing
10 28 (1.41%) iPhone
11 22 (1.11%) Driving Licence
12 21 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
12 21 (1.06%) iPad
12 21 (1.06%) Smartphone
13 18 (0.90%) Mobile App
13 18 (0.90%) Public Cloud
14 17 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
15 16 (0.80%) CMDB
15 16 (0.80%) Fat Client
15 16 (0.80%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 1,240 (62.31%) Windows
2 527 (26.48%) Windows Server
3 426 (21.41%) Windows 10
4 237 (11.91%) Linux
5 166 (8.34%) Windows Server 2012
6 148 (7.44%) Windows Server 2016
6 148 (7.44%) Windows Server 2019
7 74 (3.72%) Windows 7
8 73 (3.67%) Apple iOS
9 61 (3.07%) Unix
10 53 (2.66%) Mac OS
11 46 (2.31%) Android
12 43 (2.16%) Windows Server 2008
13 38 (1.91%) Ubuntu
14 37 (1.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 34 (1.71%) VMS
16 21 (1.06%) Windows Server 2003
17 18 (0.90%) Windows XP
18 17 (0.85%) Windows NT
19 15 (0.75%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 312 (15.68%) Customer Service
2 297 (14.92%) ITIL
3 267 (13.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 261 (13.12%) Problem-Solving
5 252 (12.66%) Agile
6 249 (12.51%) DevOps
7 247 (12.41%) Migration
8 182 (9.15%) CI/CD
9 117 (5.88%) Identity Access Management
10 102 (5.13%) Disaster Recovery
10 102 (5.13%) Service Management
11 97 (4.87%) RBAC
12 94 (4.72%) Scrum
13 88 (4.42%) Cybersecurity
14 86 (4.32%) Mobile Device Management
15 82 (4.12%) Change Management
16 74 (3.72%) Identity Management
17 72 (3.62%) Infrastructure as Code
18 68 (3.42%) Service Delivery
19 67 (3.37%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 420 (21.11%) PowerShell
2 193 (9.70%) SQL
3 134 (6.73%) C#
4 120 (6.03%) Python
5 92 (4.62%) Bicep
6 77 (3.87%) JavaScript
7 64 (3.22%) Java
8 37 (1.86%) TypeScript
9 28 (1.41%) VB
10 26 (1.31%) VBScript
11 22 (1.11%) Bash
12 9 (0.45%) C++
12 9 (0.45%) PL/SQL
12 9 (0.45%) R
12 9 (0.45%) Shell Script
13 8 (0.40%) Perl
13 8 (0.40%) PHP
14 5 (0.25%) C
14 5 (0.25%) Ruby
14 5 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 471 (23.67%) Security Cleared
2 280 (14.07%) SC Cleared
3 245 (12.31%) Degree
4 206 (10.35%) DV Cleared
5 126 (6.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 46 (2.31%) MCSA
7 41 (2.06%) Azure Certification
7 41 (2.06%) MCSE
8 36 (1.81%) Cisco Certification
9 33 (1.66%) CCNA
10 31 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
11 27 (1.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 26 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
13 25 (1.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 24 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
15 21 (1.06%) A+ Certification
15 21 (1.06%) DBS Check
16 19 (0.95%) CCNP
16 19 (0.95%) CISSP
17 17 (0.85%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (4.92%) SLA
2 46 (2.31%) QA
3 22 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (0.95%) NIST
5 18 (0.90%) PCI DSS
6 17 (0.85%) GDPR
7 16 (0.80%) WCAG
8 14 (0.70%) Accessibility
9 7 (0.35%) RMADS
9 7 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (0.30%) ISO 9001
11 5 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 3 (0.15%) COBIT
12 3 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.10%) Data Quality
13 2 (0.10%) NCSC
13 2 (0.10%) PMO
14 1 (0.050%) GLBA
14 1 (0.050%) NIST 800
System Software
1 297 (14.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 115 (5.78%) Hyper-V
3 83 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
4 64 (3.22%) Virtual Desktop
5 63 (3.17%) vSphere
6 58 (2.91%) VMware ESXi
7 41 (2.06%) Docker
8 38 (1.91%) XenApp
9 26 (1.31%) IAG
10 25 (1.26%) ACF2
10 25 (1.26%) RACF
11 24 (1.21%) Firmware
12 21 (1.06%) XenDesktop
13 20 (1.01%) VMware NSX
14 18 (0.90%) Virtual Servers
15 16 (0.80%) VMware Workstation
16 15 (0.75%) BitLocker
16 15 (0.75%) NFS
17 13 (0.65%) HDFS
18 9 (0.45%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 331 (16.63%) SCCM
2 221 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 109 (5.48%) WSUS
4 78 (3.92%) Terraform
5 76 (3.82%) Single Sign-On
6 75 (3.77%) Kubernetes
7 74 (3.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 67 (3.37%) SCOM
9 58 (2.91%) Ansible
10 42 (2.11%) vCenter Server
11 34 (1.71%) Jamf Pro
12 26 (1.31%) NetBackup
13 19 (0.95%) EMC NetWorker
14 18 (0.90%) Kibana
14 18 (0.90%) Nessus
15 17 (0.85%) Sysprep
16 15 (0.75%) Failover Clustering
17 14 (0.70%) Microsoft Clustering
18 11 (0.55%) logstash
18 11 (0.55%) Packer
Vendors
1 1,064 (53.47%) Microsoft
2 403 (20.25%) VMware
3 173 (8.69%) ServiceNow
4 170 (8.54%) Citrix
5 102 (5.13%) Oracle
6 93 (4.67%) Apple
7 92 (4.62%) Cisco
8 67 (3.37%) CyberArk
9 59 (2.96%) Veeam
10 54 (2.71%) HP
11 50 (2.51%) Dell
12 38 (1.91%) Okta
13 37 (1.86%) EMC
14 34 (1.71%) SAP
15 32 (1.61%) CA
16 31 (1.56%) Red Hat
17 29 (1.46%) Palo Alto
18 26 (1.31%) Ivanti
19 24 (1.21%) SolarWinds
19 24 (1.21%) Symantec