Active Directory Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Active Directory
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 30 23
Rank change year-on-year +14 -7 -3
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 453 365 592
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 8.03% 6.47% 7.71%
As % of the System Software category 55.04% 45.23% 47.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 312 244 397
10th Percentile £195 £185 £140
25th Percentile £313 £250 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £448 £375
Median % change year-on-year +15.20% +19.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £608 £574 £500
90th Percentile £638 £688 £600
England median daily rate £425 £430 £400
% change year-on-year -1.16% +7.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 14 45
10th Percentile £14.32 £15.50 £12.50
25th Percentile £17.69 £15.84 £13.00
Median hourly rate £17.80 £19.75 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.87% +31.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile - £59.31 £22.25
90th Percentile £33.35 £79.46 -
England median hourly rate £17.50 £20.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year -12.50% +17.65% +6.25%

All System Software Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 823 807 1,256
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.58% 14.31% 16.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 525 543 857
10th Percentile £205 £206 £170
25th Percentile £400 £350 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% +5.26% +8.10%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £674
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 43 58
10th Percentile £17.69 £15.50 £12.54
25th Percentile £17.80 £19.38 £14.00
Median hourly rate £54.88 £55.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.23% +175.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.63 £23.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £67.66
England median hourly rate £22.23 £52.50 £18.55
% change year-on-year -57.67% +183.02% -2.37%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Active Directory as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in the South East

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in the South East

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in the South East over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in the South East

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in the South East

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Active Directory in the South East over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Active Directory in the South East

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 1 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
Hampshire +5 185 £550 +4.76% 42
Thames Valley +13 180 £575 +27.78% 62
Berkshire +21 132 £605 +5.68% 30
Buckinghamshire +8 30 £411 -8.67% 17
West Sussex +23 29 £450 +75.61% 15
Surrey +6 29 £260 -16.29% 23
Oxfordshire +2 18 £141 -50.87% 15
Kent -6 9 £185 -41.73% 31
East Sussex +5 5 £475 +131.71% 9
Middlesex -1 4 £275 -15.38% 1
Home Counties +3 1 £600 +34.83%
Sussex - 1 - -
Active Directory
England

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 62 (13.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (3.09%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.87%) Confluence
4 4 (0.88%) IIS
5 2 (0.44%) Apache
5 2 (0.44%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.22%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 29 (6.40%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.66%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.66%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 167 (36.87%) Azure
2 123 (27.15%) Microsoft 365
3 71 (15.67%) AWS
4 70 (15.45%) Entra ID
5 41 (9.05%) Azure Monitor
6 21 (4.64%) Azure Data Factory
7 20 (4.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 20 (4.42%) Azure Storage
8 17 (3.75%) Azure Functions
8 17 (3.75%) Serverless
9 14 (3.09%) OCI
10 8 (1.77%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (1.77%) IaaS
11 7 (1.55%) PaaS
11 7 (1.55%) SaaS
12 5 (1.10%) OneDrive
13 4 (0.88%) Azure API Management
13 4 (0.88%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (0.88%) Azure Logic Apps
14 3 (0.66%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 112 (24.72%) DNS
2 96 (21.19%) DHCP
3 74 (16.34%) Firewall
4 40 (8.83%) SSL
5 31 (6.84%) SAN
6 25 (5.52%) Wireless
7 21 (4.64%) WAN
8 20 (4.42%) LAN
9 17 (3.75%) TCP/IP
10 15 (3.31%) Wi-Fi
11 13 (2.87%) VPN
12 11 (2.43%) VLAN
13 10 (2.21%) NAS
14 7 (1.55%) Network Security
15 5 (1.10%) WebEx
16 4 (0.88%) Remote Desktop
17 3 (0.66%) Kerberos
17 3 (0.66%) NetScaler
17 3 (0.66%) VSAN
18 2 (0.44%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (4.42%) NoSQL
2 14 (3.09%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.10%) MySQL
5 4 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (0.66%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.44%) Power BI
8 1 (0.22%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.22%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.22%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (5.30%) Git
2 15 (3.31%) JIRA
2 15 (3.31%) Robot Framework
2 15 (3.31%) Sonatype Nexus
3 10 (2.21%) Selenium
4 4 (0.88%) GitLab
5 3 (0.66%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.66%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.44%) JMeter
6 2 (0.44%) MSI
7 1 (0.22%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.22%) SonarQube
General
1 116 (25.61%) Social Skills
2 35 (7.73%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (4.86%) Organisational Skills
4 21 (4.64%) Public Sector
5 18 (3.97%) Finance
6 10 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (1.99%) Military
7 9 (1.99%) Retail
8 8 (1.77%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.10%) Automotive
10 4 (0.88%) Financial Institution
10 4 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.66%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.66%) French Language
11 3 (0.66%) Front Office
11 3 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.66%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.44%) Portuguese Language
12 2 (0.44%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 69 (15.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 68 (15.01%) Architect
3 42 (9.27%) Active Directory Support
3 42 (9.27%) Support Engineer
4 33 (7.28%) IT Support
5 30 (6.62%) Support Specialist
6 29 (6.40%) Senior
7 27 (5.96%) Active Directory Specialist
7 27 (5.96%) Azure Specialist
8 26 (5.74%) Active Directory Engineer
8 26 (5.74%) Windows Engineer
9 24 (5.30%) IT Engineer
10 21 (4.64%) Developer
11 20 (4.42%) Full Stack Developer
12 17 (3.75%) Azure Developer
12 17 (3.75%) Build Engineer
12 17 (3.75%) Integration Engineer
12 17 (3.75%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 17 (3.75%) Windows Build Engineer
13 15 (3.31%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (9.05%) Web Services
2 21 (4.64%) ARM Templates
3 20 (4.42%) React
4 10 (2.21%) .NET
5 8 (1.77%) ADO
6 5 (1.10%) LDAP
7 4 (0.88%) XMPP
8 2 (0.44%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.44%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.44%) CSS
8 2 (0.44%) Kafka
8 2 (0.44%) Keycloak
8 2 (0.44%) Middleware
8 2 (0.44%) Node.js
8 2 (0.44%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (0.44%) RESTful
9 1 (0.22%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (0.22%) HTML
9 1 (0.22%) SPFx
9 1 (0.22%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 108 (23.84%) PKI
2 28 (6.18%) Self-Motivation
3 22 (4.86%) Data Centre
4 16 (3.53%) Product Ownership
5 7 (1.55%) Digital Signage
5 7 (1.55%) Onboarding
6 6 (1.32%) Public Cloud
7 4 (0.88%) Clustering
7 4 (0.88%) Fat Client
7 4 (0.88%) Replication
7 4 (0.88%) Thin Client
7 4 (0.88%) Video Conferencing
8 3 (0.66%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.44%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.44%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.44%) Smartphone
9 2 (0.44%) Tandem
10 1 (0.22%) CMDB
10 1 (0.22%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.22%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 294 (64.90%) Windows
2 161 (35.54%) Windows Server
3 109 (24.06%) Windows 10
4 94 (20.75%) Linux
5 85 (18.76%) Windows Server 2019
6 71 (15.67%) Windows Server 2012
7 64 (14.13%) Windows Server 2016
8 34 (7.51%) Apple iOS
9 17 (3.75%) Windows NT
10 16 (3.53%) Ubuntu
10 16 (3.53%) Windows 7
11 14 (3.09%) Windows XP
12 11 (2.43%) Unix
13 9 (1.99%) Windows Server 2008
14 6 (1.32%) Windows Server 2003
15 3 (0.66%) Android
15 3 (0.66%) Mac OS
15 3 (0.66%) VMS
16 2 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (18.76%) ITIL
2 76 (16.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 74 (16.34%) Agile
4 67 (14.79%) Customer Service
5 53 (11.70%) Service Management
6 49 (10.82%) Release Management
7 47 (10.38%) DevOps
8 46 (10.15%) Cryptography
9 42 (9.27%) CI/CD
10 41 (9.05%) Key Management
11 40 (8.83%) Problem-Solving
12 30 (6.62%) Infrastructure as Code
13 28 (6.18%) Proactive Monitoring
13 28 (6.18%) Test Automation
14 27 (5.96%) Change Management
15 24 (5.30%) Migration
15 24 (5.30%) RBAC
16 23 (5.08%) Deployment Automation
16 23 (5.08%) Microservices
16 23 (5.08%) Multi-Factor Authentication
Programming Languages
1 100 (22.08%) PowerShell
2 46 (10.15%) Python
3 26 (5.74%) VBScript
4 25 (5.52%) SQL
5 23 (5.08%) C#
6 21 (4.64%) Bicep
7 20 (4.42%) VB
8 13 (2.87%) Java
9 3 (0.66%) C
9 3 (0.66%) PHP
9 3 (0.66%) Ruby
9 3 (0.66%) VB.NET
10 2 (0.44%) C++
11 1 (0.22%) Bash
11 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 223 (49.23%) Security Cleared
2 128 (28.26%) DV Cleared
3 124 (27.37%) SC Cleared
4 102 (22.52%) Degree
5 20 (4.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 18 (3.97%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (3.09%) CCNA
7 14 (3.09%) CCNP
7 14 (3.09%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (2.21%) MCSA
8 10 (2.21%) MCSE
9 9 (1.99%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 7 (1.55%) Azure Certification
10 7 (1.55%) DBS Check
11 6 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (1.32%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 3 (0.66%) OSCP
13 3 (0.66%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.66%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.64%) SLA
2 18 (3.97%) QA
3 7 (1.55%) RMADS
4 5 (1.10%) GDPR
4 5 (1.10%) ISO 9001
4 5 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 3 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.66%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.22%) COBIT
System Software
1 115 (25.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 43 (9.49%) Hyper-V
3 30 (6.62%) VMware ESXi
4 29 (6.40%) Virtual Machines
5 22 (4.86%) Virtual Desktop
5 22 (4.86%) vSphere
5 22 (4.86%) XenApp
6 17 (3.75%) Firmware
7 5 (1.10%) BitLocker
7 5 (1.10%) XenDesktop
8 4 (0.88%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.66%) Docker
10 2 (0.44%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.22%) DFS Replication
11 1 (0.22%) UAG
Systems Management
1 113 (24.94%) SCCM
2 90 (19.87%) WSUS
3 46 (10.15%) Microsoft Intune
4 37 (8.17%) SCOM
5 30 (6.62%) Kubernetes
6 27 (5.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 24 (5.30%) Ansible
8 23 (5.08%) vCenter Server
9 21 (4.64%) Terraform
10 17 (3.75%) Sysprep
11 15 (3.31%) Nessus
12 14 (3.09%) EMC NetWorker
12 14 (3.09%) NetBackup
13 5 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.88%) FortiGate
14 4 (0.88%) Red Hat Satellite
14 4 (0.88%) ZABBIX
15 3 (0.66%) AppManager
15 3 (0.66%) IBM BigFix
15 3 (0.66%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 206 (45.47%) Microsoft
2 139 (30.68%) VMware
3 31 (6.84%) Citrix
4 28 (6.18%) Apple
5 25 (5.52%) Oracle
6 24 (5.30%) Cisco
7 21 (4.64%) Symantec
7 21 (4.64%) Veeam
8 19 (4.19%) HP
9 18 (3.97%) Dell
10 17 (3.75%) Ivanti
10 17 (3.75%) ServiceNow
11 16 (3.53%) EMC
12 15 (3.31%) Juniper
13 14 (3.09%) 3PAR
13 14 (3.09%) Extreme Networks
13 14 (3.09%) Palo Alto
14 11 (2.43%) MobileIron
15 9 (1.99%) Red Hat
16 8 (1.77%) Remedy