Active Directory Contracts

Microsoft Active Directory
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 31 48
Rank change year-on-year -2 +17 -3
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 2,209 3,319 4,351
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 5.19% 5.83% 4.97%
As % of the System Software category 48.21% 44.44% 36.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,546 2,414 3,104
10th Percentile £163 £162 £150
25th Percentile £215 £225 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £538
90th Percentile £675 £675 £626
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £365 £283
% change year-on-year +9.59% +29.20% -13.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 136 239
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.98 £12.69
25th Percentile £14.16 £15.50 £14.25
Median hourly rate £17.50 £20.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% +7.76%
75th Percentile £23.31 £54.00 £22.46
90th Percentile £40.00 £66.00 £38.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.00 £18.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +8.28%

All System Software Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,582 7,469 11,765
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.76% 13.12% 13.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,168 5,308 8,436
10th Percentile £200 £203 £200
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.31%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £480 £450
% change year-on-year -3.13% +6.67% +6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 260 304
10th Percentile £14.06 £15.25 £13.04
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.40 £54.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -58.52% +176.92% -9.30%
75th Percentile £60.75 £66.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.77 £58.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.18 £46.11 £17.50
% change year-on-year -58.41% +163.46% -4.21%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in the UK

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in the UK

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in the UK

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in the UK

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Active Directory over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Active Directory in the UK

Active Directory
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 18 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
England -2 1,975 £425 - 1,096
UK excluding London -1 1,256 £400 +9.59% 911
London +5 834 £425 -10.53% 263
Work from Home 0 623 £475 - 373
South East +18 441 £500 +17.65% 235
North of England -8 249 £300 -7.69% 210
Midlands -2 158 £331 -11.67% 163
South West -17 156 £439 -11.27% 121
North West -13 134 £350 - 111
Scotland +16 133 £325 +10.54% 55
East of England -13 103 £250 -28.57% 121
West Midlands -7 98 £350 -7.89% 101
Yorkshire -12 97 £300 +9.09% 80
East Midlands -2 58 £263 +5.00% 62
North East +13 16 £360 +28.57% 21
Wales -11 16 £220 +17.02% 18
Northern Ireland -15 3 £525 +191.67% 6

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 466 (21.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 192 (8.69%) SharePoint
3 49 (2.22%) IIS
4 48 (2.17%) Confluence
5 38 (1.72%) Skype for Business
6 29 (1.31%) Exchange Server 2010
7 26 (1.18%) Exchange Server 2013
8 18 (0.81%) CMS
9 15 (0.68%) Exchange Server 2007
10 11 (0.50%) Exchange Server 2003
11 9 (0.41%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 7 (0.32%) Apache
13 5 (0.23%) JBoss
13 5 (0.23%) Tomcat
14 4 (0.18%) nginx
14 4 (0.18%) Oracle Self-Service HR
15 3 (0.14%) OpenStack
15 3 (0.14%) WordPress
16 1 (0.045%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 1 (0.045%) SAS
Applications
1 231 (10.46%) Microsoft Office
2 72 (3.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 32 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.41%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.14%) Acrobat
5 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.091%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.091%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.045%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.045%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.045%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (0.50%) Teamcenter
2 8 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.18%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.091%) ION MarketView
5 2 (0.091%) SystmOne
6 1 (0.045%) assyst
6 1 (0.045%) BusinessWorks
6 1 (0.045%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.045%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.045%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.045%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 896 (40.56%) Azure
2 871 (39.43%) Microsoft 365
3 528 (23.90%) Entra ID
4 208 (9.42%) AWS
5 130 (5.89%) Azure DevOps
6 94 (4.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 93 (4.21%) OneDrive
8 90 (4.07%) Azure Monitor
9 69 (3.12%) PaaS
10 64 (2.90%) Azure Service Bus
10 64 (2.90%) Power Platform
11 54 (2.44%) IaaS
12 45 (2.04%) GCP
13 44 (1.99%) SaaS
14 43 (1.95%) Dynamics 365
15 42 (1.90%) GitHub
16 40 (1.81%) Azure Storage
17 31 (1.40%) Azure Sentinel
17 31 (1.40%) Serverless
18 30 (1.36%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 367 (16.61%) DNS
2 244 (11.05%) DHCP
3 243 (11.00%) Firewall
4 133 (6.02%) VPN
5 107 (4.84%) SAN
6 94 (4.26%) LAN
7 91 (4.12%) WAN
8 74 (3.35%) TCP/IP
9 68 (3.08%) Wi-Fi
10 54 (2.44%) SSL
10 54 (2.44%) Wireless
11 49 (2.22%) Skype
12 38 (1.72%) NAS
12 38 (1.72%) Remote Desktop
13 36 (1.63%) Network Security
13 36 (1.63%) VLAN
14 27 (1.22%) VoIP
15 26 (1.18%) MPLS
16 20 (0.91%) FTP
16 20 (0.91%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 274 (12.40%) SQL Server
2 45 (2.04%) MySQL
3 31 (1.40%) Power BI
4 30 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
5 29 (1.31%) Oracle Reports
6 25 (1.13%) Relational Database
7 24 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
7 24 (1.09%) NoSQL
8 20 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
9 18 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
10 16 (0.72%) Hadoop
11 15 (0.68%) Oracle Database
11 15 (0.68%) Redis
12 14 (0.63%) RDBMS
13 7 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 6 (0.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 5 (0.23%) Data Lake
16 4 (0.18%) Big Data
16 4 (0.18%) Metadata
17 2 (0.091%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 96 (4.35%) Git
2 78 (3.53%) JIRA
3 30 (1.36%) Jenkins
4 25 (1.13%) Selenium
5 22 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
6 19 (0.86%) TeamCity
7 17 (0.77%) Robot Framework
8 15 (0.68%) Visual Studio
9 11 (0.50%) SpecFlow
9 11 (0.50%) WebDriver
10 10 (0.45%) Postman
10 10 (0.45%) SonarQube
11 9 (0.41%) Bitbucket
11 9 (0.41%) GitLab
12 6 (0.27%) Hudson
13 5 (0.23%) Bitbucket Server
13 5 (0.23%) CA Release Automation
13 5 (0.23%) Fiddler
14 4 (0.18%) MSI
15 3 (0.14%) Cucumber
General
1 596 (26.98%) Social Skills
2 269 (12.18%) Finance
3 228 (10.32%) Public Sector
4 145 (6.56%) Analytical Skills
5 93 (4.21%) Banking
6 53 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
7 50 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
8 43 (1.95%) Financial Institution
8 43 (1.95%) Manufacturing
9 39 (1.77%) Telecoms
10 32 (1.45%) Legal
11 30 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
12 29 (1.31%) Marketing
13 28 (1.27%) Retail
14 23 (1.04%) Back Office
15 21 (0.95%) Military
16 20 (0.91%) French Language
16 20 (0.91%) Law
17 18 (0.81%) Electronics
18 14 (0.63%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 284 (12.86%) Analyst
2 269 (12.18%) Support Engineer
3 246 (11.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 207 (9.37%) Senior
5 190 (8.60%) Architect
6 177 (8.01%) IT Support
7 139 (6.29%) Developer
8 131 (5.93%) Service Analyst
9 127 (5.75%) Service Desk Analyst
10 123 (5.57%) IT Engineer
11 102 (4.62%) Desktop Support
12 101 (4.57%) 2nd Line Support
13 85 (3.85%) Desktop Engineer
14 78 (3.53%) Consultant
14 78 (3.53%) Support Analyst
15 74 (3.35%) Senior Developer
16 73 (3.30%) Windows Engineer
17 72 (3.26%) IT Analyst
18 71 (3.21%) IT Support Engineer
19 67 (3.03%) 2nd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (6.34%) .NET
2 121 (5.48%) XML
3 111 (5.02%) LDAP
4 96 (4.35%) Web Services
5 95 (4.30%) SailPoint
6 84 (3.80%) HTML
7 75 (3.40%) .NET Core
8 60 (2.72%) React
9 46 (2.08%) SAML
10 44 (1.99%) CSS
11 41 (1.86%) SOAP
12 39 (1.77%) JSP
12 39 (1.77%) Servlets
12 39 (1.77%) SPML
13 35 (1.58%) ASP.NET
14 33 (1.49%) .NET Framework
15 31 (1.40%) AngularJS
15 31 (1.40%) OpenID
16 28 (1.27%) JDBC
17 25 (1.13%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 182 (8.24%) PKI
2 92 (4.16%) Data Centre
3 79 (3.58%) Onboarding
4 70 (3.17%) Product Ownership
5 68 (3.08%) Replication
6 59 (2.67%) Clustering
7 51 (2.31%) Management Information System
8 49 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
9 46 (2.08%) Video Conferencing
10 35 (1.58%) iPhone
11 25 (1.13%) Driving Licence
12 24 (1.09%) Smartphone
13 22 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
13 22 (1.00%) iPad
14 21 (0.95%) CMDB
14 21 (0.95%) Public Cloud
15 18 (0.81%) Mobile App
16 17 (0.77%) NHS
17 16 (0.72%) Linux Command Line
17 16 (0.72%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1,372 (62.11%) Windows
2 577 (26.12%) Windows Server
3 494 (22.36%) Windows 10
4 253 (11.45%) Linux
5 186 (8.42%) Windows Server 2012
6 173 (7.83%) Windows Server 2016
7 157 (7.11%) Windows Server 2019
8 93 (4.21%) Windows 7
9 91 (4.12%) Apple iOS
10 61 (2.76%) Unix
11 57 (2.58%) Mac OS
12 56 (2.54%) Android
13 53 (2.40%) Windows Server 2008
14 41 (1.86%) Ubuntu
15 38 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 34 (1.54%) VMS
17 25 (1.13%) Windows Server 2003
18 19 (0.86%) Windows NT
19 18 (0.81%) Windows XP
20 17 (0.77%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 348 (15.75%) Customer Service
2 337 (15.26%) ITIL
3 293 (13.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 286 (12.95%) Problem-Solving
5 266 (12.04%) Migration
6 256 (11.59%) Agile
7 249 (11.27%) DevOps
8 180 (8.15%) CI/CD
9 118 (5.34%) Identity Access Management
10 109 (4.93%) Cybersecurity
11 108 (4.89%) RBAC
12 104 (4.71%) Disaster Recovery
13 102 (4.62%) Service Management
14 96 (4.35%) Mobile Device Management
15 93 (4.21%) Scrum
16 84 (3.80%) Service Delivery
17 82 (3.71%) Identity Management
18 80 (3.62%) Change Management
19 76 (3.44%) Project Delivery
20 74 (3.35%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 456 (20.64%) PowerShell
2 227 (10.28%) SQL
3 134 (6.07%) C#
4 121 (5.48%) Python
5 92 (4.16%) JavaScript
6 90 (4.07%) Bicep
7 77 (3.49%) Java
8 38 (1.72%) TypeScript
9 25 (1.13%) VB
10 24 (1.09%) VBScript
11 23 (1.04%) Bash
12 11 (0.50%) C
12 11 (0.50%) PL/SQL
13 10 (0.45%) C++
14 9 (0.41%) Perl
14 9 (0.41%) R
15 8 (0.36%) Go
15 8 (0.36%) PHP
16 6 (0.27%) Ruby
17 5 (0.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 517 (23.40%) Security Cleared
2 321 (14.53%) SC Cleared
3 280 (12.68%) Degree
4 214 (9.69%) DV Cleared
5 152 (6.88%) Microsoft Certification
6 60 (2.72%) MCSE
7 52 (2.35%) MCSA
8 46 (2.08%) Azure Certification
9 41 (1.86%) Cisco Certification
10 38 (1.72%) A+ Certification
10 38 (1.72%) CCNA
11 37 (1.67%) ITIL Certification
12 29 (1.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 27 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
14 25 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
15 22 (1.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 21 (0.95%) AWS Certification
17 20 (0.91%) CCNP
17 20 (0.91%) DBS Check
18 19 (0.86%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (4.80%) SLA
2 59 (2.67%) QA
3 21 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (0.91%) NIST
5 17 (0.77%) GDPR
6 16 (0.72%) WCAG
7 14 (0.63%) Accessibility
7 14 (0.63%) PCI DSS
8 12 (0.54%) Disclosure Scotland
9 9 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.32%) ISO 9001
10 7 (0.32%) RMADS
11 5 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 3 (0.14%) COBIT
13 3 (0.14%) GRC
14 2 (0.091%) Data Quality
14 2 (0.091%) NCSC
14 2 (0.091%) PMO
System Software
1 303 (13.72%) VMware Infrastructure
2 130 (5.89%) Hyper-V
3 81 (3.67%) Virtual Machines
4 66 (2.99%) VMware ESXi
5 60 (2.72%) vSphere
6 55 (2.49%) Virtual Desktop
7 41 (1.86%) Docker
8 39 (1.77%) IAG
9 38 (1.72%) ACF2
9 38 (1.72%) RACF
10 37 (1.67%) XenApp
11 27 (1.22%) Firmware
12 23 (1.04%) VMware NSX
13 21 (0.95%) BitLocker
14 19 (0.86%) NFS
14 19 (0.86%) XenDesktop
15 18 (0.81%) Virtual Servers
16 17 (0.77%) VMware Workstation
17 16 (0.72%) HDFS
18 10 (0.45%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 391 (17.70%) SCCM
2 244 (11.05%) Microsoft Intune
3 111 (5.02%) WSUS
4 90 (4.07%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 88 (3.98%) Single Sign-On
6 72 (3.26%) Kubernetes
7 71 (3.21%) Terraform
8 66 (2.99%) SCOM
9 55 (2.49%) Ansible
10 53 (2.40%) vCenter Server
11 46 (2.08%) Jamf Pro
12 25 (1.13%) NetBackup
13 22 (1.00%) EMC NetWorker
14 19 (0.86%) Sysprep
15 18 (0.81%) Kibana
16 17 (0.77%) Failover Clustering
17 16 (0.72%) Microsoft Clustering
18 13 (0.59%) Nessus
19 11 (0.50%) FortiGate
19 11 (0.50%) logstash
Vendors
1 1,162 (52.60%) Microsoft
2 425 (19.24%) VMware
3 198 (8.96%) Citrix
4 193 (8.74%) ServiceNow
5 122 (5.52%) Oracle
6 116 (5.25%) Cisco
7 111 (5.02%) Apple
8 80 (3.62%) CyberArk
9 66 (2.99%) Veeam
10 62 (2.81%) HP
11 59 (2.67%) Dell
12 48 (2.17%) Okta
13 47 (2.13%) SAP
14 40 (1.81%) EMC
15 36 (1.63%) Red Hat
16 29 (1.31%) Palo Alto
17 27 (1.22%) CA
17 27 (1.22%) Google
17 27 (1.22%) Ivanti
18 26 (1.18%) Sybase