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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 31 49
Rank change year-on-year -2 +18 -3
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 2,241 3,389 4,372
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 5.24% 5.83% 4.96%
As % of the System Software category 48.69% 44.36% 36.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,557 2,465 3,126
10th Percentile £163 £163 £150
25th Percentile £213 £223 £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 £630
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £375 £285
% change year-on-year +6.67% +31.58% -12.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 144 241
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.46 £13.00
25th Percentile £14.16 £15.50 £14.25
Median hourly rate £17.60 £20.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.03% +14.29% +8.17%
75th Percentile £23.75 £54.00 £22.75
90th Percentile £40.00 £66.00 £37.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.00 £18.00 £17.13
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.11% +11.38%

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 4,603 7,639 11,849
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.77% 13.13% 13.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,165 5,442 8,492
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% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £481 £450
% change year-on-year -3.76% +6.79% +6.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 268 312
10th Percentile £14.06 £15.23 £13.26
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.40 £54.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.52% +170.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £60.19 £66.00 £41.11
90th Percentile £77.70 £75.58 £59.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.18 £39.80 £17.88
% change year-on-year -51.81% +122.63% -2.15%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 2,005 £418 -1.76% 1,088
UK excluding London -2 1,276 £400 +6.67% 888
London +9 843 £425 -10.53% 247
Work from Home -1 636 £475 +1.06% 354
South East +16 444 £500 +17.65% 220
North of England -8 259 £313 -3.85% 199
South West -14 161 £411 -17.81% 118
Midlands -3 159 £331 -10.47% 172
North West -11 138 £350 - 110
Scotland +15 133 £333 +13.10% 51
East of England -13 104 £250 -28.57% 125
Yorkshire -6 102 £300 +3.90% 69
West Midlands -5 97 £350 -7.89% 111
East Midlands 0 59 £275 +10.00% 61
North East +13 17 £500 +78.57% 22
Wales -6 16 £220 +17.02% 17
Northern Ireland -11 3 £525 +191.67% 7

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
1 482 (21.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 195 (8.70%) SharePoint
3 50 (2.23%) IIS
4 49 (2.19%) Confluence
5 39 (1.74%) Skype for Business
6 31 (1.38%) Exchange Server 2010
7 28 (1.25%) Exchange Server 2013
8 18 (0.80%) CMS
9 15 (0.67%) Exchange Server 2007
10 11 (0.49%) Exchange Server 2003
11 10 (0.45%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 8 (0.36%) Apache
13 7 (0.31%) nginx
14 6 (0.27%) Tomcat
15 5 (0.22%) JBoss
16 3 (0.13%) OpenStack
16 3 (0.13%) Oracle Self-Service HR
16 3 (0.13%) WordPress
17 1 (0.045%) SharePoint 2013
17 1 (0.045%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 233 (10.40%) Microsoft Office
2 72 (3.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 32 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.45%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.13%) Acrobat
5 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.089%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.089%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.045%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.045%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.045%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (0.49%) Teamcenter
2 8 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
3 3 (0.13%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.089%) ION MarketView
4 2 (0.089%) SystmOne
5 1 (0.045%) assyst
5 1 (0.045%) BusinessWorks
5 1 (0.045%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.045%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.045%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.045%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 899 (40.12%) Azure
2 892 (39.80%) Microsoft 365
3 526 (23.47%) Entra ID
4 216 (9.64%) AWS
5 130 (5.80%) Azure DevOps
6 92 (4.11%) OneDrive
7 91 (4.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 87 (3.88%) Azure Monitor
9 71 (3.17%) PaaS
10 63 (2.81%) Power Platform
11 62 (2.77%) Azure Service Bus
12 61 (2.72%) IaaS
13 46 (2.05%) GCP
14 45 (2.01%) SaaS
15 42 (1.87%) GitHub
16 41 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
17 38 (1.70%) Azure Storage
18 34 (1.52%) WhatsApp
19 31 (1.38%) Azure Sentinel
19 31 (1.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 379 (16.91%) DNS
2 258 (11.51%) Firewall
3 253 (11.29%) DHCP
4 138 (6.16%) VPN
5 112 (5.00%) SAN
6 101 (4.51%) LAN
7 98 (4.37%) WAN
8 75 (3.35%) TCP/IP
9 72 (3.21%) Wi-Fi
10 61 (2.72%) Wireless
11 55 (2.45%) SSL
12 49 (2.19%) Skype
13 41 (1.83%) Remote Desktop
14 40 (1.78%) NAS
15 37 (1.65%) Network Security
16 36 (1.61%) VLAN
17 27 (1.20%) VoIP
18 26 (1.16%) MPLS
19 22 (0.98%) Kerberos
20 20 (0.89%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 269 (12.00%) SQL Server
2 47 (2.10%) MySQL
3 33 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
4 31 (1.38%) Power BI
5 29 (1.29%) Oracle Reports
6 24 (1.07%) Relational Database
7 23 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
8 22 (0.98%) NoSQL
9 20 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
10 17 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
11 16 (0.71%) Hadoop
12 15 (0.67%) Oracle Database
12 15 (0.67%) Redis
13 13 (0.58%) RDBMS
14 7 (0.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 5 (0.22%) Data Lake
15 5 (0.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 4 (0.18%) Big Data
16 4 (0.18%) Metadata
17 2 (0.089%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 93 (4.15%) Git
2 81 (3.61%) JIRA
3 32 (1.43%) Jenkins
4 24 (1.07%) Selenium
5 22 (0.98%) Sonatype Nexus
6 21 (0.94%) TeamCity
7 17 (0.76%) Robot Framework
8 15 (0.67%) Visual Studio
9 11 (0.49%) SpecFlow
9 11 (0.49%) WebDriver
10 10 (0.45%) SonarQube
11 9 (0.40%) Bitbucket
11 9 (0.40%) GitLab
11 9 (0.40%) Postman
12 6 (0.27%) Hudson
13 5 (0.22%) Bitbucket Server
13 5 (0.22%) CA Release Automation
14 4 (0.18%) Fiddler
14 4 (0.18%) MSI
15 3 (0.13%) Cucumber
General
1 608 (27.13%) Social Skills
2 269 (12.00%) Finance
3 228 (10.17%) Public Sector
4 150 (6.69%) Analytical Skills
5 93 (4.15%) Banking
6 53 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
7 51 (2.28%) Organisational Skills
8 48 (2.14%) Manufacturing
9 41 (1.83%) Financial Institution
9 41 (1.83%) Telecoms
10 38 (1.70%) Legal
11 34 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
12 32 (1.43%) Marketing
13 28 (1.25%) Retail
14 22 (0.98%) Back Office
15 21 (0.94%) Electronics
16 20 (0.89%) Law
16 20 (0.89%) Military
17 19 (0.85%) French Language
18 15 (0.67%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 287 (12.81%) Analyst
2 272 (12.14%) Support Engineer
3 244 (10.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 209 (9.33%) Senior
5 193 (8.61%) Architect
6 184 (8.21%) IT Support
7 134 (5.98%) Developer
8 131 (5.85%) Service Analyst
9 128 (5.71%) Service Desk Analyst
10 125 (5.58%) IT Engineer
11 103 (4.60%) 2nd Line Support
12 102 (4.55%) Desktop Support
13 84 (3.75%) Desktop Engineer
14 81 (3.61%) Consultant
15 79 (3.53%) Support Analyst
16 73 (3.26%) IT Support Engineer
17 72 (3.21%) IT Analyst
17 72 (3.21%) Senior Developer
17 72 (3.21%) Windows Engineer
18 69 (3.08%) 2nd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (6.25%) .NET
2 120 (5.35%) XML
3 114 (5.09%) LDAP
4 99 (4.42%) Web Services
5 93 (4.15%) SailPoint
6 82 (3.66%) HTML
7 74 (3.30%) .NET Core
8 58 (2.59%) React
9 46 (2.05%) SAML
10 43 (1.92%) CSS
11 41 (1.83%) SOAP
12 39 (1.74%) JSP
12 39 (1.74%) Servlets
12 39 (1.74%) SPML
13 35 (1.56%) ASP.NET
14 32 (1.43%) .NET Framework
15 31 (1.38%) AngularJS
16 29 (1.29%) OpenID
17 27 (1.20%) JDBC
18 24 (1.07%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 185 (8.26%) PKI
2 99 (4.42%) Data Centre
3 82 (3.66%) Onboarding
4 72 (3.21%) Replication
5 69 (3.08%) Product Ownership
6 61 (2.72%) Clustering
7 49 (2.19%) Management Information System
7 49 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
8 45 (2.01%) Video Conferencing
9 35 (1.56%) iPhone
10 28 (1.25%) Driving Licence
11 24 (1.07%) Smartphone
12 23 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
12 23 (1.03%) iPad
13 22 (0.98%) Public Cloud
14 21 (0.94%) CMDB
15 18 (0.80%) Mobile App
16 17 (0.76%) NHS
17 16 (0.71%) Linux Command Line
17 16 (0.71%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1,394 (62.20%) Windows
2 588 (26.24%) Windows Server
3 504 (22.49%) Windows 10
4 258 (11.51%) Linux
5 194 (8.66%) Windows Server 2012
6 174 (7.76%) Windows Server 2016
7 165 (7.36%) Windows Server 2019
8 98 (4.37%) Windows 7
9 92 (4.11%) Apple iOS
10 62 (2.77%) Android
11 60 (2.68%) Windows Server 2008
12 59 (2.63%) Mac OS
12 59 (2.63%) Unix
13 46 (2.05%) Ubuntu
14 42 (1.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 34 (1.52%) VMS
16 27 (1.20%) Windows Server 2003
17 20 (0.89%) Windows NT
18 18 (0.80%) Mac OS X
18 18 (0.80%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 357 (15.93%) Customer Service
2 340 (15.17%) ITIL
3 298 (13.30%) Problem-Solving
4 293 (13.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 271 (12.09%) Migration
6 252 (11.24%) Agile
7 249 (11.11%) DevOps
8 174 (7.76%) CI/CD
9 117 (5.22%) Identity Access Management
10 110 (4.91%) RBAC
11 108 (4.82%) Cybersecurity
12 106 (4.73%) Disaster Recovery
13 105 (4.69%) Service Management
14 101 (4.51%) Mobile Device Management
15 92 (4.11%) Scrum
16 85 (3.79%) Service Delivery
17 84 (3.75%) Change Management
18 79 (3.53%) Identity Management
19 78 (3.48%) Project Delivery
20 77 (3.44%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 462 (20.62%) PowerShell
2 221 (9.86%) SQL
3 132 (5.89%) C#
4 115 (5.13%) Python
5 91 (4.06%) JavaScript
6 88 (3.93%) Bicep
7 73 (3.26%) Java
8 37 (1.65%) TypeScript
9 25 (1.12%) Bash
10 24 (1.07%) VB
10 24 (1.07%) VBScript
11 11 (0.49%) C
11 11 (0.49%) PL/SQL
12 10 (0.45%) C++
13 9 (0.40%) R
14 8 (0.36%) Go
14 8 (0.36%) PHP
15 7 (0.31%) Perl
16 6 (0.27%) Ruby
17 4 (0.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 522 (23.29%) Security Cleared
2 319 (14.23%) SC Cleared
3 286 (12.76%) Degree
4 218 (9.73%) DV Cleared
5 147 (6.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 55 (2.45%) MCSE
7 49 (2.19%) MCSA
8 45 (2.01%) Azure Certification
9 42 (1.87%) Cisco Certification
10 39 (1.74%) CCNA
11 37 (1.65%) A+ Certification
11 37 (1.65%) ITIL Certification
12 32 (1.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 28 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
14 26 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
15 23 (1.03%) DBS Check
16 21 (0.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 20 (0.89%) AWS Certification
18 19 (0.85%) CCNP
18 19 (0.85%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (4.77%) SLA
2 60 (2.68%) QA
3 21 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (0.89%) NIST
5 17 (0.76%) GDPR
6 15 (0.67%) WCAG
7 14 (0.62%) Accessibility
8 12 (0.54%) Disclosure Scotland
8 12 (0.54%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (0.36%) ISO 9001
11 7 (0.31%) RMADS
12 6 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 4 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 3 (0.13%) GRC
16 2 (0.089%) Data Quality
16 2 (0.089%) PMO
17 1 (0.045%) ISAE 3402
17 1 (0.045%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 311 (13.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 129 (5.76%) Hyper-V
3 84 (3.75%) Virtual Machines
4 70 (3.12%) VMware ESXi
5 60 (2.68%) vSphere
6 52 (2.32%) Virtual Desktop
7 42 (1.87%) Docker
8 39 (1.74%) IAG
9 38 (1.70%) ACF2
9 38 (1.70%) RACF
10 37 (1.65%) XenApp
11 31 (1.38%) Firmware
12 27 (1.20%) VMware NSX
13 22 (0.98%) NFS
14 21 (0.94%) BitLocker
15 20 (0.89%) VMware Workstation
16 19 (0.85%) XenDesktop
17 18 (0.80%) Virtual Servers
18 16 (0.71%) HDFS
19 12 (0.54%) KVM
Systems Management
1 390 (17.40%) SCCM
2 253 (11.29%) Microsoft Intune
3 110 (4.91%) WSUS
4 92 (4.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 83 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
6 74 (3.30%) Terraform
7 71 (3.17%) Kubernetes
8 66 (2.95%) SCOM
9 60 (2.68%) vCenter Server
10 58 (2.59%) Ansible
11 45 (2.01%) Jamf Pro
12 26 (1.16%) NetBackup
13 24 (1.07%) EMC NetWorker
14 20 (0.89%) Sysprep
15 18 (0.80%) Kibana
16 16 (0.71%) Microsoft Clustering
17 15 (0.67%) Failover Clustering
18 13 (0.58%) Tivoli
19 12 (0.54%) FortiGate
19 12 (0.54%) Nessus
Vendors
1 1,169 (52.16%) Microsoft
2 442 (19.72%) VMware
3 198 (8.84%) Citrix
4 195 (8.70%) ServiceNow
5 121 (5.40%) Oracle
6 120 (5.35%) Cisco
7 114 (5.09%) Apple
8 78 (3.48%) CyberArk
9 70 (3.12%) HP
10 69 (3.08%) Veeam
11 65 (2.90%) Dell
12 50 (2.23%) SAP
13 46 (2.05%) Okta
14 44 (1.96%) Red Hat
15 42 (1.87%) EMC
16 29 (1.29%) Palo Alto
17 28 (1.25%) Isilon
18 27 (1.20%) Ivanti
19 26 (1.16%) CA
19 26 (1.16%) Google