Active Directory Specialist Contracts in Birmingham

Microsoft Active Directory Specialist
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Microsoft Active Directory Specialist daily rate in Birmingham is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 66 79 -
Rank change year-on-year +13 - -
Contract jobs requiring an Active Directory Specialist 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.13% 0.11% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.12% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 £363 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £375 -
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% - -
75th Percentile £538 £388 -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £375 -
% change year-on-year +40.00% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Birmingham. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Birmingham with a recognized job title 715 868 1,267
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.62% 96.12% 95.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 502 581 930
10th Percentile £250 £263 £210
25th Percentile £325 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £583
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £489 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.25% +5.26% +17.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 35 22
10th Percentile £13.25 £11.40 £12.53
25th Percentile £16.00 £12.50 £14.08
Median hourly rate £28.50 £20.00 £17.49
Median % change year-on-year +42.50% +14.35% -2.83%
75th Percentile £48.75 £24.94 £18.00
90th Percentile £56.25 £60.50 £20.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.00 £19.50 £17.28
% change year-on-year +12.82% +12.85% +8.00%

Active Directory Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings that featured Active Directory Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory Specialist in Birmingham

Active Directory Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory Specialist in Birmingham

Active Directory Specialist Skill Set
Top 29 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 1 May 2024, Active Directory Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Birmingham region featuring Active Directory Specialist in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Privileged Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Team-Oriented Environment

Active Directory Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Privileged Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware