Active Directory Consultant Contracts in England

Microsoft Active Directory Consultant
UK > England

The median Microsoft Active Directory Consultant daily rate in England is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 524 631 760
Rank change year-on-year +107 +129 -145
Contract jobs requiring an Active Directory Consultant 16 24 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.043% 0.049% 0.036%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.047% 0.052% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 15 18
10th Percentile - £443 £485
25th Percentile £413 £520 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £501
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +9.89% +0.10%
75th Percentile £500 £576 £573
90th Percentile £554 £636 £633
UK median daily rate £475 £543 £513
% change year-on-year -12.44% +5.80% +7.95%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,105 46,424 66,840
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.69% 94.64% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,627 32,967 47,588
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £640
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,443 1,373 1,839
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.26 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.92 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.55
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +99.60% +2.48%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.40 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

Active Directory Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory Consultant in England

Active Directory Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory Consultant in England

Active Directory Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory Consultant in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory Consultant in England

Active Directory Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory Consultant in England

Active Directory Consultant
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 Consultant within the England region over the 6 months to 9 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
London +87 11 £425 -22.73%
North of England +30 2 £500 -
North West +16 2 £500 -
South East +22 1 £650 +19.82%
Active Directory Consultant
UK

Active Directory Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, Active Directory Consultant 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 England region featuring Active Directory Consultant in the job title.

1 14 (87.50%) Active Directory
2 13 (81.25%) Azure
3 10 (62.50%) Entra ID
4 8 (50.00%) PowerShell
4 8 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (50.00%) Microsoft
5 5 (31.25%) Configuration Management
5 5 (31.25%) DHCP
5 5 (31.25%) DNS
5 5 (31.25%) Finance
5 5 (31.25%) Migration
5 5 (31.25%) Network Management
5 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (31.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (18.75%) ServiceNow
6 3 (18.75%) CyberArk
7 2 (12.50%) SailPoint
7 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (12.50%) Problem Management
7 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
7 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
7 2 (12.50%) Windows
7 2 (12.50%) Oracle
7 2 (12.50%) Project Delivery
7 2 (12.50%) Customer Experience
7 2 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
8 1 (6.25%) PowerApps
8 1 (6.25%) Okta

Active Directory Consultant Skill Set
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 1 (6.25%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Cloud Services
1 13 (81.25%) Azure
2 10 (62.50%) Entra ID
3 8 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (6.25%) AWS
5 1 (6.25%) GCP
5 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
5 1 (6.25%) PowerApps
5 1 (6.25%) SaaS
5 1 (6.25%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) DHCP
1 5 (31.25%) DNS
2 1 (6.25%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (6.25%) MySQL
1 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (31.25%) Finance
2 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) SailPoint
2 1 (6.25%) LDAP
2 1 (6.25%) OAuth
2 1 (6.25%) OpenID
2 1 (6.25%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (6.25%) Clustering
2 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Windows
2 1 (6.25%) Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) Configuration Management
1 5 (31.25%) Migration
1 5 (31.25%) Network Management
1 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (12.50%) Customer Experience
2 2 (12.50%) Problem Management
2 2 (12.50%) Project Delivery
3 1 (6.25%) Application Security
3 1 (6.25%) Asset Management
3 1 (6.25%) B2C
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Security
3 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (6.25%) Identity Management
3 1 (6.25%) Information Governance
3 1 (6.25%) ITIL
3 1 (6.25%) Mentoring
3 1 (6.25%) Project Management
3 1 (6.25%) Server Hardening
3 1 (6.25%) Use Case
3 1 (6.25%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
2 1 (6.25%) CISSP
2 1 (6.25%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 14 (87.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (6.25%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) CyberArk
2 3 (18.75%) ServiceNow
3 2 (12.50%) Oracle
4 1 (6.25%) Ariba
4 1 (6.25%) Okta
4 1 (6.25%) SAP
4 1 (6.25%) VMware
4 1 (6.25%) Workday