Active Directory Support Contracts in England

Microsoft Active Directory Support
UK > England

The median Microsoft Active Directory Support daily rate in England is £350, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 470 489 639
Rank change year-on-year +19 +150 +95
Contract jobs requiring an Active Directory Support 15 53 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.062% 0.14% 0.028%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.067% 0.15% 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 49 10
10th Percentile £168 £163 £129
25th Percentile £194 £213 £173
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £605 £269
Median % change year-on-year -42.15% +125.12% +62.88%
75th Percentile £468 £608 £488
90th Percentile £554 - -
UK median daily rate £350 £605 £275
% change year-on-year -42.15% +120.00% +71.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £50.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £50.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Active Directory Support
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory Support in England

Active Directory Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory Support in England

Active Directory Support
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory Support in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory Support in England

Active Directory Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory Support in England

Active Directory Support
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 Support within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 +35 7 £225 -18.18%
South East +17 4 £468 -22.73% 1
North of England +20 3 £175 +4.48% 1
North West +18 3 £175 +4.48%
Midlands +20 1 £180 -14.29%
East Midlands +8 1 £180 -14.29%
Active Directory Support
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Active Directory Support 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 Support in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 13 (86.67%) Microsoft
3 12 (80.00%) Azure
3 12 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (53.33%) Entra ID
5 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
5 6 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (40.00%) Firewall
5 6 (40.00%) Finance
6 5 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (33.33%) Windows
6 5 (33.33%) Smartphone
6 5 (33.33%) Banking
6 5 (33.33%) Customer Service
7 4 (26.67%) Windows 10
7 4 (26.67%) SCCM
8 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
8 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
8 3 (20.00%) ITIL
8 3 (20.00%) VPN
8 3 (20.00%) HP
8 3 (20.00%) Windows 7
8 3 (20.00%) Wealth Management
8 3 (20.00%) Virtual Environments
9 2 (13.33%) Palo Alto
9 2 (13.33%) Patch Management
9 2 (13.33%) Security Patching
9 2 (13.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication

Active Directory Support 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 5 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (80.00%) Azure
1 12 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (53.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Storage
3 1 (6.67%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) Firewall
2 3 (20.00%) VPN
2 3 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (13.33%) SD-WAN
3 2 (13.33%) WAN
4 1 (6.67%) DHCP
4 1 (6.67%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (40.00%) Finance
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Smartphone
2 1 (6.67%) BYOD
2 1 (6.67%) iPhone
2 1 (6.67%) PKI
2 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Windows
2 4 (26.67%) Windows 10
3 3 (20.00%) Windows 7
4 2 (13.33%) Android
5 1 (6.67%) Apple iOS
5 1 (6.67%) Linux
5 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
5 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 3 (20.00%) ITIL
2 3 (20.00%) Virtual Environments
2 3 (20.00%) Wealth Management
3 2 (13.33%) Identity Management
3 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (13.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 2 (13.33%) Network Management
3 2 (13.33%) Patch Management
3 2 (13.33%) Privileged Identity Management
3 2 (13.33%) Security Patching
3 2 (13.33%) Service Management
4 1 (6.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (6.67%) Customer Experience
4 1 (6.67%) DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (6.67%) ITSM
4 1 (6.67%) Log Analytics
4 1 (6.67%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) Bicep
1 1 (6.67%) C#
1 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (6.67%) SQL
1 1 (6.67%) VB
1 1 (6.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 15 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.67%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (26.67%) SCCM
3 1 (6.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.67%) SCOM
3 1 (6.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 13 (86.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) HP
3 2 (13.33%) Cisco
3 2 (13.33%) Palo Alto
4 1 (6.67%) Citrix
4 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow