Active Directory Support Contract Job Trends in England

Microsoft Active Directory Support
UK > England

The median Microsoft Active Directory Support daily rate in England is £536, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 September 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
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 501 481 563
Rank change year-on-year -20 +82 +159
Contract jobs requiring an Active Directory Support 8 45 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.029% 0.14% 0.068%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% 0.15% 0.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 31 10
10th Percentile £209 £205 £193
25th Percentile £213 £510 £198
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £605 £215
Median % change year-on-year -11.40% +181.40% +22.86%
75th Percentile £554 £608 £246
90th Percentile £570 - £255
UK median daily rate £536 £605 £215
% change year-on-year -11.40% +181.40% +21.13%

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 24,974 30,321 40,326
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.28% 93.02% 94.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,100 19,032 28,174
10th Percentile £280 £301 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,343 1,500 1,368
10th Percentile £13.66 £14.64 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.30 £21.25 £19.22
Median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.05% +5.56% +73.08%
75th Percentile £53.75 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.20 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.86
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.96% +68.69%

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
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Active Directory Support job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Active Directory Support job vacancies 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 15 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory Support in England

Active Directory Support
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Active Directory Support job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Active Directory Support job vacancies 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 15 September 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 +21 7 £536 +94.91% 1
South East -6 1 £605 - 2
Active Directory Support
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 September 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 8 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 6 (75.00%) Entra ID
3 5 (62.50%) Firewall
4 4 (50.00%) Finance
4 4 (50.00%) Cisco
4 4 (50.00%) WAN
4 4 (50.00%) Palo Alto
4 4 (50.00%) Network Management
4 4 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
4 4 (50.00%) SD-WAN
5 3 (37.50%) Patch Management
5 3 (37.50%) Security Patching
5 3 (37.50%) SQL
5 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
6 2 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
6 2 (25.00%) Smartphone
6 2 (25.00%) HP
6 2 (25.00%) Windows
6 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
6 2 (25.00%) Virtual Environments
6 2 (25.00%) Customer Service
7 1 (12.50%) Azure Storage
7 1 (12.50%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (12.50%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (12.50%) Privileged Identity Management

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 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
1 6 (75.00%) Entra ID
2 4 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) Firewall
2 4 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 4 (50.00%) WAN
3 2 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (12.50%) DHCP
4 1 (12.50%) DNS
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Smartphone
2 1 (12.50%) PKI
2 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (50.00%) Network Management
2 3 (37.50%) Patch Management
2 3 (37.50%) Security Patching
3 2 (25.00%) Customer Service
3 2 (25.00%) Virtual Environments
3 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (12.50%) Agile
4 1 (12.50%) Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Identity Management
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (12.50%) ITIL
4 1 (12.50%) Log Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 1 (12.50%) Privileged Identity Management
4 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) RBAC
4 1 (12.50%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (12.50%) Bicep
3 1 (12.50%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) VB
3 1 (12.50%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (12.50%) SCCM
1 1 (12.50%) SCOM
1 1 (12.50%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Cisco
1 4 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (25.00%) HP