Active Directory Administrator Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Active Directory Administrator
UK > UK excluding London

The median Microsoft Active Directory Administrator daily rate in the UK excluding London is £400 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 394 452 516
Rank change year-on-year +58 +64 -82
Contract jobs requiring an Active Directory Administrator 4 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.019% 0.013% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.021% 0.013% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - - £174
25th Percentile £375 - £191
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £280 £300
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -6.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £425 £321 £441
90th Percentile - £346 £516
UK median daily rate £425 £450 £300
% change year-on-year -5.56% +50.00% -7.69%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,163 22,551 29,607
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.57% 94.20% 95.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,700 15,818 20,751
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,248 1,160 1,483
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.02
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £39.55 £42.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.94% +117.95% +2.63%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.20
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.14
% change year-on-year -19.07% +94.45% +2.04%

Active Directory Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Active Directory Administrator in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory Administrator in the UK excluding London

Active Directory Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Active Directory Administrator in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Active Directory Administrator in the UK excluding London

Active Directory Administrator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Active Directory Administrator in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory Administrator in the UK excluding London

Active Directory Administrator
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Active Directory Administrator within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
South West +29 3 - -
South East - 1 £400 -
Active Directory Administrator
UK

Active Directory Administrator Skill Set
Top 18 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, Active Directory Administrator 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 UK excluding London region featuring Active Directory Administrator in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 3 (75.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (50.00%) Replication
4 1 (25.00%) Banking
4 1 (25.00%) Data Management
4 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (25.00%) Server Patching
4 1 (25.00%) Security Patching
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (25.00%) Budget Responsibility
4 1 (25.00%) ITIL

Active Directory Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) Budget Responsibility
2 1 (25.00%) Data Management
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Security Patching
2 1 (25.00%) Server Patching
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft