Active Directory Support Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Active Directory Support
UK > UK excluding London

The median Microsoft Active Directory Support daily rate in the UK excluding London is £605, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 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
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 369 336 406
Rank change year-on-year -33 +70 +71
Contract jobs requiring an Active Directory Support 1 38 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.007% 0.21% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.007% 0.23% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 25 6
10th Percentile - £553 -
25th Percentile £603 £603 £198
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £605 £233
Median % change year-on-year - +160.22% +32.86%
75th Percentile £608 £608 £250
90th Percentile - - £275
UK median daily rate £536 £605 £215
% change year-on-year -11.40% +181.40% +21.13%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 13,778 16,349 20,418
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.85% 92.24% 94.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,464 9,485 13,633
10th Percentile £213 £220 £225
25th Percentile £361 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +0.50%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £653 £680 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,251 1,438 1,196
10th Percentile £13.46 £14.37 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £42.08
Median % change year-on-year -44.11% +6.95% +91.26%
75th Percentile £51.95 £66.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £75.00 £77.50
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 the UK excluding London

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

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

Active Directory Support
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Active Directory Support job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Active Directory Support job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Active Directory Support
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Active Directory Support job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Active Directory Support job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Active Directory Support
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 Support within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 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
South East -12 1 £605 - 2
Active Directory Support
UK

Active Directory Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 16 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 UK excluding London region featuring Active Directory Support in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) VBScript
1 1 (100.00%) VB
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) WSUS
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
1 1 (100.00%) SCOM
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps

Active Directory Support 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 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Storage
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
1 1 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 1 (100.00%) Privileged Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) VB
1 1 (100.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
1 1 (100.00%) SCOM
1 1 (100.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft