Active Directory Architect Contracts

Microsoft Active Directory Architect
UK

The median Microsoft Active Directory Architect daily rate in the UK is £650, 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 480 572 707
Rank change year-on-year +92 +135 +118
Contract jobs requiring an Active Directory Architect 40 10 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.023% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.025% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 8 7
10th Percentile £582 £589 £541
25th Percentile £600 £618 £561
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £660 £625
Median % change year-on-year -1.55% +5.64% +2.04%
75th Percentile £700 £688 £725
90th Percentile - £691 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £648 £700
% change year-on-year +0.31% -7.43% +13.13%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Active Directory Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory Architect in the UK

Active Directory Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory Architect in the UK

Active Directory Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory Architect in the UK

Active Directory Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory Architect in the UK

Active Directory Architect
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Active Directory Architect within the UK 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
England +84 34 £650 +0.31% 3
UK excluding London +88 31 £650 +0.31% 3
South East - 27 £650 - 3
Work from Home +43 7 £582 -13.78%
South West +42 2 £525 -18.98%
West Midlands - 2 £600 -
Midlands - 2 £600 -
London - 1 £500 -

Active Directory Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

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

1 40 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 34 (85.00%) Security Cleared
2 34 (85.00%) PowerShell
3 33 (82.50%) Windows
4 27 (67.50%) DV Cleared
4 27 (67.50%) Agile
5 26 (65.00%) Identity Access Management
6 25 (62.50%) Test Automation
7 23 (57.50%) Public Sector
8 21 (52.50%) Programme Management
8 21 (52.50%) Marketing
8 21 (52.50%) Digital Marketing
8 21 (52.50%) Business Intelligence
8 21 (52.50%) Manufacturing
8 21 (52.50%) SAP
8 21 (52.50%) Electronics
8 21 (52.50%) Telecoms
8 21 (52.50%) Finance
9 12 (30.00%) Entra ID
10 11 (27.50%) Azure
11 10 (25.00%) RBAC
11 10 (25.00%) DNS
11 10 (25.00%) Migration
11 10 (25.00%) Microsoft
11 10 (25.00%) PKI
12 9 (22.50%) AWS
13 8 (20.00%) Route 53
13 8 (20.00%) Patch Management
13 8 (20.00%) Windows Server
13 8 (20.00%) Azure Certification

Active Directory Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (30.00%) Entra ID
2 11 (27.50%) Azure
3 9 (22.50%) AWS
4 8 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
4 8 (20.00%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 10 (25.00%) DNS
2 8 (20.00%) DHCP
2 8 (20.00%) LAN
2 8 (20.00%) VPN
2 8 (20.00%) WAN
3 1 (2.50%) Firewall
3 1 (2.50%) Kerberos
General
1 23 (57.50%) Public Sector
2 21 (52.50%) Electronics
2 21 (52.50%) Finance
2 21 (52.50%) Manufacturing
2 21 (52.50%) Marketing
2 21 (52.50%) Telecoms
3 2 (5.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 10 (25.00%) PKI
2 2 (5.00%) Replication
3 1 (2.50%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 33 (82.50%) Windows
2 8 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (67.50%) Agile
2 26 (65.00%) Identity Access Management
3 25 (62.50%) Test Automation
4 21 (52.50%) Business Intelligence
4 21 (52.50%) Digital Marketing
4 21 (52.50%) Programme Management
5 10 (25.00%) Migration
5 10 (25.00%) RBAC
6 8 (20.00%) Patch Management
7 3 (7.50%) Change Management
7 3 (7.50%) DevOps
8 1 (2.50%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 34 (85.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 34 (85.00%) Security Cleared
2 27 (67.50%) DV Cleared
3 8 (20.00%) AWS Certification
3 8 (20.00%) Azure Certification
4 7 (17.50%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 40 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 21 (52.50%) SAP
2 10 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.50%) VMware