Active Directory Consultant Contracts

Microsoft Active Directory Consultant
UK

The median Microsoft Active Directory Consultant daily rate in the UK is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 July 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
10 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 547 573 653
Rank change year-on-year +26 +80 +195
Contract jobs requiring an Active Directory Consultant 7 15 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.022% 0.035% 0.058%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.024% 0.037% 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 22
10th Percentile £398 £413 £478
25th Percentile £525 £438 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +1.85%
75th Percentile £575 £530 £619
90th Percentile £590 £560 £654
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £488 £550
% change year-on-year -5.13% -11.36% +3.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £69.38 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £69.38 -

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 29,779 40,145 54,063
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.87% 92.99% 94.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,981 25,838 37,549
10th Percentile £288 £288 £313
25th Percentile £401 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +0.94%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,369 2,770 1,583
10th Percentile £13.75 £12.88 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.79 £19.06
Median hourly rate £26.32 £37.50 £43.63
Median % change year-on-year -29.81% -14.05% +71.10%
75th Percentile £56.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.35 £73.75 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £39.80
% change year-on-year -37.13% +0.50% +96.64%

Active Directory Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory Consultant in the UK

Active Directory Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory Consultant in the UK

Active Directory Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory Consultant over the 6 months to 10 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory Consultant in the UK

Active Directory Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory Consultant in the UK

Active Directory Consultant
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 Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 10 July 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 +32 6 £550 +10.00%
London +30 4 £550 +18.92%
Work from Home +32 3 £550 -1.79%
UK excluding London +47 2 £463 -5.13%
North of England +3 1 £325 -35.00%
Midlands - 1 £600 -
North East - 1 £325 -
West Midlands - 1 £600 -

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

For the 6 months to 10 July 2025, Active Directory Consultant 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 Consultant in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 5 (71.43%) Entra ID
3 4 (57.14%) Azure
3 4 (57.14%) Replication
4 3 (42.86%) Identity Management
5 2 (28.57%) Kalman Filter
5 2 (28.57%) NCSC
5 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
5 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
5 2 (28.57%) DNS
5 2 (28.57%) Privileged Identity Management
5 2 (28.57%) Zero Trust
6 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
6 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
6 1 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (14.29%) Principle of Least Privilege
6 1 (14.29%) Windows
6 1 (14.29%) Change Management
6 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (14.29%) GAP Analysis
6 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
6 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
6 1 (14.29%) PKI
6 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
6 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
6 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (14.29%) RBAC
6 1 (14.29%) Identity Access Management

Active Directory Consultant 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 5 (71.43%) Entra ID
2 4 (57.14%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
General
1 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Replication
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (14.29%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Identity Management
2 2 (28.57%) Kalman Filter
2 2 (28.57%) Privileged Identity Management
2 2 (28.57%) Zero Trust
3 1 (14.29%) Change Control
3 1 (14.29%) Change Management
3 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (14.29%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
3 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
3 1 (14.29%) Principle of Least Privilege
3 1 (14.29%) RBAC
3 1 (14.29%) Remediation Plan
3 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
3 1 (14.29%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft