Active Directory Specialist Contracts

Microsoft Active Directory Specialist
UK

The median Microsoft Active Directory Specialist daily rate in the UK is £605 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 551 687 826
Rank change year-on-year +136 +139 -147
Contract jobs requiring an Active Directory Specialist 34 6 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.079% 0.010% 0.026%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.086% 0.011% 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 5 21
10th Percentile - £423 £425
25th Percentile £603 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +4.76% +23.85%
75th Percentile £608 - £575
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £605 £550 £531
% change year-on-year +10.00% +3.53% +9.10%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 39,719 54,978 83,963
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,839 38,395 59,001
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,655 1,545 2,052
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.25 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.74 £76.40 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%

Active Directory Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory Specialist in the UK

Active Directory Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory Specialist in the UK

Active Directory Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory Specialist over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory Specialist in the UK

Active Directory Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory Specialist in the UK

Active Directory Specialist
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 Specialist within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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
England +132 34 £605 +10.00% 1
UK excluding London +96 30 £605 +10.00%
South East - 27 £605 -
Work from Home +138 15 £605 +10.00%
London +91 4 £325 - 1
South West +15 2 £686 +24.77%
North of England - 1 £375 -
North West - 1 £375 -

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, Active Directory Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 32 (94.12%) Active Directory
2 29 (85.29%) Security Cleared
3 28 (82.35%) Azure
4 27 (79.41%) SC Cleared
4 27 (79.41%) DV Cleared
5 19 (55.88%) Microsoft
6 18 (52.94%) Windows
6 18 (52.94%) Windows Server
7 17 (50.00%) Identity Management
7 17 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
8 16 (47.06%) SCCM
9 15 (44.12%) Degree
9 15 (44.12%) Social Skills
9 15 (44.12%) RBAC
10 14 (41.18%) CI/CD
10 14 (41.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 14 (41.18%) Bicep
10 14 (41.18%) ARM Templates
10 14 (41.18%) Log Analytics
10 14 (41.18%) Azure Monitor
10 14 (41.18%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (41.18%) Windows Server 2016
10 14 (41.18%) Windows Server 2019
10 14 (41.18%) Azure Storage
10 14 (41.18%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (41.18%) Entra ID
10 14 (41.18%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 14 (41.18%) Virtual Machines
10 14 (41.18%) Virtual Desktop
10 14 (41.18%) Privileged Identity Management

Active Directory Specialist 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:

Application Platforms
1 14 (41.18%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 28 (82.35%) Azure
2 17 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (41.18%) Azure Monitor
3 14 (41.18%) Azure Storage
3 14 (41.18%) Entra ID
4 2 (5.88%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (41.18%) DHCP
1 14 (41.18%) DNS
1 14 (41.18%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.88%) SQL Server
General
1 15 (44.12%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.88%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (41.18%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 14 (41.18%) PKI
1 14 (41.18%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (5.88%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 18 (52.94%) Windows
1 18 (52.94%) Windows Server
2 14 (41.18%) Linux
2 14 (41.18%) Windows Server 2016
2 14 (41.18%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (5.88%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 15 (44.12%) RBAC
3 14 (41.18%) Agile
3 14 (41.18%) Analytics
3 14 (41.18%) CI/CD
3 14 (41.18%) DevOps
3 14 (41.18%) Infrastructure as Code
3 14 (41.18%) ITIL
3 14 (41.18%) Log Analytics
3 14 (41.18%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 14 (41.18%) Privileged Identity Management
3 14 (41.18%) Release Management
3 14 (41.18%) Service Management
4 3 (8.82%) Migration
5 2 (5.88%) Data Migration
5 2 (5.88%) Data Modelling
5 2 (5.88%) Database Optimisation
5 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (5.88%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (5.88%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 14 (41.18%) Bicep
1 14 (41.18%) C#
1 14 (41.18%) PowerShell
1 14 (41.18%) VB
1 14 (41.18%) VBScript
2 2 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (85.29%) Security Cleared
2 27 (79.41%) DV Cleared
2 27 (79.41%) SC Cleared
3 15 (44.12%) Degree
4 14 (41.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 32 (94.12%) Active Directory
2 14 (41.18%) Virtual Desktop
2 14 (41.18%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (47.06%) SCCM
2 14 (41.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 14 (41.18%) Kubernetes
2 14 (41.18%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (41.18%) SCOM
2 14 (41.18%) WSUS
Vendors
1 19 (55.88%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.88%) Citrix
2 2 (5.88%) Okta
2 2 (5.88%) ServiceNow
2 2 (5.88%) VMware