Active Directory Support Contracts

Microsoft Active Directory Support
UK

The median Microsoft Active Directory Support daily rate in the UK is £605 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 532 689 788
Rank change year-on-year +157 +99 -128
Contract jobs requiring an Active Directory Support 55 17 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.029% 0.049%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.031% 0.051%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 11 36
10th Percentile £163 £130 £123
25th Percentile £213 £175 £144
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £250 £173
Median % change year-on-year +142.00% +44.93% -4.17%
75th Percentile £608 £381 £253
90th Percentile - £488 £425
UK excluding London median daily rate £605 £233 £161
% change year-on-year +160.22% +44.86% -8.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 - -

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 39,586 54,569 84,106
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.66% 95.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,744 38,105 59,089
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% +10.01%
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 2,669 1,523 2,070
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.02 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Active Directory Support
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory Support in the UK

Active Directory Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory Support in the UK

Active Directory Support
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory Support over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory Support in the UK

Active Directory Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory Support in the UK

Active Directory Support
Top 11 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 Support within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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 +152 55 £605 +142.00% 3
UK excluding London +95 44 £605 +160.22% 3
South East +55 35 £605 +393.88% 3
Work from Home +128 18 £605 +27.37% 3
London +91 10 £275 +4.76%
Midlands +23 3 £210 -2.33%
East Midlands +18 3 £210 -2.33%
South West - 3 £225 -
North West +29 2 £168 +19.64%
North of England +22 2 £168 -14.10%
East of England +12 1 £200 -57.89%

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

For the 6 months to 14 May 2024, 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 featuring Active Directory Support in the job title.

1 52 (94.55%) Active Directory
2 40 (72.73%) Azure
3 37 (67.27%) Microsoft 365
3 37 (67.27%) Windows
4 32 (58.18%) Security Cleared
5 31 (56.36%) SC Cleared
6 30 (54.55%) Microsoft
6 30 (54.55%) DV Cleared
7 26 (47.27%) Windows Server
7 26 (47.27%) SCCM
8 24 (43.64%) Entra ID
9 22 (40.00%) Firewall
10 20 (36.36%) Identity Management
10 20 (36.36%) Social Skills
11 19 (34.55%) Microsoft Exchange
11 19 (34.55%) ITIL
12 18 (32.73%) Linux
12 18 (32.73%) DHCP
12 18 (32.73%) DNS
12 18 (32.73%) Agile
12 18 (32.73%) DevOps
12 18 (32.73%) Microsoft Intune
12 18 (32.73%) Windows 10
12 18 (32.73%) CI/CD
13 17 (30.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 17 (30.91%) Bicep
13 17 (30.91%) ARM Templates
13 17 (30.91%) Log Analytics
13 17 (30.91%) Azure Monitor
13 17 (30.91%) RBAC

Active Directory Support 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 19 (34.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 7 (12.73%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 40 (72.73%) Azure
2 37 (67.27%) Microsoft 365
3 24 (43.64%) Entra ID
4 17 (30.91%) Azure Monitor
4 17 (30.91%) Azure Storage
5 2 (3.64%) AWS
6 1 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 22 (40.00%) Firewall
2 18 (32.73%) DHCP
2 18 (32.73%) DNS
3 4 (7.27%) Ethernet
3 4 (7.27%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.82%) Internet
4 1 (1.82%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.91%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.82%) DB2
2 1 (1.82%) MariaDB
2 1 (1.82%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.82%) MySQL
2 1 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (7.27%) JIRA
2 1 (1.82%) Git
General
1 20 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.73%) Finance
3 5 (9.09%) Banking
4 1 (1.82%) Arabic Language
4 1 (1.82%) French Language
4 1 (1.82%) German Language
4 1 (1.82%) Japanese Language
4 1 (1.82%) Korean Language
4 1 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (1.82%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (30.91%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.82%) JSON
2 1 (1.82%) SOAP
2 1 (1.82%) TIBCO EMS
2 1 (1.82%) XML
2 1 (1.82%) XSD
2 1 (1.82%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 17 (30.91%) PKI
1 17 (30.91%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (3.64%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 37 (67.27%) Windows
2 26 (47.27%) Windows Server
3 18 (32.73%) Linux
3 18 (32.73%) Windows 10
4 17 (30.91%) Windows Server 2016
4 17 (30.91%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (9.09%) Windows 7
6 4 (7.27%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.82%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (36.36%) Identity Management
2 19 (34.55%) ITIL
3 18 (32.73%) Agile
3 18 (32.73%) CI/CD
3 18 (32.73%) DevOps
4 17 (30.91%) Analytics
4 17 (30.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (30.91%) Log Analytics
4 17 (30.91%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 17 (30.91%) Privileged Identity Management
4 17 (30.91%) RBAC
4 17 (30.91%) Release Management
4 17 (30.91%) Service Management
5 4 (7.27%) Ticket Management
6 2 (3.64%) Customer Service
6 2 (3.64%) Incident Management
6 2 (3.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (3.64%) Migration
6 2 (3.64%) Mobile Device Management
6 2 (3.64%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 17 (30.91%) Bicep
1 17 (30.91%) C#
1 17 (30.91%) PowerShell
1 17 (30.91%) VB
1 17 (30.91%) VBScript
2 1 (1.82%) XPath
Qualifications
1 32 (58.18%) Security Cleared
2 31 (56.36%) SC Cleared
3 30 (54.55%) DV Cleared
4 17 (30.91%) Degree
4 17 (30.91%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 5 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (3.64%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 52 (94.55%) Active Directory
2 17 (30.91%) Virtual Desktop
2 17 (30.91%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (3.64%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 26 (47.27%) SCCM
2 18 (32.73%) Microsoft Intune
3 17 (30.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 17 (30.91%) Kubernetes
3 17 (30.91%) SCOM
3 17 (30.91%) WSUS
4 4 (7.27%) Autotask
5 1 (1.82%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 30 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.27%) Cisco
2 4 (7.27%) Remedy
3 3 (5.45%) Okta
3 3 (5.45%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.64%) Citrix
4 2 (3.64%) VMware
5 1 (1.82%) IBM
5 1 (1.82%) Oracle
5 1 (1.82%) TIBCO