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 19 April 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 551 712 834
Rank change year-on-year +161 +122 -178
Contract jobs requiring an Active Directory Specialist 35 4 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.080% 0.007% 0.023%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.086% 0.007% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 4 18
10th Percentile £513 £419 £371
25th Percentile £603 £503 £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 - - £594
UK excluding London median daily rate £605 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -

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 40,501 57,364 85,821
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.55% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,442 40,011 60,276
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £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 £748 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,615 1,620 2,120
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.33 £15.47
Median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.77 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -14.12% +117.95% +2.63%

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 19 April 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 10 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 19 April 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 +146 35 £605 +10.00%
UK excluding London +96 30 £605 +10.00%
South East - 26 £605 -
Work from Home +140 17 £605 +10.00%
London - 5 £325 -
South West +24 2 £686 +24.77%
Midlands +35 1 £525 +40.00%
West Midlands +27 1 £525 +40.00%
North West - 1 £375 -
North of England - 1 £375 -

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 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 33 (94.29%) Active Directory
2 28 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 28 (80.00%) Azure
3 26 (74.29%) SC Cleared
3 26 (74.29%) DV Cleared
4 20 (57.14%) Microsoft
5 19 (54.29%) Windows
5 19 (54.29%) Windows Server
6 17 (48.57%) RBAC
6 17 (48.57%) Identity Management
6 17 (48.57%) Microsoft 365
7 16 (45.71%) SCCM
7 16 (45.71%) Social Skills
8 15 (42.86%) Entra ID
8 15 (42.86%) Degree
8 15 (42.86%) Agile
8 15 (42.86%) DNS
8 15 (42.86%) DHCP
9 14 (40.00%) Linux
9 14 (40.00%) C#
9 14 (40.00%) VBScript
9 14 (40.00%) VB
9 14 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
9 14 (40.00%) ITIL
9 14 (40.00%) Firewall
9 14 (40.00%) Service Management
9 14 (40.00%) WSUS
9 14 (40.00%) SCOM
9 14 (40.00%) PKI
9 14 (40.00%) Release 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 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 28 (80.00%) Azure
2 17 (48.57%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (42.86%) Entra ID
4 14 (40.00%) Azure Monitor
4 14 (40.00%) Azure Storage
5 3 (8.57%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (42.86%) DHCP
1 15 (42.86%) DNS
2 14 (40.00%) Firewall
3 1 (2.86%) LAN
3 1 (2.86%) VPN
3 1 (2.86%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
General
1 16 (45.71%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.71%) Finance
3 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (40.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.86%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (40.00%) PKI
1 14 (40.00%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (5.71%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.86%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 19 (54.29%) Windows
1 19 (54.29%) Windows Server
2 14 (40.00%) Linux
2 14 (40.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 14 (40.00%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (5.71%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (48.57%) Identity Management
1 17 (48.57%) RBAC
2 15 (42.86%) Agile
3 14 (40.00%) Analytics
3 14 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 14 (40.00%) DevOps
3 14 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 14 (40.00%) ITIL
3 14 (40.00%) Log Analytics
3 14 (40.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 14 (40.00%) Privileged Identity Management
3 14 (40.00%) Release Management
3 14 (40.00%) Service Management
4 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (8.57%) Migration
5 2 (5.71%) Data Migration
5 2 (5.71%) Data Modelling
5 2 (5.71%) Database Optimisation
5 2 (5.71%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (5.71%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 14 (40.00%) Bicep
1 14 (40.00%) C#
1 14 (40.00%) PowerShell
1 14 (40.00%) VB
1 14 (40.00%) VBScript
2 2 (5.71%) SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 26 (74.29%) DV Cleared
2 26 (74.29%) SC Cleared
3 15 (42.86%) Degree
4 14 (40.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 33 (94.29%) Active Directory
2 14 (40.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 14 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (8.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.86%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 16 (45.71%) SCCM
2 14 (40.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 14 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 14 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (40.00%) SCOM
2 14 (40.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 20 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.57%) VMware
3 2 (5.71%) Citrix
3 2 (5.71%) Okta
3 2 (5.71%) ServiceNow