Active Directory Support Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Active Directory Support
UK > Work from Home

The median Microsoft Active Directory Support daily rate in Work from Home is £605 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 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
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 329 470 615
Rank change year-on-year +141 +145 -147
Contract jobs requiring an Active Directory Support 16 7 17
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.10% 0.027% 0.038%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.028% 0.040%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 7 12
10th Percentile - £215 £128
25th Percentile £603 £278 £149
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £475 £213
Median % change year-on-year +27.37% +123.53% -3.41%
75th Percentile £608 £488 £425
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £605 £275 £161
% change year-on-year +120.00% +71.34% -8.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,352 24,650 42,717
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.33% 95.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,594 17,415 30,863
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.69% +2.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 579 565 611
10th Percentile £14.38 £18.50 £13.12
25th Percentile £23.39 £26.00 £18.75
Median hourly rate £44.74 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -19.07% +91.49% +3.14%

Active Directory Support
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Active Directory Support in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Active Directory Support trend for jobs with a WFH option

Active Directory Support
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Active Directory Support.

Active Directory Support daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Active Directory Support
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Active Directory Support.

Active Directory Support hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Active Directory Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 30 April 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Active Directory Support in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Windows
1 16 (100.00%) Linux
1 16 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 16 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 16 (100.00%) Agile
1 16 (100.00%) Azure
1 16 (100.00%) DevOps
1 16 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 16 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 15 (93.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 15 (93.75%) Bicep
2 15 (93.75%) ARM Templates
2 15 (93.75%) Log Analytics
2 15 (93.75%) Azure Monitor
2 15 (93.75%) RBAC
2 15 (93.75%) Privileged Identity Management
2 15 (93.75%) Self-Motivation
2 15 (93.75%) Infrastructure as Code
2 15 (93.75%) Windows Server 2016
2 15 (93.75%) Windows Server 2019
2 15 (93.75%) Azure Storage
2 15 (93.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 15 (93.75%) Windows Server
2 15 (93.75%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 15 (93.75%) Virtual Machines
2 15 (93.75%) Virtual Desktop
2 15 (93.75%) Microsoft 365
2 15 (93.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (93.75%) Analytics
2 15 (93.75%) Kubernetes

Active Directory Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 15 (93.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) Azure
2 15 (93.75%) Azure Monitor
2 15 (93.75%) Azure Storage
2 15 (93.75%) Entra ID
2 15 (93.75%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 15 (93.75%) DHCP
1 15 (93.75%) DNS
1 15 (93.75%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) DB2
1 1 (6.25%) MariaDB
1 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
1 1 (6.25%) MySQL
1 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Git
General
1 16 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Arabic Language
2 1 (6.25%) French Language
2 1 (6.25%) German Language
2 1 (6.25%) Japanese Language
2 1 (6.25%) Korean Language
2 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (93.75%) ARM Templates
2 1 (6.25%) JSON
2 1 (6.25%) SOAP
2 1 (6.25%) TIBCO EMS
2 1 (6.25%) XML
2 1 (6.25%) XSD
2 1 (6.25%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 15 (93.75%) PKI
1 15 (93.75%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 16 (100.00%) Linux
1 16 (100.00%) Windows
2 15 (93.75%) Windows Server
2 15 (93.75%) Windows Server 2016
2 15 (93.75%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Agile
1 16 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 16 (100.00%) DevOps
2 15 (93.75%) Analytics
2 15 (93.75%) Identity Management
2 15 (93.75%) Infrastructure as Code
2 15 (93.75%) ITIL
2 15 (93.75%) Log Analytics
2 15 (93.75%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 15 (93.75%) Privileged Identity Management
2 15 (93.75%) RBAC
2 15 (93.75%) Release Management
2 15 (93.75%) Service Management
3 1 (6.25%) Data Architecture
3 1 (6.25%) EAI
3 1 (6.25%) Kanban
3 1 (6.25%) Migration
3 1 (6.25%) Open Source
3 1 (6.25%) Scrum
3 1 (6.25%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 15 (93.75%) Bicep
1 15 (93.75%) C#
1 15 (93.75%) PowerShell
1 15 (93.75%) VB
1 15 (93.75%) VBScript
2 1 (6.25%) XPath
Qualifications
1 15 (93.75%) Degree
1 15 (93.75%) DV Cleared
1 15 (93.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 15 (93.75%) SC Cleared
1 15 (93.75%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 16 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 15 (93.75%) Virtual Desktop
2 15 (93.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (93.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 15 (93.75%) Kubernetes
1 15 (93.75%) Microsoft Intune
1 15 (93.75%) SCCM
1 15 (93.75%) SCOM
1 15 (93.75%) WSUS
2 1 (6.25%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 16 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) IBM
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) TIBCO