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 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 512 665 789
Rank change year-on-year +153 +124 -111
Contract jobs requiring an Active Directory Support 63 17 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.030% 0.056%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.032% 0.059%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 9 42
10th Percentile £189 £128 £129
25th Percentile £225 £153 £146
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £215 £178
Median % change year-on-year +181.40% +21.13% +1.43%
75th Percentile £608 £233 £224
90th Percentile - £266 £419
UK excluding London median daily rate £605 £215 £163
% change year-on-year +181.40% +32.10% -7.00%
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 39,969 53,015 83,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,870 37,031 58,844
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,841 1,476 1,963
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.33
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.13 £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 1 June 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 1 June 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 63 £605 +181.40% 4
UK excluding London +77 51 £605 +181.40% 4
South East +52 42 £605 +393.88% 4
Work from Home +133 22 £605 +189.82% 4
London +100 11 £325 +51.16%
Midlands +21 3 £210 -2.33%
East Midlands +12 3 £210 -2.33%
South West - 3 £225 -
North West +22 2 £168 +19.64%
North of England +19 2 £168 -14.10%
East of England - 1 £200 -

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 60 (95.24%) Active Directory
2 49 (77.78%) Azure
3 40 (63.49%) Security Cleared
3 40 (63.49%) Windows
4 39 (61.90%) SC Cleared
4 39 (61.90%) Microsoft 365
5 38 (60.32%) DV Cleared
6 33 (52.38%) Microsoft
7 29 (46.03%) SCCM
7 29 (46.03%) Windows Server
8 28 (44.44%) Entra ID
9 25 (39.68%) Firewall
10 23 (36.51%) Identity Management
10 23 (36.51%) Social Skills
11 22 (34.92%) Microsoft Exchange
11 22 (34.92%) ITIL
12 21 (33.33%) Linux
12 21 (33.33%) DHCP
12 21 (33.33%) DNS
12 21 (33.33%) Agile
12 21 (33.33%) DevOps
12 21 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
12 21 (33.33%) PowerShell
12 21 (33.33%) CI/CD
12 21 (33.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
13 20 (31.75%) Virtual Machines
13 20 (31.75%) Virtual Desktop
13 20 (31.75%) Privileged Identity Management
13 20 (31.75%) Self-Motivation
13 20 (31.75%) Active Directory Federation Services

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 22 (34.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 6 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 49 (77.78%) Azure
2 39 (61.90%) Microsoft 365
3 28 (44.44%) Entra ID
4 20 (31.75%) Azure Monitor
4 20 (31.75%) Azure Storage
5 2 (3.17%) AWS
6 1 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 25 (39.68%) Firewall
2 21 (33.33%) DHCP
2 21 (33.33%) DNS
3 4 (6.35%) Ethernet
3 4 (6.35%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.59%) Internet
4 1 (1.59%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.52%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.59%) DB2
2 1 (1.59%) MariaDB
2 1 (1.59%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.59%) MySQL
2 1 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (6.35%) JIRA
2 1 (1.59%) Git
General
1 23 (36.51%) Social Skills
2 7 (11.11%) Finance
3 5 (7.94%) Banking
4 1 (1.59%) Arabic Language
4 1 (1.59%) French Language
4 1 (1.59%) German Language
4 1 (1.59%) Japanese Language
4 1 (1.59%) Korean Language
4 1 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (1.59%) Retail
4 1 (1.59%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (31.75%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.59%) JSON
2 1 (1.59%) OpenID
2 1 (1.59%) SAML
2 1 (1.59%) SOAP
2 1 (1.59%) TIBCO EMS
2 1 (1.59%) XML
2 1 (1.59%) XSD
2 1 (1.59%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 20 (31.75%) PKI
1 20 (31.75%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (3.17%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.59%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 40 (63.49%) Windows
2 29 (46.03%) Windows Server
3 21 (33.33%) Linux
4 20 (31.75%) Windows Server 2016
4 20 (31.75%) Windows Server 2019
5 18 (28.57%) Windows 10
6 5 (7.94%) Windows 7
7 4 (6.35%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.59%) Mac OS
8 1 (1.59%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (36.51%) Identity Management
2 22 (34.92%) ITIL
3 21 (33.33%) Agile
3 21 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 21 (33.33%) DevOps
3 21 (33.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 20 (31.75%) Analytics
4 20 (31.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (31.75%) Log Analytics
4 20 (31.75%) Privileged Identity Management
4 20 (31.75%) RBAC
4 20 (31.75%) Release Management
4 20 (31.75%) Service Management
5 4 (6.35%) Ticket Management
6 2 (3.17%) Customer Service
6 2 (3.17%) Incident Management
6 2 (3.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (3.17%) Migration
6 2 (3.17%) Mobile Device Management
6 2 (3.17%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 21 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 20 (31.75%) Bicep
2 20 (31.75%) C#
2 20 (31.75%) VB
2 20 (31.75%) VBScript
3 1 (1.59%) XPath
Qualifications
1 40 (63.49%) Security Cleared
2 39 (61.90%) SC Cleared
3 38 (60.32%) DV Cleared
4 20 (31.75%) Degree
4 20 (31.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 5 (7.94%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.59%) DBS Check
System Software
1 60 (95.24%) Active Directory
2 20 (31.75%) Virtual Desktop
2 20 (31.75%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (3.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (46.03%) SCCM
2 21 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 20 (31.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 20 (31.75%) Kubernetes
3 20 (31.75%) SCOM
3 20 (31.75%) WSUS
4 4 (6.35%) Autotask
5 1 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.59%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 33 (52.38%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.35%) Cisco
2 4 (6.35%) Remedy
3 3 (4.76%) Okta
3 3 (4.76%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.17%) Citrix
4 2 (3.17%) VMware
5 1 (1.59%) IBM
5 1 (1.59%) Oracle
5 1 (1.59%) TIBCO