Active Directory Consultant Contracts

Microsoft Active Directory Consultant
UK

The median Microsoft Active Directory Consultant daily rate in the UK is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 557 648 816
Rank change year-on-year +91 +168 -117
Contract jobs requiring an Active Directory Consultant 22 36 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.051% 0.064% 0.028%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.055% 0.068% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 25 19
10th Percentile - £455 £495
25th Percentile £413 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £500 £600 £570
90th Percentile £572 £656 £627
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £543 £533
% change year-on-year -7.83% +1.88% +12.11%

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 40,001 53,325 83,708
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,880 37,256 59,003
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% +9.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,851 1,473 1,957
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.41
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.45 £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 Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory Consultant in the UK

Active Directory Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory Consultant in the UK

Active Directory Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory Consultant over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory Consultant in the UK

Active Directory Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory Consultant in the UK

Active Directory Consultant
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 Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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 +94 18 £475 -13.64%
London +99 12 £450 -18.18%
Work from Home +97 11 £475 -14.22%
UK excluding London +46 6 £500 -7.83%
North of England - 3 £500 -
North West - 3 £500 -
Scotland +40 2 £475 -8.65%
South East +8 1 £650 +19.82%

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Active Directory Consultant 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 Consultant in the job title.

1 20 (90.91%) Active Directory
2 15 (68.18%) Azure
3 12 (54.55%) PowerShell
4 11 (50.00%) Entra ID
5 9 (40.91%) Migration
5 9 (40.91%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (40.91%) Microsoft
6 7 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (27.27%) DNS
8 5 (22.73%) DHCP
8 5 (22.73%) Configuration Management
8 5 (22.73%) Finance
8 5 (22.73%) SC Cleared
8 5 (22.73%) Security Cleared
8 5 (22.73%) Network Management
8 5 (22.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
9 4 (18.18%) ServiceNow
9 4 (18.18%) CyberArk
9 4 (18.18%) Windows
10 3 (13.64%) Oracle
10 3 (13.64%) VMware
10 3 (13.64%) SailPoint
11 2 (9.09%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (9.09%) Server Hardening
11 2 (9.09%) Data Centre
11 2 (9.09%) User Experience
11 2 (9.09%) AWS Certification
11 2 (9.09%) GCP
11 2 (9.09%) Oracle Self-Service HR

Active Directory Consultant 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 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (9.09%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Cloud Services
1 15 (68.18%) Azure
2 11 (50.00%) Entra ID
3 9 (40.91%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (9.09%) AWS
4 2 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (9.09%) GCP
4 2 (9.09%) SaaS
5 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.55%) PowerApps
5 1 (4.55%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 6 (27.27%) DNS
2 5 (22.73%) DHCP
3 2 (9.09%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (9.09%) MySQL
1 2 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (22.73%) Finance
2 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) SailPoint
2 2 (9.09%) LDAP
2 2 (9.09%) OpenID
2 2 (9.09%) SAML
3 1 (4.55%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Clustering
1 2 (9.09%) Data Centre
1 2 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Windows
2 2 (9.09%) Linux
3 1 (4.55%) Windows 10
3 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (40.91%) Migration
2 7 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (22.73%) Configuration Management
3 5 (22.73%) Network Management
4 2 (9.09%) Customer Experience
4 2 (9.09%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 2 (9.09%) ITIL
4 2 (9.09%) Problem Management
4 2 (9.09%) Project Delivery
4 2 (9.09%) Server Hardening
4 2 (9.09%) Use Case
4 2 (9.09%) User Experience
5 1 (4.55%) Application Security
5 1 (4.55%) B2C
5 1 (4.55%) Cloud Security
5 1 (4.55%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (4.55%) Mentoring
5 1 (4.55%) Privileged Access Management
5 1 (4.55%) Project Management
5 1 (4.55%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 12 (54.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) SC Cleared
1 5 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.55%) CISSP
3 1 (4.55%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 20 (90.91%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.55%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (22.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (9.09%) Failover Clustering
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (4.55%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (40.91%) Microsoft
2 4 (18.18%) CyberArk
2 4 (18.18%) ServiceNow
3 3 (13.64%) Oracle
3 3 (13.64%) VMware
4 1 (4.55%) Ariba
4 1 (4.55%) Okta
4 1 (4.55%) SAP
4 1 (4.55%) Workday