Active Directory Support Contracts in England

Microsoft Active Directory Support
UK > England

The median Microsoft Active Directory Support daily rate in England is £605 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 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
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 481 621 735
Rank change year-on-year +140 +114 -132
Contract jobs requiring an Active Directory Support 62 17 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.17% 0.036% 0.065%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.038% 0.068%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 9 39
10th Percentile £185 £128 £128
25th Percentile £225 £153 £145
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £215 £175
Median % change year-on-year +181.40% +22.86% -
75th Percentile £608 £233 £224
90th Percentile - £266 £425
UK median daily rate £605 £215 £175
% change year-on-year +181.40% +22.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,161 44,903 67,296
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.57% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,530 31,932 48,137
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.11%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,560 1,303 1,794
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.63 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.39% +88.21% +11.21%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.15
% change year-on-year -16.67% +86.37% +9.75%

Active Directory Support
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory Support in England

Active Directory Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory Support in England

Active Directory Support
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory Support in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory Support in England

Active Directory Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory Support in England

Active Directory Support
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 31 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
South East +51 41 £605 +393.88% 4
London +93 11 £325 +51.16%
Midlands +20 3 £210 -2.33%
East Midlands +14 3 £210 -2.33%
South West - 3 £225 -
North of England +22 2 £168 -14.10%
North West +20 2 £168 +19.64%
East of England - 1 £200 -
Active Directory Support
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 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 across the England region featuring Active Directory Support in the job title.

1 59 (95.16%) Active Directory
2 48 (77.42%) Azure
3 40 (64.52%) Windows
4 39 (62.90%) Security Cleared
4 39 (62.90%) Microsoft 365
5 38 (61.29%) SC Cleared
6 37 (59.68%) DV Cleared
7 33 (53.23%) Microsoft
8 29 (46.77%) SCCM
8 29 (46.77%) Windows Server
9 28 (45.16%) Entra ID
10 25 (40.32%) Firewall
11 23 (37.10%) Identity Management
11 23 (37.10%) Social Skills
12 22 (35.48%) Microsoft Exchange
12 22 (35.48%) ITIL
13 21 (33.87%) Linux
13 21 (33.87%) DHCP
13 21 (33.87%) DNS
13 21 (33.87%) Agile
13 21 (33.87%) DevOps
13 21 (33.87%) Microsoft Intune
13 21 (33.87%) PowerShell
13 21 (33.87%) CI/CD
13 21 (33.87%) Multi-Factor Authentication
14 20 (32.26%) Virtual Machines
14 20 (32.26%) Virtual Desktop
14 20 (32.26%) Privileged Identity Management
14 20 (32.26%) Self-Motivation
14 20 (32.26%) Active Directory Federation Services

Active Directory Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (35.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 6 (9.68%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 48 (77.42%) Azure
2 39 (62.90%) Microsoft 365
3 28 (45.16%) Entra ID
4 20 (32.26%) Azure Monitor
4 20 (32.26%) Azure Storage
5 2 (3.23%) AWS
6 1 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 25 (40.32%) Firewall
2 21 (33.87%) DHCP
2 21 (33.87%) DNS
3 4 (6.45%) Ethernet
3 4 (6.45%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.61%) Internet
4 1 (1.61%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.68%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.61%) DB2
2 1 (1.61%) MariaDB
2 1 (1.61%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.61%) MySQL
2 1 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (6.45%) JIRA
2 1 (1.61%) Git
General
1 23 (37.10%) Social Skills
2 7 (11.29%) Finance
3 5 (8.06%) Banking
4 1 (1.61%) Arabic Language
4 1 (1.61%) French Language
4 1 (1.61%) German Language
4 1 (1.61%) Japanese Language
4 1 (1.61%) Korean Language
4 1 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (1.61%) Retail
4 1 (1.61%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (32.26%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.61%) JSON
2 1 (1.61%) OpenID
2 1 (1.61%) SAML
2 1 (1.61%) SOAP
2 1 (1.61%) TIBCO EMS
2 1 (1.61%) XML
2 1 (1.61%) XSD
2 1 (1.61%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 20 (32.26%) PKI
1 20 (32.26%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (3.23%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.61%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 40 (64.52%) Windows
2 29 (46.77%) Windows Server
3 21 (33.87%) Linux
4 20 (32.26%) Windows Server 2016
4 20 (32.26%) Windows Server 2019
5 18 (29.03%) Windows 10
6 5 (8.06%) Windows 7
7 4 (6.45%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.61%) Mac OS
8 1 (1.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (37.10%) Identity Management
2 22 (35.48%) ITIL
3 21 (33.87%) Agile
3 21 (33.87%) CI/CD
3 21 (33.87%) DevOps
3 21 (33.87%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 20 (32.26%) Analytics
4 20 (32.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (32.26%) Log Analytics
4 20 (32.26%) Privileged Identity Management
4 20 (32.26%) RBAC
4 20 (32.26%) Release Management
4 20 (32.26%) Service Management
5 4 (6.45%) Ticket Management
6 2 (3.23%) Customer Service
6 2 (3.23%) Incident Management
6 2 (3.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (3.23%) Migration
6 2 (3.23%) Mobile Device Management
6 2 (3.23%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 21 (33.87%) PowerShell
2 20 (32.26%) Bicep
2 20 (32.26%) C#
2 20 (32.26%) VB
2 20 (32.26%) VBScript
3 1 (1.61%) XPath
Qualifications
1 39 (62.90%) Security Cleared
2 38 (61.29%) SC Cleared
3 37 (59.68%) DV Cleared
4 20 (32.26%) Degree
4 20 (32.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 5 (8.06%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.61%) DBS Check
System Software
1 59 (95.16%) Active Directory
2 20 (32.26%) Virtual Desktop
2 20 (32.26%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (46.77%) SCCM
2 21 (33.87%) Microsoft Intune
3 20 (32.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 20 (32.26%) Kubernetes
3 20 (32.26%) SCOM
3 20 (32.26%) WSUS
4 4 (6.45%) Autotask
5 1 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.61%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 33 (53.23%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.45%) Cisco
2 4 (6.45%) Remedy
3 3 (4.84%) Okta
3 3 (4.84%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.23%) Citrix
4 2 (3.23%) VMware
5 1 (1.61%) IBM
5 1 (1.61%) Oracle
5 1 (1.61%) TIBCO