Active Directory Engineer Contracts in England

Microsoft Active Directory Engineer
UK > England

The median Microsoft Active Directory Engineer daily rate in England is £385 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 473 604 660
Rank change year-on-year +131 +56 -98
Contract jobs requiring an Active Directory Engineer 63 50 122
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.17% 0.100% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.11% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 41 81
10th Percentile £155 £200 £200
25th Percentile £191 £275 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 £445 £455
Median % change year-on-year -13.48% -2.20% +37.88%
75th Percentile £500 £488 £569
90th Percentile £593 £563 £619
UK median daily rate £411 £445 £453
% change year-on-year -7.64% -1.66% +6.47%
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 34,391 47,499 67,898
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 94.62% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,834 33,731 48,300
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,437 1,404 1,900
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.34 £44.77 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.83% +98.96% +0.36%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.66 £76.85 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.14
% change year-on-year -19.07% +94.45% +2.04%

Active Directory Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory Engineer in England

Active Directory Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory Engineer in England

Active Directory Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory Engineer in England over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory Engineer in England

Active Directory Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory Engineer in England

Active Directory Engineer
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 Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 2 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
London +107 27 £425 +16.04% 1
South East +40 18 £411 +22.69% 3
South West +32 6 £220 -45.00%
North of England +33 5 £168 -64.74%
North West +21 4 £168 -64.74%
Midlands +25 3 £210 -52.81%
East Midlands +16 3 £210 -52.81%
East of England +12 3 £175 -63.16%
North East - 1 - -
Active Directory Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, Active Directory Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 62 (98.41%) Active Directory
2 38 (60.32%) Windows
3 33 (52.38%) Microsoft 365
4 32 (50.79%) Azure
5 26 (41.27%) Microsoft
6 23 (36.51%) Entra ID
7 16 (25.40%) Windows 10
7 16 (25.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 14 (22.22%) Windows Server
9 13 (20.63%) Finance
9 13 (20.63%) Microsoft Exchange
10 12 (19.05%) Social Skills
10 12 (19.05%) Microsoft Office
10 12 (19.05%) SCCM
11 11 (17.46%) Migration
12 10 (15.87%) Security Cleared
13 9 (14.29%) PowerShell
13 9 (14.29%) Firewall
14 8 (12.70%) Banking
14 8 (12.70%) JIRA
15 7 (11.11%) Agile
15 7 (11.11%) SC Cleared
15 7 (11.11%) SQL Server
15 7 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
16 6 (9.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 6 (9.52%) Customer Service
16 6 (9.52%) ITIL
16 6 (9.52%) VMware
17 5 (7.94%) Microsoft Certification
17 5 (7.94%) DHCP

Active Directory Engineer 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 13 (20.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (6.35%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.76%) Confluence
4 1 (1.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 12 (19.05%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 33 (52.38%) Microsoft 365
2 32 (50.79%) Azure
3 23 (36.51%) Entra ID
4 2 (3.17%) AWS
4 2 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.17%) Azure Storage
4 2 (3.17%) OneDrive
5 1 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.59%) IaaS
5 1 (1.59%) PaaS
5 1 (1.59%) SaaS
5 1 (1.59%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 9 (14.29%) Firewall
2 5 (7.94%) DHCP
2 5 (7.94%) DNS
3 4 (6.35%) Ethernet
3 4 (6.35%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.59%) Internet
4 1 (1.59%) MPLS
4 1 (1.59%) Network Security
4 1 (1.59%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.11%) 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 8 (12.70%) JIRA
2 1 (1.59%) Git
General
1 13 (20.63%) Finance
2 12 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 8 (12.70%) Banking
4 1 (1.59%) Analytical Skills
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%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.59%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.17%) JSON
2 1 (1.59%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.59%) OAuth
2 1 (1.59%) SailPoint
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 3 (4.76%) IoT
1 3 (4.76%) PKI
1 3 (4.76%) Replication
1 3 (4.76%) Virtual Team
2 2 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (3.17%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.59%) BYOD
3 1 (1.59%) Client/Server
3 1 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 38 (60.32%) Windows
2 16 (25.40%) Windows 10
3 14 (22.22%) Windows Server
4 7 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (7.94%) Windows 7
5 5 (7.94%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (3.17%) Linux
6 2 (3.17%) Mac OS
6 2 (3.17%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.59%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (25.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (17.46%) Migration
3 7 (11.11%) Agile
4 6 (9.52%) Customer Service
4 6 (9.52%) ITIL
5 5 (7.94%) Analytics
5 5 (7.94%) DevOps
5 5 (7.94%) Identity Access Management
5 5 (7.94%) Time Management
6 4 (6.35%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (6.35%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (6.35%) Kanban
6 4 (6.35%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (6.35%) Ticket Management
7 3 (4.76%) Asset Management
7 3 (4.76%) Collaborative Culture
7 3 (4.76%) Identity Management
7 3 (4.76%) Infrastructure Management
7 3 (4.76%) Mobile Device Management
7 3 (4.76%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 9 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 2 (3.17%) SQL
3 1 (1.59%) Bicep
3 1 (1.59%) C#
3 1 (1.59%) VB
3 1 (1.59%) VBScript
3 1 (1.59%) XPath
Qualifications
1 10 (15.87%) Security Cleared
2 7 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.94%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (6.35%) Degree
4 4 (6.35%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.59%) CISSP
5 1 (1.59%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.76%) SLA
System Software
1 62 (98.41%) Active Directory
2 5 (7.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.76%) vSphere
4 2 (3.17%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.59%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.59%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.59%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.59%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 12 (19.05%) SCCM
2 6 (9.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 5 (7.94%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (6.35%) Autotask
5 2 (3.17%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (3.17%) Kubernetes
5 2 (3.17%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (3.17%) WSUS
6 1 (1.59%) Ansible
6 1 (1.59%) SCOM
6 1 (1.59%) Terraform
6 1 (1.59%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 26 (41.27%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.52%) VMware
3 4 (6.35%) Cisco
3 4 (6.35%) Remedy
4 3 (4.76%) Citrix
4 3 (4.76%) CyberArk
4 3 (4.76%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.17%) Dell
5 2 (3.17%) HP
5 2 (3.17%) Okta
5 2 (3.17%) Oracle
6 1 (1.59%) Brocade
6 1 (1.59%) CA
6 1 (1.59%) EMC
6 1 (1.59%) IBM
6 1 (1.59%) Infoblox
6 1 (1.59%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.59%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.59%) Veeam
6 1 (1.59%) Workday