Active Directory Support Engineer Contracts in England

Microsoft Active Directory Support Engineer
UK > England

The median Microsoft Active Directory Support Engineer daily rate in England is £205 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 531 638 767
Rank change year-on-year +107 +129 -156
Contract jobs requiring an Active Directory Support Engineer 18 8 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.049% 0.016% 0.017%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.053% 0.017% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 8 7
10th Percentile - £184 £188
25th Percentile £163 £198 £261
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £205 £375 £425
Median % change year-on-year -45.33% -11.76% +70.00%
75th Percentile £225 £488 -
90th Percentile £575 - -
UK median daily rate £205 £375 £425
% change year-on-year -45.33% -11.76% +70.00%
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 34,080 46,338 66,904
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,599 32,894 47,614
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £740
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,444 1,371 1,856
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.96 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +95.65% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.30 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.88
UK median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%

Active Directory Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory Support Engineer in England

Active Directory Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory Support Engineer in England

Active Directory Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory Support Engineer in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory Support Engineer in England

Active Directory Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory Support Engineer in England

Active Directory Support 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 Support Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 10 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 +99 6 £188 -12.79%
South East - 5 £415 - 1
Midlands +27 3 £210 -2.33%
East Midlands +23 3 £210 -2.33%
North West - 2 £168 -
North of England - 2 £168 -
East of England +12 1 £200 -57.89%
Active Directory Support Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Active Directory Support 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 Support Engineer in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) Windows
1 18 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 16 (88.89%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (77.78%) Windows 10
3 14 (77.78%) Microsoft
4 11 (61.11%) Azure
4 11 (61.11%) SCCM
5 8 (44.44%) Entra ID
5 8 (44.44%) Windows Server
6 7 (38.89%) Firewall
6 7 (38.89%) Finance
7 6 (33.33%) SQL Server
8 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Office
8 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (27.78%) Banking
8 5 (27.78%) Windows 7
8 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
9 4 (22.22%) Autotask
9 4 (22.22%) Ticket Management
9 4 (22.22%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (22.22%) JIRA
9 4 (22.22%) Remedy
9 4 (22.22%) Ethernet
9 4 (22.22%) TCP/IP
9 4 (22.22%) Cisco
9 4 (22.22%) ITIL
9 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (16.67%) Linux
10 3 (16.67%) DNS
10 3 (16.67%) DHCP

Active Directory Support 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 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 16 (88.89%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (61.11%) Azure
3 8 (44.44%) Entra ID
4 2 (11.11%) AWS
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Storage
5 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (38.89%) Firewall
2 4 (22.22%) Ethernet
2 4 (22.22%) TCP/IP
3 3 (16.67%) DHCP
3 3 (16.67%) DNS
4 1 (5.56%) Internet
4 1 (5.56%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.56%) DB2
2 1 (5.56%) MariaDB
2 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.56%) MySQL
2 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) Git
General
1 7 (38.89%) Finance
2 5 (27.78%) Banking
2 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Arabic Language
3 1 (5.56%) French Language
3 1 (5.56%) German Language
3 1 (5.56%) Japanese Language
3 1 (5.56%) Korean Language
3 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.56%) JSON
2 1 (5.56%) SOAP
2 1 (5.56%) TIBCO EMS
2 1 (5.56%) XML
2 1 (5.56%) XSD
2 1 (5.56%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Management Information System
1 2 (11.11%) PKI
1 2 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 18 (100.00%) Windows
2 14 (77.78%) Windows 10
3 8 (44.44%) Windows Server
4 5 (27.78%) Windows 7
5 4 (22.22%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (16.67%) Linux
7 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (22.22%) ITIL
1 4 (22.22%) Ticket Management
2 3 (16.67%) Agile
2 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 3 (16.67%) DevOps
3 2 (11.11%) Analytics
3 2 (11.11%) Identity Management
3 2 (11.11%) Incident Management
3 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (11.11%) Log Analytics
3 2 (11.11%) Migration
3 2 (11.11%) Mobile Device Management
3 2 (11.11%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 2 (11.11%) Privileged Identity Management
3 2 (11.11%) RBAC
3 2 (11.11%) Release Management
3 2 (11.11%) Service Management
3 2 (11.11%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 1 (5.56%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) Bicep
1 2 (11.11%) C#
1 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 2 (11.11%) VB
1 2 (11.11%) VBScript
2 1 (5.56%) XPath
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) Degree
3 2 (11.11%) DV Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
System Software
1 18 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.11%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (61.11%) SCCM
2 4 (22.22%) Autotask
3 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (11.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
4 2 (11.11%) SCOM
4 2 (11.11%) WSUS
5 1 (5.56%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 14 (77.78%) Microsoft
2 4 (22.22%) Cisco
2 4 (22.22%) Remedy
3 3 (16.67%) ServiceNow
4 2 (11.11%) Citrix
4 2 (11.11%) VMware
5 1 (5.56%) IBM
5 1 (5.56%) Oracle
5 1 (5.56%) TIBCO