Active Directory Engineer Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Active Directory Engineer
South East > Thames Valley

The median Microsoft Active Directory Engineer daily rate in the Thames Valley is £411 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 150 166
Rank change year-on-year +26 +16 -33
Contract jobs requiring an Active Directory Engineer 16 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.60% 0.034% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 0.036% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 1 3
10th Percentile £170 - £419
25th Percentile £225 £213 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £411 £225 £455
Median % change year-on-year +82.67% -50.55% -
75th Percentile £520 £238 -
90th Percentile £643 - -
South East median daily rate £411 £335 £455
% change year-on-year +22.69% -26.37% +33.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 2,507 2,770 3,353
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.44% 94.31% 96.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,429 1,919 2,284
10th Percentile £210 £313 £190
25th Percentile £370 £406 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £489
% change year-on-year - +2.16% +8.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 76 103
10th Percentile £15.81 £17.31 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £20.75 £12.38
Median hourly rate £45.00 £46.70 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +166.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £63.09 £66.21 £23.75
90th Percentile £84.48 £79.19 £64.48
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £21.00
% change year-on-year -1.86% +130.48% -16.00%

Active Directory Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory Engineer in the Thames Valley

Active Directory Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Active Directory Engineer in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Active Directory Engineer in the Thames Valley

Active Directory Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory Engineer in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory Engineer in the Thames Valley

Active Directory Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Active Directory Engineer in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory Engineer in the Thames Valley

Active Directory Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Buckinghamshire - 9 £411 -
Berkshire - 5 £628 - 2
Oxfordshire +4 2 £138 -38.89%
Active Directory Engineer
South East

Active Directory Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 29 April 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 Thames Valley region featuring Active Directory Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (50.00%) Azure
3 7 (43.75%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (43.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (43.75%) Microsoft
3 7 (43.75%) Security Cleared
4 6 (37.50%) SC Cleared
4 6 (37.50%) Windows
4 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (31.25%) Entra ID
5 5 (31.25%) SCCM
6 3 (18.75%) Agile
6 3 (18.75%) Asset Management
6 3 (18.75%) PKI
6 3 (18.75%) Degree
6 3 (18.75%) DHCP
6 3 (18.75%) DNS
6 3 (18.75%) ITIL
6 3 (18.75%) Mobile Device Management
6 3 (18.75%) Windows 10
7 2 (12.50%) Okta
7 2 (12.50%) Runbook
7 2 (12.50%) Privileged Access Management
7 2 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
7 2 (12.50%) Time Management
7 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (12.50%) Analytics
7 2 (12.50%) Process Improvement
7 2 (12.50%) CyberArk
7 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Office

Active Directory Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 7 (43.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) Azure
2 7 (43.75%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (31.25%) Entra ID
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Storage
4 1 (6.25%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) DHCP
1 3 (18.75%) DNS
2 2 (12.50%) Firewall
General
1 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) PKI
2 1 (6.25%) BYOD
2 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (37.50%) Windows
2 3 (18.75%) Windows 10
3 1 (6.25%) Linux
3 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
3 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (18.75%) Agile
2 3 (18.75%) Asset Management
2 3 (18.75%) ITIL
2 3 (18.75%) Mobile Device Management
3 2 (12.50%) Analytics
3 2 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (12.50%) Privileged Access Management
3 2 (12.50%) Process Improvement
3 2 (12.50%) Release Management
3 2 (12.50%) Runbook
3 2 (12.50%) Time Management
4 1 (6.25%) CI/CD
4 1 (6.25%) DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (6.25%) Log Analytics
4 1 (6.25%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 1 (6.25%) Privileged Identity Management
4 1 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (6.25%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) Bicep
1 1 (6.25%) C#
1 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
1 1 (6.25%) VB
1 1 (6.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 7 (43.75%) Security Cleared
2 6 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 3 (18.75%) Degree
4 2 (12.50%) DV Cleared
5 1 (6.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
System Software
1 16 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) SCCM
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (6.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (6.25%) Ansible
3 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.25%) SCOM
3 1 (6.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) CyberArk
2 2 (12.50%) Okta