Active Directory Engineer Contracts

Microsoft Active Directory Engineer
UK

The median Microsoft Active Directory Engineer daily rate in the UK is £411 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 530 655 727
Rank change year-on-year +125 +72 -124
Contract jobs requiring an Active Directory Engineer 70 61 136
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.10% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.11% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 49 96
10th Percentile £157 £210 £200
25th Percentile £200 £325 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £411 £445 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.64% -1.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £500 £519 £570
90th Percentile £594 £565 £604
UK excluding London median daily rate £225 £463 £398
% change year-on-year -51.35% +16.35% -6.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 - -

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 40,029 55,895 84,701
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,060 39,048 59,505
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,665 1,566 2,078
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.11 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.00 £19.52
% change year-on-year -4.76% +115.16% +2.74%

Active Directory Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory Engineer in the UK

Active Directory Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory Engineer in the UK

Active Directory Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory Engineer over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory Engineer in the UK

Active Directory Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory Engineer in the UK

Active Directory Engineer
Top 12 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 Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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
England +131 62 £406 -8.88% 3
UK excluding London +70 39 £225 -51.35% 2
London +113 27 £425 +16.04% 1
Work from Home +117 20 £531 +19.38% 2
South East +38 19 £411 +22.69% 2
Scotland +40 5 £475 +2.70%
South West +27 5 £220 -45.00%
North of England +32 4 £168 -64.74%
North West +29 4 £168 -64.74%
Midlands +27 3 £210 -52.81%
East Midlands +18 3 £210 -52.81%
East of England +13 3 £175 -63.16%

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

For the 6 months to 5 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 featuring Active Directory Engineer in the job title.

1 69 (98.57%) Active Directory
2 39 (55.71%) Windows
3 34 (48.57%) Azure
4 33 (47.14%) Microsoft 365
5 26 (37.14%) Microsoft
6 25 (35.71%) Entra ID
7 17 (24.29%) Windows Server
7 17 (24.29%) PowerShell
8 16 (22.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 16 (22.86%) Windows 10
9 15 (21.43%) Social Skills
9 15 (21.43%) SCCM
10 14 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
11 13 (18.57%) Finance
11 13 (18.57%) Migration
12 12 (17.14%) Microsoft Office
13 11 (15.71%) DHCP
13 11 (15.71%) DNS
13 11 (15.71%) Firewall
13 11 (15.71%) Security Cleared
14 9 (12.86%) Windows Server 2012
15 8 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
15 8 (11.43%) Agile
15 8 (11.43%) Banking
15 8 (11.43%) JIRA
15 8 (11.43%) SC Cleared
15 8 (11.43%) SQL Server
16 7 (10.00%) ITIL
16 7 (10.00%) VMware
16 7 (10.00%) Identity Access Management

Active Directory Engineer 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 14 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (5.71%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.29%) Confluence
4 2 (2.86%) IIS
5 1 (1.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 12 (17.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.43%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 34 (48.57%) Azure
2 33 (47.14%) Microsoft 365
3 25 (35.71%) Entra ID
4 3 (4.29%) Azure Storage
5 2 (2.86%) AWS
5 2 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (2.86%) OneDrive
5 2 (2.86%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.43%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.43%) IaaS
6 1 (1.43%) PaaS
6 1 (1.43%) SaaS
6 1 (1.43%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 11 (15.71%) DHCP
1 11 (15.71%) DNS
1 11 (15.71%) Firewall
2 4 (5.71%) Ethernet
2 4 (5.71%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.86%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (1.43%) HTTPS
4 1 (1.43%) Internet
4 1 (1.43%) MPLS
4 1 (1.43%) Network Security
4 1 (1.43%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.43%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.86%) Power BI
3 1 (1.43%) DB2
3 1 (1.43%) MariaDB
3 1 (1.43%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.43%) MySQL
3 1 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (11.43%) JIRA
2 1 (1.43%) Git
General
1 15 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 13 (18.57%) Finance
3 8 (11.43%) Banking
4 1 (1.43%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.43%) Arabic Language
4 1 (1.43%) French Language
4 1 (1.43%) German Language
4 1 (1.43%) Japanese Language
4 1 (1.43%) Korean Language
4 1 (1.43%) Local Government
4 1 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (1.43%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.43%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.86%) ARM Templates
1 2 (2.86%) JSON
2 1 (1.43%) LDAP
2 1 (1.43%) OAuth
2 1 (1.43%) SailPoint
2 1 (1.43%) SOAP
2 1 (1.43%) TIBCO EMS
2 1 (1.43%) XML
2 1 (1.43%) XSD
2 1 (1.43%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.71%) PKI
2 3 (4.29%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (4.29%) Virtual Team
3 2 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.86%) IoT
3 2 (2.86%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.86%) Replication
3 2 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.43%) BYOD
4 1 (1.43%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.43%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 39 (55.71%) Windows
2 17 (24.29%) Windows Server
3 16 (22.86%) Windows 10
4 9 (12.86%) Windows Server 2012
5 7 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (7.14%) Windows 7
7 3 (4.29%) Linux
7 3 (4.29%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (2.86%) Mac OS
9 1 (1.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (22.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (18.57%) Migration
3 8 (11.43%) Agile
3 8 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
4 7 (10.00%) ITIL
5 6 (8.57%) Customer Service
5 6 (8.57%) DevOps
6 5 (7.14%) Analytics
6 5 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (7.14%) Time Management
7 4 (5.71%) Identity Management
7 4 (5.71%) Kanban
7 4 (5.71%) RBAC
7 4 (5.71%) Ticket Management
8 3 (4.29%) CI/CD
8 3 (4.29%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (4.29%) Mobile Device Management
8 3 (4.29%) Runbook
8 3 (4.29%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (24.29%) PowerShell
2 2 (2.86%) Bicep
2 2 (2.86%) C#
2 2 (2.86%) SQL
2 2 (2.86%) VB
2 2 (2.86%) VBScript
3 1 (1.43%) XPath
Qualifications
1 11 (15.71%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.43%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.14%) Degree
3 5 (7.14%) DV Cleared
3 5 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.43%) CISSP
5 1 (1.43%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.29%) SLA
System Software
1 69 (98.57%) Active Directory
2 6 (8.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (7.14%) vSphere
4 3 (4.29%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.86%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.43%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.43%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 15 (21.43%) SCCM
2 6 (8.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 6 (8.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (5.71%) Autotask
3 4 (5.71%) SCOM
4 3 (4.29%) Kubernetes
4 3 (4.29%) WSUS
5 2 (2.86%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (1.43%) Ansible
6 1 (1.43%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (1.43%) SCOrch
6 1 (1.43%) SCVMM
6 1 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.43%) Terraform
6 1 (1.43%) TIBCO Hawk
6 1 (1.43%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 26 (37.14%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.00%) VMware
3 4 (5.71%) Cisco
3 4 (5.71%) Remedy
4 3 (4.29%) Citrix
4 3 (4.29%) CyberArk
4 3 (4.29%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.86%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (2.86%) Dell
5 2 (2.86%) HP
5 2 (2.86%) Okta
5 2 (2.86%) Oracle
5 2 (2.86%) Varonis
6 1 (1.43%) Brocade
6 1 (1.43%) CA
6 1 (1.43%) EMC
6 1 (1.43%) IBM
6 1 (1.43%) Infoblox
6 1 (1.43%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.43%) TIBCO
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