Senior Active Directory Engineer Contract Job Trends in Derby

Senior Microsoft Active Directory Engineer
Derbyshire > Derby

The median Senior Microsoft Active Directory Engineer daily rate in Derby is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
15 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Active Directory Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Derby 0.47% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
Derbyshire median daily rate £550 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Derby

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Derby. 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 Derby with a recognized job title 196 100 124
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.45% 91.74% 98.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 51 61
10th Percentile £228 £171 £250
25th Percentile £438 £384 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £609 £588
90th Percentile £686 £725 £630
Derbyshire median daily rate £540 £500 £453
% change year-on-year +8.00% +10.50% -4.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 11 14
10th Percentile £12.76 £17.50 -
25th Percentile £14.40 £25.04 £17.00
Median hourly rate £24.28 £25.15 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% +4.01% +36.46%
75th Percentile £25.75 - -
90th Percentile £29.88 - -
Derbyshire median hourly rate £19.85 £25.15 £24.18
% change year-on-year -21.07% +4.01% +36.46%

Senior Active Directory Engineer Skill Set
Top 20 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derby

For the 6 months to 15 October 2026, Senior Active Directory Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Derby region featuring Senior Active Directory Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Privileged Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server

Senior Active Directory Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derby by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Privileged Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware