Senior Active Directory Engineer Contract Job Trends in Derbyshire

Senior Microsoft Active Directory Engineer
East Midlands > Derbyshire

The median Senior Microsoft Active Directory Engineer daily rate in Derbyshire 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 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Active Directory Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Derbyshire 0.33% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £550 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Derbyshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Derbyshire. 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 Derbyshire with a recognized job title 262 118 167
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 86.47% 86.13% 98.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 65 70
10th Percentile £235 £147 £250
25th Percentile £438 £348 £323
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £500 £453
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +10.50% -4.74%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £588
90th Percentile £683 £740 £631
East Midlands median daily rate £485 £414 £425
% change year-on-year +17.22% -2.65% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 11 21
10th Percentile £8.00 £17.50 £17.00
25th Percentile £12.76 £25.04 £20.30
Median hourly rate £19.85 £25.15 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year -21.07% +4.01% +36.46%
75th Percentile £25.75 - £50.00
90th Percentile £56.25 - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.16 £21.25 £24.18
% change year-on-year -14.56% -12.12% +34.75%

Senior Active Directory Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Derbyshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Active Directory Engineer within the Derbyshire region over the 6 months to 15 October 2026. 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
Derby - 1 £550 -
Senior Active Directory Engineer
East Midlands

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

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 Derbyshire 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 Derbyshire 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