Active Directory Engineer Contract Job Trends in Inverness

Microsoft Active Directory Engineer
Highlands > Inverness

The median Microsoft Active Directory Engineer daily rate in Inverness is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Active Directory Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Inverness 0.95% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
Highlands median daily rate £500 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Inverness

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Inverness. 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 Inverness with a recognized job title 100 9 3
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.24% 47.37% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 7 2
10th Percentile £426 £169 £193
25th Percentile £447 £198 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £250 £253
Median % change year-on-year +93.20% -0.99% -14.41%
75th Percentile £566 £356 £298
90th Percentile £703 £408 £322
Highlands median daily rate £481 £250 £276
% change year-on-year +92.40% -9.42% +24.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £13.45 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £16.11 - -
Highlands median hourly rate £13.45 - -

Active Directory Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Inverness

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Active Directory Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Inverness.

Active Directory Engineer job vacancy trend in Inverness

Active Directory Engineer Skill Set
Top 29 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Inverness

For the 6 months to 19 September 2026, 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 Inverness region featuring Active Directory Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) BeyondTrust
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Kerberos
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Okta
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Security Hardening
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
1 1 (100.00%) Zscaler

Active Directory Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Inverness 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%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Kerberos
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Security Hardening
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) BeyondTrust
1 1 (100.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Okta
1 1 (100.00%) Zscaler