Active Directory Engineer Contracts in London

Microsoft Active Directory Engineer
England > London

The median Microsoft Active Directory Engineer daily rate in London is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 336 376 438
Rank change year-on-year +40 +62 +90
Contract jobs requiring an Active Directory Engineer 14 28 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.11% 0.16% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.17% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 26 27
10th Percentile £201 £163 £172
25th Percentile £213 £336 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -23.44%
75th Percentile £409 £556 £475
90th Percentile £438 £594 £593
England median daily rate £370 £425 £418
% change year-on-year -12.94% +1.80% -10.93%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,759 16,474 23,813
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 93.77% 94.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,963 11,827 17,372
10th Percentile £338 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £676 £700
90th Percentile £798 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 321 274
10th Percentile £19.28 £16.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £33.45 £27.50 £36.77
Median % change year-on-year +21.62% -25.21% +5.06%
75th Percentile £50.50 £46.50 £63.94
90th Percentile £64.63 £67.00 £82.43
England median hourly rate £28.75 £39.55 £43.63
% change year-on-year -27.31% -9.35% +78.37%

Active Directory Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory Engineer in London

Active Directory Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory Engineer in London

Active Directory Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory Engineer in London over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory Engineer in London

Active Directory Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory Engineer in London

Active Directory Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 24 June 2025. 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
Central London +3 2 - - 5
Active Directory Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 June 2025, 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 London region featuring Active Directory Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 9 (64.29%) Azure
2 9 (64.29%) Microsoft
3 8 (57.14%) Windows
4 7 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (35.71%) PowerShell
6 4 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (28.57%) SaaS
6 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
6 4 (28.57%) Entra ID
6 4 (28.57%) Windows Server
7 3 (21.43%) Virtual Environments
7 3 (21.43%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (21.43%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (21.43%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (21.43%) Customer Service
7 3 (21.43%) IaaS
7 3 (21.43%) DevOps
7 3 (21.43%) Smartphone
7 3 (21.43%) Firewall
7 3 (21.43%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (21.43%) Service Delivery
7 3 (21.43%) Finance
7 3 (21.43%) Information Security
7 3 (21.43%) Banking
7 3 (21.43%) HP
8 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (14.29%) DNS

Active Directory Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 2 (14.29%) Confluence
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) Azure
2 7 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (28.57%) Entra ID
3 4 (28.57%) SaaS
4 3 (21.43%) IaaS
5 1 (7.14%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) Firewall
1 3 (21.43%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (14.29%) DNS
2 2 (14.29%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) MSI
General
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Banking
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Spanish Language
4 1 (7.14%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) Middleware
1 1 (7.14%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Legacy Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Smartphone
2 2 (14.29%) Virtual Team
3 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.14%) EFT
Operating Systems
1 8 (57.14%) Windows
2 4 (28.57%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.14%) CentOS
3 1 (7.14%) Linux
3 1 (7.14%) Ubuntu
3 1 (7.14%) Unix
3 1 (7.14%) Windows 10
3 1 (7.14%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (21.43%) Customer Service
3 3 (21.43%) DevOps
3 3 (21.43%) Information Security
3 3 (21.43%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (21.43%) Service Delivery
3 3 (21.43%) Virtual Environments
4 2 (14.29%) Agile
4 2 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
4 2 (14.29%) Data Loss Prevention
4 2 (14.29%) Kanban
4 2 (14.29%) Project Delivery
4 2 (14.29%) Time Management
5 1 (7.14%) Change Management
5 1 (7.14%) Cloud Operations
5 1 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (7.14%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 14 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (14.29%) Jamf Pro
2 2 (14.29%) SCCM
3 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) Microsoft
2 3 (21.43%) HP
3 1 (7.14%) Globalscape
3 1 (7.14%) MuleSoft
3 1 (7.14%) Netskope
3 1 (7.14%) VMware