Active Directory Engineer Contracts in the North of England

Microsoft Active Directory Engineer
England > North of England

The median Microsoft Active Directory Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £168 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 175 214 223
Rank change year-on-year +39 +9 -45
Contract jobs requiring an Active Directory Engineer 5 4 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.11% 0.068% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.072% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile £160 - £271
25th Percentile £161 £463 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £168 £475 £338
Median % change year-on-year -64.74% +40.74% -
75th Percentile £181 £488 £520
90th Percentile £185 - £616
England median daily rate £348 £445 £475
% change year-on-year -21.91% -6.32% +46.15%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of England. 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 North of England with a recognized job title 4,414 5,565 7,029
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.02% 95.14% 96.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,794 3,933 5,191
10th Percentile £263 £275 £200
25th Percentile £381 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £578 £588 £550
90th Percentile £675 £680 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 390 173 301
10th Percentile £11.00 £13.16 £11.17
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.56 £14.25
Median hourly rate £19.75 £30.54 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.33% +65.08% +3.35%
75th Percentile £45.88 £49.40 £31.00
90th Percentile £57.75 £65.95 £50.78
England median hourly rate £35.00 £43.86 £22.40
% change year-on-year -20.20% +95.80% -0.09%

Active Directory Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory Engineer in the North of England

Active Directory Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Active Directory Engineer in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Active Directory Engineer in the North of England

Active Directory Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Active Directory Engineer in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory Engineer in the North of England

Active Directory Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 19 April 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
North West +25 4 £168 -64.74%
North East - 1 - -
Active Directory Engineer
England

Active Directory Engineer Skill Set
Top 25 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 19 April 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 across the North of England region featuring Active Directory Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (80.00%) Firewall
3 3 (60.00%) Azure
3 3 (60.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (40.00%) Windows 10
4 2 (40.00%) SCCM
4 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V
4 2 (40.00%) Windows 7
4 2 (40.00%) Finance
4 2 (40.00%) VMware
4 2 (40.00%) Banking
4 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (40.00%) SLA
4 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (40.00%) Customer Service
5 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
5 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On

Active Directory Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Windows 10
2 2 (40.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) SCCM
2 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) VMware