Active Directory Engineer Contracts in Reading

Microsoft Active Directory Engineer
Berkshire > Reading

The median Microsoft Active Directory Engineer daily rate in Reading is £605, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2024.

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

6 months to
16 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 84 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Active Directory Engineer 15 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.24% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.34% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 13 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £603 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 - -
75th Percentile £608 - -
90th Percentile £652 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £605 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Reading

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Reading. 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 Reading with a recognized job title 1,119 996 1,312
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 95.13% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 602 643 858
10th Percentile £214 £363 £176
25th Percentile £413 £456 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £491
Median % change year-on-year - +11.96% +3.42%
75th Percentile £634 £661 £592
90th Percentile £688 £721 £650
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 22 8
10th Percentile £38.50 £45.25 £12.73
25th Percentile £52.90 £55.91 £19.44
Median hourly rate £61.60 £68.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.41% +142.86% -26.32%
75th Percentile £87.46 £75.56 £33.10
90th Percentile £98.75 £79.19 £34.92
Berkshire median hourly rate £60.80 £64.68 £19.75
% change year-on-year -5.99% +227.47% -8.14%

Active Directory Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory Engineer in Reading

Active Directory Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory Engineer in Reading

Active Directory Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory Engineer in Reading

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

For the 6 months to 16 June 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 Reading region featuring Active Directory Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) Azure
1 15 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 12 (80.00%) SC Cleared
2 12 (80.00%) DV Cleared
2 12 (80.00%) Security Cleared
3 10 (66.67%) Entra ID
4 7 (46.67%) Windows Server
4 7 (46.67%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 7 (46.67%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (46.67%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (46.67%) Privileged Identity Management
4 7 (46.67%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (46.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (46.67%) Windows Server 2016
4 7 (46.67%) Windows Server 2019
4 7 (46.67%) Azure Storage
4 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
4 7 (46.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 7 (46.67%) Bicep
4 7 (46.67%) ARM Templates
4 7 (46.67%) Log Analytics
4 7 (46.67%) Azure Monitor
4 7 (46.67%) RBAC
4 7 (46.67%) CI/CD
4 7 (46.67%) Service Management
4 7 (46.67%) Firewall
4 7 (46.67%) Identity Management
4 7 (46.67%) Agile
4 7 (46.67%) PKI
4 7 (46.67%) Degree

Active Directory Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 7 (46.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (66.67%) Entra ID
3 7 (46.67%) Azure Monitor
3 7 (46.67%) Azure Storage
3 7 (46.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (46.67%) DHCP
1 7 (46.67%) DNS
1 7 (46.67%) Firewall
General
1 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (46.67%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) PKI
1 7 (46.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (46.67%) Linux
1 7 (46.67%) Windows
1 7 (46.67%) Windows Server
1 7 (46.67%) Windows Server 2016
1 7 (46.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Agile
1 7 (46.67%) Analytics
1 7 (46.67%) CI/CD
1 7 (46.67%) DevOps
1 7 (46.67%) Identity Management
1 7 (46.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 7 (46.67%) ITIL
1 7 (46.67%) Log Analytics
1 7 (46.67%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 7 (46.67%) Privileged Identity Management
1 7 (46.67%) RBAC
1 7 (46.67%) Release Management
1 7 (46.67%) Service Management
2 3 (20.00%) Asset Management
3 2 (13.33%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (13.33%) Privileged Access Management
3 2 (13.33%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) Bicep
1 7 (46.67%) C#
1 7 (46.67%) PowerShell
1 7 (46.67%) VB
1 7 (46.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 12 (80.00%) DV Cleared
1 12 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 12 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (46.67%) Degree
2 7 (46.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
System Software
1 15 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (46.67%) Virtual Desktop
2 7 (46.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (46.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 7 (46.67%) Kubernetes
1 7 (46.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 7 (46.67%) SCCM
1 7 (46.67%) SCOM
1 7 (46.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) CyberArk
2 2 (13.33%) Okta