Active Directory Engineer Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Active Directory Engineer
England > South East

The median Microsoft Active Directory Engineer daily rate in the South East is £605, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 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
17 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 173 212 251
Rank change year-on-year +39 +39 -37
Contract jobs requiring an Active Directory Engineer 27 3 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.47% 0.053% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.056% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 2 10
10th Percentile £225 £236 £405
25th Percentile £406 £271 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £335 £455
Median % change year-on-year +80.60% -26.37% +30.00%
75th Percentile £608 £393 £479
90th Percentile - £424 £503
England median daily rate £414 £418 £469
% change year-on-year -0.78% -10.93% +29.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £54.00
England median hourly rate £50.00 - £54.00
% change year-on-year - - +116.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 5,301 5,353 7,336
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.14% 94.53% 95.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,132 3,704 5,019
10th Percentile £243 £213 £211
25th Percentile £400 £387 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £601 £594
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 552 234 310
10th Percentile £12.88 £16.33 £12.55
25th Percentile £18.82 £22.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £52.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +150.00% -13.93%
75th Percentile £66.74 £66.21 £47.44
90th Percentile £79.88 £75.00 £63.25
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

Active Directory Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory Engineer in the South East

Active Directory Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Active Directory Engineer in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Active Directory Engineer in the South East

Active Directory Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 17 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory Engineer in the South East

Active Directory Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Active Directory Engineer in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory Engineer in the South East

Active Directory Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 17 June 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
Thames Valley +35 26 £605 +168.89% 3
Berkshire - 16 £605 - 3
Buckinghamshire - 8 £411 -
Oxfordshire +3 2 £138 -38.89%
Surrey - 1 - -
Active Directory Engineer
England

Active Directory Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 17 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 South East region featuring Active Directory Engineer in the job title.

1 27 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 19 (70.37%) Security Cleared
2 19 (70.37%) Azure
3 18 (66.67%) SC Cleared
4 13 (48.15%) Microsoft
4 13 (48.15%) DV Cleared
5 12 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (40.74%) Entra ID
6 11 (40.74%) Windows
6 11 (40.74%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (37.04%) ITIL
8 9 (33.33%) DHCP
8 9 (33.33%) DNS
8 9 (33.33%) Degree
8 9 (33.33%) SCCM
8 9 (33.33%) Agile
8 9 (33.33%) PKI
9 8 (29.63%) PowerShell
9 8 (29.63%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (29.63%) Release Management
9 8 (29.63%) Social Skills
10 7 (25.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 7 (25.93%) Bicep
10 7 (25.93%) ARM Templates
10 7 (25.93%) Log Analytics
10 7 (25.93%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (25.93%) RBAC
10 7 (25.93%) CI/CD
10 7 (25.93%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (25.93%) Infrastructure as Code

Active Directory Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 11 (40.74%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 19 (70.37%) Azure
2 12 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (40.74%) Entra ID
4 7 (25.93%) Azure Monitor
4 7 (25.93%) Azure Storage
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Functions
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (3.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (33.33%) DHCP
1 9 (33.33%) DNS
2 7 (25.93%) Firewall
General
1 8 (29.63%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (25.93%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 9 (33.33%) PKI
2 7 (25.93%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (40.74%) Windows
2 7 (25.93%) Linux
2 7 (25.93%) Windows Server
2 7 (25.93%) Windows Server 2016
2 7 (25.93%) Windows Server 2019
3 3 (11.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (37.04%) ITIL
2 9 (33.33%) Agile
3 8 (29.63%) Release Management
4 7 (25.93%) Analytics
4 7 (25.93%) CI/CD
4 7 (25.93%) DevOps
4 7 (25.93%) Identity Management
4 7 (25.93%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (25.93%) Log Analytics
4 7 (25.93%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 7 (25.93%) Privileged Identity Management
4 7 (25.93%) RBAC
4 7 (25.93%) Service Management
5 6 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (11.11%) Asset Management
7 2 (7.41%) Incident Management
7 2 (7.41%) Mobile Device Management
7 2 (7.41%) Privileged Access Management
7 2 (7.41%) Process Improvement
7 2 (7.41%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (29.63%) PowerShell
2 7 (25.93%) Bicep
2 7 (25.93%) C#
2 7 (25.93%) VB
2 7 (25.93%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 19 (70.37%) Security Cleared
2 18 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 13 (48.15%) DV Cleared
4 9 (33.33%) Degree
5 7 (25.93%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
System Software
1 27 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (25.93%) Virtual Desktop
2 7 (25.93%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (33.33%) SCCM
2 8 (29.63%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (25.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 7 (25.93%) Kubernetes
3 7 (25.93%) SCOM
3 7 (25.93%) WSUS
4 1 (3.70%) Ansible
Vendors
1 13 (48.15%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.41%) CyberArk
2 2 (7.41%) Okta
2 2 (7.41%) ServiceNow