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 £411 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 180 216 238
Rank change year-on-year +36 +22 -39
Contract jobs requiring an Active Directory Engineer 18 3 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.33% 0.053% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.056% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 2 10
10th Percentile £179 £236 £356
25th Percentile £360 £271 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £411 £335 £455
Median % change year-on-year +22.69% -26.37% +33.33%
75th Percentile £608 £393 £479
90th Percentile £638 £424 £503
England median daily rate £411 £445 £455
% change year-on-year -7.64% -2.20% +30.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
England median hourly rate £50.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 5,091 5,373 7,296
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.24% 94.75% 95.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,070 3,753 4,943
10th Percentile £213 £220 £203
25th Percentile £400 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £493
Median % change year-on-year - +1.42% +9.56%
75th Percentile £619 £604 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £673
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 483 242 324
10th Percentile £12.79 £16.53 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.32 £21.33 £15.59
Median hourly rate £47.50 £47.79 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.61% +138.95% -19.19%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £43.00
90th Percentile £77.40 £75.00 £58.12
England median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +95.65% +4.55%

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 10 May 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 10 May 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 +18 16 £411 +82.67% 1
Buckinghamshire - 8 £411 -
Berkshire - 6 £605 - 1
Oxfordshire +7 2 £138 -38.89%
Kent - 1 £525 -
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 10 May 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 17 (94.44%) Active Directory
2 10 (55.56%) Azure
3 9 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 9 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (44.44%) SC Cleared
4 8 (44.44%) Entra ID
4 8 (44.44%) Microsoft
5 7 (38.89%) Windows
5 7 (38.89%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (27.78%) SCCM
7 5 (27.78%) ITIL
8 4 (22.22%) DHCP
8 4 (22.22%) DNS
8 4 (22.22%) PKI
8 4 (22.22%) Degree
8 4 (22.22%) Agile
8 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (16.67%) Analytics
9 3 (16.67%) DV Cleared
9 3 (16.67%) Windows 10
9 3 (16.67%) Kubernetes
9 3 (16.67%) Release Management
9 3 (16.67%) DevOps
9 3 (16.67%) Asset Management
9 3 (16.67%) Firewall
9 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
9 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
10 2 (11.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (11.11%) Bicep

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 7 (38.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (55.56%) Azure
2 9 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (44.44%) Entra ID
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Storage
5 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) DHCP
1 4 (22.22%) DNS
2 3 (16.67%) Firewall
General
1 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.56%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) PKI
2 2 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.56%) BYOD
Operating Systems
1 7 (38.89%) Windows
2 3 (16.67%) Windows 10
3 2 (11.11%) Linux
3 2 (11.11%) Windows Server
3 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (27.78%) ITIL
3 4 (22.22%) Agile
4 3 (16.67%) Analytics
4 3 (16.67%) Asset Management
4 3 (16.67%) DevOps
4 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (16.67%) Release Management
5 2 (11.11%) CI/CD
5 2 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (11.11%) Incident Management
5 2 (11.11%) Log Analytics
5 2 (11.11%) Mobile Device Management
5 2 (11.11%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 2 (11.11%) Privileged Access Management
5 2 (11.11%) Privileged Identity Management
5 2 (11.11%) Process Improvement
5 2 (11.11%) RBAC
5 2 (11.11%) Runbook
5 2 (11.11%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) Bicep
1 2 (11.11%) C#
1 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 2 (11.11%) VB
1 2 (11.11%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 9 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (44.44%) SC Cleared
3 4 (22.22%) Degree
4 3 (16.67%) DV Cleared
5 2 (11.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
System Software
1 17 (94.44%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.11%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) SCCM
2 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (16.67%) Kubernetes
4 2 (11.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (11.11%) SCOM
4 2 (11.11%) WSUS
5 1 (5.56%) Ansible
5 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) CyberArk
2 2 (11.11%) Okta
3 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow