Active Directory Engineer Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Active Directory Engineer
South East > Thames Valley

The median Microsoft Active Directory Engineer daily rate in the Thames Valley is £275, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 129 150
Rank change year-on-year +30 +21 +11
Contract jobs requiring an Active Directory Engineer 3 16 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.20% 0.60% 0.034%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.64% 0.036%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 15 1
10th Percentile - £170 -
25th Percentile £263 £225 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £411 £225
Median % change year-on-year -33.09% +82.67% -50.55%
75th Percentile £448 £520 £238
90th Percentile £544 £643 -
South East median daily rate £435 £411 £335
% change year-on-year +5.84% +22.69% -26.37%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 1,405 2,505 2,767
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.98% 93.26% 94.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 864 1,430 1,916
10th Percentile £300 £206 £313
25th Percentile £409 £370 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 189 76
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.78 £17.31
25th Percentile £16.94 £19.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £45.65 £45.00 £46.70
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% -3.64% +166.86%
75th Percentile £65.62 £62.50 £66.21
90th Percentile £77.47 £84.57 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%

Active Directory Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory Engineer in the Thames Valley

Active Directory Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory Engineer in the Thames Valley

Active Directory Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory Engineer in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory Engineer in the Thames Valley

Active Directory Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory Engineer in the Thames Valley

Active Directory Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Oxfordshire +5 2 £275 +100.00%
Berkshire +27 1 £605 -3.59%
Active Directory Engineer
South East

Active Directory Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 Thames Valley region featuring Active Directory Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
2 1 (33.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (33.33%) Privileged Identity Management
2 1 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Storage
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (33.33%) Bicep
2 1 (33.33%) ARM Templates
2 1 (33.33%) Log Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (33.33%) RBAC
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) PKI
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) WSUS
2 1 (33.33%) Release Management
2 1 (33.33%) SCCM
2 1 (33.33%) SCOM
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared

Active Directory Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Storage
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
1 1 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) Log Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 1 (33.33%) Privileged Identity Management
1 1 (33.33%) RBAC
1 1 (33.33%) Release Management
1 1 (33.33%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bicep
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) VB
1 1 (33.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM
1 1 (33.33%) SCOM
1 1 (33.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft