Active Directory Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Active Directory Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Microsoft Active Directory Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £400, 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 309 359 437
Rank change year-on-year +50 +78 +28
Contract jobs requiring an Active Directory Engineer 27 40 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.19% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.21% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 31 18
10th Percentile £201 £134 £359
25th Percentile £313 £181 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £225 £463
Median % change year-on-year +77.78% -51.35% +16.35%
75th Percentile £485 £460 £488
90th Percentile £611 £608 £533
UK median daily rate £400 £411 £445
% change year-on-year -2.68% -7.64% -1.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £27.94 £50.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -44.12% - -
UK median hourly rate £27.94 £50.00 -
% change year-on-year -44.12% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Active Directory Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory Engineer in the UK excluding London

Active Directory Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Active Directory Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Active Directory Engineer in the UK excluding London

Active Directory Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory Engineer in the UK excluding London

Active Directory Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Active Directory Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory Engineer in the UK excluding London

Active Directory Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
North of England +24 10 £340 +102.99% 3
South East +35 7 £435 +5.84% 1
Midlands +25 6 £460 +119.05%
West Midlands - 5 £460 -
North West +17 4 £288 +71.64%
North East +3 4 £340 - 2
East of England +29 2 £575 +228.57%
Yorkshire - 2 £400 - 1
South West +41 1 £340 +54.55%
Scotland +9 1 £325 -31.58%
East Midlands +8 1 £180 -14.29%
Active Directory Engineer
UK

Active Directory Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region featuring Active Directory Engineer in the job title.

1 27 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 21 (77.78%) Microsoft
3 17 (62.96%) Windows
4 15 (55.56%) Azure
5 11 (40.74%) Entra ID
6 9 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (29.63%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (25.93%) DNS
8 7 (25.93%) SCCM
9 6 (22.22%) PowerShell
9 6 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (18.52%) Social Skills
11 4 (14.81%) Public Sector
11 4 (14.81%) Windows 10
11 4 (14.81%) Identity Access Management
11 4 (14.81%) Multi-Factor Authentication
11 4 (14.81%) Privileged Identity Management
11 4 (14.81%) SC Cleared
11 4 (14.81%) Security Cleared
11 4 (14.81%) Migration
11 4 (14.81%) Banking
11 4 (14.81%) Identity Management
11 4 (14.81%) ITIL
11 4 (14.81%) VPN
12 3 (11.11%) Linux
12 3 (11.11%) Firewall
12 3 (11.11%) Finance
12 3 (11.11%) Wealth Management
12 3 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (11.11%) Windows Server

Active Directory Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.70%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (3.70%) Exchange Server 2013
2 1 (3.70%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.70%) CANalyzer
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 15 (55.56%) Azure
2 11 (40.74%) Entra ID
3 9 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Storage
4 1 (3.70%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 7 (25.93%) DNS
2 4 (14.81%) VPN
3 3 (11.11%) Firewall
4 1 (3.70%) DHCP
4 1 (3.70%) Ethernet
4 1 (3.70%) IMAP
4 1 (3.70%) SAN
4 1 (3.70%) Skype
4 1 (3.70%) SMTP
4 1 (3.70%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) CANoe
General
1 5 (18.52%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.81%) Banking
2 4 (14.81%) Public Sector
3 3 (11.11%) Finance
3 3 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (7.41%) Electronics
4 2 (7.41%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.70%) Automotive
5 1 (3.70%) Marketing
5 1 (3.70%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.70%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.70%) Blackberry
2 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.70%) iPhone
2 1 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.70%) PKI
2 1 (3.70%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 17 (62.96%) Windows
2 4 (14.81%) Windows 10
3 3 (11.11%) Linux
3 3 (11.11%) Windows Server
4 2 (7.41%) Windows 7
4 2 (7.41%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (3.70%) Android
5 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (14.81%) Identity Access Management
1 4 (14.81%) Identity Management
1 4 (14.81%) ITIL
1 4 (14.81%) Migration
1 4 (14.81%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 4 (14.81%) Privileged Identity Management
2 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (11.11%) Wealth Management
3 1 (3.70%) Analytics
3 1 (3.70%) Data Protection
3 1 (3.70%) DevOps
3 1 (3.70%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (3.70%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (3.70%) ITSM
3 1 (3.70%) Patch Management
3 1 (3.70%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (3.70%) Release Management
3 1 (3.70%) Server Building
3 1 (3.70%) Software Deployment
3 1 (3.70%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (22.22%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.70%) Bash
2 1 (3.70%) Bicep
2 1 (3.70%) C#
2 1 (3.70%) MATLAB
2 1 (3.70%) SQL
2 1 (3.70%) VB
2 1 (3.70%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) SC Cleared
1 4 (14.81%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.41%) Degree
2 2 (7.41%) DV Cleared
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
System Software
1 27 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.41%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (7.41%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.70%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (29.63%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (25.93%) SCCM
3 1 (3.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.70%) SCOM
3 1 (3.70%) WSUS
Vendors
1 21 (77.78%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.41%) Cisco
2 2 (7.41%) Citrix
2 2 (7.41%) VMware
3 1 (3.70%) HP
3 1 (3.70%) NetApp
3 1 (3.70%) Oracle
3 1 (3.70%) Remedy
3 1 (3.70%) SAP