Active Directory Support Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Active Directory Support Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Microsoft Active Directory Support Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £418, 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 328 389 458
Rank change year-on-year +61 +69 +49
Contract jobs requiring an Active Directory Support Engineer 8 10 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.063% 0.048% 0.017%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.068% 0.052% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 4
10th Percentile £163 £162 -
25th Percentile £172 £163 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £210 £475
Median % change year-on-year +98.81% -55.79% +363.41%
75th Percentile £451 £225 £488
90th Percentile £532 £302 -
UK median daily rate £225 £200 £475
% change year-on-year +12.50% -57.89% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £50.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £50.00 -

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 Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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

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

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

Active Directory Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

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

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

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

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

Active Directory Support 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 Support 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
South East +46 4 £468 +107.78% 1
North of England +20 3 £175 +4.48% 1
North West +18 3 £175 +4.48%
Midlands +20 1 £180 -14.29%
East Midlands +8 1 £180 -14.29%
Active Directory Support Engineer
UK

Active Directory Support 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 Support 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 Support Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 8 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (87.50%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (50.00%) Windows
4 4 (50.00%) Banking
4 4 (50.00%) Entra ID
5 3 (37.50%) Wealth Management
5 3 (37.50%) Windows 10
5 3 (37.50%) Firewall
5 3 (37.50%) SCCM
5 3 (37.50%) VPN
5 3 (37.50%) ITIL
5 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
6 2 (25.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
6 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (25.00%) Identity Management
6 2 (25.00%) Finance
6 2 (25.00%) Privileged Identity Management
6 2 (25.00%) Windows 7
7 1 (12.50%) Release Management
7 1 (12.50%) Service Management
7 1 (12.50%) Analytics
7 1 (12.50%) DevOps
7 1 (12.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes

Active Directory Support 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 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (87.50%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (50.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Firewall
1 3 (37.50%) VPN
2 1 (12.50%) DHCP
2 1 (12.50%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (50.00%) Banking
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) iPhone
1 1 (12.50%) PKI
1 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (12.50%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) Windows 10
3 2 (25.00%) Windows 7
4 1 (12.50%) Android
4 1 (12.50%) Linux
4 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
4 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) ITIL
1 3 (37.50%) Wealth Management
2 2 (25.00%) Identity Management
2 2 (25.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 2 (25.00%) Privileged Identity Management
3 1 (12.50%) Agile
3 1 (12.50%) Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (12.50%) Log Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) RBAC
3 1 (12.50%) Release Management
3 1 (12.50%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Bicep
1 1 (12.50%) C#
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
1 1 (12.50%) VB
1 1 (12.50%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (37.50%) SCCM
3 1 (12.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (12.50%) SCOM
3 1 (12.50%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Citrix