Active Directory Engineer Contracts

Microsoft Active Directory Engineer
UK

The median Microsoft Active Directory Engineer daily rate in the UK is £411 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 506 636 725
Rank change year-on-year +130 +89 -154
Contract jobs requiring an Active Directory Engineer 73 64 135
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.11% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.11% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 52 93
10th Percentile £157 £216 £200
25th Percentile £201 £300 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £411 £445 £460
Median % change year-on-year -7.64% -3.26% +8.24%
75th Percentile £497 £526 £573
90th Percentile £589 £562 £613
UK excluding London median daily rate £225 £463 £375
% change year-on-year -51.35% +23.33% -11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,413 56,730 84,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,320 39,605 59,435
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,653 1,602 2,109
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.28 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £42.37 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.30% +117.26% +2.47%

Active Directory Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory Engineer in the UK

Active Directory Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory Engineer in the UK

Active Directory Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory Engineer over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory Engineer in the UK

Active Directory Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory Engineer in the UK

Active Directory Engineer
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 26 April 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
England +125 64 £400 -10.11% 4
UK excluding London +84 41 £225 -51.35% 3
London +110 28 £438 +19.45% 1
Work from Home +109 21 £509 +14.33% 3
South East +39 18 £411 -7.64% 3
South West +28 6 £220 -45.00%
Scotland +33 5 £475 -3.31%
North of England +28 5 £168 -64.74%
North West +22 4 £168 -64.74%
Midlands +26 3 £210 -52.81%
East Midlands +21 3 £210 -52.81%
East of England +10 3 £175 -63.16%
Wales +16 1 - -
North East - 1 - -

Active Directory Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 April 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 featuring Active Directory Engineer in the job title.

1 71 (97.26%) Active Directory
2 40 (54.79%) Windows
3 35 (47.95%) Azure
4 33 (45.21%) Microsoft 365
5 26 (35.62%) Entra ID
5 26 (35.62%) Microsoft
6 18 (24.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 16 (21.92%) PowerShell
7 16 (21.92%) Windows Server
7 16 (21.92%) Windows 10
8 15 (20.55%) Social Skills
8 15 (20.55%) SCCM
9 14 (19.18%) Migration
10 13 (17.81%) Finance
10 13 (17.81%) Microsoft Exchange
11 12 (16.44%) Microsoft Office
12 11 (15.07%) Firewall
13 10 (13.70%) DHCP
13 10 (13.70%) DNS
13 10 (13.70%) Security Cleared
14 9 (12.33%) Windows Server 2012
15 8 (10.96%) Problem-Solving
15 8 (10.96%) JIRA
15 8 (10.96%) Banking
15 8 (10.96%) VMware
15 8 (10.96%) SQL Server
16 7 (9.59%) SC Cleared
16 7 (9.59%) Agile
16 7 (9.59%) Windows Server 2016
16 7 (9.59%) Identity Access Management

Active Directory Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 13 (17.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (5.48%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.11%) Confluence
4 2 (2.74%) IIS
5 1 (1.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 12 (16.44%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.37%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.37%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 35 (47.95%) Azure
2 33 (45.21%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (35.62%) Entra ID
4 2 (2.74%) AWS
4 2 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.74%) Azure Storage
4 2 (2.74%) OneDrive
4 2 (2.74%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.37%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (1.37%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.37%) IaaS
5 1 (1.37%) PaaS
5 1 (1.37%) SaaS
5 1 (1.37%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 11 (15.07%) Firewall
2 10 (13.70%) DHCP
2 10 (13.70%) DNS
3 4 (5.48%) Ethernet
3 4 (5.48%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.74%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (1.37%) HTTPS
5 1 (1.37%) Internet
5 1 (1.37%) MPLS
5 1 (1.37%) Network Security
5 1 (1.37%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.96%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.74%) Power BI
3 1 (1.37%) DB2
3 1 (1.37%) MariaDB
3 1 (1.37%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.37%) MySQL
3 1 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (10.96%) JIRA
2 1 (1.37%) Git
General
1 15 (20.55%) Social Skills
2 13 (17.81%) Finance
3 8 (10.96%) Banking
4 1 (1.37%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.37%) Arabic Language
4 1 (1.37%) French Language
4 1 (1.37%) German Language
4 1 (1.37%) Japanese Language
4 1 (1.37%) Korean Language
4 1 (1.37%) Legal
4 1 (1.37%) Local Government
4 1 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (1.37%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.37%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.74%) JSON
2 1 (1.37%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.37%) LDAP
2 1 (1.37%) OAuth
2 1 (1.37%) SailPoint
2 1 (1.37%) SOAP
2 1 (1.37%) TIBCO EMS
2 1 (1.37%) XML
2 1 (1.37%) XSD
2 1 (1.37%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.48%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (4.11%) IoT
2 3 (4.11%) PKI
2 3 (4.11%) Replication
2 3 (4.11%) Virtual Team
3 2 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.74%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.37%) BYOD
4 1 (1.37%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.37%) Clustering
4 1 (1.37%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 40 (54.79%) Windows
2 16 (21.92%) Windows 10
2 16 (21.92%) Windows Server
3 9 (12.33%) Windows Server 2012
4 7 (9.59%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (6.85%) Windows 7
6 2 (2.74%) Linux
6 2 (2.74%) Mac OS
6 2 (2.74%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (24.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (19.18%) Migration
3 8 (10.96%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (9.59%) Agile
4 7 (9.59%) Identity Access Management
5 6 (8.22%) Customer Service
5 6 (8.22%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (8.22%) ITIL
6 5 (6.85%) Analytics
6 5 (6.85%) DevOps
6 5 (6.85%) Time Management
7 4 (5.48%) Data Protection
7 4 (5.48%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (5.48%) Kanban
7 4 (5.48%) Runbook
7 4 (5.48%) Ticket Management
8 3 (4.11%) Collaborative Culture
8 3 (4.11%) Identity Management
8 3 (4.11%) Incident Management
8 3 (4.11%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 16 (21.92%) PowerShell
2 2 (2.74%) SQL
3 1 (1.37%) Bicep
3 1 (1.37%) C#
3 1 (1.37%) VB
3 1 (1.37%) VBScript
3 1 (1.37%) XPath
Qualifications
1 10 (13.70%) Security Cleared
2 7 (9.59%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.85%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (5.48%) Degree
4 4 (5.48%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.37%) CISSP
5 1 (1.37%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.11%) SLA
System Software
1 71 (97.26%) Active Directory
2 6 (8.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (6.85%) vSphere
4 3 (4.11%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.37%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.37%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.37%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 15 (20.55%) SCCM
2 6 (8.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 5 (6.85%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (5.48%) Autotask
5 3 (4.11%) SCOM
6 2 (2.74%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (2.74%) Kubernetes
6 2 (2.74%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (2.74%) WSUS
7 1 (1.37%) Ansible
7 1 (1.37%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (1.37%) SCOrch
7 1 (1.37%) SCVMM
7 1 (1.37%) Terraform
7 1 (1.37%) TIBCO Hawk
7 1 (1.37%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 26 (35.62%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.96%) VMware
3 5 (6.85%) Cisco
4 4 (5.48%) Citrix
4 4 (5.48%) Remedy
4 4 (5.48%) ServiceNow
5 3 (4.11%) CyberArk
6 2 (2.74%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (2.74%) Dell
6 2 (2.74%) HP
6 2 (2.74%) Okta
6 2 (2.74%) Oracle
6 2 (2.74%) Varonis
7 1 (1.37%) Brocade
7 1 (1.37%) CA
7 1 (1.37%) EMC
7 1 (1.37%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.37%) IBM
7 1 (1.37%) TIBCO
7 1 (1.37%) Veeam