Active Directory Support Engineer Contracts

Microsoft Active Directory Support Engineer
UK

The median Microsoft Active Directory Support Engineer daily rate in the UK is £225, 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 508 565 711
Rank change year-on-year +57 +146 +132
Contract jobs requiring an Active Directory Support Engineer 12 17 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.039% 0.012%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% 0.042% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 13 7
10th Percentile £164 - £226
25th Percentile £175 £163 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £200 £475
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -57.89% +11.76%
75th Percentile £435 £225 £488
90th Percentile £494 £445 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £418 £210 £475
% change year-on-year +98.81% -55.79% +363.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £50.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £50.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Active Directory Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory Support Engineer in the UK

Active Directory Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory Support Engineer in the UK

Active Directory Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory Support Engineer in the UK

Active Directory Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory Support Engineer in the UK

Active Directory Support Engineer
Top 9 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 Support Engineer within the UK 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
England +52 12 £225 +12.50% 2
UK excluding London +61 8 £418 +98.81% 2
South East +46 4 £468 +107.78% 1
Work from Home +43 4 £288 -52.48%
London +36 4 £225 +20.00%
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 Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

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 featuring Active Directory Support Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 12 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 11 (91.67%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (75.00%) Azure
4 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
5 5 (41.67%) Entra ID
5 5 (41.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (41.67%) Banking
5 5 (41.67%) Windows
5 5 (41.67%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (33.33%) Firewall
6 4 (33.33%) SCCM
6 4 (33.33%) Smartphone
6 4 (33.33%) Windows 10
6 4 (33.33%) Customer Service
7 3 (25.00%) Virtual Environments
7 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (25.00%) Windows 7
7 3 (25.00%) Wealth Management
7 3 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (25.00%) Finance
7 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
7 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
7 3 (25.00%) ITIL
7 3 (25.00%) VPN
7 3 (25.00%) HP
8 2 (16.67%) Identity Management
8 2 (16.67%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 2 (16.67%) Privileged Identity Management
9 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation

Active Directory Support 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 5 (41.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (91.67%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (75.00%) Azure
3 5 (41.67%) Entra ID
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) Firewall
2 3 (25.00%) VPN
2 3 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (8.33%) DHCP
3 1 (8.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (41.67%) Banking
3 3 (25.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Smartphone
2 1 (8.33%) iPhone
2 1 (8.33%) PKI
2 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Windows
2 4 (33.33%) Windows 10
3 3 (25.00%) Windows 7
4 1 (8.33%) Android
4 1 (8.33%) Linux
4 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
4 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 3 (25.00%) ITIL
2 3 (25.00%) Virtual Environments
2 3 (25.00%) Wealth Management
3 2 (16.67%) Identity Management
3 2 (16.67%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 2 (16.67%) Privileged Identity Management
4 1 (8.33%) Agile
4 1 (8.33%) Analytics
4 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (8.33%) Log Analytics
4 1 (8.33%) RBAC
4 1 (8.33%) Release Management
4 1 (8.33%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) Bicep
1 1 (8.33%) C#
1 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (8.33%) VB
1 1 (8.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 12 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (33.33%) SCCM
3 1 (8.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (8.33%) SCOM
3 1 (8.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) HP
3 1 (8.33%) Citrix