Active Directory Support Engineer Contracts

Microsoft Active Directory Support Engineer
UK

The median Microsoft Active Directory Support Engineer daily rate in the UK is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 555 692 837
Rank change year-on-year +137 +145 -122
Contract jobs requiring an Active Directory Support Engineer 29 5 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.066% 0.009% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.072% 0.010% 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 5 6
10th Percentile £163 £171 £173
25th Percentile £200 £198 £292
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £215 £425
Median % change year-on-year +120.93% -49.41% +21.43%
75th Percentile £608 £233 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £605 £215 £103
% change year-on-year +181.40% +109.76% -62.73%
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

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 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

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 14 June 2024.

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 10 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 14 June 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 +110 29 £475 +120.93% 2
UK excluding London +48 21 £605 +181.40% 2
South East - 15 £605 - 2
Work from Home +124 9 £605 +290.32% 2
London +86 7 £200 -6.98%
Midlands +18 3 £210 -2.33%
East Midlands +8 3 £210 -2.33%
North West - 2 £168 -
North of England - 2 £168 -
East of England - 1 £200 -

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

For the 6 months to 14 June 2024, 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 29 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 23 (79.31%) Windows
3 22 (75.86%) Azure
4 21 (72.41%) Microsoft 365
5 19 (65.52%) Microsoft
6 16 (55.17%) SCCM
7 14 (48.28%) Windows 10
7 14 (48.28%) Entra ID
8 13 (44.83%) Windows Server
8 13 (44.83%) SC Cleared
8 13 (44.83%) Security Cleared
9 12 (41.38%) DV Cleared
9 12 (41.38%) Firewall
10 10 (34.48%) Social Skills
11 9 (31.03%) Microsoft Exchange
11 9 (31.03%) ITIL
12 8 (27.59%) Linux
12 8 (27.59%) DHCP
12 8 (27.59%) DNS
12 8 (27.59%) Agile
12 8 (27.59%) DevOps
12 8 (27.59%) Microsoft Intune
12 8 (27.59%) PowerShell
12 8 (27.59%) CI/CD
12 8 (27.59%) Multi-Factor Authentication
13 7 (24.14%) Virtual Machines
13 7 (24.14%) Virtual Desktop
13 7 (24.14%) Privileged Identity Management
13 7 (24.14%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (24.14%) Infrastructure as Code

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 9 (31.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 5 (17.24%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 22 (75.86%) Azure
2 21 (72.41%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (48.28%) Entra ID
4 7 (24.14%) Azure Monitor
4 7 (24.14%) Azure Storage
5 2 (6.90%) AWS
6 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (41.38%) Firewall
2 8 (27.59%) DHCP
2 8 (27.59%) DNS
3 4 (13.79%) Ethernet
3 4 (13.79%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.45%) Internet
4 1 (3.45%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.69%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.45%) DB2
2 1 (3.45%) MariaDB
2 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.45%) MySQL
2 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) JIRA
2 1 (3.45%) Git
General
1 10 (34.48%) Social Skills
2 7 (24.14%) Finance
3 5 (17.24%) Banking
4 1 (3.45%) Arabic Language
4 1 (3.45%) French Language
4 1 (3.45%) German Language
4 1 (3.45%) Japanese Language
4 1 (3.45%) Korean Language
4 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Retail
4 1 (3.45%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (24.14%) ARM Templates
2 1 (3.45%) JSON
2 1 (3.45%) OpenID
2 1 (3.45%) SAML
2 1 (3.45%) SOAP
2 1 (3.45%) TIBCO EMS
2 1 (3.45%) XML
2 1 (3.45%) XSD
2 1 (3.45%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 7 (24.14%) PKI
1 7 (24.14%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (6.90%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.45%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 23 (79.31%) Windows
2 14 (48.28%) Windows 10
3 13 (44.83%) Windows Server
4 8 (27.59%) Linux
5 7 (24.14%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (24.14%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (17.24%) Windows 7
7 4 (13.79%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (3.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (31.03%) ITIL
2 8 (27.59%) Agile
2 8 (27.59%) CI/CD
2 8 (27.59%) DevOps
2 8 (27.59%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 7 (24.14%) Analytics
3 7 (24.14%) Identity Management
3 7 (24.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (24.14%) Log Analytics
3 7 (24.14%) Privileged Identity Management
3 7 (24.14%) RBAC
3 7 (24.14%) Release Management
3 7 (24.14%) Service Management
4 4 (13.79%) Ticket Management
5 2 (6.90%) Incident Management
5 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (6.90%) Migration
5 2 (6.90%) Mobile Device Management
5 2 (6.90%) Virtual Infrastructure
6 1 (3.45%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 8 (27.59%) PowerShell
2 7 (24.14%) Bicep
2 7 (24.14%) C#
2 7 (24.14%) VB
2 7 (24.14%) VBScript
3 1 (3.45%) XPath
Qualifications
1 13 (44.83%) SC Cleared
1 13 (44.83%) Security Cleared
2 12 (41.38%) DV Cleared
3 7 (24.14%) Degree
3 7 (24.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 5 (17.24%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 29 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (24.14%) Virtual Desktop
2 7 (24.14%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (55.17%) SCCM
2 8 (27.59%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (24.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 7 (24.14%) Kubernetes
3 7 (24.14%) SCOM
3 7 (24.14%) WSUS
4 4 (13.79%) Autotask
5 1 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (3.45%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 19 (65.52%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.79%) Cisco
2 4 (13.79%) Remedy
3 3 (10.34%) ServiceNow
4 2 (6.90%) Citrix
4 2 (6.90%) VMware
5 1 (3.45%) IBM
5 1 (3.45%) Oracle
5 1 (3.45%) TIBCO