Hybrid/Remote Active Directory Engineer Contract Job Trends

Microsoft Active Directory Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Microsoft Active Directory Engineer daily rate for remote/hybrid work is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 September 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 313 304
Rank change year-on-year -43 -9 +87
Contract jobs requiring an Active Directory Engineer 16 9 35
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.12% 0.092% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.098% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 23
10th Percentile £430 £260 £413
25th Percentile £497 £313 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £425 £538
Median % change year-on-year +35.29% -20.93% +9.14%
75th Percentile £656 £575 £608
90th Percentile £687 £595 -
UK median daily rate £500 £340 £494
% change year-on-year +47.06% -31.14% -0.50%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 12,545 9,148 11,792
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 93.78% 93.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,845 6,032 7,479
10th Percentile £358 £325 £325
25th Percentile £431 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £712 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 710 293 281
10th Percentile £15.69 £13.82 £20.75
25th Percentile £26.89 £21.02 £35.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £39.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.90% -12.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £82.50 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +65.94% -41.51% -3.37%

Active Directory Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Active Directory Engineer' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Active Directory Engineer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Active Directory Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Active Directory Engineer job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Active Directory Engineer job vacancies

Active Directory Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Active Directory Engineer over the 6 months to 27 September 2026.

Active Directory Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Active Directory Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Active Directory Engineer job vacancies.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Active Directory Engineer job vacancies

Active Directory Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 27 September 2026, Active Directory Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Active Directory Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 11 (68.75%) Azure
2 11 (68.75%) Entra ID
2 11 (68.75%) Microsoft
3 8 (50.00%) Windows
4 7 (43.75%) DNS
5 6 (37.50%) DHCP
5 6 (37.50%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (31.25%) PowerShell
7 4 (25.00%) JIRA
7 4 (25.00%) Kanban
7 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (18.75%) AWS
8 3 (18.75%) Identity Access Management
8 3 (18.75%) Remediation Plan
8 3 (18.75%) Runbook
8 3 (18.75%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (12.50%) Agile
9 2 (12.50%) B2B
9 2 (12.50%) BMC
9 2 (12.50%) Collaborative Culture
9 2 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
9 2 (12.50%) Confluence
9 2 (12.50%) Customer Requirements
9 2 (12.50%) DevOps
9 2 (12.50%) GAP Analysis
9 2 (12.50%) Identity Management
9 2 (12.50%) Information Security
9 2 (12.50%) ITSM
9 2 (12.50%) Kerberos

Active Directory Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (12.50%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 11 (68.75%) Azure
1 11 (68.75%) Entra ID
2 3 (18.75%) AWS
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (43.75%) DNS
2 6 (37.50%) DHCP
3 2 (12.50%) Kerberos
4 1 (6.25%) VPN
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) GitLab
General
1 4 (25.00%) Finance
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) OAuth
1 2 (12.50%) OpenID
1 2 (12.50%) SAML
2 1 (6.25%) Keycloak
2 1 (6.25%) LDAP
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (6.25%) OAuth2
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) PKI
1 5 (31.25%) Replication
2 2 (12.50%) Virtual Team
3 1 (6.25%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
3 1 (6.25%) Linux
3 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (25.00%) Kanban
2 3 (18.75%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (18.75%) Remediation Plan
2 3 (18.75%) Runbook
3 2 (12.50%) Agile
3 2 (12.50%) B2B
3 2 (12.50%) Collaborative Culture
3 2 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (12.50%) Customer Requirements
3 2 (12.50%) DevOps
3 2 (12.50%) GAP Analysis
3 2 (12.50%) Identity Management
3 2 (12.50%) Information Security
3 2 (12.50%) ITSM
3 2 (12.50%) Migration
3 2 (12.50%) Refactoring
3 2 (12.50%) Roadmaps
3 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (12.50%) Validation
4 1 (6.25%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) GDPR
1 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (6.25%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (18.75%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (6.25%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (12.50%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 11 (68.75%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) BMC
2 2 (12.50%) Remedy
2 2 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 1 (6.25%) BeyondTrust
3 1 (6.25%) CyberArk