Active Directory Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Microsoft Active Directory Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Microsoft Active Directory Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £39,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary 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 380 586 656
Rank change year-on-year +206 +70 +157
Permanent jobs requiring an Active Directory Engineer 17 6 17
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.018% 0.040%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.018% 0.041%
Number of salaries quoted 17 6 16
10th Percentile £31,250 £46,625 £25,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £48,438 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,500 £53,500 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year -26.17% +4.39% -26.79%
75th Percentile £60,000 £58,563 £57,125
90th Percentile £79,000 £61,875 £58,750
UK median annual salary £41,500 £48,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.87% -2.50% -18.37%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,554 32,482 41,080
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 95.99% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,860 24,960 29,208
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Active Directory Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Active Directory Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Active Directory Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Active Directory Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Active Directory Engineer.

Active Directory Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Active Directory Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Active Directory Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Active Directory Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Active Directory Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Active Directory Engineer 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 permanent jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Active Directory Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (88.24%) Active Directory
2 11 (64.71%) Windows
2 11 (64.71%) Entra ID
3 10 (58.82%) Microsoft
4 8 (47.06%) Firewall
4 8 (47.06%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (47.06%) Azure
4 8 (47.06%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (41.18%) Windows Server
6 6 (35.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
7 5 (29.41%) SQL Server
8 4 (23.53%) CCNA
8 4 (23.53%) DNS
8 4 (23.53%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (23.53%) Information Security
9 3 (17.65%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 3 (17.65%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 3 (17.65%) Hyper-V
9 3 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
9 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
9 3 (17.65%) SCCM
9 3 (17.65%) VMware
9 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (17.65%) IIS
9 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Office
9 3 (17.65%) DHCP
10 2 (11.76%) SAN
10 2 (11.76%) NetApp

Active Directory Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 8 (47.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (17.65%) IIS
3 2 (11.76%) SharePoint
4 1 (5.88%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (64.71%) Entra ID
2 8 (47.06%) Azure
2 8 (47.06%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (11.76%) SaaS
4 1 (5.88%) Mimecast
4 1 (5.88%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 8 (47.06%) Firewall
2 4 (23.53%) DNS
3 3 (17.65%) DHCP
4 2 (11.76%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (11.76%) SAN
5 1 (5.88%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (35.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) OAuth
1 2 (11.76%) OpenID
1 2 (11.76%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Driving Licence
1 2 (11.76%) Management Information System
1 2 (11.76%) Onboarding
1 2 (11.76%) PKI
1 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (64.71%) Windows
2 7 (41.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (23.53%) Information Security
2 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (17.65%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 2 (11.76%) Business Case
3 2 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (11.76%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (11.76%) Identity Management
3 2 (11.76%) Incident Management
3 2 (11.76%) Privileged Identity Management
3 2 (11.76%) RBAC
3 2 (11.76%) Risk Assessment
3 2 (11.76%) SIEM
4 1 (5.88%) Agile
4 1 (5.88%) ITIL
4 1 (5.88%) PRINCE2
4 1 (5.88%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) CCNA
1 4 (23.53%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (11.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (11.76%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (88.24%) Active Directory
2 3 (17.65%) Hyper-V
2 3 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (11.76%) Terminal Services
3 2 (11.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) SCCM
1 3 (17.65%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (5.88%) Ansible
Vendors
1 10 (58.82%) Microsoft
2 3 (17.65%) VMware
3 2 (11.76%) Dell
3 2 (11.76%) HP
3 2 (11.76%) NetApp
4 1 (5.88%) Cisco
4 1 (5.88%) Palo Alto
4 1 (5.88%) SolarWinds