Active Directory Engineer Contracts in London

Microsoft Active Directory Engineer
England > London

The median Microsoft Active Directory Engineer daily rate in London is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 366 462 531
Rank change year-on-year +96 +69 -63
Contract jobs requiring an Active Directory Engineer 27 31 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.15% 0.12% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.13% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 26 48
10th Percentile £163 £169 £200
25th Percentile £325 £216 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £398 £503
Median % change year-on-year +13.21% -20.90% +21.82%
75th Percentile £556 £475 £575
90th Percentile £594 £609 £605
England median daily rate £418 £431 £463
% change year-on-year -3.19% -6.76% +30.28%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,399 24,342 36,962
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 95.15% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,837 17,773 27,187
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 278 414
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.83 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.22 £22.53 £23.24
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £47.18 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.40 £82.33 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.47%

Active Directory Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory Engineer in London

Active Directory Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory Engineer in London

Active Directory Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory Engineer in London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory Engineer in London

Active Directory Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory Engineer in London

Active Directory Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Central London +36 6 £425 +54.55%
East London - 2 £163 -
South London - 2 £438 -
Active Directory Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 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 across the London region featuring Active Directory Engineer in the job title.

1 26 (96.30%) Active Directory
2 19 (70.37%) Azure
3 14 (51.85%) Entra ID
4 13 (48.15%) Windows
5 12 (44.44%) Finance
6 11 (40.74%) Microsoft
6 11 (40.74%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (29.63%) PowerShell
8 7 (25.93%) Banking
8 7 (25.93%) Windows Server
8 7 (25.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 6 (22.22%) Windows 10
10 5 (18.52%) Identity Access Management
10 5 (18.52%) SCCM
11 4 (14.81%) JIRA
11 4 (14.81%) Agile
11 4 (14.81%) Migration
11 4 (14.81%) SQL Server
11 4 (14.81%) Social Skills
12 3 (11.11%) Collaborative Culture
12 3 (11.11%) Virtual Team
12 3 (11.11%) Windows 7
12 3 (11.11%) vSphere
12 3 (11.11%) Confluence
12 3 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
12 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
12 3 (11.11%) SharePoint
12 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (11.11%) Firewall

Active Directory Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 3 (11.11%) Confluence
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 19 (70.37%) Azure
2 14 (51.85%) Entra ID
3 11 (40.74%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (7.41%) AWS
5 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Storage
5 1 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.70%) GCP
5 1 (3.70%) IaaS
5 1 (3.70%) PaaS
5 1 (3.70%) SaaS
5 1 (3.70%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.11%) Firewall
2 2 (7.41%) DHCP
2 2 (7.41%) DNS
3 1 (3.70%) Internet
3 1 (3.70%) MPLS
3 1 (3.70%) Network Security
3 1 (3.70%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.81%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (14.81%) JIRA
2 1 (3.70%) Git
General
1 12 (44.44%) Finance
2 7 (25.93%) Banking
3 4 (14.81%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.70%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) OAuth
1 2 (7.41%) OpenID
1 2 (7.41%) SAML
2 1 (3.70%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Virtual Team
2 2 (7.41%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.70%) Client/Server
3 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (48.15%) Windows
2 7 (25.93%) Windows Server
3 6 (22.22%) Windows 10
4 3 (11.11%) Windows 7
4 3 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (25.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (18.52%) Identity Access Management
3 4 (14.81%) Agile
3 4 (14.81%) Migration
4 3 (11.11%) Collaborative Culture
4 3 (11.11%) Kanban
5 2 (7.41%) Customer Service
5 2 (7.41%) DevOps
5 2 (7.41%) Identity Management
5 2 (7.41%) ITIL
5 2 (7.41%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (7.41%) Virtual Infrastructure
6 1 (3.70%) Change Management
6 1 (3.70%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (3.70%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 1 (3.70%) Patch Management
6 1 (3.70%) Security Hardening
6 1 (3.70%) Security Patching
6 1 (3.70%) Service Management
6 1 (3.70%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (29.63%) PowerShell
2 2 (7.41%) SQL
3 1 (3.70%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.70%) CISSP
2 1 (3.70%) Degree
2 1 (3.70%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (96.30%) Active Directory
2 3 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (11.11%) vSphere
3 1 (3.70%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (18.52%) SCCM
2 2 (7.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (7.41%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (40.74%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.11%) Citrix
2 3 (11.11%) VMware
3 2 (7.41%) HP
3 2 (7.41%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.70%) Brocade
4 1 (3.70%) CA
4 1 (3.70%) CyberArk
4 1 (3.70%) Dell
4 1 (3.70%) Dell Compellent
4 1 (3.70%) Infoblox
4 1 (3.70%) Oracle
4 1 (3.70%) SolarWinds
4 1 (3.70%) Veeam
4 1 (3.70%) Workday