Active Directory Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Active Directory Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Microsoft Active Directory Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £411 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 May 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 339 407 455
Rank change year-on-year +68 +48 -63
Contract jobs requiring an Active Directory Engineer 39 28 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.12% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.13% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 21 30
10th Percentile £136 £213 £168
25th Percentile £191 £363 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £411 £445 £398
Median % change year-on-year -7.64% +11.95% -6.47%
75th Percentile £541 £519 £483
90th Percentile £608 £563 £544
UK median daily rate £414 £445 £455
% change year-on-year -6.91% -2.20% +7.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,835 21,601 29,071
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 94.28% 95.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,498 15,031 20,385
10th Percentile £213 £225 £205
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,316 1,097 1,445
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.40
25th Percentile £15.75 £17.72 £14.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.16 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% +110.78% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.64 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.44%

Active Directory Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory Engineer in the UK excluding London

Active Directory Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory Engineer in the UK excluding London

Active Directory Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory Engineer in the UK excluding London

Active Directory Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory Engineer in the UK excluding London

Active Directory Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 May 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
South East +35 21 £421 +25.73% 3
Scotland +41 4 £475 +2.70%
North of England +28 4 £168 -64.74% 1
North West +25 4 £168 -64.74% 1
South West +15 4 £220 -59.45%
Midlands +30 3 £210 -50.30%
East Midlands +13 3 £210 -51.59%
East of England +10 3 £175 -68.18%
Active Directory Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 May 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 UK excluding London region featuring Active Directory Engineer in the job title.

1 39 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 20 (51.28%) Windows
3 19 (48.72%) Azure
3 19 (48.72%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (35.90%) Microsoft
4 14 (35.90%) Security Cleared
4 14 (35.90%) Entra ID
5 12 (30.77%) SC Cleared
6 10 (25.64%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (25.64%) Social Skills
7 9 (23.08%) Windows Server
7 9 (23.08%) Windows 10
7 9 (23.08%) PowerShell
8 8 (20.51%) DV Cleared
8 8 (20.51%) SCCM
8 8 (20.51%) DHCP
8 8 (20.51%) DNS
8 8 (20.51%) Microsoft Office
8 8 (20.51%) Firewall
8 8 (20.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 7 (17.95%) ITIL
10 6 (15.38%) Degree
10 6 (15.38%) Agile
10 6 (15.38%) PKI
10 6 (15.38%) Analytics
10 6 (15.38%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (15.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (12.82%) RBAC
11 5 (12.82%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (12.82%) Release Management

Active Directory Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 10 (25.64%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (20.51%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 19 (48.72%) Azure
1 19 (48.72%) Microsoft 365
2 14 (35.90%) Entra ID
3 4 (10.26%) Azure Monitor
3 4 (10.26%) Azure Storage
4 1 (2.56%) Azure Functions
4 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (2.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (20.51%) DHCP
1 8 (20.51%) DNS
1 8 (20.51%) Firewall
2 4 (10.26%) Ethernet
2 4 (10.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (10.26%) JIRA
General
1 10 (25.64%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.13%) Banking
2 2 (5.13%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.26%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.38%) PKI
2 4 (10.26%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (5.13%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.13%) IoT
3 2 (5.13%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 20 (51.28%) Windows
2 9 (23.08%) Windows 10
2 9 (23.08%) Windows Server
3 6 (15.38%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (10.26%) Linux
4 4 (10.26%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (10.26%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (5.13%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (20.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (17.95%) ITIL
3 6 (15.38%) Agile
3 6 (15.38%) Analytics
4 5 (12.82%) Identity Management
4 5 (12.82%) Migration
4 5 (12.82%) RBAC
4 5 (12.82%) Release Management
5 4 (10.26%) CI/CD
5 4 (10.26%) Customer Service
5 4 (10.26%) DevOps
5 4 (10.26%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (10.26%) Log Analytics
5 4 (10.26%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 4 (10.26%) Privileged Identity Management
5 4 (10.26%) Service Management
5 4 (10.26%) Ticket Management
5 4 (10.26%) Time Management
6 3 (7.69%) Asset Management
6 3 (7.69%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (23.08%) PowerShell
2 4 (10.26%) Bicep
2 4 (10.26%) C#
2 4 (10.26%) VB
2 4 (10.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 14 (35.90%) Security Cleared
2 12 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 8 (20.51%) DV Cleared
4 6 (15.38%) Degree
5 4 (10.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.13%) SLA
System Software
1 39 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (10.26%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (10.26%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (5.13%) Hyper-V
3 2 (5.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (20.51%) SCCM
2 6 (15.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 5 (12.82%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (10.26%) Autotask
4 4 (10.26%) Kubernetes
4 4 (10.26%) SCOM
4 4 (10.26%) WSUS
5 1 (2.56%) Ansible
Vendors
1 14 (35.90%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.26%) Cisco
2 4 (10.26%) Remedy
3 2 (5.13%) CyberArk
3 2 (5.13%) Okta
3 2 (5.13%) ServiceNow
3 2 (5.13%) VMware