Active Directory Engineer Contracts

Microsoft Active Directory Engineer
UK

The median Microsoft Active Directory Engineer daily rate in the UK is £411 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 522 636 708
Rank change year-on-year +114 +72 -98
Contract jobs requiring an Active Directory Engineer 68 63 136
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.11% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.12% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 51 96
10th Percentile £156 £198 £200
25th Percentile £200 £288 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £411 £445 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.64% -1.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £500 £503 £570
90th Percentile £594 £563 £590
UK excluding London median daily rate £318 £454 £363
% change year-on-year -29.92% +25.17% -14.71%
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

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 39,895 54,705 83,445
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.63% 95.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,959 38,196 58,620
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,673 1,532 2,041
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.73% +112.16% +5.26%

Active Directory Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory Engineer in the UK

Active Directory Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory Engineer in the UK

Active Directory Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory Engineer over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory Engineer in the UK

Active Directory Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory Engineer in the UK

Active Directory Engineer
Top 12 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 Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 11 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
England +113 60 £411 -7.64% 2
UK excluding London +62 38 £318 -29.92% 1
London +97 26 £438 +19.45% 1
Work from Home +107 20 £531 +19.38% 1
South East +33 18 £411 +22.69% 1
Scotland +42 5 £475 +2.70%
South West +16 5 £220 -45.00%
North of England +34 4 £168 -64.74%
North West +19 4 £168 -64.74%
Midlands +25 3 £210 -50.30%
East Midlands +17 3 £210 -51.59%
East of England +9 3 £175 -63.16%

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

For the 6 months to 11 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 featuring Active Directory Engineer in the job title.

1 67 (98.53%) Active Directory
2 37 (54.41%) Windows
3 33 (48.53%) Azure
4 31 (45.59%) Microsoft 365
5 25 (36.76%) Entra ID
6 24 (35.29%) Microsoft
7 16 (23.53%) Windows Server
7 16 (23.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 16 (23.53%) PowerShell
8 15 (22.06%) Social Skills
8 15 (22.06%) Windows 10
9 14 (20.59%) SCCM
10 13 (19.12%) Finance
10 13 (19.12%) Migration
11 12 (17.65%) Microsoft Exchange
11 12 (17.65%) Microsoft Office
12 11 (16.18%) DHCP
12 11 (16.18%) DNS
12 11 (16.18%) Firewall
12 11 (16.18%) Security Cleared
13 9 (13.24%) Windows Server 2012
14 8 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
14 8 (11.76%) Agile
14 8 (11.76%) Banking
14 8 (11.76%) JIRA
14 8 (11.76%) SC Cleared
14 8 (11.76%) SQL Server
15 7 (10.29%) ITIL
15 7 (10.29%) Identity Access Management
15 7 (10.29%) Windows Server 2016

Active Directory 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 12 (17.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (5.88%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.41%) Confluence
4 2 (2.94%) IIS
5 1 (1.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 12 (17.65%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.47%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 33 (48.53%) Azure
2 31 (45.59%) Microsoft 365
3 25 (36.76%) Entra ID
4 3 (4.41%) Azure Storage
5 2 (2.94%) AWS
5 2 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.94%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (2.94%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.47%) IaaS
6 1 (1.47%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.47%) PaaS
6 1 (1.47%) SaaS
6 1 (1.47%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 11 (16.18%) DHCP
1 11 (16.18%) DNS
1 11 (16.18%) Firewall
2 4 (5.88%) Ethernet
2 4 (5.88%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.94%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (1.47%) HTTPS
4 1 (1.47%) Internet
4 1 (1.47%) MPLS
4 1 (1.47%) Network Security
4 1 (1.47%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.76%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.94%) Power BI
3 1 (1.47%) DB2
3 1 (1.47%) MariaDB
3 1 (1.47%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.47%) MySQL
3 1 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (11.76%) JIRA
2 1 (1.47%) Git
General
1 15 (22.06%) Social Skills
2 13 (19.12%) Finance
3 8 (11.76%) Banking
4 1 (1.47%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.47%) Arabic Language
4 1 (1.47%) French Language
4 1 (1.47%) German Language
4 1 (1.47%) Japanese Language
4 1 (1.47%) Korean Language
4 1 (1.47%) Local Government
4 1 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (1.47%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.47%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.94%) ARM Templates
1 2 (2.94%) JSON
2 1 (1.47%) LDAP
2 1 (1.47%) OAuth
2 1 (1.47%) SailPoint
2 1 (1.47%) SOAP
2 1 (1.47%) TIBCO EMS
2 1 (1.47%) XML
2 1 (1.47%) XSD
2 1 (1.47%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.88%) PKI
2 3 (4.41%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (4.41%) Virtual Team
3 2 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.94%) IoT
3 2 (2.94%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.94%) Replication
3 2 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.47%) BYOD
4 1 (1.47%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.47%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 37 (54.41%) Windows
2 16 (23.53%) Windows Server
3 15 (22.06%) Windows 10
4 9 (13.24%) Windows Server 2012
5 7 (10.29%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (7.35%) Windows 7
7 3 (4.41%) Linux
7 3 (4.41%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (2.94%) Mac OS
9 1 (1.47%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (23.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (19.12%) Migration
3 8 (11.76%) Agile
3 8 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (10.29%) Identity Access Management
4 7 (10.29%) ITIL
5 6 (8.82%) Customer Service
5 6 (8.82%) DevOps
6 5 (7.35%) Analytics
6 5 (7.35%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (7.35%) Time Management
7 4 (5.88%) Identity Management
7 4 (5.88%) Kanban
7 4 (5.88%) RBAC
7 4 (5.88%) Ticket Management
8 3 (4.41%) Change Management
8 3 (4.41%) CI/CD
8 3 (4.41%) Collaborative Culture
8 3 (4.41%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (4.41%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (23.53%) PowerShell
2 2 (2.94%) Bicep
2 2 (2.94%) C#
2 2 (2.94%) SQL
2 2 (2.94%) VB
2 2 (2.94%) VBScript
3 1 (1.47%) XPath
Qualifications
1 11 (16.18%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.35%) Degree
3 5 (7.35%) DV Cleared
3 5 (7.35%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.47%) CISSP
5 1 (1.47%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.41%) SLA
System Software
1 67 (98.53%) Active Directory
2 6 (8.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (7.35%) vSphere
4 3 (4.41%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.94%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.47%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (20.59%) SCCM
2 6 (8.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 6 (8.82%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (5.88%) Autotask
3 4 (5.88%) SCOM
4 3 (4.41%) Kubernetes
5 2 (2.94%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (2.94%) WSUS
6 1 (1.47%) Ansible
6 1 (1.47%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (1.47%) SCOrch
6 1 (1.47%) SCVMM
6 1 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.47%) Terraform
6 1 (1.47%) TIBCO Hawk
6 1 (1.47%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 24 (35.29%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.82%) VMware
3 4 (5.88%) Cisco
3 4 (5.88%) Remedy
4 3 (4.41%) Citrix
4 3 (4.41%) CyberArk
4 3 (4.41%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.94%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (2.94%) HP
5 2 (2.94%) Okta
5 2 (2.94%) Oracle
5 2 (2.94%) Varonis
6 1 (1.47%) Brocade
6 1 (1.47%) CA
6 1 (1.47%) Dell
6 1 (1.47%) Dell Compellent
6 1 (1.47%) IBM
6 1 (1.47%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.47%) Veeam
6 1 (1.47%) Workday