Active Directory Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Active Directory Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Microsoft Active Directory Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £538 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 326 429 558
Rank change year-on-year +103 +129 -110
Contract jobs requiring an Active Directory Engineer 19 30 64
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.13% 0.12% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.13% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 28 52
10th Percentile £426 £263 £351
25th Percentile £458 £330 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £445 £483
Median % change year-on-year +20.79% -7.77% +7.22%
75th Percentile £594 £488 £575
90th Percentile £608 £545 £590
UK median daily rate £411 £445 £450
% change year-on-year -7.64% -1.11% +5.88%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 13,777 23,614 42,267
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 95.28% 95.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,296 16,695 30,580
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 541 589
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £25.71 £19.35
Median hourly rate £44.00 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.19% +50.00% +45.83%
75th Percentile £64.14 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £79.19 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%

Active Directory Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Active Directory Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Active Directory Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Active Directory Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Active Directory Engineer.

Active Directory Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Active Directory Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Active Directory Engineer over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Active Directory Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Active Directory Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Active Directory Engineer.

Active Directory Engineer hourly rate 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 19 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Active Directory Engineer in the job title.

1 19 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 12 (63.16%) Windows
3 10 (52.63%) PowerShell
3 10 (52.63%) Azure
4 8 (42.11%) Windows Server
4 8 (42.11%) Agile
4 8 (42.11%) Social Skills
5 7 (36.84%) Microsoft
6 6 (31.58%) Firewall
6 6 (31.58%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (31.58%) DHCP
6 6 (31.58%) DNS
6 6 (31.58%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (31.58%) DevOps
6 6 (31.58%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (26.32%) DV Cleared
7 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
7 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (26.32%) Migration
7 5 (26.32%) SCCM
7 5 (26.32%) SCOM
8 4 (21.05%) Degree
8 4 (21.05%) Kanban
8 4 (21.05%) PKI
8 4 (21.05%) Identity Management
8 4 (21.05%) Linux
8 4 (21.05%) ITIL
8 4 (21.05%) Identity Access Management
8 4 (21.05%) Entra ID

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 6 (31.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (15.79%) Confluence
3 2 (10.53%) IIS
4 1 (5.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 10 (52.63%) Azure
2 6 (31.58%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (21.05%) Entra ID
4 3 (15.79%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (15.79%) Azure Storage
5 2 (10.53%) Power Platform
6 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (31.58%) DHCP
1 6 (31.58%) DNS
1 6 (31.58%) Firewall
2 2 (10.53%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (5.26%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Power BI
1 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.26%) DB2
2 1 (5.26%) MariaDB
2 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.26%) MySQL
2 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) JIRA
2 1 (5.26%) Git
General
1 8 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Banking
2 3 (15.79%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Arabic Language
3 1 (5.26%) French Language
3 1 (5.26%) German Language
3 1 (5.26%) Japanese Language
3 1 (5.26%) Korean Language
3 1 (5.26%) Local Government
3 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.26%) JSON
2 1 (5.26%) LDAP
2 1 (5.26%) SOAP
2 1 (5.26%) TIBCO EMS
2 1 (5.26%) XML
2 1 (5.26%) XSD
2 1 (5.26%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) PKI
2 3 (15.79%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (15.79%) Virtual Team
3 2 (10.53%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.26%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 12 (63.16%) Windows
2 8 (42.11%) Windows Server
3 6 (31.58%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (21.05%) Linux
4 4 (21.05%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (15.79%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (5.26%) Unix
6 1 (5.26%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Agile
2 6 (31.58%) DevOps
3 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (26.32%) Migration
3 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (21.05%) CI/CD
4 4 (21.05%) Identity Access Management
4 4 (21.05%) Identity Management
4 4 (21.05%) ITIL
4 4 (21.05%) Kanban
4 4 (21.05%) RBAC
5 3 (15.79%) Analytics
5 3 (15.79%) Collaborative Culture
5 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (15.79%) Log Analytics
5 3 (15.79%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 3 (15.79%) Privileged Identity Management
5 3 (15.79%) Release Management
5 3 (15.79%) Service Management
6 2 (10.53%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (52.63%) PowerShell
2 3 (15.79%) Bicep
2 3 (15.79%) C#
2 3 (15.79%) VB
2 3 (15.79%) VBScript
3 1 (5.26%) SQL
3 1 (5.26%) XPath
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) DV Cleared
1 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 4 (21.05%) Degree
3 3 (15.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (21.05%) vSphere
3 3 (15.79%) Hyper-V
3 3 (15.79%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (15.79%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) SCCM
1 5 (26.32%) SCOM
2 3 (15.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 3 (15.79%) Kubernetes
2 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (15.79%) WSUS
3 1 (5.26%) Ansible
3 1 (5.26%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (5.26%) SCOrch
3 1 (5.26%) SCVMM
3 1 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (5.26%) TIBCO Hawk
3 1 (5.26%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (36.84%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) VMware
3 2 (10.53%) CrowdStrike
3 2 (10.53%) HP
3 2 (10.53%) Varonis
4 1 (5.26%) IBM
4 1 (5.26%) Oracle
4 1 (5.26%) TIBCO