Active Directory Engineer Contracts

Microsoft Active Directory Engineer
UK

The median Microsoft Active Directory Engineer daily rate in the UK is £425 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 505 620 695
Rank change year-on-year +115 +75 -65
Contract jobs requiring an Active Directory Engineer 74 64 146
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.11% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.12% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 51 103
10th Percentile £161 £198 £258
25th Percentile £208 £263 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £445 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.49% -6.32% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £528 £575
90th Percentile £608 £575 £590
UK excluding London median daily rate £411 £445 £450
% change year-on-year -7.64% -1.11% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £54.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 - £54.00
% change year-on-year - - +116.00%

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 40,001 53,325 83,708
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,880 37,256 59,003
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,851 1,473 1,957
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.41
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.45 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +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 2 June 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 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
England +111 68 £418 -3.19%
UK excluding London +68 45 £411 -7.64%
London +96 27 £450 +13.21%
South East +33 26 £605 +80.60%
Work from Home +106 23 £538 +20.79%
Scotland +40 5 £475 +2.70%
North of England +29 4 £168 -64.74%
North West +18 4 £168 -64.74%
South West +12 4 £220 -59.45%
Midlands +22 3 £210 -48.78%
East Midlands +8 3 £210 -52.81%
East of England +7 3 £175 -68.18%

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

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 featuring Active Directory Engineer in the job title.

1 73 (98.65%) Active Directory
2 44 (59.46%) Azure
3 37 (50.00%) Windows
4 32 (43.24%) Microsoft 365
5 30 (40.54%) Entra ID
6 28 (37.84%) Microsoft
7 21 (28.38%) PowerShell
8 19 (25.68%) Security Cleared
8 19 (25.68%) Windows Server
9 17 (22.97%) Social Skills
9 17 (22.97%) SC Cleared
10 16 (21.62%) SCCM
10 16 (21.62%) Microsoft Exchange
11 15 (20.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 15 (20.27%) Windows 10
12 14 (18.92%) Finance
13 13 (17.57%) Firewall
13 13 (17.57%) DHCP
13 13 (17.57%) DNS
13 13 (17.57%) Agile
13 13 (17.57%) DV Cleared
14 12 (16.22%) Migration
15 11 (14.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 11 (14.86%) ITIL
15 11 (14.86%) Microsoft Office
16 10 (13.51%) Windows Server 2016
17 9 (12.16%) DevOps
17 9 (12.16%) Identity Access Management
17 9 (12.16%) Microsoft Intune
17 9 (12.16%) Identity Management

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 16 (21.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (4.05%) Confluence
2 3 (4.05%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.35%) IIS
3 1 (1.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 11 (14.86%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.35%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 44 (59.46%) Azure
2 32 (43.24%) Microsoft 365
3 30 (40.54%) Entra ID
4 7 (9.46%) Azure Storage
5 6 (8.11%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (2.70%) AWS
7 1 (1.35%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.35%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.35%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.35%) GCP
7 1 (1.35%) IaaS
7 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.35%) PaaS
7 1 (1.35%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.35%) SaaS
7 1 (1.35%) Serverless
7 1 (1.35%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 13 (17.57%) DHCP
1 13 (17.57%) DNS
1 13 (17.57%) Firewall
2 4 (5.41%) Ethernet
2 4 (5.41%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.35%) Internet
3 1 (1.35%) MPLS
3 1 (1.35%) Network Security
3 1 (1.35%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (1.35%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.81%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.35%) DB2
2 1 (1.35%) MariaDB
2 1 (1.35%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.35%) MySQL
2 1 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (10.81%) JIRA
2 2 (2.70%) Git
General
1 17 (22.97%) Social Skills
2 14 (18.92%) Finance
3 9 (12.16%) Banking
4 1 (1.35%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.35%) Arabic Language
4 1 (1.35%) French Language
4 1 (1.35%) German Language
4 1 (1.35%) Japanese Language
4 1 (1.35%) Korean Language
4 1 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (1.35%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.35%) Retail
4 1 (1.35%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.11%) ARM Templates
2 2 (2.70%) OAuth
2 2 (2.70%) OpenID
2 2 (2.70%) SAML
3 1 (1.35%) JSON
3 1 (1.35%) SailPoint
3 1 (1.35%) SOAP
3 1 (1.35%) TIBCO EMS
3 1 (1.35%) XML
3 1 (1.35%) XSD
3 1 (1.35%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.81%) PKI
2 6 (8.11%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (4.05%) Replication
3 3 (4.05%) Virtual Team
4 2 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.70%) IoT
4 2 (2.70%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.35%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.35%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 37 (50.00%) Windows
2 19 (25.68%) Windows Server
3 15 (20.27%) Windows 10
4 10 (13.51%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (10.81%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (9.46%) Linux
6 7 (9.46%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (6.76%) Windows 7
8 1 (1.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (20.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (17.57%) Agile
3 12 (16.22%) Migration
4 11 (14.86%) ITIL
5 9 (12.16%) DevOps
5 9 (12.16%) Identity Access Management
5 9 (12.16%) Identity Management
6 8 (10.81%) Analytics
7 7 (9.46%) CI/CD
7 7 (9.46%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (9.46%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 7 (9.46%) Privileged Identity Management
7 7 (9.46%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (9.46%) RBAC
7 7 (9.46%) Release Management
7 7 (9.46%) Service Management
8 6 (8.11%) Customer Service
8 6 (8.11%) Log Analytics
9 4 (5.41%) Cybersecurity
9 4 (5.41%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (28.38%) PowerShell
2 6 (8.11%) Bicep
2 6 (8.11%) C#
2 6 (8.11%) VB
2 6 (8.11%) VBScript
3 2 (2.70%) SQL
4 1 (1.35%) Kotlin
4 1 (1.35%) XPath
Qualifications
1 19 (25.68%) Security Cleared
2 17 (22.97%) SC Cleared
3 13 (17.57%) DV Cleared
4 9 (12.16%) Degree
5 6 (8.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 5 (6.76%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.35%) CISSP
7 1 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.05%) SLA
System Software
1 73 (98.65%) Active Directory
2 6 (8.11%) Virtual Desktop
2 6 (8.11%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (8.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.41%) vSphere
4 3 (4.05%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (21.62%) SCCM
2 11 (14.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 9 (12.16%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (9.46%) Kubernetes
4 7 (9.46%) SCOM
5 6 (8.11%) WSUS
6 4 (5.41%) Autotask
7 2 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.35%) Ansible
8 1 (1.35%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (1.35%) SCOrch
8 1 (1.35%) SCVMM
8 1 (1.35%) Terraform
8 1 (1.35%) TIBCO Hawk
8 1 (1.35%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 28 (37.84%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.11%) VMware
3 4 (5.41%) Cisco
3 4 (5.41%) Remedy
3 4 (5.41%) ServiceNow
4 3 (4.05%) Citrix
4 3 (4.05%) CyberArk
5 2 (2.70%) HP
5 2 (2.70%) Okta
5 2 (2.70%) Oracle
6 1 (1.35%) Brocade
6 1 (1.35%) CA
6 1 (1.35%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (1.35%) Dell
6 1 (1.35%) Dell Compellent
6 1 (1.35%) IBM
6 1 (1.35%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.35%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.35%) Varonis
6 1 (1.35%) Workday