Active Directory Engineer Contracts

Microsoft Active Directory Engineer
UK

The median Microsoft Active Directory Engineer daily rate in the UK is £423, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 507 637 701
Rank change year-on-year +130 +64 -65
Contract jobs requiring an Active Directory Engineer 77 60 147
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.11% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.11% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 50 104
10th Percentile £163 £198 £300
25th Percentile £225 £263 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £445 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.92% -6.32% +11.76%
75th Percentile £584 £524 £575
90th Percentile £608 £576 £590
UK excluding London median daily rate £411 £445 £444
% change year-on-year -7.64% +0.28% +4.41%
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

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
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% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

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 12 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 13 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 12 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 +104 71 £414 -0.78% 1
UK excluding London +54 47 £411 -7.64% 1
London +77 27 £450 +13.21%
South East +39 27 £605 +80.60% 1
Work from Home +115 24 £538 +20.79% 1
North of England +21 7 £400 -15.79%
Scotland +51 5 £475 +2.70%
North West +18 4 £168 -64.74%
Yorkshire +15 3 £400 -
Midlands +14 3 £210 -48.78%
East Midlands +5 3 £210 -52.81%
South West +3 3 £179 -67.05%
East of England +3 2 £188 -65.91%

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 76 (98.70%) Active Directory
2 48 (62.34%) Azure
3 36 (46.75%) Windows
4 34 (44.16%) Entra ID
5 33 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
6 30 (38.96%) Microsoft
7 23 (29.87%) PowerShell
8 21 (27.27%) Security Cleared
9 19 (24.68%) SC Cleared
9 19 (24.68%) Windows Server
10 18 (23.38%) Social Skills
11 17 (22.08%) SCCM
11 17 (22.08%) Microsoft Exchange
12 15 (19.48%) Finance
12 15 (19.48%) Windows 10
13 14 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 14 (18.18%) Firewall
13 14 (18.18%) DHCP
13 14 (18.18%) DNS
13 14 (18.18%) DV Cleared
13 14 (18.18%) Agile
14 12 (15.58%) ITIL
15 11 (14.29%) Identity Management
15 11 (14.29%) Migration
15 11 (14.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 10 (12.99%) Windows Server 2016
16 10 (12.99%) Identity Access Management
16 10 (12.99%) Problem-Solving
16 10 (12.99%) DevOps
16 10 (12.99%) Microsoft Intune

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 17 (22.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.90%) Confluence
2 3 (3.90%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.30%) IIS
3 1 (1.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 10 (12.99%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.30%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 48 (62.34%) Azure
2 34 (44.16%) Entra ID
3 33 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (10.39%) Azure Storage
5 7 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (3.90%) AWS
7 1 (1.30%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.30%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.30%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.30%) GCP
7 1 (1.30%) IaaS
7 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.30%) PaaS
7 1 (1.30%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.30%) SaaS
7 1 (1.30%) Serverless
7 1 (1.30%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 14 (18.18%) DHCP
1 14 (18.18%) DNS
1 14 (18.18%) Firewall
2 4 (5.19%) Ethernet
2 4 (5.19%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.30%) Internet
3 1 (1.30%) MPLS
3 1 (1.30%) Network Security
3 1 (1.30%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (1.30%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.39%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.30%) DB2
2 1 (1.30%) MariaDB
2 1 (1.30%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.30%) MySQL
2 1 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.30%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (10.39%) JIRA
2 2 (2.60%) Git
General
1 18 (23.38%) Social Skills
2 15 (19.48%) Finance
3 9 (11.69%) Banking
4 2 (2.60%) French Language
4 2 (2.60%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.30%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.30%) Arabic Language
5 1 (1.30%) Electronics
5 1 (1.30%) German Language
5 1 (1.30%) Japanese Language
5 1 (1.30%) Korean Language
5 1 (1.30%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.30%) Marketing
5 1 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.30%) Retail
5 1 (1.30%) Spanish Language
5 1 (1.30%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.09%) ARM Templates
2 2 (2.60%) OAuth
2 2 (2.60%) OpenID
2 2 (2.60%) SAML
3 1 (1.30%) JSON
3 1 (1.30%) SailPoint
3 1 (1.30%) SOAP
3 1 (1.30%) TIBCO EMS
3 1 (1.30%) XML
3 1 (1.30%) XSD
3 1 (1.30%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.69%) PKI
2 7 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (3.90%) Virtual Team
4 2 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.60%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.60%) Replication
5 1 (1.30%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.30%) Clustering
5 1 (1.30%) IoT
5 1 (1.30%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 36 (46.75%) Windows
2 19 (24.68%) Windows Server
3 15 (19.48%) Windows 10
4 10 (12.99%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (10.39%) Linux
5 8 (10.39%) Windows Server 2012
5 8 (10.39%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (6.49%) Windows 7
7 1 (1.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (18.18%) Agile
1 14 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (15.58%) ITIL
3 11 (14.29%) Identity Management
3 11 (14.29%) Migration
4 10 (12.99%) DevOps
4 10 (12.99%) Identity Access Management
4 10 (12.99%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (11.69%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 9 (11.69%) Privileged Identity Management
5 9 (11.69%) RBAC
6 8 (10.39%) Analytics
6 8 (10.39%) CI/CD
6 8 (10.39%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (10.39%) Release Management
6 8 (10.39%) Service Management
7 7 (9.09%) Log Analytics
8 6 (7.79%) Customer Service
9 4 (5.19%) Kanban
9 4 (5.19%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (29.87%) PowerShell
2 7 (9.09%) Bicep
2 7 (9.09%) C#
2 7 (9.09%) VB
2 7 (9.09%) VBScript
3 2 (2.60%) SQL
4 1 (1.30%) Kotlin
4 1 (1.30%) XPath
Qualifications
1 21 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 19 (24.68%) SC Cleared
3 14 (18.18%) DV Cleared
4 10 (12.99%) Degree
5 7 (9.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 5 (6.49%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.30%) CISSP
7 1 (1.30%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.90%) SLA
System Software
1 76 (98.70%) Active Directory
2 7 (9.09%) Virtual Desktop
2 7 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (7.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (5.19%) vSphere
5 3 (3.90%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.30%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 17 (22.08%) SCCM
2 11 (14.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 10 (12.99%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (10.39%) Kubernetes
4 8 (10.39%) SCOM
5 7 (9.09%) WSUS
6 4 (5.19%) Autotask
7 2 (2.60%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.30%) Ansible
8 1 (1.30%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (1.30%) SCOrch
8 1 (1.30%) SCVMM
8 1 (1.30%) Terraform
8 1 (1.30%) TIBCO Hawk
8 1 (1.30%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 30 (38.96%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.79%) VMware
3 4 (5.19%) Cisco
3 4 (5.19%) Remedy
3 4 (5.19%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.90%) Citrix
4 3 (3.90%) CyberArk
5 2 (2.60%) HP
5 2 (2.60%) Okta
5 2 (2.60%) Oracle
6 1 (1.30%) Brocade
6 1 (1.30%) CA
6 1 (1.30%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (1.30%) Dell
6 1 (1.30%) Dell Compellent
6 1 (1.30%) IBM
6 1 (1.30%) SAP
6 1 (1.30%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.30%) Varonis
6 1 (1.30%) Workday