Active Directory Contracts in Central London

Microsoft Active Directory
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Active Directory skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Active Directory over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 37 44
Rank change year-on-year +8 +7 +3
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 151 206 251
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 6.21% 5.46% 5.61%
As % of the System Software category 55.51% 44.59% 35.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 151 221
10th Percentile £174 £163 £150
25th Percentile £265 £231 £240
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% +3.26%
75th Percentile £573 £588 £550
90th Percentile £757 £700 £588
London median daily rate £425 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -10.53% -2.56% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 - £24.25
Median hourly rate £31.25 £25.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -1.96% +27.50%
75th Percentile £40.00 - £29.56
90th Percentile - - £32.83
London median hourly rate £22.50 £25.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -10.00% +8.70% +15.00%

All System Software Skills
Central London

Active Directory is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 272 462 715
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 11.19% 12.25% 15.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 317 609
10th Percentile £213 £213 £240
25th Percentile £350 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £650
90th Percentile £738 £788 £744
London median daily rate £500 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -13.04% +2.22% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 - £24.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -1.96% +27.50%
75th Percentile - - £29.56
90th Percentile £46.15 - £32.83
London median hourly rate £22.50 £55.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year -59.09% +107.55% -45.36%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Active Directory as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Central London

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in Central London

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in Central London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in Central London

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in Central London

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Active Directory in Central London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Active Directory in Central London

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Active Directory within the Central London region over the 6 months to 9 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
City of London +9 125 £450 -5.26% 20
West End of London -4 4 £147 -60.41% 4
City of Westminster -7 3 £400 +8.11% 2
Lambeth +1 1 £188 -1.32%
Active Directory
London

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 51 (33.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (10.60%) SharePoint
3 6 (3.97%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 4 (2.65%) IIS
5 2 (1.32%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.66%) CMS
6 1 (0.66%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.66%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 1 (0.66%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (0.66%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (4.64%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.66%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.66%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 78 (51.66%) Azure
2 70 (46.36%) Microsoft 365
3 51 (33.77%) Entra ID
4 20 (13.25%) Power Platform
5 14 (9.27%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (9.27%) OneDrive
6 13 (8.61%) AWS
7 12 (7.95%) Mimecast
7 12 (7.95%) Power Automate
8 9 (5.96%) PowerApps
9 8 (5.30%) IaaS
9 8 (5.30%) PaaS
10 7 (4.64%) Azure Key Vault
10 7 (4.64%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (3.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 5 (3.31%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (3.31%) SaaS
13 4 (2.65%) Azure Monitor
13 4 (2.65%) WhatsApp
14 3 (1.99%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 36 (23.84%) Firewall
2 21 (13.91%) DNS
3 16 (10.60%) SAN
4 10 (6.62%) VPN
5 9 (5.96%) Network Security
6 6 (3.97%) DHCP
7 5 (3.31%) MPLS
7 5 (3.31%) Wireless
8 4 (2.65%) FTP
8 4 (2.65%) WAN
9 3 (1.99%) LAN
10 2 (1.32%) Kerberos
10 2 (1.32%) NAS
10 2 (1.32%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (1.32%) SD-WAN
10 2 (1.32%) SSL
10 2 (1.32%) VoIP
11 1 (0.66%) Multicast
11 1 (0.66%) Skype
11 1 (0.66%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (13.25%) SQL Server
2 7 (4.64%) Power BI
3 5 (3.31%) Relational Database
4 4 (2.65%) Hadoop
5 3 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.99%) Redis
6 1 (0.66%) MySQL
6 1 (0.66%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (3.31%) TeamCity
2 4 (2.65%) Hudson
2 4 (2.65%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.32%) Git
3 2 (1.32%) JIRA
4 1 (0.66%) GitLab
4 1 (0.66%) Katalon Studio
4 1 (0.66%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.66%) Selenium
4 1 (0.66%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.66%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.66%) WebDriver
General
1 45 (29.80%) Finance
2 42 (27.81%) Social Skills
3 26 (17.22%) Banking
4 11 (7.28%) Presentation Skills
5 10 (6.62%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (6.62%) Investment Banking
6 8 (5.30%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (4.64%) Financial Institution
7 7 (4.64%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.65%) French Language
9 3 (1.99%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.32%) Italian Language
10 2 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.66%) Advertising
11 1 (0.66%) Billing
11 1 (0.66%) Front Office
11 1 (0.66%) Marketing
11 1 (0.66%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (17.22%) Support Engineer
2 20 (13.25%) Senior
3 18 (11.92%) Architect
4 15 (9.93%) Analyst
5 14 (9.27%) Desktop Engineer
6 13 (8.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (6.62%) Developer
8 9 (5.96%) Desktop Support
8 9 (5.96%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 9 (5.96%) IT Support
9 8 (5.30%) Azure Engineer
10 7 (4.64%) Backend Developer
10 7 (4.64%) DevOps Engineer
10 7 (4.64%) IT Analyst
10 7 (4.64%) Senior Developer
10 7 (4.64%) Senior DevOps
11 6 (3.97%) Consultant
11 6 (3.97%) IT Engineer
11 6 (3.97%) Platform Architect
11 6 (3.97%) Power Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (11.26%) .NET
2 16 (10.60%) XML
3 9 (5.96%) .NET Core
4 7 (4.64%) Microsoft Graph
5 6 (3.97%) JSON
5 6 (3.97%) LDAP
5 6 (3.97%) RabbitMQ
5 6 (3.97%) REST
6 5 (3.31%) ASP.NET
6 5 (3.31%) CSS
6 5 (3.31%) HTML
6 5 (3.31%) React
6 5 (3.31%) SAML
6 5 (3.31%) WCF
6 5 (3.31%) WinForms
7 3 (1.99%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (1.99%) OAuth
7 3 (1.99%) OpenID
7 3 (1.99%) SailPoint
8 2 (1.32%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.27%) Video Conferencing
2 9 (5.96%) Data Centre
2 9 (5.96%) Product Ownership
3 7 (4.64%) Blackberry
4 5 (3.31%) Replication
5 4 (2.65%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.65%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.99%) Clustering
6 3 (1.99%) Hedge funds
6 3 (1.99%) Operational Technology
6 3 (1.99%) PKI
6 3 (1.99%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.32%) iPad
7 2 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.32%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.32%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.66%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.66%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.66%) HP Storage
8 1 (0.66%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 84 (55.63%) Windows
2 23 (15.23%) Windows 10
3 19 (12.58%) Windows Server
4 17 (11.26%) Windows Server 2012
4 17 (11.26%) Windows Server 2016
5 13 (8.61%) Linux
6 7 (4.64%) Windows 7
7 6 (3.97%) Mac OS X
8 5 (3.31%) Android
8 5 (3.31%) Mac OS
8 5 (3.31%) Unix
8 5 (3.31%) Windows 8
9 4 (2.65%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (1.99%) VMS
11 2 (1.32%) Apple iOS
11 2 (1.32%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.66%) OpenVMS
12 1 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.66%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (17.88%) Migration
2 26 (17.22%) DevOps
2 26 (17.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 22 (14.57%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (13.91%) Customer Service
5 19 (12.58%) CI/CD
5 19 (12.58%) Disaster Recovery
6 17 (11.26%) Agile
7 14 (9.27%) Scrum
8 13 (8.61%) Business Continuity
9 12 (7.95%) Change Management
10 10 (6.62%) B2C
10 10 (6.62%) ITIL
11 9 (5.96%) Cybersecurity
11 9 (5.96%) Data Migration
11 9 (5.96%) Information Security
12 8 (5.30%) Analytics
12 8 (5.30%) Configuration Management
13 7 (4.64%) Business Intelligence
13 7 (4.64%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 47 (31.13%) PowerShell
2 16 (10.60%) C#
3 14 (9.27%) SQL
4 10 (6.62%) Bicep
5 7 (4.64%) Python
6 5 (3.31%) JavaScript
6 5 (3.31%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.66%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.66%) VB
Qualifications
1 9 (5.96%) Azure Certification
2 8 (5.30%) Security Cleared
3 7 (4.64%) Degree
4 5 (3.31%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.65%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (1.32%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.32%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.66%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.66%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.66%) MCITP
7 1 (0.66%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.64%) SLA
2 2 (1.32%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.32%) WCAG
3 1 (0.66%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.66%) NIST
3 1 (0.66%) QA
System Software
1 18 (11.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (5.30%) Hyper-V
3 7 (4.64%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (2.65%) HDFS
4 4 (2.65%) NFS
5 2 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.32%) vSphere
5 2 (1.32%) XenApp
6 1 (0.66%) Docker
6 1 (0.66%) Firmware
6 1 (0.66%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 28 (18.54%) SCCM
2 18 (11.92%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (3.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 6 (3.97%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (2.65%) Terraform
5 3 (1.99%) Ansible
5 3 (1.99%) Kubernetes
6 2 (1.32%) CASB
6 2 (1.32%) FortiGate
6 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (1.32%) Packer
6 2 (1.32%) WSUS
7 1 (0.66%) Consul
7 1 (0.66%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.66%) Grafana
7 1 (0.66%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 1 (0.66%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.66%) PingFederate
7 1 (0.66%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 80 (52.98%) Microsoft
2 26 (17.22%) Citrix
3 22 (14.57%) VMware
4 16 (10.60%) Cisco
5 14 (9.27%) HP
6 12 (7.95%) Avaya
6 12 (7.95%) CheckPoint
6 12 (7.95%) EMC
7 11 (7.28%) Apple
8 7 (4.64%) ServiceNow
9 6 (3.97%) Adobe
9 6 (3.97%) Ivanti
9 6 (3.97%) Okta
10 4 (2.65%) Google
10 4 (2.65%) Isilon
11 3 (1.99%) Bloomberg
11 3 (1.99%) Dell
12 2 (1.32%) Oracle
12 2 (1.32%) Red Hat
12 2 (1.32%) Veeam