Active Directory Contracts in the City of London

Microsoft Active Directory
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 44 46
Rank change year-on-year +15 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 125 181 219
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 5.65% 4.96% 5.15%
As % of the System Software category 51.87% 41.14% 33.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 126 188
10th Percentile £205 £141 £150
25th Percentile £350 £222 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -10.00% +12.11%
75th Percentile £606 £575 £550
90th Percentile £775 £694 £600
Central London median daily rate £425 £425 £494
% change year-on-year - -13.92% +10.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 - £24.25
Median hourly rate £31.25 - £25.50
75th Percentile £40.00 - £29.56
90th Percentile - - £32.83
Central London median hourly rate £31.25 £23.50 £25.50
% change year-on-year +32.98% -7.84% +27.50%

All System Software Skills
City of 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 the City of London with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 241 440 651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 10.90% 12.05% 15.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 296 552
10th Percentile £247 £213 £328
25th Percentile £384 £413 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.13% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £669
90th Percentile £738 £788 £763
Central London median daily rate £475 £560 £550
% change year-on-year -15.18% +1.82% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 - £24.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £25.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.87%
75th Percentile - - £29.56
90th Percentile £46.15 - £32.83
Central London median hourly rate £40.00 £23.50 £25.50
% change year-on-year +70.21% -7.84% +27.50%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in the City of London over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the City of London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Active Directory in the City of London over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Active Directory in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 43 (34.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (4.80%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.20%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 4 (3.20%) IIS
4 3 (2.40%) Exchange Server 2013
5 2 (1.60%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.80%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.80%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 64 (51.20%) Azure
2 57 (45.60%) Microsoft 365
3 40 (32.00%) Entra ID
4 17 (13.60%) Power Platform
5 12 (9.60%) Mimecast
6 10 (8.00%) Power Automate
7 8 (6.40%) IaaS
7 8 (6.40%) PaaS
8 7 (5.60%) PowerApps
9 6 (4.80%) AWS
9 6 (4.80%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (4.80%) Azure Key Vault
9 6 (4.80%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (4.80%) OneDrive
10 5 (4.00%) SaaS
11 3 (2.40%) GitHub
11 3 (2.40%) WhatsApp
12 2 (1.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 2 (1.60%) Azure Sentinel
12 2 (1.60%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 33 (26.40%) Firewall
2 19 (15.20%) DNS
3 15 (12.00%) SAN
4 9 (7.20%) Network Security
5 5 (4.00%) MPLS
5 5 (4.00%) VPN
6 4 (3.20%) DHCP
6 4 (3.20%) FTP
7 3 (2.40%) Wireless
8 1 (0.80%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (0.80%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.80%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.80%) LAN
8 1 (0.80%) MGCP
8 1 (0.80%) NAS
8 1 (0.80%) SCCP
8 1 (0.80%) SSL
8 1 (0.80%) VoIP
8 1 (0.80%) WAN
8 1 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.80%) SQL Server
2 7 (5.60%) Power BI
3 5 (4.00%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.20%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.80%) MySQL
5 1 (0.80%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 5 (4.00%) TeamCity
2 3 (2.40%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.80%) JIRA
3 1 (0.80%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.80%) Selenium
3 1 (0.80%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.80%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.80%) WebDriver
General
1 40 (32.00%) Finance
2 34 (27.20%) Social Skills
3 25 (20.00%) Banking
4 10 (8.00%) Presentation Skills
5 9 (7.20%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (7.20%) Investment Banking
6 7 (5.60%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.60%) Financial Institution
6 7 (5.60%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.20%) French Language
8 3 (2.40%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.60%) Italian Language
9 2 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.80%) Advertising
10 1 (0.80%) Billing
10 1 (0.80%) Front Office
10 1 (0.80%) Law
10 1 (0.80%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 19 (15.20%) Support Engineer
2 17 (13.60%) Architect
3 13 (10.40%) Analyst
3 13 (10.40%) Senior
4 10 (8.00%) Desktop Engineer
4 10 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (6.40%) Desktop Support
6 7 (5.60%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (5.60%) IT Support
7 6 (4.80%) Consultant
7 6 (4.80%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 6 (4.80%) Platform Architect
7 6 (4.80%) Power Platform Architect
7 6 (4.80%) Support Analyst
8 5 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (4.00%) IT Analyst
8 5 (4.00%) IT Engineer
8 5 (4.00%) Senior DevOps
8 5 (4.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 4 (3.20%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.00%) XML
2 9 (7.20%) .NET
3 7 (5.60%) LDAP
3 7 (5.60%) Microsoft Graph
4 6 (4.80%) JSON
4 6 (4.80%) RabbitMQ
4 6 (4.80%) REST
5 5 (4.00%) SAML
5 5 (4.00%) WCF
5 5 (4.00%) WinForms
6 4 (3.20%) SailPoint
7 3 (2.40%) OAuth
7 3 (2.40%) OpenID
8 2 (1.60%) .NET Core
9 1 (0.80%) .NET Framework
9 1 (0.80%) AngularJS
9 1 (0.80%) ARM Templates
9 1 (0.80%) LAMP
9 1 (0.80%) SPML
9 1 (0.80%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.00%) Video Conferencing
2 7 (5.60%) Data Centre
3 6 (4.80%) Blackberry
3 6 (4.80%) Replication
4 5 (4.00%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.20%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.40%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.60%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.60%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.60%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.60%) PKI
7 2 (1.60%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.60%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.80%) Clustering
8 1 (0.80%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.80%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.80%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 68 (54.40%) Windows
2 18 (14.40%) Windows 10
2 18 (14.40%) Windows Server 2012
3 16 (12.80%) Windows Server
3 16 (12.80%) Windows Server 2016
4 10 (8.00%) Linux
5 7 (5.60%) Windows 7
6 6 (4.80%) Android
7 4 (3.20%) Apple iOS
7 4 (3.20%) Mac OS
7 4 (3.20%) Mac OS X
7 4 (3.20%) Unix
7 4 (3.20%) Windows 8
7 4 (3.20%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (2.40%) VMS
8 3 (2.40%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.80%) OpenVMS
9 1 (0.80%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (20.80%) Migration
2 24 (19.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 20 (16.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 20 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (12.80%) Customer Service
5 15 (12.00%) DevOps
6 13 (10.40%) Business Continuity
7 12 (9.60%) Change Management
8 11 (8.80%) CI/CD
8 11 (8.80%) ITIL
9 10 (8.00%) Data Migration
10 9 (7.20%) Configuration Management
11 8 (6.40%) Agile
11 8 (6.40%) Cybersecurity
11 8 (6.40%) Information Security
12 7 (5.60%) Business Intelligence
12 7 (5.60%) Roadmaps
12 7 (5.60%) Scrum
13 6 (4.80%) Identity Management
13 6 (4.80%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 38 (30.40%) PowerShell
2 11 (8.80%) SQL
3 8 (6.40%) C#
4 5 (4.00%) Python
5 3 (2.40%) Bicep
6 1 (0.80%) Java
6 1 (0.80%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.80%) VB
Qualifications
1 9 (7.20%) Security Cleared
2 6 (4.80%) Azure Certification
3 5 (4.00%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.20%) Degree
4 4 (3.20%) TOGAF Certification
5 3 (2.40%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.60%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.80%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.80%) MCITP
7 1 (0.80%) MCSA
7 1 (0.80%) MCSE
7 1 (0.80%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.00%) SLA
2 1 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.80%) NIST
2 1 (0.80%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.80%) QA
System Software
1 12 (9.60%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (5.60%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (3.20%) HDFS
3 4 (3.20%) Hyper-V
3 4 (3.20%) NFS
4 2 (1.60%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.60%) XenApp
5 1 (0.80%) ACF2
5 1 (0.80%) Firmware
5 1 (0.80%) IAG
5 1 (0.80%) RACF
5 1 (0.80%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (24.00%) SCCM
2 18 (14.40%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (7.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (3.20%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (3.20%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (2.40%) Ansible
6 2 (1.60%) FortiGate
6 2 (1.60%) Kubernetes
6 2 (1.60%) Terraform
7 1 (0.80%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.80%) CASB
7 1 (0.80%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.80%) Consul
7 1 (0.80%) Kibana
7 1 (0.80%) logstash
7 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (0.80%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.80%) Packer
7 1 (0.80%) PingFederate
7 1 (0.80%) WSUS
Vendors
1 57 (45.60%) Microsoft
2 25 (20.00%) Citrix
3 18 (14.40%) VMware
4 16 (12.80%) Cisco
5 14 (11.20%) HP
6 13 (10.40%) Avaya
6 13 (10.40%) CheckPoint
6 13 (10.40%) EMC
7 10 (8.00%) ServiceNow
8 7 (5.60%) Apple
9 6 (4.80%) Okta
10 5 (4.00%) Adobe
11 4 (3.20%) Isilon
11 4 (3.20%) Ivanti
12 3 (2.40%) Dell
12 3 (2.40%) Google
13 2 (1.60%) Bloomberg
13 2 (1.60%) CyberArk
13 2 (1.60%) Oracle
13 2 (1.60%) Veeam