Active Directory Contract Job Trends in Central London

Microsoft Active Directory
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Active Directory skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 33 31
Rank change year-on-year -61 -2 +4
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 44 110 148
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.80% 5.59% 6.16%
As % of the System Software category 25.29% 52.38% 54.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 74 115
10th Percentile £176 £214 £181
25th Percentile £188 £263 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £518 £425
Median % change year-on-year -23.75% +21.88% -4.23%
75th Percentile £546 £600 £573
90th Percentile £603 £667 £763
London median daily rate £500 £500 £425
% change year-on-year - +17.65% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 4
10th Percentile £19.41 £21.48 -
25th Percentile £19.64 £21.81 £21.25
Median hourly rate £20.88 £24.48 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year -14.68% -21.68% +25.00%
75th Percentile £22.72 £66.71 £40.00
90th Percentile £23.31 £139.19 -
London median hourly rate £23.78 £26.45 £22.50
% change year-on-year -10.09% +17.56% -13.46%

All System Software Skills
Central London

Active Directory falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 174 210 273
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 7.11% 10.67% 11.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 152 208
10th Percentile £235 £222 £217
25th Percentile £413 £359 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -12.95%
75th Percentile £626 £620 £650
90th Percentile £675 £688 £738
London median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 5
10th Percentile £19.56 £21.48 -
25th Percentile £20.04 £21.81 £21.25
Median hourly rate £22.27 £24.48 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.03% -38.81% +60.00%
75th Percentile £41.72 £66.71 -
90th Percentile £52.52 £139.19 £46.15
London median hourly rate £28.88 £34.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -15.06% +51.11% -59.09%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Active Directory relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Active Directory job vacancy trend in Central London

Active Directory
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Active Directory.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Active Directory

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in Central London over the 6 months to 14 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in Central London

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Active Directory.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Active Directory

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 14 May 2026. 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 -48 40 £395 -26.31% 29
Kensington and Chelsea - 2 £575 - 1
Lambeth - 1 £350 -
Active Directory
London

Active Directory
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 9 (20.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (13.64%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.27%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.27%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 29 (65.91%) Microsoft 365
2 25 (56.82%) Azure
3 23 (52.27%) Entra ID
4 6 (13.64%) Power Platform
5 5 (11.36%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (9.09%) GitHub
6 4 (9.09%) PowerApps
7 3 (6.82%) AWS
8 2 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (4.55%) Azure Stack
8 2 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (4.55%) Power Automate
8 2 (4.55%) Serverless
9 1 (2.27%) AWS Control Tower
9 1 (2.27%) Azure Event Grid
9 1 (2.27%) Azure Functions
9 1 (2.27%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (2.27%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (2.27%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 10 (22.73%) DNS
2 8 (18.18%) VPN
3 7 (15.91%) DHCP
3 7 (15.91%) Firewall
4 2 (4.55%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.27%) IPv4
5 1 (2.27%) IPv6
5 1 (2.27%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (2.27%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.82%) Power BI
1 3 (6.82%) SQL Server
1 3 (6.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (2.27%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (2.27%) Big Data
2 1 (2.27%) Delta Lake
2 1 (2.27%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 4 (9.09%) JIRA
2 1 (2.27%) Artifactory
2 1 (2.27%) Cypress.io
2 1 (2.27%) Git
2 1 (2.27%) GitLab
2 1 (2.27%) Selenium
2 1 (2.27%) SpecFlow
General
1 25 (56.82%) Social Skills
2 8 (18.18%) Finance
3 4 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (6.82%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.55%) Banking
5 2 (4.55%) Law
5 2 (4.55%) Military
5 2 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.27%) International Banking
6 1 (2.27%) Legal
6 1 (2.27%) Mandarin Language
6 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Police
Job Titles
1 10 (22.73%) Support Engineer
2 9 (20.45%) Senior
3 7 (15.91%) IT Support
4 6 (13.64%) IT Engineer
4 6 (13.64%) IT Support Engineer
5 5 (11.36%) Analyst
6 4 (9.09%) Service Desk Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Architect
7 3 (6.82%) Citrix Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Desktop Support
7 3 (6.82%) Platform Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) 1st Line Support
8 2 (4.55%) Deployment Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) Network Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) Power Platform Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (4.55%) Senior Network Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.82%) REST
2 2 (4.55%) SailPoint
3 1 (2.27%) J2EE
3 1 (2.27%) JDBC
3 1 (2.27%) JSON
3 1 (2.27%) LDAP
3 1 (2.27%) OAuth
3 1 (2.27%) OpenID
3 1 (2.27%) Playwright
3 1 (2.27%) SAML
3 1 (2.27%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.45%) Onboarding
2 3 (6.82%) BYOD
2 3 (6.82%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.27%) CMDB
4 1 (2.27%) Fat Client
4 1 (2.27%) IoT
4 1 (2.27%) Life Science
4 1 (2.27%) PKI
4 1 (2.27%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.27%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 27 (61.36%) Windows
2 9 (20.45%) Windows 10
3 8 (18.18%) Windows Server
4 7 (15.91%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.27%) Android
5 1 (2.27%) Apple iOS
5 1 (2.27%) Mac OS X
5 1 (2.27%) VMS
5 1 (2.27%) Windows 7
5 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (25.00%) Customer Service
1 11 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (22.73%) ITIL
3 7 (15.91%) CI/CD
3 7 (15.91%) DevOps
3 7 (15.91%) Identity Access Management
4 6 (13.64%) Change Management
4 6 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (13.64%) Mentoring
5 5 (11.36%) Change Control
6 4 (9.09%) AI
6 4 (9.09%) Cloud Security
6 4 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (9.09%) Migration
6 4 (9.09%) Performance Metrics
6 4 (9.09%) Service Delivery
7 3 (6.82%) Analytics
7 3 (6.82%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (6.82%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (6.82%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 15 (34.09%) PowerShell
2 5 (11.36%) Python
3 4 (9.09%) Bash
4 2 (4.55%) Java
4 2 (4.55%) SQL
5 1 (2.27%) C#
5 1 (2.27%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (2.27%) VB
Qualifications
1 7 (15.91%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.82%) Azure Certification
3 3 (6.82%) Degree
3 3 (6.82%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.55%) CISM
4 2 (4.55%) CISSP
4 2 (4.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 2 (4.55%) MCSE
4 2 (4.55%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (2.27%) CCNA
5 1 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.27%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.27%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (6.82%) GDPR
3 2 (4.55%) QA
3 2 (4.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (2.27%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.27%) HIPAA
4 1 (2.27%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (15.91%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (6.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.55%) Docker
3 2 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.27%) Firmware
4 1 (2.27%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.27%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (31.82%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (11.36%) SCCM
3 4 (9.09%) Terraform
4 2 (4.55%) Ansible
4 2 (4.55%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (4.55%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (2.27%) AirWatch
5 1 (2.27%) Grafana
5 1 (2.27%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.27%) Puppet
5 1 (2.27%) Salt
Vendors
1 32 (72.73%) Microsoft
2 6 (13.64%) Citrix
2 6 (13.64%) ServiceNow
3 3 (6.82%) VMware
4 2 (4.55%) Apple
4 2 (4.55%) Oracle
4 2 (4.55%) Palo Alto
4 2 (4.55%) SAP
5 1 (2.27%) Bloomberg
5 1 (2.27%) Cisco
5 1 (2.27%) Databricks
5 1 (2.27%) EMC
5 1 (2.27%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.27%) Google
5 1 (2.27%) Qualys
5 1 (2.27%) Workday
5 1 (2.27%) Zscaler