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 13 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 38 31
Rank change year-on-year -49 -7 +4
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 54 111 149
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.28% 5.59% 6.02%
As % of the System Software category 29.19% 47.23% 53.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 75 113
10th Percentile £181 £214 £182
25th Percentile £188 £263 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +17.65% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £606 £573
90th Percentile £636 £666 £744
London median daily rate £492 £500 £400
% change year-on-year -1.60% +25.00% -11.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 4
10th Percentile £22.22 £22.29 -
25th Percentile £24.31 £23.85 £21.25
Median hourly rate £25.47 £26.45 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year -3.71% -15.36% +42.05%
75th Percentile - £106.98 £40.00
90th Percentile - £155.29 -
London median hourly rate £25.15 £25.23 £22.25
% change year-on-year -0.30% +13.37% -11.00%

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 185 235 276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 7.82% 11.83% 11.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 164 208
10th Percentile £244 £240 £223
25th Percentile £411 £403 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £539 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.64% +13.53% -13.64%
75th Percentile £613 £620 £650
90th Percentile £669 £694 £738
London median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 5
10th Percentile £22.68 £22.29 -
25th Percentile - £23.85 £21.25
Median hourly rate £25.47 £26.45 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.71% -33.88% +81.82%
75th Percentile - £106.98 -
90th Percentile £46.02 £155.29 £46.15
London median hourly rate £25.47 £26.45 £22.30
% change year-on-year -3.71% +18.61% -27.48%

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 13 April 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 13 April 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 -43 46 £425 -19.89% 40
Camden - 3 - - 2
Kensington and Chelsea - 2 £575 -
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 10 (18.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (16.67%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.85%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (5.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (5.56%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 39 (72.22%) Microsoft 365
2 35 (64.81%) Azure
3 31 (57.41%) Entra ID
4 6 (11.11%) Power Platform
5 5 (9.26%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (9.26%) PowerApps
6 4 (7.41%) AWS
6 4 (7.41%) GitHub
7 3 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (5.56%) OneDrive
7 3 (5.56%) Power Automate
8 2 (3.70%) Azure Stack
8 2 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (3.70%) Serverless
9 1 (1.85%) AWS Control Tower
9 1 (1.85%) Azure Event Grid
9 1 (1.85%) Azure Functions
9 1 (1.85%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (1.85%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.85%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 10 (18.52%) VPN
2 9 (16.67%) DNS
3 8 (14.81%) Firewall
4 6 (11.11%) DHCP
5 3 (5.56%) Softphone
6 1 (1.85%) Extranet
6 1 (1.85%) IPv4
6 1 (1.85%) IPv6
6 1 (1.85%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (1.85%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.85%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.70%) Power BI
1 2 (3.70%) SQL Server
1 2 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (1.85%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (1.85%) Big Data
2 1 (1.85%) Delta Lake
2 1 (1.85%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (5.56%) JIRA
2 1 (1.85%) Artifactory
2 1 (1.85%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.85%) Git
2 1 (1.85%) GitLab
2 1 (1.85%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (1.85%) Selenium
2 1 (1.85%) SpecFlow
General
1 26 (48.15%) Social Skills
2 10 (18.52%) Finance
3 3 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.56%) Banking
3 3 (5.56%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (3.70%) Law
4 2 (3.70%) Military
4 2 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (3.70%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.85%) French Language
5 1 (1.85%) International Banking
5 1 (1.85%) Legal
5 1 (1.85%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.85%) Police
Job Titles
1 11 (20.37%) Support Engineer
2 9 (16.67%) IT Support
2 9 (16.67%) Senior
3 8 (14.81%) Analyst
3 8 (14.81%) IT Engineer
3 8 (14.81%) IT Support Engineer
4 4 (7.41%) Architect
4 4 (7.41%) Service Desk Engineer
5 3 (5.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 3 (5.56%) Citrix Engineer
5 3 (5.56%) Consultant
5 3 (5.56%) Help Desk Analyst
5 3 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (3.70%) Deployment Engineer
6 2 (3.70%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 2 (3.70%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
6 2 (3.70%) Network Engineer
6 2 (3.70%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (3.70%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.56%) REST
1 3 (5.56%) SailPoint
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (1.85%) OAuth
2 1 (1.85%) OpenID
2 1 (1.85%) Playwright
2 1 (1.85%) SAML
2 1 (1.85%) SPFx
2 1 (1.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (22.22%) Onboarding
2 2 (3.70%) BYOD
2 2 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.85%) CMDB
3 1 (1.85%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (1.85%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.85%) IoT
3 1 (1.85%) PKI
3 1 (1.85%) Security Posture
3 1 (1.85%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 30 (55.56%) Windows
2 11 (20.37%) Windows 10
3 8 (14.81%) Windows Server
4 7 (12.96%) Mac OS
5 2 (3.70%) Mac OS X
6 1 (1.85%) Android
6 1 (1.85%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.85%) Linux
6 1 (1.85%) Windows 7
6 1 (1.85%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (24.07%) ITIL
2 12 (22.22%) Customer Service
3 9 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (14.81%) Identity Access Management
4 8 (14.81%) Migration
5 7 (12.96%) CI/CD
5 7 (12.96%) DevOps
6 6 (11.11%) Change Management
6 6 (11.11%) Mentoring
6 6 (11.11%) Service Delivery
6 6 (11.11%) User Experience
7 5 (9.26%) Cloud Security
7 5 (9.26%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (9.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (9.26%) Performance Metrics
8 4 (7.41%) Change Control
8 4 (7.41%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (7.41%) Identity Management
8 4 (7.41%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (7.41%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 16 (29.63%) PowerShell
2 4 (7.41%) Bash
2 4 (7.41%) Python
3 2 (3.70%) Java
3 2 (3.70%) SQL
4 1 (1.85%) BeanShell
4 1 (1.85%) C#
4 1 (1.85%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 10 (18.52%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (11.11%) Degree
2 6 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 5 (9.26%) SC Cleared
4 4 (7.41%) Azure Certification
4 4 (7.41%) MCSE
5 3 (5.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 2 (3.70%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (1.85%) A+ Certification
7 1 (1.85%) CISM
7 1 (1.85%) CISMP
7 1 (1.85%) CISSP
7 1 (1.85%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (1.85%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.85%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.85%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
1 6 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (5.56%) GDPR
3 2 (3.70%) QA
4 1 (1.85%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.85%) NCSC
4 1 (1.85%) NIST
4 1 (1.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.85%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (11.11%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (3.70%) Docker
2 2 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (38.89%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (16.67%) SCCM
3 5 (9.26%) Terraform
4 2 (3.70%) Ansible
4 2 (3.70%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (3.70%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.85%) AirWatch
5 1 (1.85%) Grafana
5 1 (1.85%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.85%) Puppet
5 1 (1.85%) Salt
5 1 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 42 (77.78%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.11%) ServiceNow
3 4 (7.41%) Citrix
4 3 (5.56%) Apple
5 2 (3.70%) Oracle
5 2 (3.70%) Palo Alto
5 2 (3.70%) VMware
6 1 (1.85%) Altiris
6 1 (1.85%) Bomgar
6 1 (1.85%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.85%) Databricks
6 1 (1.85%) Datto
6 1 (1.85%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.85%) Google
6 1 (1.85%) LogRhythm
6 1 (1.85%) Qualys
6 1 (1.85%) SAP
6 1 (1.85%) Veeam
6 1 (1.85%) Zscaler