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 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 38 32
Rank change year-on-year -26 -6 +15
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 70 105 148
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.47% 4.87% 5.75%
As % of the System Software category 37.43% 43.57% 52.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 67 109
10th Percentile £188 £209 £205
25th Percentile £286 £294 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £550
90th Percentile £685 £643 £675
London median daily rate £500 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile £22.22 £39.40 -
25th Percentile £24.31 £66.63 £21.25
Median hourly rate £25.47 £112.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -77.26% +397.78% +9.76%
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £25.15 £23.80 £24.97
% change year-on-year +5.67% -4.69% -0.12%

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 187 241 281
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 9.28% 11.17% 10.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 153 213
10th Percentile £276 £263 £250
25th Percentile £411 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £552 £488
Median % change year-on-year -3.31% +13.23% -15.22%
75th Percentile £632 £625 £600
90th Percentile £689 £722 £702
London median daily rate £540 £550 £518
% change year-on-year -1.82% +6.28% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile £22.22 £39.40 -
25th Percentile £24.31 £66.63 £21.25
Median hourly rate £25.47 £112.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -77.26% +397.78% +9.76%
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £25.31 £23.80 £32.50
% change year-on-year +6.34% -26.77% +23.81%

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 15 January 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 15 January 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 -23 60 £475 - 22
Camden +9 3 - - 1
Kensington and Chelsea - 2 £575 -
West End of London +7 1 - - 1
City of Westminster +3 1 - - 9
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 16 (22.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (20.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.43%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (4.29%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (1.43%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 51 (72.86%) Microsoft 365
2 45 (64.29%) Azure
3 39 (55.71%) Entra ID
4 9 (12.86%) OneDrive
4 9 (12.86%) Power Platform
5 8 (11.43%) PowerApps
6 7 (10.00%) AWS
6 7 (10.00%) Power Automate
7 6 (8.57%) Microsoft Purview
8 4 (5.71%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (5.71%) IaaS
9 2 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (2.86%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (2.86%) GCP
9 2 (2.86%) GitHub
9 2 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.86%) Mimecast
9 2 (2.86%) PaaS
9 2 (2.86%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (24.29%) Firewall
2 12 (17.14%) VPN
3 10 (14.29%) DNS
4 7 (10.00%) DHCP
5 5 (7.14%) Softphone
6 2 (2.86%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (2.86%) LAN
6 2 (2.86%) WAN
6 2 (2.86%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (2.86%) Wireless
7 1 (1.43%) DKIM
7 1 (1.43%) Extranet
7 1 (1.43%) IP Telephony
7 1 (1.43%) IPv4
7 1 (1.43%) IPv6
7 1 (1.43%) Kerberos
7 1 (1.43%) MPLS
7 1 (1.43%) OpenLDAP
7 1 (1.43%) PSTN
7 1 (1.43%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.71%) Power BI
1 4 (5.71%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (1.43%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (2.86%) JIRA
2 1 (1.43%) Git
2 1 (1.43%) GitLab
2 1 (1.43%) Oracle Forms
General
1 29 (41.43%) Social Skills
2 11 (15.71%) Finance
3 5 (7.14%) Banking
4 4 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.71%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.86%) Law
5 2 (2.86%) Legal
5 2 (2.86%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.43%) French Language
6 1 (1.43%) International Banking
6 1 (1.43%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.43%) Military
Job Titles
1 11 (15.71%) Support Engineer
2 8 (11.43%) Analyst
2 8 (11.43%) IT Support
3 7 (10.00%) IT Engineer
4 6 (8.57%) Consultant
4 6 (8.57%) IT Support Engineer
4 6 (8.57%) Lead
4 6 (8.57%) Senior
5 4 (5.71%) 2nd Line Support
5 4 (5.71%) Architect
5 4 (5.71%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
5 4 (5.71%) Service Desk Engineer
6 3 (4.29%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 3 (4.29%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 3 (4.29%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 3 (4.29%) Cybersecurity Manager
6 3 (4.29%) Help Desk Analyst
6 3 (4.29%) Programme Manager
6 3 (4.29%) Security Engineer
6 3 (4.29%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.14%) Microsoft Graph
2 3 (4.29%) LDAP
2 3 (4.29%) OAuth
2 3 (4.29%) OpenID
2 3 (4.29%) SAML
3 2 (2.86%) REST
4 1 (1.43%) .NET
4 1 (1.43%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.43%) boto
4 1 (1.43%) Flake8
4 1 (1.43%) HTML
4 1 (1.43%) LangChain
4 1 (1.43%) mypy
4 1 (1.43%) pytest
4 1 (1.43%) SailPoint
4 1 (1.43%) Semantic Kernel
4 1 (1.43%) SPFx
4 1 (1.43%) Web Services
4 1 (1.43%) XML
4 1 (1.43%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.71%) Onboarding
2 5 (7.14%) Video Conferencing
3 3 (4.29%) BYOD
3 3 (4.29%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.29%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.29%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.86%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.86%) iPad
5 1 (1.43%) CMDB
5 1 (1.43%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.43%) Fat Client
5 1 (1.43%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.43%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.43%) Smartphone
5 1 (1.43%) STIX
5 1 (1.43%) Thin Client
5 1 (1.43%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.43%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 38 (54.29%) Windows
2 14 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 12 (17.14%) Windows 10
4 5 (7.14%) Linux
4 5 (7.14%) Mac OS
5 3 (4.29%) Apple iOS
6 2 (2.86%) Android
6 2 (2.86%) Mac OS X
7 1 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (27.14%) ITIL
2 17 (24.29%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (15.71%) Change Management
4 10 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
4 10 (14.29%) Data Loss Prevention
5 9 (12.86%) Identity Access Management
5 9 (12.86%) ITSM
5 9 (12.86%) Migration
6 8 (11.43%) User Experience
7 7 (10.00%) Cloud Security
7 7 (10.00%) Customer Service
7 7 (10.00%) Service Delivery
7 7 (10.00%) Service Management
8 6 (8.57%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (8.57%) Identity Management
8 6 (8.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 5 (7.14%) Change Control
9 5 (7.14%) Mentoring
9 5 (7.14%) Performance Metrics
9 5 (7.14%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 19 (27.14%) PowerShell
2 6 (8.57%) Python
3 4 (5.71%) Java
4 2 (2.86%) C#
4 2 (2.86%) SQL
5 1 (1.43%) BeanShell
5 1 (1.43%) Bicep
5 1 (1.43%) C++
5 1 (1.43%) Go
5 1 (1.43%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (1.43%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 15 (21.43%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (15.71%) Degree
3 9 (12.86%) SC Cleared
3 9 (12.86%) Security Cleared
4 5 (7.14%) CISSP
4 5 (7.14%) MCSE
5 4 (5.71%) MCP
6 3 (4.29%) CISM
6 3 (4.29%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (4.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (2.86%) CISMP
7 2 (2.86%) CompTIA CySA+
7 2 (2.86%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 2 (2.86%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (2.86%) MCITP
7 2 (2.86%) MCSA
7 2 (2.86%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (1.43%) A+ Certification
8 1 (1.43%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (17.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (11.43%) Cyber Essentials
3 7 (10.00%) GDPR
4 5 (7.14%) NIST
5 2 (2.86%) NCSC
5 2 (2.86%) SLA
6 1 (1.43%) EU AI Act
6 1 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (1.43%) QA
System Software
1 4 (5.71%) Virtual Desktop
1 4 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.43%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.43%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.43%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 27 (38.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (14.29%) SCCM
3 3 (4.29%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
4 2 (2.86%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (2.86%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.86%) SCOM
4 2 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (2.86%) Terraform
5 1 (1.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.43%) AirWatch
5 1 (1.43%) Ansible
Vendors
1 54 (77.14%) Microsoft
2 9 (12.86%) VMware
3 8 (11.43%) Citrix
4 5 (7.14%) Palo Alto
4 5 (7.14%) ServiceNow
5 4 (5.71%) Altiris
5 4 (5.71%) CyberArk
6 3 (4.29%) Apple
6 3 (4.29%) Ivanti
6 3 (4.29%) Oracle
6 3 (4.29%) Symantec
7 2 (2.86%) Cisco
7 2 (2.86%) Fortinet
7 2 (2.86%) HP
7 2 (2.86%) LogRhythm
7 2 (2.86%) Okta
7 2 (2.86%) OpenAI
7 2 (2.86%) Polycom
8 1 (1.43%) Datto
8 1 (1.43%) Logitech