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 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 34 26
Rank change year-on-year -57 -8 +8
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 47 101 146
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.89% 5.40% 6.07%
As % of the System Software category 26.70% 50.75% 52.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 67 116
10th Percentile £181 £211 £195
25th Percentile £189 £256 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £536 £444
Median % change year-on-year -34.70% +20.79% -1.39%
75th Percentile £564 £600 £573
90th Percentile £625 £672 £760
London median daily rate £500 £500 £425
% change year-on-year - +17.65% -13.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 4
10th Percentile £19.41 £21.55 -
25th Percentile £19.64 £22.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £20.88 £26.45 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% -15.36% +25.00%
75th Percentile £22.72 £30.25 £40.00
90th Percentile £23.31 £124.60 -
London median hourly rate £23.78 £26.45 £23.15
% change year-on-year -10.09% +14.25% -10.96%

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 176 199 279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 7.06% 10.64% 11.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 141 209
10th Percentile £225 £219 £248
25th Percentile £413 £363 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £536 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +9.95% -12.95%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £675 £688 £739
London median daily rate £525 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -2.33% +7.50% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 5
10th Percentile £19.56 £21.55 -
25th Percentile £20.04 £22.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £22.27 £26.45 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.82% -33.88% +6.67%
75th Percentile £41.72 £30.25 -
90th Percentile £52.52 £124.60 £46.15
London median hourly rate £28.88 £31.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -8.32% +40.00% -62.50%

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 27 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 27 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 -37 42 £375 -30.88% 27
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 8 (17.02%) Microsoft Exchange
1 8 (17.02%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.13%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.13%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 28 (59.57%) Microsoft 365
2 27 (57.45%) Azure
3 24 (51.06%) Entra ID
4 6 (12.77%) Power Platform
5 5 (10.64%) AWS
5 5 (10.64%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (8.51%) GitHub
6 4 (8.51%) PowerApps
7 2 (4.26%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (4.26%) Azure Stack
7 2 (4.26%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (4.26%) OneDrive
7 2 (4.26%) Power Automate
7 2 (4.26%) Serverless
8 1 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (2.13%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.13%) Google Workspace
8 1 (2.13%) Slack
8 1 (2.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (23.40%) DNS
2 8 (17.02%) DHCP
3 7 (14.89%) VPN
4 4 (8.51%) Firewall
4 4 (8.51%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.13%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (2.13%) IPv4
5 1 (2.13%) IPv6
5 1 (2.13%) Network Security
5 1 (2.13%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (2.13%) TACACS
5 1 (2.13%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.64%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.38%) Power BI
2 3 (6.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.13%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (2.13%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.13%) Big Data
3 1 (2.13%) Delta Lake
3 1 (2.13%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.13%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (10.64%) JIRA
2 1 (2.13%) Artifactory
2 1 (2.13%) Cypress.io
2 1 (2.13%) Git
2 1 (2.13%) GitLab
2 1 (2.13%) Selenium
2 1 (2.13%) SpecFlow
General
1 23 (48.94%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.02%) Finance
3 4 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (6.38%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.26%) Banking
5 2 (4.26%) Law
5 2 (4.26%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.13%) International Banking
6 1 (2.13%) Legal
6 1 (2.13%) Mandarin Language
6 1 (2.13%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.13%) Military
6 1 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Police
Job Titles
1 10 (21.28%) Support Engineer
2 8 (17.02%) Senior
3 7 (14.89%) Analyst
3 7 (14.89%) IT Support
4 5 (10.64%) Desktop Support
4 5 (10.64%) IT Engineer
4 5 (10.64%) IT Support Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Architect
5 4 (8.51%) Support Analyst
6 3 (6.38%) Citrix Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Network Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (4.26%) Active Directory Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Active Directory Support
7 2 (4.26%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) IT Analyst
7 2 (4.26%) Service Desk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.51%) REST
2 3 (6.38%) OpenID
2 3 (6.38%) SAML
3 2 (4.26%) SailPoint
4 1 (2.13%) .NET
4 1 (2.13%) .NET Core
4 1 (2.13%) 802.1X
4 1 (2.13%) ASP.NET
4 1 (2.13%) Blazor
4 1 (2.13%) J2EE
4 1 (2.13%) JDBC
4 1 (2.13%) JSON
4 1 (2.13%) LDAP
4 1 (2.13%) OAuth
4 1 (2.13%) Playwright
4 1 (2.13%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.15%) Onboarding
2 3 (6.38%) BYOD
2 3 (6.38%) PKI
2 3 (6.38%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.13%) CMDB
4 1 (2.13%) Fat Client
4 1 (2.13%) IoT
4 1 (2.13%) Life Science
4 1 (2.13%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.13%) Thin Client
4 1 (2.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (61.70%) Windows
2 9 (19.15%) Mac OS
2 9 (19.15%) Windows Server
3 8 (17.02%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.13%) Android
4 1 (2.13%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.13%) Linux
4 1 (2.13%) Mac OS X
4 1 (2.13%) VMS
4 1 (2.13%) Windows 7
4 1 (2.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (25.53%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (21.28%) ITIL
3 9 (19.15%) Identity Access Management
4 7 (14.89%) CI/CD
4 7 (14.89%) Customer Service
4 7 (14.89%) DevOps
4 7 (14.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (10.64%) Agile
6 4 (8.51%) AI
6 4 (8.51%) Application Packaging
6 4 (8.51%) Change Control
6 4 (8.51%) Change Management
6 4 (8.51%) Cloud Security
6 4 (8.51%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (8.51%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (8.51%) Mentoring
6 4 (8.51%) Migration
7 3 (6.38%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (6.38%) Project Delivery
7 3 (6.38%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 14 (29.79%) PowerShell
2 6 (12.77%) Python
3 5 (10.64%) Bash
4 2 (4.26%) Java
4 2 (4.26%) SQL
5 1 (2.13%) C#
5 1 (2.13%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (2.13%) VB
Qualifications
1 7 (14.89%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (8.51%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.38%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.26%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (4.26%) CISM
4 2 (4.26%) CISSP
4 2 (4.26%) Degree
4 2 (4.26%) MCSE
4 2 (4.26%) Network+ Certification
4 2 (4.26%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.13%) CCIE
5 1 (2.13%) CCNA
5 1 (2.13%) CCNP
5 1 (2.13%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.13%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.13%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.38%) QA
2 2 (4.26%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.13%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.13%) GDPR
3 1 (2.13%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (2.13%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.13%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (14.89%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (8.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.26%) Docker
4 1 (2.13%) Firmware
4 1 (2.13%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.13%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.13%) vSphere
4 1 (2.13%) zsh
Systems Management
1 12 (25.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (8.51%) SCCM
2 4 (8.51%) Terraform
3 3 (6.38%) Ansible
3 3 (6.38%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (4.26%) Kubernetes
4 2 (4.26%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (2.13%) Grafana
5 1 (2.13%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.13%) Puppet
5 1 (2.13%) Salt
5 1 (2.13%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 35 (74.47%) Microsoft
2 7 (14.89%) Citrix
3 6 (12.77%) ServiceNow
4 4 (8.51%) VMware
5 3 (6.38%) Cisco
6 2 (4.26%) Apple
6 2 (4.26%) Bloomberg
6 2 (4.26%) Oracle
6 2 (4.26%) Palo Alto
6 2 (4.26%) SAP
7 1 (2.13%) Databricks
7 1 (2.13%) EMC
7 1 (2.13%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.13%) Google
7 1 (2.13%) Qualys
7 1 (2.13%) Workday
7 1 (2.13%) Zscaler