Active Directory Contracts in Central London

Microsoft Active Directory
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 40 40
Rank change year-on-year +11 0 +7
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 154 209 253
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 6.26% 5.39% 5.57%
As % of the System Software category 56.62% 43.36% 34.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 149 221
10th Percentile £176 £150 £150
25th Percentile £265 £220 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -15.00% +12.61%
75th Percentile £564 £575 £550
90th Percentile £740 £690 £588
London median daily rate £425 £467 £500
% change year-on-year -8.94% -6.65% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 4
10th Percentile - £21.40 -
25th Percentile £21.25 £22.00 £24.25
Median hourly rate £31.25 £23.50 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year +32.98% -7.84% +27.50%
75th Percentile £40.00 £24.50 £29.56
90th Percentile - £24.80 £32.83
London median hourly rate £22.50 £25.00 £22.65
% change year-on-year -10.00% +10.40% +13.23%

All System Software Skills
Central 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 Central London with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 272 482 728
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 11.06% 12.44% 16.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 328 622
10th Percentile £216 £213 £256
25th Percentile £350 £399 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £561 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.37% +2.05% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £702 £650
90th Percentile £738 £788 £750
London median daily rate £500 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -13.04% +2.22% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 4
10th Percentile - £21.40 -
25th Percentile £21.25 £22.00 £24.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £23.50 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year +70.21% -7.84% +27.50%
75th Percentile - £24.50 £29.56
90th Percentile £46.15 £24.80 £32.83
London median hourly rate £22.50 £45.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -50.00% +83.67% -44.94%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Central London

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in Central London

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in Central London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in Central London

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in Central London

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Active Directory in Central London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Active Directory in Central London

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 26 April 2024. 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 +14 128 £450 -2.44% 16
West End of London -6 4 £147 -60.67% 3
City of Westminster -6 3 £400 +7.38% 1
Lambeth -3 1 £188 -1.32%
Active Directory
London

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 52 (33.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (9.09%) SharePoint
3 6 (3.90%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 4 (2.60%) IIS
5 3 (1.95%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (1.30%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.65%) CMS
7 1 (0.65%) SharePoint 2013
7 1 (0.65%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.65%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.65%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 77 (50.00%) Azure
2 75 (48.70%) Microsoft 365
3 49 (31.82%) Entra ID
4 19 (12.34%) Power Platform
5 14 (9.09%) OneDrive
6 12 (7.79%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (7.79%) Mimecast
7 11 (7.14%) Power Automate
8 10 (6.49%) AWS
9 9 (5.84%) PowerApps
10 8 (5.19%) IaaS
10 8 (5.19%) PaaS
11 7 (4.55%) Azure Key Vault
12 6 (3.90%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (3.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 5 (3.25%) SaaS
14 4 (2.60%) GitHub
14 4 (2.60%) WhatsApp
15 3 (1.95%) Azure Monitor
15 3 (1.95%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 35 (22.73%) Firewall
2 24 (15.58%) DNS
3 15 (9.74%) SAN
4 9 (5.84%) Network Security
5 8 (5.19%) DHCP
5 8 (5.19%) VPN
6 5 (3.25%) MPLS
7 4 (2.60%) FTP
7 4 (2.60%) WAN
7 4 (2.60%) Wireless
8 3 (1.95%) LAN
9 2 (1.30%) SD-WAN
9 2 (1.30%) VoIP
10 1 (0.65%) Fibre Channel
10 1 (0.65%) iSCSI
10 1 (0.65%) MGCP
10 1 (0.65%) Multicast
10 1 (0.65%) NAS
10 1 (0.65%) SCCP
10 1 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (11.69%) SQL Server
2 7 (4.55%) Power BI
3 5 (3.25%) Relational Database
4 4 (2.60%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.30%) Redis
6 1 (0.65%) MySQL
6 1 (0.65%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 5 (3.25%) TeamCity
2 4 (2.60%) Hudson
3 3 (1.95%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.65%) Git
4 1 (0.65%) GitLab
4 1 (0.65%) JIRA
4 1 (0.65%) Katalon Studio
4 1 (0.65%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.65%) Selenium
4 1 (0.65%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.65%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.65%) WebDriver
General
1 47 (30.52%) Finance
2 44 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 26 (16.88%) Banking
4 11 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
5 10 (6.49%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (5.84%) Investment Banking
7 8 (5.19%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (4.55%) Financial Institution
8 7 (4.55%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.60%) French Language
10 3 (1.95%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.30%) Italian Language
11 2 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.65%) Advertising
12 1 (0.65%) Billing
12 1 (0.65%) Front Office
12 1 (0.65%) Law
12 1 (0.65%) Legal
12 1 (0.65%) Marketing
12 1 (0.65%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (17.53%) Support Engineer
2 18 (11.69%) Senior
3 17 (11.04%) Architect
4 16 (10.39%) Analyst
5 13 (8.44%) Desktop Engineer
5 13 (8.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (7.14%) Desktop Support
7 9 (5.84%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 9 (5.84%) Developer
7 9 (5.84%) IT Support
8 8 (5.19%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (4.55%) IT Analyst
9 7 (4.55%) Senior DevOps
10 6 (3.90%) Backend Developer
10 6 (3.90%) Consultant
10 6 (3.90%) IT Engineer
10 6 (3.90%) Platform Architect
10 6 (3.90%) Power Platform Architect
10 6 (3.90%) Support Analyst
11 5 (3.25%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (9.74%) .NET
1 15 (9.74%) XML
2 7 (4.55%) .NET Core
2 7 (4.55%) LDAP
2 7 (4.55%) Microsoft Graph
3 6 (3.90%) JSON
3 6 (3.90%) RabbitMQ
3 6 (3.90%) REST
4 5 (3.25%) SAML
4 5 (3.25%) WCF
4 5 (3.25%) WinForms
5 4 (2.60%) ASP.NET
5 4 (2.60%) HTML
5 4 (2.60%) SailPoint
6 3 (1.95%) CSS
6 3 (1.95%) OAuth
6 3 (1.95%) OpenID
6 3 (1.95%) React
7 2 (1.30%) .NET Framework
7 2 (1.30%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.74%) Video Conferencing
2 9 (5.84%) Product Ownership
3 8 (5.19%) Data Centre
4 7 (4.55%) Blackberry
5 6 (3.90%) Replication
6 4 (2.60%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.60%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.95%) Hedge funds
7 3 (1.95%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.95%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.30%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.30%) PKI
8 2 (1.30%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.65%) Cloud Security Posture
9 1 (0.65%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.65%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.65%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.65%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 88 (57.14%) Windows
2 22 (14.29%) Windows 10
3 20 (12.99%) Windows Server
4 18 (11.69%) Windows Server 2012
5 16 (10.39%) Windows Server 2016
6 10 (6.49%) Linux
7 8 (5.19%) Windows 7
8 7 (4.55%) Android
9 6 (3.90%) Mac OS
9 6 (3.90%) Mac OS X
10 5 (3.25%) Windows 8
11 4 (2.60%) Apple iOS
11 4 (2.60%) Unix
11 4 (2.60%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (1.95%) VMS
12 3 (1.95%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.65%) OpenVMS
13 1 (0.65%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (17.53%) Migration
2 26 (16.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 23 (14.94%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (14.29%) Customer Service
4 22 (14.29%) DevOps
5 21 (13.64%) Disaster Recovery
6 17 (11.04%) CI/CD
7 16 (10.39%) Agile
8 14 (9.09%) Business Continuity
9 13 (8.44%) Scrum
10 12 (7.79%) Change Management
10 12 (7.79%) ITIL
11 10 (6.49%) Data Migration
12 9 (5.84%) Configuration Management
12 9 (5.84%) Cybersecurity
13 8 (5.19%) Analytics
13 8 (5.19%) B2C
13 8 (5.19%) Information Security
14 7 (4.55%) Business Intelligence
14 7 (4.55%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 47 (30.52%) PowerShell
2 14 (9.09%) C#
3 13 (8.44%) SQL
4 8 (5.19%) Bicep
5 6 (3.90%) Python
6 4 (2.60%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.95%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.65%) Java
8 1 (0.65%) VB
Qualifications
1 9 (5.84%) Azure Certification
1 9 (5.84%) Security Cleared
2 7 (4.55%) Degree
3 5 (3.25%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.60%) TOGAF Certification
5 3 (1.95%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.30%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.65%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.65%) MCITP
7 1 (0.65%) MCSA
7 1 (0.65%) MCSE
7 1 (0.65%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.90%) SLA
2 1 (0.65%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.65%) NIST
2 1 (0.65%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.65%) QA
2 1 (0.65%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (10.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (4.55%) Hyper-V
2 7 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.60%) HDFS
3 4 (2.60%) NFS
4 2 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.30%) XenApp
5 1 (0.65%) ACF2
5 1 (0.65%) Firmware
5 1 (0.65%) IAG
5 1 (0.65%) RACF
5 1 (0.65%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (20.13%) SCCM
2 19 (12.34%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (5.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 6 (3.90%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (2.60%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (1.95%) Ansible
6 3 (1.95%) Kubernetes
6 3 (1.95%) Terraform
7 2 (1.30%) CASB
7 2 (1.30%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.65%) AirWatch
8 1 (0.65%) Consul
8 1 (0.65%) Kibana
8 1 (0.65%) logstash
8 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.65%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.65%) Packer
8 1 (0.65%) PingFederate
8 1 (0.65%) WSUS
Vendors
1 77 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 26 (16.88%) Citrix
3 23 (14.94%) VMware
4 16 (10.39%) Cisco
5 15 (9.74%) HP
6 13 (8.44%) Avaya
6 13 (8.44%) CheckPoint
6 13 (8.44%) EMC
7 11 (7.14%) ServiceNow
8 9 (5.84%) Apple
9 6 (3.90%) Adobe
9 6 (3.90%) Ivanti
9 6 (3.90%) Okta
10 4 (2.60%) Dell
10 4 (2.60%) Google
10 4 (2.60%) Isilon
11 3 (1.95%) Bloomberg
12 2 (1.30%) CyberArk
12 2 (1.30%) Oracle
12 2 (1.30%) Veeam