Active Directory Contracts in the City of London

Microsoft Active Directory
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Active Directory skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Active Directory over the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 32 43
Rank change year-on-year -11 +11 +5
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 87 121 180
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 4.95% 5.57% 4.98%
As % of the System Software category 46.77% 51.49% 41.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 89 128
10th Percentile £215 £181 £150
25th Percentile £269 £350 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £450 £474
Median % change year-on-year +19.11% -5.01% -5.25%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £588
90th Percentile £677 £775 £700
Central London median daily rate £500 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 0
10th Percentile £36.05 - -
25th Percentile £57.13 £21.25 -
Median hourly rate £98.50 £31.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +215.20% - -
75th Percentile £146.13 £40.00 -
90th Percentile £170.95 - -
Central London median hourly rate £24.48 £31.25 £23.50
% change year-on-year -21.68% +32.98% -7.84%

All System Software Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 186 235 433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 10.59% 10.81% 11.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 173 293
10th Percentile £263 £250 £214
25th Percentile £402 £383 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £670 £725
90th Percentile £694 £749 £788
Central London median daily rate £525 £488 £560
% change year-on-year +7.69% -12.95% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile £36.05 - -
25th Percentile £57.13 £21.25 -
Median hourly rate £98.50 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +146.25% - -
75th Percentile £146.13 - -
90th Percentile £170.95 £46.15 -
Central London median hourly rate £24.48 £40.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -38.81% +70.21% -7.84%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in the City of London

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in the City of London

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in the City of London over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in the City of London

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in the City of London

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Histogram in the City of London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Active Directory in the City of London over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Active Directory in the City of London

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 6 May 2025. 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
London Bridge - 4 £238 -
Active Directory
Central London

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 17 (19.54%) Microsoft Exchange
1 17 (19.54%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.45%) Confluence
3 2 (2.30%) CMS
3 2 (2.30%) Skype for Business
4 1 (1.15%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (1.15%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (1.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (11.49%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (3.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 49 (56.32%) Azure
2 38 (43.68%) Entra ID
3 36 (41.38%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (11.49%) OneDrive
5 9 (10.34%) AWS
6 6 (6.90%) IaaS
7 5 (5.75%) GCP
7 5 (5.75%) Nutanix
7 5 (5.75%) SaaS
8 4 (4.60%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (4.60%) GitHub
9 3 (3.45%) Azure Event Grid
9 3 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (3.45%) PaaS
10 2 (2.30%) Azure AKS
10 2 (2.30%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (2.30%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (2.30%) Mimecast
10 2 (2.30%) Power Platform
10 2 (2.30%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 16 (18.39%) Firewall
2 15 (17.24%) DNS
3 8 (9.20%) DHCP
4 4 (4.60%) TCP/IP
4 4 (4.60%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (3.45%) Kerberos
5 3 (3.45%) MPLS
5 3 (3.45%) WAN
6 2 (2.30%) NAS
6 2 (2.30%) Network Security
6 2 (2.30%) SD-WAN
6 2 (2.30%) Skype
6 2 (2.30%) WebEx
7 1 (1.15%) HTTP
7 1 (1.15%) LAN
7 1 (1.15%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (1.15%) SMTP
7 1 (1.15%) VLAN
7 1 (1.15%) VoIP
7 1 (1.15%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.20%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.30%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (2.30%) MySQL
3 1 (1.15%) DB2
3 1 (1.15%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.15%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.15%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (1.15%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (1.15%) Power BI
3 1 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (1.15%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 5 (5.75%) JIRA
2 2 (2.30%) MSI
2 2 (2.30%) Subversion
2 2 (2.30%) TeamCity
3 1 (1.15%) Git
3 1 (1.15%) Serena SBM
General
1 34 (39.08%) Finance
2 22 (25.29%) Social Skills
3 7 (8.05%) Banking
4 4 (4.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (4.60%) Law
4 4 (4.60%) Legal
5 3 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (3.45%) Retail
6 2 (2.30%) Local Government
6 2 (2.30%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.30%) Spanish Language
6 2 (2.30%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.15%) Billing
7 1 (1.15%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.15%) French Language
7 1 (1.15%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (20.69%) Analyst
2 12 (13.79%) Support Engineer
3 10 (11.49%) IT Support
4 9 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (8.05%) Architect
5 7 (8.05%) Senior
5 7 (8.05%) Support Analyst
6 6 (6.90%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (6.90%) IT Engineer
6 6 (6.90%) Service Analyst
6 6 (6.90%) Service Desk Analyst
7 5 (5.75%) 2nd Line Support
7 5 (5.75%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (5.75%) IT Analyst
7 5 (5.75%) IT Support Engineer
8 4 (4.60%) Consultant
8 4 (4.60%) Desktop Support
8 4 (4.60%) Lead
9 3 (3.45%) Integration Engineer
9 3 (3.45%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.05%) LDAP
1 7 (8.05%) SailPoint
2 5 (5.75%) OAuth
3 4 (4.60%) SAML
4 3 (3.45%) REST
5 2 (2.30%) ARM Templates
5 2 (2.30%) Azure Blueprints
6 1 (1.15%) .NET
6 1 (1.15%) EDI
6 1 (1.15%) JSON
6 1 (1.15%) OpenID
6 1 (1.15%) SOAP
6 1 (1.15%) WCF
6 1 (1.15%) XML
6 1 (1.15%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.60%) Clustering
1 4 (4.60%) Data Centre
1 4 (4.60%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (4.60%) Management Information System
1 4 (4.60%) Onboarding
2 3 (3.45%) BYOD
2 3 (3.45%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.30%) Blackberry
3 2 (2.30%) iPad
3 2 (2.30%) iPhone
3 2 (2.30%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (2.30%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.30%) Reinsurance
3 2 (2.30%) Replication
3 2 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.30%) Smartphone
3 2 (2.30%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 2 (2.30%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (2.30%) Virtual Team
3 2 (2.30%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 47 (54.02%) Windows
2 20 (22.99%) Windows Server
3 17 (19.54%) Windows 10
4 7 (8.05%) Apple iOS
4 7 (8.05%) Linux
5 5 (5.75%) Android
6 3 (3.45%) Unix
6 3 (3.45%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (2.30%) Mac OS
7 2 (2.30%) Solaris
7 2 (2.30%) Windows 7
7 2 (2.30%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.15%) VMS
8 1 (1.15%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (18.39%) ITIL
2 15 (17.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (13.79%) Identity Access Management
4 10 (11.49%) Customer Service
4 10 (11.49%) Roadmaps
5 9 (10.34%) Migration
6 8 (9.20%) Agile
6 8 (9.20%) Identity Management
7 7 (8.05%) ITSM
8 6 (6.90%) Asset Management
8 6 (6.90%) CI/CD
8 6 (6.90%) DevOps
9 5 (5.75%) Configuration Management
9 5 (5.75%) Project Delivery
9 5 (5.75%) RBAC
9 5 (5.75%) Service Management
9 5 (5.75%) Time Management
10 4 (4.60%) Disaster Recovery
10 4 (4.60%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 22 (25.29%) PowerShell
2 8 (9.20%) Python
3 5 (5.75%) SQL
4 3 (3.45%) Bicep
5 2 (2.30%) Bash
5 2 (2.30%) C#
5 2 (2.30%) Perl
6 1 (1.15%) Java
6 1 (1.15%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.15%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.15%) Ruby
6 1 (1.15%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.15%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 12 (13.79%) Degree
2 11 (12.64%) Security Cleared
3 9 (10.34%) SC Cleared
4 6 (6.90%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.45%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (2.30%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.30%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.30%) MCSE
6 2 (2.30%) VCAP
6 2 (2.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.15%) A+ Certification
7 1 (1.15%) CISM
7 1 (1.15%) CISSP
7 1 (1.15%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.75%) SLA
2 4 (4.60%) GDPR
3 2 (2.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (2.30%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.15%) HIPAA
System Software
1 8 (9.20%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (4.60%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (4.60%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (4.60%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (3.45%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (3.45%) XenDesktop
4 2 (2.30%) BitLocker
5 1 (1.15%) Firmware
5 1 (1.15%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.15%) NFS
5 1 (1.15%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (1.15%) Veritas File System
5 1 (1.15%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 1 (1.15%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 21 (24.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (20.69%) SCCM
3 4 (4.60%) Ansible
3 4 (4.60%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (3.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (2.30%) AirWatch
5 2 (2.30%) Control-M
5 2 (2.30%) Forefront Identity Manager
5 2 (2.30%) FortiGate
5 2 (2.30%) QRadar
5 2 (2.30%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
5 2 (2.30%) Terraform
5 2 (2.30%) Tivoli
5 2 (2.30%) WSUS
6 1 (1.15%) Data Guard
6 1 (1.15%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (1.15%) Netcool
6 1 (1.15%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (1.15%) SCOrch
6 1 (1.15%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 49 (56.32%) Microsoft
2 14 (16.09%) ServiceNow
3 12 (13.79%) Citrix
4 11 (12.64%) VMware
5 5 (5.75%) Oracle
6 4 (4.60%) Commvault
6 4 (4.60%) CyberArk
7 3 (3.45%) Apple
7 3 (3.45%) Palo Alto
7 3 (3.45%) Sybase
8 2 (2.30%) Bloomberg
8 2 (2.30%) BMC
8 2 (2.30%) Cisco
8 2 (2.30%) Fortinet
8 2 (2.30%) Google
8 2 (2.30%) IBM
8 2 (2.30%) Qualys
8 2 (2.30%) Red Hat
8 2 (2.30%) SAP
8 2 (2.30%) Symantec