Active Directory Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Microsoft Active Directory
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Active Directory skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 3 months leading up to 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

3 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 58 29
Rank change year-on-year +9 -29 +7
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 39 30 60
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.97% 3.33% 6.17%
As % of the System Software category 44.83% 44.12% 45.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 20 46
10th Percentile £175 £263 £235
25th Percentile £197 £406 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £536 £475
Median % change year-on-year -30.04% +12.84% -5.57%
75th Percentile £555 £594 £638
90th Percentile £638 £641 £700
Central London median daily rate £380 £518 £475
% change year-on-year -26.64% +9.05% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £22.48 -
25th Percentile £19.25 £23.19 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £25.25 -
Median % change year-on-year -22.77% - -
75th Percentile £19.75 £28.19 -
90th Percentile - £29.43 -
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 £26.45 -
% change year-on-year -26.28% - -

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 87 68 133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 6.64% 7.54% 13.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 49 96
10th Percentile £187 £273 £313
25th Percentile £395 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £558
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.48% -6.96%
75th Percentile £638 £664 £689
90th Percentile £667 £688 £756
Central London median daily rate £525 £536 £543
% change year-on-year -2.05% -1.20% -9.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £20.23 £22.48 -
25th Percentile £21.69 £23.19 -
Median hourly rate £24.75 £25.25 -
Median % change year-on-year -1.98% - -
75th Percentile £28.19 £28.19 -
90th Percentile £29.88 £29.43 -
Central London median hourly rate £24.75 £26.45 -
% change year-on-year -6.43% - -

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Active Directory relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Active Directory job vacancy trend in the City of London

Active Directory
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Active Directory.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Active Directory

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 3 months to 25 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in the City of London

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Active Directory.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Active Directory

Active Directory
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 9 (15.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (10.53%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.51%) IIS
4 1 (1.75%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.75%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 28 (49.12%) Azure
1 28 (49.12%) Entra ID
2 24 (42.11%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (14.04%) AWS
4 7 (12.28%) Power Platform
5 6 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (7.02%) GitHub
6 4 (7.02%) PowerApps
7 3 (5.26%) GCP
7 3 (5.26%) IaaS
7 3 (5.26%) OpenShift
7 3 (5.26%) PaaS
7 3 (5.26%) Power Automate
7 3 (5.26%) Serverless
8 2 (3.51%) Azure Functions
8 2 (3.51%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (3.51%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (3.51%) Azure Stack
8 2 (3.51%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (3.51%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 19 (33.33%) DNS
2 16 (28.07%) DHCP
3 11 (19.30%) VPN
4 7 (12.28%) Firewall
5 4 (7.02%) TCP/IP
6 3 (5.26%) SMTP
7 2 (3.51%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (3.51%) DMZ
7 2 (3.51%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (1.75%) Internet
8 1 (1.75%) LAN
8 1 (1.75%) Network Security
8 1 (1.75%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (1.75%) TACACS
8 1 (1.75%) Unified Communications
8 1 (1.75%) Wireless
8 1 (1.75%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.77%) Power BI
2 4 (7.02%) Big Data
2 4 (7.02%) SQL Server
3 3 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (3.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.75%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.75%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.75%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.75%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.75%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (8.77%) JIRA
2 2 (3.51%) Git
3 1 (1.75%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.75%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.75%) GitLab
3 1 (1.75%) Selenium
3 1 (1.75%) SpecFlow
3 1 (1.75%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 22 (38.60%) Social Skills
2 8 (14.04%) Finance
3 6 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.26%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.51%) Banking
5 2 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.75%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.75%) Front Office
6 1 (1.75%) International Banking
6 1 (1.75%) Law
6 1 (1.75%) Mandarin Language
6 1 (1.75%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.75%) Marketing
6 1 (1.75%) Military
6 1 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.75%) Police
Job Titles
1 16 (28.07%) Support Engineer
2 8 (14.04%) Analyst
2 8 (14.04%) IT Support
3 7 (12.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (12.28%) IT Engineer
3 7 (12.28%) IT Support Engineer
4 6 (10.53%) Active Directory Engineer
5 5 (8.77%) Infrastructure Support
5 5 (8.77%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 5 (8.77%) Senior
6 4 (7.02%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) Architect
6 4 (7.02%) Desktop Support
6 4 (7.02%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
7 3 (5.26%) Active Directory Support
7 3 (5.26%) Active Directory Support Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) IT Analyst
7 3 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.77%) REST
2 4 (7.02%) OpenID
2 4 (7.02%) SAML
3 3 (5.26%) 802.1X
4 2 (3.51%) .NET
4 2 (3.51%) LDAP
4 2 (3.51%) OAuth
4 2 (3.51%) SailPoint
5 1 (1.75%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.75%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.75%) Bootstrap
5 1 (1.75%) CSS
5 1 (1.75%) HTML
5 1 (1.75%) HTML5 Canvas
5 1 (1.75%) J2EE
5 1 (1.75%) JDBC
5 1 (1.75%) JSON
5 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (1.75%) RESTful
5 1 (1.75%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.54%) Onboarding
2 9 (15.79%) PKI
3 6 (10.53%) Video Conferencing
4 3 (5.26%) Clustering
4 3 (5.26%) Data Centre
4 3 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.51%) BYOD
5 2 (3.51%) Fat Client
5 2 (3.51%) Thin Client
5 2 (3.51%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.75%) IoT
6 1 (1.75%) iPad
6 1 (1.75%) iPhone
6 1 (1.75%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 38 (66.67%) Windows
2 17 (29.82%) Windows Server
3 10 (17.54%) Mac OS
4 5 (8.77%) Linux
4 5 (8.77%) Windows 10
5 2 (3.51%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.75%) Android
6 1 (1.75%) Mac OS X
6 1 (1.75%) VMS
6 1 (1.75%) Windows 7
6 1 (1.75%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (22.81%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (19.30%) DevOps
3 10 (17.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 8 (14.04%) CI/CD
4 8 (14.04%) Identity Access Management
4 8 (14.04%) ITIL
5 7 (12.28%) AI
5 7 (12.28%) High Availability
5 7 (12.28%) Service Delivery
6 6 (10.53%) Agile
6 6 (10.53%) Customer Service
6 6 (10.53%) Identity Management
6 6 (10.53%) Migration
6 6 (10.53%) Project Delivery
7 5 (8.77%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (8.77%) Process Improvement
8 4 (7.02%) Change Control
8 4 (7.02%) Machine Learning
8 4 (7.02%) Mentoring
8 4 (7.02%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 15 (26.32%) PowerShell
2 6 (10.53%) Python
3 4 (7.02%) Bash
4 3 (5.26%) SQL
5 2 (3.51%) C#
5 2 (3.51%) Java
6 1 (1.75%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.75%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.75%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (14.04%) Security Cleared
2 6 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (8.77%) Degree
4 4 (7.02%) DV Cleared
5 3 (5.26%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.51%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.51%) CISM
6 2 (3.51%) CISSP
6 2 (3.51%) MCSE
6 2 (3.51%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.75%) CCIE
7 1 (1.75%) CCNA
7 1 (1.75%) CCNP
7 1 (1.75%) CESG Certified Professional
7 1 (1.75%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.75%) MCSA
7 1 (1.75%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (5.26%) QA
2 2 (3.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.75%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.75%) GDPR
3 1 (1.75%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (1.75%) GRC
3 1 (1.75%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 9 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (10.53%) Virtual Desktop
2 6 (10.53%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (8.77%) Docker
4 4 (7.02%) Hyper-V
5 3 (5.26%) BitLocker
5 3 (5.26%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (5.26%) Terminal Services
6 1 (1.75%) Firmware
6 1 (1.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (28.07%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (10.53%) Ansible
3 5 (8.77%) Kubernetes
3 5 (8.77%) SCCM
3 5 (8.77%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (8.77%) vCenter Server
4 4 (7.02%) Puppet
4 4 (7.02%) Terraform
5 3 (5.26%) Nagios
5 3 (5.26%) vMotion
6 2 (3.51%) FortiGate
6 2 (3.51%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (3.51%) Nessus
7 1 (1.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.75%) Grafana
7 1 (1.75%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.75%) Salt
7 1 (1.75%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 43 (75.44%) Microsoft
2 11 (19.30%) Citrix
3 9 (15.79%) VMware
4 6 (10.53%) ServiceNow
5 5 (8.77%) Apple
5 5 (8.77%) Cisco
6 4 (7.02%) Google
6 4 (7.02%) HP
7 3 (5.26%) Bloomberg
7 3 (5.26%) Symantec
8 2 (3.51%) Oracle
8 2 (3.51%) SAP
8 2 (3.51%) Tenable
8 2 (3.51%) Zscaler
9 1 (1.75%) CyberArk
9 1 (1.75%) EMC
9 1 (1.75%) Fortinet
9 1 (1.75%) ION Trading
9 1 (1.75%) Reuters
9 1 (1.75%) Workday