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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 29 30
Rank change year-on-year -21 +1 +25
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 75 128 198
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 4.13% 6.00% 5.61%
As % of the System Software category 45.18% 49.23% 41.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 98 142
10th Percentile £212 £245 £150
25th Percentile £263 £350 £226
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £425 £474
Median % change year-on-year +26.88% -10.29% -5.25%
75th Percentile £626 £574 £600
90th Percentile £696 £711 £711
Central London median daily rate £536 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +26.12% -5.56% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £22.95 - -
25th Percentile £24.38 - -
Median hourly rate £28.50 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -28.75% - -
75th Percentile £108.88 - -
90th Percentile £156.05 - -
Central London median hourly rate £27.48 £40.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -31.31% +60.00% +7.53%

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 166 260 472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.13% 12.19% 13.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 188 318
10th Percentile £234 £261 £200
25th Percentile £403 £386 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £653 £688 £738
90th Percentile £700 £754 £813
Central London median daily rate £525 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +5.00% -13.04% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £22.95 - £23.88
25th Percentile £24.38 - £27.81
Median hourly rate £28.50 £40.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.75% +10.34% +36.79%
75th Percentile £108.88 £45.13 £45.31
90th Percentile £156.05 £48.20 £49.63
Central London median hourly rate £27.48 £40.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -31.31% +60.00% +7.53%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 - 3 - -
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 13 (17.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (16.00%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.00%) Confluence
4 2 (2.67%) CMS
5 1 (1.33%) IIS
5 1 (1.33%) Moodle
5 1 (1.33%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 6 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 39 (52.00%) Azure
2 36 (48.00%) Microsoft 365
3 28 (37.33%) Entra ID
4 9 (12.00%) AWS
5 5 (6.67%) IaaS
5 5 (6.67%) OneDrive
6 4 (5.33%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (5.33%) GCP
7 3 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (4.00%) GitHub
7 3 (4.00%) Nutanix
7 3 (4.00%) SaaS
8 2 (2.67%) Azure AKS
8 2 (2.67%) Azure Event Grid
8 2 (2.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (2.67%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (2.67%) PaaS
8 2 (2.67%) Power Automate
8 2 (2.67%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 17 (22.67%) Firewall
2 16 (21.33%) DNS
3 9 (12.00%) DHCP
4 6 (8.00%) TCP/IP
4 6 (8.00%) WAN
5 5 (6.67%) SD-WAN
6 4 (5.33%) MPLS
7 3 (4.00%) Network Security
7 3 (4.00%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (2.67%) LAN
8 2 (2.67%) NAS
8 2 (2.67%) NetScaler
8 2 (2.67%) VPN
8 2 (2.67%) WebEx
9 1 (1.33%) BGP
9 1 (1.33%) HTTP
9 1 (1.33%) Kerberos
9 1 (1.33%) OSPF
9 1 (1.33%) SMTP
9 1 (1.33%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (2.67%) JIRA
1 2 (2.67%) MSI
2 1 (1.33%) Subversion
2 1 (1.33%) TeamCity
General
1 27 (36.00%) Finance
2 17 (22.67%) Social Skills
3 5 (6.67%) Banking
3 5 (6.67%) Law
4 4 (5.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.00%) Legal
6 2 (2.67%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.67%) Spanish Language
6 2 (2.67%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.33%) Billing
7 1 (1.33%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.33%) Front Office
7 1 (1.33%) International Banking
7 1 (1.33%) Local Government
7 1 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.33%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (18.67%) Analyst
2 11 (14.67%) Support Engineer
3 9 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (10.67%) IT Support
5 7 (9.33%) Architect
5 7 (9.33%) Support Analyst
6 6 (8.00%) 2nd Line Support
6 6 (8.00%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (6.67%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (6.67%) Consultant
7 5 (6.67%) IT Engineer
7 5 (6.67%) IT Support Engineer
7 5 (6.67%) Senior
7 5 (6.67%) Service Analyst
7 5 (6.67%) Service Desk Analyst
8 4 (5.33%) Active Directory Support
8 4 (5.33%) Desktop Support
8 4 (5.33%) Infrastructure Support
8 4 (5.33%) IT Analyst
8 4 (5.33%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.33%) SailPoint
2 2 (2.67%) ARM Templates
2 2 (2.67%) Azure Blueprints
2 2 (2.67%) REST
3 1 (1.33%) LDAP
3 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (1.33%) OAuth
3 1 (1.33%) OpenID
3 1 (1.33%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.33%) Management Information System
2 3 (4.00%) Clustering
2 3 (4.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.67%) iPad
3 2 (2.67%) iPhone
3 2 (2.67%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (2.67%) Reinsurance
3 2 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 2 (2.67%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (1.33%) HP Storage
4 1 (1.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.33%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.33%) Replication
4 1 (1.33%) Smartphone
4 1 (1.33%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (1.33%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 43 (57.33%) Windows
2 16 (21.33%) Windows Server
3 12 (16.00%) Windows 10
4 5 (6.67%) Apple iOS
4 5 (6.67%) Linux
5 3 (4.00%) Android
6 2 (2.67%) Mac OS
6 2 (2.67%) Unix
6 2 (2.67%) Windows 7
6 2 (2.67%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (2.67%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.33%) Solaris
7 1 (1.33%) VMS
7 1 (1.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (18.67%) ITIL
3 12 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (12.00%) Roadmaps
5 8 (10.67%) Identity Access Management
6 7 (9.33%) Customer Service
7 6 (8.00%) Asset Management
7 6 (8.00%) DevOps
7 6 (8.00%) Migration
8 5 (6.67%) Cloud Security
8 5 (6.67%) Data Loss Prevention
8 5 (6.67%) Information Security
8 5 (6.67%) ITSM
8 5 (6.67%) Project Delivery
8 5 (6.67%) Time Management
9 4 (5.33%) Incident Response
9 4 (5.33%) Patch Management
9 4 (5.33%) Security Patching
9 4 (5.33%) Strategic Roadmap
9 4 (5.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 16 (21.33%) PowerShell
2 8 (10.67%) Python
3 5 (6.67%) SQL
4 2 (2.67%) Bicep
4 2 (2.67%) Perl
5 1 (1.33%) Bash
5 1 (1.33%) PHP
5 1 (1.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 9 (12.00%) Degree
2 8 (10.67%) Security Cleared
3 6 (8.00%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.33%) ITIL Certification
4 4 (5.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.67%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.67%) CCNA
5 2 (2.67%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.67%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.67%) VCAP
5 2 (2.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (1.33%) CCNP
6 1 (1.33%) CISM
6 1 (1.33%) CISSP
6 1 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.33%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.33%) GDPR
1 4 (5.33%) SLA
2 2 (2.67%) HIPAA
2 2 (2.67%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.33%) NIST
3 1 (1.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (9.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (6.67%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (4.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (2.67%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.33%) BitLocker
5 1 (1.33%) NFS
5 1 (1.33%) Veritas File System
5 1 (1.33%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 1 (1.33%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.33%) XenApp
5 1 (1.33%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 18 (24.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (17.33%) SCCM
3 3 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (4.00%) Terraform
4 2 (2.67%) AirWatch
4 2 (2.67%) Ansible
4 2 (2.67%) FortiGate
4 2 (2.67%) QRadar
4 2 (2.67%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
4 2 (2.67%) WSUS
5 1 (1.33%) Control-M
5 1 (1.33%) Netcool
5 1 (1.33%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (1.33%) Tivoli
5 1 (1.33%) WMI
Vendors
1 40 (53.33%) Microsoft
2 13 (17.33%) Citrix
3 11 (14.67%) ServiceNow
4 10 (13.33%) VMware
5 6 (8.00%) Cisco
6 5 (6.67%) Palo Alto
7 3 (4.00%) CyberArk
8 2 (2.67%) Apple
8 2 (2.67%) Atempo
8 2 (2.67%) Bloomberg
8 2 (2.67%) Databricks
8 2 (2.67%) F5
8 2 (2.67%) Fortinet
8 2 (2.67%) IBM
8 2 (2.67%) iManage
8 2 (2.67%) Intapp
8 2 (2.67%) Juniper
8 2 (2.67%) Okta
8 2 (2.67%) Splunk
8 2 (2.67%) Symantec