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 6 months leading up to 29 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 40 28
Rank change year-on-year -42 -12 +20
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 44 90 133
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.05% 5.17% 5.77%
As % of the System Software category 26.99% 42.65% 52.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 57 100
10th Percentile £181 £202 £183
25th Percentile £200 £263 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £438
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +14.29% +8.36%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £575
90th Percentile £653 £686 £748
Central London median daily rate £425 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -15.00% +17.65% +7.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.82 £162.50 £21.25
Median hourly rate £22.27 £175.00 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year -87.28% +460.00% +84.53%
75th Percentile £23.71 £187.50 £40.00
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £26.45 £31.25
% change year-on-year -3.71% -15.36% +42.05%

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 163 211 255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 7.58% 12.12% 11.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 142 190
10th Percentile £246 £239 £240
25th Percentile £388 £406 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £546 £490
Median % change year-on-year -3.89% +11.48% -12.69%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £640
90th Percentile £715 £725 £725
Central London median daily rate £525 £530 £475
% change year-on-year -0.94% +11.58% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile £24.32 - -
25th Percentile £29.57 £162.50 £21.25
Median hourly rate £40.02 £175.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -77.13% +337.50% +136.20%
75th Percentile £50.72 £187.50 -
90th Percentile £56.12 - £46.15
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £26.45 £40.00
% change year-on-year -3.71% -33.88% +81.82%

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 6 months to 29 March 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 (20.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (15.91%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 31 (70.45%) Microsoft 365
2 27 (61.36%) Azure
3 23 (52.27%) Entra ID
4 4 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (9.09%) OneDrive
4 4 (9.09%) Power Platform
4 4 (9.09%) PowerApps
5 2 (4.55%) AWS
5 2 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (4.55%) GitHub
5 2 (4.55%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.27%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (2.27%) Azure Functions
6 1 (2.27%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.27%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (2.27%) Azure Stack
6 1 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.27%) Google Workspace
6 1 (2.27%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 9 (20.45%) DNS
2 7 (15.91%) VPN
3 6 (13.64%) DHCP
4 5 (11.36%) Firewall
5 1 (2.27%) Extranet
5 1 (2.27%) IPv4
5 1 (2.27%) IPv6
5 1 (2.27%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.27%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.27%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (2.27%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (6.82%) JIRA
2 1 (2.27%) Cypress.io
2 1 (2.27%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (2.27%) Selenium
2 1 (2.27%) SpecFlow
General
1 23 (52.27%) Social Skills
2 9 (20.45%) Finance
3 3 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.82%) Banking
4 2 (4.55%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.55%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.27%) French Language
5 1 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.27%) International Banking
5 1 (2.27%) Law
5 1 (2.27%) Legal
5 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.27%) Military
5 1 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 9 (20.45%) IT Support
3 8 (18.18%) IT Engineer
3 8 (18.18%) IT Support Engineer
4 6 (13.64%) Senior
5 4 (9.09%) Analyst
5 4 (9.09%) Architect
5 4 (9.09%) Service Desk Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Citrix Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Consultant
7 2 (4.55%) Deployment Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 2 (4.55%) Lead
7 2 (4.55%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
7 2 (4.55%) Senior Analyst
8 1 (2.27%) Active Directory Specialist
8 1 (2.27%) Help Desk Engineer
8 1 (2.27%) Project Engineer
8 1 (2.27%) Senior QA Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.82%) SailPoint
2 2 (4.55%) REST
3 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (2.27%) OAuth
3 1 (2.27%) OpenID
3 1 (2.27%) Playwright
3 1 (2.27%) SAML
3 1 (2.27%) SPFx
3 1 (2.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.18%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.27%) BYOD
2 1 (2.27%) CMDB
2 1 (2.27%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (2.27%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.27%) IoT
2 1 (2.27%) PKI
2 1 (2.27%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 28 (63.64%) Windows
2 10 (22.73%) Windows 10
3 8 (18.18%) Windows Server
4 6 (13.64%) Mac OS
5 2 (4.55%) Mac OS X
6 1 (2.27%) Android
6 1 (2.27%) Apple iOS
6 1 (2.27%) Linux
6 1 (2.27%) Windows 7
6 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (27.27%) ITIL
2 10 (22.73%) Customer Service
3 8 (18.18%) Migration
4 6 (13.64%) Change Management
4 6 (13.64%) Mentoring
4 6 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (13.64%) Service Delivery
5 5 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (11.36%) DevOps
5 5 (11.36%) ITSM
5 5 (11.36%) Performance Metrics
5 5 (11.36%) User Experience
6 4 (9.09%) Change Control
6 4 (9.09%) CI/CD
6 4 (9.09%) Identity Access Management
7 3 (6.82%) Identity Management
7 3 (6.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (6.82%) Roadmaps
7 3 (6.82%) Runbook
7 3 (6.82%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (29.55%) PowerShell
2 2 (4.55%) Bash
2 2 (4.55%) Java
2 2 (4.55%) Python
2 2 (4.55%) SQL
3 1 (2.27%) BeanShell
3 1 (2.27%) C#
Qualifications
1 7 (15.91%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (11.36%) Security Cleared
3 4 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 3 (6.82%) Azure Certification
4 3 (6.82%) Degree
4 3 (6.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (4.55%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (2.27%) A+ Certification
6 1 (2.27%) CISM
6 1 (2.27%) CISMP
6 1 (2.27%) CISSP
6 1 (2.27%) CompTIA CySA+
6 1 (2.27%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (2.27%) ISTQB
6 1 (2.27%) MCSA
6 1 (2.27%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.64%) Cyber Essentials
1 6 (13.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (6.82%) GDPR
3 1 (2.27%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.27%) NCSC
3 1 (2.27%) NIST
3 1 (2.27%) QA
3 1 (2.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (9.09%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (36.36%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (20.45%) SCCM
3 3 (6.82%) Terraform
4 2 (4.55%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (2.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (2.27%) AirWatch
5 1 (2.27%) Ansible
5 1 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.36%) ServiceNow
3 4 (9.09%) Citrix
4 3 (6.82%) Apple
5 2 (4.55%) Oracle
5 2 (4.55%) VMware
6 1 (2.27%) Altiris
6 1 (2.27%) Bomgar
6 1 (2.27%) CyberArk
6 1 (2.27%) Datto
6 1 (2.27%) Google
6 1 (2.27%) LogRhythm
6 1 (2.27%) SAP
6 1 (2.27%) Veeam