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 6 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 42 32
Rank change year-on-year -47 -10 +15
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 46 85 124
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.10% 4.89% 5.47%
As % of the System Software category 28.75% 42.08% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 55 91
10th Percentile £181 £209 £205
25th Percentile £188 £272 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +17.65% +4.62%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £581
90th Percentile £647 £689 £775
Central London median daily rate £425 £500 £413
% change year-on-year -15.00% +21.21% +3.13%
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 160 202 248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 7.30% 11.61% 10.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 139 183
10th Percentile £221 £259 £250
25th Percentile £402 £410 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +12.82% -15.22%
75th Percentile £609 £638 £650
90th Percentile £679 £725 £735
Central London median daily rate £525 £535 £475
% change year-on-year -1.87% +12.63% -15.18%
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 6 April 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 8 (17.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (15.22%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.17%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 32 (69.57%) Microsoft 365
2 29 (63.04%) Azure
3 24 (52.17%) Entra ID
4 6 (13.04%) Power Platform
5 5 (10.87%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (10.87%) PowerApps
6 4 (8.70%) GitHub
7 3 (6.52%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (6.52%) OneDrive
7 3 (6.52%) Power Automate
8 2 (4.35%) AWS
8 2 (4.35%) Azure Stack
8 2 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (2.17%) Azure Event Grid
9 1 (2.17%) Azure Functions
9 1 (2.17%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (2.17%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (2.17%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (2.17%) Serverless
9 1 (2.17%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 9 (19.57%) DNS
2 7 (15.22%) VPN
3 6 (13.04%) DHCP
4 5 (10.87%) Firewall
5 1 (2.17%) Extranet
5 1 (2.17%) IPv4
5 1 (2.17%) IPv6
5 1 (2.17%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.17%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.35%) Power BI
2 1 (2.17%) Big Data
2 1 (2.17%) Delta Lake
2 1 (2.17%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (6.52%) JIRA
2 1 (2.17%) Cypress.io
2 1 (2.17%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (2.17%) Selenium
2 1 (2.17%) SpecFlow
General
1 25 (54.35%) Social Skills
2 10 (21.74%) Finance
3 3 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.52%) Banking
4 2 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (4.35%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.35%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.17%) French Language
5 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.17%) International Banking
5 1 (2.17%) Law
5 1 (2.17%) Legal
5 1 (2.17%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.17%) Military
5 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (23.91%) Support Engineer
2 9 (19.57%) IT Support
3 8 (17.39%) IT Engineer
3 8 (17.39%) IT Support Engineer
4 6 (13.04%) Senior
5 4 (8.70%) Analyst
5 4 (8.70%) Architect
5 4 (8.70%) Service Desk Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Citrix Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Consultant
6 3 (6.52%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Deployment Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 2 (4.35%) Lead
7 2 (4.35%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
7 2 (4.35%) Power Platform Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Senior Analyst
8 1 (2.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.52%) REST
1 3 (6.52%) SailPoint
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (2.17%) OAuth
2 1 (2.17%) OpenID
2 1 (2.17%) Playwright
2 1 (2.17%) SAML
2 1 (2.17%) SPFx
2 1 (2.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.57%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.17%) BYOD
2 1 (2.17%) CMDB
2 1 (2.17%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (2.17%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.17%) IoT
2 1 (2.17%) PKI
2 1 (2.17%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 29 (63.04%) Windows
2 10 (21.74%) Windows 10
3 8 (17.39%) Windows Server
4 7 (15.22%) Mac OS
5 2 (4.35%) Mac OS X
6 1 (2.17%) Android
6 1 (2.17%) Apple iOS
6 1 (2.17%) Linux
6 1 (2.17%) Windows 7
6 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (28.26%) ITIL
2 11 (23.91%) Customer Service
3 8 (17.39%) Migration
4 6 (13.04%) Change Management
4 6 (13.04%) CI/CD
4 6 (13.04%) DevOps
4 6 (13.04%) Mentoring
4 6 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (13.04%) Service Delivery
4 6 (13.04%) User Experience
5 5 (10.87%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (10.87%) Identity Access Management
5 5 (10.87%) ITSM
5 5 (10.87%) Performance Metrics
6 4 (8.70%) Agile
6 4 (8.70%) Change Control
7 3 (6.52%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (6.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (6.52%) Mobile Device Management
7 3 (6.52%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 14 (30.43%) PowerShell
2 3 (6.52%) Bash
2 3 (6.52%) Python
3 2 (4.35%) Java
3 2 (4.35%) SQL
4 1 (2.17%) BeanShell
4 1 (2.17%) C#
Qualifications
1 7 (15.22%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (10.87%) Security Cleared
3 4 (8.70%) Azure Certification
3 4 (8.70%) SC Cleared
4 3 (6.52%) Degree
4 3 (6.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (4.35%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (2.17%) A+ Certification
6 1 (2.17%) CISM
6 1 (2.17%) CISMP
6 1 (2.17%) CISSP
6 1 (2.17%) CompTIA CySA+
6 1 (2.17%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (2.17%) ISTQB
6 1 (2.17%) MCSA
6 1 (2.17%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.04%) Cyber Essentials
1 6 (13.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (6.52%) GDPR
3 1 (2.17%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.17%) NCSC
3 1 (2.17%) NIST
3 1 (2.17%) QA
3 1 (2.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (8.70%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (34.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (19.57%) SCCM
3 4 (8.70%) Terraform
4 2 (4.35%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (2.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (2.17%) AirWatch
5 1 (2.17%) Ansible
5 1 (2.17%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (76.09%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.87%) ServiceNow
3 4 (8.70%) Citrix
4 3 (6.52%) Apple
5 2 (4.35%) Oracle
5 2 (4.35%) VMware
6 1 (2.17%) Altiris
6 1 (2.17%) Bomgar
6 1 (2.17%) CyberArk
6 1 (2.17%) Databricks
6 1 (2.17%) Datto
6 1 (2.17%) Google
6 1 (2.17%) LogRhythm
6 1 (2.17%) SAP
6 1 (2.17%) Veeam