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

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 40 35
Rank change year-on-year -22 -5 +19
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 68 100 182
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 3.63% 4.85% 5.65%
As % of the System Software category 44.16% 42.19% 41.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 76 129
10th Percentile £216 £235 £169
25th Percentile £284 £350 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £419 £500
Median % change year-on-year +19.40% -16.25% +4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £573 £600
90th Percentile £668 £694 £703
Central London median daily rate £496 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +16.59% -10.53% +13.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £22.95 - -
25th Percentile £24.38 £77.50 -
Median hourly rate £28.50 £85.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -66.47% - -
75th Percentile £108.88 £92.50 -
90th Percentile £156.05 - -
Central London median hourly rate £27.48 £85.00 -
% change year-on-year -67.68% - -

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 154 237 435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 8.23% 11.50% 13.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 172 293
10th Percentile £263 £323 £261
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% -5.98% +6.36%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £738
90th Percentile £688 £730 £824
Central London median daily rate £513 £531 £575
% change year-on-year -3.44% -7.70% +6.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £22.95 - £23.88
25th Percentile £24.38 £77.50 £27.81
Median hourly rate £28.50 £85.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -66.47% +134.48% +59.34%
75th Percentile £108.88 £92.50 £45.31
90th Percentile £156.05 - £49.63
Central London median hourly rate £27.48 £85.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year -67.68% +134.48% +76.83%

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 17 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in the City of London

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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 17 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Active Directory in the City of London

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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 17 August 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 14 (20.59%) SharePoint
2 11 (16.18%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (4.41%) Confluence
4 1 (1.47%) CMS
4 1 (1.47%) IIS
4 1 (1.47%) Moodle
4 1 (1.47%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 5 (7.35%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.94%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 36 (52.94%) Microsoft 365
2 35 (51.47%) Azure
3 25 (36.76%) Entra ID
4 9 (13.24%) AWS
5 7 (10.29%) Power Platform
6 6 (8.82%) OneDrive
6 6 (8.82%) Power Automate
6 6 (8.82%) PowerApps
7 4 (5.88%) ShareGate
8 3 (4.41%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (4.41%) GCP
8 3 (4.41%) IaaS
8 3 (4.41%) Mimecast
9 2 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (2.94%) PaaS
9 2 (2.94%) SaaS
10 1 (1.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (1.47%) Amazon S3
10 1 (1.47%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 16 (23.53%) Firewall
2 10 (14.71%) DNS
3 8 (11.76%) DHCP
4 7 (10.29%) WAN
5 5 (7.35%) SD-WAN
6 4 (5.88%) TCP/IP
6 4 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (4.41%) LAN
7 3 (4.41%) VPN
8 2 (2.94%) MPLS
8 2 (2.94%) NAS
8 2 (2.94%) NetScaler
8 2 (2.94%) Network Security
8 2 (2.94%) WebEx
8 2 (2.94%) Wireless
9 1 (1.47%) IP Telephony
9 1 (1.47%) OpenLDAP
9 1 (1.47%) OSPF
9 1 (1.47%) Softphone
9 1 (1.47%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.82%) Power BI
1 6 (8.82%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.47%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.47%) Power Query
2 1 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (1.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (2.94%) JIRA
2 1 (1.47%) Git
2 1 (1.47%) GitLab
General
1 22 (32.35%) Finance
2 16 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (5.88%) Banking
4 4 (5.88%) Law
5 3 (4.41%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.41%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.41%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.94%) Legal
7 1 (1.47%) Billing
7 1 (1.47%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.47%) Front Office
7 1 (1.47%) International Banking
7 1 (1.47%) Local Government
7 1 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.47%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (17.65%) Analyst
2 9 (13.24%) Support Engineer
3 8 (11.76%) Support Analyst
4 7 (10.29%) IT Support
5 6 (8.82%) 2nd Line Support
5 6 (8.82%) IT Engineer
5 6 (8.82%) Lead
6 5 (7.35%) Architect
6 5 (7.35%) Consultant
6 5 (7.35%) IT Support Engineer
7 4 (5.88%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
7 4 (5.88%) Active Directory Support
7 4 (5.88%) Desktop Support
7 4 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.88%) Infrastructure Support
8 3 (4.41%) IT Analyst
9 2 (2.94%) 1st Line Engineer
9 2 (2.94%) 1st/2nd Line Support
9 2 (2.94%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
9 2 (2.94%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.35%) Microsoft Graph
2 3 (4.41%) SailPoint
3 1 (1.47%) boto
3 1 (1.47%) Flake8
3 1 (1.47%) LDAP
3 1 (1.47%) mypy
3 1 (1.47%) OAuth
3 1 (1.47%) OpenID
3 1 (1.47%) pytest
3 1 (1.47%) REST
3 1 (1.47%) XACML
3 1 (1.47%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.35%) Data Centre
2 4 (5.88%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.41%) iPad
4 2 (2.94%) iPhone
4 2 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 2 (2.94%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.47%) Clustering
5 1 (1.47%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (1.47%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.47%) Fat Client
5 1 (1.47%) HP Storage
5 1 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.47%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.47%) Replication
5 1 (1.47%) Smartphone
5 1 (1.47%) STIX
5 1 (1.47%) Thin Client
5 1 (1.47%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.47%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 37 (54.41%) Windows
2 11 (16.18%) Windows Server
3 8 (11.76%) Windows 10
4 6 (8.82%) Linux
5 4 (5.88%) Apple iOS
6 2 (2.94%) Android
6 2 (2.94%) Mac OS
6 2 (2.94%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (2.94%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.47%) Mac OS X
7 1 (1.47%) Unix
7 1 (1.47%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (25.00%) ITIL
2 12 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (11.76%) Migration
4 7 (10.29%) Data Loss Prevention
5 6 (8.82%) Asset Management
5 6 (8.82%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (8.82%) Identity Access Management
5 6 (8.82%) Roadmaps
6 5 (7.35%) Customer Service
6 5 (7.35%) Information Security
6 5 (7.35%) ITSM
7 4 (5.88%) Agile
7 4 (5.88%) Cloud Security
7 4 (5.88%) Identity Management
7 4 (5.88%) Incident Response
7 4 (5.88%) Network Management
7 4 (5.88%) Security Patching
7 4 (5.88%) Service Management
7 4 (5.88%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 14 (20.59%) PowerShell
2 7 (10.29%) Python
3 4 (5.88%) SQL
4 1 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.47%) Go
4 1 (1.47%) Java
4 1 (1.47%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (1.47%) Perl
4 1 (1.47%) PHP
4 1 (1.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (14.71%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (13.24%) SC Cleared
2 9 (13.24%) Security Cleared
3 7 (10.29%) Degree
4 4 (5.88%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (4.41%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.94%) CCNA
6 2 (2.94%) CISSP
6 2 (2.94%) MCITP
7 1 (1.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.47%) CCNP
7 1 (1.47%) CISM
7 1 (1.47%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.47%) GCFA
7 1 (1.47%) GCIA
7 1 (1.47%) GCIH
7 1 (1.47%) MCSA
7 1 (1.47%) MCSE
7 1 (1.47%) VCAP
7 1 (1.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.82%) SLA
2 3 (4.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.94%) NIST
4 1 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.47%) GDPR
4 1 (1.47%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.47%) QA
System Software
1 5 (7.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (5.88%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.94%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (1.47%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.47%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 17 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (14.71%) SCCM
3 3 (4.41%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (2.94%) SCOM
5 1 (1.47%) AirWatch
5 1 (1.47%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.47%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.47%) QRadar
5 1 (1.47%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
5 1 (1.47%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
5 1 (1.47%) Terraform
5 1 (1.47%) WMI
5 1 (1.47%) WSUS
Vendors
1 39 (57.35%) Microsoft
2 10 (14.71%) Citrix
2 10 (14.71%) VMware
3 9 (13.24%) ServiceNow
4 7 (10.29%) Cisco
5 6 (8.82%) Palo Alto
6 3 (4.41%) CyberArk
6 3 (4.41%) HP
6 3 (4.41%) Okta
7 2 (2.94%) Dell
7 2 (2.94%) Oracle
7 2 (2.94%) Symantec
8 1 (1.47%) Apple
8 1 (1.47%) Atempo
8 1 (1.47%) Avaya
8 1 (1.47%) Bloomberg
8 1 (1.47%) IBM
8 1 (1.47%) Juniper
8 1 (1.47%) Sun
8 1 (1.47%) Veritas