Active Directory Contracts in the City of London

Microsoft Active Directory
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Active Directory skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Active Directory over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 43 46
Rank change year-on-year +9 +3 -4
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 123 180 221
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 5.62% 4.98% 5.22%
As % of the System Software category 51.46% 41.57% 33.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 128 193
10th Percentile £185 £150 £150
25th Percentile £338 £231 £265
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £474 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.01% -5.25% +6.38%
75th Percentile £645 £588 £550
90th Percentile £775 £700 £598
Central London median daily rate £425 £450 £484
% change year-on-year -5.56% -6.98% +5.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 - £24.25
Median hourly rate £31.25 - £25.50
75th Percentile £40.00 - £29.56
90th Percentile - - £32.83
Central London median hourly rate £31.25 £23.50 £25.50
% change year-on-year +32.98% -7.84% +27.50%

All System Software Skills
City of London

Active Directory is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 239 433 652
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 10.92% 11.99% 15.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 293 553
10th Percentile £246 £214 £270
25th Percentile £383 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £670 £725 £656
90th Percentile £747 £788 £750
Central London median daily rate £488 £560 £550
% change year-on-year -12.95% +1.82% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 - £24.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £25.50
75th Percentile - - £29.56
90th Percentile £46.15 - £32.83
Central London median hourly rate £40.00 £23.50 £25.50
% change year-on-year +70.21% -7.84% +27.50%

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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

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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

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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 May 2024.

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

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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 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Active Directory in the City of London

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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 41 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (6.50%) SharePoint
3 5 (4.07%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 4 (3.25%) IIS
5 2 (1.63%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.81%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.81%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (4.07%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.81%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 64 (52.03%) Azure
2 54 (43.90%) Microsoft 365
3 41 (33.33%) Entra ID
4 17 (13.82%) Power Platform
5 12 (9.76%) Mimecast
6 10 (8.13%) Power Automate
7 8 (6.50%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (6.50%) IaaS
7 8 (6.50%) PaaS
8 7 (5.69%) AWS
8 7 (5.69%) Azure Key Vault
8 7 (5.69%) OneDrive
8 7 (5.69%) PowerApps
9 6 (4.88%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (4.07%) SaaS
11 4 (3.25%) WhatsApp
12 3 (2.44%) GitHub
13 2 (1.63%) Amazon EC2
13 2 (1.63%) Amazon S3
13 2 (1.63%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 34 (27.64%) Firewall
2 18 (14.63%) DNS
3 16 (13.01%) SAN
4 9 (7.32%) Network Security
5 6 (4.88%) VPN
6 5 (4.07%) MPLS
7 4 (3.25%) FTP
8 3 (2.44%) DHCP
8 3 (2.44%) Wireless
9 2 (1.63%) Kerberos
9 2 (1.63%) NAS
9 2 (1.63%) SD-WAN
9 2 (1.63%) SSL
9 2 (1.63%) WAN
10 1 (0.81%) Fibre Channel
10 1 (0.81%) iSCSI
10 1 (0.81%) Multicast
10 1 (0.81%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (0.81%) Skype
10 1 (0.81%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.76%) SQL Server
2 7 (5.69%) Power BI
3 5 (4.07%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.25%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.63%) Redis
6 1 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 5 (4.07%) TeamCity
2 4 (3.25%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.81%) GitLab
3 1 (0.81%) JIRA
3 1 (0.81%) Katalon Studio
3 1 (0.81%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.81%) Selenium
3 1 (0.81%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.81%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.81%) WebDriver
General
1 39 (31.71%) Finance
2 34 (27.64%) Social Skills
3 24 (19.51%) Banking
4 11 (8.94%) Presentation Skills
5 10 (8.13%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (7.32%) Investment Banking
7 8 (6.50%) Public Sector
8 7 (5.69%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (5.69%) Financial Institution
9 4 (3.25%) French Language
10 3 (2.44%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.63%) Italian Language
11 2 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.81%) Advertising
12 1 (0.81%) Billing
12 1 (0.81%) Front Office
12 1 (0.81%) Marketing
12 1 (0.81%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (16.26%) Support Engineer
2 17 (13.82%) Architect
3 15 (12.20%) Senior
4 12 (9.76%) Analyst
4 12 (9.76%) Desktop Engineer
5 11 (8.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (6.50%) Azure Engineer
7 7 (5.69%) Desktop Support
7 7 (5.69%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 7 (5.69%) IT Support
8 6 (4.88%) Consultant
8 6 (4.88%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (4.88%) Platform Architect
8 6 (4.88%) Power Platform Architect
9 5 (4.07%) IT Analyst
9 5 (4.07%) IT Engineer
9 5 (4.07%) Senior DevOps
9 5 (4.07%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 5 (4.07%) Support Analyst
10 4 (3.25%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (8.94%) .NET
1 11 (8.94%) XML
2 7 (5.69%) Microsoft Graph
3 6 (4.88%) JSON
3 6 (4.88%) LDAP
3 6 (4.88%) RabbitMQ
3 6 (4.88%) REST
4 5 (4.07%) SAML
4 5 (4.07%) WCF
4 5 (4.07%) WinForms
5 4 (3.25%) .NET Core
6 3 (2.44%) ASP.NET
6 3 (2.44%) OAuth
6 3 (2.44%) OpenID
6 3 (2.44%) SailPoint
7 2 (1.63%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (1.63%) CSS
7 2 (1.63%) HTML
7 2 (1.63%) React
8 1 (0.81%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.38%) Video Conferencing
2 8 (6.50%) Data Centre
3 7 (5.69%) Blackberry
3 7 (5.69%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.07%) Replication
5 4 (3.25%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.44%) Operational Technology
6 3 (2.44%) PKI
7 2 (1.63%) Clustering
7 2 (1.63%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.63%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.63%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.63%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.81%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.81%) Fat Client
8 1 (0.81%) HP Storage
8 1 (0.81%) iPad
8 1 (0.81%) iPhone
8 1 (0.81%) IVR
8 1 (0.81%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 65 (52.85%) Windows
2 20 (16.26%) Windows 10
3 17 (13.82%) Windows Server 2012
3 17 (13.82%) Windows Server 2016
4 15 (12.20%) Windows Server
5 12 (9.76%) Linux
6 7 (5.69%) Windows 7
7 5 (4.07%) Android
7 5 (4.07%) Mac OS X
7 5 (4.07%) Unix
7 5 (4.07%) Windows 8
8 4 (3.25%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (2.44%) Mac OS
9 3 (2.44%) VMS
10 2 (1.63%) Apple iOS
10 2 (1.63%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.81%) OpenVMS
11 1 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.81%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (20.33%) Migration
2 23 (18.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 21 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (15.45%) DevOps
4 19 (15.45%) Disaster Recovery
5 15 (12.20%) Customer Service
6 14 (11.38%) CI/CD
7 12 (9.76%) Business Continuity
7 12 (9.76%) Change Management
8 11 (8.94%) Agile
9 10 (8.13%) Scrum
10 9 (7.32%) Configuration Management
10 9 (7.32%) Data Migration
10 9 (7.32%) ITIL
11 8 (6.50%) Cybersecurity
11 8 (6.50%) Information Security
12 7 (5.69%) Business Intelligence
12 7 (5.69%) Roadmaps
13 6 (4.88%) Identity Management
13 6 (4.88%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 12 (9.76%) SQL
3 10 (8.13%) C#
4 7 (5.69%) Python
5 5 (4.07%) Bicep
6 2 (1.63%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.63%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.81%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.81%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (6.50%) Security Cleared
2 6 (4.88%) Azure Certification
3 5 (4.07%) Degree
4 4 (3.25%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.25%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (1.63%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.63%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.81%) A+ Certification
6 1 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.81%) MCITP
6 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.81%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.07%) SLA
2 2 (1.63%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.81%) NIST
3 1 (0.81%) QA
System Software
1 13 (10.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (5.69%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (4.07%) Hyper-V
4 4 (3.25%) HDFS
4 4 (3.25%) NFS
5 2 (1.63%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.63%) vSphere
5 2 (1.63%) XenApp
6 1 (0.81%) Docker
6 1 (0.81%) Firmware
6 1 (0.81%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 27 (21.95%) SCCM
2 17 (13.82%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (6.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 6 (4.88%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (3.25%) Ansible
5 4 (3.25%) Terraform
6 3 (2.44%) Kubernetes
7 2 (1.63%) FortiGate
7 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (1.63%) Packer
8 1 (0.81%) CASB
8 1 (0.81%) Consul
8 1 (0.81%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.81%) Grafana
8 1 (0.81%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.81%) Kibana
8 1 (0.81%) logstash
8 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 1 (0.81%) PingFederate
8 1 (0.81%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 59 (47.97%) Microsoft
2 25 (20.33%) Citrix
3 17 (13.82%) VMware
4 14 (11.38%) Cisco
5 13 (10.57%) HP
6 12 (9.76%) Avaya
6 12 (9.76%) CheckPoint
6 12 (9.76%) EMC
7 8 (6.50%) Apple
8 6 (4.88%) Adobe
8 6 (4.88%) Okta
8 6 (4.88%) ServiceNow
9 5 (4.07%) Ivanti
10 4 (3.25%) Isilon
11 3 (2.44%) Google
12 2 (1.63%) Bloomberg
12 2 (1.63%) CyberArk
12 2 (1.63%) Veeam
13 1 (0.81%) ForgeRock
13 1 (0.81%) Synology