Active Directory Contracts in Croydon

Microsoft Active Directory
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Croydon 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 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 27 31
Rank change year-on-year +4 +4 +3
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 4 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Croydon 4.71% 0.92% 2.47%
As % of the System Software category 11.43% 3.85% 13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 3
10th Percentile £256 - £118
25th Percentile £265 £125 £145
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £130 £190
Median % change year-on-year +176.92% -31.58% -7.32%
75th Percentile £506 £135 £387
90th Percentile £563 - £505
South London median daily rate £360 £250 £200
% change year-on-year +44.00% +25.00% -39.39%

All System Software Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 35 26 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 41.18% 23.85% 18.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 20 19
10th Percentile £394 £354 £398
25th Percentile £456 £363 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +6.50% -13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £700
90th Percentile £630 £567 £725
South London median daily rate £525 £430 £525
% change year-on-year +22.09% -18.10% -4.55%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Job postings citing Active Directory as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Croydon

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in Croydon.

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in Croydon

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Daily Rate Histogram in Croydon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in Croydon over the 6 months to 7 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in Croydon

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Croydon

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in Croydon.

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in Croydon

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) IaaS
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (25.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) WAN
2 2 (50.00%) LAN
2 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (25.00%) DHCP
3 1 (25.00%) DNS
3 1 (25.00%) Firewall
3 1 (25.00%) IP Telephony
3 1 (25.00%) NAS
3 1 (25.00%) SAN
3 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (25.00%) VPN
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Legal
2 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Desktop Support
2 1 (25.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Support
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) PKI
1 1 (25.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Mac OS
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Compliance Management
1 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Disk Encryption
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile Device Management
2 1 (25.00%) Remediation Plan
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Trend Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) MCSA
1 1 (25.00%) MCSE
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (25.00%) MOS
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) SCCM
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
1 2 (50.00%) Citrix
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
1 2 (50.00%) Wyse
2 1 (25.00%) Apple
2 1 (25.00%) Avaya
2 1 (25.00%) Dell
2 1 (25.00%) EMC
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (25.00%) Polycom
2 1 (25.00%) SonicWALL
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk