Active Directory Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Microsoft Active Directory
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring Active Directory skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 30 28
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 +16
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 4 1 10
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 4.60% 0.86% 6.17%
As % of the System Software category 11.76% 5.88% 27.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 10
10th Percentile - - £379
25th Percentile - £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +125.81%
75th Percentile £505 £488 -
90th Percentile £513 - £611
South London median daily rate £438 £190 £400
% change year-on-year +130.26% -52.50% +77.78%

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 34 17 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 39.08% 14.66% 22.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 10 30
10th Percentile £480 £474 £411
25th Percentile £500 - £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £538 £544
Median % change year-on-year -3.35% -1.06% -9.38%
75th Percentile £554 £556 £638
90th Percentile £621 £565 £675
South London median daily rate £514 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +8.16% -9.52% -8.70%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Active Directory relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

Active Directory job vacancy trend in Croydon

Active Directory
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Active Directory.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Active Directory

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Active Directory.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Active Directory

Active Directory
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Azure AKS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure App Service
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Event Grid
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Functions
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Monitor
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 3 (75.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (75.00%) GitHub
1 3 (75.00%) GitHub Actions
1 3 (75.00%) Serverless
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Network Security
2 1 (25.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) JUnit
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Backend Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) .NET
1 3 (75.00%) .NET Core
1 3 (75.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (75.00%) Node.js
1 3 (75.00%) PyTorch
1 3 (75.00%) React
1 3 (75.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (25.00%) OAuth
2 1 (25.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (25.00%) OpenID
2 1 (25.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) RBAC
2 3 (75.00%) AI
2 3 (75.00%) Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) API Management
2 3 (75.00%) Compliance Management
2 3 (75.00%) Data Encryption
2 3 (75.00%) Data Science
2 3 (75.00%) Deep Learning
2 3 (75.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (75.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) API Testing
3 1 (25.00%) OWASP
3 1 (25.00%) SIEM
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) Bicep
2 3 (75.00%) C#
2 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Databricks
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (75.00%) OpenAI