Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services Contract Job Trends in England

Microsoft Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 534 - 579
Rank change year-on-year - - +167
Contract jobs citing Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services 2 0 10
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.007% - 0.025%
As % of the System Software category 0.054% - 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £507 - -
25th Percentile £508 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -28.00%
75th Percentile £533 - £475
90th Percentile £536 - -
UK median daily rate £519 - £500
% change year-on-year - - -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £55.70
90th Percentile - - £56.12
UK median hourly rate - - £55.00

All System Software Skills
England

Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 3,692 3,707 5,283
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.66% 11.90% 13.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,396 2,395 3,651
10th Percentile £206 £220 £198
25th Percentile £379 £381 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £590 £623 £625
90th Percentile £675 £700 £721
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 76 243
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.44 £15.50
25th Percentile £20.66 £22.05 £18.39
Median hourly rate £30.00 £51.25 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -41.46% +17.14% +84.21%
75th Percentile £67.25 £70.00 £66.62
90th Percentile £88.60 £75.00 £77.31
UK median hourly rate £26.75 £50.00 £43.84
% change year-on-year -46.50% +14.05% +86.55%

Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services job vacancy trend in England

Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services

Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services

Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services within the England region over the 6 months to 1 November 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 - 2 £519 - 1
Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
UK

Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Kerberos
1 2 (100.00%) X.500
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) PKI
1 2 (100.00%) Replication
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory Federation Services