Active Directory Contracts in Hillingdon

Microsoft Active Directory
West London > Hillingdon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hillingdon 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 12 40
Rank change year-on-year +4 +28 -35
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 5 7 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hillingdon 10.64% 7.00% 1.46%
As % of the System Software category 35.71% 58.33% 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile £265 - £179
25th Percentile £288 £513 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £525 £240
Median % change year-on-year -38.10% +118.75% +37.14%
75th Percentile £363 £538 £323
90th Percentile £385 - £369
West London median daily rate £400 £525 £365
% change year-on-year -23.81% +43.84% +52.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
West London median hourly rate £26.30 £39.40 -
% change year-on-year -33.26% - -

All System Software Skills
Hillingdon

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 Hillingdon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 14 12 36
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hillingdon 29.79% 12.00% 17.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 34
10th Percentile £292 £361 £430
25th Percentile £359 £450 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -16.67% +242.86%
75th Percentile £466 £538 £650
90th Percentile £475 - -
West London median daily rate £400 £450 £588
% change year-on-year -11.11% -23.40% +30.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
West London median hourly rate £26.30 £23.80 £80.00
% change year-on-year +10.48% -70.25% +288.11%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Hillingdon

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Hillingdon

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hillingdon

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in Hillingdon

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in Hillingdon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in Hillingdon over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in Hillingdon

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hillingdon

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in Hillingdon

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in Hillingdon

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 Hillingdon region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Northwood +2 5 £325 - 1
Active Directory
West London

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hillingdon 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 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) iSCSI
1 2 (40.00%) SAN
2 1 (20.00%) DHCP
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
General
1 4 (80.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Administrator
1 3 (60.00%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Support
2 1 (20.00%) VMWare Administrator
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) VMS
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) ITIL
1 4 (80.00%) Problem Management
2 3 (60.00%) ITSM
2 3 (60.00%) Service Management
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Workstation
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft