Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services Contract Job Trends in London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 365 - 424
Rank change year-on-year - - +154
Contract jobs citing Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.015% - 0.010%
As % of the System Software category 0.13% - 0.084%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £507 - -
25th Percentile £508 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 - -
75th Percentile £533 - -
90th Percentile £536 - -
England median daily rate £519 - £450
% change year-on-year - - -28.00%

All System Software Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,525 1,637 2,381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.27% 10.46% 11.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 950 1,095 1,703
10th Percentile £300 £263 £225
25th Percentile £419 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -6.09%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £656
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
England median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 11 29
10th Percentile £21.10 £20.00 £24.38
25th Percentile £22.50 - £31.25
Median hourly rate £24.00 £23.80 £49.88
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% -52.29% +27.29%
75th Percentile £35.75 £77.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £50.13 £112.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £30.00 £50.00 £43.79
% change year-on-year -40.00% +14.17% +90.40%

Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services job vacancy trend in London

Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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