Active Directory Contract Job Trends in North London

Microsoft Active Directory
London > North London

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

6 months to
28 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 5 6
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 2 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in North London 8.00% 8.70% 10.00%
As % of the System Software category 100.00% 66.67% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £514 - £104
25th Percentile £520 - £109
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £250 £135
Median % change year-on-year +112.00% +85.19% -18.18%
75th Percentile £540 - £149
90th Percentile £546 - £151
London median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - +3.77%

All System Software Skills
North London

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 North London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 2 3 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in North London 8.00% 13.04% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 6
10th Percentile £514 £210 £109
25th Percentile £520 £225 £122
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £250 £165
Median % change year-on-year +112.00% +51.52% -1.49%
75th Percentile £540 - £232
90th Percentile £546 - £391
London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in North London

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in North London

Active Directory
Daily Rate Trend in North London

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

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

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Trend in North London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in North London citing Active Directory

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in North London 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 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (50.00%) OneDrive
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
General
1 1 (50.00%) Local Government
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Team Leader
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Team Leader
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Server Patching
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (50.00%) VMware