Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Microsoft Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
14 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 - 51
Rank change year-on-year - - +8
Contract jobs citing Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.14% - 0.26%
As % of the System Software category 0.68% - 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £372 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £372 - -

All System Software Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 147 64 66
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 20.85% 20.51% 17.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 46 43
10th Percentile £377 £236 £202
25th Percentile £443 £471 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.45% +22.22% -18.18%
75th Percentile £550 £624 £593
90th Percentile £625 £688 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £487 £550 £430
% change year-on-year -11.45% +27.91% -21.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £18.65
25th Percentile - £20.50 £18.88
Median hourly rate - £21.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -
75th Percentile - £21.50 £19.88
90th Percentile - - £19.95
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - £21.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year - +7.69% +100.82%

Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Tricentis Tosca
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) SoapUI
1 1 (100.00%) WebDriver
1 1 (100.00%) Zephyr
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SailPoint
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Conflict Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow