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 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
16 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 - 51
Rank change year-on-year - - +7
Contract jobs citing Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.42% - 0.26%
As % of the System Software category 2.00% - 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £355 - -
75th Percentile £364 - -
90th Percentile £369 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £355 - -

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 150 64 69
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 21.01% 20.58% 17.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 46 46
10th Percentile £355 £236 £220
25th Percentile £421 £471 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £550 £430
Median % change year-on-year -11.64% +27.91% -21.82%
75th Percentile £547 £624 £592
90th Percentile £624 £688 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £485 £550 £430
% change year-on-year -11.82% +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 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
1 1 (33.33%) Tricentis Tosca
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (100.00%) JUnit
1 3 (100.00%) Maven
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
1 3 (100.00%) WebDriver
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Postman
2 1 (33.33%) SoapUI
2 1 (33.33%) Zephyr
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Lead
1 3 (100.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) SailPoint
2 1 (33.33%) LDAP
2 1 (33.33%) OpenID
2 1 (33.33%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 3 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 3 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 3 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) API Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Conflict Management
2 1 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Functional Testing
2 1 (33.33%) GitOps
2 1 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) ISTQB
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow