Active Directory Contracts in South London

Microsoft Active Directory
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South London 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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 24 39
Rank change year-on-year -1 +15 -11
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 12 17 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 6.52% 6.97% 3.61%
As % of the System Software category 36.36% 34.69% 22.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 17 14
10th Percentile £162 £185 £125
25th Percentile £197 £188 £136
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £251 £225 £226
Median % change year-on-year +11.33% -0.55% -28.17%
75th Percentile £475 £438 £388
90th Percentile £500 £549 £571
London median daily rate £500 £425 £473
% change year-on-year +17.65% -10.05% -5.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £34.00 - -
London median hourly rate £26.45 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year +17.56% -10.00% +10.40%

All System Software Skills
South 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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 33 49 63
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 17.93% 20.08% 16.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 39 51
10th Percentile £191 £187 £190
25th Percentile £294 £275 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.72% -21.74% +1.10%
75th Percentile £500 £534 £719
90th Percentile £581 £567 £725
London median daily rate £550 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Median hourly rate £34.00 £43.84 £62.68
Median % change year-on-year -22.45% -30.06% +35.76%
London median hourly rate £31.50 £22.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +40.00% -55.00% +96.08%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in South London

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in South London

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in South London over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in South London

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South London

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in South London

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 South London region over the 6 months to 4 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
Kingston Upon Thames +7 5 £135 -32.50% 2
Merton +1 4 £350 +3.78% 1
Croydon +5 1 £450 +11.80%
Bromley -8 1 £188 -1.32% 8
Active Directory
London

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 10 (83.33%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (75.00%) Azure
3 7 (58.33%) Entra ID
4 2 (16.67%) AWS
4 2 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (8.33%) IaaS
5 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (8.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) WAN
2 3 (25.00%) LAN
2 3 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (25.00%) VPN
2 3 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (8.33%) Firewall
3 1 (8.33%) NAS
3 1 (8.33%) SAN
3 1 (8.33%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Games
2 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (16.67%) Local Government
4 1 (8.33%) Legal
4 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
4 1 (8.33%) Marketing
4 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) IT Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Service Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Service Desk Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Support Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Administrator
4 1 (8.33%) Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) IT Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) IT Manager
4 1 (8.33%) IT Operations Manager
4 1 (8.33%) IT Support
4 1 (8.33%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Operations Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Security Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (8.33%) PKI
2 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (25.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (16.67%) Android
3 2 (16.67%) Apple iOS
3 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (8.33%) VMS
4 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
4 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Customer Service
2 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (41.67%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (33.33%) Cloud Security
4 4 (33.33%) ITIL
5 3 (25.00%) Asset Management
5 3 (25.00%) Process Improvement
6 2 (16.67%) Data Loss Prevention
6 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
6 2 (16.67%) Identity Management
6 2 (16.67%) ITSM
6 2 (16.67%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 2 (16.67%) Risk Management
6 2 (16.67%) Security Architecture
6 2 (16.67%) Service Management
6 2 (16.67%) Zero Trust
7 1 (8.33%) Capacity Planning
7 1 (8.33%) Change Management
7 1 (8.33%) Service Delivery
7 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) GDPR
2 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (8.33%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (16.67%) vSphere
3 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco
3 1 (8.33%) Dell
3 1 (8.33%) EMC
3 1 (8.33%) Palo Alto
3 1 (8.33%) Proofpoint
3 1 (8.33%) SonicWALL