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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 25 34
Rank change year-on-year +6 +9 -11
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 15 18 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 8.62% 7.79% 3.99%
As % of the System Software category 38.46% 38.30% 25.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 18 15
10th Percentile £176 £185 £126
25th Percentile £222 £191 £139
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £213 £215
Median % change year-on-year +64.82% -1.16% -31.75%
75th Percentile £522 £436 £375
90th Percentile £680 £544 £566
London median daily rate £500 £428 £475
% change year-on-year +16.96% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £34.00 - -
London median hourly rate £26.45 £23.15 £30.00
% change year-on-year +14.25% -22.83% +30.43%

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 39 47 58
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 22.41% 20.35% 15.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 40 45
10th Percentile £200 £187 £163
25th Percentile £250 £241 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £430 £540
Median % change year-on-year +9.88% -20.37% -5.05%
75th Percentile £538 £532 £713
90th Percentile £650 £567 £725
London median daily rate £536 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +7.20% -13.04% +2.68%
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% +39.29%
London median hourly rate £31.50 £22.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +40.00% -62.50% +122.22%

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 22 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 22 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%
Merton +1 4 £350 +3.78%
Croydon +5 2 £350 -13.04%
Bromley -2 2 £419 +120.39% 4
Wandsworth +5 1 £650 +14.54%
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 (6.67%) Mattermost
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
1 1 (6.67%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 12 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (60.00%) Azure
3 7 (46.67%) Entra ID
4 2 (13.33%) AWS
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (6.67%) IaaS
5 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (6.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (33.33%) WAN
2 4 (26.67%) LAN
2 4 (26.67%) TCP/IP
3 3 (20.00%) VPN
3 3 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (6.67%) DHCP
4 1 (6.67%) DNS
4 1 (6.67%) Firewall
4 1 (6.67%) MPLS
4 1 (6.67%) NAS
4 1 (6.67%) Network Security
4 1 (6.67%) SAN
4 1 (6.67%) SD-WAN
4 1 (6.67%) Skype
4 1 (6.67%) Softphone
4 1 (6.67%) Unified Communications
4 1 (6.67%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
General
1 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Games
2 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (13.33%) Local Government
4 1 (6.67%) Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Legal
4 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
4 1 (6.67%) Marketing
4 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Support Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) IT Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (13.33%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Service Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Service Desk Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Administrator
5 1 (6.67%) Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Desktop Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) IT Operations Manager
5 1 (6.67%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Messaging Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Operations Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Real Time Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Security Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (13.33%) Security Posture
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.67%) PKI
3 1 (6.67%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 7 (46.67%) Windows
2 3 (20.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (13.33%) Android
3 2 (13.33%) Apple iOS
3 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (6.67%) Linux
4 1 (6.67%) VMS
4 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
4 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Customer Service
2 7 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (40.00%) ITIL
4 5 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (26.67%) Cloud Security
6 3 (20.00%) Asset Management
6 3 (20.00%) Identity Management
6 3 (20.00%) Process Improvement
6 3 (20.00%) Risk Management
6 3 (20.00%) Security Architecture
6 3 (20.00%) Zero Trust
7 2 (13.33%) Data Loss Prevention
7 2 (13.33%) Data Protection
7 2 (13.33%) ITSM
7 2 (13.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 2 (13.33%) Service Management
8 1 (6.67%) Compliance Management
8 1 (6.67%) Disk Encryption
8 1 (6.67%) Remediation Plan
8 1 (6.67%) Resource Allocation
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
1 1 (6.67%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) GDPR
1 2 (13.33%) NIST
2 1 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (13.33%) vSphere
4 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (6.67%) SCCM
2 1 (6.67%) SCOM
2 1 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) VMware
3 2 (13.33%) Cisco
4 1 (6.67%) Citrix
4 1 (6.67%) Dell
4 1 (6.67%) EMC
4 1 (6.67%) Okta
4 1 (6.67%) Palo Alto
4 1 (6.67%) Proofpoint
4 1 (6.67%) Red Hat
4 1 (6.67%) SonicWALL
4 1 (6.67%) Splunk
4 1 (6.67%) Wyse