Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 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 88 - 53
Rank change year-on-year - - +4
Contract jobs citing Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.39% - 0.22%
As % of the System Software category 1.92% - 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £355 - -
75th Percentile £364 - -
90th Percentile £369 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £355 - -

All System Software Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 156 66 86
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 20.34% 19.41% 19.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 48 56
10th Percentile £350 £247 £220
25th Percentile £420 £486 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £550 £430
Median % change year-on-year -11.82% +27.91% -21.82%
75th Percentile £538 £623 £588
90th Percentile £623 £683 £640
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £440 £430
% change year-on-year +7.95% +2.33% +1.18%
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% +100.82%
75th Percentile - £21.50 £19.88
90th Percentile - - £19.95
Yorkshire median hourly rate £29.68 £21.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +41.33% - -2.33%

Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 16 December 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
Sheffield - 3 £355 - 1
Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Yorkshire

Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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