Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 402 - 391
Rank change year-on-year - - +104
Contract jobs citing Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services 3 0 10
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.017% - 0.051%
As % of the System Software category 0.13% - 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £355 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -17.75%
75th Percentile £364 - £500
90th Percentile £369 - -
UK median daily rate £372 - £475
% change year-on-year - - -24.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £55.70
90th Percentile - - £56.12
UK median hourly rate - - £55.00

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 2,337 2,078 2,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.94% 13.86% 14.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,602 1,342 1,922
10th Percentile £190 £185 £170
25th Percentile £314 £313 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -2.63% +2.70%
75th Percentile £575 £576 £588
90th Percentile £644 £652 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 63 200
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.09 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.15 £17.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £32.50 £42.04
Median % change year-on-year +92.31% -22.69% +108.83%
75th Percentile £77.50 £64.50 £66.30
90th Percentile £91.50 £75.00 £76.63
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £29.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year +61.02% -35.70% +83.52%

Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services

Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services

Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 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
Yorkshire - 3 £355 - 3
North of England - 3 £355 - 4
Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
UK

Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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