Active Directory Contracts in West London

Microsoft Active Directory
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 30 26
Rank change year-on-year +16 -4 +1
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 15 15 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 7.35% 4.16% 6.34%
As % of the System Software category 53.57% 34.88% 39.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 33
10th Percentile £199 £145 £201
25th Percentile £278 £250 £240
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £525 £350
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +50.00% +45.83%
75th Percentile £438 £538 £625
90th Percentile £750 £563 £638
London median daily rate £500 £425 £473
% change year-on-year +17.65% -10.05% -5.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £29.00 £39.40 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.40% - -
London median hourly rate £26.45 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year +17.56% -10.00% +10.40%

All System Software Skills
West 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 West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 28 43 92
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 13.73% 11.91% 16.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 28 73
10th Percentile £230 £143 £236
25th Percentile £363 £291 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £588
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -23.40% +30.56%
75th Percentile £463 £509 £650
90th Percentile £585 £563 -
London median daily rate £550 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 9
10th Percentile - £22.60 £60.35
25th Percentile - £23.05 -
Median hourly rate £29.00 £23.80 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.85% -68.27% +263.86%
75th Percentile - £40.65 £85.00
90th Percentile - £50.76 £90.00
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 West London

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in West London

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in West London

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in West London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in West London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in West London

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West London

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in West London

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West London region over the 6 months to 3 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
Hillingdon +4 5 £325 -38.10% 7
Wembley -1 3 £450 - 4
Active Directory
London

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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 5 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (6.67%) IIS
2 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (33.33%) Azure
3 2 (13.33%) AWS
3 2 (13.33%) Entra ID
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Stack
4 1 (6.67%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) DHCP
1 6 (40.00%) DNS
2 3 (20.00%) SAN
3 2 (13.33%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (13.33%) iSCSI
3 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
4 1 (6.67%) DECT
4 1 (6.67%) DKIM
4 1 (6.67%) DMARC
4 1 (6.67%) Extranet
4 1 (6.67%) Firewall
4 1 (6.67%) NAS
4 1 (6.67%) VLAN
4 1 (6.67%) VoIP
4 1 (6.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (13.33%) Hadoop
2 2 (13.33%) MongoDB
2 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
General
1 4 (26.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Administrator
1 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
2 2 (13.33%) Architect
2 2 (13.33%) Support Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Technical Architect
3 1 (6.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Desktop Support
3 1 (6.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Exchange Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Support
3 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
3 1 (6.67%) PowerShell Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Server Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) SharePoint Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Support Specialist
3 1 (6.67%) VMWare Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) .NET
1 2 (13.33%) .NET Framework
1 2 (13.33%) ASP.NET
1 2 (13.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) PKI
1 2 (13.33%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (66.67%) Windows
2 7 (46.67%) Windows Server
3 3 (20.00%) Linux
4 2 (13.33%) Windows 10
5 1 (6.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) ITIL
2 4 (26.67%) Problem Management
3 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (20.00%) ITSM
3 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (20.00%) Service Management
4 2 (13.33%) BPMN
4 2 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (13.33%) High Availability
4 2 (13.33%) MVC
4 2 (13.33%) Server Patching
4 2 (13.33%) Task Automation
4 2 (13.33%) Technical Debt
4 2 (13.33%) TOGAF
5 1 (6.67%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (6.67%) Kalman Filter
5 1 (6.67%) Mobile Device Management
5 1 (6.67%) Patch Management
5 1 (6.67%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (13.33%) C#
2 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (13.33%) Python
2 2 (13.33%) SQL
2 2 (13.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Government Security Classifications
1 2 (13.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (46.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (26.67%) Hyper-V
3 1 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (6.67%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) SCCM
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (6.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 10 (66.67%) VMware
2 9 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (20.00%) Cisco
4 2 (13.33%) Mitel
5 1 (6.67%) Avaya
5 1 (6.67%) EMC
5 1 (6.67%) HP
5 1 (6.67%) MobileIron
5 1 (6.67%) NetApp
5 1 (6.67%) Proofpoint
5 1 (6.67%) Qualys
5 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow
5 1 (6.67%) Veeam
5 1 (6.67%) Veritas