Active Directory Contracts in Central London

Microsoft Active Directory
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Active Directory skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Active Directory over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 34 42
Rank change year-on-year +3 +8 +6
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 150 213 248
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 6.21% 5.62% 5.45%
As % of the System Software category 53.96% 44.75% 35.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 158 217
10th Percentile £184 £153 £154
25th Percentile £284 £221 £230
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £444 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.23% -6.58% +3.26%
75th Percentile £571 £597 £550
90th Percentile £751 £700 £588
London median daily rate £425 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -10.53% - +6.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 3
10th Percentile - - £24.45
25th Percentile £21.25 - £24.75
Median hourly rate £31.25 £25.00 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -5.66% +32.50%
75th Percentile £40.00 - £31.38
90th Percentile - - £33.55
London median hourly rate £23.15 £26.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -10.96% +13.04% +27.34%

All System Software Skills
Central London

Active Directory is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 278 476 705
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 11.50% 12.57% 15.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 331 596
10th Percentile £220 £201 £235
25th Percentile £359 £403 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £650
90th Percentile £738 £788 £744
London median daily rate £500 £575 £560
% change year-on-year -13.04% +2.68% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 3
10th Percentile - - £24.45
25th Percentile £21.25 - £24.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.00 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -5.66% +32.50%
75th Percentile - - £31.38
90th Percentile £46.15 - £33.55
London median hourly rate £22.50 £60.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -62.50% +122.22% -44.33%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Central London

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in Central London

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in Central London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in Central London

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in Central London

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Active Directory in Central London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Active Directory in Central London

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. 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
City of London +13 125 £450 -5.01% 27
West End of London -6 4 £147 -60.41% 3
City of Westminster -8 3 £400 +8.11% 3
Lambeth +2 1 £188 -1.32%
Active Directory
London

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 54 (36.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (10.67%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.33%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 3 (2.00%) IIS
5 2 (1.33%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.67%) CMS
6 1 (0.67%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.67%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 1 (0.67%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (0.67%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (4.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.67%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.67%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 79 (52.67%) Azure
2 68 (45.33%) Microsoft 365
3 51 (34.00%) Entra ID
4 19 (12.67%) Power Platform
5 16 (10.67%) OneDrive
6 13 (8.67%) AWS
6 13 (8.67%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (8.00%) Mimecast
7 12 (8.00%) Power Automate
8 9 (6.00%) PowerApps
9 7 (4.67%) Azure Key Vault
9 7 (4.67%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (4.67%) IaaS
9 7 (4.67%) PaaS
10 6 (4.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (3.33%) SaaS
12 4 (2.67%) GCP
12 4 (2.67%) WhatsApp
13 3 (2.00%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 35 (23.33%) Firewall
2 20 (13.33%) DNS
3 16 (10.67%) SAN
4 9 (6.00%) VPN
5 8 (5.33%) Network Security
6 6 (4.00%) DHCP
6 6 (4.00%) WAN
7 5 (3.33%) MPLS
8 4 (2.67%) FTP
8 4 (2.67%) Wireless
9 3 (2.00%) LAN
9 3 (2.00%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (1.33%) Internet
10 2 (1.33%) Kerberos
10 2 (1.33%) NAS
10 2 (1.33%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (1.33%) SD-WAN
10 2 (1.33%) VoIP
11 1 (0.67%) Skype
11 1 (0.67%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (14.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (4.67%) Power BI
3 5 (3.33%) Relational Database
4 4 (2.67%) Hadoop
5 3 (2.00%) Redis
6 2 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.67%) MySQL
7 1 (0.67%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (3.33%) TeamCity
2 4 (2.67%) Hudson
2 4 (2.67%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.00%) Git
4 2 (1.33%) JIRA
5 1 (0.67%) GitLab
5 1 (0.67%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (0.67%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.67%) Selenium
5 1 (0.67%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.67%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.67%) WebDriver
General
1 45 (30.00%) Finance
2 37 (24.67%) Social Skills
3 28 (18.67%) Banking
4 10 (6.67%) Investment Banking
4 10 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
5 8 (5.33%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (4.67%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.67%) Financial Institution
7 6 (4.00%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.33%) French Language
9 3 (2.00%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.67%) Advertising
10 1 (0.67%) Billing
10 1 (0.67%) Front Office
10 1 (0.67%) Italian Language
10 1 (0.67%) Marketing
10 1 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (16.00%) Support Engineer
2 20 (13.33%) Senior
3 17 (11.33%) Architect
4 16 (10.67%) Analyst
5 15 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 12 (8.00%) Desktop Engineer
7 10 (6.67%) Developer
8 9 (6.00%) Azure Engineer
8 9 (6.00%) IT Support
9 7 (4.67%) Backend Developer
9 7 (4.67%) Desktop Support
9 7 (4.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 7 (4.67%) DevOps Engineer
9 7 (4.67%) IT Analyst
9 7 (4.67%) IT Engineer
9 7 (4.67%) Senior Developer
9 7 (4.67%) Senior DevOps
10 6 (4.00%) Consultant
10 6 (4.00%) Service Analyst
10 6 (4.00%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (11.33%) .NET
2 16 (10.67%) XML
3 9 (6.00%) .NET Core
4 7 (4.67%) Microsoft Graph
5 6 (4.00%) JSON
5 6 (4.00%) LDAP
5 6 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
5 6 (4.00%) REST
6 5 (3.33%) ASP.NET
6 5 (3.33%) CSS
6 5 (3.33%) HTML
6 5 (3.33%) React
6 5 (3.33%) WCF
6 5 (3.33%) WinForms
7 4 (2.67%) SAML
8 3 (2.00%) ASP.NET Core
8 3 (2.00%) SailPoint
9 2 (1.33%) .NET Framework
9 2 (1.33%) AngularJS
9 2 (1.33%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.33%) Video Conferencing
2 10 (6.67%) Data Centre
3 9 (6.00%) Product Ownership
4 6 (4.00%) Blackberry
4 6 (4.00%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.33%) Replication
6 4 (2.67%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.00%) Clustering
7 3 (2.00%) Hedge funds
7 3 (2.00%) Operational Technology
7 3 (2.00%) PKI
7 3 (2.00%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.33%) iPad
8 2 (1.33%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.33%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.67%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.67%) HP Storage
9 1 (0.67%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.67%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 82 (54.67%) Windows
2 22 (14.67%) Windows 10
3 20 (13.33%) Windows Server
4 17 (11.33%) Windows Server 2012
4 17 (11.33%) Windows Server 2016
5 13 (8.67%) Linux
6 6 (4.00%) Windows 7
7 5 (3.33%) Mac OS
7 5 (3.33%) Mac OS X
7 5 (3.33%) Unix
8 4 (2.67%) Android
8 4 (2.67%) Windows 8
8 4 (2.67%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (1.33%) Apple iOS
9 2 (1.33%) VMS
9 2 (1.33%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.67%) OpenVMS
10 1 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (18.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 26 (17.33%) Migration
3 24 (16.00%) DevOps
4 20 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (12.67%) CI/CD
5 19 (12.67%) Customer Service
5 19 (12.67%) Disaster Recovery
6 18 (12.00%) Agile
7 14 (9.33%) Scrum
8 12 (8.00%) Business Continuity
8 12 (8.00%) Information Security
9 10 (6.67%) B2C
9 10 (6.67%) Change Management
9 10 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
10 8 (5.33%) Analytics
10 8 (5.33%) Cloud Security
10 8 (5.33%) Configuration Management
10 8 (5.33%) Data Loss Prevention
10 8 (5.33%) Identity Management
10 8 (5.33%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 45 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 16 (10.67%) C#
3 14 (9.33%) SQL
4 10 (6.67%) Bicep
5 7 (4.67%) Python
6 5 (3.33%) JavaScript
6 5 (3.33%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.67%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.67%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.67%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (5.33%) Azure Certification
2 7 (4.67%) Degree
3 6 (4.00%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.00%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (1.33%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.33%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.67%) A+ Certification
6 1 (0.67%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.67%) MCITP
6 1 (0.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.00%) SLA
2 4 (2.67%) PCI DSS
3 3 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.33%) COBIT
4 2 (1.33%) GDPR
4 2 (1.33%) NCSC
4 2 (1.33%) WCAG
5 1 (0.67%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.67%) NIST
5 1 (0.67%) QA
System Software
1 17 (11.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (6.00%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (5.33%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.67%) HDFS
4 4 (2.67%) NFS
5 2 (1.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.33%) vSphere
5 2 (1.33%) XenApp
6 1 (0.67%) Docker
6 1 (0.67%) Firmware
6 1 (0.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 29 (19.33%) SCCM
2 17 (11.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (5.33%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (4.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (3.33%) Terraform
6 4 (2.67%) CASB
6 4 (2.67%) Kubernetes
7 3 (2.00%) Ansible
8 2 (1.33%) FortiGate
8 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Clustering
8 2 (1.33%) Packer
8 2 (1.33%) SCOrch
8 2 (1.33%) WSUS
9 1 (0.67%) Consul
9 1 (0.67%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.67%) Grafana
9 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 1 (0.67%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.67%) PingFederate
9 1 (0.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 81 (54.00%) Microsoft
2 26 (17.33%) Citrix
3 22 (14.67%) VMware
4 16 (10.67%) Cisco
5 14 (9.33%) HP
6 12 (8.00%) Avaya
6 12 (8.00%) CheckPoint
6 12 (8.00%) EMC
7 10 (6.67%) Apple
8 8 (5.33%) ServiceNow
9 6 (4.00%) Adobe
9 6 (4.00%) Okta
10 5 (3.33%) Google
10 5 (3.33%) Ivanti
11 4 (2.67%) Isilon
12 3 (2.00%) Bloomberg
12 3 (2.00%) Dell
12 3 (2.00%) Oracle
12 3 (2.00%) Palo Alto
12 3 (2.00%) Veeam