Active Directory Contracts in the City of London

Microsoft Active Directory
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 34 52
Rank change year-on-year +3 +18 -7
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 125 191 200
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 5.80% 5.48% 4.76%
As % of the System Software category 49.21% 41.98% 33.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 131 171
10th Percentile £243 £153 £156
25th Percentile £350 £231 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -1.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £550
90th Percentile £775 £700 £600
Central London median daily rate £450 £450 £460
% change year-on-year - -2.17% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - £26.23
25th Percentile £21.25 - £27.69
Median hourly rate £31.25 - £30.75
75th Percentile £40.00 - £33.19
90th Percentile - - £34.28
Central London median hourly rate £31.25 £25.00 £30.75
% change year-on-year +25.00% -18.70% +53.75%

All System Software Skills
City of 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 the City of London with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 254 455 606
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 11.78% 13.04% 14.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 301 501
10th Percentile £257 £220 £265
25th Percentile £388 £450 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £683 £725 £675
90th Percentile £761 £788 £750
Central London median daily rate £488 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -15.22% +4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile - - £26.23
25th Percentile £21.25 £47.50 £27.69
Median hourly rate £40.00 £50.00 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +62.60% -
75th Percentile - £52.50 £33.19
90th Percentile £46.15 - £34.28
Central London median hourly rate £40.00 £37.50 £30.75
% change year-on-year +6.67% +21.95% +53.75%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the City of London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Active Directory in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Active Directory in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 44 (35.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (7.20%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.40%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 3 (2.40%) IIS
4 2 (1.60%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (0.80%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.80%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.80%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 66 (52.80%) Azure
2 47 (37.60%) Microsoft 365
3 44 (35.20%) Entra ID
4 18 (14.40%) Power Platform
5 11 (8.80%) Mimecast
5 11 (8.80%) Power Automate
6 10 (8.00%) AWS
7 8 (6.40%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (6.40%) OneDrive
8 7 (5.60%) Azure Key Vault
8 7 (5.60%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (5.60%) PaaS
8 7 (5.60%) PowerApps
9 6 (4.80%) IaaS
10 5 (4.00%) SaaS
11 4 (3.20%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (3.20%) GCP
11 4 (3.20%) WhatsApp
12 3 (2.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (2.40%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 33 (26.40%) Firewall
2 16 (12.80%) SAN
3 14 (11.20%) DNS
4 8 (6.40%) Network Security
4 8 (6.40%) VPN
5 4 (3.20%) FTP
5 4 (3.20%) WAN
6 3 (2.40%) Kerberos
6 3 (2.40%) MPLS
6 3 (2.40%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (1.60%) DHCP
7 2 (1.60%) Internet
7 2 (1.60%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (1.60%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.60%) SSL
7 2 (1.60%) Wireless
8 1 (0.80%) Multicast
8 1 (0.80%) NGFW
8 1 (0.80%) Skype
8 1 (0.80%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (12.00%) SQL Server
2 8 (6.40%) Power BI
3 5 (4.00%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.20%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.60%) MySQL
5 2 (1.60%) Redis
6 1 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.80%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.80%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (0.80%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.80%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.80%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.80%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (4.00%) Jenkins
1 5 (4.00%) TeamCity
2 2 (1.60%) Git
2 2 (1.60%) JIRA
3 1 (0.80%) GitLab
3 1 (0.80%) Katalon Studio
3 1 (0.80%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.80%) Selenium
3 1 (0.80%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.80%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.80%) WebDriver
General
1 42 (33.60%) Finance
2 30 (24.00%) Social Skills
3 27 (21.60%) Banking
4 10 (8.00%) Investment Banking
4 10 (8.00%) Presentation Skills
5 8 (6.40%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (5.60%) Financial Institution
7 6 (4.80%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (4.80%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.40%) French Language
8 3 (2.40%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.80%) Advertising
9 1 (0.80%) Billing
9 1 (0.80%) Front Office
9 1 (0.80%) Marketing
9 1 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.80%) Police
9 1 (0.80%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (14.40%) Support Engineer
2 17 (13.60%) Architect
2 17 (13.60%) Senior
3 13 (10.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (9.60%) Analyst
5 11 (8.80%) Desktop Engineer
6 9 (7.20%) Azure Engineer
7 7 (5.60%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (5.60%) IT Support
8 6 (4.80%) Consultant
8 6 (4.80%) IT Engineer
8 6 (4.80%) Platform Architect
8 6 (4.80%) Power Platform Architect
9 5 (4.00%) Active Directory Engineer
9 5 (4.00%) Desktop Support
9 5 (4.00%) Developer
9 5 (4.00%) Senior DevOps
9 5 (4.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 5 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (4.00%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.60%) .NET
1 12 (9.60%) XML
2 7 (5.60%) Microsoft Graph
3 6 (4.80%) JSON
3 6 (4.80%) LDAP
3 6 (4.80%) RabbitMQ
3 6 (4.80%) REST
4 5 (4.00%) .NET Core
4 5 (4.00%) SAML
4 5 (4.00%) WCF
4 5 (4.00%) WinForms
5 3 (2.40%) ASP.NET
5 3 (2.40%) CSS
5 3 (2.40%) HTML
5 3 (2.40%) OAuth
5 3 (2.40%) OpenID
5 3 (2.40%) React
5 3 (2.40%) SailPoint
6 2 (1.60%) Kafka
6 2 (1.60%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.20%) Video Conferencing
2 10 (8.00%) Data Centre
3 7 (5.60%) Management Information System
3 7 (5.60%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.00%) Blackberry
5 4 (3.20%) Replication
6 3 (2.40%) Clustering
6 3 (2.40%) Operational Technology
6 3 (2.40%) PKI
7 2 (1.60%) iPad
7 2 (1.60%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.60%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.60%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.60%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.80%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.80%) Fat Client
8 1 (0.80%) HP Storage
8 1 (0.80%) iPhone
8 1 (0.80%) IVR
8 1 (0.80%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 61 (48.80%) Windows
2 18 (14.40%) Windows 10
3 16 (12.80%) Windows Server 2012
3 16 (12.80%) Windows Server 2016
4 15 (12.00%) Windows Server
5 12 (9.60%) Linux
6 6 (4.80%) Unix
7 5 (4.00%) Windows 7
8 4 (3.20%) Mac OS
9 3 (2.40%) Android
9 3 (2.40%) Mac OS X
9 3 (2.40%) Windows 8
10 2 (1.60%) Apple iOS
10 2 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (1.60%) VMS
10 2 (1.60%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (1.60%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.80%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (20.80%) Migration
2 23 (18.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 20 (16.00%) DevOps
4 19 (15.20%) Disaster Recovery
5 17 (13.60%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (12.00%) CI/CD
6 15 (12.00%) Customer Service
7 12 (9.60%) Agile
7 12 (9.60%) Business Continuity
7 12 (9.60%) Information Security
8 10 (8.00%) Change Management
8 10 (8.00%) Cybersecurity
8 10 (8.00%) Scrum
9 9 (7.20%) Configuration Management
10 8 (6.40%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (6.40%) Cloud Security
10 8 (6.40%) Data Migration
10 8 (6.40%) Identity Management
10 8 (6.40%) ITIL
11 7 (5.60%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 37 (29.60%) PowerShell
2 13 (10.40%) SQL
3 11 (8.80%) C#
4 8 (6.40%) Python
5 6 (4.80%) Bicep
6 3 (2.40%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.40%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.60%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.80%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.80%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.80%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.80%) VB
Qualifications
1 5 (4.00%) Azure Certification
1 5 (4.00%) Degree
1 5 (4.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (2.40%) TOGAF Certification
3 2 (1.60%) DV Cleared
3 2 (1.60%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (1.60%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.80%) A+ Certification
4 1 (0.80%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.80%) MCITP
4 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.80%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.80%) SLA
2 5 (4.00%) PCI DSS
3 3 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.60%) COBIT
4 2 (1.60%) GDPR
4 2 (1.60%) NCSC
5 1 (0.80%) NIST
5 1 (0.80%) QA
5 1 (0.80%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (11.20%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (7.20%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (4.80%) Hyper-V
4 4 (3.20%) HDFS
4 4 (3.20%) NFS
5 2 (1.60%) Docker
5 2 (1.60%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.60%) XenApp
6 1 (0.80%) Firmware
6 1 (0.80%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.80%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (21.60%) SCCM
2 12 (9.60%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (5.60%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (4.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 6 (4.80%) Terraform
5 4 (3.20%) Ansible
5 4 (3.20%) Kubernetes
6 3 (2.40%) CASB
6 3 (2.40%) Packer
7 2 (1.60%) FortiGate
7 2 (1.60%) Grafana
7 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (1.60%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.60%) SCOrch
7 2 (1.60%) WSUS
8 1 (0.80%) Cisco Prime
8 1 (0.80%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.80%) Kibana
8 1 (0.80%) logstash
8 1 (0.80%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 60 (48.00%) Microsoft
2 27 (21.60%) Citrix
3 17 (13.60%) VMware
4 16 (12.80%) Cisco
5 13 (10.40%) HP
6 12 (9.60%) Avaya
6 12 (9.60%) CheckPoint
6 12 (9.60%) EMC
7 8 (6.40%) Apple
7 8 (6.40%) ServiceNow
8 5 (4.00%) Adobe
8 5 (4.00%) Okta
9 4 (3.20%) Google
9 4 (3.20%) Isilon
9 4 (3.20%) Oracle
10 3 (2.40%) Ivanti
10 3 (2.40%) Palo Alto
11 2 (1.60%) Confluent
11 2 (1.60%) CyberArk
11 2 (1.60%) Netskope