Active Directory Contracts in Merseyside

Microsoft Active Directory
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 8 24
Rank change year-on-year 0 +16 -12
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 25 27 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 14.88% 11.84% 7.31%
As % of the System Software category 89.29% 96.43% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 17 18
10th Percentile £133 £143 £129
25th Percentile £143 £160 £146
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £150 £225 £240
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% -6.25% -12.73%
75th Percentile £215 £238 £388
90th Percentile £394 £277 £490
North West median daily rate £350 £350 £350
% change year-on-year - - +40.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 5
10th Percentile - - £16.21
25th Percentile - £15.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate - £16.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - -8.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile - £17.63 £18.75
90th Percentile - £18.80 £19.05
North West median hourly rate £29.00 £17.39 £20.00
% change year-on-year +66.74% -13.04% +10.41%

All System Software Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 28 28 50
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 16.67% 12.28% 14.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 18 39
10th Percentile £133 £143 £140
25th Percentile £143 £161 £249
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £154 £225 £425
Median % change year-on-year -31.67% -47.06% +54.55%
75th Percentile £223 £246 £641
90th Percentile £413 £314 £679
North West median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 5
10th Percentile - - £16.21
25th Percentile - £15.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate - £16.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - -8.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile - £17.63 £18.75
90th Percentile - £18.80 £19.05
North West median hourly rate £55.75 £17.72 £22.41
% change year-on-year +214.62% -20.93% +23.71%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Merseyside

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in Merseyside

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in Merseyside over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in Merseyside

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in Merseyside

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside region over the 6 months to 1 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
Liverpool +2 22 £150 -33.33% 4
Prescot - 3 £215 -
Active Directory
North West

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 9 (36.00%) SharePoint
2 7 (28.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 20 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (32.00%) Entra ID
3 6 (24.00%) Azure
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.00%) Firewall
2 3 (12.00%) Internet
2 3 (12.00%) iSCSI
2 3 (12.00%) LAN
2 3 (12.00%) Remote Desktop
2 3 (12.00%) WAN
2 3 (12.00%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (12.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 10 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.00%) Finance
3 2 (8.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (44.00%) Analyst
1 11 (44.00%) Service Analyst
1 11 (44.00%) Service Desk Analyst
2 5 (20.00%) 1st Line Support
2 5 (20.00%) Support Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Service Management Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (8.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Active Directory Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Active Directory Support
4 2 (8.00%) Active Directory Support Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) IT Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Technical Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Technical Support
4 2 (8.00%) Technical Support Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Windows Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (12.00%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 21 (84.00%) Windows
2 15 (60.00%) Windows 10
3 5 (20.00%) Android
4 3 (12.00%) Linux
4 3 (12.00%) Windows Server
4 3 (12.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (8.00%) Apple iOS
5 2 (8.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (64.00%) Customer Service
1 16 (64.00%) ITIL
2 8 (32.00%) Incident Management
3 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (12.00%) BCP
4 3 (12.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (12.00%) Information Security
4 3 (12.00%) IT Asset Management
4 3 (12.00%) Process Improvement
4 3 (12.00%) Service Delivery
4 3 (12.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 1 (4.00%) Analytics
5 1 (4.00%) Cloud Security
5 1 (4.00%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (4.00%) Identity Management
5 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (4.00%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (4.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 1 (4.00%) Threat Detection
5 1 (4.00%) Two-Factor Authentication
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (40.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
1 3 (12.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 4 (16.00%) SCCM
2 1 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (64.00%) Microsoft
1 16 (64.00%) ServiceNow
2 4 (16.00%) Bomgar
2 4 (16.00%) iManage
3 3 (12.00%) Apple
4 2 (8.00%) Dell
4 2 (8.00%) HP