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 18 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 16 11
Rank change year-on-year -5 -5 -1
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 8 12 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 4.49% 6.15% 11.20%
As % of the System Software category 44.44% 80.00% 70.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 19
10th Percentile £136 £204 £158
25th Percentile £143 £213 £188
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £150 £225 £225
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% - -30.77%
75th Percentile £183 £272 £269
90th Percentile £222 £451 £501
North West median daily rate £315 £425 £270
% change year-on-year -25.88% +57.41% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate - - £17.50
75th Percentile - - £18.94
90th Percentile - - £19.28
North West median hourly rate - £27.50 £18.75
% change year-on-year - +46.67% +7.14%

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 18 15 41
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 10.11% 7.69% 15.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 12 25
10th Percentile £139 - £173
25th Percentile £149 £213 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £173 £236 £245
Median % change year-on-year -26.98% -3.57% -31.23%
75th Percentile £402 £405 £475
90th Percentile £510 £438 £535
North West median daily rate £450 £503 £450
% change year-on-year -10.45% +11.67% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate - - £17.50
75th Percentile - - £18.94
90th Percentile - - £19.28
North West median hourly rate £74.50 £31.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year +140.32% +67.57% +5.71%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 -8 8 £150 -33.33% 8
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 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DHCP
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Analyst
1 4 (50.00%) Service Analyst
1 4 (50.00%) Service Desk Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 2 (25.00%) Service Management Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) 1st Line Support
3 1 (12.50%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Support
3 1 (12.50%) IT Technician
3 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Windows
2 4 (50.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 4 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (25.00%) IT Asset Management
2 2 (25.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) ITSM
3 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) Remote Monitoring and Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) SLA
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) ServiceNow
2 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Bomgar
3 1 (12.50%) iManage