Active Directory Contracts in Merton

Microsoft Active Directory
South London > Merton

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merton 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 4 4 8
Rank change year-on-year 0 +4 -1
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 4 4 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merton 16.67% 21.05% 8.82%
As % of the System Software category 80.00% 80.00% 42.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 3
10th Percentile £224 £224 £158
25th Percentile £241 £241 £176
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £338 £215
Median % change year-on-year +3.78% +56.98% -28.33%
75th Percentile £491 £441 £286
90th Percentile £519 £446 £325
South London median daily rate £251 £213 £226
% change year-on-year +17.88% -6.08% -28.17%

All System Software Skills
Merton

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 Merton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 5 5 7
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merton 20.83% 26.32% 20.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 5
10th Percentile £224 £224 £170
25th Percentile £241 £241 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £338 £350
Median % change year-on-year +3.78% -3.57% +8.95%
75th Percentile £491 £441 £713
90th Percentile £519 £446 -
South London median daily rate £470 £430 £575
% change year-on-year +9.30% -25.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £43.84 £62.68
Median % change year-on-year - -30.06% +39.29%
South London median hourly rate £34.00 £43.84 £62.68
% change year-on-year -22.45% -30.06% +39.29%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Merton

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Merton

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merton

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in Merton

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in Merton

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

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in Merton

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Merton

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in Merton

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in Merton

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 Merton 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
Morden +3 2 £388 +19.31%
Active Directory
South London

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merton 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 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (50.00%) Local Government
3 1 (25.00%) Marketing
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 2 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (25.00%) IT Operations Manager
2 1 (25.00%) IT Support
2 1 (25.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Operations Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Windows 10
2 2 (50.00%) Android
2 2 (50.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (25.00%) VMS
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Customer Service
1 3 (75.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (50.00%) ITSM
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Service Management
3 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) Network Design
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Register
3 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) Proofpoint