Active Directory Contracts in Hampshire

Microsoft Active Directory
South East > Hampshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 16 19
Rank change year-on-year +7 +3 -11
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 171 142 186
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 10.56% 10.28% 8.80%
As % of the System Software category 61.51% 50.71% 41.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 71 108
10th Percentile £200 £205 £175
25th Percentile £425 £396 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £543 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.01% +20.67% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £578
90th Percentile £647 £650 £638
South East median daily rate £484 £434 £375
% change year-on-year +11.57% +15.68% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 11 26
10th Percentile - £15.50 £12.53
25th Percentile - £17.55 £14.00
Median hourly rate £17.69 £18.50 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.38% +23.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile - £18.75 £22.25
90th Percentile - £21.50 -
South East median hourly rate £17.69 £18.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year -4.38% +19.35% +10.71%

All System Software Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 278 280 453
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 17.17% 20.28% 21.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 153 254
10th Percentile £203 £288 £200
25th Percentile £425 £475 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £625
90th Percentile £664 £686 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +6.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 29 39
10th Percentile £17.69 £16.57 £12.71
25th Percentile £51.06 £18.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £52.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +144.19% +7.50%
75th Percentile £64.38 £67.50 £49.76
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £70.92
South East median hourly rate £51.50 £54.56 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.61% +172.80% -9.09%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Hampshire

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in Hampshire

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in Hampshire over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in Hampshire

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in Hampshire

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 3 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
Basingstoke +3 66 £625 +19.05% 11
Southampton +13 37 £208 -24.55% 4
Portsmouth +2 19 £538 +7.50% 8
Farnborough -5 7 £650 +13.04% 8
Havant +9 6 £188 -65.91% 1
Winchester -4 4 - - 1
Romsey -6 3 £210 -66.40%
Eastleigh - 2 £500 -
Hook +3 1 £175 -62.37%
Gosport - 1 £775 -
Andover - 1 £438 -
Active Directory
South East

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 13 (7.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (5.26%) Confluence
3 7 (4.09%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.58%) IIS
4 1 (0.58%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 10 (5.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.17%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 57 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 42 (24.56%) Azure
3 39 (22.81%) AWS
4 7 (4.09%) Entra ID
5 3 (1.75%) GitHub
6 2 (1.17%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.17%) IaaS
6 2 (1.17%) Nutanix
7 1 (0.58%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.58%) Azure Stack
7 1 (0.58%) GCP
7 1 (0.58%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.58%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (18.71%) SSL
2 31 (18.13%) DNS
3 18 (10.53%) DHCP
4 15 (8.77%) Wireless
5 11 (6.43%) Firewall
6 9 (5.26%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (2.34%) LAN
7 4 (2.34%) WAN
8 3 (1.75%) SAN
8 3 (1.75%) VSAN
9 2 (1.17%) VLAN
10 1 (0.58%) DMZ
10 1 (0.58%) Fibre Channel
10 1 (0.58%) MPLS
10 1 (0.58%) PBX
10 1 (0.58%) Skype
10 1 (0.58%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.58%) Unified Communications
10 1 (0.58%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.75%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (1.17%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.58%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.58%) MySQL
3 1 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.58%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.58%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (8.19%) Robot Framework
1 14 (8.19%) Sonatype Nexus
2 9 (5.26%) JIRA
3 3 (1.75%) GitLab
4 1 (0.58%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.58%) Git
4 1 (0.58%) Hudson
4 1 (0.58%) MSI
4 1 (0.58%) Oracle APEX
General
1 27 (15.79%) Social Skills
2 25 (14.62%) Organisational Skills
3 15 (8.77%) Public Sector
4 13 (7.60%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (5.26%) Military
6 6 (3.51%) Retail
7 3 (1.75%) Finance
8 2 (1.17%) Automotive
8 2 (1.17%) French Language
8 2 (1.17%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.17%) Portuguese Language
8 2 (1.17%) Spanish Language
9 1 (0.58%) Advertising
9 1 (0.58%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.58%) Legal
9 1 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 54 (31.58%) Architect
2 20 (11.70%) IT Support
3 19 (11.11%) Integration Engineer
4 12 (7.02%) Security Architect
4 12 (7.02%) Senior
5 10 (5.85%) Senior Technician
5 10 (5.85%) Support Engineer
6 9 (5.26%) Test and Integration Engineer
6 9 (5.26%) Test Engineer
7 8 (4.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (4.68%) Support Technician
8 6 (3.51%) 1st Line Support
8 6 (3.51%) Infrastructure Architect
8 6 (3.51%) IT Engineer
8 6 (3.51%) IT Support Engineer
8 6 (3.51%) IT Support Technician
8 6 (3.51%) IT Technician
9 5 (2.92%) Analyst
9 5 (2.92%) Service Analyst
9 5 (2.92%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (18.71%) Web Services
2 2 (1.17%) Node.js
3 1 (0.58%) .NET
3 1 (0.58%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.58%) Keycloak
3 1 (0.58%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 63 (36.84%) PKI
2 6 (3.51%) Digital Signage
3 3 (1.75%) Clustering
3 3 (1.75%) Management Information System
3 3 (1.75%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.58%) CMDB
4 1 (0.58%) Data Centre
4 1 (0.58%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (0.58%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.58%) Replication
4 1 (0.58%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.58%) Smart Meter
4 1 (0.58%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 120 (70.18%) Windows
2 55 (32.16%) Windows Server
3 46 (26.90%) Windows 10
4 33 (19.30%) Apple iOS
5 28 (16.37%) Windows Server 2012
6 24 (14.04%) Linux
7 19 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (4.68%) Windows 7
9 6 (3.51%) Unix
10 4 (2.34%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (1.17%) Android
11 2 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (1.17%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.58%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.58%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (21.64%) Cryptography
2 32 (18.71%) Key Management
3 27 (15.79%) Agile
4 19 (11.11%) Customer Service
5 15 (8.77%) Scrum
5 15 (8.77%) Test Automation
6 14 (8.19%) Service Management
7 11 (6.43%) Patch Management
8 10 (5.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 10 (5.85%) ITIL
8 10 (5.85%) Test Scripting
9 9 (5.26%) Critical Thinking
9 9 (5.26%) Regression Testing
10 8 (4.68%) Application Security
11 7 (4.09%) Boundary Protection
11 7 (4.09%) Proactive Monitoring
11 7 (4.09%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (4.09%) Prototyping
11 7 (4.09%) Security Architecture
12 6 (3.51%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 24 (14.04%) PowerShell
2 20 (11.70%) SQL
3 19 (11.11%) Python
4 1 (0.58%) Bash
4 1 (0.58%) Java
4 1 (0.58%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 100 (58.48%) Security Cleared
2 41 (23.98%) DV Cleared
2 41 (23.98%) SC Cleared
3 35 (20.47%) Degree
4 12 (7.02%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (5.26%) MCSA
5 9 (5.26%) MCSE
5 9 (5.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 3 (1.75%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.17%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.58%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.58%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.26%) SLA
2 7 (4.09%) RMADS
3 2 (1.17%) ISO 9001
3 2 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 2 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 47 (27.49%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (4.68%) Hyper-V
3 5 (2.92%) vSphere
4 4 (2.34%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.17%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.58%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.58%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.58%) UAG
6 1 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 20 (11.70%) SCCM
2 18 (10.53%) Terraform
2 18 (10.53%) WSUS
3 17 (9.94%) Ansible
4 13 (7.60%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (2.92%) IBM BigFix
5 5 (2.92%) Tivoli
6 3 (1.75%) Nessus
6 3 (1.75%) vCenter Server
7 2 (1.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (1.17%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (1.17%) Kubernetes
7 2 (1.17%) SCOM
7 2 (1.17%) vRealize
7 2 (1.17%) VxRail
8 1 (0.58%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.58%) Norton AntiVirus
8 1 (0.58%) Packer
8 1 (0.58%) WMI
Vendors
1 57 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 53 (30.99%) VMware
3 27 (15.79%) Apple
4 10 (5.85%) MobileIron
5 7 (4.09%) Oracle
6 6 (3.51%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.92%) Remedy
8 4 (2.34%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.75%) Dell
10 2 (1.17%) EMC
10 2 (1.17%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.17%) Veeam
11 1 (0.58%) Citrix
11 1 (0.58%) Google
11 1 (0.58%) Juniper
11 1 (0.58%) NetApp
11 1 (0.58%) NETGEAR
11 1 (0.58%) Qualys
11 1 (0.58%) Veritas
11 1 (0.58%) Wyse