Active Directory Contracts in Basingstoke

Microsoft Active Directory
Hampshire > Basingstoke

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Basingstoke 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 5 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 10 11
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 +18
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 35 75 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Basingstoke 24.65% 15.89% 14.14%
As % of the System Software category 68.63% 81.52% 49.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 45 7
10th Percentile £456 £425 £378
25th Percentile £550 £513 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £594
90th Percentile £625 - £645
Hampshire median daily rate £575 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% +19.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £15.50
Median hourly rate - - £16.42
75th Percentile - - £20.34
90th Percentile - - £32.63
Hampshire median hourly rate £19.97 £17.69 £17.67
% change year-on-year +12.89% +0.11% +17.80%

All System Software Skills
Basingstoke

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 Basingstoke.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 51 92 55
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke 35.92% 19.49% 28.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 51 19
10th Percentile £515 £425 £459
25th Percentile £563 £513 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £580
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% +16.00%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £650 - £675
Hampshire median daily rate £551 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +0.18% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - £15.21
25th Percentile - - £15.50
Median hourly rate - - £16.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.47%
75th Percentile - - £19.25
90th Percentile - - £25.95
Hampshire median hourly rate £57.50 £54.88 £57.50
% change year-on-year +4.78% -4.57% +167.44%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Basingstoke

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Basingstoke

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Basingstoke

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in Basingstoke

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in Basingstoke

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in Basingstoke over the 6 months to 5 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in Basingstoke

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Basingstoke

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in Basingstoke

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Basingstoke 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 14 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (11.43%) Apache
2 4 (11.43%) SharePoint
3 3 (8.57%) Exchange Server 2003
3 3 (8.57%) Exchange Server 2007
3 3 (8.57%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (8.57%) Exchange Server 2013
3 3 (8.57%) Office Communications Server
3 3 (8.57%) SharePoint Server
3 3 (8.57%) Skype for Business
4 2 (5.71%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (31.43%) AWS
2 8 (22.86%) GCP
2 8 (22.86%) IaaS
2 8 (22.86%) OpenShift
2 8 (22.86%) PaaS
3 4 (11.43%) Azure
4 3 (8.57%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (45.71%) DNS
2 11 (31.43%) DHCP
2 11 (31.43%) VPN
3 10 (28.57%) SMTP
4 8 (22.86%) Firewall
5 3 (8.57%) Cisco ISE
5 3 (8.57%) DDNS
5 3 (8.57%) SAN
5 3 (8.57%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (22.86%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (22.86%) Big Data
1 8 (22.86%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) MSI
1 2 (5.71%) Robot Framework
1 2 (5.71%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 13 (37.14%) Public Sector
2 2 (5.71%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (42.86%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 13 (37.14%) Architect
3 11 (31.43%) Support Engineer
4 10 (28.57%) 3rd Line Support
4 10 (28.57%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 10 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (22.86%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (20.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
6 7 (20.00%) Active Directory Architect
6 7 (20.00%) Infrastructure Support
6 7 (20.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 5 (14.29%) Integration Engineer
8 3 (8.57%) Exchange Engineer
8 3 (8.57%) Exchange Support
9 2 (5.71%) Infrastructure Architect
10 1 (2.86%) Administrator
10 1 (2.86%) IT Administrator
10 1 (2.86%) Virtualisation Engineer
10 1 (2.86%) Windows Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.57%) Web Services
2 2 (5.71%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (45.71%) PKI
2 8 (22.86%) Clustering
2 8 (22.86%) Data Centre
3 3 (8.57%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 25 (71.43%) Windows
2 13 (37.14%) Windows Server
3 11 (31.43%) Linux
4 6 (17.14%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (5.71%) CentOS
5 2 (5.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (5.71%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (45.71%) DevOps
2 12 (34.29%) Agile
3 10 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 8 (22.86%) Artificial Intelligence
4 8 (22.86%) Machine Learning
4 8 (22.86%) Software Deployment
5 7 (20.00%) Test Automation
6 6 (17.14%) Identity Access Management
7 5 (14.29%) Change Management
7 5 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (14.29%) Prototyping
7 5 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 4 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (11.43%) Cryptography
8 4 (11.43%) ITIL
9 3 (8.57%) Business Intelligence
9 3 (8.57%) Content Management
9 3 (8.57%) Cybersecurity
9 3 (8.57%) Enterprise Content Management
9 3 (8.57%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 18 (51.43%) PowerShell
2 6 (17.14%) Python
3 4 (11.43%) SQL
4 3 (8.57%) Bash
5 2 (5.71%) PHP
Qualifications
1 34 (97.14%) Security Cleared
2 28 (80.00%) DV Cleared
3 11 (31.43%) Degree
4 3 (8.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.86%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (34.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (22.86%) BitLocker
2 8 (22.86%) Docker
2 8 (22.86%) Hyper-V
2 8 (22.86%) Microsoft App-V
2 8 (22.86%) Terminal Services
2 8 (22.86%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (8.57%) Brightmail
3 3 (8.57%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 15 (42.86%) Ansible
2 11 (31.43%) vCenter Server
3 8 (22.86%) Kubernetes
3 8 (22.86%) Nagios
3 8 (22.86%) Puppet
3 8 (22.86%) vMotion
4 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Clustering
4 3 (8.57%) SCCM
4 3 (8.57%) SCOM
5 2 (5.71%) Terraform
5 2 (5.71%) WMI
Vendors
1 14 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (37.14%) VMware
3 8 (22.86%) Citrix
3 8 (22.86%) Google
3 8 (22.86%) HP
3 8 (22.86%) Symantec
4 4 (11.43%) Cisco
5 3 (8.57%) F5
5 3 (8.57%) SolarWinds
5 3 (8.57%) Thales
6 2 (5.71%) McAfee