Active Directory Contract Job Trends in Farnborough

Microsoft Active Directory
Hampshire > Farnborough

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Farnborough requiring Active Directory skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 18 17
Rank change year-on-year -14 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 2 7 8
As % of all contract jobs in Farnborough 0.81% 8.33% 5.76%
As % of the System Software category 6.25% 50.00% 34.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 8
10th Percentile £511 £568 -
25th Percentile £527 £596 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £625 £438
Median % change year-on-year -11.00% +42.86% -23.91%
75th Percentile £589 £678 £676
90th Percentile £607 £725 £689
Hampshire median daily rate £538 £550 £531
% change year-on-year -2.27% +3.53% -3.41%

All System Software Skills
Farnborough

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 Farnborough.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 32 14 23
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough 13.01% 16.67% 16.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 11 16
10th Percentile £409 £425 £263
25th Percentile £500 £551 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £585 £534
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +9.65% +9.44%
75th Percentile £620 £628 £650
90th Percentile £683 £725 £677
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £550 £538
% change year-on-year - +2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £81.25 -
Hampshire median hourly rate £48.72 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -22.05% +4.17% +50.00%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Farnborough

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Active Directory relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough.

Active Directory job vacancy trend in Farnborough

Active Directory
Daily Rate Trend in Farnborough

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing Active Directory.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing Active Directory

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Trend in Farnborough

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing Active Directory.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing Active Directory

Active Directory
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Farnborough by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Kerberos
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) Privileged Access Management
1 1 (50.00%) RBAC
1 1 (50.00%) Security Hardening
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (50.00%) VMware