Active Directory Contracts in Hampshire

Microsoft Active Directory
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 13 9 14
Rank change year-on-year -4 +5 +4
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 78 169 142
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 10.46% 10.50% 10.11%
As % of the System Software category 49.68% 61.45% 50.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 75 74
10th Percentile £256 £200 £210
25th Percentile £427 £400 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £538 £549
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% -2.05% +21.94%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £661 £642 £668
South East median daily rate £525 £480 £425
% change year-on-year +9.38% +12.94% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 10
10th Percentile - - £16.71
25th Percentile - - £18.25
Median hourly rate £19.97 £17.69 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.89% -4.38% +23.33%
75th Percentile - - £18.75
90th Percentile - - £23.73
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £17.69 £18.50
% change year-on-year +58.28% -4.38% +19.35%

All System Software Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 157 275 282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 21.05% 17.08% 20.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 122 155
10th Percentile £288 £201 £294
25th Percentile £468 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.74% -2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £675 £650 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 24 29
10th Percentile £39.99 £17.69 £17.57
25th Percentile £51.06 £43.42 £18.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £57.44 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% +9.40% +144.19%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.06 £67.50
90th Percentile £74.25 £70.00 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £57.50 £50.75 £54.03
% change year-on-year +13.30% -6.07% +170.15%

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 1 May 2025.

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 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
Basingstoke +5 31 £575 -8.00% 44
Farnborough +1 7 £625 -3.85% 4
Southampton -10 7 £435 +109.64% 27
Fareham - 5 £263 - 2
Andover +7 4 £288 -34.29% 1
Winchester +3 4 £575 - 1
Portsmouth +2 4 £375 -30.23% 21
Havant -3 2 £737 +292.80%
Fleet - 2 £470 -
Hook +6 1 £500 +185.71% 1
Lyndhurst - 1 - -
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 16 (20.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (7.69%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.85%) Exchange Server 2003
3 3 (3.85%) Exchange Server 2007
3 3 (3.85%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (3.85%) Exchange Server 2013
3 3 (3.85%) Office Communications Server
3 3 (3.85%) SharePoint Server
3 3 (3.85%) Skype for Business
4 2 (2.56%) IIS
4 2 (2.56%) JBoss
Applications
1 4 (5.13%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.85%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 15 (19.23%) AWS
1 15 (19.23%) Microsoft 365
2 14 (17.95%) Azure
3 10 (12.82%) OpenShift
4 9 (11.54%) GCP
5 8 (10.26%) IaaS
5 8 (10.26%) PaaS
6 3 (3.85%) AWS KMS
6 3 (3.85%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.28%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.28%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 18 (23.08%) DNS
2 16 (20.51%) VPN
3 11 (14.10%) DHCP
4 9 (11.54%) Firewall
5 8 (10.26%) SMTP
6 7 (8.97%) SSL
7 5 (6.41%) WebEx
8 3 (3.85%) Cisco ISE
8 3 (3.85%) DDNS
8 3 (3.85%) LAN
8 3 (3.85%) SAN
8 3 (3.85%) VSAN
8 3 (3.85%) WAN
9 2 (2.56%) HTTP
9 2 (2.56%) HTTPS
9 2 (2.56%) Network Security
9 2 (2.56%) Skype
10 1 (1.28%) NGFW
10 1 (1.28%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.82%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (10.26%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (10.26%) Big Data
3 2 (2.56%) RDBMS
3 2 (2.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (2.56%) Bitbucket Server
1 2 (2.56%) CA Release Automation
1 2 (2.56%) Git
1 2 (2.56%) Jenkins
1 2 (2.56%) JIRA
1 2 (2.56%) SonarQube
1 2 (2.56%) Sonatype Nexus
1 2 (2.56%) TeamCity
General
1 20 (25.64%) Public Sector
2 7 (8.97%) Finance
3 6 (7.69%) Social Skills
4 2 (2.56%) Banking
5 1 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.28%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 23 (29.49%) Architect
2 18 (23.08%) Support Engineer
3 13 (16.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 11 (14.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (12.82%) 3rd Line Support
5 10 (12.82%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 10 (12.82%) Analyst
6 9 (11.54%) Infrastructure Architect
7 8 (10.26%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (8.97%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
8 7 (8.97%) Infrastructure Support
8 7 (8.97%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 6 (7.69%) Active Directory Architect
10 5 (6.41%) 2nd Line Support
10 5 (6.41%) Support Analyst
11 4 (5.13%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
11 4 (5.13%) Infrastructure Specialist
11 4 (5.13%) Service Analyst
11 4 (5.13%) Service Desk Analyst
12 3 (3.85%) 1st Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.13%) Web Services
2 3 (3.85%) SAML
3 2 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (2.56%) LDAP
3 2 (2.56%) Middleware
3 2 (2.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.67%) PKI
2 11 (14.10%) Clustering
3 8 (10.26%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.85%) Replication
5 2 (2.56%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.28%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.28%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.28%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.28%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 47 (60.26%) Windows
2 20 (25.64%) Linux
3 18 (23.08%) Windows Server
4 10 (12.82%) Windows 10
5 6 (7.69%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (5.13%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (3.85%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (2.56%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (17.95%) DevOps
2 12 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (10.26%) Artificial Intelligence
3 8 (10.26%) Identity Access Management
3 8 (10.26%) Machine Learning
3 8 (10.26%) Privileged Access Management
3 8 (10.26%) Software Deployment
4 7 (8.97%) Agile
4 7 (8.97%) ITIL
5 6 (7.69%) Migration
6 5 (6.41%) Cryptography
6 5 (6.41%) Mobile Device Management
6 5 (6.41%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (6.41%) Process Improvement
6 5 (6.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (5.13%) Change Management
7 4 (5.13%) Key Management
7 4 (5.13%) Test Automation
8 3 (3.85%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (3.85%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (25.64%) PowerShell
2 6 (7.69%) Python
2 6 (7.69%) SQL
3 3 (3.85%) Bash
4 2 (2.56%) Perl
5 1 (1.28%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 50 (64.10%) Security Cleared
2 33 (42.31%) DV Cleared
3 14 (17.95%) SC Cleared
4 12 (15.38%) Degree
5 1 (1.28%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.28%) CISM
5 1 (1.28%) CISSP
5 1 (1.28%) MCSE
5 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.28%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (17.95%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (15.38%) Hyper-V
3 10 (12.82%) Docker
3 10 (12.82%) Microsoft App-V
4 9 (11.54%) BitLocker
5 8 (10.26%) Terminal Services
5 8 (10.26%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (3.85%) Brightmail
6 3 (3.85%) ISA Server
6 3 (3.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (17.95%) vCenter Server
2 11 (14.10%) Ansible
3 10 (12.82%) Kubernetes
4 9 (11.54%) SCCM
5 8 (10.26%) Nagios
5 8 (10.26%) Puppet
5 8 (10.26%) vMotion
6 7 (8.97%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (6.41%) WSUS
8 4 (5.13%) SCOM
9 3 (3.85%) Failover Clustering
9 3 (3.85%) Microsoft Clustering
9 3 (3.85%) Norton AntiVirus
10 2 (2.56%) Kibana
10 2 (2.56%) Progress Chef
11 1 (1.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (1.28%) Terraform
Vendors
1 43 (55.13%) Microsoft
2 26 (33.33%) VMware
3 13 (16.67%) Citrix
4 11 (14.10%) HP
4 11 (14.10%) Symantec
5 8 (10.26%) Google
6 6 (7.69%) SolarWinds
7 5 (6.41%) Sage
7 5 (6.41%) ServiceNow
8 4 (5.13%) Cisco
9 3 (3.85%) Commvault
9 3 (3.85%) Dell
9 3 (3.85%) F5
9 3 (3.85%) Juniper
9 3 (3.85%) NETGEAR
9 3 (3.85%) Thales
9 3 (3.85%) TP-LINK
10 2 (2.56%) AppDynamics
10 2 (2.56%) MuleSoft
10 2 (2.56%) Splunk