Active Directory Contracts in Buckinghamshire

Microsoft Active Directory
South East > Buckinghamshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 20 19
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 29 71 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 6.07% 8.11% 9.14%
As % of the System Software category 58.00% 61.21% 48.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 64 50
10th Percentile £170 £213 £120
25th Percentile £225 £264 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £411 £450 £369
Median % change year-on-year -8.67% +22.03% -10.61%
75th Percentile £465 £515 £500
90th Percentile £490 £550 £550
South East median daily rate £480 £425 £375
% change year-on-year +12.94% +13.33% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £11.49
25th Percentile - - £12.25
Median hourly rate - - £13.00
75th Percentile - - £13.53
90th Percentile - - £14.83
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
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 50 116 155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 10.46% 13.26% 18.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 103 120
10th Percentile £175 £230 £201
25th Percentile £370 £365 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £455 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.19% -4.21% +11.76%
75th Percentile £534 £522 £550
90th Percentile £613 £582 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 7
10th Percentile - - £11.49
25th Percentile £47.50 - £12.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £13.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.53%
75th Percentile £52.50 - £13.53
90th Percentile - - £14.83
South East median hourly rate £50.75 £54.03 £20.00
% change year-on-year -6.07% +170.15% -4.76%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Buckinghamshire

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in Buckinghamshire

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in Buckinghamshire

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in Buckinghamshire

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Milton Keynes +1 22 £310 -31.11% 14
Active Directory
South East

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 (48.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (37.93%) Azure
2 8 (27.59%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (6.90%) Azure Stack
4 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.45%) Power Automate
4 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.45%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (27.59%) DHCP
1 8 (27.59%) DNS
2 2 (6.90%) SAN
2 2 (6.90%) VPN
3 1 (3.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) Power BI
1 1 (3.45%) Tableau
General
1 2 (6.90%) Organisational Skills
1 2 (6.90%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (34.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (31.03%) Active Directory Engineer
3 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
3 6 (20.69%) Operations Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Analyst
4 4 (13.79%) Service Analyst
4 4 (13.79%) Service Desk Analyst
5 3 (10.34%) Active Directory Support
5 3 (10.34%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Senior
5 3 (10.34%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Windows Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Active Directory Support Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Desktop Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
6 2 (6.90%) IT Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) IT Support
6 2 (6.90%) IT Support Technician
6 2 (6.90%) IT Technician
6 2 (6.90%) Windows Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (27.59%) PKI
2 3 (10.34%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.90%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.45%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 13 (44.83%) Windows
2 9 (31.03%) Windows 10
3 5 (17.24%) Windows Server
4 2 (6.90%) Linux
5 1 (3.45%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (34.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (31.03%) Agile
2 9 (31.03%) ITIL
2 9 (31.03%) Problem Management
3 7 (24.14%) Incident Management
3 7 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (13.79%) Release Management
5 3 (10.34%) Mobile Device Management
6 2 (6.90%) Customer Service
6 2 (6.90%) Load Balancing
6 2 (6.90%) Migration
6 2 (6.90%) Process Improvement
6 2 (6.90%) Security Patching
7 1 (3.45%) Business Strategy
7 1 (3.45%) Product Roadmap
7 1 (3.45%) Roadmaps
7 1 (3.45%) Service Delivery
7 1 (3.45%) SIEM
7 1 (3.45%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (3.45%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.90%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.45%) Python
2 1 (3.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (51.72%) Security Cleared
2 14 (48.28%) SC Cleared
3 8 (27.59%) Degree
4 7 (24.14%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) SLA
2 1 (3.45%) COBIT
2 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (6.90%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 6 (20.69%) SCCM
2 2 (6.90%) Ansible
2 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 18 (62.07%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.34%) Ariba
2 3 (10.34%) SAP
3 2 (6.90%) HP
3 2 (6.90%) McAfee
3 2 (6.90%) MobileIron
3 2 (6.90%) Red Hat
3 2 (6.90%) VMware
4 1 (3.45%) Apple
4 1 (3.45%) Citrix
4 1 (3.45%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (3.45%) Netskope