Active Directory Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Microsoft Active Directory
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Active Directory skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 38 23
Rank change year-on-year -1 -15 -8
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 15 9 35
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 3.07% 3.20% 6.09%
As % of the System Software category 57.69% 23.68% 58.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 7 33
10th Percentile - £200 £165
25th Percentile £273 £237 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £375 £450
Median % change year-on-year +38.93% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £640 £431 £465
90th Percentile - £498 £541
South East median daily rate £492 £470 £421
% change year-on-year +4.68% +11.71% -6.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £19.25
Median hourly rate - - £20.50
75th Percentile - - £21.75
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £61.86 £19.97 £45.00
% change year-on-year +209.76% -55.62% +143.24%

All System Software Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 26 38 60
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 5.32% 13.52% 10.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 29 50
10th Percentile £273 £200 £175
25th Percentile £513 £340 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £465
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +23.66% -7.01%
75th Percentile £639 £630 £508
90th Percentile £642 £656 £610
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £19.25
Median hourly rate - - £35.25
Median % change year-on-year - - +46.88%
75th Percentile - - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £78.00 £57.75 £61.25
% change year-on-year +35.06% -5.71% +27.94%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Active Directory job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Active Directory
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

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

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 18 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in Buckinghamshire

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

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

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 18 February 2026. 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 -10 13 £543 +44.67% 18
Bletchley - 2 £274 -
Active Directory
South East

Active Directory
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (46.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (66.67%) Azure
1 10 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (46.67%) Entra ID
3 2 (13.33%) AWS
3 2 (13.33%) OneDrive
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (6.67%) GCP
4 1 (6.67%) IaaS
4 1 (6.67%) PaaS
4 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) VPN
2 1 (6.67%) BGP
2 1 (6.67%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (6.67%) DHCP
2 1 (6.67%) DNS
2 1 (6.67%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (6.67%) Firewall
2 1 (6.67%) IPsec
2 1 (6.67%) IPv6
2 1 (6.67%) MPLS
2 1 (6.67%) Multicast
2 1 (6.67%) OSPF
2 1 (6.67%) SAN
2 1 (6.67%) SD-WAN
2 1 (6.67%) SNMP
2 1 (6.67%) VoIP
2 1 (6.67%) VXLAN
2 1 (6.67%) WAN
2 1 (6.67%) Wireless
2 1 (6.67%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (26.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (20.00%) Finance
1 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Architect
2 4 (26.67%) Technical Architect
3 3 (20.00%) Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Desktop Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Desktop Support
3 3 (20.00%) Desktop Support Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
3 3 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (20.00%) Support Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Technical Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Deployment Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Network Architect
5 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) .NET
2 1 (6.67%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Video Conferencing
1 3 (20.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (6.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (6.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Windows
2 4 (26.67%) Windows 10
3 1 (6.67%) Linux
3 1 (6.67%) VMS
3 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) ITIL
2 4 (26.67%) Customer Service
2 4 (26.67%) Migration
3 3 (20.00%) Customer-Centricity
3 3 (20.00%) ITSM
3 3 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (20.00%) Security Patching
3 3 (20.00%) Zero Trust
4 2 (13.33%) Cost Management
4 2 (13.33%) DevSecOps
4 2 (13.33%) FinOps
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (13.33%) SABSA
4 2 (13.33%) TOGAF
5 1 (6.67%) Analytics
5 1 (6.67%) Load Balancing
5 1 (6.67%) Network Architecture
5 1 (6.67%) Network Management
5 1 (6.67%) SIEM
5 1 (6.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) SQL
2 2 (13.33%) Bicep
3 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (53.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 3 (20.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Certification
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.67%) CCDA
5 1 (6.67%) CCDP
5 1 (6.67%) CCIE
5 1 (6.67%) CCIP
5 1 (6.67%) CCNA
5 1 (6.67%) CCNP
5 1 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (6.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (20.00%) SCCM
1 3 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (6.67%) Ansible
2 1 (6.67%) CASB
2 1 (6.67%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 13 (86.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) Citrix
2 3 (20.00%) McAfee
2 3 (20.00%) VMware
3 1 (6.67%) Arista
3 1 (6.67%) Aruba
3 1 (6.67%) CheckPoint
3 1 (6.67%) Cisco
3 1 (6.67%) Fortinet
3 1 (6.67%) HP
3 1 (6.67%) Juniper
3 1 (6.67%) Meraki
3 1 (6.67%) Palo Alto
3 1 (6.67%) SolarWinds
3 1 (6.67%) Zscaler