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 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 18 23
Rank change year-on-year -22 +5 +4
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 39 22 27
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 4.40% 7.21% 6.37%
As % of the System Software category 29.55% 70.97% 60.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 2 25
10th Percentile £393 £231 £222
25th Percentile £514 £278 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £583 £363 £380
Median % change year-on-year +60.69% -4.61% -13.14%
75th Percentile £619 £453 £469
90th Percentile £638 £504 £485
South East median daily rate £515 £525 £531
% change year-on-year -1.90% -1.18% +51.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £17.50 - -
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £30.39 £17.80
% change year-on-year +72.78% +70.70% -20.89%

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 132 31 45
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 14.88% 10.16% 10.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 8 38
10th Percentile £415 £209 £225
25th Percentile £512 £278 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £386 £445
Median % change year-on-year +49.16% -13.37% -7.40%
75th Percentile £617 £553 £504
90th Percentile £656 £623 £625
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £23.98 - -
25th Percentile £33.70 - £35.58
Median hourly rate £38.72 - £36.17
Median % change year-on-year - - +60.73%
75th Percentile £43.75 - £36.75
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £51.50 £57.50 £54.88
% change year-on-year -10.43% +4.78% +7.07%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 -14 33 £595 +13.33% 5
Bletchley - 3 £110 -
Marlow - 2 - -
High Wycombe - 1 £450 - 1
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 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.56%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 20 (51.28%) Azure
2 18 (46.15%) Entra ID
3 12 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (20.51%) Azure Sentinel
5 7 (17.95%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (10.26%) AWS
6 4 (10.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (5.13%) IaaS
8 1 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.56%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (2.56%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (2.56%) Azure AKS
8 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.56%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (2.56%) GCP
8 1 (2.56%) GitHub
8 1 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.56%) PaaS
8 1 (2.56%) SaaS
8 1 (2.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 22 (56.41%) DNS
2 17 (43.59%) Firewall
3 16 (41.03%) DHCP
4 15 (38.46%) VPN
5 11 (28.21%) Network Security
6 8 (20.51%) IPsec
7 7 (17.95%) Cisco ASA
7 7 (17.95%) Cisco Firepower
7 7 (17.95%) SSL
8 6 (15.38%) TCP/IP
8 6 (15.38%) WAN
9 5 (12.82%) LAN
9 5 (12.82%) SSH
10 4 (10.26%) NGFW
11 3 (7.69%) CATAPAN
12 2 (5.13%) Wi-Fi
13 1 (2.56%) IPv6
13 1 (2.56%) MPLS
13 1 (2.56%) SAN
13 1 (2.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.56%) MySQL
1 1 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.56%) MSI
1 1 (2.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (28.21%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (10.26%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.13%) Manufacturing
5 2 (5.13%) Military
6 1 (2.56%) Health Technology
6 1 (2.56%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 17 (43.59%) Senior
2 12 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (23.08%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (17.95%) Network Engineer
4 7 (17.95%) Senior Network Engineer
5 5 (12.82%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 5 (12.82%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Desktop Support
6 3 (7.69%) IT Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) IT Support
6 3 (7.69%) IT Support Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Support Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Architect
7 2 (5.13%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Citrix Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) IT Manager
7 2 (5.13%) Linux Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Senior Citrix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (20.51%) ARM Templates
2 4 (10.26%) 802.1X
3 1 (2.56%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 13 (33.33%) PKI
2 8 (20.51%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (17.95%) Onboarding
4 5 (12.82%) ARM Cortex
5 4 (10.26%) Fibre Optics
5 4 (10.26%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.56%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.56%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (2.56%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.56%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (2.56%) NHS
6 1 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (56.41%) Windows
2 14 (35.90%) Linux
3 8 (20.51%) Windows Server
4 3 (7.69%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.56%) VMS
5 1 (2.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (43.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (28.21%) ITIL
3 10 (25.64%) High Availability
3 10 (25.64%) Security Operations
4 9 (23.08%) Network Virtualisation
4 9 (23.08%) RBAC
4 9 (23.08%) Security Hardening
5 8 (20.51%) Technical Leadership
5 8 (20.51%) Zero Trust
6 7 (17.95%) Analytics
6 7 (17.95%) Cybersecurity
6 7 (17.95%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (17.95%) Infrastructure Monitoring
6 7 (17.95%) Network Monitoring
7 6 (15.38%) CI/CD
7 6 (15.38%) Customer Service
7 6 (15.38%) Log Analytics
7 6 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
7 6 (15.38%) Validation
8 5 (12.82%) Data Collection
Programming Languages
1 14 (35.90%) PowerShell
2 10 (25.64%) Bicep
3 8 (20.51%) Bash
4 1 (2.56%) Korn
4 1 (2.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 25 (64.10%) Security Cleared
2 21 (53.85%) DV Cleared
3 10 (25.64%) SC Cleared
4 5 (12.82%) Azure Certification
4 5 (12.82%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (10.26%) CCA
5 4 (10.26%) CESG Certified Professional
5 4 (10.26%) Citrix Certification
5 4 (10.26%) Degree
5 4 (10.26%) MCSA
5 4 (10.26%) MCSE
6 3 (7.69%) A+ Certification
6 3 (7.69%) AWS Certification
7 2 (5.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (2.56%) CCIE
8 1 (2.56%) CCIP
8 1 (2.56%) CCNP
8 1 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (2.56%) DBS Check
8 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.82%) NIST
2 3 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (5.13%) NCSC
4 1 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 9 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (20.51%) VMware NSX
3 5 (12.82%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (7.69%) Hyper-V
5 2 (5.13%) Docker
6 1 (2.56%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (2.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (28.21%) Terraform
2 10 (25.64%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (12.82%) Ansible
3 5 (12.82%) Cisco CUCM
3 5 (12.82%) SCCM
4 2 (5.13%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.56%) CASB
Vendors
1 27 (69.23%) Microsoft
2 10 (25.64%) VMware
3 8 (20.51%) Cisco
3 8 (20.51%) Palo Alto
3 8 (20.51%) SolarWinds
4 6 (15.38%) CrowdStrike
5 5 (12.82%) Citrix
6 4 (10.26%) Becrypt
6 4 (10.26%) ServiceNow
7 2 (5.13%) Dell
7 2 (5.13%) HP
8 1 (2.56%) Arista
8 1 (2.56%) Aruba
8 1 (2.56%) CheckPoint
8 1 (2.56%) Fortinet
8 1 (2.56%) Juniper
8 1 (2.56%) Meraki
8 1 (2.56%) Red Hat
8 1 (2.56%) Zscaler