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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 22 28
Rank change year-on-year +7 +6 -1
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 28 27 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 8.86% 7.36% 6.08%
As % of the System Software category 82.35% 55.10% 58.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 24 40
10th Percentile £184 £250 £172
25th Percentile £189 £330 £295
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £421 £450
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% -6.54% +2.86%
75th Percentile £522 £447 £500
90th Percentile £549 £483 £576
South East median daily rate £463 £475 £319
% change year-on-year -2.63% +49.02% +2.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £19.25
Median hourly rate - - £20.50
75th Percentile - - £22.75
90th Percentile - - £23.35
South East median hourly rate £32.77 £23.45 £22.50
% change year-on-year +39.74% +4.22% +50.00%

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 34 49 77
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 10.76% 13.35% 10.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 44 61
10th Percentile £185 £309 £186
25th Percentile £195 £376 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £471 £465
Median % change year-on-year -4.51% +1.34% -11.43%
75th Percentile £556 £542 £515
90th Percentile £650 £625 £575
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £35.58 £19.25
Median hourly rate - £36.17 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year - +76.41% +57.69%
75th Percentile - £36.75 £22.75
90th Percentile - - £23.35
South East median hourly rate £81.00 £54.88 £54.56
% change year-on-year +47.61% +0.58% +43.07%

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
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 19 September 2025.

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 19 September 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
Milton Keynes 0 17 £484 +14.78% 12
Newport Pagnell - 8 - -
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 20 (71.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.57%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 23 (82.14%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (28.57%) Azure
2 8 (28.57%) Entra ID
3 2 (7.14%) AWS
3 2 (7.14%) dbt
3 2 (7.14%) Fivetran
3 2 (7.14%) PaaS
3 2 (7.14%) Snowflake
4 1 (3.57%) Mimecast
4 1 (3.57%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 18 (64.29%) Firewall
2 16 (57.14%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (3.57%) DNS
3 1 (3.57%) MPLS
3 1 (3.57%) NAS
3 1 (3.57%) SAN
3 1 (3.57%) VLAN
General
1 16 (57.14%) Games
2 8 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Finance
4 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (64.29%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (7.14%) Analyst
2 2 (7.14%) Consultant
2 2 (7.14%) Data Engineer
2 2 (7.14%) Deployment Engineer
2 2 (7.14%) Service Analyst
2 2 (7.14%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (3.57%) 1st Line Support
3 1 (3.57%) 1st Line Support Analyst
3 1 (3.57%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure Consultant
3 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.57%) Presales Consultant
3 1 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.57%) Solutions Consultant
3 1 (3.57%) Technical Consultant
3 1 (3.57%) Technical Infrastructure Consultant
3 1 (3.57%) Technical Presales Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.57%) Private Cloud
2 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (82.14%) Windows
2 16 (57.14%) Android
2 16 (57.14%) Mac OS
3 5 (17.86%) Windows 10
4 1 (3.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (57.14%) E-Commerce
2 2 (7.14%) CI/CD
2 2 (7.14%) Critical Thinking
2 2 (7.14%) Customer Service
2 2 (7.14%) DataOps
2 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (7.14%) ITIL
2 2 (7.14%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (7.14%) Presales
2 2 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (7.14%) Project Delivery
2 2 (7.14%) Service Management
2 2 (7.14%) Test Automation
2 2 (7.14%) Virtual Environments
3 1 (3.57%) Cloud Security
3 1 (3.57%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (3.57%) Contract Negotiation
3 1 (3.57%) Customer Engagement
3 1 (3.57%) Roadmaps
3 1 (3.57%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 17 (60.71%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 4 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.71%) Degree
3 3 (10.71%) DV Cleared
4 2 (7.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (3.57%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (64.29%) Microsoft Intune
1 18 (64.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 23 (82.14%) Microsoft
2 17 (60.71%) Cisco
3 16 (57.14%) Meraki
3 16 (57.14%) Splunk
4 2 (7.14%) Citrix
4 2 (7.14%) ServiceNow
4 2 (7.14%) VMware
5 1 (3.57%) Dell
5 1 (3.57%) F5
5 1 (3.57%) Isilon
5 1 (3.57%) NetApp
5 1 (3.57%) Veeam