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 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 34 24
Rank change year-on-year +15 -10 -5
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 32 19 41
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 7.80% 4.99% 7.06%
As % of the System Software category 82.05% 33.93% 59.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 18 36
10th Percentile £188 £200 £161
25th Percentile £252 £317 £239
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £378 £438
Median % change year-on-year +28.08% -13.71% +1.45%
75th Percentile £564 £435 £500
90th Percentile £640 £453 £584
South East median daily rate £478 £466 £325
% change year-on-year +2.41% +43.46% -15.86%
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 £84.00 £24.50 £24.75
% change year-on-year +242.86% -1.01% +33.78%

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 39 56 69
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 9.51% 14.70% 11.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 48 53
10th Percentile £190 £275 £175
25th Percentile £273 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £465
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +9.27% -8.15%
75th Percentile £600 £618 £510
90th Percentile £640 £656 £610
South East median daily rate £500 £495 £500
% change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% -
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% -14.58%
75th Percentile - £36.75 £22.75
90th Percentile - - £23.35
South East median hourly rate £81.00 £57.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year +41.48% -0.43% +98.28%

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 8 December 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 8 December 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 +12 22 £517 +36.95% 8
Newport Pagnell - 6 - -
Bletchley - 2 £274 - 2
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 17 (53.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (6.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (21.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 22 (68.75%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (37.50%) Azure
3 9 (28.13%) Entra ID
4 3 (9.38%) AWS
5 2 (6.25%) dbt
5 2 (6.25%) Fivetran
5 2 (6.25%) OneDrive
5 2 (6.25%) PaaS
5 2 (6.25%) Snowflake
6 1 (3.13%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 14 (43.75%) Firewall
2 12 (37.50%) Cisco IOS
3 3 (9.38%) VPN
4 2 (6.25%) DNS
4 2 (6.25%) SAN
5 1 (3.13%) DHCP
5 1 (3.13%) MPLS
5 1 (3.13%) NAS
5 1 (3.13%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.13%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (12.50%) SQL Server
General
1 12 (37.50%) Games
2 8 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (15.63%) Finance
4 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (43.75%) Platform Engineer
2 5 (15.63%) Analyst
3 4 (12.50%) Architect
3 4 (12.50%) Technical Architect
4 3 (9.38%) Desktop Analyst
4 3 (9.38%) Desktop Support
4 3 (9.38%) Desktop Support Analyst
4 3 (9.38%) Support Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Consultant
5 2 (6.25%) Data Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Deployment Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Senior
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Technical Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Service Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Service Desk Analyst
6 1 (3.13%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Service Desk Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.50%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.38%) Video Conferencing
1 3 (9.38%) Virtual Team
2 2 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.13%) PKI
3 1 (3.13%) Private Cloud
3 1 (3.13%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (71.88%) Windows
2 12 (37.50%) Android
2 12 (37.50%) Mac OS
3 8 (25.00%) Windows 10
4 1 (3.13%) Linux
4 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (37.50%) E-Commerce
2 9 (28.13%) ITIL
3 6 (18.75%) Customer Service
4 3 (9.38%) ITSM
4 3 (9.38%) Security Patching
5 2 (6.25%) CI/CD
5 2 (6.25%) Critical Thinking
5 2 (6.25%) DataOps
5 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (6.25%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (6.25%) Presales
5 2 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (6.25%) Project Delivery
5 2 (6.25%) Service Management
5 2 (6.25%) Test Automation
5 2 (6.25%) Virtual Environments
6 1 (3.13%) Contract Negotiation
6 1 (3.13%) Impact Assessments
6 1 (3.13%) Service Delivery
6 1 (3.13%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 13 (40.63%) PowerShell
2 4 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 6 (18.75%) DV Cleared
2 6 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 5 (15.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 3 (9.38%) Degree
5 1 (3.13%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (12.50%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (53.13%) SCCM
2 13 (40.63%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 26 (81.25%) Microsoft
2 13 (40.63%) Cisco
3 12 (37.50%) Meraki
3 12 (37.50%) Splunk
4 3 (9.38%) McAfee
5 2 (6.25%) ServiceNow
5 2 (6.25%) VMware
6 1 (3.13%) Citrix
6 1 (3.13%) Dell
6 1 (3.13%) F5
6 1 (3.13%) Isilon
6 1 (3.13%) NetApp
6 1 (3.13%) Veeam