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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 19 26
Rank change year-on-year -25 +7 -3
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 31 22 23
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 3.56% 7.69% 5.19%
As % of the System Software category 27.19% 64.71% 53.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 2 21
10th Percentile £169 £231 £200
25th Percentile £511 £278 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £363 £421
Median % change year-on-year +54.48% -13.93% -0.90%
75th Percentile £600 £453 £475
90th Percentile £632 £504 £485
South East median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +40.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £17.50 - -
South East median hourly rate £48.13 £30.39 £17.80
% change year-on-year +58.40% +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 114 34 43
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 13.09% 11.89% 9.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 10 36
10th Percentile £416 £211 £223
25th Percentile £510 £305 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £370 £478
Median % change year-on-year +55.41% -22.51% +4.95%
75th Percentile £610 £522 £516
90th Percentile £660 £608 £625
South East median daily rate £525 £501 £540
% change year-on-year +4.90% -7.31% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £20.74 - -
25th Percentile £25.60 - £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 £50.00 £57.50 £54.88
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.78% +9.75%

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 15 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 15 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 -17 25 £575 +9.52% 8
Bletchley - 3 £110 -
Marlow - 2 - - 1
High Wycombe - 1 £450 - 3
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 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.23%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 14 (45.16%) Azure
1 14 (45.16%) Entra ID
1 14 (45.16%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (9.68%) AWS
3 2 (6.45%) IaaS
4 1 (3.23%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (3.23%) GCP
4 1 (3.23%) PaaS
4 1 (3.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (41.94%) DNS
2 9 (29.03%) DHCP
2 9 (29.03%) Firewall
3 7 (22.58%) IPsec
3 7 (22.58%) Network Security
3 7 (22.58%) VPN
4 6 (19.35%) Cisco ASA
4 6 (19.35%) Cisco Firepower
4 6 (19.35%) SSL
4 6 (19.35%) WAN
5 5 (16.13%) LAN
6 3 (9.68%) CATAPAN
6 3 (9.68%) NGFW
7 2 (6.45%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (3.23%) IPv6
8 1 (3.23%) MPLS
8 1 (3.23%) OSPF
8 1 (3.23%) SAN
8 1 (3.23%) SNMP
8 1 (3.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.23%) MySQL
1 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.23%) MSI
1 1 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (32.26%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (12.90%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Health Technology
5 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (38.71%) Senior
2 8 (25.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (19.35%) Network Engineer
3 6 (19.35%) Senior Network Engineer
4 5 (16.13%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 5 (16.13%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) Architect
6 3 (9.68%) Desktop Support
6 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure Architect
6 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
6 3 (9.68%) IT Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) IT Support
6 3 (9.68%) IT Support Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (9.68%) Support Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Citrix Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) IT Manager
7 2 (6.45%) Senior Citrix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.90%) 802.1X
2 1 (3.23%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 12 (38.71%) PKI
2 3 (9.68%) Fibre Optics
3 2 (6.45%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.23%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (3.23%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.23%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (45.16%) Windows
2 7 (22.58%) Linux
3 3 (9.68%) Windows 10
4 1 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.23%) VMS
4 1 (3.23%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (29.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (25.81%) High Availability
2 8 (25.81%) Zero Trust
3 7 (22.58%) ITIL
3 7 (22.58%) Migration
3 7 (22.58%) Technical Leadership
4 6 (19.35%) Customer Service
4 6 (19.35%) Network Monitoring
5 5 (16.13%) Identity Access Management
5 5 (16.13%) Identity Management
5 5 (16.13%) Network Virtualisation
5 5 (16.13%) Project Delivery
5 5 (16.13%) Security Operations
6 4 (12.90%) RBAC
6 4 (12.90%) Security Hardening
6 4 (12.90%) Virtual Environments
7 3 (9.68%) DevSecOps
7 3 (9.68%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (9.68%) Roadmaps
7 3 (9.68%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 7 (22.58%) PowerShell
2 3 (9.68%) Bicep
3 1 (3.23%) Bash
3 1 (3.23%) Korn
3 1 (3.23%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (48.39%) Security Cleared
2 13 (41.94%) DV Cleared
3 8 (25.81%) SC Cleared
4 5 (16.13%) Azure Certification
4 5 (16.13%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (12.90%) MCSA
5 4 (12.90%) MCSE
6 3 (9.68%) A+ Certification
6 3 (9.68%) CCA
6 3 (9.68%) CESG Certified Professional
6 3 (9.68%) Citrix Certification
7 2 (6.45%) AWS Certification
8 1 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (3.23%) CCIE
8 1 (3.23%) CCIP
8 1 (3.23%) CCNP
8 1 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (3.23%) DBS Check
8 1 (3.23%) Degree
8 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.13%) NIST
2 2 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (3.23%) NCSC
System Software
1 9 (29.03%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (22.58%) VMware NSX
3 5 (16.13%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (9.68%) Hyper-V
5 1 (3.23%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (3.23%) Docker
5 1 (3.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (22.58%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (12.90%) Cisco CUCM
2 4 (12.90%) Terraform
3 1 (3.23%) Ansible
3 1 (3.23%) CASB
3 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (67.74%) Microsoft
2 10 (32.26%) VMware
3 7 (22.58%) Cisco
3 7 (22.58%) Palo Alto
3 7 (22.58%) SolarWinds
4 6 (19.35%) Citrix
5 4 (12.90%) Becrypt
5 4 (12.90%) ServiceNow
6 2 (6.45%) Dell
6 2 (6.45%) HP
7 1 (3.23%) Arista
7 1 (3.23%) Aruba
7 1 (3.23%) CheckPoint
7 1 (3.23%) Fortinet
7 1 (3.23%) Juniper
7 1 (3.23%) Meraki
7 1 (3.23%) Red Hat
7 1 (3.23%) Zscaler