Active Directory Contracts in Buckinghamshire

Microsoft Active Directory
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Active Directory skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Active Directory over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 27 25
Rank change year-on-year +9 -2 -2
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 22 22 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 7.97% 4.90% 6.80%
As % of the System Software category 66.67% 48.89% 60.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 20 55
10th Percentile £215 £174 £189
25th Percentile £237 £224 £245
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £274 £416 £425
Median % change year-on-year -34.11% -2.10% -6.08%
75th Percentile £406 £476 £525
90th Percentile £485 £486 £559
South East median daily rate £525 £515 £425
% change year-on-year +1.94% +21.18% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.25
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £17.80 £22.50
% change year-on-year +57.30% -20.89% +47.54%

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 33 45 99
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 11.96% 10.02% 11.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 38 87
10th Percentile £211 £214 £204
25th Percentile £280 £407 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £331 £478 £455
Median % change year-on-year -30.79% +4.95% -9.00%
75th Percentile £456 £504 £525
90th Percentile £544 £625 £566
South East median daily rate £500 £533 £500
% change year-on-year -6.10% +6.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £35.58 £21.25
Median hourly rate - £36.17 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year - +60.73% +73.08%
75th Percentile - £36.75 £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £57.50 £54.88 £51.25
% change year-on-year +4.78% +7.07% +156.25%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in Buckinghamshire.

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in Buckinghamshire

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in Buckinghamshire

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in Buckinghamshire.

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in Buckinghamshire

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 6 July 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 12 £400 +8.00% 17
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 17 (77.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (72.73%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 20 (90.91%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (18.18%) Azure
2 4 (18.18%) Entra ID
3 1 (4.55%) AWS
3 1 (4.55%) Mimecast
3 1 (4.55%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 17 (77.27%) Firewall
2 16 (72.73%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (4.55%) DHCP
3 1 (4.55%) DNS
3 1 (4.55%) NAS
3 1 (4.55%) SAN
3 1 (4.55%) VLAN
3 1 (4.55%) VPN
General
1 16 (72.73%) Games
2 2 (9.09%) Finance
2 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (72.73%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (4.55%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (4.55%) Analyst
2 1 (4.55%) Architect
2 1 (4.55%) Consultant
2 1 (4.55%) Deployment Engineer
2 1 (4.55%) Desktop Analyst
2 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
2 1 (4.55%) Senior
2 1 (4.55%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (4.55%) Senior Desktop Analyst
2 1 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (4.55%) Solutions Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
1 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
1 1 (4.55%) Private Cloud
1 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
1 1 (4.55%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 21 (95.45%) Windows
2 16 (72.73%) Android
2 16 (72.73%) Mac OS
3 3 (13.64%) Windows 10
4 1 (4.55%) Linux
4 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (72.73%) E-Commerce
2 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (9.09%) Migration
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (4.55%) Cloud Security
3 1 (4.55%) Computer Science
3 1 (4.55%) Customer Engagement
3 1 (4.55%) Customer Service
3 1 (4.55%) Customer-Centricity
3 1 (4.55%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (4.55%) Identity Management
3 1 (4.55%) ITIL
3 1 (4.55%) Network Architecture
3 1 (4.55%) Problem Management
3 1 (4.55%) Project Delivery
3 1 (4.55%) Roadmaps
3 1 (4.55%) Service Delivery
3 1 (4.55%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (4.55%) TOGAF
3 1 (4.55%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 17 (77.27%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) Degree
1 1 (4.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 1 (4.55%) Master's Degree
1 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (81.82%) Microsoft Intune
1 18 (81.82%) SCCM
Vendors
1 21 (95.45%) Microsoft
2 17 (77.27%) Cisco
3 16 (72.73%) Meraki
3 16 (72.73%) Splunk
4 1 (4.55%) Citrix
4 1 (4.55%) Commvault
4 1 (4.55%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (4.55%) Dell
4 1 (4.55%) F5
4 1 (4.55%) HP
4 1 (4.55%) Imperva
4 1 (4.55%) Isilon
4 1 (4.55%) McAfee
4 1 (4.55%) NetApp
4 1 (4.55%) Netskope
4 1 (4.55%) Veeam
4 1 (4.55%) VMware