Active Directory Jobs

Microsoft Active Directory
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Active Directory skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Active Directory over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 46 80
Rank change year-on-year +13 +34 -34
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 5,984 5,478 7,698
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.69% 5.78% 4.55%
As % of the System Software category 49.71% 37.52% 24.63%
Number of salaries quoted 4,724 4,563 6,141
10th Percentile £24,500 £25,000 £24,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £30,250 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - -5.88%
75th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £55,175
90th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £36,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year -4.11% +4.29% -6.67%

All System Software Skills
UK

Active Directory is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 12,037 14,602 31,259
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.44% 15.40% 18.49%
Number of salaries quoted 9,350 9,782 15,548
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,638 £27,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,687
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -1.23% +1.25%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Active Directory as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in the UK

Active Directory
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Active Directory.

Salary trend for Active Directory in the UK

Active Directory
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Active Directory over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Active Directory in the UK

Active Directory
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Active Directory within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +15 5,525 £37,500 -6.25% 972
UK excluding London +13 4,446 £35,000 -4.11% 797
Work from Home +18 1,907 £45,000 - 369
London +14 1,403 £50,000 - 229
South East -3 1,173 £37,500 +7.14% 203
North of England +28 1,101 £35,000 -6.67% 207
Midlands +25 789 £33,500 -8.22% 139
South West +23 540 £37,500 +1.35% 115
North West +9 514 £37,500 -11.76% 116
East of England +11 493 £31,000 -17.33% 79
West Midlands +26 476 £35,000 -2.78% 75
Yorkshire +38 396 £32,500 -5.80% 75
East Midlands +11 308 £32,500 -13.33% 64
Scotland -52 244 £33,000 -5.39% 59
North East +27 191 £33,000 -8.33% 19
Wales +13 88 £28,290 -24.56% 18
Northern Ireland -11 12 £37,500 -16.67% 1
Channel Islands +1 4 £85,000 -5.56%
Isle of Man -11 4 £43,000 -40.69% 1

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1,598 (26.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 946 (15.81%) SharePoint
3 150 (2.51%) IIS
4 44 (0.74%) Exchange Server 2013
5 28 (0.47%) Exchange Server 2010
6 27 (0.45%) Confluence
6 27 (0.45%) OpenStack
7 23 (0.38%) Skype for Business
8 21 (0.35%) SharePoint 2013
9 19 (0.32%) SharePoint 2010
10 17 (0.28%) WordPress
11 16 (0.27%) CMS
12 13 (0.22%) Tomcat
13 11 (0.18%) Apache
13 11 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2007
14 8 (0.13%) SAS
15 6 (0.10%) Exchange Server 2000
16 5 (0.084%) SharePoint Server
17 4 (0.067%) Exchange Server 2003
17 4 (0.067%) Jupyter
Applications
1 939 (15.69%) Microsoft Office
2 156 (2.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 70 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.30%) MS Visio
4 18 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
5 8 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.067%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.050%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.050%) SPSS
8 2 (0.033%) CATIA
8 2 (0.033%) NASTRAN
9 1 (0.017%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.017%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.017%) InCopy
9 1 (0.017%) InDesign
9 1 (0.017%) Weka
Business Applications
1 28 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
3 10 (0.17%) NEC Housing
4 9 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
5 6 (0.10%) SAP ERP
6 5 (0.084%) Elite 3E
6 5 (0.084%) Sage 200
7 4 (0.067%) Eikon
8 3 (0.050%) Epicor Tropos
8 3 (0.050%) iTrent
8 3 (0.050%) Sage X3
8 3 (0.050%) Teamcenter
9 2 (0.033%) assyst
10 1 (0.017%) Carpe Diem
10 1 (0.017%) Dynamics GP
10 1 (0.017%) MIS ActiveH
10 1 (0.017%) Sage 300 ERP
10 1 (0.017%) SAP Business One
10 1 (0.017%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3,608 (60.29%) Microsoft 365
2 2,990 (49.97%) Azure
3 1,728 (28.88%) Entra ID
4 473 (7.90%) AWS
5 433 (7.24%) OneDrive
6 173 (2.89%) Power Platform
7 163 (2.72%) IaaS
8 147 (2.46%) SaaS
9 122 (2.04%) Mimecast
10 120 (2.01%) PaaS
11 105 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
12 104 (1.74%) GCP
13 100 (1.67%) Power Automate
14 89 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
15 85 (1.42%) Azure Monitor
15 85 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
16 82 (1.37%) Google Workspace
17 78 (1.30%) PowerApps
18 69 (1.15%) Nutanix
19 62 (1.04%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 1,291 (21.57%) DNS
2 1,283 (21.44%) Firewall
3 977 (16.33%) DHCP
4 786 (13.14%) WAN
5 705 (11.78%) LAN
6 569 (9.51%) VPN
7 512 (8.56%) TCP/IP
8 419 (7.00%) SAN
9 360 (6.02%) Wireless
10 358 (5.98%) Wi-Fi
11 293 (4.90%) VLAN
12 262 (4.38%) Broadband
13 251 (4.19%) VoIP
14 220 (3.68%) 5G
15 199 (3.33%) Internet
16 183 (3.06%) SD-WAN
17 165 (2.76%) Network Security
18 154 (2.57%) Remote Desktop
19 138 (2.31%) NAS
20 90 (1.50%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 376 (6.28%) SQL Server
2 100 (1.67%) Power BI
3 90 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
4 65 (1.09%) Metadata
5 60 (1.00%) MySQL
6 49 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
7 47 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
8 36 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 30 (0.50%) Relational Database
10 28 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 20 (0.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 18 (0.30%) Redis
13 16 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
13 16 (0.27%) Oracle Database
14 13 (0.22%) MariaDB
14 13 (0.22%) RDBMS
15 12 (0.20%) Elasticsearch
15 12 (0.20%) NoSQL
16 10 (0.17%) Amazon Redshift
17 7 (0.12%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 110 (1.84%) Git
2 108 (1.80%) Jenkins
3 81 (1.35%) Bitbucket
4 77 (1.29%) JIRA
5 66 (1.10%) Artifactory
6 24 (0.40%) GitLab
7 14 (0.23%) MSI
8 12 (0.20%) Visual Studio
9 10 (0.17%) Trac
10 7 (0.12%) Katalon Studio
11 6 (0.10%) AdminStudio
11 6 (0.10%) InstallShield
11 6 (0.10%) Robot Framework
11 6 (0.10%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (0.084%) Moq
12 5 (0.084%) Octopus Deploy
12 5 (0.084%) Postman
12 5 (0.084%) SpecFlow
13 4 (0.067%) CircleCI
13 4 (0.067%) git-flow
General
1 1,906 (31.85%) Social Skills
2 748 (12.50%) Finance
3 722 (12.07%) Analytical Skills
4 430 (7.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 347 (5.80%) Law
6 219 (3.66%) Legal
7 218 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
8 211 (3.53%) Retail
9 170 (2.84%) Manufacturing
10 143 (2.39%) Telecoms
11 139 (2.32%) Public Sector
12 127 (2.12%) Banking
13 102 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
14 101 (1.69%) Marketing
15 55 (0.92%) Games
16 51 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
17 49 (0.82%) Local Government
18 46 (0.77%) Back Office
19 33 (0.55%) Advertising
20 28 (0.47%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,194 (19.95%) IT Support
2 1,029 (17.20%) Support Engineer
3 999 (16.69%) Analyst
4 810 (13.54%) IT Engineer
5 779 (13.02%) Senior
6 733 (12.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 555 (9.27%) IT Support Engineer
8 459 (7.67%) 2nd Line Support
9 382 (6.38%) IT Analyst
10 374 (6.25%) IT Technician
11 361 (6.03%) Support Analyst
12 327 (5.46%) Lead
13 320 (5.35%) Service Analyst
14 298 (4.98%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 297 (4.96%) Service Desk Analyst
16 258 (4.31%) Support Technician
17 251 (4.19%) 1st Line Support
18 239 (3.99%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
19 234 (3.91%) Technical Specialist
20 224 (3.74%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (1.94%) LDAP
2 101 (1.69%) SAML
3 90 (1.50%) Web Services
4 83 (1.39%) .NET
4 83 (1.39%) JSON
4 83 (1.39%) RESTful
5 74 (1.24%) OpenID
5 74 (1.24%) XML
6 65 (1.09%) JSON-LD
7 50 (0.84%) ARM Templates
8 30 (0.50%) OAuth
9 25 (0.42%) HTML
10 23 (0.38%) .NET Core
10 23 (0.38%) CSS
11 21 (0.35%) 802.1X
11 21 (0.35%) React
12 19 (0.32%) REST
13 18 (0.30%) YAML
14 16 (0.27%) OLE
15 13 (0.22%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 382 (6.38%) Driving Licence
2 348 (5.82%) Data Centre
3 343 (5.73%) Management Information System
4 259 (4.33%) Self-Motivation
5 218 (3.64%) Social Media
6 189 (3.16%) Onboarding
7 155 (2.59%) Replication
8 133 (2.22%) Public Cloud
9 128 (2.14%) PKI
10 120 (2.01%) Video Conferencing
11 117 (1.96%) Clustering
12 97 (1.62%) Smartphone
13 83 (1.39%) Enterprise Cloud
14 71 (1.19%) iPhone
15 70 (1.17%) Wiki
16 65 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
16 65 (1.09%) Reference Data
17 62 (1.04%) Cyberattack
18 61 (1.02%) iPad
19 53 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4,081 (68.20%) Windows
2 2,103 (35.14%) Windows Server
3 1,247 (20.84%) Windows 10
4 818 (13.67%) Linux
5 393 (6.57%) Windows Server 2016
6 363 (6.07%) Windows Server 2019
7 353 (5.90%) Windows Server 2012
8 298 (4.98%) Ubuntu
9 254 (4.24%) Android
10 218 (3.64%) Mac OS
11 185 (3.09%) Windows 7
12 167 (2.79%) Apple iOS
13 90 (1.50%) Windows Server 2008
14 89 (1.49%) VMS
15 72 (1.20%) Windows 8
16 60 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 45 (0.75%) CentOS
18 44 (0.74%) Mac OS X
19 43 (0.72%) Unix
20 26 (0.43%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,232 (20.59%) ITIL
2 1,158 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
3 1,070 (17.88%) Customer Service
4 948 (15.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 882 (14.74%) Cybersecurity
6 445 (7.44%) Agile
7 393 (6.57%) Service Management
8 365 (6.10%) Disaster Recovery
8 365 (6.10%) ITSM
9 339 (5.67%) Roadmaps
10 320 (5.35%) Service Delivery
11 312 (5.21%) Mentoring
12 303 (5.06%) CRM
12 303 (5.06%) DevOps
13 299 (5.00%) IT Strategy
14 297 (4.96%) Migration
15 289 (4.83%) Continuous Improvement
16 288 (4.81%) Project Management
17 269 (4.50%) Incident Management
18 247 (4.13%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 923 (15.42%) PowerShell
2 625 (10.44%) SQL
3 335 (5.60%) Bash
4 138 (2.31%) Python
5 110 (1.84%) C#
6 70 (1.17%) Go
7 65 (1.09%) Prolog
7 65 (1.09%) SPARQL
8 52 (0.87%) VB
9 47 (0.79%) Bicep
10 39 (0.65%) T-SQL
10 39 (0.65%) VBScript
11 35 (0.58%) JavaScript
12 33 (0.55%) Java
13 30 (0.50%) Perl
14 25 (0.42%) PL/SQL
15 19 (0.32%) R
16 15 (0.25%) TypeScript
17 14 (0.23%) ActionScript
18 12 (0.20%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 761 (12.72%) Degree
2 562 (9.39%) Security Cleared
3 495 (8.27%) Microsoft Certification
4 324 (5.41%) SC Cleared
5 264 (4.41%) DV Cleared
6 191 (3.19%) Cisco Certification
7 173 (2.89%) Azure Certification
8 172 (2.87%) A+ Certification
9 162 (2.71%) DBS Check
10 159 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
11 157 (2.62%) MCP
12 151 (2.52%) MCSE
13 147 (2.46%) CCNA
14 96 (1.60%) MCSA
15 87 (1.45%) ITIL Certification
16 78 (1.30%) Master's Degree
17 69 (1.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 51 (0.85%) Network+ Certification
19 50 (0.84%) CCNP
20 48 (0.80%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 456 (7.62%) SLA
2 125 (2.09%) Cyber Essentials
3 124 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 105 (1.75%) GDPR
5 33 (0.55%) NIST
6 28 (0.47%) Accessibility
7 25 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 21 (0.35%) QA
9 15 (0.25%) Data Quality
10 14 (0.23%) PCI DSS
11 13 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 13 (0.22%) SOC 2
12 10 (0.17%) PMO
13 9 (0.15%) GRC
14 6 (0.10%) IASME
14 6 (0.10%) NIST 800
15 4 (0.067%) HIPAA
15 4 (0.067%) ISO 9001
15 4 (0.067%) NCSC
16 3 (0.050%) JSP 440
System Software
1 1,152 (19.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 915 (15.29%) Hyper-V
3 327 (5.46%) VMware ESXi
4 213 (3.56%) vSphere
5 190 (3.18%) XenApp
6 169 (2.82%) Virtual Desktop
7 165 (2.76%) XenDesktop
8 149 (2.49%) Virtual Machines
9 78 (1.30%) Virtual Servers
10 76 (1.27%) Docker
11 75 (1.25%) Microsoft App-V
12 50 (0.84%) RACF
13 41 (0.69%) VirtualBox
14 35 (0.58%) Firmware
15 29 (0.48%) Terminal Services
16 27 (0.45%) VMware Workstation
17 23 (0.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 22 (0.37%) VMware Server
19 19 (0.32%) NFS
20 18 (0.30%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 1,208 (20.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 664 (11.10%) SCCM
3 267 (4.46%) Jamf Pro
4 184 (3.07%) WSUS
5 159 (2.66%) vCenter Server
6 153 (2.56%) Terraform
7 135 (2.26%) Single Sign-On
8 130 (2.17%) Ansible
9 123 (2.06%) SCOM
10 114 (1.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 107 (1.79%) Kubernetes
12 72 (1.20%) AirWatch
13 44 (0.74%) Failover Clustering
14 42 (0.70%) ZABBIX
15 41 (0.69%) NetBackup
16 40 (0.67%) Backup Exec
17 38 (0.64%) FortiGate
18 36 (0.60%) Microsoft Clustering
19 27 (0.45%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
20 25 (0.42%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 4,001 (66.86%) Microsoft
2 1,703 (28.46%) VMware
3 630 (10.53%) Cisco
4 568 (9.49%) Citrix
5 397 (6.63%) Veeam
6 285 (4.76%) CyberArk
7 228 (3.81%) Apple
8 210 (3.51%) Tanium
9 208 (3.48%) HP
10 199 (3.33%) ServiceNow
11 192 (3.21%) Dell
12 167 (2.79%) Google
13 140 (2.34%) Meraki
14 103 (1.72%) NetApp
15 101 (1.69%) Sophos
16 97 (1.62%) SolarWinds
17 94 (1.57%) Oracle
18 93 (1.55%) Fortinet
19 75 (1.25%) Red Hat
20 71 (1.19%) Commvault