Active Directory Jobs in the North of England

Microsoft Active Directory
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 56 43
Rank change year-on-year +28 -13 -15
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 1,094 938 1,227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.96% 5.68% 6.69%
As % of the System Software category 55.65% 38.62% 37.10%
Number of salaries quoted 910 775 1,038
10th Percentile £23,500 £23,500 £21,750
25th Percentile £26,500 £27,500 £25,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £38,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +16.92% -13.33%
75th Percentile £45,250 £48,750 £46,250
90th Percentile £62,250 £60,000 £56,300
England median annual salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% - -5.88%

All System Software Skills
North of England

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 advertised in the North of England with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,966 2,429 3,307
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 10.71% 14.70% 18.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,642 1,553 2,357
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,609 £34,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -1.04% +1.05%
75th Percentile £57,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £69,500 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Active Directory as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in the North of England

Active Directory
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in the North of England.

Salary trend for Active Directory in the North of England

Active Directory
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in the North of England over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Active Directory in the North of England

Active Directory
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Active Directory within the North of England region over the 6 months to 29 May 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
North West +9 510 £37,500 -11.76% 114
Yorkshire +41 393 £32,500 -5.80% 81
North East +30 191 £33,000 -8.97% 19
Active Directory
England

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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
1 276 (25.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 148 (13.53%) SharePoint
3 22 (2.01%) IIS
4 10 (0.91%) Exchange Server 2013
5 5 (0.46%) SharePoint Server
6 4 (0.37%) CMS
6 4 (0.37%) Skype for Business
7 2 (0.18%) Confluence
7 2 (0.18%) Resin
8 1 (0.091%) Site Server
Applications
1 177 (16.18%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.091%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.46%) SAP ERP
2 3 (0.27%) Epicor Tropos
3 2 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 707 (64.63%) Microsoft 365
2 570 (52.10%) Azure
3 335 (30.62%) Entra ID
4 104 (9.51%) AWS
5 66 (6.03%) OneDrive
6 40 (3.66%) Power Platform
7 27 (2.47%) Power Automate
7 27 (2.47%) PowerApps
8 23 (2.10%) SaaS
9 18 (1.65%) GCP
9 18 (1.65%) IaaS
10 15 (1.37%) Mimecast
11 14 (1.28%) Azure Key Vault
12 13 (1.19%) PaaS
13 12 (1.10%) AWS KMS
13 12 (1.10%) Azure Logic Apps
14 10 (0.91%) Azure DevOps
14 10 (0.91%) Dynamics 365
15 8 (0.73%) Cloud Computing
16 7 (0.64%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 248 (22.67%) DNS
2 221 (20.20%) Firewall
3 217 (19.84%) DHCP
4 185 (16.91%) WAN
5 162 (14.81%) LAN
6 104 (9.51%) VPN
7 101 (9.23%) SAN
8 91 (8.32%) TCP/IP
9 69 (6.31%) VoIP
10 63 (5.76%) Wi-Fi
11 44 (4.02%) VLAN
12 41 (3.75%) Wireless
12 41 (3.75%) WLAN
13 36 (3.29%) NAS
14 35 (3.20%) Internet
15 34 (3.11%) Network Security
16 24 (2.19%) SD-WAN
17 19 (1.74%) SSL
18 16 (1.46%) Remote Desktop
19 13 (1.19%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (6.95%) SQL Server
2 18 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
3 17 (1.55%) Azure SQL Database
4 16 (1.46%) Power BI
5 6 (0.55%) MySQL
5 6 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (0.46%) MaxDB
6 5 (0.46%) NoSQL
6 5 (0.46%) Redis
6 5 (0.46%) SAP HANA
7 3 (0.27%) Crystal Reports
8 2 (0.18%) DB2
8 2 (0.18%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.18%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.091%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (0.37%) Git
1 4 (0.37%) Visual Studio
2 3 (0.27%) JIRA
3 2 (0.18%) Moq
3 2 (0.18%) MSTest
3 2 (0.18%) Postman
3 2 (0.18%) SpecFlow
3 2 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (0.18%) webpack
4 1 (0.091%) MSI
General
1 381 (34.83%) Social Skills
2 142 (12.98%) Finance
3 94 (8.59%) Analytical Skills
4 87 (7.95%) Law
5 73 (6.67%) Retail
6 46 (4.20%) Organisational Skills
7 45 (4.11%) Public Sector
8 43 (3.93%) Manufacturing
9 42 (3.84%) Legal
10 24 (2.19%) Banking
11 19 (1.74%) Telecoms
12 10 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
13 9 (0.82%) Local Government
14 6 (0.55%) French Language
14 6 (0.55%) German Language
14 6 (0.55%) Italian Language
14 6 (0.55%) Portuguese Language
14 6 (0.55%) Spanish Language
14 6 (0.55%) Swedish Language
14 6 (0.55%) Turkish Language
Job Titles
1 227 (20.75%) Analyst
2 217 (19.84%) IT Support
3 175 (16.00%) Support Engineer
4 169 (15.45%) IT Engineer
5 152 (13.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 120 (10.97%) IT Support Engineer
7 102 (9.32%) Senior
8 91 (8.32%) Service Analyst
9 86 (7.86%) Service Desk Analyst
10 85 (7.77%) 2nd Line Support
11 75 (6.86%) IT Technician
12 71 (6.49%) IT Analyst
13 62 (5.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 57 (5.21%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
15 52 (4.75%) Infrastructure Specialist
16 51 (4.66%) IT Manager
17 50 (4.57%) Support Analyst
18 48 (4.39%) 1st Line Support
19 47 (4.30%) 3rd Line Engineer
20 45 (4.11%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (1.46%) OLE
2 13 (1.19%) .NET
3 8 (0.73%) OAuth
3 8 (0.73%) RESTful
4 6 (0.55%) CSS
4 6 (0.55%) Middleware
5 5 (0.46%) BREW
5 5 (0.46%) LDAP
5 5 (0.46%) SAP Basis
5 5 (0.46%) SAP Fiori
6 4 (0.37%) HTML
7 3 (0.27%) ARM Templates
7 3 (0.27%) REST
7 3 (0.27%) Web Services
7 3 (0.27%) YAML
8 2 (0.18%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.18%) Jest
8 2 (0.18%) OAuth2
8 2 (0.18%) React
8 2 (0.18%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 107 (9.78%) Driving Licence
2 70 (6.40%) Management Information System
3 54 (4.94%) Data Centre
4 38 (3.47%) Onboarding
5 36 (3.29%) Public Cloud
6 33 (3.02%) Enterprise Storage
7 27 (2.47%) Smartphone
8 24 (2.19%) Clustering
9 23 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
10 19 (1.74%) PMI
11 18 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
11 18 (1.65%) Fat Client
11 18 (1.65%) Thin Client
12 17 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
12 17 (1.55%) PKI
13 16 (1.46%) Replication
14 14 (1.28%) Cyberattack
15 13 (1.19%) EPoS
16 12 (1.10%) Private Cloud
17 8 (0.73%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 667 (60.97%) Windows
2 354 (32.36%) Windows Server
3 186 (17.00%) Windows 10
4 93 (8.50%) Linux
5 63 (5.76%) Windows Server 2016
6 60 (5.48%) Windows Server 2012
7 58 (5.30%) Windows Server 2019
8 41 (3.75%) Mac OS
9 31 (2.83%) Android
10 27 (2.47%) Apple iOS
11 20 (1.83%) Windows Server 2008
12 15 (1.37%) Windows 7
13 11 (1.01%) Unix
13 11 (1.01%) VMS
14 10 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 8 (0.73%) Windows Vista
16 7 (0.64%) Windows 8
17 4 (0.37%) Debian
17 4 (0.37%) Windows Server 2003
18 3 (0.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (23.13%) ITIL
2 227 (20.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 222 (20.29%) Customer Service
4 214 (19.56%) Problem-Solving
5 125 (11.43%) Cybersecurity
6 95 (8.68%) Disaster Recovery
7 92 (8.41%) Migration
8 78 (7.13%) Agile
9 73 (6.67%) Incident Management
10 72 (6.58%) Roadmaps
11 70 (6.40%) Service Management
12 66 (6.03%) Coaching
12 66 (6.03%) Mentoring
13 64 (5.85%) ITSM
14 60 (5.48%) Project Management
15 59 (5.39%) Continuous Improvement
16 52 (4.75%) ERP
17 50 (4.57%) Time Management
18 49 (4.48%) Information Security
19 48 (4.39%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 167 (15.27%) PowerShell
2 147 (13.44%) SQL
3 28 (2.56%) Python
4 17 (1.55%) Bash
5 16 (1.46%) R
6 14 (1.28%) VBScript
7 9 (0.82%) C#
8 8 (0.73%) Java
9 7 (0.64%) JavaScript
10 5 (0.46%) ABAP
11 3 (0.27%) Bicep
11 3 (0.27%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (0.27%) VB
12 2 (0.18%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.18%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.091%) Perl
Qualifications
1 136 (12.43%) Microsoft Certification
2 108 (9.87%) Degree
3 57 (5.21%) Azure Certification
4 41 (3.75%) MCP
5 33 (3.02%) A+ Certification
6 22 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
6 22 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (2.01%) DBS Check
6 22 (2.01%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 20 (1.83%) Security Cleared
8 19 (1.74%) MCSA
8 19 (1.74%) PMI Certification
9 18 (1.65%) CCNA
10 17 (1.55%) MCSE
11 13 (1.19%) ITIL Certification
11 13 (1.19%) SC Cleared
12 12 (1.10%) CISSP
13 8 (0.73%) GIAC
14 7 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
15 6 (0.55%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (7.40%) SLA
2 36 (3.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials
4 12 (1.10%) NIST
5 5 (0.46%) GDPR
6 3 (0.27%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.091%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.091%) NCSC
8 1 (0.091%) PMO
8 1 (0.091%) QA
8 1 (0.091%) SOC 2
System Software
1 187 (17.09%) Hyper-V
2 172 (15.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 46 (4.20%) VMware ESXi
4 30 (2.74%) Virtual Desktop
4 30 (2.74%) Virtual Machines
5 24 (2.19%) RACF
6 23 (2.10%) vSphere
7 11 (1.01%) Virtual Servers
8 8 (0.73%) XenApp
9 7 (0.64%) VMware Server
9 7 (0.64%) XenDesktop
10 3 (0.27%) VMware Workstation
11 2 (0.18%) Firmware
11 2 (0.18%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.18%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.091%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.091%) DFS Replication
12 1 (0.091%) Docker
12 1 (0.091%) Dovecot
12 1 (0.091%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 209 (19.10%) Microsoft Intune
2 81 (7.40%) SCCM
3 25 (2.29%) SCOM
3 25 (2.29%) vCenter Server
3 25 (2.29%) WSUS
4 24 (2.19%) Single Sign-On
5 22 (2.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 21 (1.92%) Failover Clustering
7 14 (1.28%) Jamf Pro
7 14 (1.28%) ZABBIX
8 12 (1.10%) CA Single Sign-On
8 12 (1.10%) Opsgenie
8 12 (1.10%) VxRail
9 11 (1.01%) FortiGate
9 11 (1.01%) Kubernetes
10 10 (0.91%) Autotask
10 10 (0.91%) Terraform
11 8 (0.73%) Ansible
11 8 (0.73%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 7 (0.64%) Grafana
Vendors
1 742 (67.82%) Microsoft
2 315 (28.79%) VMware
3 112 (10.24%) Cisco
4 84 (7.68%) Citrix
5 57 (5.21%) Veeam
6 44 (4.02%) Apple
7 37 (3.38%) SolarWinds
8 36 (3.29%) CyberArk
9 34 (3.11%) ServiceNow
10 31 (2.83%) NetApp
11 30 (2.74%) Dell
12 27 (2.47%) Fortinet
13 24 (2.19%) Sophos
14 21 (1.92%) CA
15 20 (1.83%) Aruba
15 20 (1.83%) HP
16 17 (1.55%) SAP
17 16 (1.46%) Adobe
17 16 (1.46%) Epicor
18 15 (1.37%) Oracle