Active Directory Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Active Directory
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 32 46 42
Rank change year-on-year +14 -4 -10
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 4,429 3,551 4,555
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.94% 6.12% 6.20%
As % of the System Software category 50.03% 38.60% 36.55%
Number of salaries quoted 3,654 2,913 3,728
10th Percentile £23,500 £24,000 £23,500
25th Percentile £26,700 £27,250 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £37,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +5.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £47,716 £50,625 £48,750
90th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £60,000
UK median annual salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% - -5.88%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 8,853 9,199 12,461
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.87% 15.86% 16.96%
Number of salaries quoted 6,985 5,661 8,325
10th Percentile £25,500 £25,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Active Directory as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in the UK excluding London

Active Directory
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Active Directory in the UK excluding London

Active Directory
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Active Directory in the UK excluding London

Active Directory
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London 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
South East -1 1,174 £37,500 +7.14% 205
North of England +28 1,094 £35,000 -7.89% 211
Midlands +27 782 £33,500 -8.84% 139
South West +22 540 £37,500 +1.35% 127
North West +9 510 £37,500 -11.76% 114
East of England +11 488 £31,000 -17.33% 90
West Midlands +30 473 £35,000 -4.11% 82
Yorkshire +41 393 £32,500 -5.80% 81
East Midlands +11 303 £32,500 -10.96% 57
Scotland -47 245 £33,000 -5.39% 49
North East +30 191 £33,000 -8.97% 19
Wales +13 88 £28,290 -25.06% 18
Northern Ireland -7 12 £37,500 -16.67% 3
Channel Islands +1 4 £85,000 -5.56%
Isle of Man -10 4 £43,000 -40.69% 2
Active Directory
UK

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1,164 (26.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 715 (16.14%) SharePoint
3 107 (2.42%) IIS
4 30 (0.68%) Exchange Server 2013
5 25 (0.56%) OpenStack
6 15 (0.34%) CMS
7 14 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2010
8 12 (0.27%) Confluence
8 12 (0.27%) SharePoint 2010
8 12 (0.27%) SharePoint 2013
8 12 (0.27%) WordPress
9 10 (0.23%) Skype for Business
10 9 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2007
11 8 (0.18%) Apache
12 6 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2000
12 6 (0.14%) Tomcat
13 5 (0.11%) SharePoint Server
14 4 (0.090%) Exchange Server 2003
14 4 (0.090%) IBM Notes
14 4 (0.090%) SAS
Applications
1 737 (16.64%) Microsoft Office
2 132 (2.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 57 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
5 17 (0.38%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.068%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.045%) CATIA
8 2 (0.045%) NASTRAN
9 1 (0.023%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.023%) PTC Creo
9 1 (0.023%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 9 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
1 9 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
2 6 (0.14%) SAP ERP
3 5 (0.11%) Sage 200
4 4 (0.090%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.068%) Epicor Tropos
5 3 (0.068%) Sage X3
5 3 (0.068%) Teamcenter
6 2 (0.045%) assyst
6 2 (0.045%) iTrent
7 1 (0.023%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.023%) MIS ActiveH
7 1 (0.023%) Sage 300 ERP
7 1 (0.023%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2,785 (62.88%) Microsoft 365
2 2,111 (47.66%) Azure
3 1,189 (26.85%) Entra ID
4 341 (7.70%) OneDrive
5 307 (6.93%) AWS
6 118 (2.66%) Power Platform
7 91 (2.05%) IaaS
8 81 (1.83%) SaaS
9 76 (1.72%) GCP
10 72 (1.63%) Mimecast
11 63 (1.42%) Power Automate
12 59 (1.33%) Cloud Computing
13 55 (1.24%) PowerApps
14 54 (1.22%) PaaS
15 53 (1.20%) Google Workspace
16 50 (1.13%) Nutanix
17 47 (1.06%) Azure DevOps
18 37 (0.84%) Azure Monitor
19 36 (0.81%) Dynamics 365
20 35 (0.79%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 1,008 (22.76%) DNS
2 997 (22.51%) Firewall
3 799 (18.04%) DHCP
4 550 (12.42%) WAN
5 503 (11.36%) LAN
6 424 (9.57%) TCP/IP
7 406 (9.17%) VPN
8 341 (7.70%) SAN
9 261 (5.89%) Wi-Fi
10 238 (5.37%) VLAN
11 229 (5.17%) Wireless
12 220 (4.97%) VoIP
13 124 (2.80%) Network Security
14 112 (2.53%) Internet
15 111 (2.51%) NAS
16 110 (2.48%) Remote Desktop
17 97 (2.19%) Broadband
18 84 (1.90%) SD-WAN
19 77 (1.74%) 5G
19 77 (1.74%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 254 (5.73%) SQL Server
2 84 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
3 80 (1.81%) Power BI
4 65 (1.47%) Metadata
5 37 (0.84%) MySQL
6 34 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
7 19 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
7 19 (0.43%) Relational Database
8 15 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 13 (0.29%) Oracle Database
10 12 (0.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 11 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
12 10 (0.23%) Data Warehouse
13 9 (0.20%) RDBMS
13 9 (0.20%) Redis
14 8 (0.18%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (0.18%) NoSQL
15 7 (0.16%) MariaDB
16 6 (0.14%) Crystal Reports
16 6 (0.14%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 97 (2.19%) Git
2 88 (1.99%) Jenkins
3 68 (1.54%) Bitbucket
4 65 (1.47%) Artifactory
5 39 (0.88%) JIRA
6 13 (0.29%) MSI
7 10 (0.23%) Trac
8 9 (0.20%) Visual Studio
9 7 (0.16%) GitLab
10 6 (0.14%) AdminStudio
10 6 (0.14%) InstallShield
10 6 (0.14%) Robot Framework
10 6 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (0.090%) Hudson
12 3 (0.068%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.068%) Visual Studio Code
13 2 (0.045%) MSTest
13 2 (0.045%) SpecFlow
13 2 (0.045%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 2 (0.045%) webpack
General
1 1,415 (31.95%) Social Skills
2 487 (11.00%) Finance
3 398 (8.99%) Analytical Skills
4 254 (5.73%) Law
5 222 (5.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 181 (4.09%) Organisational Skills
7 159 (3.59%) Manufacturing
8 153 (3.45%) Retail
9 139 (3.14%) Legal
10 128 (2.89%) Telecoms
11 100 (2.26%) Public Sector
12 86 (1.94%) Marketing
13 84 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
14 57 (1.29%) Banking
15 36 (0.81%) Games
16 31 (0.70%) Local Government
17 23 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
18 22 (0.50%) Advertising
19 20 (0.45%) Aerospace
20 19 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 936 (21.13%) IT Support
2 832 (18.79%) Support Engineer
3 739 (16.69%) Analyst
4 692 (15.62%) IT Engineer
5 586 (13.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 479 (10.82%) IT Support Engineer
7 454 (10.25%) Senior
8 382 (8.62%) 2nd Line Support
9 331 (7.47%) IT Technician
10 275 (6.21%) IT Analyst
11 252 (5.69%) Lead
12 251 (5.67%) Service Analyst
13 247 (5.58%) Support Analyst
14 240 (5.42%) Support Technician
15 238 (5.37%) 2nd Line Engineer
16 232 (5.24%) Service Desk Analyst
17 217 (4.90%) 1st Line Support
18 199 (4.49%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
19 194 (4.38%) IT Support Technician
20 191 (4.31%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (2.08%) LDAP
2 82 (1.85%) SAML
3 79 (1.78%) RESTful
4 75 (1.69%) JSON
5 73 (1.65%) Web Services
6 71 (1.60%) OpenID
7 70 (1.58%) XML
8 65 (1.47%) JSON-LD
9 31 (0.70%) .NET
10 28 (0.63%) ARM Templates
11 16 (0.36%) OLE
12 14 (0.32%) CSS
13 12 (0.27%) HTML
13 12 (0.27%) OAuth
14 8 (0.18%) 802.1X
15 7 (0.16%) EJB
15 7 (0.16%) SailPoint
16 6 (0.14%) LAMP
16 6 (0.14%) RabbitMQ
16 6 (0.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 358 (8.08%) Driving Licence
2 258 (5.83%) Management Information System
3 248 (5.60%) Data Centre
4 210 (4.74%) Self-Motivation
5 133 (3.00%) Onboarding
6 114 (2.57%) Replication
7 109 (2.46%) PKI
8 91 (2.05%) Clustering
9 88 (1.99%) Public Cloud
10 73 (1.65%) Enterprise Cloud
11 68 (1.54%) Smartphone
11 68 (1.54%) Social Media
12 65 (1.47%) Reference Data
13 43 (0.97%) Enterprise Storage
14 40 (0.90%) Fat Client
14 40 (0.90%) Thin Client
15 39 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
16 36 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
17 35 (0.79%) Private Cloud
18 33 (0.75%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 3,116 (70.35%) Windows
2 1,723 (38.90%) Windows Server
3 908 (20.50%) Windows 10
4 505 (11.40%) Linux
5 334 (7.54%) Windows Server 2016
6 314 (7.09%) Windows Server 2019
7 289 (6.53%) Windows Server 2012
8 168 (3.79%) Mac OS
9 163 (3.68%) Windows 7
10 143 (3.23%) Android
11 124 (2.80%) Apple iOS
12 101 (2.28%) Ubuntu
13 74 (1.67%) Windows 8
14 59 (1.33%) Windows Server 2008
15 40 (0.90%) VMS
16 38 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 37 (0.84%) CentOS
18 31 (0.70%) Unix
19 25 (0.56%) Windows Server 2003
20 24 (0.54%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 999 (22.56%) ITIL
2 913 (20.61%) Problem-Solving
3 866 (19.55%) Customer Service
4 755 (17.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 568 (12.82%) Cybersecurity
6 305 (6.89%) Service Management
7 301 (6.80%) Agile
8 269 (6.07%) Disaster Recovery
9 254 (5.73%) Roadmaps
10 242 (5.46%) Mentoring
11 238 (5.37%) Service Delivery
12 231 (5.22%) ITSM
13 213 (4.81%) Project Management
14 210 (4.74%) Incident Management
15 209 (4.72%) Migration
16 198 (4.47%) Continuous Improvement
17 185 (4.18%) Change Management
18 171 (3.86%) Identity Access Management
19 168 (3.79%) DevOps
20 155 (3.50%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 639 (14.43%) PowerShell
2 469 (10.59%) SQL
3 137 (3.09%) Bash
4 98 (2.21%) Python
5 69 (1.56%) Go
6 65 (1.47%) Prolog
6 65 (1.47%) SPARQL
7 53 (1.20%) C#
8 51 (1.15%) VB
9 39 (0.88%) VBScript
10 26 (0.59%) Bicep
11 25 (0.56%) JavaScript
12 20 (0.45%) Perl
13 19 (0.43%) Java
13 19 (0.43%) R
14 14 (0.32%) ActionScript
14 14 (0.32%) T-SQL
15 9 (0.20%) PL/SQL
16 8 (0.18%) Shell Script
16 8 (0.18%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 527 (11.90%) Degree
2 437 (9.87%) Security Cleared
3 410 (9.26%) Microsoft Certification
4 282 (6.37%) SC Cleared
5 204 (4.61%) DV Cleared
6 159 (3.59%) A+ Certification
7 151 (3.41%) MCP
8 148 (3.34%) Cisco Certification
9 132 (2.98%) DBS Check
10 123 (2.78%) CCNA
11 120 (2.71%) Azure Certification
12 111 (2.51%) MCSE
13 81 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
14 75 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
15 64 (1.45%) MCSA
16 47 (1.06%) CCNP
17 46 (1.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 42 (0.95%) Network+ Certification
19 34 (0.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
20 30 (0.68%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 359 (8.11%) SLA
2 93 (2.10%) GDPR
3 81 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 80 (1.81%) Cyber Essentials
5 21 (0.47%) NIST
6 16 (0.36%) Accessibility
7 15 (0.34%) Data Quality
8 9 (0.20%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 6 (0.14%) QA
10 4 (0.090%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.090%) ISO 9001
10 4 (0.090%) NCSC
10 4 (0.090%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.068%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.023%) GRC
12 1 (0.023%) GxP
12 1 (0.023%) ISO 14001
12 1 (0.023%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.023%) SOC 2
System Software
1 910 (20.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 844 (19.06%) Hyper-V
3 181 (4.09%) VMware ESXi
4 165 (3.73%) vSphere
5 132 (2.98%) Virtual Machines
6 131 (2.96%) Virtual Desktop
7 99 (2.24%) XenApp
8 82 (1.85%) XenDesktop
9 53 (1.20%) Docker
10 46 (1.04%) Virtual Servers
11 44 (0.99%) RACF
12 42 (0.95%) VirtualBox
13 32 (0.72%) Firmware
14 22 (0.50%) VMware Server
15 20 (0.45%) VMware Workstation
16 19 (0.43%) Terminal Services
17 18 (0.41%) pfSense
18 17 (0.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
19 16 (0.36%) NFS
20 13 (0.29%) OpenSSH
Systems Management
1 814 (18.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 458 (10.34%) SCCM
3 151 (3.41%) WSUS
4 114 (2.57%) SCOM
5 107 (2.42%) vCenter Server
6 101 (2.28%) Jamf Pro
7 84 (1.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 75 (1.69%) Kubernetes
9 63 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
10 52 (1.17%) Terraform
11 51 (1.15%) Ansible
12 43 (0.97%) Failover Clustering
13 40 (0.90%) ZABBIX
14 37 (0.84%) FortiGate
15 32 (0.72%) NetBackup
16 27 (0.61%) Backup Exec
17 26 (0.59%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
18 25 (0.56%) EMC NetWorker
19 20 (0.45%) Grafana
20 19 (0.43%) Autotask
Vendors
1 2,957 (66.76%) Microsoft
2 1,364 (30.80%) VMware
3 437 (9.87%) Cisco
4 381 (8.60%) Citrix
5 323 (7.29%) Veeam
6 164 (3.70%) Apple
7 161 (3.64%) Dell
8 154 (3.48%) HP
9 130 (2.94%) CyberArk
9 130 (2.94%) ServiceNow
10 108 (2.44%) Meraki
11 107 (2.42%) Google
12 96 (2.17%) Sophos
13 89 (2.01%) Fortinet
13 89 (2.01%) NetApp
14 73 (1.65%) SolarWinds
15 70 (1.58%) Oracle
16 67 (1.51%) Tanium
17 61 (1.38%) Aruba
18 58 (1.31%) Adobe