Active Directory Jobs with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Active Directory
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 43 63 107
Rank change year-on-year +20 +44 -38
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 1,904 1,952 2,633
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 5.53% 4.93% 3.60%
As % of the System Software category 44.83% 32.98% 18.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,362 1,647 2,214
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,750 £25,538
25th Percentile £34,000 £32,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.10% +1.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £57,500 £63,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £75,500
UK median annual salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% - -5.88%

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,247 5,919 14,102
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.33% 14.93% 19.29%
Number of salaries quoted 3,301 4,350 7,717
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

Active Directory
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Active Directory as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Active Directory trend for jobs with a WFH option

Active Directory
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Active Directory.

Active Directory salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Active Directory
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Active Directory over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Active Directory salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 488 (25.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 269 (14.13%) SharePoint
3 68 (3.57%) IIS
4 15 (0.79%) OpenStack
5 11 (0.58%) Exchange Server 2013
6 9 (0.47%) Tomcat
7 6 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2000
8 4 (0.21%) Apache
8 4 (0.21%) SAS
9 3 (0.16%) Confluence
9 3 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2007
9 3 (0.16%) GlassFish
9 3 (0.16%) JBoss
10 2 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2010
10 2 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
10 2 (0.11%) WordPress
11 1 (0.053%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.053%) Moodle
11 1 (0.053%) Site Server
Applications
1 194 (10.19%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
4 3 (0.16%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.16%) SPSS
5 2 (0.11%) CATIA
5 2 (0.11%) NASTRAN
6 1 (0.053%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 25 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.58%) NEC Housing
3 10 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
4 8 (0.42%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.21%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.11%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.053%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.053%) MIS ActiveH
7 1 (0.053%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 1,211 (63.60%) Azure
2 1,033 (54.25%) Microsoft 365
3 824 (43.28%) Entra ID
4 154 (8.09%) AWS
5 96 (5.04%) OneDrive
6 76 (3.99%) IaaS
7 68 (3.57%) Power Platform
8 53 (2.78%) SaaS
9 50 (2.63%) Azure Storage
10 43 (2.26%) Azure Monitor
10 43 (2.26%) GCP
11 42 (2.21%) PaaS
12 41 (2.15%) Nutanix
13 36 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
14 35 (1.84%) Power Automate
15 34 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
15 34 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
16 32 (1.68%) PowerApps
17 26 (1.37%) GitHub
17 26 (1.37%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 436 (22.90%) DNS
2 404 (21.22%) Firewall
3 316 (16.60%) DHCP
4 254 (13.34%) WAN
5 229 (12.03%) Broadband
6 220 (11.55%) 5G
7 206 (10.82%) LAN
8 172 (9.03%) VPN
9 146 (7.67%) SAN
10 124 (6.51%) TCP/IP
11 117 (6.14%) Wi-Fi
12 97 (5.09%) Internet
13 73 (3.83%) Wireless
14 66 (3.47%) VLAN
15 59 (3.10%) Remote Desktop
15 59 (3.10%) SD-WAN
16 57 (2.99%) VoIP
17 38 (2.00%) Network Security
18 32 (1.68%) WLAN
19 29 (1.52%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (8.77%) SQL Server
2 43 (2.26%) Power BI
3 37 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
4 33 (1.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 24 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
6 19 (1.00%) Relational Database
7 16 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 15 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
9 14 (0.74%) MySQL
9 14 (0.74%) Oracle Database
10 12 (0.63%) Redis
11 10 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
12 8 (0.42%) NoSQL
13 7 (0.37%) Elasticsearch
13 7 (0.37%) RDBMS
14 5 (0.26%) MariaDB
14 5 (0.26%) MongoDB
14 5 (0.26%) PostgreSQL
14 5 (0.26%) PowerPivot
15 4 (0.21%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 34 (1.79%) JIRA
2 24 (1.26%) Git
3 15 (0.79%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.53%) Trac
5 9 (0.47%) GitLab
6 5 (0.26%) MSI
7 4 (0.21%) AdminStudio
7 4 (0.21%) CircleCI
7 4 (0.21%) git-flow
7 4 (0.21%) InstallShield
8 3 (0.16%) Moq
8 3 (0.16%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (0.16%) Postman
8 3 (0.16%) Selenium
8 3 (0.16%) SoapUI
8 3 (0.16%) SpecFlow
8 3 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 545 (28.62%) Social Skills
2 340 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
3 306 (16.07%) Finance
4 256 (13.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 112 (5.88%) Legal
6 78 (4.10%) Banking
7 71 (3.73%) Law
7 71 (3.73%) Retail
8 62 (3.26%) Organisational Skills
9 60 (3.15%) Public Sector
10 29 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
11 25 (1.31%) Telecoms
12 24 (1.26%) Games
13 19 (1.00%) German Language
14 16 (0.84%) Advertising
15 13 (0.68%) Marketing
16 12 (0.63%) Aerospace
16 12 (0.63%) General Ledger
16 12 (0.63%) Manufacturing
16 12 (0.63%) Police
Job Titles
1 411 (21.59%) Senior
2 302 (15.86%) Analyst
3 293 (15.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 229 (12.03%) Support Engineer
5 225 (11.82%) IT Support
6 221 (11.61%) IT Engineer
7 213 (11.19%) Technical Specialist
8 210 (11.03%) Linux Specialist
9 135 (7.09%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
10 127 (6.67%) Senior Linux Specialist
10 127 (6.67%) Senior Technical Specialist
10 127 (6.67%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
11 122 (6.41%) IT Support Engineer
12 121 (6.36%) IT Analyst
13 107 (5.62%) Support Analyst
14 99 (5.20%) 3rd Line Support
15 94 (4.94%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 87 (4.57%) Lead
17 84 (4.41%) Consultant
18 83 (4.36%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (1.37%) .NET
1 26 (1.37%) ARM Templates
2 17 (0.89%) LDAP
2 17 (0.89%) OAuth
3 10 (0.53%) CSS
4 8 (0.42%) ASP.NET
4 8 (0.42%) HTML
4 8 (0.42%) RabbitMQ
4 8 (0.42%) React
5 7 (0.37%) ASP.NET MVC
5 7 (0.37%) REST
5 7 (0.37%) SailPoint
5 7 (0.37%) SAML
5 7 (0.37%) YAML
6 6 (0.32%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Graph
6 6 (0.32%) RESTful
6 6 (0.32%) SPFx
7 5 (0.26%) Middleware
8 4 (0.21%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 217 (11.40%) Social Media
2 160 (8.40%) Data Centre
3 138 (7.25%) Self-Motivation
4 126 (6.62%) Management Information System
5 92 (4.83%) Driving Licence
6 77 (4.04%) Public Cloud
7 75 (3.94%) PKI
8 57 (2.99%) Onboarding
9 44 (2.31%) Clustering
10 35 (1.84%) Private Cloud
11 33 (1.73%) Enterprise Storage
12 31 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
13 30 (1.58%) Replication
14 27 (1.42%) Video Conferencing
15 26 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
16 23 (1.21%) IoT
17 21 (1.10%) Client/Server
18 18 (0.95%) Cyberattack
18 18 (0.95%) iPad
19 16 (0.84%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 1,230 (64.60%) Windows
2 675 (35.45%) Windows Server
3 465 (24.42%) Linux
4 347 (18.22%) Windows 10
5 253 (13.29%) Ubuntu
6 146 (7.67%) Windows Server 2016
7 117 (6.14%) Windows Server 2012
8 113 (5.93%) Windows Server 2019
9 61 (3.20%) Windows 7
10 47 (2.47%) VMS
11 45 (2.36%) Apple iOS
12 36 (1.89%) Windows 8
13 31 (1.63%) Android
14 27 (1.42%) Windows Server 2008
15 25 (1.31%) Mac OS
15 25 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 20 (1.05%) Unix
17 10 (0.53%) Mac OS X
18 8 (0.42%) CentOS
19 6 (0.32%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 485 (25.47%) Cybersecurity
2 400 (21.01%) ITIL
3 387 (20.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 276 (14.50%) Problem-Solving
5 264 (13.87%) CRM
6 243 (12.76%) Customer Service
7 228 (11.97%) IT Strategy
8 222 (11.66%) Artificial Intelligence
9 215 (11.29%) Technology Strategy
10 207 (10.87%) Agile
11 153 (8.04%) DevOps
12 129 (6.78%) Roadmaps
13 127 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
13 127 (6.67%) Mentoring
14 126 (6.62%) Information Security
15 113 (5.93%) Service Management
16 95 (4.99%) Migration
17 94 (4.94%) Identity Access Management
18 87 (4.57%) Project Management
19 86 (4.52%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 397 (20.85%) PowerShell
2 260 (13.66%) Bash
3 256 (13.45%) SQL
4 52 (2.73%) C#
5 51 (2.68%) Python
6 43 (2.26%) VB
7 36 (1.89%) VBScript
8 35 (1.84%) T-SQL
9 25 (1.31%) PL/SQL
10 23 (1.21%) Bicep
11 19 (1.00%) Perl
12 15 (0.79%) Java
13 14 (0.74%) JavaScript
14 13 (0.68%) ActionScript
15 6 (0.32%) TypeScript
16 5 (0.26%) Korn
16 5 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
16 5 (0.26%) Ruby
17 4 (0.21%) Shell Script
17 4 (0.21%) VBA
Qualifications
1 236 (12.39%) Degree
2 176 (9.24%) Security Cleared
3 134 (7.04%) Microsoft Certification
4 100 (5.25%) DV Cleared
5 89 (4.67%) SC Cleared
6 66 (3.47%) Azure Certification
7 46 (2.42%) MCP
8 29 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
9 28 (1.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 21 (1.10%) MCSE
11 20 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
11 20 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
12 18 (0.95%) CCNA
12 18 (0.95%) DBS Check
13 16 (0.84%) APMP
13 16 (0.84%) MCITP
14 14 (0.74%) A+ Certification
14 14 (0.74%) PMI Certification
15 13 (0.68%) Citrix Certification
15 13 (0.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (4.36%) SLA
2 55 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 51 (2.68%) Cyber Essentials
4 14 (0.74%) Data Quality
4 14 (0.74%) GDPR
4 14 (0.74%) NIST
5 12 (0.63%) SOC 2
6 9 (0.47%) Accessibility
7 8 (0.42%) GRC
8 7 (0.37%) QA
9 4 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.21%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.16%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.16%) JSP 440
10 3 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.16%) WCAG
11 2 (0.11%) GxP
11 2 (0.11%) ITGC
11 2 (0.11%) PMO
12 1 (0.053%) HIPAA
System Software
1 404 (21.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 292 (15.34%) Hyper-V
3 93 (4.88%) VMware ESXi
4 90 (4.73%) Virtual Desktop
5 76 (3.99%) Virtual Machines
6 67 (3.52%) vSphere
7 53 (2.78%) Docker
7 53 (2.78%) XenApp
8 50 (2.63%) RACF
9 44 (2.31%) XenDesktop
10 28 (1.47%) VirtualBox
11 20 (1.05%) Virtual Servers
12 18 (0.95%) NFS
13 14 (0.74%) VMware Workstation
14 12 (0.63%) OpenSSH
14 12 (0.63%) Terminal Services
15 10 (0.53%) Firmware
15 10 (0.53%) pfSense
16 9 (0.47%) Forefront TMG
16 9 (0.47%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 558 (29.31%) Microsoft Intune
2 214 (11.24%) Jamf Pro
3 172 (9.03%) SCCM
4 97 (5.09%) Ansible
5 86 (4.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 86 (4.52%) WSUS
6 85 (4.46%) Terraform
7 72 (3.78%) Single Sign-On
8 69 (3.62%) vCenter Server
9 66 (3.47%) Kubernetes
10 52 (2.73%) SCOM
11 27 (1.42%) Microsoft Clustering
12 24 (1.26%) ZABBIX
13 19 (1.00%) Grafana
14 18 (0.95%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
15 14 (0.74%) PowerCLI
16 12 (0.63%) CA Single Sign-On
16 12 (0.63%) IBM BigFix
16 12 (0.63%) Opsgenie
16 12 (0.63%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1,358 (71.32%) Microsoft
2 591 (31.04%) VMware
3 273 (14.34%) CyberArk
4 210 (11.03%) Tanium
5 157 (8.25%) Cisco
6 151 (7.93%) Citrix
7 81 (4.25%) Apple
7 81 (4.25%) ServiceNow
8 79 (4.15%) Veeam
9 57 (2.99%) Meraki
10 53 (2.78%) Dell
11 49 (2.57%) Adobe
12 45 (2.36%) Fortinet
12 45 (2.36%) SolarWinds
13 43 (2.26%) HP
14 40 (2.10%) NetApp
15 39 (2.05%) Oracle
16 36 (1.89%) Commvault
17 34 (1.79%) Red Hat
18 28 (1.47%) Sophos