Active Directory Jobs in the East of England

Microsoft Active Directory
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 31 32
Rank change year-on-year +12 +1 0
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 478 440 475
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 7.90% 7.92% 7.48%
As % of the System Software category 55.07% 49.33% 43.62%
Number of salaries quoted 390 349 391
10th Percentile £23,750 £25,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £25,813 £29,750 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,000 £38,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.42% +8.57% -
75th Percentile £42,252 £52,500 £53,000
90th Percentile £50,925 £63,750 £65,250
England median annual salary £38,000 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%

All System Software Skills
East 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 East of England with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 868 892 1,089
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 14.35% 16.06% 17.16%
Number of salaries quoted 728 606 561
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £26,344 £32,500 £30,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £46,750 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.44% +10.00% -10.53%
75th Percentile £57,500 £63,438 £60,000
90th Percentile £67,650 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £56,325
% change year-on-year -9.09% -2.35% +2.41%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in the East of England

Active Directory
Salary Trend in the East of England

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

Salary trend for Active Directory in the East of England

Active Directory
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in the East of England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Active Directory in the East of England

Active Directory
Job Locations in the East 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 East of England region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
Hertfordshire +7 166 £37,500 -11.76% 36
Cambridgeshire -1 88 £32,000 -11.11% 36
Essex +13 78 £27,500 -21.43% 14
Norfolk +20 63 £29,500 +32.58% 6
Suffolk +5 50 £27,500 +2.31% 8
Bedfordshire +35 33 £26,000 -42.22% 4
Active Directory
England

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East 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
1 147 (30.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 85 (17.78%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.72%) Exchange Server 2013
3 13 (2.72%) IIS
4 8 (1.67%) CMS
5 6 (1.26%) Exchange Server 2007
5 6 (1.26%) Exchange Server 2010
5 6 (1.26%) OpenStack
6 5 (1.05%) Skype for Business
7 4 (0.84%) SAS
8 2 (0.42%) Exchange Server 2003
8 2 (0.42%) WordPress
Applications
1 88 (18.41%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (2.51%) Spreadsheet
3 10 (2.09%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.63%) Dynamics NAV
1 3 (0.63%) iTrent
2 2 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 346 (72.38%) Microsoft 365
2 174 (36.40%) Azure
3 67 (14.02%) Entra ID
4 46 (9.62%) AWS
5 26 (5.44%) OneDrive
6 15 (3.14%) GCP
6 15 (3.14%) Mimecast
7 10 (2.09%) Google Workspace
8 7 (1.46%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (1.46%) Nutanix
8 7 (1.46%) SaaS
8 7 (1.46%) Serverless
9 4 (0.84%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (0.84%) WhatsApp
10 3 (0.63%) Apigee
10 3 (0.63%) Azure API Management
10 3 (0.63%) Azure Service Fabric
10 3 (0.63%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (0.63%) Rubrik
11 2 (0.42%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 111 (23.22%) Firewall
2 78 (16.32%) WAN
3 76 (15.90%) DNS
4 66 (13.81%) LAN
5 63 (13.18%) DHCP
6 54 (11.30%) VPN
7 41 (8.58%) SAN
7 41 (8.58%) VLAN
8 35 (7.32%) TCP/IP
9 29 (6.07%) VoIP
10 28 (5.86%) Wi-Fi
11 26 (5.44%) Wireless
12 15 (3.14%) MPLS
13 13 (2.72%) SD-WAN
14 11 (2.30%) Remote Desktop
15 10 (2.09%) Internet
15 10 (2.09%) WLAN
16 9 (1.88%) NAS
17 8 (1.67%) Network Security
17 8 (1.67%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (3.77%) SQL Server
2 13 (2.72%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.63%) Data Lake
4 3 (0.63%) MySQL
5 2 (0.42%) Power BI
6 1 (0.21%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.21%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (1.46%) JIRA
2 1 (0.21%) Artifactory
2 1 (0.21%) Git
2 1 (0.21%) GitLab
2 1 (0.21%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.21%) JMeter
2 1 (0.21%) Maven
2 1 (0.21%) Selenium
2 1 (0.21%) SonarQube
General
1 174 (36.40%) Social Skills
2 48 (10.04%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (8.37%) Finance
4 23 (4.81%) Manufacturing
5 13 (2.72%) Organisational Skills
6 11 (2.30%) Retail
7 10 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (1.88%) Public Sector
9 8 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.26%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.05%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.05%) Publishing
12 4 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.63%) Games
13 3 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.63%) Legal
14 2 (0.42%) Automotive
14 2 (0.42%) Law
15 1 (0.21%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 144 (30.13%) IT Support
2 111 (23.22%) Analyst
3 93 (19.46%) Support Engineer
4 90 (18.83%) IT Engineer
5 68 (14.23%) IT Support Engineer
6 56 (11.72%) 2nd Line Support
7 54 (11.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 48 (10.04%) Support Technician
9 46 (9.62%) IT Analyst
10 43 (9.00%) IT Technician
11 39 (8.16%) Service Analyst
11 39 (8.16%) Service Desk Analyst
12 36 (7.53%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 33 (6.90%) Support Analyst
14 31 (6.49%) IT Support Technician
15 30 (6.28%) IT Support Analyst
16 29 (6.07%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
16 29 (6.07%) Administrator
17 23 (4.81%) 1st Line Support
17 23 (4.81%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.05%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (0.63%) ARM Templates
2 3 (0.63%) JSON
2 3 (0.63%) RESTful
3 2 (0.42%) CSS
3 2 (0.42%) HTML
4 1 (0.21%) LDAP
4 1 (0.21%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 31 (6.49%) Self-Motivation
2 30 (6.28%) Data Centre
3 20 (4.18%) Driving Licence
4 16 (3.35%) Operational Technology
5 12 (2.51%) Replication
6 10 (2.09%) iPad
7 9 (1.88%) Onboarding
7 9 (1.88%) Security Posture
7 9 (1.88%) Smartcard
8 8 (1.67%) Clustering
9 7 (1.46%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.26%) Cyber Security Posture
10 6 (1.26%) Life Science
11 5 (1.05%) Smartphone
12 4 (0.84%) Fat Client
12 4 (0.84%) Thin Client
13 3 (0.63%) CCTV
13 3 (0.63%) Hybrid Cloud
13 3 (0.63%) Management Information System
14 2 (0.42%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 349 (73.01%) Windows
2 187 (39.12%) Windows Server
3 104 (21.76%) Windows 10
4 56 (11.72%) Linux
5 35 (7.32%) Android
6 25 (5.23%) Windows Server 2019
7 22 (4.60%) Mac OS
7 22 (4.60%) Windows Server 2016
8 12 (2.51%) Windows 7
9 11 (2.30%) Windows Server 2012
10 10 (2.09%) Apple iOS
10 10 (2.09%) Debian
11 9 (1.88%) Windows Server 2008
12 6 (1.26%) Mac OS X
12 6 (1.26%) Ubuntu
12 6 (1.26%) Windows Server 2003
13 5 (1.05%) Windows 8
14 4 (0.84%) VMS
15 1 (0.21%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (22.38%) Problem-Solving
2 100 (20.92%) ITIL
3 82 (17.15%) Customer Service
4 61 (12.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 47 (9.83%) Server Management
6 41 (8.58%) Cybersecurity
7 31 (6.49%) Service Delivery
8 24 (5.02%) Root Cause Analysis
9 23 (4.81%) Infrastructure Maintenance
9 23 (4.81%) Performance Monitoring
9 23 (4.81%) Project Delivery
10 21 (4.39%) Benchmarking
10 21 (4.39%) Data Centre Operations
10 21 (4.39%) Ticket Management
10 21 (4.39%) Vulnerability Management
11 19 (3.97%) Configuration Management
11 19 (3.97%) Disaster Recovery
11 19 (3.97%) Incident Management
12 18 (3.77%) Statistics
12 18 (3.77%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 62 (12.97%) PowerShell
2 35 (7.32%) SQL
3 7 (1.46%) JavaScript
3 7 (1.46%) Shell Script
4 5 (1.05%) VB
5 2 (0.42%) C#
5 2 (0.42%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.21%) Java
6 1 (0.21%) Perl
6 1 (0.21%) Python
Qualifications
1 64 (13.39%) Degree
2 37 (7.74%) Microsoft Certification
3 28 (5.86%) Security Cleared
4 26 (5.44%) SC Cleared
5 19 (3.97%) CCNA
5 19 (3.97%) Cisco Certification
5 19 (3.97%) MCSE
6 18 (3.77%) A+ Certification
7 14 (2.93%) Azure Certification
8 12 (2.51%) ITIL Certification
9 7 (1.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 6 (1.26%) DV Cleared
11 5 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.05%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.84%) MCSA
13 2 (0.42%) CCAA
13 2 (0.42%) Citrix Certification
13 2 (0.42%) MCP
13 2 (0.42%) MCTS
14 1 (0.21%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (8.37%) SLA
2 8 (1.67%) GDPR
3 5 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (0.84%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.42%) NCSC
6 1 (0.21%) GxP
6 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.21%) QA
System Software
1 95 (19.87%) Hyper-V
2 93 (19.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (6.28%) vSphere
4 27 (5.65%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (3.14%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (2.09%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.84%) Docker
7 4 (0.84%) Terminal Services
8 3 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.42%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.21%) Samba
Systems Management
1 59 (12.34%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (2.93%) SCCM
3 11 (2.30%) WSUS
4 8 (1.67%) Failover Clustering
5 6 (1.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 6 (1.26%) ZABBIX
6 5 (1.05%) Jamf Pro
6 5 (1.05%) vCenter Server
7 4 (0.84%) Ansible
7 4 (0.84%) Kubernetes
7 4 (0.84%) Terraform
7 4 (0.84%) WhatsUp Gold
8 3 (0.63%) HAProxy
9 2 (0.42%) DatAdvantage
9 2 (0.42%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.42%) NetCrunch
9 2 (0.42%) QRadar
9 2 (0.42%) SCOM
9 2 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.42%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 311 (65.06%) Microsoft
2 172 (35.98%) VMware
3 43 (9.00%) Citrix
4 34 (7.11%) Cisco
5 32 (6.69%) Meraki
6 27 (5.65%) Veeam
7 25 (5.23%) NetApp
8 19 (3.97%) Apple
9 14 (2.93%) HP
10 12 (2.51%) Acronis
10 12 (2.51%) Google
10 12 (2.51%) Sophos
11 11 (2.30%) Dell
12 9 (1.88%) ServiceNow
13 8 (1.67%) Aruba
13 8 (1.67%) Red Hat
14 7 (1.46%) Sage
14 7 (1.46%) Synology
15 4 (0.84%) CheckPoint
15 4 (0.84%) Symantec