Active Directory Engineer Jobs in England

Microsoft Active Directory Engineer
UK > England

The median Microsoft Active Directory Engineer salary in England is £47,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 790 913 1067
Rank change year-on-year +123 +154 -322
Permanent jobs requiring an Active Directory Engineer 42 43 61
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.050% 0.046% 0.047%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.052% 0.050% 0.049%
Number of salaries quoted 29 31 51
10th Percentile £25,000 - £32,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £24,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -29.17% +50.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £85,625
90th Percentile £60,150 £60,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -17.36% +51.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 80,061 86,064 125,517
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.56% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 60,068 54,328 75,797
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,084 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,433 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%

Active Directory Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Active Directory Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory Engineer in England

Active Directory Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Active Directory Engineer in England

Active Directory Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Active Directory Engineer in England over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Active Directory Engineer in England

Active Directory Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Active Directory Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 24 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
London +156 17 £56,250 +2.27% 2
Midlands +9 12 £44,000 +4.76%
West Midlands +39 11 £38,750 -7.74%
East of England +38 10 £25,000 -
North of England +53 3 £25,500 -50.24%
North West +13 3 £25,500 -53.64%
East Midlands -19 1 £44,000 -
Active Directory Engineer
UK

Active Directory Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, Active Directory Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Active Directory Engineer in the job title.

1 37 (88.10%) Active Directory
2 27 (64.29%) Microsoft 365
3 25 (59.52%) Windows
4 20 (47.62%) Microsoft
5 19 (45.24%) Windows Server
6 15 (35.71%) VMware
7 13 (30.95%) Azure
8 12 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (26.19%) Hyper-V
10 9 (21.43%) Social Skills
10 9 (21.43%) Customer Service
10 9 (21.43%) Service Delivery
10 9 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
10 9 (21.43%) Windows 10
10 9 (21.43%) ServiceNow
11 8 (19.05%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (19.05%) Degree
11 8 (19.05%) Firewall
11 8 (19.05%) VPN
12 7 (16.67%) Public Sector
13 6 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
13 6 (14.29%) Finance
13 6 (14.29%) DNS
13 6 (14.29%) ITIL
13 6 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
13 6 (14.29%) PowerShell
13 6 (14.29%) vSphere
13 6 (14.29%) Entra ID
14 5 (11.90%) Ticket Management
14 5 (11.90%) Windows Server 2012

Active Directory Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 6 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Simulink
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 27 (64.29%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (30.95%) Azure
3 6 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 3 (7.14%) Mimecast
4 3 (7.14%) OneDrive
5 2 (4.76%) IaaS
5 2 (4.76%) SaaS
6 1 (2.38%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 8 (19.05%) Firewall
1 8 (19.05%) VPN
2 6 (14.29%) DNS
3 3 (7.14%) DHCP
3 3 (7.14%) IPv4
3 3 (7.14%) IPv6
3 3 (7.14%) TCP/IP
3 3 (7.14%) VLAN
4 2 (4.76%) SAN
5 1 (2.38%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.76%) SQL Server
General
1 12 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 9 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 7 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 6 (14.29%) Finance
5 2 (4.76%) Aerospace
5 2 (4.76%) Automotive
5 2 (4.76%) Retail
6 1 (2.38%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.38%) ADSI
1 1 (2.38%) OAuth
1 1 (2.38%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Replication
2 3 (7.14%) Virtual Team
3 2 (4.76%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 25 (59.52%) Windows
2 19 (45.24%) Windows Server
3 9 (21.43%) Windows 10
4 6 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (11.90%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (11.90%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (7.14%) Apple iOS
6 3 (7.14%) Windows 7
6 3 (7.14%) Windows 8
6 3 (7.14%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (21.43%) Customer Service
1 9 (21.43%) Service Delivery
2 6 (14.29%) ITIL
3 5 (11.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (11.90%) Migration
3 5 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (11.90%) Ticket Management
3 5 (11.90%) Validation
4 4 (9.52%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (9.52%) Project Management
5 3 (7.14%) Application Packaging
5 3 (7.14%) CRM
5 3 (7.14%) Knowledge Transfer
5 3 (7.14%) Project Delivery
5 3 (7.14%) Requirements Management
5 3 (7.14%) Systems Engineering
6 2 (4.76%) CI/CD
6 2 (4.76%) Computer Science
6 2 (4.76%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
6 2 (4.76%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 2 (4.76%) C
2 2 (4.76%) MATLAB
2 2 (4.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (19.05%) Degree
2 5 (11.90%) Master's Degree
2 5 (11.90%) SC Cleared
2 5 (11.90%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.76%) DV Cleared
3 2 (4.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (2.38%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.38%) CISSP
4 1 (2.38%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.38%) MCSA
4 1 (2.38%) MCSE
4 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.90%) SLA
System Software
1 37 (88.10%) Active Directory
2 11 (26.19%) Hyper-V
3 9 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (14.29%) vSphere
5 3 (7.14%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (2.38%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (19.05%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (11.90%) SCCM
3 3 (7.14%) FortiGate
4 1 (2.38%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 20 (47.62%) Microsoft
2 15 (35.71%) VMware
3 9 (21.43%) ServiceNow
4 5 (11.90%) Veeam
5 3 (7.14%) Apple
5 3 (7.14%) Palo Alto
5 3 (7.14%) SonicWALL
5 3 (7.14%) Sophos
6 2 (4.76%) Aruba
6 2 (4.76%) N-able
6 2 (4.76%) Sun
7 1 (2.38%) Agilent
7 1 (2.38%) Cisco
7 1 (2.38%) CyberArk
7 1 (2.38%) HP
7 1 (2.38%) Oracle
7 1 (2.38%) Workday