Active Directory Jobs in England

Microsoft Active Directory
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 47 68
Rank change year-on-year +20 +21 -27
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 5,601 5,330 6,732
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.57% 5.78% 5.08%
As % of the System Software category 51.53% 37.55% 28.14%
Number of salaries quoted 4,556 4,452 5,603
10th Percentile £24,500 £25,250 £24,500
25th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -5.88%
75th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £55,175
90th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
UK median annual salary £38,000 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 10,869 14,195 23,920
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 12.76% 15.39% 18.06%
Number of salaries quoted 8,808 9,646 14,008
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £27,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £38,088
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,687
% change year-on-year -9.09% -1.23% +1.25%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in England

Active Directory
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Active Directory in England

Active Directory
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Active Directory in England

Active Directory
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 4 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
London +28 1,506 £52,500 +5.00% 243
South East +3 1,218 £37,500 +10.29% 219
North of England +35 1,067 £33,500 -11.84% 195
Midlands +26 772 £33,500 -8.22% 156
South West +21 540 £37,500 +4.90% 107
North West +7 490 £37,500 -6.25% 108
East of England +12 476 £31,000 -17.33% 117
West Midlands +28 473 £35,000 -6.67% 98
Yorkshire +42 389 £32,500 -9.72% 66
East Midlands +12 293 £33,000 -8.33% 58
North East +28 188 £33,000 -8.33% 26
Active Directory
UK

Active Directory
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 1,601 (28.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 891 (15.91%) SharePoint
3 145 (2.59%) IIS
4 45 (0.80%) Exchange Server 2013
5 34 (0.61%) Exchange Server 2010
6 27 (0.48%) Confluence
7 25 (0.45%) Skype for Business
8 22 (0.39%) OpenStack
9 18 (0.32%) WordPress
10 17 (0.30%) CMS
11 16 (0.29%) SharePoint 2013
12 14 (0.25%) SharePoint 2010
13 12 (0.21%) Tomcat
14 11 (0.20%) Apache
14 11 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2007
15 8 (0.14%) SAS
16 6 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2000
17 5 (0.089%) SharePoint Server
18 4 (0.071%) Exchange Server 2003
18 4 (0.071%) nginx
Applications
1 888 (15.85%) Microsoft Office
2 126 (2.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 50 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
5 16 (0.29%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.089%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.071%) AutoCAD
9 3 (0.054%) SPSS
10 2 (0.036%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.036%) CATIA
10 2 (0.036%) InCopy
10 2 (0.036%) InDesign
10 2 (0.036%) NASTRAN
11 1 (0.018%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.018%) PTC Creo
11 1 (0.018%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.018%) Weka
Business Applications
1 28 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.21%) NEC Housing
3 10 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
4 8 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
5 7 (0.12%) SAP ERP
6 6 (0.11%) Elite 3E
7 5 (0.089%) Adaptiv
7 5 (0.089%) Sage 200
8 4 (0.071%) Eikon
8 4 (0.071%) Epicor Tropos
8 4 (0.071%) Sage X3
9 3 (0.054%) iTrent
9 3 (0.054%) Teamcenter
10 2 (0.036%) assyst
10 2 (0.036%) SAP Business One
10 2 (0.036%) SAP S/4HANA
11 1 (0.018%) Carpe Diem
11 1 (0.018%) MIS ActiveH
11 1 (0.018%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 1 (0.018%) Sage 300 ERP
Cloud Services
1 3,448 (61.56%) Microsoft 365
2 2,754 (49.17%) Azure
3 1,508 (26.92%) Entra ID
4 438 (7.82%) AWS
5 385 (6.87%) OneDrive
6 157 (2.80%) Power Platform
7 155 (2.77%) IaaS
8 140 (2.50%) SaaS
9 120 (2.14%) Mimecast
10 114 (2.04%) PaaS
11 98 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
12 92 (1.64%) GCP
13 89 (1.59%) Power Automate
14 82 (1.46%) Google Workspace
15 70 (1.25%) PowerApps
16 69 (1.23%) Dynamics 365
17 66 (1.18%) Azure Monitor
17 66 (1.18%) Cloud Computing
18 63 (1.12%) Nutanix
19 50 (0.89%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1,249 (22.30%) Firewall
2 1,246 (22.25%) DNS
3 956 (17.07%) DHCP
4 794 (14.18%) WAN
5 665 (11.87%) LAN
6 572 (10.21%) VPN
7 490 (8.75%) TCP/IP
8 421 (7.52%) SAN
9 384 (6.86%) Wireless
10 342 (6.11%) Wi-Fi
11 300 (5.36%) VLAN
12 262 (4.68%) Broadband
13 255 (4.55%) VoIP
14 220 (3.93%) 5G
15 216 (3.86%) SD-WAN
16 163 (2.91%) Internet
17 155 (2.77%) Network Security
18 137 (2.45%) NAS
19 129 (2.30%) Remote Desktop
20 124 (2.21%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 375 (6.70%) SQL Server
2 95 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
3 93 (1.66%) Power BI
4 64 (1.14%) MySQL
5 47 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
6 45 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
7 43 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 30 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 28 (0.50%) Relational Database
10 20 (0.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 19 (0.34%) Oracle Database
12 14 (0.25%) MongoDB
12 14 (0.25%) Redis
13 12 (0.21%) Amazon Redshift
13 12 (0.21%) RDBMS
14 11 (0.20%) Data Warehouse
14 11 (0.20%) Elasticsearch
14 11 (0.20%) MariaDB
15 10 (0.18%) NoSQL
16 7 (0.12%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 75 (1.34%) JIRA
2 44 (0.79%) Jenkins
3 33 (0.59%) Git
4 25 (0.45%) GitLab
5 19 (0.34%) Bitbucket
6 11 (0.20%) MSI
7 10 (0.18%) Trac
7 10 (0.18%) Visual Studio
8 6 (0.11%) Katalon Studio
8 6 (0.11%) Robot Framework
8 6 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (0.071%) AdminStudio
9 4 (0.071%) Hudson
9 4 (0.071%) InstallShield
9 4 (0.071%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 3 (0.054%) Moq
10 3 (0.054%) Postman
10 3 (0.054%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.054%) SpecFlow
11 2 (0.036%) webpack
General
1 1,832 (32.71%) Social Skills
2 686 (12.25%) Analytical Skills
3 574 (10.25%) Finance
4 356 (6.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 292 (5.21%) Law
6 211 (3.77%) Retail
7 201 (3.59%) Organisational Skills
8 164 (2.93%) Legal
9 151 (2.70%) Manufacturing
10 122 (2.18%) Telecoms
11 112 (2.00%) Public Sector
12 104 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
13 87 (1.55%) Banking
14 45 (0.80%) Games
14 45 (0.80%) Local Government
15 41 (0.73%) Back Office
16 34 (0.61%) Marketing
17 29 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
18 28 (0.50%) Aerospace
19 24 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1,156 (20.64%) IT Support
2 981 (17.51%) Support Engineer
3 907 (16.19%) Analyst
4 787 (14.05%) IT Engineer
5 724 (12.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 663 (11.84%) Senior
7 535 (9.55%) IT Support Engineer
8 439 (7.84%) 2nd Line Support
9 349 (6.23%) IT Analyst
10 329 (5.87%) IT Technician
11 328 (5.86%) Support Analyst
12 303 (5.41%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 298 (5.32%) Service Analyst
14 278 (4.96%) Service Desk Analyst
15 251 (4.48%) 1st Line Support
16 242 (4.32%) Lead
17 240 (4.28%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
18 236 (4.21%) Technical Specialist
19 230 (4.11%) Support Technician
20 210 (3.75%) Linux Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (1.29%) .NET
2 53 (0.95%) ARM Templates
3 45 (0.80%) LDAP
4 29 (0.52%) HTML
4 29 (0.52%) SAML
5 28 (0.50%) OAuth
6 27 (0.48%) JSON
7 23 (0.41%) CSS
8 21 (0.37%) 802.1X
9 20 (0.36%) .NET Core
10 17 (0.30%) React
11 16 (0.29%) OLE
11 16 (0.29%) SailPoint
12 15 (0.27%) REST
13 14 (0.25%) LAMP
13 14 (0.25%) RESTful
13 14 (0.25%) Web Services
13 14 (0.25%) YAML
14 12 (0.21%) EJB
15 11 (0.20%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 368 (6.57%) Driving Licence
2 304 (5.43%) Data Centre
3 255 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
4 218 (3.89%) Social Media
5 196 (3.50%) Management Information System
6 159 (2.84%) Onboarding
7 146 (2.61%) Video Conferencing
8 144 (2.57%) Replication
9 135 (2.41%) PKI
10 123 (2.20%) Public Cloud
11 113 (2.02%) Clustering
12 104 (1.86%) Wiki
13 90 (1.61%) Smartphone
14 61 (1.09%) iPad
15 60 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
16 55 (0.98%) iPhone
17 47 (0.84%) Fat Client
17 47 (0.84%) Private Cloud
17 47 (0.84%) Thin Client
18 46 (0.82%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3,971 (70.90%) Windows
2 2,056 (36.71%) Windows Server
3 1,211 (21.62%) Windows 10
4 802 (14.32%) Linux
5 382 (6.82%) Windows Server 2016
6 352 (6.28%) Windows Server 2019
7 349 (6.23%) Windows Server 2012
8 293 (5.23%) Ubuntu
9 259 (4.62%) Android
10 217 (3.87%) Mac OS
11 181 (3.23%) Windows 7
12 142 (2.54%) Apple iOS
13 96 (1.71%) Windows Server 2008
14 83 (1.48%) VMS
14 83 (1.48%) Windows 8
15 68 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 47 (0.84%) Unix
17 38 (0.68%) Mac OS X
18 32 (0.57%) CentOS
19 31 (0.55%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,164 (20.78%) ITIL
2 1,086 (19.39%) Problem-Solving
3 973 (17.37%) Customer Service
4 931 (16.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 801 (14.30%) Cybersecurity
6 365 (6.52%) Service Management
7 356 (6.36%) Disaster Recovery
8 342 (6.11%) ITSM
9 302 (5.39%) CRM
10 300 (5.36%) DevOps
11 299 (5.34%) Agile
11 299 (5.34%) Mentoring
12 297 (5.30%) IT Strategy
13 289 (5.16%) Migration
14 285 (5.09%) Service Delivery
15 281 (5.02%) Project Management
16 272 (4.86%) Continuous Improvement
17 268 (4.78%) Incident Management
18 242 (4.32%) Artificial Intelligence
19 239 (4.27%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 898 (16.03%) PowerShell
2 588 (10.50%) SQL
3 353 (6.30%) Bash
4 166 (2.96%) Python
5 102 (1.82%) C#
6 45 (0.80%) VB
7 43 (0.77%) T-SQL
8 38 (0.68%) Bicep
9 35 (0.62%) Perl
9 35 (0.62%) VBScript
10 33 (0.59%) JavaScript
11 29 (0.52%) Java
12 28 (0.50%) PL/SQL
13 19 (0.34%) R
14 14 (0.25%) Ruby
15 13 (0.23%) TypeScript
16 10 (0.18%) ActionScript
17 9 (0.16%) Korn
17 9 (0.16%) VB.NET
18 7 (0.12%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 767 (13.69%) Degree
2 527 (9.41%) Security Cleared
3 471 (8.41%) Microsoft Certification
4 307 (5.48%) SC Cleared
5 256 (4.57%) DV Cleared
6 192 (3.43%) Cisco Certification
7 182 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
8 167 (2.98%) A+ Certification
9 158 (2.82%) DBS Check
10 151 (2.70%) CCNA
11 148 (2.64%) MCP
12 146 (2.61%) Azure Certification
13 138 (2.46%) MCSE
14 117 (2.09%) Master's Degree
15 100 (1.79%) MCSA
16 87 (1.55%) ITIL Certification
17 71 (1.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 52 (0.93%) Network+ Certification
19 48 (0.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
20 43 (0.77%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 456 (8.14%) SLA
2 108 (1.93%) Cyber Essentials
3 107 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 91 (1.62%) GDPR
5 31 (0.55%) NIST
6 25 (0.45%) Accessibility
7 16 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 16 (0.29%) Data Quality
8 12 (0.21%) SOC 2
9 11 (0.20%) PMO
9 11 (0.20%) QA
10 8 (0.14%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.12%) GRC
12 6 (0.11%) NIST 800
13 4 (0.071%) ISO 9001
13 4 (0.071%) NCSC
13 4 (0.071%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.054%) JSP 440
15 2 (0.036%) ITGC
16 1 (0.018%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 1,138 (20.32%) VMware Infrastructure
2 915 (16.34%) Hyper-V
3 363 (6.48%) VMware ESXi
4 211 (3.77%) XenApp
5 195 (3.48%) vSphere
6 186 (3.32%) XenDesktop
7 155 (2.77%) Virtual Desktop
8 139 (2.48%) Virtual Machines
9 108 (1.93%) Microsoft App-V
10 77 (1.37%) Virtual Servers
11 66 (1.18%) Docker
12 47 (0.84%) VirtualBox
13 39 (0.70%) Firmware
14 26 (0.46%) VMware Workstation
15 25 (0.45%) Terminal Services
16 21 (0.37%) VMware Server
17 19 (0.34%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 19 (0.34%) NFS
18 18 (0.32%) pfSense
19 14 (0.25%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 1,110 (19.82%) Microsoft Intune
2 663 (11.84%) SCCM
3 261 (4.66%) Jamf Pro
4 184 (3.29%) WSUS
5 155 (2.77%) vCenter Server
6 126 (2.25%) Single Sign-On
7 117 (2.09%) Terraform
8 116 (2.07%) SCOM
9 111 (1.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 110 (1.96%) Ansible
11 109 (1.95%) AirWatch
12 91 (1.62%) Kubernetes
13 48 (0.86%) Failover Clustering
14 44 (0.79%) FortiGate
15 42 (0.75%) NetBackup
16 38 (0.68%) Microsoft Clustering
17 33 (0.59%) ZABBIX
18 32 (0.57%) Backup Exec
19 31 (0.55%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
20 24 (0.43%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 3,795 (67.76%) Microsoft
2 1,688 (30.14%) VMware
3 650 (11.61%) Cisco
4 583 (10.41%) Citrix
5 384 (6.86%) Veeam
6 232 (4.14%) CyberArk
7 228 (4.07%) Apple
8 210 (3.75%) Tanium
9 207 (3.70%) HP
10 194 (3.46%) ServiceNow
11 175 (3.12%) Dell
12 157 (2.80%) Google
13 129 (2.30%) Meraki
14 116 (2.07%) SolarWinds
15 99 (1.77%) NetApp
16 95 (1.70%) Sophos
17 94 (1.68%) Oracle
18 91 (1.62%) Fortinet
19 80 (1.43%) Red Hat
20 77 (1.37%) Aruba