Active Directory Jobs in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Active Directory
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 29 49
Rank change year-on-year -1 +20 0
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 449 440 367
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 6.73% 7.31% 5.26%
As % of the System Software category 44.50% 43.61% 36.48%
Number of salaries quoted 405 374 304
10th Percentile £26,250 £23,750 £23,038
25th Percentile £31,250 £27,125 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -7.14% -17.65%
75th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £49,500
90th Percentile £59,000 £60,000 £61,750
South East median annual salary £37,500 £34,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -1.43% -12.50%

All System Software Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,009 1,009 1,006
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.11% 16.75% 14.41%
Number of salaries quoted 809 646 707
10th Percentile £27,750 £24,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,750 £30,500 £32,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £86,000 £85,000 £82,500
South East median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in the Thames Valley

Active Directory
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Active Directory in the Thames Valley

Active Directory
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Active Directory in the Thames Valley

Active Directory
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Active Directory within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 7 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
Berkshire +33 240 £44,400 +36.62% 27
Oxfordshire +14 121 £40,000 +25.98% 16
Buckinghamshire -38 88 £38,000 +16.92% 47
Active Directory
South East

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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
1 113 (25.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 93 (20.71%) SharePoint
3 22 (4.90%) IIS
4 7 (1.56%) WordPress
5 6 (1.34%) OpenStack
6 5 (1.11%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (0.22%) nginx
Applications
1 72 (16.04%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (3.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (2.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (2.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.89%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 272 (60.58%) Microsoft 365
2 214 (47.66%) Azure
3 89 (19.82%) Entra ID
4 58 (12.92%) OneDrive
5 25 (5.57%) Azure Monitor
5 25 (5.57%) Power Platform
6 22 (4.90%) Azure Storage
7 16 (3.56%) WhatsApp
8 14 (3.12%) Power Automate
9 13 (2.90%) Google Workspace
9 13 (2.90%) OCI
10 12 (2.67%) iTunes
11 11 (2.45%) PowerApps
11 11 (2.45%) ShareGate
12 7 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (1.11%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (1.11%) PaaS
14 4 (0.89%) SaaS
15 3 (0.67%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 138 (30.73%) Firewall
2 125 (27.84%) DNS
3 88 (19.60%) DHCP
4 38 (8.46%) Wi-Fi
5 35 (7.80%) WAN
6 34 (7.57%) Wireless
7 31 (6.90%) SAN
8 27 (6.01%) LAN
9 26 (5.79%) VoIP
10 25 (5.57%) VPN
11 23 (5.12%) Network Security
12 22 (4.90%) TCP/IP
13 14 (3.12%) SSL
13 14 (3.12%) VLAN
14 13 (2.90%) SNMP
15 12 (2.67%) NAS
16 8 (1.78%) SD-WAN
17 6 (1.34%) 4G
17 6 (1.34%) DSL
17 6 (1.34%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (9.80%) SQL Server
2 25 (5.57%) Power BI
3 11 (2.45%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (2.23%) MySQL
5 6 (1.34%) InfluxDB
5 6 (1.34%) MariaDB
5 6 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.11%) Oracle Database
6 5 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 5 (1.11%) Git
1 5 (1.11%) Jenkins
1 5 (1.11%) MSI
2 4 (0.89%) AdminStudio
2 4 (0.89%) InstallShield
3 3 (0.67%) JIRA
General
1 159 (35.41%) Social Skills
2 25 (5.57%) Documentation Skills
2 25 (5.57%) Organisational Skills
3 19 (4.23%) Law
4 17 (3.79%) Legal
5 16 (3.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (3.34%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (3.12%) Finance
8 13 (2.90%) Manufacturing
8 13 (2.90%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (1.34%) Retail
10 5 (1.11%) Marketing
11 3 (0.67%) Banking
11 3 (0.67%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 81 (18.04%) IT Support
2 66 (14.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 66 (14.70%) Support Engineer
3 62 (13.81%) IT Engineer
4 59 (13.14%) Analyst
5 45 (10.02%) IT Analyst
5 45 (10.02%) IT Support Engineer
6 39 (8.69%) 2nd Line Support
7 38 (8.46%) Senior
8 35 (7.80%) Support Specialist
8 35 (7.80%) Systems Engineer
9 33 (7.35%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 32 (7.13%) IT Technician
11 29 (6.46%) 3rd Line Support
11 29 (6.46%) Active Directory Specialist
11 29 (6.46%) Azure Specialist
12 25 (5.57%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
12 25 (5.57%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 25 (5.57%) Support Analyst
13 24 (5.35%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.12%) ARM Templates
2 5 (1.11%) .NET
3 4 (0.89%) LAMP
3 4 (0.89%) LDAP
4 3 (0.67%) Azure Blueprints
4 3 (0.67%) FIDO
4 3 (0.67%) OAuth
4 3 (0.67%) OpenID
4 3 (0.67%) SailPoint
4 3 (0.67%) SAML
4 3 (0.67%) WebAuthn
5 1 (0.22%) EDI
5 1 (0.22%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 39 (8.69%) Self-Motivation
2 32 (7.13%) Data Centre
2 32 (7.13%) PKI
3 23 (5.12%) Onboarding
4 17 (3.79%) CMDB
5 16 (3.56%) Driving Licence
6 11 (2.45%) Smartphone
7 9 (2.00%) Private Cloud
8 6 (1.34%) Replication
9 5 (1.11%) Educational Technology
9 5 (1.11%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.89%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (0.89%) Shadow IT
11 3 (0.67%) EMC VNX
11 3 (0.67%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.67%) iPhone
11 3 (0.67%) Social Media
11 3 (0.67%) Wiki
12 2 (0.45%) Video Conferencing
12 2 (0.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 336 (74.83%) Windows
2 190 (42.32%) Windows Server
3 136 (30.29%) Windows 10
4 88 (19.60%) Linux
5 87 (19.38%) Windows Server 2019
6 86 (19.15%) Windows Server 2016
7 62 (13.81%) Windows Server 2012
8 25 (5.57%) Apple iOS
9 21 (4.68%) Windows 7
10 19 (4.23%) Android
11 17 (3.79%) Mac OS
11 17 (3.79%) Windows XP
12 12 (2.67%) Windows NT
13 10 (2.23%) Ubuntu
14 9 (2.00%) CentOS
14 9 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 7 (1.56%) Windows 8
16 6 (1.34%) VMS
17 4 (0.89%) Mac OS X
17 4 (0.89%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (23.83%) ITIL
2 102 (22.72%) Problem-Solving
3 87 (19.38%) Cybersecurity
4 85 (18.93%) Customer Service
5 78 (17.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 67 (14.92%) Service Management
7 44 (9.80%) Agile
7 44 (9.80%) Change Management
8 38 (8.46%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 37 (8.24%) Change Control
9 37 (8.24%) ITSM
10 31 (6.90%) Analytics
10 31 (6.90%) Release Management
11 30 (6.68%) DevOps
11 30 (6.68%) Project Management
12 27 (6.01%) Break/Fix
12 27 (6.01%) Mentoring
12 27 (6.01%) Roadmaps
13 25 (5.57%) Business Intelligence
13 25 (5.57%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 85 (18.93%) PowerShell
2 68 (15.14%) SQL
3 29 (6.46%) C#
4 24 (5.35%) VB
5 21 (4.68%) VBScript
6 15 (3.34%) Bash
6 15 (3.34%) Python
7 14 (3.12%) Bicep
8 5 (1.11%) JavaScript
8 5 (1.11%) Perl
8 5 (1.11%) PL/SQL
8 5 (1.11%) T-SQL
8 5 (1.11%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 126 (28.06%) Security Cleared
2 92 (20.49%) Degree
3 88 (19.60%) SC Cleared
4 85 (18.93%) DV Cleared
5 35 (7.80%) Microsoft Certification
6 32 (7.13%) Cisco Certification
7 30 (6.68%) MCP
8 28 (6.24%) CCNA
9 24 (5.35%) A+ Certification
10 16 (3.56%) HNC
11 14 (3.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 12 (2.67%) CCNP
13 11 (2.45%) ITIL Certification
13 11 (2.45%) Master's Degree
14 7 (1.56%) Network+ Certification
15 6 (1.34%) MCSE
16 4 (0.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 2 (0.45%) CCENT
17 2 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
17 2 (0.45%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (10.47%) SLA
2 8 (1.78%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (0.67%) GDPR
3 3 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 114 (25.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 69 (15.37%) Hyper-V
3 23 (5.12%) VMware ESXi
4 22 (4.90%) Virtual Desktop
5 20 (4.45%) Firmware
6 17 (3.79%) Virtual Machines
7 13 (2.90%) vSphere
8 8 (1.78%) Docker
9 6 (1.34%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 4 (0.89%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (0.89%) XenApp
11 3 (0.67%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.22%) NFS
Systems Management
1 109 (24.28%) SCCM
2 94 (20.94%) Microsoft Intune
3 50 (11.14%) SCOM
4 48 (10.69%) WSUS
5 27 (6.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 23 (5.12%) vCenter Server
7 19 (4.23%) Kubernetes
7 19 (4.23%) NetBackup
8 15 (3.34%) EMC NetWorker
9 12 (2.67%) Sysprep
10 7 (1.56%) Terraform
11 6 (1.34%) Ansible
12 5 (1.11%) PaperCut
12 5 (1.11%) Puppet
12 5 (1.11%) Red Hat Spacewalk
13 4 (0.89%) Nessus
14 3 (0.67%) Jamf Pro
14 3 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
15 2 (0.45%) Grafana
15 2 (0.45%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 347 (77.28%) Microsoft
2 160 (35.63%) VMware
3 50 (11.14%) Cisco
4 43 (9.58%) Citrix
5 42 (9.35%) Veeam
6 23 (5.12%) ServiceNow
7 22 (4.90%) HP
8 21 (4.68%) Apple
8 21 (4.68%) Dell
8 21 (4.68%) Google
8 21 (4.68%) Oracle
9 20 (4.45%) Juniper
10 19 (4.23%) Palo Alto
11 16 (3.56%) Adobe
12 15 (3.34%) EMC
13 13 (2.90%) Dynatrace
14 12 (2.67%) 3PAR
14 12 (2.67%) Extreme Networks
14 12 (2.67%) Symantec
15 11 (2.45%) Nintex