Active Directory Support Jobs

Microsoft Active Directory Support
UK

The median Microsoft Active Directory Support salary in the UK is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 May 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
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 861 949 1139
Rank change year-on-year +88 +190 -304
Permanent jobs requiring an Active Directory Support 42 34 72
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.043% 0.033% 0.046%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.045% 0.036% 0.048%
Number of salaries quoted 36 33 66
10th Percentile £40,000 - £26,250
25th Percentile £45,500 £24,500 £28,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £32,500 £32,000
Median % change year-on-year +69.23% +1.56% +20.75%
75th Percentile £59,000 £40,000 £57,500
90th Percentile - £43,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £25,000 £28,000
% change year-on-year +120.00% -10.71% +19.15%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 93,219 95,232 149,773
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.54% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 66,883 59,878 85,286
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,777 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.04% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Active Directory Support
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory Support in the UK

Active Directory Support
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Active Directory Support in the UK

Active Directory Support
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Active Directory Support over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Active Directory Support in the UK

Active Directory Support
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Active Directory Support within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England +102 42 £55,000 +69.23% 2
UK excluding London +20 30 £55,000 +120.00% 2
South East +27 25 £59,000 +136.00% 2
Work from Home +86 14 £59,000 +96.67% 2
London +117 12 £50,500 +44.29%
South West -16 3 £40,000 +60.00%
East of England +12 1 £30,000 -
Midlands +7 1 £44,000 +57.14%
East Midlands - 1 £44,000 -

Active Directory Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2024, Active Directory Support 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 featuring Active Directory Support in the job title.

1 42 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 32 (76.19%) Azure
3 27 (64.29%) Microsoft 365
4 26 (61.90%) Microsoft Intune
5 25 (59.52%) Windows
6 20 (47.62%) Entra ID
6 20 (47.62%) SCCM
7 19 (45.24%) Security Cleared
8 18 (42.86%) Microsoft
8 18 (42.86%) Microsoft Exchange
8 18 (42.86%) DV Cleared
9 17 (40.48%) Windows Server
9 17 (40.48%) Social Skills
9 17 (40.48%) ITIL
10 15 (35.71%) DNS
10 15 (35.71%) Firewall
10 15 (35.71%) Release Management
10 15 (35.71%) Degree
11 14 (33.33%) WSUS
11 14 (33.33%) SCOM
11 14 (33.33%) Agile
11 14 (33.33%) PKI
11 14 (33.33%) PowerShell
11 14 (33.33%) Identity Management
11 14 (33.33%) Service Management
11 14 (33.33%) DHCP
11 14 (33.33%) Linux
11 14 (33.33%) C#
11 14 (33.33%) VBScript
11 14 (33.33%) VB

Active Directory Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 18 (42.86%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 32 (76.19%) Azure
2 27 (64.29%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (47.62%) Entra ID
4 14 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
4 14 (33.33%) Azure Storage
5 1 (2.38%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 15 (35.71%) DNS
1 15 (35.71%) Firewall
2 14 (33.33%) DHCP
3 1 (2.38%) SAN
General
1 17 (40.48%) Social Skills
2 7 (16.67%) Finance
2 7 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (2.38%) Law
3 1 (2.38%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (33.33%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.38%) ADSI
Miscellaneous
1 14 (33.33%) PKI
1 14 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (2.38%) Hedge funds
2 1 (2.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (59.52%) Windows
2 17 (40.48%) Windows Server
3 14 (33.33%) Linux
3 14 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
3 14 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (4.76%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (40.48%) ITIL
2 15 (35.71%) Release Management
3 14 (33.33%) Agile
3 14 (33.33%) Analytics
3 14 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 14 (33.33%) DevOps
3 14 (33.33%) Identity Management
3 14 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 14 (33.33%) Log Analytics
3 14 (33.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 14 (33.33%) Privileged Identity Management
3 14 (33.33%) RBAC
3 14 (33.33%) Service Management
4 7 (16.67%) Customer Service
5 5 (11.90%) ITSM
5 5 (11.90%) Ticket Management
5 5 (11.90%) User Experience
6 2 (4.76%) Server Virtualisation
7 1 (2.38%) Fintech
7 1 (2.38%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 14 (33.33%) Bicep
1 14 (33.33%) C#
1 14 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 14 (33.33%) VB
1 14 (33.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 19 (45.24%) Security Cleared
2 18 (42.86%) DV Cleared
3 15 (35.71%) Degree
4 14 (33.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 12 (28.57%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 42 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 14 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
2 14 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (19.05%) Hyper-V
4 2 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 26 (61.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (47.62%) SCCM
3 14 (33.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 14 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 14 (33.33%) SCOM
3 14 (33.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 18 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 7 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 2 (4.76%) VMware
4 1 (2.38%) Agilent
4 1 (2.38%) Cisco
4 1 (2.38%) HP
4 1 (2.38%) Meraki