Microsoft Active Directory
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 51 70
Rank change year-on-year +20 +19 -26
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 6,151 5,910 7,578
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.27% 5.65% 4.92%
As % of the System Software category 50.22% 36.86% 26.85%
Number of salaries quoted 4,961 4,860 6,220
10th Percentile £24,500 £25,000 £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% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £52,500 £55,094 £56,250
90th Percentile £66,250 £72,250 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £36,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% -6.67%

All System Software Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 12,249 16,035 28,223
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.49% 15.32% 18.31%
Number of salaries quoted 9,715 10,596 15,794
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £27,825
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £56,325
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -2.35% +2.41%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £86,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in the UK

Active Directory
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Active Directory in the UK

Active Directory
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Active Directory over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Active Directory in the UK

Active Directory
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Active Directory within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England +24 5,661 £38,000 -5.00% 958
UK excluding London +14 4,461 £35,000 -2.78% 794
Work from Home +20 1,918 £46,500 +3.33% 299
London +28 1,544 £52,500 +5.00% 228
South East +5 1,232 £37,500 +10.29% 203
North of England +38 1,074 £33,500 -11.84% 182
Midlands +21 765 £33,500 -8.22% 156
South West +26 547 £38,000 +6.29% 85
North West +11 497 £37,500 -6.25% 107
East of England +12 476 £31,000 -17.33% 102
West Midlands +24 466 £35,000 -6.67% 104
Yorkshire +42 389 £32,500 -11.85% 55
East Midlands +14 293 £33,500 -5.63% 52
Scotland -41 258 £33,750 -0.74% 60
North East +28 188 £33,000 -8.33% 24
Wales +19 89 £29,145 -22.28% 17
Northern Ireland -10 14 £38,750 +10.71% 9
Channel Islands -2 4 £85,000 +136.11%
Isle of Man - 4 £43,000 -

Active Directory
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 1,712 (27.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 948 (15.41%) SharePoint
3 154 (2.50%) IIS
4 45 (0.73%) Exchange Server 2013
5 36 (0.59%) Exchange Server 2010
6 32 (0.52%) Confluence
7 29 (0.47%) OpenStack
8 26 (0.42%) Skype for Business
9 18 (0.29%) WordPress
10 17 (0.28%) CMS
11 14 (0.23%) SharePoint 2013
12 12 (0.20%) SharePoint 2010
12 12 (0.20%) Tomcat
13 11 (0.18%) Apache
13 11 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2007
14 8 (0.13%) SAS
15 6 (0.098%) Exchange Server 2000
15 6 (0.098%) Site Server
16 5 (0.081%) SharePoint Server
17 4 (0.065%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 953 (15.49%) Microsoft Office
2 144 (2.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 61 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
5 13 (0.21%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.081%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.065%) AutoCAD
9 3 (0.049%) SPSS
10 2 (0.033%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.033%) CATIA
10 2 (0.033%) InCopy
10 2 (0.033%) InDesign
10 2 (0.033%) NASTRAN
11 1 (0.016%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.016%) PTC Creo
11 1 (0.016%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.016%) Weka
Business Applications
1 28 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.21%) NEC Housing
3 9 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
4 8 (0.13%) SAP ERP
5 6 (0.098%) Adaptiv
5 6 (0.098%) Dynamics NAV
5 6 (0.098%) Elite 3E
6 5 (0.081%) Sage 200
7 4 (0.065%) Eikon
7 4 (0.065%) Epicor Tropos
7 4 (0.065%) Sage X3
7 4 (0.065%) SAP Business One
8 3 (0.049%) assyst
8 3 (0.049%) iTrent
8 3 (0.049%) SAP S/4HANA
8 3 (0.049%) Teamcenter
9 2 (0.033%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 1 (0.016%) Carpe Diem
10 1 (0.016%) MIS ActiveH
10 1 (0.016%) Sage 300 ERP
Cloud Services
1 3,727 (60.59%) Microsoft 365
2 3,010 (48.94%) Azure
3 1,651 (26.84%) Entra ID
4 486 (7.90%) AWS
5 420 (6.83%) OneDrive
6 175 (2.85%) Power Platform
7 174 (2.83%) IaaS
8 155 (2.52%) SaaS
9 134 (2.18%) PaaS
10 128 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
10 128 (2.08%) Mimecast
11 102 (1.66%) GCP
12 94 (1.53%) Power Automate
13 86 (1.40%) Google Workspace
14 85 (1.38%) Cloud Computing
15 80 (1.30%) PowerApps
16 74 (1.20%) Dynamics 365
17 73 (1.19%) Azure Monitor
18 71 (1.15%) Nutanix
19 55 (0.89%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1,321 (21.48%) DNS
2 1,320 (21.46%) Firewall
3 1,010 (16.42%) DHCP
4 837 (13.61%) WAN
5 711 (11.56%) LAN
6 611 (9.93%) VPN
7 516 (8.39%) TCP/IP
8 443 (7.20%) SAN
9 406 (6.60%) Wireless
10 363 (5.90%) Wi-Fi
11 325 (5.28%) VLAN
12 268 (4.36%) VoIP
13 261 (4.24%) Broadband
14 227 (3.69%) SD-WAN
15 220 (3.58%) 5G
16 182 (2.96%) Internet
17 167 (2.72%) Network Security
18 153 (2.49%) Remote Desktop
19 149 (2.42%) NAS
20 139 (2.26%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 405 (6.58%) SQL Server
2 104 (1.69%) Power BI
3 101 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
4 70 (1.14%) MySQL
5 65 (1.06%) Metadata
6 50 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
7 49 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
8 45 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 31 (0.50%) Relational Database
10 30 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 20 (0.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 19 (0.31%) MongoDB
12 19 (0.31%) Oracle Database
13 15 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
13 15 (0.24%) RDBMS
13 15 (0.24%) Redis
14 12 (0.20%) Amazon Redshift
14 12 (0.20%) Elasticsearch
14 12 (0.20%) NoSQL
15 11 (0.18%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 121 (1.97%) Jenkins
2 108 (1.76%) Git
3 88 (1.43%) Bitbucket
4 83 (1.35%) JIRA
5 66 (1.07%) Artifactory
6 33 (0.54%) GitLab
7 12 (0.20%) Visual Studio
8 11 (0.18%) MSI
9 10 (0.16%) Trac
10 8 (0.13%) CircleCI
10 8 (0.13%) git-flow
11 6 (0.098%) Robot Framework
11 6 (0.098%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (0.081%) Katalon Studio
12 5 (0.081%) Moq
12 5 (0.081%) Postman
12 5 (0.081%) SpecFlow
13 4 (0.065%) Hudson
13 4 (0.065%) InstallShield
13 4 (0.065%) Selenium
General
1 1,970 (32.03%) Social Skills
2 719 (11.69%) Analytical Skills
3 702 (11.41%) Finance
4 456 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 365 (5.93%) Law
6 220 (3.58%) Retail
7 218 (3.54%) Organisational Skills
8 187 (3.04%) Legal
9 165 (2.68%) Manufacturing
10 154 (2.50%) Public Sector
11 136 (2.21%) Telecoms
12 108 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
13 102 (1.66%) Marketing
14 94 (1.53%) Banking
15 51 (0.83%) Games
16 50 (0.81%) Local Government
17 49 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
18 40 (0.65%) Back Office
19 28 (0.46%) Advertising
19 28 (0.46%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,251 (20.34%) IT Support
2 1,054 (17.14%) Support Engineer
3 989 (16.08%) Analyst
4 834 (13.56%) IT Engineer
5 777 (12.63%) Senior
6 760 (12.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 564 (9.17%) IT Support Engineer
8 484 (7.87%) 2nd Line Support
9 391 (6.36%) IT Analyst
10 369 (6.00%) Support Analyst
11 354 (5.76%) IT Technician
12 319 (5.19%) Service Analyst
13 315 (5.12%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 312 (5.07%) Lead
15 297 (4.83%) Service Desk Analyst
16 260 (4.23%) 1st Line Support
17 251 (4.08%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
18 245 (3.98%) Support Technician
19 238 (3.87%) Technical Specialist
20 234 (3.80%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (1.89%) LDAP
2 101 (1.64%) JSON
3 100 (1.63%) SAML
4 86 (1.40%) Web Services
5 83 (1.35%) RESTful
6 82 (1.33%) .NET
7 75 (1.22%) XML
8 73 (1.19%) OpenID
9 65 (1.06%) JSON-LD
10 56 (0.91%) ARM Templates
11 32 (0.52%) HTML
12 30 (0.49%) OAuth
13 23 (0.37%) CSS
14 22 (0.36%) .NET Core
15 21 (0.34%) 802.1X
16 20 (0.33%) React
17 19 (0.31%) REST
17 19 (0.31%) SailPoint
18 16 (0.26%) OLE
19 15 (0.24%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 382 (6.21%) Driving Licence
2 365 (5.93%) Data Centre
3 320 (5.20%) Management Information System
4 265 (4.31%) Self-Motivation
5 219 (3.56%) Social Media
6 198 (3.22%) Onboarding
7 161 (2.62%) Video Conferencing
8 159 (2.58%) Replication
9 138 (2.24%) PKI
10 126 (2.05%) Public Cloud
11 120 (1.95%) Clustering
12 113 (1.84%) Wiki
13 96 (1.56%) Smartphone
14 80 (1.30%) Enterprise Cloud
15 73 (1.19%) iPhone
16 70 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
17 65 (1.06%) Reference Data
18 63 (1.02%) iPad
19 62 (1.01%) Cyberattack
20 50 (0.81%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4,276 (69.52%) Windows
2 2,230 (36.25%) Windows Server
3 1,310 (21.30%) Windows 10
4 851 (13.84%) Linux
5 400 (6.50%) Windows Server 2016
6 377 (6.13%) Windows Server 2019
7 375 (6.10%) Windows Server 2012
8 299 (4.86%) Ubuntu
9 290 (4.71%) Android
10 226 (3.67%) Mac OS
11 195 (3.17%) Windows 7
12 164 (2.67%) Apple iOS
13 106 (1.72%) Windows Server 2008
14 88 (1.43%) Windows 8
15 87 (1.41%) VMS
16 69 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 51 (0.83%) Unix
18 43 (0.70%) CentOS
19 41 (0.67%) Mac OS X
20 31 (0.50%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,249 (20.31%) ITIL
2 1,186 (19.28%) Problem-Solving
3 1,054 (17.14%) Customer Service
4 993 (16.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 858 (13.95%) Cybersecurity
6 385 (6.26%) Service Management
7 384 (6.24%) Agile
7 384 (6.24%) Disaster Recovery
8 371 (6.03%) ITSM
9 339 (5.51%) DevOps
10 320 (5.20%) Service Delivery
11 318 (5.17%) Mentoring
12 308 (5.01%) Migration
13 303 (4.93%) Continuous Improvement
13 303 (4.93%) CRM
14 301 (4.89%) IT Strategy
15 294 (4.78%) Project Management
16 286 (4.65%) Roadmaps
17 282 (4.58%) Incident Management
18 272 (4.42%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 970 (15.77%) PowerShell
2 634 (10.31%) SQL
3 364 (5.92%) Bash
4 179 (2.91%) Python
5 112 (1.82%) C#
6 69 (1.12%) Go
7 65 (1.06%) Prolog
7 65 (1.06%) SPARQL
8 49 (0.80%) T-SQL
9 45 (0.73%) VB
10 39 (0.63%) Bicep
11 37 (0.60%) JavaScript
12 36 (0.59%) Perl
13 35 (0.57%) VBScript
14 31 (0.50%) Java
15 29 (0.47%) PL/SQL
16 17 (0.28%) R
17 15 (0.24%) Ruby
17 15 (0.24%) Shell Script
17 15 (0.24%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 841 (13.67%) Degree
2 601 (9.77%) Security Cleared
3 493 (8.01%) Microsoft Certification
4 368 (5.98%) SC Cleared
5 280 (4.55%) DV Cleared
6 211 (3.43%) Cisco Certification
6 211 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 181 (2.94%) A+ Certification
8 173 (2.81%) Azure Certification
9 166 (2.70%) CCNA
10 159 (2.58%) DBS Check
11 148 (2.41%) MCP
12 145 (2.36%) MCSE
13 123 (2.00%) Master's Degree
14 107 (1.74%) MCSA
15 90 (1.46%) ITIL Certification
16 76 (1.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 55 (0.89%) Network+ Certification
18 50 (0.81%) CISSP
19 47 (0.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 490 (7.97%) SLA
2 129 (2.10%) Cyber Essentials
3 128 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 108 (1.76%) GDPR
5 36 (0.59%) NIST
6 28 (0.46%) Accessibility
7 27 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 18 (0.29%) QA
9 16 (0.26%) Data Quality
10 13 (0.21%) PCI DSS
11 12 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 11 (0.18%) SOC 2
13 10 (0.16%) PMO
14 9 (0.15%) GRC
15 6 (0.098%) NIST 800
16 5 (0.081%) IASME
16 5 (0.081%) ISO 9001
17 3 (0.049%) NCSC
17 3 (0.049%) WCAG
18 2 (0.033%) ITGC
System Software
1 1,227 (19.95%) VMware Infrastructure
2 945 (15.36%) Hyper-V
3 375 (6.10%) VMware ESXi
4 215 (3.50%) XenApp
5 212 (3.45%) vSphere
6 191 (3.11%) XenDesktop
7 170 (2.76%) Virtual Desktop
8 149 (2.42%) Virtual Machines
9 116 (1.89%) Microsoft App-V
10 83 (1.35%) Docker
11 80 (1.30%) Virtual Servers
12 47 (0.76%) VirtualBox
13 41 (0.67%) Firmware
14 26 (0.42%) VMware Workstation
15 25 (0.41%) Terminal Services
16 21 (0.34%) VMware Server
17 19 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 18 (0.29%) NFS
18 18 (0.29%) pfSense
19 15 (0.24%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 1,207 (19.62%) Microsoft Intune
2 715 (11.62%) SCCM
3 265 (4.31%) Jamf Pro
4 188 (3.06%) WSUS
5 156 (2.54%) vCenter Server
6 136 (2.21%) Ansible
6 136 (2.21%) Terraform
7 133 (2.16%) Single Sign-On
8 125 (2.03%) SCOM
9 119 (1.93%) AirWatch
10 111 (1.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 110 (1.79%) Kubernetes
12 52 (0.85%) Failover Clustering
13 47 (0.76%) FortiGate
14 43 (0.70%) NetBackup
15 41 (0.67%) ZABBIX
16 39 (0.63%) Microsoft Clustering
17 32 (0.52%) Backup Exec
17 32 (0.52%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
18 27 (0.44%) Nessus
Vendors
1 4,095 (66.57%) Microsoft
2 1,800 (29.26%) VMware
3 702 (11.41%) Cisco
4 613 (9.97%) Citrix
5 406 (6.60%) Veeam
6 236 (3.84%) Apple
6 236 (3.84%) CyberArk
7 219 (3.56%) HP
8 210 (3.41%) Tanium
9 205 (3.33%) ServiceNow
10 180 (2.93%) Dell
11 166 (2.70%) Google
12 150 (2.44%) Meraki
13 123 (2.00%) SolarWinds
14 109 (1.77%) Sophos
15 105 (1.71%) NetApp
16 102 (1.66%) Oracle
17 90 (1.46%) Fortinet
18 81 (1.32%) Red Hat
19 80 (1.30%) Aruba