Active Directory Jobs in Birmingham

Microsoft Active Directory
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Active Directory skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Active Directory over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 36 45
Rank change year-on-year +6 +9 +1
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 101 145 112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 6.85% 5.33% 5.61%
As % of the System Software category 64.33% 58.00% 40.29%
Number of salaries quoted 64 132 103
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,025 £25,000
25th Percentile £33,125 £28,500 £28,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £36,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -20.00% +5.88%
75th Percentile £52,500 £47,313 £55,500
90th Percentile - £56,075 £71,250
West Midlands median annual salary £35,000 £35,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year - -6.67% -1.32%

All System Software Skills
Birmingham

Active Directory falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring system software skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 157 250 278
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 10.64% 9.20% 13.92%
Number of salaries quoted 103 224 227
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £38,766 £32,000 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £72,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £84,919 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -1.07%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Birmingham

Active Directory
Salary Trend in Birmingham

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

Salary trend for Active Directory in Birmingham

Active Directory
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Active Directory in Birmingham

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 21 (20.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (7.92%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.99%) CMS
3 1 (0.99%) WordPress
Applications
1 21 (20.79%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.96%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (1.98%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (1.98%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (1.98%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 83 (82.18%) Microsoft 365
2 78 (77.23%) Azure
3 15 (14.85%) AWS
4 13 (12.87%) Entra ID
5 7 (6.93%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (3.96%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (3.96%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 4 (3.96%) Amazon S3
6 4 (3.96%) AWS KMS
6 4 (3.96%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (3.96%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (3.96%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (3.96%) Microsoft Purview
6 4 (3.96%) Route 53
6 4 (3.96%) Serverless
6 4 (3.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (2.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (2.97%) Amazon ELB
7 3 (2.97%) Amazon Glacier
7 3 (2.97%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 56 (55.45%) WAN
2 52 (51.49%) LAN
3 39 (38.61%) Firewall
4 30 (29.70%) VoIP
5 13 (12.87%) VPN
6 12 (11.88%) Wi-Fi
7 10 (9.90%) VLAN
8 8 (7.92%) DHCP
8 8 (7.92%) DNS
9 6 (5.94%) Network Security
10 4 (3.96%) HTTPS
10 4 (3.96%) SD-WAN
10 4 (3.96%) SSL
11 3 (2.97%) SAN
11 3 (2.97%) Wireless
12 2 (1.98%) IPsec
13 1 (0.99%) BGP
13 1 (0.99%) NAS
13 1 (0.99%) Remote Desktop
13 1 (0.99%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.97%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.98%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.99%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (3.96%) Bitbucket Server
1 4 (3.96%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.97%) Vagrant
General
1 39 (38.61%) Social Skills
2 30 (29.70%) Retail
3 11 (10.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (5.94%) Law
5 3 (2.97%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.97%) Legal
6 2 (1.98%) Finance
Job Titles
1 31 (30.69%) IT Support
2 30 (29.70%) IT Support Specialist
2 30 (29.70%) Support Specialist
3 22 (21.78%) Support Engineer
4 21 (20.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 13 (12.87%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
5 13 (12.87%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
5 13 (12.87%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 13 (12.87%) 3rd Line Support
5 13 (12.87%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 11 (10.89%) Analyst
7 9 (8.91%) Lead
7 9 (8.91%) Senior
7 9 (8.91%) Team Leader
8 7 (6.93%) Infrastructure Support
8 7 (6.93%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 7 (6.93%) Service Analyst
8 7 (6.93%) Service Desk Analyst
9 5 (4.95%) 1st Line Support
9 5 (4.95%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.98%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (0.99%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (29.70%) CCTV
2 16 (15.84%) Onboarding
3 4 (3.96%) iPhone
4 3 (2.97%) iPad
5 2 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.98%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.98%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.98%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.99%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.99%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 79 (78.22%) Windows
2 39 (38.61%) Windows 10
3 35 (34.65%) Windows Server
4 21 (20.79%) Windows Server 2016
5 15 (14.85%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (7.92%) Linux
7 4 (3.96%) Ubuntu
8 3 (2.97%) Apple iOS
8 3 (2.97%) VMS
9 2 (1.98%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (32.67%) Cybersecurity
2 20 (19.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 19 (18.81%) Mentoring
4 18 (17.82%) Infrastructure Management
5 17 (16.83%) Customer Service
6 16 (15.84%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (13.86%) Data Security
7 14 (13.86%) Network Design
8 10 (9.90%) ITIL
9 9 (8.91%) DevOps
9 9 (8.91%) Line Management
10 8 (7.92%) Problem Management
11 7 (6.93%) Agile
11 7 (6.93%) Collaborative Culture
11 7 (6.93%) Incident Management
11 7 (6.93%) Patch Management
12 6 (5.94%) Logistics
12 6 (5.94%) Network Virtualisation
12 6 (5.94%) People Management
12 6 (5.94%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 22 (21.78%) PowerShell
2 6 (5.94%) Shell Script
3 4 (3.96%) Python
4 3 (2.97%) Groovy
4 3 (2.97%) Java
4 3 (2.97%) Perl
4 3 (2.97%) Ruby
5 1 (0.99%) SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (29.70%) Degree
2 12 (11.88%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (6.93%) MCSA
4 6 (5.94%) A+ Certification
4 6 (5.94%) CompTIA Security+
4 6 (5.94%) MCP
5 4 (3.96%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.96%) Azure Certification
5 4 (3.96%) Security Cleared
6 3 (2.97%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.98%) CASP
7 2 (1.98%) CISM
7 2 (1.98%) CISSP
8 1 (0.99%) CCNA
8 1 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.99%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.99%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.98%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.99%) GDPR
System Software
1 19 (18.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (13.86%) XenApp
3 8 (7.92%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (3.96%) BitLocker
4 4 (3.96%) Docker
4 4 (3.96%) Firmware
4 4 (3.96%) Hyper-V
4 4 (3.96%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 36 (35.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (7.92%) SCCM
3 7 (6.93%) Ansible
3 7 (6.93%) Terraform
4 4 (3.96%) Nessus
4 4 (3.96%) Proxmox
5 3 (2.97%) Nagios
5 3 (2.97%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 69 (68.32%) Microsoft
2 26 (25.74%) VMware
3 20 (19.80%) Cisco
4 17 (16.83%) Meraki
5 16 (15.84%) Citrix
6 14 (13.86%) CheckPoint
6 14 (13.86%) SonicWALL
7 10 (9.90%) HP
8 8 (7.92%) Apple
9 7 (6.93%) Acronis
10 5 (4.95%) WatchGuard
11 4 (3.96%) Juniper
12 3 (2.97%) MobileIron
12 3 (2.97%) ServiceNow
13 2 (1.98%) Hyperion
13 2 (1.98%) JD Edwards
13 2 (1.98%) Okta
13 2 (1.98%) Oracle
13 2 (1.98%) PeopleSoft
14 1 (0.99%) IBM