Active Directory Jobs in Cambridge

Microsoft Active Directory
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cambridge 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 36 40
Rank change year-on-year +18 +4 +44
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 26 51 63
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 10.48% 5.01% 6.94%
As % of the System Software category 59.09% 32.08% 41.45%
Number of salaries quoted 18 26 58
10th Percentile - £25,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £29,023
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £38,750 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.58% +10.71% -1.41%
75th Percentile £47,875 £43,750 £41,938
90th Percentile £90,000 £47,500 £49,250
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £31,375 £32,000 £36,000
% change year-on-year -1.95% -11.11% -11.66%

All System Software Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 44 159 152
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 17.74% 15.63% 16.74%
Number of salaries quoted 30 115 116
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,807 £28,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,945 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.11% +11.11% -16.28%
75th Percentile £63,438 £73,125 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £92,500
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £45,000 £41,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +8.43% -7.78% -10.00%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Cambridge

Active Directory
Salary Trend in Cambridge

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

Salary trend for Active Directory in Cambridge

Active Directory
Salary Histogram in Cambridge

Salary distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in Cambridge over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Active Directory in Cambridge

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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 6 (23.08%) IIS
1 6 (23.08%) Tomcat
2 4 (15.38%) SharePoint
3 3 (11.54%) Apache
3 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (11.54%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (23.08%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (61.54%) Microsoft 365
2 15 (57.69%) Azure
3 13 (50.00%) Entra ID
4 6 (23.08%) Microsoft Copilot
4 6 (23.08%) Power Automate
5 4 (15.38%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (3.85%) AWS
6 1 (3.85%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (3.85%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 8 (30.77%) Firewall
2 6 (23.08%) DMARC
2 6 (23.08%) SSL
3 5 (19.23%) VPN
4 3 (11.54%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (7.69%) DNS
5 2 (7.69%) LAN
5 2 (7.69%) VLAN
5 2 (7.69%) WAN
5 2 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (3.85%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (26.92%) SQL Server
2 6 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) GitLab
1 3 (11.54%) Jenkins
1 3 (11.54%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 12 (46.15%) Organisational Skills
3 6 (23.08%) Czech Language
3 6 (23.08%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Legal
4 2 (7.69%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (3.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (34.62%) Administrator
1 9 (34.62%) IT Support
2 7 (26.92%) IT Technician
3 6 (23.08%) Help Desk Technician
3 6 (23.08%) IT Administrator
4 4 (15.38%) Analyst
5 3 (11.54%) 2nd Line Support
5 3 (11.54%) Security Analyst
5 3 (11.54%) Systems Administrator
6 2 (7.69%) 1st Line Support
6 2 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 2 (7.69%) IT Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Lead
6 2 (7.69%) SOC Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) IT Support Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) IT Support Technician
7 1 (3.85%) Linux Administrator
7 1 (3.85%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 1 (3.85%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (23.08%) JSON
1 6 (23.08%) REST
1 6 (23.08%) SOAP
1 6 (23.08%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Enterprise Software
1 6 (23.08%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (11.54%) Data Centre
3 2 (7.69%) Biopharmaceutical
3 2 (7.69%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (7.69%) Driving Licence
3 2 (7.69%) Management Information System
3 2 (7.69%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.85%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 24 (92.31%) Windows
2 10 (38.46%) Linux
3 6 (23.08%) Unix
3 6 (23.08%) Windows Server
4 3 (11.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (7.69%) Windows 10
5 2 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (69.23%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (30.77%) Line Management
3 6 (23.08%) Agile
3 6 (23.08%) Collaborative Working
3 6 (23.08%) CRM
3 6 (23.08%) Customer Service
3 6 (23.08%) Data Privacy
3 6 (23.08%) Mathematics
3 6 (23.08%) Portfolio Management
3 6 (23.08%) Project Management
3 6 (23.08%) Roadmaps
3 6 (23.08%) Technology Roadmap
4 4 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (11.54%) Asset Management
5 3 (11.54%) Change Control
6 2 (7.69%) Analytics
6 2 (7.69%) Penetration Testing
6 2 (7.69%) Security Operations
6 2 (7.69%) SIEM
6 2 (7.69%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (30.77%) PowerShell
2 6 (23.08%) Java
2 6 (23.08%) JavaScript
2 6 (23.08%) SQL
2 6 (23.08%) VBA
3 3 (11.54%) Bash
4 1 (3.85%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (3.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (23.08%) DBS Check
2 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (23.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (7.69%) GDPR
2 2 (7.69%) NIST
2 2 (7.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (19.23%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (15.38%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (11.54%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (38.46%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (30.77%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (11.54%) Ansible
3 3 (11.54%) Graylog
3 3 (11.54%) Nagios
3 3 (11.54%) Puppet
3 3 (11.54%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 19 (73.08%) Microsoft
2 7 (26.92%) Oracle
3 5 (19.23%) VMware
4 4 (15.38%) Citrix
5 3 (11.54%) Cisco
5 3 (11.54%) Juniper
5 3 (11.54%) NetApp
5 3 (11.54%) PagerDuty
5 3 (11.54%) Pure Storage