Active Directory Jobs in Cambridgeshire

Microsoft Active Directory
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 25 26
Rank change year-on-year +9 +1 +30
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 49 92 125
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 9.76% 5.86% 8.75%
As % of the System Software category 45.79% 37.86% 46.13%
Number of salaries quoted 36 63 106
10th Percentile £25,500 £24,600 £25,250
25th Percentile £26,250 £25,750 £28,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £32,000 £36,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £43,188 £43,750 £51,250
90th Percentile £64,375 £55,000 £66,250
East of England median annual salary £32,500 £31,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year +4.84% -17.33% +2.74%

All System Software Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 107 243 271
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 21.31% 15.48% 18.96%
Number of salaries quoted 78 182 173
10th Percentile £26,100 £24,810 £27,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £69,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £79,125 £92,500 £87,500
East of England median annual salary £45,000 £40,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% -13.98% +7.51%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Cambridgeshire

Active Directory
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Salary trend for Active Directory in Cambridgeshire

Active Directory
Salary Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Active Directory in Cambridgeshire

Active Directory
Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Active Directory within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 14 May 2025. 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
Cambridge +11 26 £30,000 -24.53% 20
Huntingdon +8 6 £34,000 -41.38% 2
Peterborough +2 4 £26,000 - 6
Ely +3 2 £42,475 +63.37%
Wisbech - 1 £32,450 -
Active Directory
East of England

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 12 (24.49%) SharePoint
2 10 (20.41%) IIS
3 9 (18.37%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (14.29%) Tomcat
5 6 (12.24%) Apache
6 3 (6.12%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (16.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 30 (61.22%) Microsoft 365
2 23 (46.94%) Azure
3 22 (44.90%) Entra ID
4 9 (18.37%) OneDrive
5 8 (16.33%) Mimecast
6 7 (14.29%) Microsoft Copilot
6 7 (14.29%) Power Automate
7 4 (8.16%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (6.12%) Nutanix
9 2 (4.08%) AWS
9 2 (4.08%) Power Platform
9 2 (4.08%) PowerApps
10 1 (2.04%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 15 (30.61%) Firewall
2 9 (18.37%) DNS
3 8 (16.33%) VLAN
3 8 (16.33%) VPN
4 7 (14.29%) DMARC
4 7 (14.29%) SSL
5 4 (8.16%) DHCP
6 3 (6.12%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (6.12%) HTTP
6 3 (6.12%) IPv4
7 2 (4.08%) LAN
7 2 (4.08%) TCP/IP
7 2 (4.08%) WAN
7 2 (4.08%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (4.08%) Wireless
8 1 (2.04%) Broadband
8 1 (2.04%) Intranet
8 1 (2.04%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (22.45%) SQL Server
2 7 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.08%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (6.12%) GitLab
1 3 (6.12%) Jenkins
1 3 (6.12%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 21 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 14 (28.57%) Organisational Skills
3 7 (14.29%) Czech Language
3 7 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (6.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.08%) Legal
5 2 (4.08%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.04%) Finance
6 1 (2.04%) Law
6 1 (2.04%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.04%) Marketing
6 1 (2.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (32.65%) IT Support
2 12 (24.49%) Administrator
3 11 (22.45%) IT Technician
4 9 (18.37%) IT Administrator
5 8 (16.33%) Analyst
6 7 (14.29%) Help Desk Technician
7 5 (10.20%) IT Engineer
7 5 (10.20%) Support Engineer
8 4 (8.16%) 2nd Line Support
8 4 (8.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (8.16%) IT Support Engineer
9 3 (6.12%) 1st Line Engineer
9 3 (6.12%) Security Analyst
9 3 (6.12%) Service Analyst
9 3 (6.12%) Service Desk Analyst
9 3 (6.12%) Systems Administrator
10 2 (4.08%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 2 (4.08%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 2 (4.08%) Senior
10 2 (4.08%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.29%) JSON
1 7 (14.29%) REST
1 7 (14.29%) SOAP
1 7 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (26.53%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (20.41%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (14.29%) Data Centre
4 5 (10.20%) Driving Licence
5 2 (4.08%) Biopharmaceutical
5 2 (4.08%) Blackberry
5 2 (4.08%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (4.08%) iPad
5 2 (4.08%) iPhone
5 2 (4.08%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.08%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.04%) PKI
6 1 (2.04%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 43 (87.76%) Windows
2 23 (46.94%) Windows Server
3 15 (30.61%) Linux
4 7 (14.29%) Unix
5 5 (10.20%) Apple iOS
6 4 (8.16%) Android
6 4 (8.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (8.16%) Windows 10
6 4 (8.16%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (4.08%) Mac OS
7 2 (4.08%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (2.04%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (44.90%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (20.41%) Agile
2 10 (20.41%) Cybersecurity
3 9 (18.37%) Customer Service
3 9 (18.37%) ITIL
3 9 (18.37%) Line Management
4 7 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
4 7 (14.29%) CRM
4 7 (14.29%) Data Privacy
4 7 (14.29%) Mathematics
4 7 (14.29%) Portfolio Management
4 7 (14.29%) Project Management
4 7 (14.29%) Roadmaps
4 7 (14.29%) Technology Roadmap
5 5 (10.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (10.20%) Service Delivery
6 4 (8.16%) Cost Reduction
7 3 (6.12%) Containerisation
7 3 (6.12%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (6.12%) Hardware Maintenance
Programming Languages
1 13 (26.53%) PowerShell
2 11 (22.45%) SQL
3 7 (14.29%) Java
3 7 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 7 (14.29%) VBA
4 6 (12.24%) Bash
5 1 (2.04%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (2.04%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (14.29%) DBS Check
2 4 (8.16%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.04%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.04%) CCNA
3 1 (2.04%) CCNP
3 1 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.04%) Degree
3 1 (2.04%) MCP
3 1 (2.04%) MCSA
3 1 (2.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (8.16%) GDPR
3 2 (4.08%) NIST
3 2 (4.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (8.16%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (6.12%) Hyper-V
3 3 (6.12%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (4.08%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.04%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 1 (2.04%) Firmware
5 1 (2.04%) VMware NSX
5 1 (2.04%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (18.37%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (12.24%) Ansible
4 3 (6.12%) Graylog
4 3 (6.12%) Nagios
4 3 (6.12%) Puppet
4 3 (6.12%) Rundeck
5 1 (2.04%) Dell DRAC
5 1 (2.04%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (2.04%) vCenter Server
5 1 (2.04%) vRealize
5 1 (2.04%) VxRail
5 1 (2.04%) WSUS
Vendors
1 37 (75.51%) Microsoft
2 8 (16.33%) Oracle
3 7 (14.29%) VMware
4 6 (12.24%) Cisco
5 5 (10.20%) Citrix
6 4 (8.16%) SolarWinds
7 3 (6.12%) Juniper
7 3 (6.12%) NetApp
7 3 (6.12%) PagerDuty
7 3 (6.12%) Palo Alto
7 3 (6.12%) Pure Storage
7 3 (6.12%) ServiceNow
8 2 (4.08%) Apple
8 2 (4.08%) Samsung
9 1 (2.04%) Dell
9 1 (2.04%) EMC
9 1 (2.04%) Isilon
9 1 (2.04%) McAfee
9 1 (2.04%) Red Hat
9 1 (2.04%) Sun