Active Directory Job Trends in the City of Westminster

Microsoft Active Directory
Central London > City of Westminster

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of Westminster requiring Active Directory skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 49 16
Rank change year-on-year +32 -33 -6
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 1 2 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of Westminster 1.61% 0.78% 3.51%
As % of the System Software category 20.00% 50.00% 18.18%
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - - £41,850
25th Percentile - £57,500 £42,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £60,000 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year - +37.93% -33.91%
75th Percentile - £62,500 £44,375
90th Percentile - - £44,750
Central London median annual salary £51,250 £47,745 £53,500
% change year-on-year +7.34% -10.76% +7.00%

All System Software Skills
City of Westminster

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 the City of Westminster.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 5 4 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 8.06% 1.57% 19.30%
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 11
10th Percentile - - £45,000
25th Percentile - £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £60,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - -25.00% +24.73%
75th Percentile - £62,500 £94,375
90th Percentile - - £95,000
Central London median annual salary £57,500 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -14.81% - -3.57%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Active Directory relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster.

Active Directory job vacancy trend in the City of Westminster

Active Directory
Salary Trend in the City of Westminster

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing Active Directory.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing Active Directory

Active Directory
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of Westminster by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Broadband
General
1 1 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) IAM Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SAML
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (100.00%) Cyberattack
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Programme Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
1 1 (100.00%) NIST