Active Directory Job Trends in Dorchester

Microsoft Active Directory
Dorset > Dorchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Dorchester requiring Active Directory skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 - 14
Rank change year-on-year - - -7
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 2 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Dorchester 4.88% - 8.33%
As % of the System Software category 100.00% - 57.14%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £23,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £24,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -34.67%
75th Percentile - - £25,500
90th Percentile - - -
Dorset median annual salary £36,500 £30,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year +21.67% -18.92% -7.50%

All System Software Skills
Dorchester

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 Dorchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 2 6 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Dorchester 4.88% 23.08% 14.58%
Number of salaries quoted 0 6 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £23,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £50,000 £24,500
Median % change year-on-year - +104.08% -42.35%
75th Percentile - £60,313 £47,500
90th Percentile - £63,750 -
Dorset median annual salary £36,500 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -14.12% - -

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorchester

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

Active Directory job vacancy trend in Dorchester

Active Directory
Salary Trend in Dorchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Dorchester citing Active Directory.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Dorchester citing Active Directory

Active Directory
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorchester 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) IIS
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) IaaS
1 2 (100.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Support
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cyberattack
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Innovative Thinking
1 2 (100.00%) ISMS
1 2 (100.00%) Key Management
1 2 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Register
1 2 (100.00%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) VMware