Active Directory Jobs in England

Microsoft Active Directory
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 34 76
Rank change year-on-year +3 +42 -19
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 4,384 4,606 6,872
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.59% 6.48% 4.67%
As % of the System Software category 51.80% 40.43% 27.62%
Number of salaries quoted 3,318 3,973 5,653
10th Percentile £25,500 £25,500 £24,750
25th Percentile £29,448 £30,750 £29,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.88%
75th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year - - -5.88%

All System Software Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 8,463 11,392 24,880
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.80% 16.03% 16.92%
Number of salaries quoted 6,390 8,265 13,701
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,000 £28,189
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 £38,117
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £67,968 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £93,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in England

Active Directory
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Active Directory in England

Active Directory
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in England over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Active Directory in England

Active Directory
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Active Directory within the England region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
London -6 1,087 £52,000 +4.00% 102
South East -4 983 £40,000 +12.68% 148
North of England +22 860 £37,500 +4.17% 170
Midlands +17 638 £35,000 -3.45% 79
South West +19 453 £37,000 - 93
North West +10 413 £38,000 -8.43% 76
West Midlands +11 388 £36,000 +1.77% 54
East of England +6 343 £32,000 -8.57% 53
Yorkshire +16 323 £35,225 +8.38% 63
East Midlands +2 246 £35,000 -6.67% 25
North East +15 124 £35,750 -8.94% 36
Active Directory
UK

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1,111 (25.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 731 (16.67%) SharePoint
3 86 (1.96%) IIS
4 33 (0.75%) Exchange Server 2013
5 21 (0.48%) SharePoint 2010
5 21 (0.48%) SharePoint 2013
6 19 (0.43%) Skype for Business
7 18 (0.41%) OpenStack
8 15 (0.34%) Tomcat
9 14 (0.32%) Confluence
10 13 (0.30%) Exchange Server 2010
11 9 (0.21%) WordPress
12 8 (0.18%) Apache
13 6 (0.14%) CMS
13 6 (0.14%) SharePoint Server
14 5 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2007
14 5 (0.11%) IBM Domino
15 4 (0.091%) BizTalk Server
15 4 (0.091%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
15 4 (0.091%) Exchange Server 2000
Applications
1 683 (15.58%) Microsoft Office
2 111 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 47 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.41%) MS Visio
5 15 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.068%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.046%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.023%) CATIA
9 1 (0.023%) NASTRAN
9 1 (0.023%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.023%) Weka
Business Applications
1 17 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
2 16 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
4 5 (0.11%) Elite 3E
4 5 (0.11%) Sage 200
4 5 (0.11%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.091%) Eikon
6 3 (0.068%) iTrent
6 3 (0.068%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.068%) Sage X3
7 2 (0.046%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.023%) assyst
8 1 (0.023%) Carpe Diem
8 1 (0.023%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.023%) Epicor Tropos
8 1 (0.023%) MIS ActiveH
8 1 (0.023%) Sage 300 ERP
Cloud Services
1 2,572 (58.67%) Microsoft 365
2 2,261 (51.57%) Azure
3 1,348 (30.75%) Entra ID
4 356 (8.12%) AWS
5 309 (7.05%) OneDrive
6 125 (2.85%) IaaS
7 121 (2.76%) SaaS
8 115 (2.62%) Power Platform
9 102 (2.33%) Mimecast
10 82 (1.87%) PaaS
11 81 (1.85%) Azure Monitor
12 80 (1.82%) GCP
13 79 (1.80%) Dynamics 365
14 77 (1.76%) Azure DevOps
15 72 (1.64%) Cloud Computing
16 69 (1.57%) Power Automate
17 66 (1.51%) Azure Storage
18 62 (1.41%) Google Workspace
19 59 (1.35%) PowerApps
20 45 (1.03%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 950 (21.67%) DNS
2 926 (21.12%) Firewall
3 702 (16.01%) DHCP
4 559 (12.75%) WAN
5 554 (12.64%) LAN
6 437 (9.97%) VPN
7 401 (9.15%) TCP/IP
8 299 (6.82%) SAN
9 255 (5.82%) Broadband
10 243 (5.54%) VLAN
11 239 (5.45%) Wi-Fi
12 227 (5.18%) Wireless
13 219 (5.00%) 5G
14 172 (3.92%) VoIP
15 153 (3.49%) Internet
16 140 (3.19%) Network Security
17 115 (2.62%) NAS
18 97 (2.21%) Remote Desktop
19 91 (2.08%) SD-WAN
20 85 (1.94%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 273 (6.23%) SQL Server
2 88 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
3 69 (1.57%) Power BI
4 49 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
5 45 (1.03%) MySQL
6 33 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
7 23 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 18 (0.41%) Redis
9 17 (0.39%) Relational Database
10 14 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 13 (0.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 11 (0.25%) MariaDB
12 11 (0.25%) Oracle Database
13 9 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
13 9 (0.21%) Elasticsearch
13 9 (0.21%) NoSQL
14 8 (0.18%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (0.18%) RDBMS
15 6 (0.14%) InfluxDB
16 5 (0.11%) MaxDB
Development Applications
1 57 (1.30%) JIRA
2 43 (0.98%) Git
3 30 (0.68%) Jenkins
4 21 (0.48%) MSI
5 15 (0.34%) GitLab
6 13 (0.30%) AdminStudio
6 13 (0.30%) InstallShield
7 10 (0.23%) Visual Studio
8 9 (0.21%) Trac
9 7 (0.16%) Katalon Studio
10 6 (0.14%) Robot Framework
10 6 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
12 4 (0.091%) Moq
12 4 (0.091%) Octopus Deploy
12 4 (0.091%) Postman
12 4 (0.091%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.091%) SpecFlow
13 3 (0.068%) Axure RP
14 2 (0.046%) Hudson
General
1 1,344 (30.66%) Social Skills
2 612 (13.96%) Analytical Skills
3 531 (12.11%) Finance
4 311 (7.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 207 (4.72%) Law
6 169 (3.85%) Legal
7 146 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
8 136 (3.10%) Retail
9 125 (2.85%) Manufacturing
10 104 (2.37%) Telecoms
11 94 (2.14%) Public Sector
12 93 (2.12%) Banking
13 90 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
14 40 (0.91%) Games
15 38 (0.87%) Local Government
16 32 (0.73%) Back Office
17 29 (0.66%) Advertising
17 29 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
18 26 (0.59%) Marketing
19 22 (0.50%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 739 (16.86%) Analyst
2 720 (16.42%) Support Engineer
3 711 (16.22%) IT Support
4 600 (13.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 584 (13.32%) Senior
6 543 (12.39%) IT Engineer
7 339 (7.73%) 2nd Line Support
8 332 (7.57%) IT Support Engineer
9 275 (6.27%) IT Analyst
10 264 (6.02%) Support Analyst
11 252 (5.75%) Service Analyst
12 248 (5.66%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 244 (5.57%) IT Technician
14 235 (5.36%) Service Desk Analyst
15 234 (5.34%) Technical Specialist
16 211 (4.81%) Linux Specialist
17 205 (4.68%) Lead
18 194 (4.43%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
19 169 (3.85%) Support Technician
20 159 (3.63%) 1st Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (1.25%) .NET
2 44 (1.00%) LDAP
3 39 (0.89%) ARM Templates
4 38 (0.87%) YAML
5 29 (0.66%) SAML
6 25 (0.57%) OAuth
7 22 (0.50%) HTML
8 21 (0.48%) REST
9 19 (0.43%) .NET Core
10 18 (0.41%) React
11 17 (0.39%) 802.1X
11 17 (0.39%) SailPoint
12 16 (0.36%) CSS
12 16 (0.36%) Web Services
13 14 (0.32%) OLE
14 9 (0.21%) ADO
14 9 (0.21%) RabbitMQ
14 9 (0.21%) RESTful
15 8 (0.18%) EJB
15 8 (0.18%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 247 (5.63%) Driving Licence
2 222 (5.06%) Data Centre
3 216 (4.93%) Management Information System
4 212 (4.84%) Social Media
5 176 (4.01%) Self-Motivation
6 120 (2.74%) PKI
7 117 (2.67%) Clustering
7 117 (2.67%) Onboarding
8 111 (2.53%) Replication
9 106 (2.42%) Public Cloud
10 81 (1.85%) Smartphone
11 63 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
12 56 (1.28%) iPhone
13 50 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
14 46 (1.05%) iPad
15 45 (1.03%) Video Conferencing
16 42 (0.96%) Cyberattack
16 42 (0.96%) Private Cloud
17 40 (0.91%) Fat Client
17 40 (0.91%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 2,922 (66.65%) Windows
2 1,471 (33.55%) Windows Server
3 885 (20.19%) Windows 10
4 648 (14.78%) Linux
5 295 (6.73%) Windows Server 2016
6 276 (6.30%) Ubuntu
6 276 (6.30%) Windows Server 2019
7 246 (5.61%) Windows Server 2012
8 168 (3.83%) Mac OS
9 166 (3.79%) Android
10 143 (3.26%) Apple iOS
11 110 (2.51%) Windows 7
12 72 (1.64%) Windows Server 2008
13 69 (1.57%) VMS
14 46 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 41 (0.94%) Mac OS X
16 33 (0.75%) CentOS
17 32 (0.73%) Windows 8
18 28 (0.64%) Unix
19 15 (0.34%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 895 (20.42%) ITIL
2 842 (19.21%) Problem-Solving
3 809 (18.45%) Customer Service
4 725 (16.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 719 (16.40%) Cybersecurity
6 378 (8.62%) Service Management
7 302 (6.89%) Agile
8 284 (6.48%) ITSM
9 274 (6.25%) CRM
10 265 (6.04%) IT Strategy
11 261 (5.95%) Service Delivery
12 257 (5.86%) Disaster Recovery
13 249 (5.68%) Change Management
14 244 (5.57%) DevOps
15 239 (5.45%) Artificial Intelligence
16 235 (5.36%) Project Management
17 222 (5.06%) Continuous Improvement
17 222 (5.06%) Incident Management
18 220 (5.02%) Migration
19 215 (4.90%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 709 (16.17%) PowerShell
2 479 (10.93%) SQL
3 316 (7.21%) Bash
4 142 (3.24%) Python
5 87 (1.98%) C#
6 55 (1.25%) VB
7 50 (1.14%) Bicep
8 41 (0.94%) Java
9 32 (0.73%) VBScript
10 24 (0.55%) JavaScript
11 21 (0.48%) Perl
12 18 (0.41%) ActionScript
12 18 (0.41%) R
13 16 (0.36%) T-SQL
14 14 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
15 9 (0.21%) PHP
15 9 (0.21%) TypeScript
16 7 (0.16%) PL/SQL
17 5 (0.11%) ABAP
17 5 (0.11%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 553 (12.61%) Degree
2 418 (9.53%) Security Cleared
3 396 (9.03%) Microsoft Certification
4 250 (5.70%) SC Cleared
5 189 (4.31%) DV Cleared
6 127 (2.90%) Azure Certification
7 126 (2.87%) Cisco Certification
8 124 (2.83%) A+ Certification
8 124 (2.83%) DBS Check
9 121 (2.76%) MCP
10 107 (2.44%) MCSE
11 94 (2.14%) CCNA
12 86 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
13 74 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
14 65 (1.48%) MCSA
15 48 (1.09%) MCITP
16 44 (1.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 36 (0.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 34 (0.78%) CCNP
19 32 (0.73%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 323 (7.37%) SLA
2 96 (2.19%) GDPR
3 95 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 82 (1.87%) Cyber Essentials
5 25 (0.57%) NIST
6 20 (0.46%) QA
7 19 (0.43%) Accessibility
8 14 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 13 (0.30%) PCI DSS
10 12 (0.27%) Data Quality
11 11 (0.25%) SOC 2
12 10 (0.23%) ISO 9001
13 8 (0.18%) HIPAA
13 8 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.14%) NIST 800
15 4 (0.091%) GRC
15 4 (0.091%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 4 (0.091%) PMO
16 3 (0.068%) JSP 440
16 3 (0.068%) NCSC
System Software
1 878 (20.03%) VMware Infrastructure
2 668 (15.24%) Hyper-V
3 232 (5.29%) VMware ESXi
4 167 (3.81%) vSphere
5 140 (3.19%) Virtual Machines
6 119 (2.71%) Virtual Desktop
7 105 (2.40%) XenApp
8 83 (1.89%) XenDesktop
9 54 (1.23%) Virtual Servers
10 50 (1.14%) Docker
11 47 (1.07%) RACF
12 27 (0.62%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 26 (0.59%) VMware Workstation
14 25 (0.57%) Firmware
15 21 (0.48%) Microsoft App-V
16 20 (0.46%) Terminal Services
17 18 (0.41%) VMware NSX
18 17 (0.39%) OpenSSH
19 16 (0.36%) NFS
19 16 (0.36%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 944 (21.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 516 (11.77%) SCCM
3 270 (6.16%) Jamf Pro
4 166 (3.79%) WSUS
5 139 (3.17%) Terraform
6 135 (3.08%) vCenter Server
7 109 (2.49%) Ansible
8 106 (2.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 105 (2.40%) Single Sign-On
10 101 (2.30%) SCOM
11 89 (2.03%) Kubernetes
12 42 (0.96%) Failover Clustering
13 32 (0.73%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
14 31 (0.71%) Microsoft Clustering
15 30 (0.68%) Backup Exec
16 26 (0.59%) ZABBIX
17 23 (0.52%) Grafana
18 22 (0.50%) FortiGate
19 21 (0.48%) NetBackup
20 20 (0.46%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 2,993 (68.27%) Microsoft
2 1,296 (29.56%) VMware
3 454 (10.36%) Cisco
4 351 (8.01%) Citrix
5 280 (6.39%) Veeam
6 278 (6.34%) CyberArk
7 210 (4.79%) Tanium
8 190 (4.33%) Dell
9 187 (4.27%) Apple
10 166 (3.79%) ServiceNow
11 162 (3.70%) HP
12 128 (2.92%) Google
13 111 (2.53%) Meraki
14 82 (1.87%) Fortinet
15 78 (1.78%) Oracle
16 76 (1.73%) SolarWinds
17 63 (1.44%) Sophos
18 62 (1.41%) IBM
19 57 (1.30%) Red Hat
20 56 (1.28%) NetApp