Active Directory Jobs in England

Microsoft Active Directory
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Active Directory skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Active Directory over the 6 months to 1 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 23 56 56
Rank change year-on-year +33 0 -18
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 3,880 6,131 6,182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.24% 5.59% 5.47%
As % of the System Software category 47.77% 36.57% 30.43%
Number of salaries quoted 3,347 5,218 5,227
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,420 £23,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £28,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £41,000 £39,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.22% +5.13% -6.02%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £56,125
90th Percentile £71,250 £70,075 £70,625
UK median annual salary £42,000 £41,156 £39,500
% change year-on-year +2.05% +4.19% -4.82%

All System Software Skills
England

Active Directory is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 8,123 16,765 20,317
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.24% 15.29% 17.96%
Number of salaries quoted 6,549 11,564 14,253
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £37,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £78,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £91,787 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,536 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.97% +0.98% -

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 1 December 2023.

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 1 December 2023. 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 +37 1,372 £52,500 +5.00% 326
South East +23 767 £41,000 +17.14% 330
North of England +14 622 £33,500 -8.99% 317
Midlands +21 462 £40,000 -1.23% 246
South West +29 394 £37,500 +8.70% 153
West Midlands +29 337 £40,503 -4.70% 156
North West +18 291 £37,500 +3.45% 160
Yorkshire +12 276 £32,500 -10.96% 114
East of England +17 217 £35,000 -12.50% 144
East Midlands +6 124 £37,500 +7.14% 90
North East +31 56 £33,000 -16.68% 48
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
1 592 (15.26%) SharePoint
2 420 (10.82%) MS Exchange
3 105 (2.71%) IIS
4 20 (0.52%) Exchange Server 2010
5 13 (0.34%) Confluence
6 11 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2013
6 11 (0.28%) Skype for Business
6 11 (0.28%) WebSphere
7 10 (0.26%) Apache
8 9 (0.23%) CMS
9 8 (0.21%) Site Server
10 5 (0.13%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.052%) nginx
11 2 (0.052%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.052%) SharePoint 2010
11 2 (0.052%) SharePoint 2013
11 2 (0.052%) WordPress
12 1 (0.026%) Drupal
12 1 (0.026%) Exchange Server 2007
12 1 (0.026%) Moodle
Applications
1 530 (13.66%) Microsoft Office
2 73 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 53 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (0.39%) AutoCAD
5 9 (0.23%) PTC Creo
5 9 (0.23%) SOLIDWORKS
6 7 (0.18%) InCopy
6 7 (0.18%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.18%) Photoshop
6 7 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.15%) Acrobat
7 6 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
7 6 (0.15%) InDesign
8 4 (0.10%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.077%) 1Password
10 2 (0.052%) InfoPath
10 2 (0.052%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.052%) Revit
11 1 (0.026%) SketchUp
11 1 (0.026%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.34%) Adaptiv
1 13 (0.34%) SAP Business One
2 12 (0.31%) iTrent
2 12 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
3 9 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
4 8 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.18%) Fidessa
6 6 (0.15%) Elite 3E
7 4 (0.10%) assyst
7 4 (0.10%) Cerner Millennium
7 4 (0.10%) Eikon
7 4 (0.10%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.077%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.077%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 3 (0.077%) SAP S/4HANA
9 2 (0.052%) Misys Equation
9 2 (0.052%) Sage 50
10 1 (0.026%) Dynamics NAV
10 1 (0.026%) Epicor Tropos
10 1 (0.026%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 2,427 (62.55%) Microsoft 365
2 2,061 (53.12%) Azure
3 995 (25.64%) Entra ID
4 430 (11.08%) AWS
5 212 (5.46%) IaaS
6 208 (5.36%) OneDrive
7 187 (4.82%) PaaS
8 155 (3.99%) SaaS
9 117 (3.02%) Azure DevOps
10 105 (2.71%) Power Platform
11 96 (2.47%) Mimecast
12 92 (2.37%) GCP
13 74 (1.91%) Azure Storage
14 68 (1.75%) WhatsApp
15 65 (1.68%) PowerApps
16 57 (1.47%) Azure Sentinel
16 57 (1.47%) Serverless
17 56 (1.44%) Azure Monitor
18 52 (1.34%) Power Automate
19 47 (1.21%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 950 (24.48%) DNS
2 822 (21.19%) Firewall
3 802 (20.67%) DHCP
4 542 (13.97%) WAN
5 479 (12.35%) VPN
6 444 (11.44%) LAN
7 335 (8.63%) TCP/IP
8 309 (7.96%) Wireless
9 281 (7.24%) SAN
10 248 (6.39%) VLAN
11 232 (5.98%) Wi-Fi
12 162 (4.18%) VoIP
13 155 (3.99%) SD-WAN
14 138 (3.56%) Internet
15 129 (3.32%) Cisco IOS
16 114 (2.94%) Remote Desktop
17 103 (2.65%) WebEx
18 90 (2.32%) NAS
19 88 (2.27%) Network Security
20 68 (1.75%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 376 (9.69%) SQL Server
2 127 (3.27%) Amazon RDS
3 66 (1.70%) MySQL
4 55 (1.42%) Power BI
5 47 (1.21%) Azure SQL Database
6 46 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
7 24 (0.62%) MongoDB
8 20 (0.52%) Oracle Database
9 19 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 18 (0.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 16 (0.41%) SAP HANA
12 14 (0.36%) Elasticsearch
13 12 (0.31%) InterSystems Cache
13 12 (0.31%) Metadata
13 12 (0.31%) Oracle Reports
14 6 (0.15%) Data Warehouse
14 6 (0.15%) DTS
14 6 (0.15%) InfluxDB
14 6 (0.15%) MariaDB
14 6 (0.15%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 61 (1.57%) JIRA
2 54 (1.39%) Jenkins
3 50 (1.29%) Git
4 32 (0.82%) GitLab
5 24 (0.62%) MSI
6 20 (0.52%) Artifactory
7 19 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
8 17 (0.44%) AdminStudio
8 17 (0.44%) InstallShield
9 16 (0.41%) SonarQube
10 12 (0.31%) Axure RP
10 12 (0.31%) Bitbucket
10 12 (0.31%) Maven
11 10 (0.26%) Chocolatey
12 9 (0.23%) Octopus Deploy
12 9 (0.23%) Visual Studio
13 7 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 5 (0.13%) TeamCity
15 4 (0.10%) Subversion
16 3 (0.077%) SpecFlow
General
1 1,130 (29.12%) Social Skills
2 491 (12.65%) Finance
3 217 (5.59%) Analytical Skills
4 182 (4.69%) Legal
5 180 (4.64%) Law
6 149 (3.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 144 (3.71%) Retail
8 129 (3.32%) Organisational Skills
9 120 (3.09%) Telecoms
10 114 (2.94%) Public Sector
11 113 (2.91%) Banking
12 63 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
13 53 (1.37%) Manufacturing
14 48 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
15 34 (0.88%) Financial Institution
16 33 (0.85%) Investment Banking
17 26 (0.67%) Marketing
18 23 (0.59%) Billing
19 22 (0.57%) Back Office
20 20 (0.52%) Military
Job Titles
1 758 (19.54%) Support Engineer
2 622 (16.03%) IT Support
3 615 (15.85%) Analyst
4 606 (15.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 475 (12.24%) Senior
6 453 (11.68%) IT Engineer
7 375 (9.66%) 2nd Line Support
8 319 (8.22%) Support Analyst
9 281 (7.24%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 261 (6.73%) IT Support Engineer
11 247 (6.37%) IT Analyst
12 213 (5.49%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
13 208 (5.36%) Desktop Support
14 184 (4.74%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 179 (4.61%) Service Analyst
16 175 (4.51%) 3rd Line Support
17 172 (4.43%) IT Support Analyst
18 166 (4.28%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
19 158 (4.07%) Service Desk Analyst
20 154 (3.97%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (1.52%) ARM Templates
2 51 (1.31%) .NET
3 50 (1.29%) JSON
4 41 (1.06%) Elastic Stack
5 35 (0.90%) LDAP
6 29 (0.75%) Web Services
7 27 (0.70%) SAML
8 26 (0.67%) HTML
8 26 (0.67%) YAML
9 20 (0.52%) XML
10 19 (0.49%) OAuth
11 17 (0.44%) .NET Framework
12 16 (0.41%) RabbitMQ
12 16 (0.41%) RESTful
13 13 (0.34%) REST
13 13 (0.34%) SailPoint
14 12 (0.31%) ASP.NET
15 11 (0.28%) MFC
15 11 (0.28%) Middleware
16 10 (0.26%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 248 (6.39%) Data Centre
2 169 (4.36%) Driving Licence
3 149 (3.84%) Management Information System
4 139 (3.58%) Self-Motivation
5 129 (3.32%) Video Conferencing
6 120 (3.09%) PKI
7 118 (3.04%) Public Cloud
8 96 (2.47%) Clustering
9 95 (2.45%) Wiki
10 89 (2.29%) Replication
11 78 (2.01%) Onboarding
12 70 (1.80%) Virtual Team
13 56 (1.44%) iPhone
14 51 (1.31%) CMDB
15 48 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
16 43 (1.11%) Smartphone
17 31 (0.80%) Life Science
18 30 (0.77%) Hedge funds
19 27 (0.70%) Fat Client
19 27 (0.70%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 2,859 (73.69%) Windows
2 1,513 (38.99%) Windows Server
3 947 (24.41%) Windows 10
4 367 (9.46%) Linux
5 336 (8.66%) Windows Server 2016
6 326 (8.40%) Windows Server 2019
7 318 (8.20%) Windows Server 2012
8 262 (6.75%) Android
9 194 (5.00%) Apple iOS
10 148 (3.81%) Mac OS
11 137 (3.53%) Windows 7
12 70 (1.80%) Windows 8
13 62 (1.60%) Windows Server 2008
14 54 (1.39%) Unix
15 52 (1.34%) Windows Server 2003
16 50 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 49 (1.26%) Ubuntu
18 46 (1.19%) VMS
19 31 (0.80%) Mac OS X
20 16 (0.41%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 874 (22.53%) ITIL
2 717 (18.48%) Problem-Solving
3 710 (18.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 709 (18.27%) Customer Service
5 314 (8.09%) DevOps
6 276 (7.11%) Disaster Recovery
7 260 (6.70%) Agile
8 251 (6.47%) Cybersecurity
9 234 (6.03%) Service Management
10 227 (5.85%) Migration
11 220 (5.67%) ITSM
12 217 (5.59%) Mobile Device Management
13 190 (4.90%) Service Delivery
14 183 (4.72%) Computer Science
15 181 (4.66%) Business Continuity
16 178 (4.59%) Project Management
17 172 (4.43%) Information Security
17 172 (4.43%) Project Delivery
18 170 (4.38%) Incident Management
19 167 (4.30%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 885 (22.81%) PowerShell
2 492 (12.68%) SQL
3 190 (4.90%) Python
4 130 (3.35%) Bash
5 99 (2.55%) C#
6 56 (1.44%) VB
7 36 (0.93%) Perl
8 34 (0.88%) VBScript
9 33 (0.85%) T-SQL
10 28 (0.72%) Bicep
11 26 (0.67%) JavaScript
12 22 (0.57%) Java
13 9 (0.23%) MATLAB
14 8 (0.21%) Ruby
15 7 (0.18%) Korn
16 6 (0.15%) C
16 6 (0.15%) PHP
16 6 (0.15%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.13%) Kusto Query Language
17 5 (0.13%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 609 (15.70%) Degree
2 489 (12.60%) Security Cleared
3 370 (9.54%) SC Cleared
4 299 (7.71%) Microsoft Certification
5 212 (5.46%) DV Cleared
6 163 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 130 (3.35%) Azure Certification
8 121 (3.12%) MCSE
9 113 (2.91%) Cisco Certification
10 101 (2.60%) Master's Degree
11 98 (2.53%) CCNA
12 92 (2.37%) MCSA
13 84 (2.16%) ITIL Certification
14 63 (1.62%) A+ Certification
15 57 (1.47%) MCP
16 49 (1.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 45 (1.16%) DBS Check
18 41 (1.06%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
19 38 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
20 34 (0.88%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 357 (9.20%) SLA
2 108 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 103 (2.65%) Cyber Essentials
4 46 (1.19%) QA
5 41 (1.06%) GDPR
6 33 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 32 (0.82%) NIST
8 14 (0.36%) Accessibility
9 12 (0.31%) PCI DSS
10 10 (0.26%) NCSC
11 8 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 5 (0.13%) Data Quality
12 5 (0.13%) Disclosure Scotland
12 5 (0.13%) ISO 9001
12 5 (0.13%) PMO
12 5 (0.13%) RMADS
13 4 (0.10%) COBIT
13 4 (0.10%) HL7
14 3 (0.077%) GRC
14 3 (0.077%) ISAE 3402
System Software
1 907 (23.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 559 (14.41%) Hyper-V
3 264 (6.80%) VMware ESXi
4 173 (4.46%) vSphere
5 152 (3.92%) XenApp
6 147 (3.79%) Virtual Machines
7 139 (3.58%) Virtual Desktop
8 120 (3.09%) XenDesktop
9 116 (2.99%) Microsoft App-V
10 80 (2.06%) Firmware
11 71 (1.83%) Docker
12 53 (1.37%) Virtual Servers
13 34 (0.88%) VMware NSX
14 26 (0.67%) BitLocker
15 17 (0.44%) Terminal Services
16 16 (0.41%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 15 (0.39%) VMware Workstation
18 14 (0.36%) vCloud
19 11 (0.28%) Terminal Server
20 10 (0.26%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 738 (19.02%) SCCM
2 727 (18.74%) Microsoft Intune
3 170 (4.38%) SCOM
4 159 (4.10%) Terraform
5 139 (3.58%) Ansible
6 138 (3.56%) Kubernetes
7 121 (3.12%) WSUS
8 109 (2.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 98 (2.53%) AirWatch
10 88 (2.27%) vCenter Server
11 70 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
12 51 (1.31%) FortiGate
12 51 (1.31%) Jamf Pro
13 50 (1.29%) Failover Clustering
14 46 (1.19%) Microsoft Clustering
15 41 (1.06%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
16 40 (1.03%) Puppet
17 38 (0.98%) Nessus
18 26 (0.67%) Grafana
18 26 (0.67%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 2,521 (64.97%) Microsoft
2 1,283 (33.07%) VMware
3 543 (13.99%) Citrix
4 510 (13.14%) Cisco
5 214 (5.52%) Veeam
6 201 (5.18%) ServiceNow
7 192 (4.95%) HP
8 159 (4.10%) Apple
9 115 (2.96%) Meraki
10 113 (2.91%) Dell
11 110 (2.84%) SolarWinds
12 100 (2.58%) Google
12 100 (2.58%) Oracle
13 80 (2.06%) Palo Alto
13 80 (2.06%) Sophos
14 66 (1.70%) Aruba
15 60 (1.55%) Fortinet
16 58 (1.49%) Remedy
17 56 (1.44%) SAP
18 55 (1.42%) iManage