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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 29 36
Rank change year-on-year -18 +7 +40
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 2,704 5,281 4,804
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.15% 5.88% 6.38%
As % of the System Software category 43.37% 52.22% 40.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1,942 4,122 4,130
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,500 £25,500
25th Percentile £29,750 £28,498 £30,731
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £38,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.32% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £65,625 £72,250
UK median annual salary £38,297 £37,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year +2.13% -6.25% -

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 6,235 10,113 11,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.88% 11.27% 15.87%
Number of salaries quoted 3,641 7,874 8,620
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £49,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,778 £86,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £49,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.06% -10.00% -

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 16 July 2025.

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 16 July 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
London -7 728 £49,000 -2.00% 330
North of England -43 497 £32,000 -12.33% 242
South East -26 456 £40,000 +5.26% 318
Midlands -4 429 £35,000 +3.04% 179
Yorkshire -5 265 £30,000 -15.37% 103
West Midlands -3 247 £39,000 +11.43% 98
East of England -23 247 £32,533 +3.28% 139
South West 0 229 £34,500 -6.76% 109
East Midlands -13 182 £31,500 -5.97% 81
North West -107 160 £36,599 -2.40% 109
North East +1 72 £32,000 -8.57% 34
South Coast - 1 £59,000 -
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
1 667 (24.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 413 (15.27%) SharePoint
3 72 (2.66%) IIS
4 34 (1.26%) Confluence
5 11 (0.41%) IBM Domino
5 11 (0.41%) Tomcat
6 10 (0.37%) Skype for Business
7 9 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2013
8 8 (0.30%) Exchange Server 2010
9 6 (0.22%) Apache
10 5 (0.18%) Liferay
11 4 (0.15%) CMS
11 4 (0.15%) Office Communications Server
11 4 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
12 3 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2007
13 2 (0.074%) Apache Airflow
13 2 (0.074%) BizTalk Server
14 1 (0.037%) Apache Spark
14 1 (0.037%) SharePoint 2010
14 1 (0.037%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 292 (10.80%) Microsoft Office
2 90 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 40 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.37%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.33%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.22%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 5 (0.18%) AutoCAD
8 3 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.074%) Acrobat
9 2 (0.074%) Microsoft Project
9 2 (0.074%) Revit
10 1 (0.037%) Autodesk Inventor
10 1 (0.037%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 24 (0.89%) Dynamics NAV
2 9 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.33%) SAP Business One
3 7 (0.26%) SAP ERP
4 6 (0.22%) Sage 200
5 5 (0.18%) Fidessa
6 4 (0.15%) Carpe Diem
7 3 (0.11%) Elite 3E
7 3 (0.11%) Sage 50
8 2 (0.074%) Eikon
8 2 (0.074%) Magento
8 2 (0.074%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.074%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.074%) Visualfiles
9 1 (0.037%) assyst
9 1 (0.037%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.037%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.037%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.037%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,423 (52.63%) Microsoft 365
2 1,256 (46.45%) Azure
3 725 (26.81%) Entra ID
4 330 (12.20%) AWS
5 178 (6.58%) OneDrive
6 103 (3.81%) Serverless
7 88 (3.25%) AWS Lambda
8 66 (2.44%) Mimecast
9 63 (2.33%) IaaS
10 58 (2.14%) SaaS
11 51 (1.89%) Power Platform
12 47 (1.74%) PaaS
13 44 (1.63%) Amazon EC2
14 41 (1.52%) Google Workspace
15 40 (1.48%) Azure Sentinel
16 38 (1.41%) Amazon S3
16 38 (1.41%) Cloud Computing
17 36 (1.33%) AWS KMS
17 36 (1.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 35 (1.29%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 682 (25.22%) Firewall
2 557 (20.60%) DNS
3 443 (16.38%) DHCP
4 297 (10.98%) Broadband
5 292 (10.80%) WAN
6 275 (10.17%) VPN
7 273 (10.10%) LAN
8 242 (8.95%) TCP/IP
9 208 (7.69%) VLAN
10 147 (5.44%) VoIP
11 139 (5.14%) Wi-Fi
12 133 (4.92%) SAN
13 125 (4.62%) SSL
14 107 (3.96%) Wireless
15 102 (3.77%) SSH
16 78 (2.88%) Network Security
16 78 (2.88%) Remote Desktop
17 58 (2.14%) SD-WAN
18 50 (1.85%) NAS
19 39 (1.44%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (5.73%) SQL Server
2 81 (3.00%) Amazon RDS
3 24 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (0.74%) Power BI
5 13 (0.48%) MySQL
6 12 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
7 11 (0.41%) NoSQL
8 10 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (0.18%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 5 (0.18%) MongoDB
9 5 (0.18%) Relational Database
9 5 (0.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (0.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (0.15%) Metadata
11 3 (0.11%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.074%) EDMS
12 2 (0.074%) HDInsight
12 2 (0.074%) Oracle Reports
12 2 (0.074%) Star Schema
12 2 (0.074%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 70 (2.59%) JIRA
2 43 (1.59%) Jenkins
3 40 (1.48%) Git
4 33 (1.22%) Vagrant
5 11 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (0.22%) Bitbucket Server
6 6 (0.22%) GitLab
7 5 (0.18%) Spinnaker
8 4 (0.15%) YouTrack
9 3 (0.11%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.11%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.11%) Metasploit
10 2 (0.074%) Subversion
11 1 (0.037%) Burp Suite
11 1 (0.037%) Fiddler
11 1 (0.037%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.037%) Selenium
11 1 (0.037%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.037%) WiX
General
1 1,236 (45.71%) Social Skills
2 228 (8.43%) Finance
3 180 (6.66%) Analytical Skills
4 130 (4.81%) Law
5 129 (4.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 97 (3.59%) Legal
6 97 (3.59%) Manufacturing
7 87 (3.22%) Organisational Skills
8 82 (3.03%) Retail
9 81 (3.00%) Public Sector
10 43 (1.59%) Telecoms
11 42 (1.55%) Banking
12 34 (1.26%) Advertising
13 29 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
14 27 (1.00%) Automotive
15 21 (0.78%) German Language
16 20 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
17 19 (0.70%) Aerospace
17 19 (0.70%) Games
18 16 (0.59%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 642 (23.74%) Support Engineer
2 573 (21.19%) IT Support
3 478 (17.68%) Analyst
4 309 (11.43%) Support Analyst
5 289 (10.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 276 (10.21%) IT Engineer
7 265 (9.80%) 2nd Line Support
8 208 (7.69%) IT Analyst
9 190 (7.03%) Senior
10 160 (5.92%) IT Support Analyst
11 154 (5.70%) IT Support Engineer
12 139 (5.14%) Cloud Engineer
13 134 (4.96%) Infrastructure Support
14 128 (4.73%) Technical Support
15 127 (4.70%) Desktop Support
16 121 (4.47%) 1st Line Support
17 116 (4.29%) 3rd Line Support
18 110 (4.07%) DevOps Engineer
19 99 (3.66%) Support Technician
20 98 (3.62%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (3.33%) Web Services
2 82 (3.03%) RESTful
3 31 (1.15%) LDAP
4 26 (0.96%) SailPoint
4 26 (0.96%) SAML
5 17 (0.63%) EDI
6 16 (0.59%) JSON
7 14 (0.52%) REST
8 11 (0.41%) XML
8 11 (0.41%) YAML
9 10 (0.37%) SOAP
10 9 (0.33%) .NET
10 9 (0.33%) OAuth
11 8 (0.30%) 802.1X
12 7 (0.26%) CSS
12 7 (0.26%) HTML
12 7 (0.26%) OpenID
13 6 (0.22%) React
14 5 (0.18%) Django
14 5 (0.18%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 206 (7.62%) Onboarding
2 166 (6.14%) Driving Licence
3 160 (5.92%) Management Information System
4 147 (5.44%) PKI
5 94 (3.48%) Cyber Threat
6 82 (3.03%) Cyberattack
7 73 (2.70%) NHS
7 73 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
8 71 (2.63%) Operational Technology
9 65 (2.40%) Data Centre
10 57 (2.11%) Clustering
11 55 (2.03%) Video Conferencing
12 40 (1.48%) iPhone
13 36 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
14 35 (1.29%) Replication
15 32 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
15 32 (1.18%) Social Media
16 29 (1.07%) Public Cloud
16 29 (1.07%) Virtual Team
17 28 (1.04%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 1,936 (71.60%) Windows
2 893 (33.03%) Windows Server
3 375 (13.87%) Windows 10
4 281 (10.39%) Linux
5 278 (10.28%) Windows Server 2012
6 184 (6.80%) Mac OS
7 163 (6.03%) Windows Server 2019
8 136 (5.03%) Windows Server 2016
9 98 (3.62%) Android
10 92 (3.40%) Apple iOS
11 56 (2.07%) VMS
12 38 (1.41%) Windows 7
13 35 (1.29%) Mac OS X
14 34 (1.26%) Unix
15 23 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 20 (0.74%) Ubuntu
17 15 (0.55%) Amazon Linux
18 13 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
19 11 (0.41%) CentOS
20 8 (0.30%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 647 (23.93%) Problem-Solving
2 552 (20.41%) Customer Service
3 507 (18.75%) ITIL
4 403 (14.90%) Cybersecurity
5 344 (12.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 253 (9.36%) Coaching
7 233 (8.62%) Proactive Monitoring
8 225 (8.32%) Proactive Maintenance
9 215 (7.95%) Broadcast Engineering
9 215 (7.95%) Post-Production
9 215 (7.95%) Procure-to-Pay
10 191 (7.06%) Continuous Improvement
11 183 (6.77%) DevOps
12 175 (6.47%) Mentoring
13 164 (6.07%) Disaster Recovery
13 164 (6.07%) Roadmaps
14 155 (5.73%) Identity Management
15 153 (5.66%) Incident Management
16 145 (5.36%) ITSM
17 130 (4.81%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 511 (18.90%) PowerShell
2 226 (8.36%) Python
3 199 (7.36%) SQL
4 43 (1.59%) Bash
5 34 (1.26%) Groovy
6 32 (1.18%) Java
7 20 (0.74%) Perl
8 19 (0.70%) JavaScript
9 11 (0.41%) Shell Script
9 11 (0.41%) VB
10 9 (0.33%) VBA
11 8 (0.30%) C#
11 8 (0.30%) Korn
12 5 (0.18%) Bicep
13 4 (0.15%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.15%) VBScript
14 3 (0.11%) Progress 4GL
14 3 (0.11%) Ruby
15 2 (0.074%) PHP
15 2 (0.074%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 592 (21.89%) Degree
2 278 (10.28%) Microsoft Certification
3 214 (7.91%) Security Cleared
4 125 (4.62%) SC Cleared
5 123 (4.55%) DBS Check
6 115 (4.25%) Azure Certification
7 94 (3.48%) DV Cleared
8 93 (3.44%) A+ Certification
9 80 (2.96%) Cisco Certification
10 72 (2.66%) MCSA
11 67 (2.48%) CCNA
12 60 (2.22%) Network+ Certification
13 57 (2.11%) MCSE
14 45 (1.66%) MCP
15 37 (1.37%) AWS Certification
16 36 (1.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 35 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
18 32 (1.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
19 31 (1.15%) CCNP
20 25 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 185 (6.84%) SLA
2 165 (6.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 118 (4.36%) NIST
4 80 (2.96%) GDPR
5 54 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials
6 17 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 13 (0.48%) PCI DSS
8 9 (0.33%) QA
9 7 (0.26%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.18%) ISO 9001
10 5 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
11 4 (0.15%) Accessibility
11 4 (0.15%) Data Quality
11 4 (0.15%) ISO 22301
12 3 (0.11%) ISO 14001
12 3 (0.11%) NCSC
13 2 (0.074%) COBIT
13 2 (0.074%) GRC
13 2 (0.074%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.074%) SOC 2
System Software
1 434 (16.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 328 (12.13%) Hyper-V
3 92 (3.40%) VMware ESXi
4 81 (3.00%) Virtual Servers
5 72 (2.66%) Virtual Desktop
6 62 (2.29%) Virtual Machines
7 57 (2.11%) vSphere
8 52 (1.92%) Docker
9 30 (1.11%) Terminal Services
9 30 (1.11%) XenApp
10 22 (0.81%) BitLocker
11 20 (0.74%) DFS Replication
12 9 (0.33%) Firmware
12 9 (0.33%) Microsoft App-V
13 8 (0.30%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 6 (0.22%) ISA Server
14 6 (0.22%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 5 (0.18%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 5 (0.18%) Terminal Server
15 5 (0.18%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 552 (20.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 173 (6.40%) SCCM
3 172 (6.36%) Terraform
4 91 (3.37%) Ansible
5 84 (3.11%) Single Sign-On
6 67 (2.48%) Kubernetes
7 53 (1.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 40 (1.48%) WSUS
9 39 (1.44%) Jamf Pro
10 38 (1.41%) vCenter Server
11 36 (1.33%) SCOM
12 33 (1.22%) Prometheus
13 31 (1.15%) Grafana
14 20 (0.74%) NetBackup
14 20 (0.74%) Puppet
15 18 (0.67%) FortiGate
16 17 (0.63%) Autotask
17 14 (0.52%) AirWatch
17 14 (0.52%) vMotion
18 11 (0.41%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 1,811 (66.97%) Microsoft
2 559 (20.67%) VMware
3 322 (11.91%) Cisco
4 224 (8.28%) Sun
5 152 (5.62%) Citrix
6 148 (5.47%) Apple
7 133 (4.92%) ServiceNow
8 132 (4.88%) Meraki
9 126 (4.66%) Veeam
10 94 (3.48%) Thales
11 82 (3.03%) HP
12 66 (2.44%) Google
13 64 (2.37%) Dell
14 59 (2.18%) Okta
15 49 (1.81%) Sophos
16 40 (1.48%) Fortinet
17 39 (1.44%) SonicWALL
18 36 (1.33%) Salesforce
19 35 (1.29%) SolarWinds
20 33 (1.22%) Palo Alto