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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 51 65
Rank change year-on-year +24 +14 -23
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 5,661 5,401 6,699
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.67% 5.79% 5.12%
As % of the System Software category 51.79% 37.52% 28.37%
Number of salaries quoted 4,603 4,490 5,587
10th Percentile £24,500 £25,146 £24,500
25th Percentile £28,500 £30,250 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £56,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
UK median annual salary £38,000 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%

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 10,931 14,396 23,617
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 12.89% 15.44% 18.07%
Number of salaries quoted 8,862 9,766 13,983
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £38,331
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -1.79% +1.82%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £86,949 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £56,325
% change year-on-year -9.09% -2.35% +2.41%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +28 1,544 £52,500 +5.00% 228
South East +5 1,232 £37,500 +10.29% 202
North of England +38 1,074 £33,500 -11.84% 182
Midlands +21 765 £33,500 -8.22% 156
South West +26 547 £38,000 +6.29% 85
North West +11 497 £37,500 -6.25% 107
East of England +12 476 £31,000 -17.33% 102
West Midlands +24 466 £35,000 -6.67% 104
Yorkshire +42 389 £32,500 -11.85% 55
East Midlands +14 293 £33,500 -5.63% 52
North East +28 188 £33,000 -8.33% 24
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 1,624 (28.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 891 (15.74%) SharePoint
3 147 (2.60%) IIS
4 45 (0.79%) Exchange Server 2013
5 36 (0.64%) Exchange Server 2010
6 28 (0.49%) Confluence
7 26 (0.46%) Skype for Business
8 22 (0.39%) OpenStack
9 18 (0.32%) WordPress
10 17 (0.30%) CMS
11 14 (0.25%) SharePoint 2013
12 12 (0.21%) SharePoint 2010
12 12 (0.21%) Tomcat
13 11 (0.19%) Apache
13 11 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2007
14 8 (0.14%) SAS
15 6 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2000
15 6 (0.11%) Site Server
16 5 (0.088%) SharePoint Server
17 4 (0.071%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 898 (15.86%) Microsoft Office
2 121 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 47 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
5 13 (0.23%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.088%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.071%) AutoCAD
9 3 (0.053%) SPSS
10 2 (0.035%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.035%) CATIA
10 2 (0.035%) InCopy
10 2 (0.035%) InDesign
10 2 (0.035%) NASTRAN
11 1 (0.018%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.018%) PTC Creo
11 1 (0.018%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.018%) Weka
Business Applications
1 28 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.23%) NEC Housing
3 9 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
4 8 (0.14%) SAP ERP
5 6 (0.11%) Adaptiv
5 6 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
5 6 (0.11%) Elite 3E
6 5 (0.088%) Sage 200
7 4 (0.071%) Eikon
7 4 (0.071%) Epicor Tropos
7 4 (0.071%) Sage X3
7 4 (0.071%) SAP Business One
8 3 (0.053%) assyst
8 3 (0.053%) iTrent
8 3 (0.053%) SAP S/4HANA
8 3 (0.053%) Teamcenter
9 2 (0.035%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 1 (0.018%) Carpe Diem
10 1 (0.018%) MIS ActiveH
10 1 (0.018%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 3,475 (61.38%) Microsoft 365
2 2,759 (48.74%) Azure
3 1,501 (26.51%) Entra ID
4 440 (7.77%) AWS
5 383 (6.77%) OneDrive
6 158 (2.79%) IaaS
7 154 (2.72%) Power Platform
8 141 (2.49%) SaaS
9 123 (2.17%) Mimecast
10 117 (2.07%) PaaS
11 101 (1.78%) Azure DevOps
12 91 (1.61%) GCP
13 85 (1.50%) Power Automate
14 82 (1.45%) Google Workspace
15 71 (1.25%) PowerApps
16 67 (1.18%) Cloud Computing
17 66 (1.17%) Azure Monitor
17 66 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
18 64 (1.13%) Nutanix
19 53 (0.94%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1,255 (22.17%) DNS
1 1,255 (22.17%) Firewall
2 967 (17.08%) DHCP
3 806 (14.24%) WAN
4 669 (11.82%) LAN
5 587 (10.37%) VPN
6 494 (8.73%) TCP/IP
7 428 (7.56%) SAN
8 387 (6.84%) Wireless
9 348 (6.15%) Wi-Fi
10 310 (5.48%) VLAN
11 261 (4.61%) Broadband
12 257 (4.54%) VoIP
13 223 (3.94%) SD-WAN
14 220 (3.89%) 5G
15 162 (2.86%) Internet
16 155 (2.74%) Network Security
17 141 (2.49%) NAS
18 133 (2.35%) Cisco IOS
19 128 (2.26%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 378 (6.68%) SQL Server
2 100 (1.77%) Amazon RDS
3 91 (1.61%) Power BI
4 68 (1.20%) MySQL
5 47 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
6 46 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
7 44 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 30 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 28 (0.49%) Relational Database
10 20 (0.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 19 (0.34%) Oracle Database
12 18 (0.32%) MongoDB
13 14 (0.25%) Redis
14 12 (0.21%) Amazon Redshift
14 12 (0.21%) RDBMS
15 11 (0.19%) Data Warehouse
15 11 (0.19%) Elasticsearch
15 11 (0.19%) MariaDB
16 10 (0.18%) NoSQL
17 8 (0.14%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 76 (1.34%) JIRA
2 45 (0.79%) Jenkins
3 32 (0.57%) Git
4 25 (0.44%) GitLab
5 20 (0.35%) Bitbucket
6 11 (0.19%) MSI
7 10 (0.18%) Trac
7 10 (0.18%) Visual Studio
8 6 (0.11%) Robot Framework
8 6 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (0.088%) Katalon Studio
10 4 (0.071%) AdminStudio
10 4 (0.071%) Hudson
10 4 (0.071%) InstallShield
10 4 (0.071%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 3 (0.053%) Moq
11 3 (0.053%) Postman
11 3 (0.053%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.053%) SpecFlow
12 2 (0.035%) webpack
General
1 1,850 (32.68%) Social Skills
2 684 (12.08%) Analytical Skills
3 579 (10.23%) Finance
4 362 (6.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 295 (5.21%) Law
6 213 (3.76%) Retail
7 202 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
8 173 (3.06%) Legal
9 151 (2.67%) Manufacturing
10 122 (2.16%) Telecoms
11 115 (2.03%) Public Sector
12 105 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
13 91 (1.61%) Banking
14 45 (0.79%) Games
14 45 (0.79%) Local Government
15 40 (0.71%) Back Office
16 35 (0.62%) Marketing
17 28 (0.49%) Aerospace
17 28 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
18 22 (0.39%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1,173 (20.72%) IT Support
2 991 (17.51%) Support Engineer
3 922 (16.29%) Analyst
4 797 (14.08%) IT Engineer
5 731 (12.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 676 (11.94%) Senior
7 540 (9.54%) IT Support Engineer
8 440 (7.77%) 2nd Line Support
9 357 (6.31%) IT Analyst
10 334 (5.90%) Support Analyst
11 327 (5.78%) IT Technician
12 302 (5.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 302 (5.33%) Service Analyst
13 281 (4.96%) Service Desk Analyst
14 252 (4.45%) 1st Line Support
15 239 (4.22%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
16 237 (4.19%) Lead
17 236 (4.17%) Technical Specialist
18 228 (4.03%) Support Technician
19 213 (3.76%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (1.27%) .NET
2 56 (0.99%) ARM Templates
3 46 (0.81%) LDAP
4 32 (0.57%) HTML
4 32 (0.57%) JSON
5 29 (0.51%) SAML
6 28 (0.49%) OAuth
7 23 (0.41%) CSS
8 21 (0.37%) 802.1X
9 20 (0.35%) .NET Core
10 18 (0.32%) SailPoint
11 17 (0.30%) React
12 16 (0.28%) OLE
13 15 (0.26%) REST
13 15 (0.26%) Web Services
14 14 (0.25%) LAMP
14 14 (0.25%) RESTful
15 13 (0.23%) YAML
16 12 (0.21%) EJB
17 11 (0.19%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 369 (6.52%) Driving Licence
2 308 (5.44%) Data Centre
3 255 (4.50%) Self-Motivation
4 218 (3.85%) Social Media
5 201 (3.55%) Management Information System
6 161 (2.84%) Onboarding
7 154 (2.72%) Video Conferencing
8 145 (2.56%) Replication
9 138 (2.44%) PKI
10 121 (2.14%) Public Cloud
11 117 (2.07%) Clustering
12 113 (2.00%) Wiki
13 96 (1.70%) Smartphone
14 61 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
14 61 (1.08%) iPad
15 57 (1.01%) iPhone
16 49 (0.87%) Private Cloud
17 46 (0.81%) Fat Client
17 46 (0.81%) Thin Client
18 44 (0.78%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 4,016 (70.94%) Windows
2 2,078 (36.71%) Windows Server
3 1,234 (21.80%) Windows 10
4 806 (14.24%) Linux
5 380 (6.71%) Windows Server 2016
6 356 (6.29%) Windows Server 2019
7 352 (6.22%) Windows Server 2012
8 293 (5.18%) Ubuntu
9 270 (4.77%) Android
10 218 (3.85%) Mac OS
11 186 (3.29%) Windows 7
12 145 (2.56%) Apple iOS
13 102 (1.80%) Windows Server 2008
14 85 (1.50%) Windows 8
15 84 (1.48%) VMS
16 69 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 49 (0.87%) Unix
18 39 (0.69%) Mac OS X
19 32 (0.57%) CentOS
20 31 (0.55%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,173 (20.72%) ITIL
2 1,096 (19.36%) Problem-Solving
3 981 (17.33%) Customer Service
4 941 (16.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 790 (13.96%) Cybersecurity
6 369 (6.52%) Service Management
7 357 (6.31%) Disaster Recovery
8 346 (6.11%) ITSM
9 304 (5.37%) DevOps
10 303 (5.35%) CRM
11 298 (5.26%) IT Strategy
12 296 (5.23%) Agile
13 295 (5.21%) Mentoring
14 292 (5.16%) Service Delivery
15 289 (5.11%) Migration
16 281 (4.96%) Project Management
17 276 (4.88%) Continuous Improvement
18 269 (4.75%) Incident Management
19 250 (4.42%) Mobile Device Management
20 239 (4.22%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 923 (16.30%) PowerShell
2 603 (10.65%) SQL
3 359 (6.34%) Bash
4 175 (3.09%) Python
5 102 (1.80%) C#
6 45 (0.79%) VB
7 44 (0.78%) T-SQL
8 39 (0.69%) Bicep
9 36 (0.64%) Perl
10 35 (0.62%) VBScript
11 34 (0.60%) JavaScript
12 30 (0.53%) Java
13 29 (0.51%) PL/SQL
14 17 (0.30%) R
15 15 (0.26%) Ruby
16 13 (0.23%) TypeScript
17 10 (0.18%) ActionScript
17 10 (0.18%) Korn
18 9 (0.16%) VB.NET
19 7 (0.12%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 795 (14.04%) Degree
2 535 (9.45%) Security Cleared
3 468 (8.27%) Microsoft Certification
4 324 (5.72%) SC Cleared
5 261 (4.61%) DV Cleared
6 196 (3.46%) Cisco Certification
7 194 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
8 170 (3.00%) A+ Certification
9 157 (2.77%) DBS Check
10 156 (2.76%) CCNA
11 147 (2.60%) MCP
12 145 (2.56%) Azure Certification
13 136 (2.40%) MCSE
14 123 (2.17%) Master's Degree
15 101 (1.78%) MCSA
16 90 (1.59%) ITIL Certification
17 73 (1.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 53 (0.94%) Network+ Certification
19 47 (0.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
20 42 (0.74%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 463 (8.18%) SLA
2 110 (1.94%) Cyber Essentials
3 107 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 91 (1.61%) GDPR
5 30 (0.53%) NIST
6 26 (0.46%) Accessibility
7 17 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 16 (0.28%) Data Quality
9 11 (0.19%) QA
9 11 (0.19%) SOC 2
10 10 (0.18%) PMO
11 8 (0.14%) PCI DSS
12 7 (0.12%) GRC
13 6 (0.11%) NIST 800
14 4 (0.071%) ISO 9001
14 4 (0.071%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.053%) NCSC
16 2 (0.035%) ISAE 3402
16 2 (0.035%) ITGC
17 1 (0.018%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 1,152 (20.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 919 (16.23%) Hyper-V
3 371 (6.55%) VMware ESXi
4 215 (3.80%) XenApp
5 198 (3.50%) vSphere
6 190 (3.36%) XenDesktop
7 159 (2.81%) Virtual Desktop
8 138 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
9 116 (2.05%) Microsoft App-V
10 79 (1.40%) Virtual Servers
11 67 (1.18%) Docker
12 47 (0.83%) VirtualBox
13 41 (0.72%) Firmware
14 26 (0.46%) VMware Workstation
15 25 (0.44%) Terminal Services
16 21 (0.37%) VMware Server
17 19 (0.34%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 18 (0.32%) NFS
18 18 (0.32%) pfSense
19 15 (0.26%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 1,117 (19.73%) Microsoft Intune
2 678 (11.98%) SCCM
3 263 (4.65%) Jamf Pro
4 187 (3.30%) WSUS
5 155 (2.74%) vCenter Server
6 126 (2.23%) Single Sign-On
7 119 (2.10%) AirWatch
7 119 (2.10%) SCOM
8 113 (2.00%) Terraform
9 111 (1.96%) Ansible
10 109 (1.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 92 (1.63%) Kubernetes
12 50 (0.88%) Failover Clustering
13 46 (0.81%) FortiGate
14 43 (0.76%) NetBackup
15 39 (0.69%) Microsoft Clustering
16 33 (0.58%) ZABBIX
17 32 (0.57%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
18 29 (0.51%) Backup Exec
19 25 (0.44%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3,841 (67.85%) Microsoft
2 1,708 (30.17%) VMware
3 665 (11.75%) Cisco
4 591 (10.44%) Citrix
5 385 (6.80%) Veeam
6 232 (4.10%) Apple
6 232 (4.10%) CyberArk
7 210 (3.71%) Tanium
8 208 (3.67%) HP
9 198 (3.50%) ServiceNow
10 173 (3.06%) Dell
11 153 (2.70%) Google
12 133 (2.35%) Meraki
13 123 (2.17%) SolarWinds
14 98 (1.73%) NetApp
14 98 (1.73%) Sophos
15 97 (1.71%) Oracle
16 87 (1.54%) Fortinet
17 80 (1.41%) Aruba
18 78 (1.38%) Red Hat