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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 28 46
Rank change year-on-year -23 +18 +28
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 2,440 5,519 5,007
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.95% 6.14% 5.88%
As % of the System Software category 41.66% 51.33% 38.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,667 4,398 4,204
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,500 £25,420
25th Percentile £29,750 £28,250 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -6.25% -
75th Percentile £52,612 £52,500 £57,457
90th Percentile £73,000 £65,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £39,000 £37,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 5,857 10,752 13,077
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.88% 11.97% 15.35%
Number of salaries quoted 3,359 8,555 9,013
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £35,750 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £77,170 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £86,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £53,688 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.38% -9.09% -1.20%

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 -16 715 £50,000 - 225
North of England -67 412 £31,000 -11.43% 213
Midlands -12 386 £32,500 -2.99% 129
South East -37 386 £40,000 +6.67% 208
East of England -25 247 £32,500 +4.84% 89
West Midlands -12 227 £35,000 - 65
Yorkshire 0 224 £30,000 -7.69% 73
South West -20 170 £32,500 -13.33% 108
East Midlands -23 159 £31,500 -3.08% 64
North West -132 137 £37,500 - 103
North East -12 51 £32,000 -3.03% 42
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
1 567 (23.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 358 (14.67%) SharePoint
3 62 (2.54%) IIS
4 18 (0.74%) Confluence
5 13 (0.53%) Exchange Server 2013
6 12 (0.49%) Skype for Business
6 12 (0.49%) Tomcat
7 11 (0.45%) IBM Domino
8 9 (0.37%) Apache
9 8 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2010
10 5 (0.20%) Liferay
10 5 (0.20%) nginx
11 4 (0.16%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 4 (0.16%) Office Communications Server
11 4 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
12 3 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2007
12 3 (0.12%) WordPress
13 2 (0.082%) BizTalk Server
13 2 (0.082%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.082%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 287 (11.76%) Microsoft Office
2 90 (3.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 36 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.37%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.33%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.29%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 5 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.082%) Acrobat
8 2 (0.082%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.041%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.041%) Revit
9 1 (0.041%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 22 (0.90%) Dynamics NAV
2 7 (0.29%) SAP Business One
2 7 (0.29%) SAP ERP
3 6 (0.25%) Elite 3E
3 6 (0.25%) Sage 50
4 4 (0.16%) Carpe Diem
4 4 (0.16%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.16%) Sage 200
5 3 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.082%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.041%) assyst
7 1 (0.041%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.041%) Eikon
7 1 (0.041%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.041%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.041%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.041%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.041%) PeopleSoft HCM
7 1 (0.041%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.041%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,255 (51.43%) Microsoft 365
2 1,114 (45.66%) Azure
3 632 (25.90%) Entra ID
4 296 (12.13%) AWS
5 164 (6.72%) OneDrive
6 99 (4.06%) Serverless
7 89 (3.65%) AWS Lambda
8 61 (2.50%) Mimecast
9 48 (1.97%) Power Platform
10 44 (1.80%) IaaS
11 43 (1.76%) Google Workspace
11 43 (1.76%) SaaS
12 38 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
13 33 (1.35%) PaaS
14 32 (1.31%) GCP
15 28 (1.15%) Microsoft Copilot
15 28 (1.15%) Power Automate
16 27 (1.11%) Dynamics 365
17 25 (1.02%) Amazon EC2
18 24 (0.98%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 582 (23.85%) Firewall
2 445 (18.24%) DNS
3 353 (14.47%) DHCP
4 299 (12.25%) Broadband
5 282 (11.56%) WAN
6 266 (10.90%) LAN
7 240 (9.84%) VPN
8 178 (7.30%) VLAN
9 171 (7.01%) TCP/IP
10 148 (6.07%) VoIP
11 120 (4.92%) SAN
12 119 (4.88%) SSL
13 117 (4.80%) Wi-Fi
14 93 (3.81%) SSH
15 90 (3.69%) Wireless
16 76 (3.11%) Network Security
17 59 (2.42%) Remote Desktop
18 49 (2.01%) NAS
19 47 (1.93%) Cisco IOS
20 46 (1.89%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (5.49%) SQL Server
2 55 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
3 26 (1.07%) Power BI
4 18 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
6 10 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (0.33%) NoSQL
8 5 (0.20%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 5 (0.20%) MySQL
9 4 (0.16%) Metadata
10 3 (0.12%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.12%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.12%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.082%) EDMS
11 2 (0.082%) HDInsight
11 2 (0.082%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (0.082%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.082%) Star Schema
11 2 (0.082%) Tableau
12 1 (0.041%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 47 (1.93%) JIRA
2 28 (1.15%) Jenkins
3 24 (0.98%) Git
4 16 (0.66%) Vagrant
5 11 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (0.33%) GitLab
7 7 (0.29%) Bitbucket Server
8 4 (0.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.12%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.12%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.12%) Metasploit
10 2 (0.082%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.082%) Spinnaker
10 2 (0.082%) YouTrack
11 1 (0.041%) Burp Suite
11 1 (0.041%) Selenium
11 1 (0.041%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.041%) TestRail
11 1 (0.041%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.041%) WiX
General
1 1,084 (44.43%) Social Skills
2 228 (9.34%) Finance
3 168 (6.89%) Analytical Skills
4 122 (5.00%) Law
5 112 (4.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 105 (4.30%) Retail
7 93 (3.81%) Legal
8 68 (2.79%) Organisational Skills
9 59 (2.42%) Manufacturing
10 55 (2.25%) Public Sector
11 37 (1.52%) Banking
12 35 (1.43%) Telecoms
13 29 (1.19%) Automotive
14 21 (0.86%) Games
14 21 (0.86%) German Language
15 19 (0.78%) Advertising
16 16 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
16 16 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
17 12 (0.49%) Marketing
18 11 (0.45%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 581 (23.81%) Support Engineer
2 535 (21.93%) IT Support
3 411 (16.84%) Analyst
4 266 (10.90%) IT Engineer
5 251 (10.29%) Support Analyst
6 229 (9.39%) 2nd Line Support
6 229 (9.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 174 (7.13%) IT Analyst
8 170 (6.97%) Senior
9 154 (6.31%) IT Support Engineer
10 136 (5.57%) IT Support Analyst
11 123 (5.04%) Cloud Engineer
11 123 (5.04%) Desktop Support
12 108 (4.43%) 1st Line Support
13 101 (4.14%) DevOps Engineer
14 97 (3.98%) Infrastructure Support
15 94 (3.85%) 3rd Line Support
16 93 (3.81%) Service Analyst
17 90 (3.69%) Administrator
18 89 (3.65%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (3.48%) Web Services
2 82 (3.36%) RESTful
3 28 (1.15%) SailPoint
4 23 (0.94%) SAML
5 20 (0.82%) LDAP
6 15 (0.61%) JSON
7 12 (0.49%) REST
8 11 (0.45%) XML
8 11 (0.45%) YAML
9 10 (0.41%) SOAP
10 8 (0.33%) OAuth
10 8 (0.33%) React
11 7 (0.29%) CSS
11 7 (0.29%) EDI
11 7 (0.29%) HTML
12 6 (0.25%) .NET
12 6 (0.25%) 802.1X
13 5 (0.20%) OpenID
14 4 (0.16%) ARM Templates
15 3 (0.12%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 175 (7.17%) Onboarding
2 165 (6.76%) Management Information System
3 132 (5.41%) PKI
4 131 (5.37%) Driving Licence
5 91 (3.73%) Cyber Threat
6 82 (3.36%) Cyberattack
7 73 (2.99%) NHS
8 70 (2.87%) Operational Technology
9 69 (2.83%) Data Centre
10 57 (2.34%) CCTV
11 56 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
12 53 (2.17%) Clustering
13 47 (1.93%) Video Conferencing
14 32 (1.31%) iPhone
15 29 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
15 29 (1.19%) Replication
16 28 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
16 28 (1.15%) Social Media
16 28 (1.15%) Virtual Team
17 24 (0.98%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1,749 (71.68%) Windows
2 735 (30.12%) Windows Server
3 387 (15.86%) Windows 10
4 270 (11.07%) Windows Server 2012
5 253 (10.37%) Linux
6 151 (6.19%) Mac OS
7 137 (5.61%) Windows Server 2016
8 116 (4.75%) Windows Server 2019
9 94 (3.85%) Android
10 85 (3.48%) Apple iOS
11 45 (1.84%) Mac OS X
12 37 (1.52%) Windows 7
13 35 (1.43%) VMS
14 29 (1.19%) Unix
15 25 (1.02%) Ubuntu
16 13 (0.53%) Windows Server 2008
17 12 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 10 (0.41%) CentOS
19 9 (0.37%) Windows 8
20 8 (0.33%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 574 (23.52%) Problem-Solving
2 471 (19.30%) Customer Service
3 450 (18.44%) ITIL
4 359 (14.71%) Cybersecurity
5 274 (11.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 250 (10.25%) Coaching
7 235 (9.63%) Proactive Monitoring
8 228 (9.34%) Proactive Maintenance
9 215 (8.81%) Broadcast Engineering
9 215 (8.81%) Post-Production
9 215 (8.81%) Procure-to-Pay
10 167 (6.84%) DevOps
11 153 (6.27%) Identity Management
12 149 (6.11%) Mentoring
13 147 (6.02%) Disaster Recovery
14 145 (5.94%) Roadmaps
15 142 (5.82%) Continuous Improvement
16 134 (5.49%) ITSM
17 122 (5.00%) Incident Management
18 117 (4.80%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 445 (18.24%) PowerShell
2 207 (8.48%) Python
3 179 (7.34%) SQL
4 39 (1.60%) Bash
5 24 (0.98%) Java
6 19 (0.78%) JavaScript
7 15 (0.61%) Groovy
8 12 (0.49%) Shell Script
9 9 (0.37%) Perl
9 9 (0.37%) VBA
10 6 (0.25%) C#
11 5 (0.20%) Bicep
12 4 (0.16%) VB
13 3 (0.12%) Progress 4GL
13 3 (0.12%) Ruby
13 3 (0.12%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.12%) VBScript
14 2 (0.082%) Korn
14 2 (0.082%) PHP
14 2 (0.082%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 594 (24.34%) Degree
2 262 (10.74%) Microsoft Certification
3 170 (6.97%) Security Cleared
4 121 (4.96%) DBS Check
5 96 (3.93%) SC Cleared
6 89 (3.65%) Cisco Certification
7 88 (3.61%) Azure Certification
8 84 (3.44%) A+ Certification
9 81 (3.32%) DV Cleared
10 70 (2.87%) CCNA
11 62 (2.54%) MCSA
12 52 (2.13%) Network+ Certification
13 50 (2.05%) MCSE
14 47 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
15 38 (1.56%) CCNP
16 37 (1.52%) MCP
17 30 (1.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 30 (1.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 27 (1.11%) AWS Certification
19 26 (1.07%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 185 (7.58%) SLA
2 144 (5.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 108 (4.43%) NIST
4 64 (2.62%) GDPR
5 41 (1.68%) Cyber Essentials
6 14 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 9 (0.37%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.29%) QA
9 6 (0.25%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.20%) ISO 9001
10 5 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
11 4 (0.16%) Data Quality
12 3 (0.12%) Accessibility
12 3 (0.12%) COBIT
12 3 (0.12%) ISO 14001
12 3 (0.12%) ISO 22301
12 3 (0.12%) NCSC
12 3 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.082%) GRC
13 2 (0.082%) SOC 2
System Software
1 386 (15.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 254 (10.41%) Hyper-V
3 91 (3.73%) VMware ESXi
4 77 (3.16%) Virtual Desktop
5 76 (3.11%) Virtual Servers
6 53 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
7 51 (2.09%) vSphere
8 44 (1.80%) Docker
9 32 (1.31%) XenApp
10 27 (1.11%) Terminal Services
11 17 (0.70%) BitLocker
12 9 (0.37%) DFS Replication
12 9 (0.37%) Firmware
12 9 (0.37%) Microsoft App-V
13 5 (0.20%) ISA Server
13 5 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 5 (0.20%) VMware NSX
14 4 (0.16%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 4 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
14 4 (0.16%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 480 (19.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 166 (6.80%) SCCM
3 160 (6.56%) Terraform
4 85 (3.48%) Ansible
5 76 (3.11%) Single Sign-On
6 55 (2.25%) Kubernetes
7 50 (2.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 36 (1.48%) Jamf Pro
8 36 (1.48%) vCenter Server
9 33 (1.35%) WSUS
10 27 (1.11%) SCOM
11 20 (0.82%) Puppet
12 18 (0.74%) Prometheus
13 16 (0.66%) NetBackup
14 14 (0.57%) AirWatch
14 14 (0.57%) Grafana
14 14 (0.57%) vMotion
15 12 (0.49%) FortiGate
15 12 (0.49%) Nagios
16 9 (0.37%) Nessus
Vendors
1 1,608 (65.90%) Microsoft
2 518 (21.23%) VMware
3 300 (12.30%) Cisco
4 223 (9.14%) Sun
5 173 (7.09%) Citrix
6 146 (5.98%) Apple
7 131 (5.37%) Meraki
8 119 (4.88%) Veeam
9 114 (4.67%) ServiceNow
10 87 (3.57%) Thales
11 71 (2.91%) HP
12 68 (2.79%) Google
13 59 (2.42%) Okta
14 57 (2.34%) Dell
15 48 (1.97%) Fortinet
16 39 (1.60%) Sophos
17 37 (1.52%) SonicWALL
18 33 (1.35%) SolarWinds
19 32 (1.31%) Palo Alto
19 32 (1.31%) SAP