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

6 months to
30 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 2,419 5,510 5,024
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.94% 6.16% 5.82%
As % of the System Software category 41.55% 51.34% 37.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,648 4,402 4,211
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 £52,556 £52,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £73,225 £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 5,822 10,732 13,492
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.89% 12.00% 15.62%
Number of salaries quoted 3,332 8,561 9,046
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £35,938 £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 £77,500 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £86,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £53,875 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.75% -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 30 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 30 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 -14 712 £50,000 - 231
North of England -69 407 £31,000 -11.43% 221
South East -38 383 £40,000 +6.67% 211
Midlands -11 382 £32,500 -2.99% 134
East of England -22 246 £32,500 +4.84% 92
West Midlands -10 225 £35,000 - 70
Yorkshire -1 222 £30,000 -7.69% 76
South West -20 167 £32,500 -13.33% 110
East Midlands -22 157 £31,500 -3.08% 64
North West -134 134 £37,500 - 106
North East -12 51 £32,000 -3.03% 44
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
1 562 (23.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 354 (14.63%) SharePoint
3 61 (2.52%) IIS
4 17 (0.70%) Confluence
5 12 (0.50%) Exchange Server 2013
5 12 (0.50%) Tomcat
6 11 (0.45%) IBM Domino
6 11 (0.45%) Skype for Business
7 9 (0.37%) Apache
8 7 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2010
9 5 (0.21%) Liferay
9 5 (0.21%) nginx
10 4 (0.17%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 3 (0.12%) Office Communications Server
11 3 (0.12%) SharePoint Server
11 3 (0.12%) WordPress
12 2 (0.083%) Apache Airflow
12 2 (0.083%) BizTalk Server
12 2 (0.083%) Exchange Server 2007
12 2 (0.083%) WebSphere
Applications
1 284 (11.74%) Microsoft Office
2 90 (3.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 36 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.37%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.33%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.29%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 5 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.083%) Acrobat
8 2 (0.083%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.041%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.041%) Revit
9 1 (0.041%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 22 (0.91%) 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 (0.17%) Carpe Diem
4 4 (0.17%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.17%) Sage 200
5 3 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.083%) 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 1,242 (51.34%) Microsoft 365
2 1,099 (45.43%) Azure
3 628 (25.96%) Entra ID
4 291 (12.03%) AWS
5 161 (6.66%) OneDrive
6 99 (4.09%) Serverless
7 89 (3.68%) AWS Lambda
8 61 (2.52%) Mimecast
9 48 (1.98%) Power Platform
10 43 (1.78%) Google Workspace
10 43 (1.78%) IaaS
10 43 (1.78%) SaaS
11 38 (1.57%) Cloud Computing
12 33 (1.36%) PaaS
13 32 (1.32%) GCP
14 28 (1.16%) Microsoft Copilot
14 28 (1.16%) Power Automate
15 27 (1.12%) Dynamics 365
16 24 (0.99%) Azure Monitor
16 24 (0.99%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 573 (23.69%) Firewall
2 438 (18.11%) DNS
3 347 (14.34%) DHCP
4 299 (12.36%) Broadband
5 279 (11.53%) WAN
6 264 (10.91%) LAN
7 237 (9.80%) VPN
8 174 (7.19%) VLAN
9 168 (6.95%) TCP/IP
10 147 (6.08%) VoIP
11 119 (4.92%) SAN
11 119 (4.92%) SSL
12 115 (4.75%) Wi-Fi
13 93 (3.84%) SSH
14 88 (3.64%) Wireless
15 76 (3.14%) Network Security
16 59 (2.44%) Remote Desktop
17 49 (2.03%) NAS
18 47 (1.94%) Cisco IOS
19 45 (1.86%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (5.42%) SQL Server
2 54 (2.23%) Amazon RDS
3 26 (1.07%) Power BI
4 18 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 10 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (0.33%) NoSQL
8 5 (0.21%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 5 (0.21%) MySQL
9 4 (0.17%) Metadata
10 3 (0.12%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.12%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.12%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.083%) EDMS
11 2 (0.083%) HDInsight
11 2 (0.083%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (0.083%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.083%) Star Schema
11 2 (0.083%) Tableau
12 1 (0.041%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 46 (1.90%) JIRA
2 27 (1.12%) Jenkins
3 23 (0.95%) Git
4 15 (0.62%) Vagrant
5 10 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (0.33%) GitLab
7 7 (0.29%) Bitbucket Server
8 4 (0.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.12%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.12%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.083%) Metasploit
10 2 (0.083%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.083%) Spinnaker
10 2 (0.083%) YouTrack
11 1 (0.041%) Selenium
11 1 (0.041%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.041%) TestRail
11 1 (0.041%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.041%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.041%) WiX
General
1 1,071 (44.27%) Social Skills
2 226 (9.34%) Finance
3 165 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
4 122 (5.04%) Law
5 110 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 103 (4.26%) Retail
7 92 (3.80%) Legal
8 68 (2.81%) Organisational Skills
9 58 (2.40%) Manufacturing
10 55 (2.27%) Public Sector
11 37 (1.53%) Banking
12 35 (1.45%) Telecoms
13 29 (1.20%) Automotive
14 21 (0.87%) Games
14 21 (0.87%) German Language
15 18 (0.74%) Advertising
16 16 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
17 15 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
18 12 (0.50%) Marketing
19 11 (0.45%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 576 (23.81%) Support Engineer
2 529 (21.87%) IT Support
3 408 (16.87%) Analyst
4 264 (10.91%) IT Engineer
5 250 (10.33%) Support Analyst
6 227 (9.38%) 2nd Line Support
7 225 (9.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 172 (7.11%) IT Analyst
9 168 (6.95%) Senior
10 153 (6.32%) IT Support Engineer
11 135 (5.58%) IT Support Analyst
12 123 (5.08%) Cloud Engineer
12 123 (5.08%) Desktop Support
13 108 (4.46%) 1st Line Support
14 100 (4.13%) DevOps Engineer
15 96 (3.97%) Infrastructure Support
16 93 (3.84%) 3rd Line Support
17 92 (3.80%) Service Analyst
18 89 (3.68%) Administrator
19 88 (3.64%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (3.51%) Web Services
2 82 (3.39%) RESTful
3 28 (1.16%) SailPoint
4 23 (0.95%) SAML
5 20 (0.83%) LDAP
6 15 (0.62%) JSON
7 12 (0.50%) 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 (0.21%) OpenID
14 4 (0.17%) ARM Templates
15 3 (0.12%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 175 (7.23%) Onboarding
2 164 (6.78%) Management Information System
3 131 (5.42%) PKI
4 126 (5.21%) Driving Licence
5 91 (3.76%) Cyber Threat
6 82 (3.39%) Cyberattack
7 73 (3.02%) NHS
8 70 (2.89%) Operational Technology
9 68 (2.81%) Data Centre
10 57 (2.36%) CCTV
11 55 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
12 52 (2.15%) Clustering
13 47 (1.94%) Video Conferencing
14 32 (1.32%) iPhone
15 29 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
16 28 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
16 28 (1.16%) Social Media
16 28 (1.16%) Virtual Team
17 27 (1.12%) Replication
18 24 (0.99%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1,735 (71.72%) Windows
2 726 (30.01%) Windows Server
3 384 (15.87%) Windows 10
4 269 (11.12%) Windows Server 2012
5 251 (10.38%) Linux
6 149 (6.16%) Mac OS
7 135 (5.58%) Windows Server 2016
8 114 (4.71%) Windows Server 2019
9 92 (3.80%) Android
10 83 (3.43%) Apple iOS
11 45 (1.86%) Mac OS X
12 37 (1.53%) Windows 7
13 34 (1.41%) VMS
14 29 (1.20%) Unix
15 25 (1.03%) Ubuntu
16 13 (0.54%) Windows Server 2008
17 12 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 9 (0.37%) CentOS
18 9 (0.37%) Windows 8
19 8 (0.33%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 566 (23.40%) Problem-Solving
2 466 (19.26%) Customer Service
3 447 (18.48%) ITIL
4 359 (14.84%) Cybersecurity
5 270 (11.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 250 (10.33%) Coaching
7 235 (9.71%) Proactive Monitoring
8 228 (9.43%) Proactive Maintenance
9 215 (8.89%) Broadcast Engineering
9 215 (8.89%) Post-Production
9 215 (8.89%) Procure-to-Pay
10 165 (6.82%) DevOps
11 153 (6.32%) Identity Management
12 148 (6.12%) Mentoring
13 145 (5.99%) Disaster Recovery
13 145 (5.99%) Roadmaps
14 140 (5.79%) Continuous Improvement
15 134 (5.54%) ITSM
16 122 (5.04%) Incident Management
17 115 (4.75%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 441 (18.23%) PowerShell
2 204 (8.43%) Python
3 177 (7.32%) SQL
4 38 (1.57%) Bash
5 24 (0.99%) Java
6 19 (0.79%) JavaScript
7 14 (0.58%) Groovy
8 12 (0.50%) Shell Script
9 9 (0.37%) Perl
9 9 (0.37%) VBA
10 5 (0.21%) Bicep
10 5 (0.21%) C#
11 4 (0.17%) VB
12 3 (0.12%) Progress 4GL
12 3 (0.12%) Ruby
12 3 (0.12%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.12%) VBScript
13 2 (0.083%) Korn
13 2 (0.083%) PHP
13 2 (0.083%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 592 (24.47%) Degree
2 259 (10.71%) Microsoft Certification
3 165 (6.82%) Security Cleared
4 121 (5.00%) DBS Check
5 91 (3.76%) SC Cleared
6 88 (3.64%) Azure Certification
6 88 (3.64%) Cisco Certification
7 83 (3.43%) A+ Certification
8 78 (3.22%) DV Cleared
9 69 (2.85%) CCNA
10 61 (2.52%) MCSA
11 52 (2.15%) Network+ Certification
12 50 (2.07%) MCSE
13 47 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
14 38 (1.57%) CCNP
15 37 (1.53%) MCP
16 30 (1.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 30 (1.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 27 (1.12%) AWS Certification
18 26 (1.07%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 185 (7.65%) SLA
2 143 (5.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 108 (4.46%) NIST
4 63 (2.60%) GDPR
5 41 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
6 14 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 9 (0.37%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.29%) QA
9 6 (0.25%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.21%) ISO 9001
10 5 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
11 4 (0.17%) 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 (0.083%) GRC
13 2 (0.083%) SOC 2
System Software
1 381 (15.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 249 (10.29%) Hyper-V
3 90 (3.72%) VMware ESXi
4 77 (3.18%) Virtual Desktop
5 76 (3.14%) Virtual Servers
6 52 (2.15%) Virtual Machines
7 51 (2.11%) vSphere
8 44 (1.82%) Docker
9 32 (1.32%) XenApp
10 27 (1.12%) Terminal Services
11 17 (0.70%) BitLocker
12 9 (0.37%) Firmware
12 9 (0.37%) Microsoft App-V
13 8 (0.33%) DFS Replication
14 5 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 5 (0.21%) VMware NSX
15 4 (0.17%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 4 (0.17%) ISA Server
15 4 (0.17%) VMware Workstation
15 4 (0.17%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 475 (19.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 165 (6.82%) SCCM
3 159 (6.57%) Terraform
4 84 (3.47%) Ansible
5 76 (3.14%) Single Sign-On
6 54 (2.23%) Kubernetes
7 50 (2.07%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 36 (1.49%) Jamf Pro
8 36 (1.49%) vCenter Server
9 33 (1.36%) WSUS
10 27 (1.12%) SCOM
11 20 (0.83%) Puppet
12 17 (0.70%) Prometheus
13 16 (0.66%) NetBackup
14 14 (0.58%) AirWatch
14 14 (0.58%) vMotion
15 13 (0.54%) Grafana
16 12 (0.50%) FortiGate
16 12 (0.50%) Nagios
17 9 (0.37%) Nessus
Vendors
1 1,595 (65.94%) Microsoft
2 511 (21.12%) VMware
3 299 (12.36%) Cisco
4 223 (9.22%) Sun
5 172 (7.11%) Citrix
6 144 (5.95%) Apple
7 131 (5.42%) Meraki
8 118 (4.88%) Veeam
9 113 (4.67%) ServiceNow
10 87 (3.60%) Thales
11 69 (2.85%) HP
12 67 (2.77%) Google
13 59 (2.44%) Okta
14 57 (2.36%) Dell
15 48 (1.98%) Fortinet
16 38 (1.57%) Sophos
17 37 (1.53%) SonicWALL
18 33 (1.36%) SolarWinds
19 32 (1.32%) Palo Alto
19 32 (1.32%) SAP