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

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 27 46
Rank change year-on-year -24 +19 +28
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 2,402 5,491 5,082
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.97% 6.21% 5.84%
As % of the System Software category 41.72% 51.38% 37.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,631 4,418 4,260
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,500 £25,418
25th Percentile £29,750 £28,260 £30,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -6.25% -
75th Percentile £53,125 £52,500 £56,813
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 5,757 10,687 13,610
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.90% 12.09% 15.63%
Number of salaries quoted 3,292 8,579 9,168
10th Percentile £27,775 £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 £77,500 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,528 £86,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -0.90%

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 28 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 28 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 -15 709 £50,000 - 476
North of England -66 406 £31,000 -11.43% 552
South East -38 380 £40,000 +6.67% 781
Midlands -13 376 £32,500 -2.99% 437
East of England -25 243 £32,500 +4.84% 355
West Midlands -10 221 £35,000 +1.82% 222
Yorkshire +1 219 £30,000 -7.69% 210
South West -19 166 £32,500 -13.33% 334
East Midlands -23 155 £31,500 -3.08% 190
North West -133 136 £37,500 - 269
North East -14 51 £32,000 -3.03% 79
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
1 558 (23.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 355 (14.78%) SharePoint
3 62 (2.58%) IIS
4 15 (0.62%) Confluence
4 15 (0.62%) Exchange Server 2013
5 12 (0.50%) Tomcat
6 11 (0.46%) IBM Domino
6 11 (0.46%) Skype for Business
7 9 (0.37%) Apache
7 9 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2010
8 5 (0.21%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 5 (0.21%) Liferay
8 5 (0.21%) nginx
9 3 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2007
9 3 (0.12%) Office Communications Server
9 3 (0.12%) SharePoint Server
9 3 (0.12%) WordPress
10 2 (0.083%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.083%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.083%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 284 (11.82%) Microsoft Office
2 92 (3.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 36 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.37%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.29%) Chatbot
5 7 (0.29%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 5 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.083%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.042%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.042%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 22 (0.92%) Dynamics NAV
2 7 (0.29%) Sage 50
2 7 (0.29%) SAP Business One
2 7 (0.29%) SAP ERP
3 6 (0.25%) Elite 3E
4 5 (0.21%) Sage 200
5 4 (0.17%) Carpe Diem
5 4 (0.17%) Fidessa
6 3 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.083%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.042%) assyst
8 1 (0.042%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.042%) Eikon
8 1 (0.042%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.042%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.042%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.042%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.042%) PeopleSoft HCM
8 1 (0.042%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.042%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,227 (51.08%) Microsoft 365
2 1,086 (45.21%) Azure
3 619 (25.77%) Entra ID
4 289 (12.03%) AWS
5 161 (6.70%) OneDrive
6 99 (4.12%) Serverless
7 89 (3.71%) AWS Lambda
8 60 (2.50%) Mimecast
9 46 (1.92%) Power Platform
10 43 (1.79%) SaaS
11 42 (1.75%) Google Workspace
12 41 (1.71%) IaaS
13 38 (1.58%) Cloud Computing
14 33 (1.37%) GCP
15 31 (1.29%) PaaS
16 28 (1.17%) Microsoft Copilot
16 28 (1.17%) Power Automate
17 27 (1.12%) Dynamics 365
18 26 (1.08%) Azure Monitor
19 24 (1.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 565 (23.52%) Firewall
2 437 (18.19%) DNS
3 346 (14.40%) DHCP
4 299 (12.45%) Broadband
5 273 (11.37%) WAN
6 258 (10.74%) LAN
7 230 (9.58%) VPN
8 173 (7.20%) VLAN
9 168 (6.99%) TCP/IP
10 146 (6.08%) VoIP
11 119 (4.95%) SSL
12 117 (4.87%) SAN
13 115 (4.79%) Wi-Fi
14 92 (3.83%) SSH
15 87 (3.62%) Wireless
16 76 (3.16%) Network Security
17 59 (2.46%) Remote Desktop
18 48 (2.00%) Cisco IOS
18 48 (2.00%) NAS
19 45 (1.87%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (5.29%) SQL Server
2 53 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
3 25 (1.04%) Power BI
4 17 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (0.25%) NoSQL
8 5 (0.21%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.12%) Metadata
9 3 (0.12%) MySQL
9 3 (0.12%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.083%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.083%) EDMS
10 2 (0.083%) HDInsight
10 2 (0.083%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.083%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.083%) Star Schema
11 1 (0.042%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (0.042%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.042%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 40 (1.67%) JIRA
2 24 (1.00%) Jenkins
3 21 (0.87%) Git
4 13 (0.54%) Vagrant
5 10 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
6 7 (0.29%) Bitbucket Server
6 7 (0.29%) GitLab
7 3 (0.12%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (0.12%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.083%) Metasploit
8 2 (0.083%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.042%) Selenium
9 1 (0.042%) Spinnaker
9 1 (0.042%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.042%) TestRail
9 1 (0.042%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.042%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.042%) WiX
9 1 (0.042%) YouTrack
General
1 1,066 (44.38%) Social Skills
2 229 (9.53%) Finance
3 165 (6.87%) Analytical Skills
4 120 (5.00%) Law
5 108 (4.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 103 (4.29%) Retail
7 90 (3.75%) Legal
8 68 (2.83%) Organisational Skills
9 58 (2.41%) Manufacturing
10 51 (2.12%) Public Sector
11 39 (1.62%) Banking
12 36 (1.50%) Telecoms
13 28 (1.17%) Automotive
14 21 (0.87%) Games
14 21 (0.87%) German Language
15 18 (0.75%) Advertising
16 16 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
16 16 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
17 10 (0.42%) Aerospace
17 10 (0.42%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 570 (23.73%) Support Engineer
2 524 (21.82%) IT Support
3 404 (16.82%) Analyst
4 262 (10.91%) IT Engineer
5 250 (10.41%) Support Analyst
6 227 (9.45%) 2nd Line Support
7 220 (9.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 170 (7.08%) IT Analyst
9 165 (6.87%) Senior
10 153 (6.37%) IT Support Engineer
11 136 (5.66%) IT Support Analyst
12 123 (5.12%) Cloud Engineer
13 120 (5.00%) Desktop Support
14 110 (4.58%) 1st Line Support
15 100 (4.16%) DevOps Engineer
16 93 (3.87%) Infrastructure Support
17 92 (3.83%) Service Analyst
18 89 (3.71%) 3rd Line Support
18 89 (3.71%) Administrator
19 87 (3.62%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (3.54%) Web Services
2 82 (3.41%) RESTful
3 28 (1.17%) SailPoint
4 22 (0.92%) SAML
5 20 (0.83%) LDAP
6 15 (0.62%) JSON
7 11 (0.46%) REST
7 11 (0.46%) XML
7 11 (0.46%) YAML
8 10 (0.42%) SOAP
9 8 (0.33%) OAuth
9 8 (0.33%) React
10 7 (0.29%) CSS
10 7 (0.29%) EDI
10 7 (0.29%) HTML
11 6 (0.25%) .NET
12 5 (0.21%) 802.1X
12 5 (0.21%) Elastic Stack
12 5 (0.21%) OpenID
13 4 (0.17%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 173 (7.20%) Onboarding
2 166 (6.91%) Management Information System
3 129 (5.37%) PKI
4 125 (5.20%) Driving Licence
5 93 (3.87%) Cyber Threat
6 82 (3.41%) Cyberattack
7 73 (3.04%) NHS
8 70 (2.91%) Operational Technology
9 69 (2.87%) Data Centre
10 57 (2.37%) CCTV
11 55 (2.29%) Clustering
12 54 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
13 44 (1.83%) Video Conferencing
14 31 (1.29%) iPhone
15 29 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
16 28 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
16 28 (1.17%) Replication
16 28 (1.17%) Virtual Team
17 27 (1.12%) Social Media
18 25 (1.04%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1,720 (71.61%) Windows
2 717 (29.85%) Windows Server
3 387 (16.11%) Windows 10
4 270 (11.24%) Windows Server 2012
5 250 (10.41%) Linux
6 144 (6.00%) Mac OS
7 134 (5.58%) Windows Server 2016
8 111 (4.62%) Windows Server 2019
9 93 (3.87%) Android
10 84 (3.50%) Apple iOS
11 46 (1.92%) Mac OS X
12 39 (1.62%) Windows 7
13 32 (1.33%) VMS
14 29 (1.21%) Unix
15 25 (1.04%) Ubuntu
16 14 (0.58%) Windows Server 2008
17 11 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 9 (0.37%) CentOS
18 9 (0.37%) Windows 8
19 8 (0.33%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 562 (23.40%) Problem-Solving
2 457 (19.03%) Customer Service
3 440 (18.32%) ITIL
4 357 (14.86%) Cybersecurity
5 266 (11.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 249 (10.37%) Coaching
7 235 (9.78%) Proactive Monitoring
8 228 (9.49%) Proactive Maintenance
9 215 (8.95%) Broadcast Engineering
9 215 (8.95%) Post-Production
9 215 (8.95%) Procure-to-Pay
10 161 (6.70%) DevOps
11 153 (6.37%) Identity Management
12 145 (6.04%) Roadmaps
13 143 (5.95%) Disaster Recovery
14 142 (5.91%) Mentoring
15 137 (5.70%) Continuous Improvement
16 132 (5.50%) ITSM
17 120 (5.00%) Incident Management
18 113 (4.70%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 432 (17.99%) PowerShell
2 204 (8.49%) Python
3 174 (7.24%) SQL
4 39 (1.62%) Bash
5 24 (1.00%) Java
6 21 (0.87%) JavaScript
7 12 (0.50%) Groovy
7 12 (0.50%) Shell Script
8 9 (0.37%) Perl
8 9 (0.37%) VBA
9 5 (0.21%) Bicep
9 5 (0.21%) C#
10 4 (0.17%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.17%) VB
11 3 (0.12%) Progress 4GL
11 3 (0.12%) Ruby
11 3 (0.12%) VBScript
12 2 (0.083%) PHP
12 2 (0.083%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.083%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 591 (24.60%) Degree
2 254 (10.57%) Microsoft Certification
3 163 (6.79%) Security Cleared
4 122 (5.08%) DBS Check
5 90 (3.75%) SC Cleared
6 86 (3.58%) Cisco Certification
7 84 (3.50%) Azure Certification
8 81 (3.37%) A+ Certification
9 78 (3.25%) DV Cleared
10 67 (2.79%) CCNA
11 59 (2.46%) MCSA
12 52 (2.16%) Network+ Certification
13 50 (2.08%) MCSE
14 49 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
15 37 (1.54%) CCNP
16 35 (1.46%) MCP
17 30 (1.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 29 (1.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
19 27 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
20 26 (1.08%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 186 (7.74%) SLA
2 142 (5.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 107 (4.45%) NIST
4 61 (2.54%) GDPR
5 41 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials
6 14 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 9 (0.37%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.25%) HIPAA
8 6 (0.25%) QA
9 5 (0.21%) ISO 9001
9 5 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
10 3 (0.12%) COBIT
10 3 (0.12%) ISO 14001
10 3 (0.12%) ISO 22301
10 3 (0.12%) NCSC
10 3 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.083%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.083%) GRC
11 2 (0.083%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.083%) SOC 2
System Software
1 380 (15.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 245 (10.20%) Hyper-V
3 91 (3.79%) VMware ESXi
4 76 (3.16%) Virtual Desktop
4 76 (3.16%) Virtual Servers
5 53 (2.21%) Virtual Machines
6 50 (2.08%) vSphere
7 46 (1.92%) Docker
8 31 (1.29%) XenApp
9 27 (1.12%) Terminal Services
10 17 (0.71%) BitLocker
11 9 (0.37%) Firmware
11 9 (0.37%) Microsoft App-V
12 6 (0.25%) DFS Replication
13 5 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 5 (0.21%) VMware NSX
14 4 (0.17%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 4 (0.17%) ISA Server
14 4 (0.17%) VMware Workstation
14 4 (0.17%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 465 (19.36%) Microsoft Intune
2 166 (6.91%) SCCM
3 160 (6.66%) Terraform
4 81 (3.37%) Ansible
5 76 (3.16%) Single Sign-On
6 55 (2.29%) Kubernetes
7 50 (2.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 36 (1.50%) vCenter Server
9 33 (1.37%) Jamf Pro
10 32 (1.33%) WSUS
11 27 (1.12%) SCOM
12 19 (0.79%) Puppet
13 17 (0.71%) Prometheus
14 16 (0.67%) NetBackup
15 14 (0.58%) AirWatch
15 14 (0.58%) vMotion
16 12 (0.50%) Nagios
17 11 (0.46%) FortiGate
17 11 (0.46%) Grafana
18 9 (0.37%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 1,582 (65.86%) Microsoft
2 512 (21.32%) VMware
3 300 (12.49%) Cisco
4 223 (9.28%) Sun
5 170 (7.08%) Citrix
6 144 (6.00%) Apple
7 132 (5.50%) Meraki
8 115 (4.79%) Veeam
9 109 (4.54%) ServiceNow
10 87 (3.62%) Thales
11 69 (2.87%) HP
12 65 (2.71%) Google
13 56 (2.33%) Okta
14 55 (2.29%) Dell
15 49 (2.04%) Fortinet
16 38 (1.58%) Sophos
17 35 (1.46%) SonicWALL
18 32 (1.33%) Palo Alto
18 32 (1.33%) SAP
19 31 (1.29%) SolarWinds