Active Directory Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Microsoft Active Directory
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Active Directory skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 37 30
Rank change year-on-year +4 -7 +31
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 26 43 89
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 4.02% 6.52% 9.79%
As % of the System Software category 45.61% 33.59% 35.32%
Number of salaries quoted 23 25 81
10th Percentile £27,375 £27,000 -
25th Percentile £37,000 £32,500 £29,440
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £43,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.09% -9.47% +58.33%
75th Percentile £73,125 £57,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £64,250 £57,500
South West median annual salary £32,500 £34,750 £39,500
% change year-on-year -6.47% -12.03% +16.18%

All System Software Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 57 128 252
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 8.81% 19.39% 27.72%
Number of salaries quoted 47 71 162
10th Percentile £32,750 £32,500 £29,440
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,375 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +17.07% -6.82%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £61,000
90th Percentile £84,000 £82,500 £75,000
South West median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.14% +1.03%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Active Directory relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

Active Directory job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Active Directory
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Active Directory.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Active Directory

Active Directory
Salary Histogram in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Active Directory in Gloucestershire

Active Directory
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Active Directory within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 30 December 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
Gloucester +6 7 £80,000 +77.78% 10
Cheltenham -6 4 £56,250 +2.27% 10
Tewkesbury - 1 £70,000 -
Active Directory
South West

Active Directory
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (61.54%) Azure
2 12 (46.15%) Entra ID
3 9 (34.62%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (26.92%) AWS
5 5 (19.23%) Azure Stack
6 4 (15.38%) OpenShift
6 4 (15.38%) Power Automate
6 4 (15.38%) Power Platform
6 4 (15.38%) PowerApps
7 2 (7.69%) IaaS
7 2 (7.69%) Mimecast
7 2 (7.69%) PaaS
8 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (3.85%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (26.92%) DHCP
1 7 (26.92%) DNS
2 5 (19.23%) LAN
2 5 (19.23%) TCP/IP
2 5 (19.23%) VSAN
3 3 (11.54%) Firewall
3 3 (11.54%) VLAN
3 3 (11.54%) VPN
3 3 (11.54%) WAN
4 2 (7.69%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Git
2 1 (3.85%) GitLab
2 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (26.92%) Organisational Skills
1 7 (26.92%) Public Sector
2 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 5 (19.23%) Finance
4 2 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Manufacturing
4 2 (7.69%) Retail
5 1 (3.85%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 10 (38.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 10 (38.46%) IT Support
2 9 (34.62%) IT Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) IT Support Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Support Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Virtualisation Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Administrator
6 2 (7.69%) Analyst
6 2 (7.69%) Applications Support
6 2 (7.69%) Applications Support Analyst
6 2 (7.69%) IT Support Analyst
6 2 (7.69%) IT Support Specialist
6 2 (7.69%) IT Support Technician
6 2 (7.69%) Junior
6 2 (7.69%) Security Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Support Analyst
6 2 (7.69%) Support Specialist
6 2 (7.69%) Support Technician
6 2 (7.69%) Virtualisation Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Data Centre
1 5 (19.23%) Hybrid Cloud
1 5 (19.23%) Onboarding
2 2 (7.69%) CCTV
2 2 (7.69%) Driving Licence
3 1 (3.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (73.08%) Windows
2 16 (61.54%) Windows Server
3 10 (38.46%) Linux
4 9 (34.62%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (19.23%) Rocky
6 4 (15.38%) CentOS
6 4 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (15.38%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (7.69%) Windows 10
8 1 (3.85%) CoreOS
8 1 (3.85%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (38.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (23.08%) Containerisation
3 5 (19.23%) ITIL
3 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (19.23%) RBAC
4 4 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (11.54%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (11.54%) Time Management
6 2 (7.69%) BCP
6 2 (7.69%) Business Continuity
6 2 (7.69%) Business Continuity Planning
6 2 (7.69%) Change Control
6 2 (7.69%) Change Management
6 2 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (7.69%) High Availability
6 2 (7.69%) Identity Management
6 2 (7.69%) Mathematics
6 2 (7.69%) Migration
6 2 (7.69%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 8 (30.77%) PowerShell
2 6 (23.08%) Python
3 5 (19.23%) Bash
Qualifications
1 12 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 9 (34.62%) DV Cleared
3 8 (30.77%) SC Cleared
4 5 (19.23%) Azure Certification
4 5 (19.23%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (19.23%) Network+ Certification
5 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
6 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.85%) CCNA
6 1 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (3.85%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (3.85%) Degree
6 1 (3.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) PCI DSS
2 2 (7.69%) GDPR
3 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (38.46%) Hyper-V
2 4 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (15.38%) vSphere
3 3 (11.54%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (3.85%) Docker
4 1 (3.85%) KVM
4 1 (3.85%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 4 (15.38%) McAfee ePO
2 4 (15.38%) SCVMM
3 3 (11.54%) vCenter Server
4 2 (7.69%) Ansible
4 2 (7.69%) SCCM
4 2 (7.69%) Terraform
5 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (3.85%) Nessus
Vendors
1 13 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (19.23%) Dell
3 4 (15.38%) Cisco
3 4 (15.38%) McAfee
3 4 (15.38%) Red Hat
3 4 (15.38%) VMware
4 3 (11.54%) Fortinet
5 2 (7.69%) Meraki
5 2 (7.69%) SolarWinds
6 1 (3.85%) Google
6 1 (3.85%) Palo Alto