Active Directory Jobs in Kent

Microsoft Active Directory
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Kent 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 37 20 11
Rank change year-on-year -17 -9 +13
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 37 121 144
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 4.56% 7.74% 13.40%
As % of the System Software category 57.81% 63.02% 70.59%
Number of salaries quoted 27 111 120
10th Percentile £26,050 £23,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £29,750 £27,875 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £34,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% -15.00% +6.67%
75th Percentile £38,750 £43,750 £47,813
90th Percentile £46,500 £67,500 £57,400
South East median annual salary £40,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% +7.14% -4.11%

All System Software Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 64 192 204
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 7.88% 12.28% 18.98%
Number of salaries quoted 43 174 150
10th Percentile £26,250 £23,075 £25,750
25th Percentile £29,750 £30,125 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £53,500
90th Percentile £72,450 £67,500 £62,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £48,850
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.76% -2.30%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

Job postings citing Active Directory as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Kent.

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Kent

Active Directory
Salary Trend in Kent

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in Kent.

Salary trend for Active Directory in Kent

Active Directory
Salary Histogram in Kent

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

Salary histogram for Active Directory in Kent

Active Directory
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Active Directory within the Kent 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
Tunbridge Wells +18 7 £31,500 -51.54% 2
Dartford +1 4 £27,500 -12.70% 18
Maidstone -6 4 £26,500 -19.70% 26
Canterbury +6 2 £40,000 +25.50% 2
Chatham +4 1 £66,500 -5.00% 3
Sittingbourne -6 1 £40,000 +63.27% 3
Active Directory
South East

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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 7 (18.92%) SharePoint
2 6 (16.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (13.51%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (8.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (2.70%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 22 (59.46%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (32.43%) Entra ID
3 9 (24.32%) Azure
4 7 (18.92%) OneDrive
5 5 (13.51%) AWS
6 3 (8.11%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (8.11%) Serverless
7 1 (2.70%) Azure App Service
7 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.70%) Mimecast
7 1 (2.70%) Nutanix
7 1 (2.70%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.70%) PowerApps
7 1 (2.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (37.84%) Firewall
2 12 (32.43%) DNS
3 7 (18.92%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (16.22%) Broadband
4 6 (16.22%) TCP/IP
5 5 (13.51%) DHCP
5 5 (13.51%) VoIP
6 4 (10.81%) VLAN
7 3 (8.11%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (8.11%) SAN
7 3 (8.11%) SSH
7 3 (8.11%) SSL
7 3 (8.11%) VPN
8 2 (5.41%) Fibre Channel
8 2 (5.41%) iSCSI
8 2 (5.41%) LAN
8 2 (5.41%) NAS
8 2 (5.41%) Wireless
9 1 (2.70%) WAN
9 1 (2.70%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
General
1 18 (48.65%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.51%) Telecoms
3 3 (8.11%) Retail
4 2 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.41%) Legal
5 1 (2.70%) Automotive
5 1 (2.70%) Finance
5 1 (2.70%) German Language
5 1 (2.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 13 (35.14%) IT Support
2 11 (29.73%) Analyst
3 10 (27.03%) IT Analyst
3 10 (27.03%) IT Support Analyst
3 10 (27.03%) Support Analyst
4 7 (18.92%) Support Engineer
5 6 (16.22%) 2nd Line Support
6 5 (13.51%) 1st/2nd Line Support
7 4 (10.81%) 1st Line Engineer
8 3 (8.11%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (8.11%) Desktop Analyst
8 3 (8.11%) Desktop Support
8 3 (8.11%) Desktop Support Analyst
8 3 (8.11%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure Support
8 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
8 3 (8.11%) IT Engineer
8 3 (8.11%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
8 3 (8.11%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.11%) RESTful
1 3 (8.11%) Web Services
2 1 (2.70%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.62%) Driving Licence
2 4 (10.81%) Management Information System
3 3 (8.11%) CCTV
3 3 (8.11%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (8.11%) Cyberattack
3 3 (8.11%) Onboarding
3 3 (8.11%) PKI
4 2 (5.41%) NHS
5 1 (2.70%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.70%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (48.65%) Windows
2 12 (32.43%) Windows Server
3 7 (18.92%) Windows 10
4 4 (10.81%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (10.81%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (8.11%) Mac OS X
5 3 (8.11%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (2.70%) Apple iOS
6 1 (2.70%) Mac OS
6 1 (2.70%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (18.92%) ERP
1 7 (18.92%) ITIL
2 6 (16.22%) Inventory Management
2 6 (16.22%) Project Delivery
3 5 (13.51%) Customer Service
3 5 (13.51%) Service Delivery
4 4 (10.81%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (10.81%) DevOps
5 3 (8.11%) Broadcast Engineering
5 3 (8.11%) Coaching
5 3 (8.11%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (8.11%) Inventory Control
5 3 (8.11%) Key Management
5 3 (8.11%) Proactive Monitoring
5 3 (8.11%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (8.11%) Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (8.11%) Programme Delivery
5 3 (8.11%) Roadmaps
5 3 (8.11%) Time Management
5 3 (8.11%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.81%) SQL
2 3 (8.11%) Python
3 1 (2.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (37.84%) Degree
2 5 (13.51%) DBS Check
3 3 (8.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (2.70%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.70%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.51%) SLA
2 3 (8.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (8.11%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (10.81%) Hyper-V
2 3 (8.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.70%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 6 (16.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (8.11%) SCCM
2 3 (8.11%) Terraform
3 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 25 (67.57%) Microsoft
2 11 (29.73%) VMware
3 9 (24.32%) SAP
4 6 (16.22%) Aruba
4 6 (16.22%) Fortinet
4 6 (16.22%) Sage
4 6 (16.22%) Veeam
5 3 (8.11%) Cisco
5 3 (8.11%) Citrix
5 3 (8.11%) MobileIron
5 3 (8.11%) Riverbed
5 3 (8.11%) Sun
5 3 (8.11%) Thales
5 3 (8.11%) Trend Micro
6 1 (2.70%) Apple
6 1 (2.70%) Ivanti
6 1 (2.70%) Okta
6 1 (2.70%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.70%) WatchGuard