Active Directory Jobs in Lancashire

Microsoft Active Directory
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 142 37 51
Rank change year-on-year -105 +14 +18
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 14 64 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 0.60% 4.72% 3.78%
As % of the System Software category 2.55% 58.18% 51.92%
Number of salaries quoted 14 57 26
10th Percentile - £22,489 £22,750
25th Percentile £24,500 £23,000 £25,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £26,750 £50,000 £39,556
Median % change year-on-year -46.50% +26.40% +21.71%
75th Percentile £43,750 £63,000 £51,250
90th Percentile £51,725 - £57,500
North West median annual salary £37,500 £37,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year - -11.76% +30.77%

All System Software Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 548 110 52
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 23.63% 8.12% 7.28%
Number of salaries quoted 61 102 43
10th Percentile £24,500 £22,614 £23,255
25th Percentile - £26,250 £26,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £55,000 £48,579
Median % change year-on-year -13.30% +13.22% +21.45%
75th Percentile £59,081 £63,000 £57,500
90th Percentile - £75,000 £61,250
North West median annual salary £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% +5.26%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Lancashire

Active Directory
Salary Trend in Lancashire

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

Salary trend for Active Directory in Lancashire

Active Directory
Salary Histogram in Lancashire

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

Salary histogram for Active Directory in Lancashire

Active Directory
Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Active Directory within the Lancashire 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
Blackburn -41 5 £42,500 +86.19%
Active Directory
North West

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 6 (42.86%) SharePoint
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 13 (92.86%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (35.71%) OneDrive
3 3 (21.43%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 8 (57.14%) LAN
2 5 (35.71%) DHCP
2 5 (35.71%) DNS
2 5 (35.71%) Firewall
2 5 (35.71%) VPN
2 5 (35.71%) WAN
3 3 (21.43%) IPv4
3 3 (21.43%) VLAN
4 2 (14.29%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (14.29%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (14.29%) SAN
4 2 (14.29%) SD-WAN
5 1 (7.14%) VoIP
General
1 3 (21.43%) Retail
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
3 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Analyst
1 8 (57.14%) IT Analyst
2 7 (50.00%) IT Support
2 7 (50.00%) IT Support Analyst
2 7 (50.00%) Support Analyst
3 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (28.57%) IT Engineer
5 3 (21.43%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 1 (7.14%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
6 1 (7.14%) Network Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 14 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (28.57%) Windows Server
3 3 (21.43%) Linux
3 3 (21.43%) Unix
4 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (42.86%) Mobile Device Management
3 5 (35.71%) Asset Management
3 5 (35.71%) Data Protection
3 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (35.71%) IT Asset Management
4 3 (21.43%) Business Continuity
4 3 (21.43%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (21.43%) Incident Management
4 3 (21.43%) Project Delivery
5 2 (14.29%) Patch Management
5 2 (14.29%) Ticket Management
6 1 (7.14%) Collaborative Culture
6 1 (7.14%) ERP
6 1 (7.14%) ITIL
6 1 (7.14%) Network Design
6 1 (7.14%) Roadmaps
6 1 (7.14%) Server Building
6 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (7.14%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Hyper-V
2 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (57.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) Microsoft
2 6 (42.86%) Veeam
3 5 (35.71%) VMware
4 2 (14.29%) Cisco
4 2 (14.29%) Meraki
4 2 (14.29%) Sophos
4 2 (14.29%) Synology