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

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 34 51
Rank change year-on-year -108 +17 +22
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 18 63 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 0.78% 4.81% 3.30%
As % of the System Software category 3.27% 57.80% 50.00%
Number of salaries quoted 18 56 22
10th Percentile - £22,489 £22,075
25th Percentile £24,500 £23,000 £23,646
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £27,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +81.82% -18.52%
75th Percentile £47,500 £63,000 £47,663
90th Percentile £53,000 - £49,594
North West median annual salary £37,500 £37,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year - -6.25% +19.40%

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 551 109 46
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 23.78% 8.33% 6.59%
Number of salaries quoted 63 101 37
10th Percentile £25,150 £22,614 £22,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £26,250 £26,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £55,000 £39,113
Median % change year-on-year -13.30% +40.62% -2.22%
75th Percentile £59,081 £63,000 £57,500
90th Percentile - £75,000 -
North West median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +4.71%

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 16 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 16 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 -37 8 £42,500 +86.19% 1
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 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 17 (94.44%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (27.78%) Azure
2 5 (27.78%) OneDrive
3 1 (5.56%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (55.56%) LAN
2 9 (50.00%) DHCP
2 9 (50.00%) DNS
3 8 (44.44%) Firewall
4 5 (27.78%) IPv4
4 5 (27.78%) VLAN
4 5 (27.78%) VPN
4 5 (27.78%) WAN
5 3 (16.67%) Cisco ISE
5 3 (16.67%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (16.67%) SAN
5 3 (16.67%) SD-WAN
6 1 (5.56%) VoIP
General
1 5 (27.78%) Retail
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (44.44%) Analyst
2 8 (44.44%) IT Analyst
3 7 (38.89%) IT Support
3 7 (38.89%) IT Support Analyst
3 7 (38.89%) Support Analyst
4 6 (33.33%) IT Engineer
5 5 (27.78%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (11.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 2 (11.11%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 1 (5.56%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
7 1 (5.56%) Network Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) Senior
7 1 (5.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (100.00%) Windows
2 7 (38.89%) Windows Server
3 5 (27.78%) Linux
3 5 (27.78%) Unix
4 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 9 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (33.33%) Mobile Device Management
3 5 (27.78%) Asset Management
3 5 (27.78%) Business Continuity
3 5 (27.78%) Data Protection
3 5 (27.78%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (27.78%) Incident Management
3 5 (27.78%) IT Asset Management
4 4 (22.22%) Project Delivery
5 3 (16.67%) Patch Management
6 2 (11.11%) ITIL
6 2 (11.11%) Ticket Management
7 1 (5.56%) ERP
7 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Management
7 1 (5.56%) Line Management
7 1 (5.56%) Network Design
7 1 (5.56%) Server Building
7 1 (5.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 1 (5.56%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) Hyper-V
2 3 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (5.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 11 (61.11%) Microsoft
2 10 (55.56%) Veeam
3 7 (38.89%) VMware
4 3 (16.67%) Cisco
4 3 (16.67%) Meraki
4 3 (16.67%) Sophos
4 3 (16.67%) Synology