Active Directory Jobs in Leicester

Microsoft Active Directory
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Leicester 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 21 43 74
Rank change year-on-year +22 +31 -49
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 9 28 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 6.00% 4.49% 2.76%
As % of the System Software category 75.00% 43.08% 13.85%
Number of salaries quoted 9 28 17
10th Percentile £26,500 £23,900 £25,200
25th Percentile £27,000 £24,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £27,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -48.57% +98.11%
75th Percentile £59,500 £43,750 £56,250
90th Percentile £61,250 £48,750 £67,750
Leicestershire median annual salary £40,000 £27,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +48.15% -48.57% +98.11%

All System Software Skills
Leicester

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 Leicester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 12 65 130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 8.00% 10.43% 19.91%
Number of salaries quoted 10 57 26
10th Percentile £26,625 £24,500 £26,125
25th Percentile £29,000 £25,500 £34,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,250 £47,500 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year +1.58% -2.56% +74.11%
75th Percentile £58,750 £53,750 £56,250
90th Percentile £61,250 £61,800 £61,250
Leicestershire median annual salary £48,250 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +13.53% -5.56% +60.71%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Leicester

Active Directory
Salary Trend in Leicester

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

Salary trend for Active Directory in Leicester

Active Directory
Salary Histogram in Leicester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in Leicester over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Active Directory in Leicester

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicester 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 2 (22.22%) SharePoint
2 1 (11.11%) IIS
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (44.44%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
3 1 (11.11%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) DHCP
1 5 (55.56%) DNS
2 2 (22.22%) Firewall
2 2 (22.22%) VPN
3 1 (11.11%) Internet
3 1 (11.11%) LAN
3 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
3 1 (11.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Law
2 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Analyst
1 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Service Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Service Desk Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) IT Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Senior
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) IT Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) IT Support
4 1 (11.11%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Centre
1 2 (22.22%) Driving Licence
2 1 (11.11%) Clustering
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (66.67%) Windows Server
3 3 (33.33%) Windows 10
4 2 (22.22%) Android
5 1 (11.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) Customer Service
3 2 (22.22%) Incident Management
3 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 1 (11.11%) Change Control
4 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
4 1 (11.11%) ITIL
4 1 (11.11%) Mobile Device Management
4 1 (11.11%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (11.11%) Project Management
4 1 (11.11%) Security Monitoring
4 1 (11.11%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) A+ Certification
1 1 (11.11%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (11.11%) MCSA
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Hyper-V
2 2 (22.22%) Virtual Servers
2 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) SCCM
1 3 (33.33%) SCOM
2 1 (11.11%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) VMware
3 2 (22.22%) HP
3 2 (22.22%) ServiceNow
4 1 (11.11%) Barracuda Networks
4 1 (11.11%) Isilon
4 1 (11.11%) Sophos