Active Directory Jobs in Leicestershire

Microsoft Active Directory
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Leicestershire 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 58 56 74
Rank change year-on-year -2 +18 -31
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 10 53 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 1.41% 4.91% 2.75%
As % of the System Software category 50.00% 48.62% 15.83%
Number of salaries quoted 10 49 22
10th Percentile £25,350 £23,700 £24,200
25th Percentile £26,813 £24,500 £37,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £27,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +48.15% -48.57% +101.92%
75th Percentile £58,750 £43,750 £56,500
90th Percentile £61,250 £48,750 £61,250
East Midlands median annual salary £31,500 £32,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year -3.08% -10.96% +28.07%

All System Software Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 20 109 139
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 2.82% 10.10% 17.38%
Number of salaries quoted 13 92 40
10th Percentile £25,600 £24,500 £26,225
25th Percentile £26,750 £26,625 £32,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -12.82% +83.96%
75th Percentile £59,500 £53,750 £56,500
90th Percentile £61,250 £60,800 £61,250
East Midlands median annual salary £35,000 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% -11.11% +15.38%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Leicestershire

Active Directory
Salary Trend in Leicestershire

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

Salary trend for Active Directory in Leicestershire

Active Directory
Salary Histogram in Leicestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in Leicestershire over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Active Directory in Leicestershire

Active Directory
Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Active Directory within the Leicestershire 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
Leicester +21 9 £45,000 +66.67% 9
Market Harborough - 1 £25,000 -
Active Directory
East Midlands

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (10.00%) IIS
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (40.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (10.00%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) DHCP
1 5 (50.00%) DNS
2 3 (30.00%) Firewall
3 2 (20.00%) VPN
4 1 (10.00%) Internet
4 1 (10.00%) LAN
4 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (10.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Retail
3 1 (10.00%) Law
3 1 (10.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Analyst
1 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Service Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Service Desk Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) IT Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) IT Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) IT Support
4 1 (10.00%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (20.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (10.00%) Clustering
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
2 7 (70.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (30.00%) Windows 10
4 2 (20.00%) Android
5 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 2 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (20.00%) ITIL
3 2 (20.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 1 (10.00%) Change Control
4 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (10.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (10.00%) Mobile Device Management
4 1 (10.00%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (10.00%) Project Management
4 1 (10.00%) Security Monitoring
4 1 (10.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) A+ Certification
1 1 (10.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (10.00%) MCSA
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (20.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) SCCM
1 3 (30.00%) SCOM
2 1 (10.00%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (40.00%) VMware
3 2 (20.00%) HP
3 2 (20.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (10.00%) Barracuda Networks
4 1 (10.00%) Isilon
4 1 (10.00%) Sophos
4 1 (10.00%) Veeam