Active Directory Jobs in London

Microsoft Active Directory
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 33 59
Rank change year-on-year -18 +26 +46
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 715 1,437 1,786
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 5.62% 6.08% 5.33%
As % of the System Software category 42.31% 50.19% 34.12%
Number of salaries quoted 488 977 1,532
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
75th Percentile £70,625 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £39,000 £37,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -6.25% -

All System Software Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,690 2,863 5,235
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 13.28% 12.12% 15.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,117 2,127 3,819
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,900 £35,200
25th Percentile £48,000 £46,250 £49,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% -3.57% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £54,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% -9.09% -

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in London

Active Directory
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Active Directory in London

Active Directory
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in London over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Active Directory in London

Active Directory
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Active Directory within the London region over the 6 months to 22 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
Central London -1 179 £45,000 -10.00% 34
South London -8 53 £37,000 -5.73% 4
West London -7 44 £42,500 +26.87% 17
East London -18 20 £52,500 +31.25% 9
North London -4 16 £42,500 -2.86% 2
Active Directory
England

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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
1 177 (24.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 121 (16.92%) SharePoint
3 15 (2.10%) IIS
4 5 (0.70%) Exchange Server 2010
4 5 (0.70%) Liferay
5 4 (0.56%) Exchange Server 2013
5 4 (0.56%) WordPress
6 2 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.28%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.28%) Confluence
7 1 (0.14%) Apache
7 1 (0.14%) nginx
Applications
1 103 (14.41%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (3.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (2.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.12%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.98%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.56%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 2 (0.28%) Acrobat
7 2 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 6 (0.84%) Elite 3E
2 5 (0.70%) Sage 200
2 5 (0.70%) Sage 50
3 4 (0.56%) Carpe Diem
3 4 (0.56%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.14%) Eikon
5 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 381 (53.29%) Microsoft 365
2 353 (49.37%) Azure
3 207 (28.95%) Entra ID
4 107 (14.97%) AWS
5 53 (7.41%) OneDrive
6 38 (5.31%) Mimecast
7 31 (4.34%) Serverless
8 26 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
8 26 (3.64%) SaaS
9 19 (2.66%) PaaS
10 18 (2.52%) Google Workspace
11 17 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
11 17 (2.38%) IaaS
12 16 (2.24%) Azure Monitor
13 13 (1.82%) GCP
13 13 (1.82%) Power Platform
14 12 (1.68%) Azure Sentinel
15 11 (1.54%) Microsoft Copilot
16 10 (1.40%) Azure AKS
17 9 (1.26%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 137 (19.16%) DNS
2 102 (14.27%) Firewall
3 100 (13.99%) DHCP
4 89 (12.45%) Broadband
5 87 (12.17%) VPN
6 76 (10.63%) LAN
7 74 (10.35%) WAN
8 59 (8.25%) TCP/IP
9 53 (7.41%) VLAN
10 39 (5.45%) Wi-Fi
11 34 (4.76%) SSL
12 32 (4.48%) Network Security
13 29 (4.06%) Structured Cabling
14 25 (3.50%) Wireless
15 22 (3.08%) SSH
16 21 (2.94%) VoIP
17 20 (2.80%) SAN
18 15 (2.10%) Cisco IOS
18 15 (2.10%) PBX
18 15 (2.10%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (5.17%) SQL Server
2 7 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (0.70%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.42%) Metadata
5 3 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.28%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.28%) HDInsight
6 2 (0.28%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.28%) Power BI
7 1 (0.14%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.14%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.14%) MySQL
7 1 (0.14%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.14%) Redis
7 1 (0.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (1.82%) JIRA
2 6 (0.84%) Git
2 6 (0.84%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.56%) Bitbucket Server
4 3 (0.42%) Artifactory
4 3 (0.42%) GitLab
5 2 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (0.28%) Metasploit
5 2 (0.28%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.14%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.14%) Spinnaker
6 1 (0.14%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.14%) TestRail
6 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.14%) YouTrack
General
1 312 (43.64%) Social Skills
2 157 (21.96%) Finance
3 72 (10.07%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (7.97%) Law
5 50 (6.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 35 (4.90%) Banking
7 34 (4.76%) Legal
8 17 (2.38%) Retail
9 15 (2.10%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (1.26%) Games
11 8 (1.12%) Marketing
12 6 (0.84%) Back Office
13 5 (0.70%) Front Office
13 5 (0.70%) German Language
14 4 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.42%) Advertising
15 3 (0.42%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.42%) Public Sector
15 3 (0.42%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 175 (24.48%) Support Engineer
2 164 (22.94%) Analyst
3 113 (15.80%) IT Support
4 92 (12.87%) Support Analyst
5 87 (12.17%) Senior
6 76 (10.63%) Desktop Support
7 70 (9.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 58 (8.11%) IT Engineer
9 51 (7.13%) IT Analyst
10 50 (6.99%) Service Analyst
11 45 (6.29%) Service Desk Analyst
12 44 (6.15%) IT Support Engineer
13 41 (5.73%) IT Support Analyst
14 36 (5.03%) Cloud Engineer
15 35 (4.90%) Lead
16 31 (4.34%) 2nd Line Support
16 31 (4.34%) Desktop Engineer
16 31 (4.34%) DevOps Engineer
17 29 (4.06%) Desktop Support Engineer
18 28 (3.92%) 2nd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (3.22%) Web Services
2 22 (3.08%) RESTful
3 12 (1.68%) SailPoint
3 12 (1.68%) SAML
4 9 (1.26%) LDAP
5 7 (0.98%) YAML
6 6 (0.84%) JSON
6 6 (0.84%) OAuth
7 5 (0.70%) 802.1X
7 5 (0.70%) CSS
7 5 (0.70%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (0.70%) HTML
7 5 (0.70%) OpenID
7 5 (0.70%) React
8 4 (0.56%) EDI
9 2 (0.28%) .NET
9 2 (0.28%) Anaconda
9 2 (0.28%) Pandas
9 2 (0.28%) REST
9 2 (0.28%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 56 (7.83%) Onboarding
2 47 (6.57%) Management Information System
3 34 (4.76%) PKI
4 30 (4.20%) Data Centre
5 29 (4.06%) Self-Motivation
6 27 (3.78%) Cyber Threat
7 25 (3.50%) iPhone
8 22 (3.08%) Cyberattack
9 18 (2.52%) Video Conferencing
10 15 (2.10%) Public Cloud
11 13 (1.82%) Clustering
12 12 (1.68%) Fat Client
12 12 (1.68%) Thin Client
13 11 (1.54%) Driving Licence
14 10 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
14 10 (1.40%) Hedge funds
15 9 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
16 8 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
16 8 (1.12%) Security Posture
16 8 (1.12%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 540 (75.52%) Windows
2 220 (30.77%) Windows Server
3 169 (23.64%) Windows 10
4 105 (14.69%) Windows Server 2012
5 80 (11.19%) Linux
6 52 (7.27%) Windows Server 2016
7 38 (5.31%) Windows Server 2019
8 28 (3.92%) Mac OS
9 23 (3.22%) Android
10 21 (2.94%) Apple iOS
11 10 (1.40%) Windows Server 2008
12 9 (1.26%) Windows 7
13 7 (0.98%) AIX
13 7 (0.98%) Mac OS X
13 7 (0.98%) VMS
14 5 (0.70%) Unix
15 4 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 4 (0.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (22.52%) ITIL
2 157 (21.96%) Problem-Solving
3 114 (15.94%) Customer Service
4 91 (12.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 79 (11.05%) Coaching
6 74 (10.35%) Proactive Monitoring
7 70 (9.79%) Proactive Maintenance
8 67 (9.37%) Broadcast Engineering
8 67 (9.37%) Post-Production
8 67 (9.37%) Procure-to-Pay
9 56 (7.83%) ITSM
10 53 (7.41%) Cybersecurity
10 53 (7.41%) DevOps
10 53 (7.41%) Incident Management
11 52 (7.27%) Continuous Improvement
12 50 (6.99%) Mentoring
13 48 (6.71%) Disaster Recovery
14 41 (5.73%) Agile
15 39 (5.45%) Migration
16 38 (5.31%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 153 (21.40%) PowerShell
2 83 (11.61%) Python
3 42 (5.87%) SQL
4 17 (2.38%) Bash
5 11 (1.54%) JavaScript
6 6 (0.84%) Shell Script
7 4 (0.56%) C#
7 4 (0.56%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.28%) Bicep
9 2 (0.28%) Java
9 2 (0.28%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.28%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.28%) VB
10 1 (0.14%) PHP
Qualifications
1 182 (25.45%) Degree
2 66 (9.23%) Microsoft Certification
3 48 (6.71%) Cisco Certification
4 39 (5.45%) Azure Certification
4 39 (5.45%) CCNA
5 26 (3.64%) Security Cleared
6 22 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 20 (2.80%) CCNP
8 16 (2.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 12 (1.68%) DV Cleared
9 12 (1.68%) MCSE
10 11 (1.54%) CISSP
10 11 (1.54%) Network+ Certification
10 11 (1.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 10 (1.40%) A+ Certification
11 10 (1.40%) ITIL Certification
12 9 (1.26%) AWS Certification
12 9 (1.26%) SC Cleared
13 8 (1.12%) MCSA
14 7 (0.98%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (12.73%) SLA
2 36 (5.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 29 (4.06%) NIST
4 14 (1.96%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 7 (0.98%) GDPR
7 6 (0.84%) QA
8 5 (0.70%) Software Quality Assurance
9 2 (0.28%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.28%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.28%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.28%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.28%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.14%) COBIT
10 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.14%) NCSC
10 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 115 (16.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 56 (7.83%) Hyper-V
3 35 (4.90%) VMware ESXi
4 29 (4.06%) Virtual Desktop
5 18 (2.52%) Docker
6 14 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
7 13 (1.82%) vSphere
8 12 (1.68%) XenApp
9 11 (1.54%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.56%) BitLocker
10 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.42%) XenDesktop
12 2 (0.28%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.28%) Firmware
12 2 (0.28%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.14%) Forefront TMG
13 1 (0.14%) ISA Server
13 1 (0.14%) VirtualBox
13 1 (0.14%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 189 (26.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 92 (12.87%) SCCM
3 70 (9.79%) Terraform
4 35 (4.90%) Single Sign-On
5 31 (4.34%) Ansible
6 26 (3.64%) Kubernetes
7 23 (3.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 15 (2.10%) WSUS
9 14 (1.96%) SCOM
10 12 (1.68%) NetBackup
11 9 (1.26%) Jamf Pro
11 9 (1.26%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.98%) Prometheus
13 5 (0.70%) QRadar
14 4 (0.56%) Failover Clustering
14 4 (0.56%) Nessus
14 4 (0.56%) Proxmox
15 3 (0.42%) FortiGate
15 3 (0.42%) Puppet
16 2 (0.28%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 481 (67.27%) Microsoft
2 147 (20.56%) VMware
3 109 (15.24%) Cisco
4 86 (12.03%) Citrix
5 70 (9.79%) Sun
6 55 (7.69%) ServiceNow
7 48 (6.71%) Meraki
8 45 (6.29%) Apple
9 37 (5.17%) Veeam
10 31 (4.34%) HP
11 26 (3.64%) Okta
12 22 (3.08%) Dell
12 22 (3.08%) Thales
13 20 (2.80%) SolarWinds
14 18 (2.52%) Google
15 14 (1.96%) iManage
15 14 (1.96%) Zscaler
16 13 (1.82%) Fortinet
16 13 (1.82%) Palo Alto
17 12 (1.68%) Salesforce