Senior Active Directory Engineer Job Trends in London

Senior Microsoft Active Directory Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Microsoft Active Directory Engineer salary in London is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 25 April 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 409 - 483
Rank change year-on-year - - +162
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Active Directory Engineer 2 0 12
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.010% - 0.051%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.011% - 0.055%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 7
10th Percentile £80,500 - £52,500
25th Percentile £81,250 - £52,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 - £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +0.92%
75th Percentile £83,750 - £58,125
90th Percentile £84,500 - £59,550
England median annual salary £82,500 - £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +0.92%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in London with a recognized job title 18,053 11,611 21,935
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.89% 90.22% 94.11%
Number of salaries quoted 12,143 7,564 16,693
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.84%

Senior Active Directory Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Active Directory Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Senior Active Directory Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Senior Active Directory Engineer
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for Senior Active Directory Engineer job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Active Directory Engineer job vacancies in London

Senior Active Directory Engineer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Active Directory Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 25 April 2026. 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 £80,000 -
Senior Active Directory Engineer
England

Senior Active Directory Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 25 April 2026, Senior Active Directory Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring Senior Active Directory Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Availability Management
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Document Management
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (50.00%) NGFW

Senior Active Directory Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) NGFW
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Availability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Document Management
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Practice Management
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft