Active Directory Job Trends in the Midlands

Microsoft Active Directory
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Active Directory skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 42 18
Rank change year-on-year -15 -24 +20
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 274 350 427
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 3.52% 5.25% 8.48%
As % of the System Software category 66.50% 49.30% 52.01%
Number of salaries quoted 229 195 396
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,750 £25,500
25th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £35,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £50,000
90th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £57,500
England median annual salary £36,500 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -14.12% - +2.41%

All System Software Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 412 710 821
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 5.29% 10.64% 16.30%
Number of salaries quoted 322 390 726
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,750 £26,875
25th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £74,144 £68,125
England median annual salary £47,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% -

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Active Directory relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Active Directory job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Active Directory
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Active Directory.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Active Directory

Active Directory
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in the Midlands over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Active Directory in the Midlands

Active Directory
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Active Directory within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 December 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
East Midlands +12 157 £29,000 -10.77% 80
West Midlands -45 117 £37,500 - 95
Active Directory
England

Active Directory
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 64 (23.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 51 (18.61%) SharePoint
3 9 (3.28%) Confluence
3 9 (3.28%) Skype for Business
4 2 (0.73%) Exchange Server 2007
4 2 (0.73%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (0.73%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (0.36%) IIS
Applications
1 28 (10.22%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.46%) CATIA
2 4 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 19 (6.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.36%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.36%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.36%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.36%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 212 (77.37%) Microsoft 365
2 130 (47.45%) Azure
3 89 (32.48%) Entra ID
4 20 (7.30%) AWS
5 18 (6.57%) OneDrive
6 14 (5.11%) Dynamics 365
6 14 (5.11%) GCP
6 14 (5.11%) SaaS
7 10 (3.65%) Azure Sentinel
7 10 (3.65%) Power Platform
8 9 (3.28%) IaaS
9 8 (2.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (2.92%) PaaS
10 6 (2.19%) iPaaS
10 6 (2.19%) Microsoft Purview
11 5 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (1.82%) Amazon ELB
11 5 (1.82%) Amazon Glacier
11 5 (1.82%) Amazon S3
11 5 (1.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 100 (36.50%) DNS
2 91 (33.21%) DHCP
3 67 (24.45%) Firewall
4 40 (14.60%) TCP/IP
5 34 (12.41%) VPN
6 25 (9.12%) WAN
7 22 (8.03%) LAN
7 22 (8.03%) VLAN
8 20 (7.30%) Wi-Fi
9 12 (4.38%) Network Security
10 11 (4.01%) SAN
11 10 (3.65%) Internet
12 9 (3.28%) Remote Desktop
12 9 (3.28%) SD-WAN
12 9 (3.28%) Skype
13 7 (2.55%) FTP
13 7 (2.55%) HTTP
13 7 (2.55%) PBX
13 7 (2.55%) SMTP
13 7 (2.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.28%) DTS
2 8 (2.92%) SQL Server
3 6 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.46%) Power BI
5 3 (1.09%) GIS
Development Applications
1 13 (4.74%) JIRA
2 5 (1.82%) Git
2 5 (1.82%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.82%) Vagrant
3 3 (1.09%) LabVIEW
4 1 (0.36%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.36%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 104 (37.96%) Social Skills
2 28 (10.22%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (9.12%) Retail
4 22 (8.03%) Manufacturing
5 19 (6.93%) Finance
6 15 (5.47%) Organisational Skills
7 12 (4.38%) Law
8 11 (4.01%) Public Sector
9 6 (2.19%) Back Office
9 6 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.82%) Legal
11 4 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.09%) Marketing
12 3 (1.09%) Publishing
13 1 (0.36%) Electronics
13 1 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.36%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 122 (44.53%) IT Support
2 107 (39.05%) Support Engineer
3 94 (34.31%) IT Engineer
4 78 (28.47%) IT Support Engineer
5 44 (16.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 27 (9.85%) Infrastructure Support
6 27 (9.85%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 26 (9.49%) Analyst
8 25 (9.12%) 2nd Line Support
9 24 (8.76%) Support Analyst
10 18 (6.57%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 16 (5.84%) Technical Support
12 15 (5.47%) 1st Line Support
12 15 (5.47%) Support Technician
13 12 (4.38%) IT Analyst
13 12 (4.38%) IT Support Analyst
14 11 (4.01%) IT Support Technician
14 11 (4.01%) IT Technician
14 11 (4.01%) Senior
15 10 (3.65%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.55%) EDI
2 3 (1.09%) LDAP
2 3 (1.09%) OAuth
2 3 (1.09%) OpenID
2 3 (1.09%) SAML
3 2 (0.73%) OAuth2
3 2 (0.73%) RESTful
4 1 (0.36%) .NET
4 1 (0.36%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.36%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.36%) REST
4 1 (0.36%) SOAP
4 1 (0.36%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 71 (25.91%) Driving Licence
2 44 (16.06%) Onboarding
3 15 (5.47%) Data Centre
4 10 (3.65%) CMDB
4 10 (3.65%) e-Learning
4 10 (3.65%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (3.65%) FMCG
5 9 (3.28%) Video Conferencing
6 7 (2.55%) Clustering
7 6 (2.19%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (2.19%) iPad
7 6 (2.19%) PMI
7 6 (2.19%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.82%) Cyber Security Posture
9 4 (1.46%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.46%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.46%) Replication
9 4 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.46%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 172 (62.77%) Windows
2 93 (33.94%) Windows Server
3 43 (15.69%) Windows 10
4 21 (7.66%) Linux
5 10 (3.65%) Mac OS
6 9 (3.28%) Windows Server 2008
6 9 (3.28%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (2.19%) VMS
8 5 (1.82%) Amazon Linux
8 5 (1.82%) Rocky
8 5 (1.82%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (1.46%) Apple iOS
10 3 (1.09%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.73%) Android
11 2 (0.73%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (43.43%) Problem-Solving
2 93 (33.94%) Customer Service
3 57 (20.80%) ITIL
4 48 (17.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 39 (14.23%) Incident Management
6 37 (13.50%) Cybersecurity
7 26 (9.49%) CRM
8 25 (9.12%) Service Management
9 21 (7.66%) Disaster Recovery
10 19 (6.93%) Server Management
11 17 (6.20%) Continuous Improvement
12 16 (5.84%) Data Protection
12 16 (5.84%) ERP
13 15 (5.47%) Infrastructure Management
13 15 (5.47%) Process Improvement
13 15 (5.47%) Roadmaps
13 15 (5.47%) Time Management
14 13 (4.74%) ITSM
14 13 (4.74%) Mentoring
14 13 (4.74%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 38 (13.87%) PowerShell
2 21 (7.66%) SQL
3 7 (2.55%) Groovy
3 7 (2.55%) Java
3 7 (2.55%) Python
4 5 (1.82%) Perl
5 3 (1.09%) Bash
6 2 (0.73%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.36%) Bicep
7 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.36%) VB
7 1 (0.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 32 (11.68%) Degree
2 25 (9.12%) Microsoft Certification
3 20 (7.30%) Security Cleared
4 18 (6.57%) SC Cleared
5 9 (3.28%) MCP
6 8 (2.92%) Azure Certification
6 8 (2.92%) DBS Check
6 8 (2.92%) Network+ Certification
7 7 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (2.19%) PMI Certification
9 5 (1.82%) CompTIA Security+
9 5 (1.82%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.46%) A+ Certification
10 4 (1.46%) MCSA
11 3 (1.09%) CTC Cleared
11 3 (1.09%) HNC
11 3 (1.09%) HND
11 3 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.73%) CCNP
12 2 (0.73%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (6.57%) GDPR
3 14 (5.11%) Cyber Essentials
4 13 (4.74%) SLA
5 10 (3.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (1.82%) NIST
7 4 (1.46%) QA
8 1 (0.36%) GRC
8 1 (0.36%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.36%) NCSC
8 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 52 (18.98%) VMware Infrastructure
2 43 (15.69%) Hyper-V
3 10 (3.65%) Virtual Desktop
4 9 (3.28%) vSphere
5 7 (2.55%) Firmware
6 5 (1.82%) Docker
6 5 (1.82%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.46%) Terminal Services
7 4 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (1.46%) XenApp
8 2 (0.73%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.36%) DFS Replication
9 1 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.36%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.36%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 42 (15.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (3.28%) Nagios
2 9 (3.28%) Terraform
2 9 (3.28%) ZABBIX
3 6 (2.19%) Failover Clustering
3 6 (2.19%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (2.19%) WSUS
4 5 (1.82%) Grafana
4 5 (1.82%) Kubernetes
4 5 (1.82%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.09%) SCCM
6 2 (0.73%) Ansible
6 2 (0.73%) Autotask
7 1 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.36%) Nessus
7 1 (0.36%) Nmap
7 1 (0.36%) SCOM
7 1 (0.36%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
7 1 (0.36%) VxRail
Vendors
1 169 (61.68%) Microsoft
2 59 (21.53%) VMware
3 31 (11.31%) Cisco
4 18 (6.57%) Veeam
5 17 (6.20%) Google
5 17 (6.20%) ServiceNow
6 15 (5.47%) Citrix
7 13 (4.74%) HP
8 11 (4.01%) Darktrace
8 11 (4.01%) Meraki
9 10 (3.65%) SAP
10 9 (3.28%) BMC
10 9 (3.28%) HubSpot
10 9 (3.28%) Proofpoint
10 9 (3.28%) Red Hat
10 9 (3.28%) Salesforce
10 9 (3.28%) SolarWinds
10 9 (3.28%) Tanium
10 9 (3.28%) Trend Micro
10 9 (3.28%) Zoho