Active Directory Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Microsoft Active Directory
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring Active Directory skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 28 17
Rank change year-on-year -24 -11 -4
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 5 27 50
As % of all permanent jobs in Milton Keynes 0.89% 7.52% 9.33%
As % of the System Software category 18.52% 45.00% 60.24%
Number of salaries quoted 4 26 35
10th Percentile - £26,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,750 £33,750 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,750 £37,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +35.33% - +25.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £42,813 £43,750
90th Percentile £74,500 £48,750 £55,037
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year - - +25.00%

All System Software Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 27 60 83
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 4.83% 16.71% 15.49%
Number of salaries quoted 20 52 56
10th Percentile £35,750 £30,050 -
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £48,750 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.74% +14.71% +7.59%
75th Percentile £70,625 £62,813 £47,882
90th Percentile £74,125 £64,875 £65,000
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £37,500 £50,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -25.00% +17.65% +21.43%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Active Directory job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Active Directory
Salary Trend in Milton Keynes

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Active Directory.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Active Directory

Active Directory
Salary Histogram in Milton Keynes

Salary distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Active Directory in Milton Keynes

Active Directory
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (20.00%) IaaS
3 1 (20.00%) OneDrive
3 1 (20.00%) PaaS
3 1 (20.00%) Power Automate
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DHCP
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
1 1 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Legal
1 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (20.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support
2 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Desktop Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Desktop Support
2 1 (20.00%) Desktop Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (20.00%) Smartphone
1 1 (20.00%) Video Conferencing
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
1 3 (60.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (20.00%) Android
2 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (20.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) ITSM
2 2 (40.00%) Observability
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Asset Management
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (20.00%) IT Asset Management
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) Logistics
3 1 (20.00%) Matrix Management
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) Proactive Maintenance
3 1 (20.00%) Resource Management
3 1 (20.00%) Security Patching
3 1 (20.00%) Servant Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (20.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) SCCM
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Citrix
2 1 (20.00%) McAfee