Active Directory Jobs in the North of England

Microsoft Active Directory
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Active Directory skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Active Directory over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 64 40
Rank change year-on-year +38 -24 -13
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 1,074 960 1,234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 6.23% 5.48% 6.85%
As % of the System Software category 54.55% 38.88% 37.03%
Number of salaries quoted 921 800 1,038
10th Percentile £23,500 £23,500 £22,088
25th Percentile £26,500 £26,875 £25,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £38,000 £33,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.84% +15.15% -12.00%
75th Percentile £45,000 £48,000 £46,750
90th Percentile £61,250 £58,750 £57,500
England median annual salary £38,000 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%

All System Software Skills
North of England

Active Directory is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,969 2,469 3,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 11.42% 14.11% 18.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,675 1,646 2,420
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,750 £25,500
25th Percentile £29,750 £34,000 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% -6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £57,500 £67,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% -1.79% +1.82%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Active Directory as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in the North of England

Active Directory
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in the North of England.

Salary trend for Active Directory in the North of England

Active Directory
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in the North of England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Active Directory in the North of England

Active Directory
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Active Directory within the North of England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
North West +11 497 £37,500 -6.25% 106
Yorkshire +42 389 £32,500 -11.85% 54
North East +28 188 £33,000 -8.33% 24
Active Directory
England

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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
1 287 (26.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 148 (13.78%) SharePoint
3 25 (2.33%) IIS
4 9 (0.84%) Exchange Server 2013
5 5 (0.47%) SharePoint Server
5 5 (0.47%) Skype for Business
6 4 (0.37%) CMS
7 2 (0.19%) Confluence
7 2 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (0.19%) Resin
8 1 (0.093%) Site Server
Applications
1 176 (16.39%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.093%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.47%) SAP ERP
2 4 (0.37%) Epicor Tropos
3 2 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.093%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 711 (66.20%) Microsoft 365
2 562 (52.33%) Azure
3 296 (27.56%) Entra ID
4 109 (10.15%) AWS
5 63 (5.87%) OneDrive
6 42 (3.91%) Power Platform
7 28 (2.61%) PowerApps
8 27 (2.51%) Power Automate
8 27 (2.51%) SaaS
9 19 (1.77%) IaaS
10 18 (1.68%) GCP
11 15 (1.40%) Mimecast
12 14 (1.30%) Azure Key Vault
13 13 (1.21%) Dynamics 365
13 13 (1.21%) PaaS
14 12 (1.12%) AWS KMS
15 9 (0.84%) Azure Logic Apps
16 8 (0.74%) Cloud Computing
17 7 (0.65%) Azure DevOps
17 7 (0.65%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 247 (23.00%) DNS
2 229 (21.32%) Firewall
3 216 (20.11%) DHCP
4 186 (17.32%) WAN
5 167 (15.55%) LAN
6 112 (10.43%) VPN
7 94 (8.75%) SAN
8 90 (8.38%) TCP/IP
9 77 (7.17%) VoIP
10 61 (5.68%) Wi-Fi
11 44 (4.10%) WLAN
12 43 (4.00%) VLAN
12 43 (4.00%) Wireless
13 37 (3.45%) NAS
14 31 (2.89%) Network Security
15 30 (2.79%) Internet
16 22 (2.05%) SD-WAN
17 21 (1.96%) SSL
18 15 (1.40%) Remote Desktop
19 13 (1.21%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (8.10%) SQL Server
2 25 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
3 17 (1.58%) Azure SQL Database
3 17 (1.58%) Power BI
4 11 (1.02%) MySQL
5 7 (0.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (0.47%) MaxDB
6 5 (0.47%) NoSQL
6 5 (0.47%) Redis
6 5 (0.47%) SAP HANA
7 3 (0.28%) Crystal Reports
8 2 (0.19%) DB2
9 1 (0.093%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.093%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.093%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (0.37%) Visual Studio
2 3 (0.28%) JIRA
3 2 (0.19%) Moq
3 2 (0.19%) MSTest
3 2 (0.19%) Postman
3 2 (0.19%) SpecFlow
3 2 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (0.19%) webpack
4 1 (0.093%) MSI
General
1 396 (36.87%) Social Skills
2 117 (10.89%) Finance
3 94 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
4 92 (8.57%) Law
5 78 (7.26%) Retail
6 51 (4.75%) Organisational Skills
7 46 (4.28%) Manufacturing
8 43 (4.00%) Public Sector
9 21 (1.96%) Legal
10 19 (1.77%) Telecoms
11 8 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (0.74%) Local Government
12 6 (0.56%) French Language
12 6 (0.56%) German Language
12 6 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (0.56%) Italian Language
12 6 (0.56%) Portuguese Language
12 6 (0.56%) Spanish Language
12 6 (0.56%) Swedish Language
12 6 (0.56%) Turkish Language
Job Titles
1 223 (20.76%) IT Support
2 216 (20.11%) Analyst
3 165 (15.36%) Support Engineer
4 163 (15.18%) IT Engineer
5 158 (14.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 115 (10.71%) IT Support Engineer
7 93 (8.66%) Service Analyst
8 89 (8.29%) 2nd Line Support
8 89 (8.29%) Service Desk Analyst
9 79 (7.36%) IT Analyst
10 76 (7.08%) Senior
11 71 (6.61%) IT Technician
12 62 (5.77%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 58 (5.40%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
14 55 (5.12%) Support Analyst
15 53 (4.93%) IT Manager
16 52 (4.84%) 1st Line Support
17 49 (4.56%) Infrastructure Specialist
18 44 (4.10%) Administrator
18 44 (4.10%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (1.49%) OLE
2 13 (1.21%) .NET
3 8 (0.74%) OAuth
3 8 (0.74%) RESTful
4 6 (0.56%) CSS
4 6 (0.56%) LDAP
4 6 (0.56%) Middleware
5 5 (0.47%) BREW
5 5 (0.47%) SAP Basis
5 5 (0.47%) SAP Fiori
6 4 (0.37%) HTML
7 3 (0.28%) REST
7 3 (0.28%) Web Services
8 2 (0.19%) .NET Framework
8 2 (0.19%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.19%) Jest
8 2 (0.19%) Node.js
8 2 (0.19%) OAuth2
8 2 (0.19%) React
8 2 (0.19%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 104 (9.68%) Driving Licence
2 54 (5.03%) Management Information System
3 51 (4.75%) Data Centre
4 43 (4.00%) Onboarding
5 34 (3.17%) Public Cloud
6 30 (2.79%) Enterprise Storage
7 27 (2.51%) Smartphone
8 24 (2.23%) Clustering
9 23 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
10 19 (1.77%) PMI
11 18 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
12 17 (1.58%) Fat Client
12 17 (1.58%) Hybrid Cloud
12 17 (1.58%) Replication
12 17 (1.58%) Thin Client
13 16 (1.49%) PKI
14 14 (1.30%) Cyberattack
15 13 (1.21%) EPoS
16 12 (1.12%) Private Cloud
17 11 (1.02%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 678 (63.13%) Windows
2 368 (34.26%) Windows Server
3 190 (17.69%) Windows 10
4 98 (9.12%) Linux
5 68 (6.33%) Windows Server 2012
6 65 (6.05%) Windows Server 2016
6 65 (6.05%) Windows Server 2019
7 42 (3.91%) Mac OS
8 32 (2.98%) Android
9 29 (2.70%) Apple iOS
10 23 (2.14%) Windows Server 2008
11 18 (1.68%) Windows 7
12 11 (1.02%) Unix
13 10 (0.93%) VMS
13 10 (0.93%) Windows 8
14 9 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 5 (0.47%) Windows Server 2003
16 4 (0.37%) Debian
16 4 (0.37%) Windows Vista
17 3 (0.28%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 261 (24.30%) ITIL
2 234 (21.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 229 (21.32%) Problem-Solving
4 221 (20.58%) Customer Service
5 105 (9.78%) Cybersecurity
6 101 (9.40%) Disaster Recovery
7 88 (8.19%) Migration
8 75 (6.98%) Service Management
9 73 (6.80%) Incident Management
10 70 (6.52%) ITSM
11 64 (5.96%) Continuous Improvement
12 63 (5.87%) Mentoring
13 61 (5.68%) Project Management
14 53 (4.93%) Agile
14 53 (4.93%) ERP
15 50 (4.66%) Time Management
16 49 (4.56%) Server Management
17 48 (4.47%) Roadmaps
18 45 (4.19%) Service Delivery
19 43 (4.00%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 136 (12.66%) PowerShell
2 123 (11.45%) SQL
3 27 (2.51%) Python
4 17 (1.58%) Bash
5 16 (1.49%) R
6 13 (1.21%) VBScript
7 10 (0.93%) C#
8 8 (0.74%) Java
9 7 (0.65%) JavaScript
10 5 (0.47%) ABAP
11 4 (0.37%) VB
12 2 (0.19%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.19%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.093%) Perl
Qualifications
1 136 (12.66%) Microsoft Certification
2 111 (10.34%) Degree
3 61 (5.68%) Azure Certification
4 36 (3.35%) MCP
5 31 (2.89%) A+ Certification
6 27 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
7 22 (2.05%) DBS Check
7 22 (2.05%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 19 (1.77%) PMI Certification
8 19 (1.77%) Security Cleared
9 18 (1.68%) Cisco Certification
9 18 (1.68%) MCSA
10 17 (1.58%) MCSE
11 14 (1.30%) CCNA
12 12 (1.12%) CISSP
12 12 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
12 12 (1.12%) SC Cleared
13 8 (0.74%) GIAC
14 7 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
15 6 (0.56%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (7.91%) SLA
2 38 (3.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (1.77%) Cyber Essentials
4 14 (1.30%) NIST
5 5 (0.47%) GDPR
6 3 (0.28%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.19%) QA
7 2 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.093%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.093%) PMO
8 1 (0.093%) SOC 2
System Software
1 187 (17.41%) Hyper-V
2 181 (16.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (3.91%) VMware ESXi
4 32 (2.98%) Virtual Machines
5 28 (2.61%) Virtual Desktop
6 22 (2.05%) vSphere
7 12 (1.12%) Virtual Servers
8 8 (0.74%) XenApp
9 7 (0.65%) VMware Server
9 7 (0.65%) XenDesktop
10 5 (0.47%) Firmware
11 4 (0.37%) Microsoft App-V
12 3 (0.28%) VMware Workstation
13 2 (0.19%) Terminal Services
14 1 (0.093%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.093%) DFS Replication
14 1 (0.093%) Docker
14 1 (0.093%) Dovecot
14 1 (0.093%) Postfix
14 1 (0.093%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 201 (18.72%) Microsoft Intune
2 84 (7.82%) SCCM
3 28 (2.61%) SCOM
4 24 (2.23%) Single Sign-On
4 24 (2.23%) WSUS
5 21 (1.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 21 (1.96%) Failover Clustering
5 21 (1.96%) vCenter Server
6 14 (1.30%) FortiGate
6 14 (1.30%) ZABBIX
7 12 (1.12%) CA Single Sign-On
7 12 (1.12%) Jamf Pro
7 12 (1.12%) Opsgenie
7 12 (1.12%) VxRail
8 11 (1.02%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 9 (0.84%) Autotask
9 9 (0.84%) Kubernetes
10 7 (0.65%) Ansible
10 7 (0.65%) Grafana
10 7 (0.65%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 727 (67.69%) Microsoft
2 317 (29.52%) VMware
3 110 (10.24%) Cisco
4 89 (8.29%) Citrix
5 63 (5.87%) Veeam
6 43 (4.00%) Apple
7 36 (3.35%) ServiceNow
7 36 (3.35%) SolarWinds
8 29 (2.70%) NetApp
9 28 (2.61%) Fortinet
10 27 (2.51%) Dell
11 23 (2.14%) Sophos
12 22 (2.05%) Aruba
13 21 (1.96%) CA
14 17 (1.58%) Epicor
14 17 (1.58%) SAP
15 16 (1.49%) Adobe
15 16 (1.49%) HP
16 14 (1.30%) Commvault
16 14 (1.30%) Oracle