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 1 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 30 44 36
Rank change year-on-year +14 -8 -2
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 622 1,039 1,200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 7.94% 6.11% 7.15%
As % of the System Software category 45.43% 39.31% 38.08%
Number of salaries quoted 542 917 1,008
10th Percentile £24,900 £23,500 £22,500
25th Percentile £28,500 £26,250 £26,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £36,809 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.99% +5.17% -
75th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £47,500
90th Percentile £61,125 £61,250 £58,750
England median annual salary £41,500 £41,000 £39,000
% change year-on-year +1.22% +5.13% -6.02%

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 1,369 2,643 3,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 17.47% 15.53% 18.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,069 1,909 2,546
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,487 £26,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £32,750 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.56%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,125
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%

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 1 December 2023.

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 1 December 2023. 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 +18 291 £37,500 +3.45% 161
Yorkshire +12 276 £32,500 -10.96% 114
North East +31 56 £33,000 -16.68% 48
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 59 (9.49%) SharePoint
2 32 (5.14%) MS Exchange
3 19 (3.05%) IIS
4 4 (0.64%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (0.16%) IBM Domino
5 1 (0.16%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 130 (20.90%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.13%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.32%) Sage 50
2 1 (0.16%) Epicor Tropos
2 1 (0.16%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.16%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 424 (68.17%) Microsoft 365
2 329 (52.89%) Azure
3 127 (20.42%) Entra ID
4 87 (13.99%) AWS
5 50 (8.04%) IaaS
6 46 (7.40%) SaaS
7 38 (6.11%) PaaS
8 21 (3.38%) GCP
9 20 (3.22%) Azure Storage
10 19 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
11 17 (2.73%) Azure Service Bus
11 17 (2.73%) OneDrive
12 12 (1.93%) Azure App Service
12 12 (1.93%) Azure Cognitive Search
12 12 (1.93%) Power Platform
13 9 (1.45%) Azure Monitor
14 8 (1.29%) Google Workspace
14 8 (1.29%) Mimecast
14 8 (1.29%) PowerApps
15 7 (1.13%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 162 (26.05%) DNS
2 137 (22.03%) DHCP
3 113 (18.17%) Firewall
4 75 (12.06%) WAN
5 69 (11.09%) TCP/IP
6 68 (10.93%) LAN
6 68 (10.93%) VPN
7 43 (6.91%) VoIP
7 43 (6.91%) Wireless
8 38 (6.11%) SAN
9 32 (5.14%) Wi-Fi
10 30 (4.82%) Remote Desktop
11 27 (4.34%) VLAN
12 23 (3.70%) Internet
13 17 (2.73%) Network Security
14 14 (2.25%) NAS
14 14 (2.25%) Structured Cabling
14 14 (2.25%) WLAN
15 10 (1.61%) Skype
16 8 (1.29%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (14.31%) SQL Server
2 42 (6.75%) Amazon RDS
3 16 (2.57%) MySQL
4 12 (1.93%) InterSystems Cache
5 7 (1.13%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (0.80%) DTS
7 5 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.48%) Firebird
9 2 (0.32%) Power BI
10 1 (0.16%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.16%) MS Access
10 1 (0.16%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.16%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.16%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.16%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 5 (0.80%) Git
1 5 (0.80%) Jenkins
1 5 (0.80%) JIRA
2 4 (0.64%) Artifactory
2 4 (0.64%) GitLab
2 4 (0.64%) Maven
2 4 (0.64%) SonarQube
2 4 (0.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (0.32%) git-flow
3 2 (0.32%) Gitleaks
3 2 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (0.32%) SpecFlow
3 2 (0.32%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.16%) Mercurial
4 1 (0.16%) NUnit
4 1 (0.16%) Subversion
4 1 (0.16%) TeamCity
General
1 233 (37.46%) Social Skills
2 74 (11.90%) Finance
3 50 (8.04%) Law
4 42 (6.75%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (4.82%) Retail
6 28 (4.50%) Organisational Skills
7 25 (4.02%) Legal
8 22 (3.54%) Telecoms
9 21 (3.38%) Manufacturing
10 17 (2.73%) Public Sector
11 13 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 11 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (0.80%) Advertising
14 5 (0.80%) Back Office
14 5 (0.80%) Local Government
15 4 (0.64%) Banking
15 4 (0.64%) Electronics
16 2 (0.32%) Games
16 2 (0.32%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 134 (21.54%) Support Engineer
2 120 (19.29%) Analyst
3 105 (16.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 102 (16.40%) IT Support
5 75 (12.06%) IT Engineer
6 65 (10.45%) IT Analyst
7 62 (9.97%) 2nd Line Support
8 59 (9.49%) Service Analyst
9 56 (9.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 55 (8.84%) Senior
11 53 (8.52%) IT Support Engineer
12 50 (8.04%) Service Desk Analyst
13 47 (7.56%) Support Analyst
14 44 (7.07%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
15 43 (6.91%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 33 (5.31%) Cloud Engineer
17 32 (5.14%) 3rd Line Support
18 31 (4.98%) IT Support Analyst
19 26 (4.18%) Desktop Support
20 25 (4.02%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (2.09%) Web Services
2 12 (1.93%) .NET
2 12 (1.93%) ARM Templates
3 11 (1.77%) MFC
4 8 (1.29%) LDAP
5 4 (0.64%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (0.64%) HTML
5 4 (0.64%) OAuth
5 4 (0.64%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (0.48%) ASP.NET
6 3 (0.48%) JSON
7 2 (0.32%) .NET Framework
7 2 (0.32%) Blazor
7 2 (0.32%) Entity Framework
7 2 (0.32%) Razor View Engine
7 2 (0.32%) RESTful
7 2 (0.32%) SAML
7 2 (0.32%) YAML
8 1 (0.16%) .NET Core
8 1 (0.16%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 36 (5.79%) Driving Licence
2 24 (3.86%) Clustering
3 23 (3.70%) Management Information System
4 22 (3.54%) Data Centre
5 21 (3.38%) Public Cloud
6 20 (3.22%) Onboarding
7 16 (2.57%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (1.93%) Virtual Team
10 9 (1.45%) Video Conferencing
11 8 (1.29%) Life Science
11 8 (1.29%) PKI
12 7 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
13 6 (0.96%) Client/Server
13 6 (0.96%) Fat Client
13 6 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
13 6 (0.96%) Renewable Energy
13 6 (0.96%) Security Operations Centre
13 6 (0.96%) Thin Client
14 5 (0.80%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 466 (74.92%) Windows
2 280 (45.02%) Windows Server
3 167 (26.85%) Windows 10
4 72 (11.58%) Windows Server 2012
5 70 (11.25%) Windows Server 2016
6 66 (10.61%) Windows Server 2019
7 47 (7.56%) Windows 7
8 35 (5.63%) Linux
9 29 (4.66%) Windows 8
10 26 (4.18%) Android
11 19 (3.05%) Apple iOS
12 17 (2.73%) Windows Server 2003
13 10 (1.61%) Mac OS
14 6 (0.96%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.64%) Ubuntu
16 3 (0.48%) CentOS
16 3 (0.48%) Debian
17 2 (0.32%) VMS
18 1 (0.16%) Solaris
18 1 (0.16%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (28.30%) Problem-Solving
2 173 (27.81%) ITIL
3 118 (18.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 109 (17.52%) Customer Service
5 50 (8.04%) Service Management
6 48 (7.72%) Disaster Recovery
6 48 (7.72%) High Availability
7 46 (7.40%) Cybersecurity
8 44 (7.07%) Remote Monitoring and Management
9 43 (6.91%) DevOps
10 36 (5.79%) Change Management
11 34 (5.47%) Continuous Improvement
12 30 (4.82%) Agile
12 30 (4.82%) Infrastructure as Code
12 30 (4.82%) Migration
13 28 (4.50%) Customer Experience
13 28 (4.50%) Information Security
14 24 (3.86%) Line Management
14 24 (3.86%) Mentoring
14 24 (3.86%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 121 (19.45%) SQL
2 76 (12.22%) PowerShell
3 23 (3.70%) Python
4 15 (2.41%) Bash
5 12 (1.93%) C#
6 11 (1.77%) T-SQL
7 6 (0.96%) Perl
8 4 (0.64%) Delphi
8 4 (0.64%) Java
9 3 (0.48%) Bicep
10 2 (0.32%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.32%) PHP
10 2 (0.32%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.32%) VB
11 1 (0.16%) VBA
11 1 (0.16%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 59 (9.49%) Degree
2 50 (8.04%) Microsoft Certification
3 32 (5.14%) Security Cleared
4 30 (4.82%) Azure Certification
5 29 (4.66%) SC Cleared
6 13 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (2.09%) ITIL Certification
7 12 (1.93%) MCSE
8 8 (1.29%) MCSA
9 7 (1.13%) MCP
10 6 (0.96%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 4 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.64%) CTC Cleared
13 3 (0.48%) AWS Certification
13 3 (0.48%) CEH
13 3 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.48%) CISM
13 3 (0.48%) CISSP
13 3 (0.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (16.24%) SLA
2 22 (3.54%) Cyber Essentials
3 14 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (1.29%) GDPR
4 8 (1.29%) QA
5 7 (1.13%) NCSC
6 4 (0.64%) NIST
6 4 (0.64%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.48%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 130 (20.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 111 (17.85%) Hyper-V
3 36 (5.79%) Virtual Machines
4 29 (4.66%) XenApp
5 26 (4.18%) vSphere
6 24 (3.86%) Firmware
7 20 (3.22%) Virtual Desktop
8 16 (2.57%) Virtual Servers
9 14 (2.25%) Docker
10 13 (2.09%) XenDesktop
11 9 (1.45%) VMware Workstation
12 7 (1.13%) Microsoft App-V
12 7 (1.13%) VMware ESXi
13 3 (0.48%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 3 (0.48%) VMware Server
14 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 1 (0.16%) BitLocker
15 1 (0.16%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 106 (17.04%) Microsoft Intune
2 86 (13.83%) SCCM
3 56 (9.00%) SCOM
4 23 (3.70%) Kubernetes
5 20 (3.22%) Ansible
5 20 (3.22%) Failover Clustering
5 20 (3.22%) SCVMM
5 20 (3.22%) Terraform
6 19 (3.05%) FortiGate
7 16 (2.57%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 14 (2.25%) Nessus
9 11 (1.77%) PaperCut
10 7 (1.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (0.80%) EdgeSight
12 5 (0.80%) Microsoft Clustering
13 4 (0.64%) Kustomize
13 4 (0.64%) Puppet
14 3 (0.48%) Ganglia
14 3 (0.48%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 383 (61.58%) Microsoft
2 187 (30.06%) VMware
3 111 (17.85%) Citrix
4 77 (12.38%) Cisco
5 58 (9.32%) Veeam
6 35 (5.63%) Commvault
7 32 (5.14%) Kaseya
8 26 (4.18%) Sophos
9 20 (3.22%) iManage
10 18 (2.89%) HP
11 17 (2.73%) Aruba
11 17 (2.73%) Barracuda Networks
12 14 (2.25%) arcserve
12 14 (2.25%) Meraki
12 14 (2.25%) SolarWinds
13 13 (2.09%) Dell
13 13 (2.09%) Fortinet
13 13 (2.09%) Mitel
13 13 (2.09%) Ubiquiti
14 12 (1.93%) Oracle