Active Directory Jobs in the North of England

Microsoft Active Directory
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Active Directory skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Active Directory over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 29 54
Rank change year-on-year -58 +25 -13
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 422 1,103 918
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.56% 5.59% 5.78%
As % of the System Software category 26.86% 55.79% 39.57%
Number of salaries quoted 293 906 759
10th Percentile £25,480 £23,500 £23,500
25th Percentile £26,250 £26,500 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £35,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.86% -6.67% +15.38%
75th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £48,750
90th Percentile £48,750 £62,250 £61,250
England median annual salary £38,500 £37,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year +2.67% -6.25% -

All System Software Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,571 1,977 2,320
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 13.26% 10.02% 14.61%
Number of salaries quoted 605 1,623 1,516
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £29,656 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.24% -10.53% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £57,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,250 £69,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -

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 10 June 2025.

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 10 June 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
Yorkshire +4 229 £30,000 -10.45% 140
North West -126 138 £37,500 - 177
North East -8 55 £32,000 -3.03% 49
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 70 (16.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 66 (15.64%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.84%) IIS
4 2 (0.47%) Confluence
4 2 (0.47%) nginx
4 2 (0.47%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.47%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.47%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 30 (7.11%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (6.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (1.18%) SAP Business One
2 3 (0.71%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 208 (49.29%) Microsoft 365
2 198 (46.92%) Azure
3 96 (22.75%) Entra ID
4 26 (6.16%) AWS
5 18 (4.27%) OneDrive
6 10 (2.37%) Power Platform
7 8 (1.90%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (1.90%) SaaS
8 7 (1.66%) Nutanix
9 6 (1.42%) IaaS
9 6 (1.42%) Mimecast
9 6 (1.42%) PaaS
10 5 (1.18%) Google Workspace
11 4 (0.95%) Power Automate
11 4 (0.95%) PowerApps
12 3 (0.71%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (0.71%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (0.71%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (0.71%) GCP
13 2 (0.47%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 138 (32.70%) Firewall
2 69 (16.35%) DNS
3 60 (14.22%) DHCP
4 34 (8.06%) LAN
4 34 (8.06%) WAN
5 33 (7.82%) VPN
6 29 (6.87%) Wireless
7 25 (5.92%) TCP/IP
8 24 (5.69%) Cisco IOS
9 20 (4.74%) VLAN
9 20 (4.74%) VoIP
10 8 (1.90%) SAN
11 7 (1.66%) Internet
11 7 (1.66%) Remote Desktop
12 6 (1.42%) NAS
12 6 (1.42%) SD-WAN
13 5 (1.18%) BGP
13 5 (1.18%) MPLS
13 5 (1.18%) OSPF
13 5 (1.18%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (5.21%) SQL Server
2 8 (1.90%) Power BI
3 5 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.47%) EDMS
5 2 (0.47%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.47%) Star Schema
6 1 (0.24%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 8 (1.90%) JIRA
2 4 (0.95%) Git
3 2 (0.47%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 161 (38.15%) Social Skills
2 36 (8.53%) Law
3 24 (5.69%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (5.21%) Finance
5 16 (3.79%) Organisational Skills
6 15 (3.55%) Manufacturing
7 14 (3.32%) Retail
8 13 (3.08%) Public Sector
9 10 (2.37%) Automotive
9 10 (2.37%) Legal
10 7 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.42%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.71%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.47%) Games
13 2 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.24%) Military
14 1 (0.24%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.24%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 102 (24.17%) Analyst
2 75 (17.77%) IT Support
3 65 (15.40%) IT Engineer
3 65 (15.40%) Support Analyst
4 57 (13.51%) IT Analyst
5 48 (11.37%) 2nd Line Support
6 39 (9.24%) Identity Management Specialist
6 39 (9.24%) Technology Specialist
7 35 (8.29%) IT Support Analyst
7 35 (8.29%) Support Engineer
8 26 (6.16%) Administrator
9 25 (5.92%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
9 25 (5.92%) Technical Support
10 24 (5.69%) Senior
11 22 (5.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 22 (5.21%) IT Administrator
12 21 (4.98%) Service Analyst
13 20 (4.74%) Desktop Support
14 19 (4.50%) Instrumentation Engineer
14 19 (4.50%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.42%) LDAP
2 4 (0.95%) ARM Templates
3 2 (0.47%) .NET
3 2 (0.47%) Middleware
4 1 (0.24%) JSON
4 1 (0.24%) RESTful
4 1 (0.24%) SAML
4 1 (0.24%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 57 (13.51%) Operational Technology
2 39 (9.24%) NHS
3 22 (5.21%) Social Media
4 19 (4.50%) Driving Licence
5 16 (3.79%) Data Protection Act
6 10 (2.37%) Life Science
7 9 (2.13%) Management Information System
7 9 (2.13%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.66%) Clustering
8 7 (1.66%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.66%) EPoS
9 6 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.42%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.95%) Anti-Spyware
10 4 (0.95%) Cloud Native
10 4 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.71%) CCTV
11 3 (0.71%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (0.71%) Housing Association
11 3 (0.71%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 293 (69.43%) Windows
2 125 (29.62%) Windows Server
3 57 (13.51%) Linux
4 49 (11.61%) Windows 10
5 22 (5.21%) Android
6 21 (4.98%) Mac OS X
7 16 (3.79%) Mac OS
8 13 (3.08%) Windows Server 2016
9 10 (2.37%) Windows 7
10 9 (2.13%) Windows Server 2012
11 7 (1.66%) CentOS
11 7 (1.66%) Windows Server 2019
12 5 (1.18%) Unix
12 5 (1.18%) Windows 8
13 3 (0.71%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 2 (0.47%) Solaris
14 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.24%) Debian
15 1 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (27.01%) Problem-Solving
2 105 (24.88%) ITIL
3 99 (23.46%) Customer Service
4 91 (21.56%) Cybersecurity
5 64 (15.17%) Network Management
6 58 (13.74%) Network Design
7 50 (11.85%) Identity Management
8 33 (7.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 28 (6.64%) Process Improvement
10 27 (6.40%) ITSM
11 25 (5.92%) Incident Management
12 24 (5.69%) Line Management
12 24 (5.69%) Service Delivery
13 23 (5.45%) Asset Management
14 22 (5.21%) Continuous Improvement
14 22 (5.21%) Data Protection
15 20 (4.74%) Disaster Recovery
16 16 (3.79%) Collaborative Culture
16 16 (3.79%) Mobile Device Management
17 15 (3.55%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 49 (11.61%) PowerShell
2 47 (11.14%) SQL
3 29 (6.87%) Python
4 9 (2.13%) Bash
5 4 (0.95%) Java
6 3 (0.71%) Bicep
6 3 (0.71%) Progress 4GL
7 1 (0.24%) Perl
7 1 (0.24%) VB
7 1 (0.24%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 78 (18.48%) Degree
2 62 (14.69%) DBS Check
3 44 (10.43%) Microsoft Certification
4 22 (5.21%) SC Cleared
4 22 (5.21%) Security Cleared
5 17 (4.03%) MCSA
6 15 (3.55%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (2.84%) Azure Certification
8 10 (2.37%) CCNP
9 7 (1.66%) AWS Certification
9 7 (1.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 6 (1.42%) A+ Certification
10 6 (1.42%) MCSE
10 6 (1.42%) Network+ Certification
11 5 (1.18%) CCNA
11 5 (1.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (0.71%) Linux+ Certification
12 3 (0.71%) RHCE
13 2 (0.47%) ACSP
13 2 (0.47%) HP AIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (9.95%) SLA
2 12 (2.84%) Cyber Essentials
3 11 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.18%) GDPR
5 3 (0.71%) HIPAA
5 3 (0.71%) ISO 14001
5 3 (0.71%) ISO 9001
5 3 (0.71%) NIST
6 2 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.47%) NCSC
7 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 59 (13.98%) Virtual Servers
2 49 (11.61%) Hyper-V
3 46 (10.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (3.08%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (2.37%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (2.13%) vSphere
7 5 (1.18%) Terminal Services
8 4 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.71%) Docker
9 3 (0.71%) Dovecot
9 3 (0.71%) NFS
9 3 (0.71%) Postfix
10 2 (0.47%) KVM
10 2 (0.47%) SRDF
10 2 (0.47%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 2 (0.47%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.47%) Xen
11 1 (0.24%) pfSense
11 1 (0.24%) XenApp
11 1 (0.24%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 68 (16.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (4.98%) SCCM
3 14 (3.32%) Kubernetes
4 13 (3.08%) Ansible
5 9 (2.13%) Jamf Pro
6 8 (1.90%) FortiGate
7 7 (1.66%) Terraform
7 7 (1.66%) WSUS
8 5 (1.18%) AirWatch
8 5 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.95%) Backup Exec
10 3 (0.71%) SmoothWall
11 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 2 (0.47%) Puppet
11 2 (0.47%) SCOM
11 2 (0.47%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.24%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.24%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 224 (53.08%) Microsoft
2 87 (20.62%) VMware
3 68 (16.11%) Cisco
4 25 (5.92%) Veeam
5 21 (4.98%) Apple
6 18 (4.27%) Meraki
7 13 (3.08%) SonicWALL
8 12 (2.84%) WatchGuard
9 11 (2.61%) Citrix
9 11 (2.61%) Sophos
9 11 (2.61%) Sun
10 10 (2.37%) Fortinet
10 10 (2.37%) ServiceNow
11 8 (1.90%) Google
11 8 (1.90%) iManage
11 8 (1.90%) Ubiquiti
12 7 (1.66%) Okta
13 6 (1.42%) Datto
13 6 (1.42%) SAP
14 5 (1.18%) Red Hat