Active Directory Jobs in the North West

Microsoft Active Directory
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 147 41 49
Rank change year-on-year -106 +8 +5
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 155 497 491
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.96% 5.06% 6.27%
As % of the System Software category 18.11% 51.77% 41.19%
Number of salaries quoted 138 446 414
10th Percentile £25,480 £23,000 £23,650
25th Percentile £26,500 £26,250 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £37,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% +19.40%
75th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £50,836
90th Percentile £52,650 £63,000 £57,500
England median annual salary £40,000 £38,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -

All System Software Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 856 960 1,192
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 10.82% 9.77% 15.21%
Number of salaries quoted 335 831 806
10th Percentile £25,750 £24,500 £25,420
25th Percentile £37,750 £29,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.78% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £73,886 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £93,267 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -0.72%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in the North West

Active Directory
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Active Directory in the North West

Active Directory
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in the North West over the 6 months to 10 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Active Directory in the North West

Active Directory
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 10 May 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
Manchester -36 75 £37,500 -6.25% 65
Merseyside +10 30 £42,500 +30.77% 7
Cheshire -42 25 £37,500 +10.29% 19
Lancashire -97 19 £42,500 -15.00% 29
Cumbria -80 6 £32,000 -12.33% 10
Active Directory
England

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 34 (21.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (16.77%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.23%) IIS
4 2 (1.29%) nginx
5 1 (0.65%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 16 (10.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (9.68%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.94%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 115 (74.19%) Microsoft 365
2 72 (46.45%) Azure
3 31 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 18 (11.61%) AWS
5 11 (7.10%) OneDrive
6 8 (5.16%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (4.52%) Mimecast
7 7 (4.52%) Power Platform
8 6 (3.87%) Nutanix
9 3 (1.94%) GCP
10 2 (1.29%) IaaS
10 2 (1.29%) SaaS
11 1 (0.65%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.65%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (0.65%) Azure Stack
11 1 (0.65%) Cloudflare
11 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (0.65%) Power Automate
11 1 (0.65%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 51 (32.90%) DNS
2 43 (27.74%) DHCP
3 37 (23.87%) Firewall
4 22 (14.19%) LAN
4 22 (14.19%) WAN
5 13 (8.39%) VLAN
5 13 (8.39%) VPN
6 9 (5.81%) VoIP
7 7 (4.52%) Internet
7 7 (4.52%) Remote Desktop
8 6 (3.87%) IPv4
8 6 (3.87%) TCP/IP
9 5 (3.23%) Cisco IOS
9 5 (3.23%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (3.23%) SAN
9 5 (3.23%) SD-WAN
10 4 (2.58%) HTTP
10 4 (2.58%) SSH
11 3 (1.94%) Cisco ISE
12 2 (1.29%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.58%) Power BI
2 3 (1.94%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.65%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 5 (3.23%) JIRA
2 4 (2.58%) Git
General
1 64 (41.29%) Social Skills
2 17 (10.97%) Finance
3 13 (8.39%) Legal
3 13 (8.39%) Manufacturing
4 10 (6.45%) Automotive
5 7 (4.52%) Law
5 7 (4.52%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (4.52%) Retail
5 7 (4.52%) Telecoms
6 6 (3.87%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.23%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.29%) Banking
8 2 (1.29%) Games
9 1 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.65%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.65%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 41 (26.45%) Analyst
2 26 (16.77%) IT Support
3 23 (14.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 22 (14.19%) Administrator
5 20 (12.90%) IT Administrator
6 19 (12.26%) IT Engineer
7 18 (11.61%) IT Analyst
8 16 (10.32%) Senior
8 16 (10.32%) Support Engineer
9 15 (9.68%) Support Analyst
10 12 (7.74%) Service Analyst
11 11 (7.10%) Service Desk Analyst
11 11 (7.10%) Technical Support
12 10 (6.45%) IT Support Analyst
13 9 (5.81%) Support Specialist
14 7 (4.52%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
14 7 (4.52%) IT Support Engineer
15 6 (3.87%) Cloud Engineer
15 6 (3.87%) IT Technician
15 6 (3.87%) Senior Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.58%) LDAP
2 3 (1.94%) SAML
3 2 (1.29%) .NET
4 1 (0.65%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 18 (11.61%) Social Media
2 16 (10.32%) Data Protection Act
3 9 (5.81%) Management Information System
3 9 (5.81%) Onboarding
4 8 (5.16%) Replication
5 7 (4.52%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.58%) Anti-Spyware
7 3 (1.94%) Clustering
7 3 (1.94%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.29%) Life Science
9 1 (0.65%) CMDB
9 1 (0.65%) Housing Association
9 1 (0.65%) IoT
9 1 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.65%) PKI
9 1 (0.65%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.65%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 108 (69.68%) Windows
2 51 (32.90%) Windows Server
3 24 (15.48%) Linux
4 22 (14.19%) Windows 10
5 15 (9.68%) Mac OS
6 13 (8.39%) Windows Server 2016
6 13 (8.39%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (4.52%) Android
7 7 (4.52%) Windows 7
8 6 (3.87%) CentOS
8 6 (3.87%) Unix
9 5 (3.23%) Mac OS X
9 5 (3.23%) Windows 8
10 4 (2.58%) Apple iOS
10 4 (2.58%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (1.94%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.65%) Debian
12 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (37.42%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (24.52%) Customer Service
3 31 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 29 (18.71%) Cybersecurity
5 25 (16.13%) ITIL
6 22 (14.19%) Disaster Recovery
7 21 (13.55%) Asset Management
7 21 (13.55%) Data Protection
8 20 (12.90%) Line Management
9 19 (12.26%) ITSM
10 17 (10.97%) Continuous Improvement
11 16 (10.32%) Process Improvement
12 13 (8.39%) Incident Management
12 13 (8.39%) Infrastructure Management
13 12 (7.74%) Project Delivery
14 10 (6.45%) Migration
14 10 (6.45%) Service Management
15 9 (5.81%) High Availability
15 9 (5.81%) Identity Management
15 9 (5.81%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (21.29%) PowerShell
2 3 (1.94%) Bash
3 2 (1.29%) Java
3 2 (1.29%) Python
4 1 (0.65%) Progress 4GL
4 1 (0.65%) SQL
4 1 (0.65%) VB
4 1 (0.65%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 19 (12.26%) DBS Check
1 19 (12.26%) Microsoft Certification
2 13 (8.39%) Degree
3 8 (5.16%) Network+ Certification
4 7 (4.52%) MCSA
5 5 (3.23%) ACSP
5 5 (3.23%) AWS Certification
5 5 (3.23%) Azure Certification
5 5 (3.23%) HP AIS
5 5 (3.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 4 (2.58%) MCSE
7 3 (1.94%) CCNA
7 3 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.94%) Linux+ Certification
7 3 (1.94%) RHCE
7 3 (1.94%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.94%) Security Cleared
8 2 (1.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.65%) CEH
9 1 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (17.42%) SLA
2 7 (4.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.87%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (3.23%) GDPR
5 3 (1.94%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.29%) PMO
7 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.65%) NCSC
System Software
1 26 (16.77%) Hyper-V
2 23 (14.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (7.10%) vSphere
4 9 (5.81%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (4.52%) DFS Replication
5 7 (4.52%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (3.23%) Terminal Services
7 3 (1.94%) Docker
7 3 (1.94%) Dovecot
7 3 (1.94%) Postfix
8 2 (1.29%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (1.29%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (1.29%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.65%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.65%) Firmware
9 1 (0.65%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.65%) RHEV
Systems Management
1 29 (18.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (9.68%) SCCM
3 7 (4.52%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (3.23%) Jamf Pro
5 4 (2.58%) Ansible
6 3 (1.94%) Kubernetes
7 2 (1.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (1.29%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.65%) Backup Exec
8 1 (0.65%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 98 (63.23%) Microsoft
2 55 (35.48%) VMware
3 31 (20.00%) Cisco
4 24 (15.48%) Veeam
5 16 (10.32%) Meraki
6 11 (7.10%) ServiceNow
7 10 (6.45%) Sophos
8 9 (5.81%) Apple
8 9 (5.81%) Fortinet
8 9 (5.81%) SonicWALL
8 9 (5.81%) WatchGuard
9 8 (5.16%) iManage
10 7 (4.52%) Okta
11 5 (3.23%) HP
11 5 (3.23%) Kaseya
12 4 (2.58%) Perforce
13 3 (1.94%) Acronis
13 3 (1.94%) ConnectWise
13 3 (1.94%) Red Hat
13 3 (1.94%) Sage