Active Directory Jobs in Northern Ireland

Microsoft Active Directory
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 21 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 63 45
Rank change year-on-year +37 -18 -6
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 11 14 58
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 3.82% 2.03% 6.86%
As % of the System Software category 42.31% 24.14% 24.27%
Number of salaries quoted 8 10 44
10th Percentile £47,125 £32,996 £27,800
25th Percentile £50,313 £36,250 £31,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £38,750 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +35.48% +10.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £53,750 £42,813 £51,000
90th Percentile - £80,750 £65,000
UK median annual salary £40,000 £38,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -

All System Software Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 26 58 239
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 9.03% 8.43% 28.28%
Number of salaries quoted 15 30 95
10th Percentile £46,750 £27,500 £28,600
25th Percentile £50,000 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% +28.21%
75th Percentile £58,750 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £60,000 £107,750 £67,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -3.51%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing Active Directory as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Northern Ireland

Active Directory
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in Northern Ireland.

Salary trend for Active Directory in Northern Ireland

Active Directory
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Active Directory within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 21 April 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
County Antrim +38 11 £52,500 +31.25% 20
Active Directory
UK

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 7 (63.64%) SharePoint
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (18.18%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) Azure
1 7 (63.64%) Microsoft 365
1 7 (63.64%) OneDrive
2 2 (18.18%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) OCI
3 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) IPsec
1 2 (18.18%) Network Security
1 2 (18.18%) VPN
2 1 (9.09%) DNS
2 1 (9.09%) LAN
2 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
2 1 (9.09%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle Database
2 1 (9.09%) DB2
2 1 (9.09%) MS Access
2 1 (9.09%) QlikView
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (63.64%) JIRA
General
1 5 (45.45%) Marketing
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (9.09%) Law
3 1 (9.09%) Legal
3 1 (9.09%) Public Speaking
3 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) 3rd Line Support
1 4 (36.36%) Support Specialist
2 2 (18.18%) 2nd Line Support
2 2 (18.18%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) 3rd Line Support Specialist
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Infrastructure Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) Senior
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Oracle Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Active Directory Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Associate Director
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (9.09%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (18.18%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (9.09%) AS400
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (63.64%) Windows
2 6 (54.55%) Windows 10
2 6 (54.55%) Windows Server 2012
2 6 (54.55%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (18.18%) Linux
3 2 (18.18%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (9.09%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Service Management
2 6 (54.55%) ITSM
3 2 (18.18%) Analytics
3 2 (18.18%) Coaching
3 2 (18.18%) Customer Retention
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) ERP
3 2 (18.18%) ITIL
3 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
4 1 (9.09%) BCP
4 1 (9.09%) Information Security Management
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (9.09%) IT Audit
4 1 (9.09%) Roadmaps
4 1 (9.09%) Security Management
4 1 (9.09%) Security Monitoring
4 1 (9.09%) Security Operations
4 1 (9.09%) Service Delivery
4 1 (9.09%) Software Deployment
4 1 (9.09%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) RPG
1 1 (9.09%) RPG IV
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) COBIT
1 1 (9.09%) FISMA
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
1 1 (9.09%) GLBA
1 1 (9.09%) GRC
1 1 (9.09%) HIPAA
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (9.09%) NIST
1 1 (9.09%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Ansible
1 2 (18.18%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (90.91%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Hyperion
2 2 (18.18%) JD Edwards
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle
2 2 (18.18%) PeopleSoft
3 1 (9.09%) IBM