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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 65 56
Rank change year-on-year +36 -9 -29
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 5 12 47
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 1.92% 1.63% 5.41%
As % of the System Software category 35.71% 22.22% 20.26%
Number of salaries quoted 4 9 36
10th Percentile £46,625 £32,996 £29,625
25th Percentile £47,188 £36,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £37,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.67% -16.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile £53,750 £40,000 £51,250
90th Percentile - £52,500 £58,750
UK median annual salary £39,000 £37,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -6.25% -

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 14 54 232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 5.36% 7.36% 26.73%
Number of salaries quoted 12 27 82
10th Percentile £46,375 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £49,375 £32,996 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -20.00% +23.46%
75th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £65,000
90th Percentile - £95,500 £77,950
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -0.90%

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 28 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
County Antrim +38 5 £51,250 +28.13% 26
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 3 (60.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (20.00%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (60.00%) OneDrive
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) IPsec
1 1 (20.00%) LAN
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
1 1 (20.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) DB2
1 1 (20.00%) MS Access
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (20.00%) QlikView
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (20.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 2 (40.00%) 3rd Line Support Specialist
1 2 (40.00%) Support Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Oracle Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) AS400
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Windows 10
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Service Management
2 2 (40.00%) ITSM
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Business Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Coaching
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Retention
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) ERP
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Software Deployment
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) RPG
1 1 (20.00%) RPG IV
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Hyperion
2 1 (20.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) JD Edwards
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) PeopleSoft