Active Directory Jobs in Reading

Microsoft Active Directory
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 36 26 54
Rank change year-on-year -10 +28 +16
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 28 141 86
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 5.65% 7.88% 5.57%
As % of the System Software category 27.72% 51.46% 30.18%
Number of salaries quoted 22 134 72
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,178 £23,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £34,000 £25,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £52,550 £31,750
Median % change year-on-year -11.99% +65.51% -12.41%
75th Percentile £57,500 £56,275 £67,500
90th Percentile £65,500 £59,000 £74,925
Berkshire median annual salary £37,500 £49,750 £32,500
% change year-on-year -24.62% +53.08% -18.75%

All System Software Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 101 274 285
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 20.36% 15.31% 18.46%
Number of salaries quoted 52 214 130
10th Percentile £34,000 £27,750 £23,500
25th Percentile £42,188 £34,000 £25,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £52,550 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year +22.74% -6.58% +12.50%
75th Percentile £83,750 £59,000 £74,250
90th Percentile £93,000 £77,500 £83,750
Berkshire median annual salary £64,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +17.27% +4.76% +4.48%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Reading

Active Directory
Salary Trend in Reading

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

Salary trend for Active Directory in Reading

Active Directory
Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in Reading over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Active Directory in Reading

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 10 (35.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (21.43%) SharePoint
3 2 (7.14%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (14.29%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 18 (64.29%) Azure
2 13 (46.43%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (32.14%) AWS
4 8 (28.57%) Entra ID
5 7 (25.00%) Serverless
6 5 (17.86%) IaaS
7 4 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (14.29%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 4 (14.29%) Amazon S3
7 4 (14.29%) AWS KMS
7 4 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (10.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (10.71%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (10.71%) Azure Functions
9 2 (7.14%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 12 (42.86%) Firewall
2 11 (39.29%) DNS
3 10 (35.71%) DHCP
4 5 (17.86%) Remote Desktop
4 5 (17.86%) SAN
5 4 (14.29%) SSL
6 2 (7.14%) TCP/IP
6 2 (7.14%) VPN
7 1 (3.57%) LAN
7 1 (3.57%) VSAN
7 1 (3.57%) WAN
7 1 (3.57%) Wireless
7 1 (3.57%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 2 (7.14%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (14.29%) Bitbucket Server
1 4 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 3 (10.71%) Git
3 1 (3.57%) Selenium
3 1 (3.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (10.71%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (21.43%) Infrastructure Support
1 6 (21.43%) Support Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) 2nd Line Support
2 5 (17.86%) Help Desk Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) Help Desk Support
2 5 (17.86%) Help Desk Support Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) Technical Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) Technical Support
2 5 (17.86%) Technical Support Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Azure Developer
3 4 (14.29%) Developer
3 4 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Senior
4 3 (10.71%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Manager
5 2 (7.14%) Node.js Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Senior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.86%) SAML
2 2 (7.14%) Node.js
2 2 (7.14%) React
3 1 (3.57%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.57%) CSS
3 1 (3.57%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (28.57%) PKI
2 2 (7.14%) Clustering
2 2 (7.14%) Data Centre
2 2 (7.14%) Product Ownership
2 2 (7.14%) Replication
3 1 (3.57%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 19 (67.86%) Windows
2 17 (60.71%) Windows Server
3 6 (21.43%) Mac OS
4 5 (17.86%) Linux
5 4 (14.29%) Ubuntu
6 2 (7.14%) Apple iOS
7 1 (3.57%) VMS
7 1 (3.57%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (28.57%) DevOps
3 7 (25.00%) Agile
3 7 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (21.43%) Customer Service
5 5 (17.86%) CRM
5 5 (17.86%) Innovative Thinking
5 5 (17.86%) Presales
5 5 (17.86%) Project Management
6 4 (14.29%) Capacity Management
6 4 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (14.29%) Key Management
6 4 (14.29%) Patch Management
7 3 (10.71%) Change Management
7 3 (10.71%) CI/CD
7 3 (10.71%) Full-Stack Development
7 3 (10.71%) Microservices
7 3 (10.71%) Project Delivery
7 3 (10.71%) Root Cause Analysis
8 2 (7.14%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 6 (21.43%) Python
2 4 (14.29%) Shell Script
3 3 (10.71%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.57%) PHP
Qualifications
1 9 (32.14%) Security Cleared
2 7 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (21.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 5 (17.86%) Azure Certification
4 5 (17.86%) CCNA
4 5 (17.86%) CCNP
4 5 (17.86%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.57%) DBS Check
5 1 (3.57%) Degree
5 1 (3.57%) MCSA
5 1 (3.57%) MCSE
5 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (21.43%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (57.14%) Hyper-V
2 13 (46.43%) VMware ESXi
3 9 (32.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (17.86%) Docker
4 5 (17.86%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (7.14%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (3.57%) VMware NSX
7 1 (3.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (17.86%) Single Sign-On
1 5 (17.86%) vCenter Server
2 4 (14.29%) Ansible
2 4 (14.29%) Nessus
2 4 (14.29%) Proxmox
2 4 (14.29%) Terraform
3 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (7.14%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (3.57%) PowerCLI
5 1 (3.57%) vRealize
5 1 (3.57%) VxRail
Vendors
1 21 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 14 (50.00%) VMware
3 5 (17.86%) Juniper
3 5 (17.86%) Sophos
3 5 (17.86%) Ubiquiti
3 5 (17.86%) Veeam
4 3 (10.71%) Cisco
5 1 (3.57%) Apple
5 1 (3.57%) Dell