Active Directory Job Trends in Solihull

Microsoft Active Directory
West Midlands > Solihull

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Solihull requiring Active Directory skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 25 12
Rank change year-on-year +3 -13 -5
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 7 5 15
As % of all permanent jobs in Solihull 5.38% 3.52% 11.90%
As % of the System Software category 70.00% 62.50% 50.00%
Number of salaries quoted 6 5 13
10th Percentile - £47,450 -
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £26,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +21.95%
75th Percentile £56,563 £53,750 -
90th Percentile £57,500 - -
West Midlands median annual salary £37,500 £37,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year - -6.25% -4.76%

All System Software Skills
Solihull

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 Solihull.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 10 8 30
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Solihull 7.69% 5.63% 23.81%
Number of salaries quoted 6 7 21
10th Percentile - £46,440 £26,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £48,450 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +20.48%
75th Percentile £56,563 £53,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £57,500 - -
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -2.17%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Solihull

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Active Directory relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Solihull.

Active Directory job vacancy trend in Solihull

Active Directory
Salary Trend in Solihull

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Solihull citing Active Directory.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Solihull citing Active Directory

Active Directory
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Solihull by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (85.71%) Entra ID
2 6 (85.71%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon Glacier
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) AWS KMS
3 1 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) Firewall
2 4 (57.14%) LAN
2 4 (57.14%) MPLS
2 4 (57.14%) SD-WAN
2 4 (57.14%) WAN
3 1 (14.29%) DNS
3 1 (14.29%) FTP
3 1 (14.29%) HTTP
3 1 (14.29%) SMTP
3 1 (14.29%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
1 1 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
1 1 (14.29%) Vagrant
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Senior
1 4 (57.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (57.14%) Windows Server
2 4 (57.14%) Windows Server 2016
2 4 (57.14%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (28.57%) Windows 10
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (14.29%) Linux
4 1 (14.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (57.14%) ITIL
1 4 (57.14%) Storage Management
2 2 (28.57%) High Availability
2 2 (28.57%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Change Management
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
3 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Patch Management
3 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Servant Leadership
3 1 (14.29%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) Groovy
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) Perl
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
3 2 (28.57%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
4 1 (14.29%) Degree
4 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (57.14%) XenApp
2 1 (14.29%) DFS Replication
2 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (28.57%) SCCM
3 1 (14.29%) Grafana
3 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
3 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft
2 4 (57.14%) CheckPoint
2 4 (57.14%) Cisco
2 4 (57.14%) Citrix
2 4 (57.14%) IBM
2 4 (57.14%) Meraki
2 4 (57.14%) SonicWALL
2 4 (57.14%) Veeam
2 4 (57.14%) VMware
3 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow