Active Directory Jobs in South Wales

Microsoft Active Directory
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 58 53 69
Rank change year-on-year -5 +16 -37
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 9 53 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 1.03% 3.45% 3.43%
As % of the System Software category 21.43% 31.55% 23.81%
Number of salaries quoted 9 46 34
10th Percentile £28,841 £24,500 £23,475
25th Percentile £37,170 £24,563 £26,338
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,094 £28,290 £38,500
Median % change year-on-year +34.66% -26.52% +2.35%
75th Percentile £52,500 £37,756 £46,875
90th Percentile £59,000 £44,625 £62,500
Wales median annual salary £38,094 £28,290 £37,750
% change year-on-year +34.66% -25.06% -11.18%

All System Software Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 42 168 168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 4.79% 10.93% 14.41%
Number of salaries quoted 42 114 70
10th Percentile £31,250 £24,500 £24,918
25th Percentile £37,170 £28,290 £36,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,287 £41,500 £51,104
Median % change year-on-year +16.35% -18.79% +8.31%
75th Percentile £64,281 £54,375 £68,248
90th Percentile £70,400 £65,000 £75,250
Wales median annual salary £50,699 £40,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +25.18% -10.00% -10.00%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in South Wales

Active Directory
Salary Trend in South Wales

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

Salary trend for Active Directory in South Wales

Active Directory
Salary Histogram in South Wales

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

Salary histogram for Active Directory in South Wales

Active Directory
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Active Directory within the South Wales 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
Cardiff +27 6 £38,094 +12.04% 23
Bridgend +54 1 £50,000 +37.08% 3
Glamorgan -2 1 £24,205 -14.44% 10
Newport -25 1 £65,000 +160.00% 28
Active Directory
Wales

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 1 (11.11%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (11.11%) IIS
1 1 (11.11%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (44.44%) IaaS
3 4 (44.44%) PaaS
3 4 (44.44%) SaaS
4 1 (11.11%) AWS
4 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) DNS
2 1 (11.11%) DMARC
2 1 (11.11%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 7 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 5 (55.56%) Finance
3 4 (44.44%) Welsh Language
4 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Server Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Technical Support
3 1 (11.11%) Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) IT Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) IT Manager
3 1 (11.11%) IT Support
3 1 (11.11%) IT Systems Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Systems Support
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) IoT
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) Windows
2 6 (66.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (11.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (44.44%) Collaborative Working
2 4 (44.44%) Data Collection
2 4 (44.44%) Incident Management
2 4 (44.44%) ITIL
2 4 (44.44%) Performance Monitoring
2 4 (44.44%) Proactive Maintenance
2 4 (44.44%) Proactive Monitoring
2 4 (44.44%) Problem Management
2 4 (44.44%) Server Migrations
2 4 (44.44%) Service Management
3 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
3 1 (11.11%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) High Availability
3 1 (11.11%) Software Delivery
3 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
3 1 (11.11%) Time Management
3 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Azure Certification
1 4 (44.44%) DBS Check
1 4 (44.44%) MCSA
1 4 (44.44%) MCSE
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) VMware
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco
3 1 (11.11%) Guidewire
3 1 (11.11%) Okta
3 1 (11.11%) Pega
3 1 (11.11%) Salesforce