Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 22 April 2021

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Staffordshire with a requirement for Active Directory skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Active Directory over the 6 months to 22 April 2021 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Microsoft Active Directory
West Midlands > Staffordshire
6 months to
22 Apr 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 29 13 23
Rank change year-on-year -16 +10 +14
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 26 69 62
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 5.92% 12.37% 8.96%
As % of the System Software category 61.90% 57.50% 62.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26 63 55
10th Percentile £19,250 £19,500 £22,250
25th Percentile £23,500 £22,563 £24,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £28,000 £29,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -17.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £39,688 £33,750 £43,750
90th Percentile £45,000 £41,750 £44,500
West Midlands median annual salary £40,000 £35,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +19.40%

Active Directory is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Staffordshire with a requirement for system software skills.

All System Software Skills
Staffordshire
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 42 120 99
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 9.57% 21.51% 14.31%
Number of salaries quoted 42 108 90
10th Percentile £21,275 £19,500 £22,250
25th Percentile £25,313 £25,875 £24,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £32,500 £36,250
Median % change year-on-year - -10.34% +2.11%
75th Percentile £44,688 £46,563 £42,500
90th Percentile £51,250 £57,500 £45,250
West Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year - +5.88% +6.25%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Staffordshire

Active Directory
Salary Trend in Staffordshire

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

Salary trend for Active Directory in Staffordshire

Active Directory
Salary Histogram in Staffordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in Staffordshire over the 6 months to 22 April 2021.

Salary histogram for Active Directory in Staffordshire

Active Directory
Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Active Directory within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 22 April 2021. 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
Job
Vacancies
Lichfield +6 8 £41,250 -34.00% 1
Stoke-on-Trent +10 7 £28,000 -13.85% 1
Burton-upon-Trent -6 3 £25,000 -16.67% 1
Tamworth -18 2 £19,500 -18.75% 3
Active Directory
West Midlands

For the 6 months to 22 April 2021, IT jobs citing Active Directory also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Staffordshire region with a requirement for Active Directory.

1 18 (69.23%) Microsoft 365
2 14 (53.85%) Microsoft
3 13 (50.00%) Windows
3 13 (50.00%) Azure
4 11 (42.31%) DNS
5 10 (38.46%) DHCP
5 10 (38.46%) VMware
6 9 (34.62%) VMware Infrastructure
7 7 (26.92%) Windows 10
7 7 (26.92%) Windows Server
8 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 6 (23.08%) PowerShell
9 5 (19.23%) Hyper-V
9 5 (19.23%) Meraki
9 5 (19.23%) Azure Active Directory
9 5 (19.23%) Data Centre
9 5 (19.23%) Desktop Virtualisation
9 5 (19.23%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (19.23%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (19.23%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (19.23%) VMware Server
10 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
10 4 (15.38%) Citrix
11 3 (11.54%) SLA
11 3 (11.54%) TCP/IP
11 3 (11.54%) VLAN
11 3 (11.54%) Wireless
11 3 (11.54%) Management Information System
11 3 (11.54%) ConnectWise
11 3 (11.54%) Problem-Solving

Active Directory
Co-occurring IT Skills in Staffordshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.85%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 18 (69.23%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (50.00%) Azure
3 5 (19.23%) Azure Active Directory
4 2 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.85%) AWS
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.85%) IaaS
5 1 (3.85%) PaaS
5 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (42.31%) DNS
2 10 (38.46%) DHCP
3 5 (19.23%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (11.54%) TCP/IP
4 3 (11.54%) VLAN
4 3 (11.54%) Wireless
5 2 (7.69%) Firewall
5 2 (7.69%) SAN
5 2 (7.69%) VoIP
6 1 (3.85%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (7.69%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.85%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.85%) Data Mart
3 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (3.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 2 (7.69%) Law
2 1 (3.85%) Advertising
2 1 (3.85%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (42.31%) Analyst
2 6 (23.08%) IT Analyst
3 5 (19.23%) IT Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) IT Support
4 4 (15.38%) Support Analyst
5 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 3 (11.54%) IT Support Analyst
5 3 (11.54%) Junior
5 3 (11.54%) Junior Analyst
5 3 (11.54%) Service Desk Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Business Analyst
6 2 (7.69%) Help Desk Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
6 2 (7.69%) IT Support Technician
6 2 (7.69%) IT Technician
6 2 (7.69%) Junior Infrastructure Analyst
6 2 (7.69%) Service Analyst
6 2 (7.69%) Service Desk Analyst
6 2 (7.69%) Support Technician
7 1 (3.85%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Data Centre
1 5 (19.23%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (11.54%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.85%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 13 (50.00%) Windows
2 7 (26.92%) Windows 10
2 7 (26.92%) Windows Server
3 5 (19.23%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (11.54%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (19.23%) Desktop Virtualisation
3 3 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (7.69%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (7.69%) Change Management
4 2 (7.69%) ERP
4 2 (7.69%) ITIL
4 2 (7.69%) PRINCE2
4 2 (7.69%) Project Management
4 2 (7.69%) Waterfall
5 1 (3.85%) Business Analysis
5 1 (3.85%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (3.85%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (3.85%) ETL
5 1 (3.85%) Migration
5 1 (3.85%) Risk Management
5 1 (3.85%) Service Management
5 1 (3.85%) Software Testing
5 1 (3.85%) Trend Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (23.08%) PowerShell
2 2 (7.69%) SQL
3 1 (3.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (3.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (3.85%) MCSA
2 1 (3.85%) MCSE
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) SLA
2 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.85%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (34.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (19.23%) Hyper-V
2 5 (19.23%) VMware Server
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 1 (3.85%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (7.69%) SCCM
3 1 (3.85%) SCOM
3 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (53.85%) Microsoft
2 10 (38.46%) VMware
3 5 (19.23%) Meraki
4 4 (15.38%) Citrix
5 3 (11.54%) ConnectWise
6 1 (3.85%) Cisco
6 1 (3.85%) NetApp