Active Directory Job Trends in Sussex

Microsoft Active Directory
South East > Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Sussex requiring Active Directory skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 10 17
Rank change year-on-year -6 +7 -
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 2 11 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Sussex 2.08% 11.11% 1.11%
As % of the System Software category 100.00% 64.71% 20.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2 6 1
10th Percentile - £27,000 -
25th Percentile £41,250 £32,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £52,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +31.25% -
75th Percentile £43,750 £73,750 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £36,000 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year -15.29% +3.66% +17.14%

All System Software Skills
Sussex

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 Sussex.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 2 17 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sussex 2.08% 17.17% 5.56%
Number of salaries quoted 2 8 5
10th Percentile - £26,225 £42,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £31,438 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £49,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.14% +4.21% -
75th Percentile £43,750 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £37,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -34.78% +15.00% +5.23%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Sussex

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

Active Directory job vacancy trend in Sussex

Active Directory
Salary Trend in Sussex

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Sussex citing Active Directory.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Sussex citing Active Directory

Active Directory
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sussex 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 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
1 2 (100.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) IT Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) IT Support
1 2 (100.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior IT Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior IT Support
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Support Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Change Advisory Board
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Customer-Centricity
1 2 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Project Management
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Firmware
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) SonicWALL
1 2 (100.00%) Veeam
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) WatchGuard