Active Directory Jobs in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Active Directory
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 8 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 32 28
Rank change year-on-year -45 -4 +38
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 125 449 425
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.65% 6.13% 7.55%
As % of the System Software category 40.58% 45.58% 45.75%
Number of salaries quoted 97 396 365
10th Percentile £26,425 £26,250 £23,600
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £40,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +23.08% -10.34%
75th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £48,084
90th Percentile £76,450 £59,000 £60,000
South East median annual salary £40,000 £38,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% +8.57% -6.67%

All System Software Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 308 985 929
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.00% 13.46% 16.50%
Number of salaries quoted 205 767 618
10th Percentile £28,450 £28,800 £25,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,125 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Active Directory as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in the Thames Valley

Active Directory
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Active Directory in the Thames Valley

Active Directory
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 8 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Active Directory in the Thames Valley

Active Directory
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Active Directory within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 8 June 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
Berkshire -50 55 £34,000 -32.00% 125
Buckinghamshire -8 37 £37,500 -1.32% 46
Oxfordshire -11 33 £40,250 +0.63% 28
Active Directory
South East

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 47 (37.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (16.00%) SharePoint
3 6 (4.80%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 11 (8.80%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.20%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (3.20%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.80%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.80%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 80 (64.00%) Microsoft 365
2 77 (61.60%) Azure
3 34 (27.20%) Entra ID
4 22 (17.60%) AWS
5 10 (8.00%) GCP
6 6 (4.80%) IaaS
6 6 (4.80%) Serverless
7 4 (3.20%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (3.20%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 4 (3.20%) Amazon S3
7 4 (3.20%) AWS KMS
7 4 (3.20%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (3.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (2.40%) Mimecast
9 2 (1.60%) Azure Functions
9 2 (1.60%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (1.60%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.60%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (1.60%) OneDrive
9 2 (1.60%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 41 (32.80%) DNS
2 38 (30.40%) Firewall
3 37 (29.60%) DHCP
4 15 (12.00%) TCP/IP
5 14 (11.20%) WAN
6 13 (10.40%) VLAN
7 11 (8.80%) LAN
7 11 (8.80%) SAN
8 9 (7.20%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (6.40%) IP Telephony
9 8 (6.40%) Remote Desktop
9 8 (6.40%) VoIP
9 8 (6.40%) VPN
10 6 (4.80%) Cisco IOS
11 5 (4.00%) Network Security
11 5 (4.00%) SMTP
11 5 (4.00%) Wireless
12 4 (3.20%) SSL
13 3 (2.40%) iSCSI
13 3 (2.40%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (13.60%) SQL Server
2 9 (7.20%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.40%) MySQL
3 3 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.60%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (3.20%) Bitbucket Server
1 4 (3.20%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.80%) Git
2 1 (0.80%) Selenium
2 1 (0.80%) Visual Studio
General
1 51 (40.80%) Social Skills
2 6 (4.80%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (4.00%) Finance
4 3 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (0.80%) Legal
5 1 (0.80%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.80%) Public Sector
5 1 (0.80%) Retail
Job Titles
1 41 (32.80%) Support Engineer
2 23 (18.40%) IT Support
3 22 (17.60%) IT Engineer
4 18 (14.40%) IT Support Engineer
5 15 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 15 (12.00%) Technical Support
6 12 (9.60%) Senior
7 9 (7.20%) Infrastructure Support
7 9 (7.20%) Platform Engineer
8 8 (6.40%) IT Manager
8 8 (6.40%) Support Technician
9 7 (5.60%) Lead
9 7 (5.60%) Platform Support Engineer
9 7 (5.60%) Technical Engineer
10 6 (4.80%) 2nd Line Support
10 6 (4.80%) 3rd Line Support
10 6 (4.80%) Desktop Support
11 5 (4.00%) Analyst
11 5 (4.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
11 5 (4.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.00%) SAML
2 2 (1.60%) Node.js
3 1 (0.80%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.80%) CSS
3 1 (0.80%) HTML
3 1 (0.80%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.40%) Onboarding
2 10 (8.00%) PKI
3 7 (5.60%) Management Information System
4 5 (4.00%) Data Centre
4 5 (4.00%) Driving Licence
4 5 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (4.00%) NHS
4 5 (4.00%) Video Conferencing
5 4 (3.20%) CCTV
5 4 (3.20%) Operational Technology
6 3 (2.40%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.60%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.80%) Cyber Security Posture
8 1 (0.80%) EPoS
8 1 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.80%) Life Science
8 1 (0.80%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.80%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 94 (75.20%) Windows
2 50 (40.00%) Windows Server
3 36 (28.80%) Mac OS
4 20 (16.00%) Windows 10
5 15 (12.00%) Linux
6 12 (9.60%) Android
7 6 (4.80%) Apple iOS
7 6 (4.80%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (4.00%) Ubuntu
9 4 (3.20%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (2.40%) Mac OS X
10 3 (2.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (2.40%) Unix
11 2 (1.60%) Windows 7
11 2 (1.60%) Windows 8
12 1 (0.80%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 37 (29.60%) Customer Service
3 26 (20.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 20 (16.00%) ITIL
5 13 (10.40%) Cybersecurity
5 13 (10.40%) Service Delivery
6 11 (8.80%) Project Management
7 10 (8.00%) Agile
7 10 (8.00%) Mentoring
8 9 (7.20%) Disaster Recovery
9 8 (6.40%) CRM
9 8 (6.40%) Platform Engineering
9 8 (6.40%) Project Delivery
9 8 (6.40%) Server Management
10 7 (5.60%) DevOps
10 7 (5.60%) Identity Access Management
10 7 (5.60%) Incident Management
11 6 (4.80%) Coaching
11 6 (4.80%) Line Management
11 6 (4.80%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 22 (17.60%) PowerShell
2 8 (6.40%) Python
3 5 (4.00%) Bash
4 4 (3.20%) Shell Script
5 3 (2.40%) Korn
6 2 (1.60%) SQL
7 1 (0.80%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.80%) PHP
7 1 (0.80%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 23 (18.40%) Degree
1 23 (18.40%) Microsoft Certification
2 12 (9.60%) A+ Certification
2 12 (9.60%) Security Cleared
3 10 (8.00%) MCP
3 10 (8.00%) SC Cleared
4 8 (6.40%) Azure Certification
4 8 (6.40%) DBS Check
4 8 (6.40%) MCSA
5 6 (4.80%) CCNA
5 6 (4.80%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (4.80%) MCSE
5 6 (4.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 5 (4.00%) CCNP
7 4 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.80%) CISSP
8 1 (0.80%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (4.80%) SLA
3 5 (4.00%) NIST
4 3 (2.40%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (2.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.80%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.80%) GDPR
5 1 (0.80%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.80%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.80%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 41 (32.80%) Hyper-V
2 31 (24.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (14.40%) VMware ESXi
4 10 (8.00%) Docker
5 9 (7.20%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (6.40%) Terminal Services
7 7 (5.60%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (2.40%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 2 (1.60%) VMware Workstation
9 2 (1.60%) vSphere
10 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.80%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.80%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 15 (12.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (7.20%) Terraform
3 8 (6.40%) SCCM
3 8 (6.40%) vCenter Server
3 8 (6.40%) WSUS
4 6 (4.80%) Ansible
4 6 (4.80%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (3.20%) Kubernetes
5 4 (3.20%) Nessus
5 4 (3.20%) Proxmox
6 2 (1.60%) ZENworks
7 1 (0.80%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.80%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.80%) vRealize
7 1 (0.80%) VxRail
Vendors
1 103 (82.40%) Microsoft
2 41 (32.80%) VMware
3 20 (16.00%) Apple
4 13 (10.40%) Cisco
5 11 (8.80%) Google
6 9 (7.20%) Citrix
6 9 (7.20%) Sophos
7 7 (5.60%) Veeam
8 6 (4.80%) Palo Alto
8 6 (4.80%) Ubiquiti
9 5 (4.00%) Juniper
9 5 (4.00%) Meraki
10 4 (3.20%) Dell
10 4 (3.20%) SAP
10 4 (3.20%) ServiceNow
10 4 (3.20%) SolarWinds
11 3 (2.40%) Red Hat
11 3 (2.40%) SonicWALL
11 3 (2.40%) Splunk
12 1 (0.80%) HP