Active Directory Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Active Directory
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Active Directory skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 35 20
Rank change year-on-year -50 -15 +39
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 137 248 327
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.47% 5.12% 8.53%
As % of the System Software category 40.90% 43.51% 52.83%
Number of salaries quoted 119 183 305
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £55,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £56,525 £64,000
South East median annual salary £38,000 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year -10.59% +6.25% +8.11%

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 335 570 619
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 8.49% 11.76% 16.15%
Number of salaries quoted 213 390 518
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £51,925 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.34% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,875 £82,875
South East median annual salary £45,000 £53,275 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.53% +6.55% -

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Active Directory.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Active Directory

Active Directory
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 14 September 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 14 September 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
Buckinghamshire -13 55 £37,500 - 19
Berkshire -58 52 £40,500 -17.22% 36
Oxfordshire +7 30 £38,000 -10.06% 19
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 51 (37.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (16.06%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.19%) IBM Domino
4 2 (1.46%) Confluence
5 1 (0.73%) IIS
Applications
1 10 (7.30%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.73%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 95 (69.34%) Microsoft 365
2 91 (66.42%) Azure
3 34 (24.82%) Entra ID
4 23 (16.79%) AWS
5 8 (5.84%) Mimecast
6 6 (4.38%) IaaS
7 5 (3.65%) Azure Key Vault
7 5 (3.65%) GCP
8 4 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.92%) GitHub
8 4 (2.92%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.19%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.19%) AWS KMS
9 3 (2.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (1.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.46%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (1.46%) Amazon Glacier
10 2 (1.46%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (1.46%) Google Workspace
10 2 (1.46%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 46 (33.58%) Firewall
2 41 (29.93%) DNS
3 35 (25.55%) DHCP
4 20 (14.60%) SAN
5 14 (10.22%) VPN
6 12 (8.76%) Remote Desktop
7 11 (8.03%) IP Telephony
7 11 (8.03%) WAN
8 9 (6.57%) iSCSI
8 9 (6.57%) TCP/IP
8 9 (6.57%) VLAN
9 8 (5.84%) LAN
9 8 (5.84%) SMTP
9 8 (5.84%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (5.11%) Wireless
11 3 (2.19%) Cisco IOS
11 3 (2.19%) SD-WAN
11 3 (2.19%) VoIP
12 2 (1.46%) FTP
12 2 (1.46%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (17.52%) SQL Server
2 14 (10.22%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (6.57%) MySQL
3 9 (6.57%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.73%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (5.11%) Jenkins
2 6 (4.38%) Git
3 2 (1.46%) JIRA
3 2 (1.46%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (1.46%) Vagrant
4 1 (0.73%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 57 (41.61%) Social Skills
2 10 (7.30%) Organisational Skills
3 5 (3.65%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (0.73%) Finance
6 1 (0.73%) Legal
6 1 (0.73%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.73%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (23.36%) Support Engineer
2 25 (18.25%) Technical Support
3 24 (17.52%) IT Support
4 23 (16.79%) 3rd Line Support
5 17 (12.41%) IT Engineer
6 14 (10.22%) Senior
6 14 (10.22%) Support Technician
7 13 (9.49%) IT Support Engineer
8 12 (8.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 11 (8.03%) 3rd Line Technical Support
9 11 (8.03%) Analyst
9 11 (8.03%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (7.30%) Infrastructure Support
11 9 (6.57%) Linux Engineer
11 9 (6.57%) Senior Linux Engineer
12 8 (5.84%) 2nd Line Support
12 8 (5.84%) Infrastructure Manager
12 8 (5.84%) IT Manager
13 7 (5.11%) IT Analyst
13 7 (5.11%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.65%) SAML
2 4 (2.92%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.73%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 21 (15.33%) Onboarding
2 13 (9.49%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (8.03%) Driving Licence
4 10 (7.30%) Cloud Native
4 10 (7.30%) PKI
5 9 (6.57%) Management Information System
6 7 (5.11%) Data Centre
7 5 (3.65%) NHS
7 5 (3.65%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (2.92%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (2.19%) Replication
10 2 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.46%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.46%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.73%) Clustering
11 1 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.73%) Smartphone
11 1 (0.73%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 115 (83.94%) Windows
2 74 (54.01%) Windows Server
3 29 (21.17%) Mac OS
4 24 (17.52%) Linux
5 14 (10.22%) Android
6 13 (9.49%) Windows 10
6 13 (9.49%) Windows Server 2019
7 10 (7.30%) Apple iOS
7 10 (7.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (4.38%) VMS
8 6 (4.38%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (2.92%) Unix
10 3 (2.19%) Mac OS X
11 2 (1.46%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.73%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (32.12%) Problem-Solving
2 40 (29.20%) Customer Service
3 29 (21.17%) ITIL
4 25 (18.25%) Mentoring
5 21 (15.33%) Cybersecurity
6 17 (12.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 14 (10.22%) Disaster Recovery
8 11 (8.03%) Coaching
8 11 (8.03%) Server Management
9 9 (6.57%) Agile
9 9 (6.57%) Cloud Security
9 9 (6.57%) Project Delivery
9 9 (6.57%) Time Management
10 8 (5.84%) Business Continuity
10 8 (5.84%) CRM
10 8 (5.84%) DevOps
10 8 (5.84%) Platform Engineering
11 7 (5.11%) Project Management
12 6 (4.38%) BCP
12 6 (4.38%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (21.17%) PowerShell
2 14 (10.22%) Bash
3 9 (6.57%) Korn
4 7 (5.11%) SQL
5 5 (3.65%) Python
6 2 (1.46%) Groovy
6 2 (1.46%) Java
6 2 (1.46%) Perl
7 1 (0.73%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 28 (20.44%) Degree
2 12 (8.76%) Security Cleared
3 11 (8.03%) SC Cleared
4 10 (7.30%) DBS Check
4 10 (7.30%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (6.57%) Azure Certification
6 6 (4.38%) A+ Certification
6 6 (4.38%) MCP
7 5 (3.65%) CCNA
7 5 (3.65%) CCNP
7 5 (3.65%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (3.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (2.19%) MCSA
9 2 (1.46%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.73%) MCITP
10 1 (0.73%) MCSE
10 1 (0.73%) RHCE
10 1 (0.73%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.65%) SLA
2 4 (2.92%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (2.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 4 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.73%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.73%) GDPR
3 1 (0.73%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 49 (35.77%) Hyper-V
2 31 (22.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (13.14%) Docker
3 18 (13.14%) VMware ESXi
4 11 (8.03%) Terminal Services
5 9 (6.57%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 8 (5.84%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (1.46%) DFS Replication
8 2 (1.46%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (1.46%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.73%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 34 (24.82%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (9.49%) Kubernetes
3 10 (7.30%) SCCM
4 9 (6.57%) Terraform
5 7 (5.11%) WSUS
6 5 (3.65%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (2.19%) Ansible
7 3 (2.19%) vCenter Server
8 2 (1.46%) Grafana
8 2 (1.46%) Prometheus
8 2 (1.46%) ZENworks
9 1 (0.73%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.73%) Nessus
9 1 (0.73%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.73%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.73%) SCOM
Vendors
1 121 (88.32%) Microsoft
2 47 (34.31%) VMware
3 22 (16.06%) Apple
4 14 (10.22%) Dell
5 12 (8.76%) Sophos
6 10 (7.30%) Red Hat
7 9 (6.57%) Citrix
7 9 (6.57%) Splunk
8 8 (5.84%) Ubiquiti
9 7 (5.11%) Cisco
9 7 (5.11%) ServiceNow
10 6 (4.38%) Veeam
11 5 (3.65%) Barracuda Networks
11 5 (3.65%) Google
11 5 (3.65%) HP
12 4 (2.92%) Juniper
13 3 (2.19%) Meraki
13 3 (2.19%) Palo Alto
13 3 (2.19%) SolarWinds
13 3 (2.19%) SonicWALL