Active Directory Jobs in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Active Directory
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 31 48
Rank change year-on-year +5 +17 0
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 481 449 382
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.13% 7.30% 5.58%
As % of the System Software category 45.42% 44.11% 37.67%
Number of salaries quoted 424 387 316
10th Percentile £26,250 £23,500 £23,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £26,750 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £32,500 £36,750
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -11.56% -8.13%
75th Percentile £54,625 £45,125 £49,500
90th Percentile £59,000 £60,000 £63,750
South East median annual salary £37,500 £34,000 £35,700
% change year-on-year +10.29% -4.76% -10.75%

All System Software Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,059 1,018 1,014
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.70% 16.56% 14.82%
Number of salaries quoted 846 664 721
10th Percentile £28,000 £24,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,000 £30,000 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £44,150 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.25% -9.90% -10.91%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £81,250
South East median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,750
% change year-on-year - -6.40% +1.50%

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 26 April 2024.

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 26 April 2024. 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 +34 248 £44,400 +36.62% 26
Oxfordshire +12 123 £40,000 +24.03% 23
Buckinghamshire -26 110 £38,000 +16.92% 24
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
1 131 (27.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 88 (18.30%) SharePoint
3 24 (4.99%) IIS
4 7 (1.46%) WordPress
5 6 (1.25%) OpenStack
6 5 (1.04%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (0.21%) nginx
Applications
1 69 (14.35%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (3.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (1.87%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.83%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 273 (56.76%) Microsoft 365
2 217 (45.11%) Azure
3 85 (17.67%) Entra ID
4 53 (11.02%) OneDrive
5 25 (5.20%) Azure Monitor
6 22 (4.57%) Azure Storage
7 21 (4.37%) Power Platform
8 15 (3.12%) WhatsApp
9 13 (2.70%) Google Workspace
9 13 (2.70%) OCI
10 12 (2.49%) iTunes
10 12 (2.49%) Power Automate
11 9 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
11 9 (1.87%) PowerApps
11 9 (1.87%) ShareGate
12 5 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (1.04%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (1.04%) PaaS
13 4 (0.83%) AWS
13 4 (0.83%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 143 (29.73%) Firewall
2 128 (26.61%) DNS
3 90 (18.71%) DHCP
4 37 (7.69%) WAN
5 36 (7.48%) Wi-Fi
6 32 (6.65%) SAN
7 31 (6.44%) Wireless
8 29 (6.03%) LAN
9 25 (5.20%) VoIP
10 24 (4.99%) VPN
11 23 (4.78%) Network Security
12 21 (4.37%) TCP/IP
13 17 (3.53%) VLAN
14 15 (3.12%) SNMP
15 14 (2.91%) SSL
16 12 (2.49%) NAS
17 8 (1.66%) SD-WAN
18 5 (1.04%) 4G
18 5 (1.04%) Broadband
18 5 (1.04%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (9.15%) SQL Server
2 21 (4.37%) Power BI
3 14 (2.91%) MongoDB
4 13 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (2.08%) MySQL
6 6 (1.25%) InfluxDB
6 6 (1.25%) MariaDB
6 6 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (1.04%) Oracle Database
7 5 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.42%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.21%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 6 (1.25%) Git
1 6 (1.25%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.04%) MSI
3 4 (0.83%) AdminStudio
3 4 (0.83%) InstallShield
3 4 (0.83%) JIRA
4 1 (0.21%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.21%) GitLab
4 1 (0.21%) Maven
4 1 (0.21%) SonarQube
General
1 159 (33.06%) Social Skills
2 28 (5.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 25 (5.20%) Documentation Skills
3 25 (5.20%) Organisational Skills
4 19 (3.95%) Law
5 17 (3.53%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (3.53%) Legal
6 14 (2.91%) Finance
7 12 (2.49%) Manufacturing
8 11 (2.29%) Pharmaceutical
9 7 (1.46%) Retail
10 6 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.04%) Marketing
12 3 (0.62%) Banking
12 3 (0.62%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.21%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 83 (17.26%) IT Support
2 82 (17.05%) Support Engineer
3 75 (15.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 66 (13.72%) IT Engineer
5 62 (12.89%) Analyst
6 49 (10.19%) IT Support Engineer
7 45 (9.36%) IT Analyst
8 44 (9.15%) 2nd Line Support
9 41 (8.52%) Senior
10 40 (8.32%) Support Specialist
11 39 (8.11%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 37 (7.69%) Systems Engineer
13 30 (6.24%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
13 30 (6.24%) Infrastructure Support
14 29 (6.03%) 3rd Line Support
14 29 (6.03%) Active Directory Specialist
14 29 (6.03%) Azure Specialist
14 29 (6.03%) IT Technician
15 27 (5.61%) Support Analyst
16 25 (5.20%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.91%) ARM Templates
2 5 (1.04%) .NET
2 5 (1.04%) LDAP
3 4 (0.83%) LAMP
4 3 (0.62%) Azure Blueprints
4 3 (0.62%) FIDO
4 3 (0.62%) OAuth
4 3 (0.62%) OpenID
4 3 (0.62%) SailPoint
4 3 (0.62%) SAML
4 3 (0.62%) WebAuthn
5 1 (0.21%) EDI
5 1 (0.21%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.21%) JSON
5 1 (0.21%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 37 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
2 34 (7.07%) PKI
3 32 (6.65%) Data Centre
4 24 (4.99%) Onboarding
5 20 (4.16%) CMDB
6 16 (3.33%) Driving Licence
7 15 (3.12%) Management Information System
8 10 (2.08%) Private Cloud
8 10 (2.08%) Smartphone
9 7 (1.46%) Replication
10 5 (1.04%) Educational Technology
10 5 (1.04%) Public Cloud
11 4 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (0.83%) Shadow IT
12 3 (0.62%) EMC VNX
12 3 (0.62%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (0.62%) iPhone
12 3 (0.62%) Social Media
12 3 (0.62%) Wiki
13 2 (0.42%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 352 (73.18%) Windows
2 207 (43.04%) Windows Server
3 138 (28.69%) Windows 10
4 95 (19.75%) Linux
5 91 (18.92%) Windows Server 2019
6 88 (18.30%) Windows Server 2016
7 64 (13.31%) Windows Server 2012
8 24 (4.99%) Apple iOS
9 21 (4.37%) Windows 7
10 18 (3.74%) Android
11 17 (3.53%) Windows XP
12 15 (3.12%) Mac OS
13 14 (2.91%) Windows NT
14 9 (1.87%) CentOS
14 9 (1.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 8 (1.66%) Ubuntu
15 8 (1.66%) Windows 8
16 6 (1.25%) VMS
16 6 (1.25%) Windows Server 2003
17 4 (0.83%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (22.25%) ITIL
2 103 (21.41%) Problem-Solving
3 89 (18.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 88 (18.30%) Customer Service
5 86 (17.88%) Cybersecurity
6 69 (14.35%) Service Management
7 47 (9.77%) Change Management
8 44 (9.15%) Agile
9 43 (8.94%) DevOps
9 43 (8.94%) Problem Management
10 38 (7.90%) Multi-Factor Authentication
11 36 (7.48%) ITSM
12 35 (7.28%) Change Control
13 31 (6.44%) Analytics
13 31 (6.44%) Release Management
14 30 (6.24%) Project Management
15 28 (5.82%) Mentoring
16 27 (5.61%) Break/Fix
17 26 (5.41%) Roadmaps
18 25 (5.20%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 103 (21.41%) PowerShell
2 86 (17.88%) SQL
3 33 (6.86%) Python
4 29 (6.03%) Bash
4 29 (6.03%) C#
5 24 (4.99%) VB
6 21 (4.37%) VBScript
7 14 (2.91%) Bicep
8 6 (1.25%) Perl
9 5 (1.04%) JavaScript
9 5 (1.04%) PL/SQL
9 5 (1.04%) T-SQL
9 5 (1.04%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.21%) Java
Qualifications
1 142 (29.52%) Security Cleared
2 103 (21.41%) Degree
3 102 (21.21%) SC Cleared
4 91 (18.92%) DV Cleared
5 46 (9.56%) Cisco Certification
6 42 (8.73%) CCNA
7 35 (7.28%) Microsoft Certification
8 30 (6.24%) MCP
9 24 (4.99%) A+ Certification
10 16 (3.33%) HNC
11 14 (2.91%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 12 (2.49%) CCNP
13 9 (1.87%) ITIL Certification
13 9 (1.87%) Master's Degree
14 7 (1.46%) Network+ Certification
15 6 (1.25%) MCSE
16 4 (0.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 2 (0.42%) CCENT
17 2 (0.42%) CTC Cleared
17 2 (0.42%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (9.77%) SLA
2 9 (1.87%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (0.62%) GDPR
5 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.21%) QA
System Software
1 121 (25.16%) VMware Infrastructure
2 72 (14.97%) Hyper-V
3 27 (5.61%) VMware ESXi
4 22 (4.57%) Firmware
5 21 (4.37%) Virtual Desktop
6 19 (3.95%) Virtual Machines
7 13 (2.70%) vSphere
8 9 (1.87%) Docker
9 6 (1.25%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 4 (0.83%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (0.83%) XenApp
11 3 (0.62%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.21%) NFS
Systems Management
1 109 (22.66%) SCCM
2 94 (19.54%) Microsoft Intune
3 52 (10.81%) SCOM
4 50 (10.40%) WSUS
5 27 (5.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 27 (5.61%) vCenter Server
6 20 (4.16%) Kubernetes
7 19 (3.95%) NetBackup
8 15 (3.12%) EMC NetWorker
9 14 (2.91%) Sysprep
10 9 (1.87%) Terraform
11 7 (1.46%) Ansible
12 6 (1.25%) Nessus
12 6 (1.25%) Puppet
13 5 (1.04%) PaperCut
13 5 (1.04%) Red Hat Spacewalk
14 3 (0.62%) Jamf Pro
14 3 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
15 2 (0.42%) Grafana
15 2 (0.42%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 361 (75.05%) Microsoft
2 169 (35.14%) VMware
3 66 (13.72%) Cisco
4 43 (8.94%) Citrix
5 42 (8.73%) Veeam
6 23 (4.78%) Dell
6 23 (4.78%) HP
7 22 (4.57%) ServiceNow
8 21 (4.37%) Apple
8 21 (4.37%) Google
8 21 (4.37%) Oracle
9 20 (4.16%) Juniper
10 19 (3.95%) Palo Alto
11 16 (3.33%) Adobe
12 15 (3.12%) Dynatrace
12 15 (3.12%) EMC
13 12 (2.49%) 3PAR
13 12 (2.49%) Extreme Networks
13 12 (2.49%) Symantec
14 9 (1.87%) Fortinet