Active Directory Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Active Directory Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Microsoft Active Directory Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £39,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 553 738 743
Rank change year-on-year +185 +5 +77
Permanent jobs requiring an Active Directory Engineer 17 21 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.044% 0.029% 0.034%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.049% 0.031% 0.038%
Number of salaries quoted 17 13 15
10th Percentile - £25,050 -
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £24,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,500 £47,500 £25,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.84% +90.00% -47.37%
75th Percentile £48,750 £55,000 £55,375
90th Percentile £52,500 £57,000 £57,500
UK median annual salary £39,750 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -20.50% -4.76% -6.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 35,007 68,127 52,446
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.37% 94.86% 89.18%
Number of salaries quoted 17,566 48,111 29,896
10th Percentile £26,875 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,438
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -6.43% +6.88%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Active Directory Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Active Directory Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory Engineer in the UK excluding London

Active Directory Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Active Directory Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Active Directory Engineer in the UK excluding London

Active Directory Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Active Directory Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Active Directory Engineer in the UK excluding London

Active Directory Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Active Directory Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 May 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
Midlands +73 10 £37,500 -21.05%
East Midlands +42 7 £32,500 -26.14%
West Midlands +63 3 £39,500 -16.84%
East of England +34 2 £66,000 +20.00% 1
South West - 2 £47,000 -
Northern Ireland +39 1 £47,500 -
North of England +39 1 £40,000 +10.34% 1
Yorkshire - 1 £40,000 -
South East - 1 £30,000 - 1
Active Directory Engineer
UK

Active Directory Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 23 May 2025, Active Directory Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Active Directory Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 14 (82.35%) Windows
3 12 (70.59%) Microsoft
4 9 (52.94%) Entra ID
4 9 (52.94%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (41.18%) Firewall
5 7 (41.18%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (41.18%) Windows Server
6 6 (35.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (35.29%) DNS
6 6 (35.29%) Azure
7 5 (29.41%) DHCP
7 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
8 4 (23.53%) SQL Server
8 4 (23.53%) CCNA
8 4 (23.53%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (23.53%) PKI
9 3 (17.65%) Incident Management
9 3 (17.65%) Degree
9 3 (17.65%) Hyper-V
9 3 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
9 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
9 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (17.65%) IIS
9 3 (17.65%) SharePoint
9 3 (17.65%) VMware
9 3 (17.65%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (11.76%) NIST
10 2 (11.76%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (11.76%) Principle of Least Privilege

Active Directory Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (41.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (17.65%) IIS
2 3 (17.65%) SharePoint
3 1 (5.88%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (52.94%) Entra ID
1 9 (52.94%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (35.29%) Azure
3 2 (11.76%) SaaS
4 1 (5.88%) Mimecast
4 1 (5.88%) Nutanix
4 1 (5.88%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 7 (41.18%) Firewall
2 6 (35.29%) DNS
3 5 (29.41%) DHCP
4 2 (11.76%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (11.76%) SAN
5 1 (5.88%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 6 (35.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) PKI
2 3 (17.65%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (11.76%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.88%) Driving Licence
4 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (82.35%) Windows
2 7 (41.18%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.88%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (17.65%) Incident Management
2 2 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (11.76%) Information Security
2 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (11.76%) Migration
2 2 (11.76%) Principle of Least Privilege
2 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (11.76%) RBAC
2 2 (11.76%) Risk Assessment
2 2 (11.76%) SIEM
3 1 (5.88%) Agile
3 1 (5.88%) Data Analysis
3 1 (5.88%) ITIL
3 1 (5.88%) ITSM
3 1 (5.88%) PRINCE2
3 1 (5.88%) Roadmaps
3 1 (5.88%) Service Management
3 1 (5.88%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (5.88%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) CCNA
1 4 (23.53%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (17.65%) Degree
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (11.76%) DV Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (11.76%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (17.65%) Hyper-V
2 3 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (11.76%) Terminal Services
3 2 (11.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 2 (11.76%) SCCM
1 2 (11.76%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (5.88%) Ansible
Vendors
1 12 (70.59%) Microsoft
2 3 (17.65%) VMware
3 2 (11.76%) Dell
3 2 (11.76%) HP
3 2 (11.76%) NetApp
4 1 (5.88%) Cisco
4 1 (5.88%) Palo Alto
4 1 (5.88%) SolarWinds