Active Directory Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Active Directory
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 45 42
Rank change year-on-year +14 -3 -10
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 4,461 3,776 4,533
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.37% 6.11% 6.42%
As % of the System Software category 49.97% 40.01% 37.17%
Number of salaries quoted 3,760 3,061 3,758
10th Percentile £23,750 £24,000 £23,338
25th Percentile £26,750 £27,250 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £36,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% -6.67%
75th Percentile £47,716 £49,500 £47,500
90th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
UK median annual salary £38,000 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 8,927 9,438 12,196
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.74% 15.27% 17.28%
Number of salaries quoted 7,160 5,994 8,402
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,750 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £56,325
% change year-on-year -9.09% -2.35% +2.41%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Active Directory as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in the UK excluding London

Active Directory
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Active Directory in the UK excluding London

Active Directory
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Active Directory in the UK excluding London

Active Directory
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 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
South East +5 1,232 £37,500 +10.29% 202
North of England +38 1,074 £33,500 -11.84% 182
Midlands +21 765 £33,500 -8.22% 156
South West +26 547 £38,000 +6.29% 85
North West +11 497 £37,500 -6.25% 107
East of England +12 476 £31,000 -17.33% 102
West Midlands +24 466 £35,000 -6.67% 104
Yorkshire +42 389 £32,500 -11.85% 55
East Midlands +14 293 £33,500 -5.63% 52
Scotland -41 258 £33,750 -0.74% 61
North East +28 188 £33,000 -8.33% 24
Wales +19 89 £29,145 -22.28% 17
Northern Ireland -10 14 £38,750 +10.71% 9
Channel Islands -2 4 £85,000 +136.11%
Isle of Man - 4 £43,000 -
Active Directory
UK

Active Directory
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 1,193 (26.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 705 (15.80%) SharePoint
3 113 (2.53%) IIS
4 29 (0.65%) Exchange Server 2013
5 26 (0.58%) OpenStack
6 17 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2010
7 15 (0.34%) CMS
8 12 (0.27%) Skype for Business
8 12 (0.27%) WordPress
9 10 (0.22%) Confluence
9 10 (0.22%) SharePoint 2010
9 10 (0.22%) SharePoint 2013
10 9 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2007
11 7 (0.16%) Apache
12 6 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2000
13 5 (0.11%) SharePoint Server
13 5 (0.11%) Tomcat
14 4 (0.090%) IBM Notes
14 4 (0.090%) nginx
14 4 (0.090%) SAS
Applications
1 728 (16.32%) Microsoft Office
2 118 (2.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 47 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
5 13 (0.29%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.067%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.045%) CATIA
8 2 (0.045%) NASTRAN
9 1 (0.022%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.022%) PTC Creo
9 1 (0.022%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 8 (0.18%) SAP ERP
2 6 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
3 5 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (0.11%) Sage 200
4 4 (0.090%) Epicor Tropos
4 4 (0.090%) Sage X3
5 3 (0.067%) assyst
5 3 (0.067%) iTrent
5 3 (0.067%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.022%) MIS ActiveH
6 1 (0.022%) Sage 300 ERP
6 1 (0.022%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.022%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.022%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 2,800 (62.77%) Microsoft 365
2 2,112 (47.34%) Azure
3 1,127 (25.26%) Entra ID
4 327 (7.33%) OneDrive
5 311 (6.97%) AWS
6 118 (2.65%) Power Platform
7 96 (2.15%) IaaS
8 86 (1.93%) SaaS
9 74 (1.66%) GCP
9 74 (1.66%) Mimecast
10 60 (1.34%) PaaS
11 58 (1.30%) Power Automate
12 57 (1.28%) Google Workspace
13 54 (1.21%) Cloud Computing
14 52 (1.17%) PowerApps
15 47 (1.05%) Azure DevOps
15 47 (1.05%) Nutanix
16 37 (0.83%) Dynamics 365
17 35 (0.78%) WhatsApp
18 32 (0.72%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 1,025 (22.98%) Firewall
2 1,012 (22.69%) DNS
3 802 (17.98%) DHCP
4 558 (12.51%) WAN
5 508 (11.39%) LAN
6 425 (9.53%) VPN
7 422 (9.46%) TCP/IP
8 342 (7.67%) SAN
9 260 (5.83%) Wi-Fi
10 252 (5.65%) VLAN
11 237 (5.31%) VoIP
12 228 (5.11%) Wireless
13 122 (2.73%) Network Security
14 117 (2.62%) NAS
15 104 (2.33%) Internet
16 103 (2.31%) Remote Desktop
17 97 (2.17%) Broadband
18 85 (1.91%) SD-WAN
19 77 (1.73%) 5G
19 77 (1.73%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 266 (5.96%) SQL Server
2 93 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
3 77 (1.73%) Power BI
4 65 (1.46%) Metadata
5 42 (0.94%) MySQL
6 32 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
7 20 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
8 19 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 18 (0.40%) Relational Database
10 17 (0.38%) MongoDB
11 16 (0.36%) Oracle Database
11 16 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 11 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
13 9 (0.20%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (0.20%) NoSQL
13 9 (0.20%) RDBMS
13 9 (0.20%) Redis
14 8 (0.18%) Data Warehouse
14 8 (0.18%) MariaDB
15 7 (0.16%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 88 (1.97%) Jenkins
2 87 (1.95%) Git
3 68 (1.52%) Bitbucket
4 65 (1.46%) Artifactory
5 39 (0.87%) JIRA
6 10 (0.22%) MSI
6 10 (0.22%) Trac
7 9 (0.20%) GitLab
7 9 (0.20%) Visual Studio
8 6 (0.13%) Robot Framework
8 6 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (0.090%) AdminStudio
9 4 (0.090%) Hudson
9 4 (0.090%) InstallShield
10 3 (0.067%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.067%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.045%) Moq
11 2 (0.045%) Postman
11 2 (0.045%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 2 (0.045%) webpack
General
1 1,413 (31.67%) Social Skills
2 427 (9.57%) Finance
3 395 (8.85%) Analytical Skills
4 262 (5.87%) Law
5 242 (5.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 184 (4.12%) Organisational Skills
7 160 (3.59%) Retail
8 154 (3.45%) Manufacturing
9 123 (2.76%) Telecoms
10 107 (2.40%) Public Sector
11 104 (2.33%) Legal
12 94 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
13 86 (1.93%) Marketing
14 33 (0.74%) Games
15 30 (0.67%) Local Government
16 22 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
17 20 (0.45%) Aerospace
18 18 (0.40%) Advertising
19 17 (0.38%) Police
20 16 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 946 (21.21%) IT Support
2 838 (18.79%) Support Engineer
3 717 (16.07%) Analyst
4 710 (15.92%) IT Engineer
5 610 (13.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 483 (10.83%) IT Support Engineer
7 444 (9.95%) Senior
8 399 (8.94%) 2nd Line Support
9 316 (7.08%) IT Technician
10 284 (6.37%) IT Analyst
11 249 (5.58%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 249 (5.58%) Support Analyst
12 247 (5.54%) Service Analyst
13 233 (5.22%) Lead
14 230 (5.16%) Support Technician
15 229 (5.13%) Service Desk Analyst
16 224 (5.02%) 1st Line Support
17 209 (4.69%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
18 198 (4.44%) 3rd Line Support
19 184 (4.12%) IT Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (2.08%) LDAP
2 84 (1.88%) JSON
3 82 (1.84%) SAML
4 80 (1.79%) RESTful
5 73 (1.64%) Web Services
6 71 (1.59%) OpenID
7 70 (1.57%) XML
8 65 (1.46%) JSON-LD
9 29 (0.65%) .NET
10 25 (0.56%) ARM Templates
11 16 (0.36%) OLE
12 14 (0.31%) CSS
13 13 (0.29%) OAuth
14 12 (0.27%) HTML
15 10 (0.22%) SailPoint
16 8 (0.18%) 802.1X
17 7 (0.16%) EJB
17 7 (0.16%) RabbitMQ
18 6 (0.13%) LAMP
18 6 (0.13%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 356 (7.98%) Driving Licence
2 248 (5.56%) Data Centre
3 237 (5.31%) Management Information System
4 212 (4.75%) Self-Motivation
5 137 (3.07%) Onboarding
6 112 (2.51%) Replication
7 110 (2.47%) PKI
8 92 (2.06%) Clustering
9 81 (1.82%) Public Cloud
10 73 (1.64%) Enterprise Cloud
11 68 (1.52%) Social Media
12 65 (1.46%) Reference Data
13 60 (1.34%) Smartphone
14 43 (0.96%) Fat Client
14 43 (0.96%) Thin Client
15 39 (0.87%) Enterprise Storage
16 36 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
17 35 (0.78%) CCTV
17 35 (0.78%) Private Cloud
18 33 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3,192 (71.55%) Windows
2 1,807 (40.51%) Windows Server
3 908 (20.35%) Windows 10
4 526 (11.79%) Linux
5 340 (7.62%) Windows Server 2016
6 329 (7.38%) Windows Server 2019
7 292 (6.55%) Windows Server 2012
8 170 (3.81%) Windows 7
9 167 (3.74%) Mac OS
10 132 (2.96%) Android
11 117 (2.62%) Apple iOS
12 99 (2.22%) Ubuntu
13 87 (1.95%) Windows 8
14 67 (1.50%) Windows Server 2008
15 44 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 39 (0.87%) VMS
17 37 (0.83%) CentOS
18 30 (0.67%) Unix
18 30 (0.67%) Windows Server 2003
19 24 (0.54%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 983 (22.04%) ITIL
2 923 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
3 856 (19.19%) Customer Service
4 789 (17.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 531 (11.90%) Cybersecurity
6 298 (6.68%) Service Management
7 279 (6.25%) Disaster Recovery
8 249 (5.58%) Agile
9 235 (5.27%) Incident Management
9 235 (5.27%) Service Delivery
10 232 (5.20%) Mentoring
11 225 (5.04%) ITSM
12 212 (4.75%) Migration
13 209 (4.69%) Project Management
14 208 (4.66%) Roadmaps
15 202 (4.53%) Continuous Improvement
16 190 (4.26%) Change Management
17 182 (4.08%) DevOps
18 157 (3.52%) Project Delivery
19 155 (3.47%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 653 (14.64%) PowerShell
2 452 (10.13%) SQL
3 161 (3.61%) Bash
4 137 (3.07%) Python
5 69 (1.55%) Go
6 65 (1.46%) Prolog
6 65 (1.46%) SPARQL
7 49 (1.10%) C#
8 44 (0.99%) VB
9 35 (0.78%) VBScript
10 27 (0.61%) JavaScript
11 21 (0.47%) Perl
12 18 (0.40%) Java
12 18 (0.40%) T-SQL
13 17 (0.38%) Bicep
13 17 (0.38%) R
14 10 (0.22%) ActionScript
15 9 (0.20%) PL/SQL
16 8 (0.18%) VB.NET
17 7 (0.16%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 528 (11.84%) Degree
2 475 (10.65%) Security Cleared
3 405 (9.08%) Microsoft Certification
4 315 (7.06%) SC Cleared
5 223 (5.00%) DV Cleared
6 164 (3.68%) A+ Certification
7 157 (3.52%) Cisco Certification
8 139 (3.12%) MCP
9 133 (2.98%) CCNA
10 131 (2.94%) DBS Check
11 121 (2.71%) Azure Certification
12 106 (2.38%) MCSE
13 85 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
14 71 (1.59%) ITIL Certification
15 65 (1.46%) MCSA
16 46 (1.03%) Network+ Certification
17 45 (1.01%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 42 (0.94%) CCNP
19 33 (0.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
20 26 (0.58%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 362 (8.11%) SLA
2 94 (2.11%) GDPR
3 86 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 83 (1.86%) Cyber Essentials
5 24 (0.54%) NIST
6 16 (0.36%) Data Quality
7 15 (0.34%) Accessibility
8 7 (0.16%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (0.11%) ISO 9001
11 4 (0.090%) QA
12 3 (0.067%) NCSC
13 2 (0.045%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.022%) GRC
14 1 (0.022%) GxP
14 1 (0.022%) HIPAA
14 1 (0.022%) ISO 14001
14 1 (0.022%) JSP 440
14 1 (0.022%) PMO
14 1 (0.022%) SOC 2
System Software
1 954 (21.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 856 (19.19%) Hyper-V
3 176 (3.95%) VMware ESXi
4 156 (3.50%) vSphere
5 130 (2.91%) Virtual Machines
6 129 (2.89%) Virtual Desktop
7 89 (2.00%) XenApp
8 74 (1.66%) XenDesktop
9 53 (1.19%) Docker
10 47 (1.05%) Virtual Servers
10 47 (1.05%) VirtualBox
11 37 (0.83%) Firmware
12 20 (0.45%) VMware Server
12 20 (0.45%) VMware Workstation
13 19 (0.43%) Terminal Services
14 18 (0.40%) pfSense
15 17 (0.38%) NFS
16 16 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 14 (0.31%) Citrix Hypervisor
18 10 (0.22%) OpenSSH
Systems Management
1 810 (18.16%) Microsoft Intune
2 470 (10.54%) SCCM
3 148 (3.32%) WSUS
4 112 (2.51%) SCOM
5 105 (2.35%) vCenter Server
6 100 (2.24%) Jamf Pro
7 78 (1.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 70 (1.57%) Kubernetes
9 64 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
10 54 (1.21%) Ansible
11 49 (1.10%) Failover Clustering
12 46 (1.03%) Terraform
13 40 (0.90%) FortiGate
14 38 (0.85%) ZABBIX
15 32 (0.72%) NetBackup
16 31 (0.69%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
17 24 (0.54%) EMC NetWorker
18 20 (0.45%) Backup Exec
19 19 (0.43%) Grafana
20 18 (0.40%) VxRail
Vendors
1 2,972 (66.62%) Microsoft
2 1,409 (31.58%) VMware
3 454 (10.18%) Cisco
4 378 (8.47%) Citrix
5 318 (7.13%) Veeam
6 170 (3.81%) Apple
7 160 (3.59%) HP
8 158 (3.54%) Dell
9 133 (2.98%) ServiceNow
10 119 (2.67%) Meraki
11 109 (2.44%) Google
12 98 (2.20%) Sophos
13 88 (1.97%) CyberArk
13 88 (1.97%) NetApp
14 85 (1.91%) Fortinet
15 80 (1.79%) SolarWinds
16 71 (1.59%) Oracle
17 68 (1.52%) Aruba
18 67 (1.50%) Tanium
19 58 (1.30%) Adobe