Active Directory Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Active Directory
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 30 42
Rank change year-on-year -22 +12 +7
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 1,896 4,213 3,307
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.38% 5.77% 6.55%
As % of the System Software category 41.66% 51.59% 39.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,440 3,365 2,783
10th Percentile £26,000 £24,000 £24,250
25th Percentile £28,500 £27,000 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £35,450 £36,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.27% -2.88% +2.24%
75th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £52,063
90th Percentile £62,500 £58,750 £62,500
UK median annual salary £38,094 £38,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +0.25% -5.00% -

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,551 8,166 8,276
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.52% 11.19% 16.40%
Number of salaries quoted 2,611 6,307 5,345
10th Percentile £26,500 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £67,070
90th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £51,914 £49,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.88% -10.00% -

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 17 July 2025.

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 17 July 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
North of England -44 499 £32,000 -12.33% 227
South East -29 454 £40,000 +5.26% 285
Midlands -1 425 £35,000 +2.94% 154
Yorkshire -5 267 £30,000 -16.08% 94
East of England -25 248 £32,533 +3.28% 136
West Midlands -2 244 £38,500 +10.00% 86
South West -2 228 £34,500 -6.76% 96
East Midlands -15 181 £31,500 -5.97% 68
North West -111 159 £35,698 -4.81% 107
North East +2 73 £32,000 -8.57% 30
Wales -18 27 £38,094 +32.50% 36
Scotland -55 22 £36,250 +5.07% 41
Northern Ireland +36 5 £52,500 +40.00% 11
Isle of Man +11 2 £34,500 -19.77% 2
Channel Islands -4 1 £45,000 -47.06% 1
South Coast - 1 £59,000 -
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
1 506 (26.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 319 (16.82%) SharePoint
3 65 (3.43%) IIS
4 33 (1.74%) Confluence
5 14 (0.74%) Tomcat
6 11 (0.58%) IBM Domino
7 8 (0.42%) Skype for Business
8 6 (0.32%) Apache
8 6 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2013
8 6 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
9 4 (0.21%) CMS
9 4 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2010
9 4 (0.21%) Office Communications Server
10 3 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
10 3 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2007
10 3 (0.16%) JOnAS
11 1 (0.053%) SharePoint 2010
11 1 (0.053%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.053%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 195 (10.28%) Microsoft Office
2 62 (3.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.32%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.11%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.053%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.053%) Autodesk Inventor
7 1 (0.053%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 24 (1.27%) Dynamics NAV
2 9 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.47%) SAP Business One
3 7 (0.37%) SAP ERP
4 6 (0.32%) Sage 200
5 3 (0.16%) Sage 50
6 2 (0.11%) Magento
6 2 (0.11%) Visualfiles
7 1 (0.053%) assyst
7 1 (0.053%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.053%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.053%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.053%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,080 (56.96%) Microsoft 365
2 905 (47.73%) Azure
3 511 (26.95%) Entra ID
4 203 (10.71%) AWS
5 135 (7.12%) OneDrive
6 57 (3.01%) IaaS
7 45 (2.37%) SaaS
8 43 (2.27%) PaaS
9 42 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
9 42 (2.22%) Serverless
10 36 (1.90%) Amazon S3
10 36 (1.90%) AWS KMS
10 36 (1.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 35 (1.85%) Mimecast
12 34 (1.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 33 (1.74%) Amazon ELB
13 33 (1.74%) Amazon Glacier
13 33 (1.74%) Power Platform
14 32 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
15 29 (1.53%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 581 (30.64%) Firewall
2 433 (22.84%) DNS
3 350 (18.46%) DHCP
4 201 (10.60%) WAN
5 186 (9.81%) LAN
6 184 (9.70%) VPN
7 175 (9.23%) TCP/IP
8 166 (8.76%) VLAN
9 128 (6.75%) VoIP
10 122 (6.43%) SAN
11 113 (5.96%) Wi-Fi
12 91 (4.80%) Broadband
13 85 (4.48%) Wireless
14 67 (3.53%) Remote Desktop
15 58 (3.06%) SSL
16 50 (2.64%) NAS
17 46 (2.43%) SD-WAN
17 46 (2.43%) SSH
18 45 (2.37%) Network Security
19 35 (1.85%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (6.49%) SQL Server
2 81 (4.27%) Amazon RDS
3 21 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (1.00%) Power BI
5 11 (0.58%) MySQL
6 5 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (0.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (0.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.11%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.11%) EDMS
8 2 (0.11%) MS Access
8 2 (0.11%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.053%) DB2
9 1 (0.053%) DTS
9 1 (0.053%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.053%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.053%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.053%) QlikView
9 1 (0.053%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 55 (2.90%) JIRA
2 38 (2.00%) Git
3 37 (1.95%) Jenkins
4 33 (1.74%) Vagrant
5 11 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (0.32%) Bitbucket Server
7 3 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.11%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.11%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.11%) Subversion
8 2 (0.11%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.053%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.053%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.053%) GitLab
9 1 (0.053%) Selenium
9 1 (0.053%) Visual Studio
General
1 792 (41.77%) Social Skills
2 112 (5.91%) Analytical Skills
3 96 (5.06%) Manufacturing
4 91 (4.80%) Finance
5 80 (4.22%) Law
6 77 (4.06%) Organisational Skills
7 74 (3.90%) Public Sector
8 66 (3.48%) Legal
8 66 (3.48%) Retail
9 58 (3.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 38 (2.00%) Telecoms
11 26 (1.37%) Advertising
12 23 (1.21%) Automotive
13 22 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
14 20 (1.05%) Aerospace
15 17 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
16 15 (0.79%) German Language
17 13 (0.69%) Games
18 12 (0.63%) Local Government
19 9 (0.47%) Czech Language
Job Titles
1 465 (24.53%) IT Support
2 393 (20.73%) Support Engineer
3 327 (17.25%) Analyst
4 238 (12.55%) 2nd Line Support
5 231 (12.18%) IT Engineer
6 224 (11.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 219 (11.55%) Support Analyst
8 167 (8.81%) IT Analyst
9 123 (6.49%) IT Support Engineer
10 120 (6.33%) Infrastructure Support
11 119 (6.28%) IT Support Analyst
12 112 (5.91%) Technical Support
13 109 (5.75%) Senior
14 102 (5.38%) 1st Line Support
14 102 (5.38%) 3rd Line Support
15 99 (5.22%) Support Technician
16 93 (4.91%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
17 79 (4.17%) Administrator
18 74 (3.90%) 3rd Line Engineer
19 70 (3.69%) Technology Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (1.79%) Web Services
2 26 (1.37%) RESTful
3 19 (1.00%) LDAP
4 15 (0.79%) SailPoint
5 11 (0.58%) JSON
6 10 (0.53%) EDI
7 9 (0.47%) REST
7 9 (0.47%) SAML
7 9 (0.47%) SOAP
7 9 (0.47%) XML
8 8 (0.42%) .NET
9 6 (0.32%) 802.1X
10 4 (0.21%) ARM Templates
11 3 (0.16%) YAML
12 2 (0.11%) Node.js
13 1 (0.053%) AngularJS
13 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Graph
13 1 (0.053%) OAuth
13 1 (0.053%) Software Packaging
13 1 (0.053%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 161 (8.49%) Driving Licence
2 119 (6.28%) Onboarding
3 88 (4.64%) Management Information System
4 77 (4.06%) PKI
5 71 (3.74%) NHS
5 71 (3.74%) Operational Technology
6 47 (2.48%) Clustering
6 47 (2.48%) Data Centre
7 38 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
7 38 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
8 35 (1.85%) Replication
9 30 (1.58%) Video Conferencing
10 27 (1.42%) Social Media
11 26 (1.37%) Cyberattack
12 22 (1.16%) CCTV
13 20 (1.05%) Cloud Native
13 20 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
13 20 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
14 18 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
14 18 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1,356 (71.52%) Windows
2 702 (37.03%) Windows Server
3 256 (13.50%) Windows 10
4 214 (11.29%) Linux
5 148 (7.81%) Mac OS
6 124 (6.54%) Windows Server 2019
7 92 (4.85%) Windows Server 2012
7 92 (4.85%) Windows Server 2016
8 73 (3.85%) Android
9 65 (3.43%) Apple iOS
10 54 (2.85%) VMS
11 29 (1.53%) Mac OS X
11 29 (1.53%) Windows 7
12 27 (1.42%) Unix
13 19 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 18 (0.95%) Ubuntu
15 15 (0.79%) Amazon Linux
16 11 (0.58%) CentOS
17 8 (0.42%) Windows 8
17 8 (0.42%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 505 (26.64%) Problem-Solving
2 441 (23.26%) Customer Service
3 361 (19.04%) ITIL
4 316 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
5 260 (13.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 128 (6.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 123 (6.49%) Disaster Recovery
7 123 (6.49%) Identity Management
8 120 (6.33%) Mentoring
9 106 (5.59%) Incident Management
10 103 (5.43%) DevOps
11 102 (5.38%) ITSM
12 95 (5.01%) Coaching
13 88 (4.64%) Virtual Environments
14 87 (4.59%) Proactive Monitoring
15 85 (4.48%) Roadmaps
16 84 (4.43%) Service Delivery
17 83 (4.38%) Proactive Maintenance
18 78 (4.11%) Network Management
19 76 (4.01%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 358 (18.88%) PowerShell
2 149 (7.86%) SQL
3 118 (6.22%) Python
4 34 (1.79%) Groovy
5 29 (1.53%) Java
6 26 (1.37%) Bash
7 19 (1.00%) Perl
8 10 (0.53%) JavaScript
8 10 (0.53%) VB
8 10 (0.53%) VBA
9 9 (0.47%) Shell Script
10 8 (0.42%) Korn
11 4 (0.21%) Bicep
12 3 (0.16%) Progress 4GL
12 3 (0.16%) Ruby
12 3 (0.16%) VBScript
13 2 (0.11%) Go
14 1 (0.053%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.053%) RPG IV
14 1 (0.053%) SAPscript
Qualifications
1 339 (17.88%) Degree
2 225 (11.87%) Microsoft Certification
3 193 (10.18%) Security Cleared
4 122 (6.43%) DBS Check
5 115 (6.07%) SC Cleared
6 84 (4.43%) A+ Certification
7 82 (4.32%) DV Cleared
8 75 (3.96%) Azure Certification
9 64 (3.38%) MCSA
10 55 (2.90%) Network+ Certification
11 48 (2.53%) Cisco Certification
12 45 (2.37%) MCSE
13 40 (2.11%) MCP
14 38 (2.00%) CCNA
15 27 (1.42%) AWS Certification
16 22 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
16 22 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
16 22 (1.16%) MCITP
17 21 (1.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 18 (0.95%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (5.49%) SLA
2 95 (5.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 64 (3.38%) GDPR
4 44 (2.32%) NIST
5 41 (2.16%) Cyber Essentials
6 14 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 11 (0.58%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.32%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.16%) ISO 14001
9 3 (0.16%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.16%) NCSC
10 2 (0.11%) COBIT
10 2 (0.11%) GRC
10 2 (0.11%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.11%) QA
10 2 (0.11%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.053%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.053%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.053%) GxP
System Software
1 334 (17.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 284 (14.98%) Hyper-V
3 71 (3.74%) Virtual Servers
4 65 (3.43%) VMware ESXi
5 63 (3.32%) Virtual Desktop
6 51 (2.69%) Docker
6 51 (2.69%) Virtual Machines
7 50 (2.64%) vSphere
8 30 (1.58%) Terminal Services
9 20 (1.05%) DFS Replication
10 16 (0.84%) XenApp
11 12 (0.63%) BitLocker
12 9 (0.47%) Microsoft App-V
13 8 (0.42%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 5 (0.26%) Terminal Server
14 5 (0.26%) VMware NSX
15 4 (0.21%) Dovecot
15 4 (0.21%) ISA Server
15 4 (0.21%) Postfix
16 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 380 (20.04%) Microsoft Intune
2 96 (5.06%) SCCM
3 81 (4.27%) Terraform
4 69 (3.64%) Ansible
5 49 (2.58%) Kubernetes
6 36 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
7 33 (1.74%) WSUS
8 32 (1.69%) vCenter Server
9 30 (1.58%) Grafana
9 30 (1.58%) Prometheus
10 25 (1.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 25 (1.32%) Jamf Pro
11 21 (1.11%) SCOM
12 16 (0.84%) FortiGate
13 15 (0.79%) Autotask
13 15 (0.79%) Puppet
14 14 (0.74%) vMotion
15 12 (0.63%) AirWatch
16 11 (0.58%) SmoothWall
17 10 (0.53%) Nagios
Vendors
1 1,273 (67.14%) Microsoft
2 440 (23.21%) VMware
3 226 (11.92%) Cisco
4 108 (5.70%) Apple
5 97 (5.12%) Veeam
6 92 (4.85%) Citrix
6 92 (4.85%) Meraki
7 84 (4.43%) ServiceNow
8 72 (3.80%) Sun
9 44 (2.32%) Google
10 43 (2.27%) Dell
10 43 (2.27%) HP
11 41 (2.16%) Sophos
12 38 (2.00%) SonicWALL
13 34 (1.79%) Thales
14 32 (1.69%) Okta
14 32 (1.69%) Sage
15 31 (1.64%) Juniper
16 29 (1.53%) Fortinet
17 27 (1.42%) Aruba