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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 32 48
Rank change year-on-year -36 +16 -6
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 1,575 4,388 3,560
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.05% 6.12% 6.05%
As % of the System Software category 38.52% 49.85% 38.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,163 3,669 2,920
10th Percentile £25,750 £23,500 £24,000
25th Percentile £27,750 £26,750 £27,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £35,000 £36,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.11% +4.29%
75th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
90th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £61,250
UK median annual salary £39,000 £37,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -6.25% -

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 4,089 8,802 9,263
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.51% 12.27% 15.73%
Number of salaries quoted 2,311 7,016 5,738
10th Percentile £26,500 £25,625 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £73,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

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 22 May 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 22 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
North of England -70 377 £32,000 -8.57% 255
Midlands -14 370 £32,500 -2.99% 179
South East -42 368 £40,000 +6.67% 390
East of England -22 248 £32,500 +4.84% 125
West Midlands -13 216 £35,000 +0.72% 98
Yorkshire -4 188 £30,000 -7.69% 84
South West -21 165 £32,500 -13.33% 162
East Midlands -29 154 £31,500 -3.08% 76
North West -129 139 £37,500 - 135
North East -15 50 £32,000 -3.03% 42
Scotland -32 27 £50,000 +42.86% 62
Wales -18 16 £38,094 +34.66% 18
Northern Ireland +35 6 £51,250 +36.67% 15
Isle of Man +15 2 £34,500 -19.77% 1
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
1 384 (24.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 248 (15.75%) SharePoint
3 49 (3.11%) IIS
4 13 (0.83%) Exchange Server 2013
4 13 (0.83%) Tomcat
5 12 (0.76%) Confluence
5 12 (0.76%) Skype for Business
6 11 (0.70%) IBM Domino
7 8 (0.51%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 6 (0.38%) Apache
9 5 (0.32%) nginx
10 4 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
11 3 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2010
12 2 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2007
12 2 (0.13%) Office Communications Server
12 2 (0.13%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.13%) WebSphere Application Server
13 1 (0.063%) BizTalk Server
13 1 (0.063%) Exchange Server 2003
13 1 (0.063%) JOnAS
Applications
1 184 (11.68%) Microsoft Office
2 61 (3.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.44%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 3 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.063%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.063%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 22 (1.40%) Dynamics NAV
2 7 (0.44%) SAP ERP
3 6 (0.38%) SAP Business One
4 3 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.19%) Sage 50
5 2 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.13%) PeopleSoft HCM
6 1 (0.063%) assyst
6 1 (0.063%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.063%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.063%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.063%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 873 (55.43%) Microsoft 365
2 741 (47.05%) Azure
3 413 (26.22%) Entra ID
4 151 (9.59%) AWS
5 112 (7.11%) OneDrive
6 42 (2.67%) Serverless
7 36 (2.29%) IaaS
8 33 (2.10%) AWS Lambda
8 33 (2.10%) Power Platform
9 32 (2.03%) SaaS
10 28 (1.78%) Power Automate
11 27 (1.71%) Mimecast
12 25 (1.59%) PaaS
13 23 (1.46%) GCP
14 22 (1.40%) Cloud Computing
14 22 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
15 21 (1.33%) Google Workspace
16 17 (1.08%) Amazon EC2
16 17 (1.08%) Microsoft Copilot
17 16 (1.02%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 430 (27.30%) Firewall
2 308 (19.56%) DNS
3 252 (16.00%) DHCP
4 198 (12.57%) WAN
5 183 (11.62%) LAN
6 142 (9.02%) VPN
7 130 (8.25%) VoIP
8 123 (7.81%) VLAN
9 112 (7.11%) TCP/IP
10 99 (6.29%) SAN
11 94 (5.97%) Broadband
12 76 (4.83%) Wi-Fi
13 57 (3.62%) Wireless
14 51 (3.24%) SSL
15 50 (3.17%) Remote Desktop
16 43 (2.73%) Network Security
17 40 (2.54%) NAS
18 35 (2.22%) Cisco IOS
18 35 (2.22%) SD-WAN
18 35 (2.22%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (5.78%) SQL Server
2 41 (2.60%) Amazon RDS
3 25 (1.59%) Power BI
4 15 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (0.38%) NoSQL
6 5 (0.32%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.19%) MySQL
8 2 (0.13%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.13%) EDMS
8 2 (0.13%) MS Access
8 2 (0.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.13%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.063%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.063%) DB2
9 1 (0.063%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.063%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.063%) QlikView
9 1 (0.063%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (1.71%) JIRA
2 20 (1.27%) Jenkins
3 15 (0.95%) Git
4 11 (0.70%) Vagrant
5 10 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
6 7 (0.44%) Bitbucket Server
7 3 (0.19%) GitLab
8 2 (0.13%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.063%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.063%) Selenium
9 1 (0.063%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.063%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.063%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 643 (40.83%) Social Skills
2 93 (5.90%) Analytical Skills
3 86 (5.46%) Finance
3 86 (5.46%) Retail
4 66 (4.19%) Law
5 60 (3.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 59 (3.75%) Legal
7 54 (3.43%) Manufacturing
8 53 (3.37%) Organisational Skills
9 44 (2.79%) Public Sector
10 36 (2.29%) Telecoms
11 27 (1.71%) Automotive
12 15 (0.95%) German Language
13 13 (0.83%) Advertising
13 13 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
14 12 (0.76%) Games
15 10 (0.63%) Aerospace
16 9 (0.57%) Czech Language
16 9 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
17 8 (0.51%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 402 (25.52%) IT Support
2 315 (20.00%) Support Engineer
3 250 (15.87%) Analyst
4 196 (12.44%) IT Engineer
5 195 (12.38%) 2nd Line Support
6 158 (10.03%) Support Analyst
7 151 (9.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 122 (7.75%) IT Analyst
9 115 (7.30%) IT Support Engineer
10 91 (5.78%) IT Support Analyst
11 87 (5.52%) 1st Line Support
12 82 (5.21%) Support Technician
13 81 (5.14%) Senior
14 73 (4.63%) Administrator
15 72 (4.57%) 3rd Line Support
16 71 (4.51%) Infrastructure Support
17 70 (4.44%) Technology Specialist
18 69 (4.38%) 3rd Line Engineer
18 69 (4.38%) Support Specialist
19 63 (4.00%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (1.78%) Web Services
2 26 (1.65%) RESTful
3 15 (0.95%) SailPoint
4 11 (0.70%) JSON
5 10 (0.63%) LDAP
5 10 (0.63%) REST
6 9 (0.57%) SOAP
6 9 (0.57%) XML
7 8 (0.51%) SAML
8 6 (0.38%) .NET
9 5 (0.32%) ARM Templates
10 4 (0.25%) Middleware
10 4 (0.25%) React
11 3 (0.19%) CSS
11 3 (0.19%) EDI
12 2 (0.13%) HTML
12 2 (0.13%) Node.js
12 2 (0.13%) Oracle Fusion
12 2 (0.13%) PySpark
13 1 (0.063%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 118 (7.49%) Driving Licence
2 88 (5.59%) Management Information System
3 85 (5.40%) Onboarding
4 71 (4.51%) NHS
5 54 (3.43%) PKI
6 52 (3.30%) CCTV
7 43 (2.73%) Data Centre
8 40 (2.54%) Clustering
9 37 (2.35%) Operational Technology
10 34 (2.16%) Cyber Threat
11 32 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
12 29 (1.84%) Video Conferencing
13 26 (1.65%) Cyberattack
13 26 (1.65%) Social Media
14 22 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
15 21 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
15 21 (1.33%) Replication
16 20 (1.27%) Virtual Team
17 15 (0.95%) Smartphone
18 13 (0.83%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 1,104 (70.10%) Windows
2 516 (32.76%) Windows Server
3 244 (15.49%) Windows 10
4 180 (11.43%) Linux
5 112 (7.11%) Mac OS
6 84 (5.33%) Windows Server 2012
7 83 (5.27%) Windows Server 2016
8 71 (4.51%) Windows Server 2019
9 69 (4.38%) Android
10 60 (3.81%) Apple iOS
11 43 (2.73%) Mac OS X
12 35 (2.22%) Windows 7
13 26 (1.65%) VMS
14 25 (1.59%) Ubuntu
15 24 (1.52%) Unix
16 12 (0.76%) Windows 8
17 9 (0.57%) CentOS
18 8 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
19 6 (0.38%) Windows Server 2003
19 6 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 429 (27.24%) Problem-Solving
2 355 (22.54%) Customer Service
3 307 (19.49%) ITIL
4 243 (15.43%) Cybersecurity
5 182 (11.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 117 (7.43%) Identity Management
7 99 (6.29%) Disaster Recovery
8 89 (5.65%) Coaching
9 88 (5.59%) Mentoring
9 88 (5.59%) Proactive Monitoring
10 86 (5.46%) Proactive Maintenance
11 85 (5.40%) Continuous Improvement
12 83 (5.27%) ITSM
13 82 (5.21%) Incident Management
14 79 (5.02%) DevOps
15 75 (4.76%) Service Delivery
16 72 (4.57%) Roadmaps
17 65 (4.13%) Broadcast Engineering
17 65 (4.13%) Post-Production
17 65 (4.13%) Procure-to-Pay
Programming Languages
1 279 (17.71%) PowerShell
2 128 (8.13%) SQL
3 93 (5.90%) Python
4 24 (1.52%) Bash
5 21 (1.33%) Java
6 11 (0.70%) JavaScript
7 10 (0.63%) Groovy
7 10 (0.63%) Shell Script
7 10 (0.63%) VBA
8 8 (0.51%) Perl
9 4 (0.25%) Bicep
9 4 (0.25%) VB
10 3 (0.19%) Progress 4GL
10 3 (0.19%) Ruby
10 3 (0.19%) VBScript
11 1 (0.063%) Korn
11 1 (0.063%) PHP
11 1 (0.063%) RPG
11 1 (0.063%) RPG IV
11 1 (0.063%) SAPscript
Qualifications
1 331 (21.02%) Degree
2 202 (12.83%) Microsoft Certification
3 141 (8.95%) Security Cleared
4 125 (7.94%) DBS Check
5 81 (5.14%) SC Cleared
6 67 (4.25%) A+ Certification
7 63 (4.00%) DV Cleared
8 60 (3.81%) MCSA
9 58 (3.68%) Azure Certification
10 48 (3.05%) MCSE
11 42 (2.67%) Network+ Certification
12 40 (2.54%) Cisco Certification
13 34 (2.16%) MCP
14 30 (1.90%) CCNA
15 29 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
16 23 (1.46%) HND
16 23 (1.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 18 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
18 17 (1.08%) AWS Certification
19 16 (1.02%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (6.60%) SLA
2 75 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 51 (3.24%) GDPR
4 42 (2.67%) NIST
5 29 (1.84%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 8 (0.51%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.32%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.25%) ISO 14001
8 4 (0.25%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.13%) COBIT
9 2 (0.13%) GRC
9 2 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.13%) NCSC
9 2 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.13%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.063%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.063%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 262 (16.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 192 (12.19%) Hyper-V
3 61 (3.87%) Virtual Desktop
4 57 (3.62%) VMware ESXi
5 48 (3.05%) Virtual Machines
6 42 (2.67%) vSphere
7 35 (2.22%) Docker
8 34 (2.16%) Virtual Servers
9 26 (1.65%) Terminal Services
10 17 (1.08%) XenApp
11 14 (0.89%) BitLocker
12 9 (0.57%) Microsoft App-V
13 5 (0.32%) DFS Replication
13 5 (0.32%) Firmware
13 5 (0.32%) VMware NSX
14 3 (0.19%) Dovecot
14 3 (0.19%) KVM
14 3 (0.19%) NFS
14 3 (0.19%) Postfix
15 2 (0.13%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 275 (17.46%) Microsoft Intune
2 75 (4.76%) SCCM
3 63 (4.00%) Terraform
4 56 (3.56%) Ansible
5 39 (2.48%) Single Sign-On
6 32 (2.03%) Kubernetes
7 29 (1.84%) vCenter Server
8 25 (1.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 22 (1.40%) Jamf Pro
10 18 (1.14%) WSUS
11 17 (1.08%) Puppet
12 14 (0.89%) vMotion
13 12 (0.76%) Nagios
14 11 (0.70%) SCOM
15 9 (0.57%) AirWatch
15 9 (0.57%) Nessus
15 9 (0.57%) SmoothWall
16 8 (0.51%) Grafana
16 8 (0.51%) Prometheus
16 8 (0.51%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 1,048 (66.54%) Microsoft
2 372 (23.62%) VMware
3 196 (12.44%) Cisco
4 98 (6.22%) Apple
5 87 (5.52%) Citrix
6 81 (5.14%) Meraki
7 80 (5.08%) Veeam
8 69 (4.38%) Sun
9 58 (3.68%) ServiceNow
10 46 (2.92%) Google
11 40 (2.54%) HP
12 36 (2.29%) Fortinet
13 35 (2.22%) Dell
14 31 (1.97%) SonicWALL
15 30 (1.90%) Okta
16 29 (1.84%) Thales
17 27 (1.71%) Sophos
17 27 (1.71%) Ubiquiti
18 24 (1.52%) NetApp
18 24 (1.52%) SAP