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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 47 42
Rank change year-on-year +15 -5 -10
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 4,443 3,721 4,547
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.30% 6.07% 6.39%
As % of the System Software category 49.86% 39.51% 37.21%
Number of salaries quoted 3,748 3,061 3,761
10th Percentile £23,750 £24,000 £23,500
25th Percentile £26,750 £27,000 £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 £50,000 £48,000
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 8,911 9,417 12,220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.63% 15.36% 17.16%
Number of salaries quoted 7,148 5,968 8,432
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,750 £26,000
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 £78,750 £83,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,687
% change year-on-year -9.09% -1.23% +1.25%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 +2 1,216 £37,500 +10.29% 251
North of England +33 1,070 £33,500 -11.84% 193
Midlands +26 773 £33,500 -8.22% 190
South West +20 543 £37,500 +4.17% 109
North West +10 493 £37,500 -6.25% 108
East of England +12 477 £31,000 -17.33% 118
West Midlands +28 474 £35,000 -6.67% 99
Yorkshire +42 389 £32,500 -9.72% 64
East Midlands +18 293 £33,000 -9.59% 91
Scotland -42 255 £34,000 - 52
North East +27 188 £33,000 -8.33% 26
Wales +21 90 £28,750 -23.33% 24
Northern Ireland -16 13 £37,500 - 8
Channel Islands -2 4 £85,000 +136.11%
Isle of Man - 4 £43,000 - 2
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 1,190 (26.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 714 (16.07%) SharePoint
3 111 (2.50%) IIS
4 29 (0.65%) Exchange Server 2013
5 26 (0.59%) OpenStack
6 15 (0.34%) CMS
6 15 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2010
7 12 (0.27%) WordPress
8 11 (0.25%) SharePoint 2010
8 11 (0.25%) SharePoint 2013
8 11 (0.25%) Skype for Business
9 10 (0.23%) Confluence
10 9 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2007
11 7 (0.16%) Apache
12 6 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2000
13 5 (0.11%) SharePoint Server
13 5 (0.11%) Tomcat
14 4 (0.090%) Exchange Server 2003
14 4 (0.090%) IBM Notes
14 4 (0.090%) SAS
Applications
1 726 (16.34%) Microsoft Office
2 123 (2.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 50 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
5 16 (0.36%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.068%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.045%) CATIA
8 2 (0.045%) NASTRAN
9 1 (0.023%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.023%) PTC Creo
9 1 (0.023%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 8 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
2 7 (0.16%) SAP ERP
3 6 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
4 5 (0.11%) Sage 200
5 4 (0.090%) Epicor Tropos
5 4 (0.090%) Sage X3
6 3 (0.068%) assyst
6 3 (0.068%) iTrent
6 3 (0.068%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.023%) MIS ActiveH
7 1 (0.023%) Sage 300 ERP
7 1 (0.023%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2,809 (63.22%) Microsoft 365
2 2,119 (47.69%) Azure
3 1,136 (25.57%) Entra ID
4 331 (7.45%) OneDrive
5 312 (7.02%) AWS
6 123 (2.77%) Power Platform
7 93 (2.09%) IaaS
8 86 (1.94%) SaaS
9 76 (1.71%) GCP
10 73 (1.64%) Mimecast
11 62 (1.40%) Power Automate
12 59 (1.33%) PaaS
13 57 (1.28%) Google Workspace
14 56 (1.26%) Cloud Computing
15 54 (1.22%) PowerApps
16 48 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
17 46 (1.04%) Nutanix
18 38 (0.86%) Dynamics 365
19 35 (0.79%) WhatsApp
20 32 (0.72%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 1,023 (23.02%) Firewall
2 1,016 (22.87%) DNS
3 805 (18.12%) DHCP
4 556 (12.51%) WAN
5 507 (11.41%) LAN
6 423 (9.52%) TCP/IP
7 418 (9.41%) VPN
8 341 (7.67%) SAN
9 260 (5.85%) Wi-Fi
10 247 (5.56%) VLAN
11 238 (5.36%) VoIP
12 231 (5.20%) Wireless
13 122 (2.75%) Network Security
14 115 (2.59%) NAS
15 106 (2.39%) Internet
16 105 (2.36%) Remote Desktop
17 97 (2.18%) Broadband
18 85 (1.91%) SD-WAN
19 77 (1.73%) 5G
19 77 (1.73%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 269 (6.05%) SQL Server
2 89 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
3 82 (1.85%) Power BI
4 65 (1.46%) Metadata
5 40 (0.90%) MySQL
6 34 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
7 19 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
7 19 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 18 (0.41%) Relational Database
9 16 (0.36%) Oracle Database
9 16 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 11 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
11 10 (0.23%) MongoDB
12 9 (0.20%) Amazon Redshift
12 9 (0.20%) NoSQL
12 9 (0.20%) RDBMS
12 9 (0.20%) Redis
13 8 (0.18%) Data Warehouse
13 8 (0.18%) MariaDB
14 7 (0.16%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 89 (2.00%) Git
2 88 (1.98%) Jenkins
3 68 (1.53%) Bitbucket
4 65 (1.46%) Artifactory
5 40 (0.90%) JIRA
6 10 (0.23%) MSI
6 10 (0.23%) Trac
7 9 (0.20%) GitLab
7 9 (0.20%) Visual Studio
8 6 (0.14%) Robot Framework
8 6 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (0.090%) AdminStudio
9 4 (0.090%) Hudson
9 4 (0.090%) InstallShield
10 3 (0.068%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.068%) 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 1,414 (31.83%) Social Skills
2 430 (9.68%) Finance
3 396 (8.91%) Analytical Skills
4 262 (5.90%) Law
5 238 (5.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 183 (4.12%) Organisational Skills
7 159 (3.58%) Retail
8 154 (3.47%) Manufacturing
9 124 (2.79%) Telecoms
10 107 (2.41%) Public Sector
11 101 (2.27%) Legal
12 92 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
13 85 (1.91%) Marketing
14 33 (0.74%) Games
15 30 (0.68%) Local Government
16 24 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
17 20 (0.45%) Aerospace
18 18 (0.41%) Advertising
18 18 (0.41%) Police
19 16 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 950 (21.38%) IT Support
2 837 (18.84%) Support Engineer
3 713 (16.05%) Analyst
4 711 (16.00%) IT Engineer
5 609 (13.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 486 (10.94%) IT Support Engineer
7 432 (9.72%) Senior
8 401 (9.03%) 2nd Line Support
9 320 (7.20%) IT Technician
10 281 (6.32%) IT Analyst
11 251 (5.65%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 251 (5.65%) Support Analyst
12 247 (5.56%) Service Analyst
13 240 (5.40%) Lead
14 233 (5.24%) Support Technician
15 229 (5.15%) Service Desk Analyst
16 225 (5.06%) 1st Line Support
17 210 (4.73%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
18 197 (4.43%) 3rd Line Support
19 187 (4.21%) IT Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (2.09%) LDAP
2 83 (1.87%) JSON
3 82 (1.85%) SAML
4 80 (1.80%) RESTful
5 73 (1.64%) Web Services
6 71 (1.60%) OpenID
7 70 (1.58%) XML
8 65 (1.46%) JSON-LD
9 29 (0.65%) .NET
10 24 (0.54%) ARM Templates
11 16 (0.36%) OLE
12 14 (0.32%) CSS
13 13 (0.29%) OAuth
14 12 (0.27%) HTML
15 8 (0.18%) 802.1X
15 8 (0.18%) SailPoint
16 7 (0.16%) EJB
16 7 (0.16%) RabbitMQ
17 6 (0.14%) LAMP
17 6 (0.14%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 355 (7.99%) Driving Licence
2 247 (5.56%) Data Centre
3 228 (5.13%) Management Information System
4 213 (4.79%) Self-Motivation
5 137 (3.08%) Onboarding
6 114 (2.57%) Replication
7 108 (2.43%) PKI
8 90 (2.03%) Clustering
9 83 (1.87%) Public Cloud
10 73 (1.64%) Enterprise Cloud
11 68 (1.53%) Social Media
12 65 (1.46%) Reference Data
13 59 (1.33%) Smartphone
14 44 (0.99%) Fat Client
14 44 (0.99%) Thin Client
15 40 (0.90%) Enterprise Storage
16 36 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
17 35 (0.79%) CCTV
17 35 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
18 34 (0.77%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3,177 (71.51%) Windows
2 1,792 (40.33%) Windows Server
3 906 (20.39%) Windows 10
4 522 (11.75%) Linux
5 343 (7.72%) Windows Server 2016
6 325 (7.31%) Windows Server 2019
7 292 (6.57%) Windows Server 2012
8 169 (3.80%) Mac OS
9 166 (3.74%) Windows 7
10 132 (2.97%) Android
11 115 (2.59%) Apple iOS
12 99 (2.23%) Ubuntu
13 85 (1.91%) Windows 8
14 63 (1.42%) Windows Server 2008
15 43 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 39 (0.88%) VMS
17 37 (0.83%) CentOS
18 30 (0.68%) Unix
18 30 (0.68%) Windows Server 2003
19 24 (0.54%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 992 (22.33%) ITIL
2 925 (20.82%) Problem-Solving
3 856 (19.27%) Customer Service
4 785 (17.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 542 (12.20%) Cybersecurity
6 299 (6.73%) Service Management
7 279 (6.28%) Disaster Recovery
8 250 (5.63%) Agile
9 238 (5.36%) Mentoring
10 233 (5.24%) Service Delivery
11 231 (5.20%) Incident Management
12 228 (5.13%) ITSM
13 211 (4.75%) Migration
13 211 (4.75%) Project Management
14 208 (4.68%) Roadmaps
15 204 (4.59%) Continuous Improvement
16 191 (4.30%) Change Management
17 178 (4.01%) DevOps
18 154 (3.47%) Project Delivery
18 154 (3.47%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 632 (14.22%) PowerShell
2 444 (9.99%) SQL
3 154 (3.47%) Bash
4 126 (2.84%) 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 (0.79%) VBScript
10 27 (0.61%) JavaScript
11 21 (0.47%) Perl
12 19 (0.43%) R
13 18 (0.41%) Java
13 18 (0.41%) T-SQL
14 17 (0.38%) Bicep
15 10 (0.23%) ActionScript
16 9 (0.20%) PL/SQL
17 8 (0.18%) VB.NET
18 7 (0.16%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 520 (11.70%) Degree
2 462 (10.40%) Security Cleared
3 409 (9.21%) Microsoft Certification
4 297 (6.68%) SC Cleared
5 215 (4.84%) DV Cleared
6 161 (3.62%) A+ Certification
7 152 (3.42%) Cisco Certification
8 140 (3.15%) MCP
9 132 (2.97%) DBS Check
10 127 (2.86%) CCNA
11 123 (2.77%) Azure Certification
12 109 (2.45%) MCSE
13 83 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
14 72 (1.62%) ITIL Certification
15 66 (1.49%) MCSA
16 46 (1.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 45 (1.01%) Network+ Certification
18 43 (0.97%) CCNP
19 33 (0.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
20 26 (0.59%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 362 (8.15%) SLA
2 95 (2.14%) GDPR
3 84 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 80 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials
5 24 (0.54%) NIST
6 18 (0.41%) Accessibility
7 16 (0.36%) Data Quality
8 7 (0.16%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (0.11%) ISO 9001
11 4 (0.090%) NCSC
11 4 (0.090%) QA
12 3 (0.068%) JSP 440
13 2 (0.045%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.023%) GRC
14 1 (0.023%) GxP
14 1 (0.023%) HIPAA
14 1 (0.023%) ISO 14001
14 1 (0.023%) PMO
14 1 (0.023%) SOC 2
System Software
1 949 (21.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 857 (19.29%) Hyper-V
3 180 (4.05%) VMware ESXi
4 154 (3.47%) vSphere
5 131 (2.95%) Virtual Machines
6 129 (2.90%) Virtual Desktop
7 91 (2.05%) XenApp
8 77 (1.73%) XenDesktop
9 53 (1.19%) Docker
10 47 (1.06%) VirtualBox
11 45 (1.01%) Virtual Servers
12 35 (0.79%) Firmware
13 20 (0.45%) VMware Server
13 20 (0.45%) VMware Workstation
14 19 (0.43%) Terminal Services
15 18 (0.41%) pfSense
16 17 (0.38%) NFS
17 16 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 14 (0.32%) Citrix Hypervisor
19 10 (0.23%) OpenSSH
Systems Management
1 808 (18.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 462 (10.40%) SCCM
3 146 (3.29%) WSUS
4 109 (2.45%) SCOM
5 105 (2.36%) vCenter Server
6 101 (2.27%) Jamf Pro
7 80 (1.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 70 (1.58%) Kubernetes
9 61 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
10 54 (1.22%) Ansible
11 48 (1.08%) Failover Clustering
12 47 (1.06%) Terraform
13 39 (0.88%) FortiGate
14 38 (0.86%) ZABBIX
15 32 (0.72%) NetBackup
16 30 (0.68%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
17 24 (0.54%) EMC NetWorker
18 23 (0.52%) Backup Exec
19 19 (0.43%) Grafana
20 18 (0.41%) VxRail
Vendors
1 2,952 (66.44%) Microsoft
2 1,403 (31.58%) VMware
3 448 (10.08%) Cisco
4 382 (8.60%) Citrix
5 321 (7.22%) Veeam
6 167 (3.76%) Apple
7 162 (3.65%) Dell
8 160 (3.60%) HP
9 133 (2.99%) ServiceNow
10 116 (2.61%) Meraki
11 111 (2.50%) Google
12 96 (2.16%) Sophos
13 90 (2.03%) NetApp
14 88 (1.98%) Fortinet
15 86 (1.94%) CyberArk
16 79 (1.78%) SolarWinds
17 71 (1.60%) Oracle
18 67 (1.51%) Tanium
19 65 (1.46%) Aruba
20 59 (1.33%) Adobe