Microsoft Active Directory
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 2 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 24 58 58
Rank change year-on-year +34 0 -21
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 4,201 6,672 6,844
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.87% 5.32% 5.29%
As % of the System Software category 47.09% 34.86% 29.93%
Number of salaries quoted 3,580 5,574 5,756
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,125 £23,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £28,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £41,250 £39,655
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% +4.02% -4.45%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £55,175
90th Percentile £72,500 £70,950 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £37,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year +1.35% +5.71% -

All System Software Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 8,921 19,140 22,863
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.72% 15.27% 17.68%
Number of salaries quoted 7,088 12,732 16,007
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £37,000 £38,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +1.82% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,715 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,557 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.89% +5.26% +5.56%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Active Directory as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in the UK

Active Directory
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Active Directory.

Salary trend for Active Directory in the UK

Active Directory
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Active Directory over the 6 months to 2 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Active Directory in the UK

Active Directory
Top 19 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 2 December 2023. 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
England +32 3,852 £41,500 +1.22% 1,491
UK excluding London +22 2,704 £37,500 +1.35% 1,231
Work from Home +24 1,378 £47,500 +5.56% 524
London +38 1,366 £52,500 +5.00% 323
South East +23 760 £41,000 +17.14% 326
North of England +19 617 £33,500 -8.61% 317
Midlands +22 459 £40,000 -1.23% 245
South West +30 391 £37,500 +7.91% 148
West Midlands +29 335 £40,005 -5.87% 156
North West +20 288 £37,500 +5.63% 161
Yorkshire +12 275 £32,500 -9.72% 112
East of England +16 213 £35,000 -12.50% 142
Scotland +19 179 £40,000 +12.50% 55
East Midlands +4 123 £37,000 +5.71% 89
Wales -5 60 £40,000 -11.11% 22
North East +28 55 £34,000 -14.39% 48
Northern Ireland +9 34 £37,500 +3.45% 15
Isle of Man - 2 £72,500 - 1
Channel Islands +6 1 £45,000 -10.00%

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 628 (14.95%) SharePoint
2 450 (10.71%) MS Exchange
3 116 (2.76%) IIS
4 24 (0.57%) Exchange Server 2010
5 16 (0.38%) Skype for Business
6 13 (0.31%) Confluence
7 12 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2013
8 11 (0.26%) WebSphere
9 10 (0.24%) Apache
10 9 (0.21%) CMS
11 8 (0.19%) Site Server
12 5 (0.12%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.12%) SharePoint Server
13 3 (0.071%) Exchange Server 2003
14 2 (0.048%) Exchange Server 2007
14 2 (0.048%) nginx
14 2 (0.048%) NServiceBus
14 2 (0.048%) SharePoint 2010
14 2 (0.048%) SharePoint 2013
14 2 (0.048%) WordPress
Applications
1 569 (13.54%) Microsoft Office
2 80 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 60 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (0.36%) AutoCAD
5 9 (0.21%) PTC Creo
5 9 (0.21%) SOLIDWORKS
6 7 (0.17%) InCopy
6 7 (0.17%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.17%) Photoshop
6 7 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.14%) Acrobat
7 6 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
7 6 (0.14%) InDesign
8 4 (0.095%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.071%) 1Password
9 3 (0.071%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.048%) InfoPath
10 2 (0.048%) Revit
11 1 (0.024%) SketchUp
11 1 (0.024%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.31%) Adaptiv
1 13 (0.31%) SAP Business One
2 12 (0.29%) iTrent
2 12 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
3 9 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
4 8 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.17%) Fidessa
6 6 (0.14%) Elite 3E
7 4 (0.095%) assyst
7 4 (0.095%) Cerner Millennium
7 4 (0.095%) Eikon
7 4 (0.095%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.071%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.071%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 3 (0.071%) SAP S/4HANA
9 2 (0.048%) Misys Equation
9 2 (0.048%) Sage 50
10 1 (0.024%) Dynamics NAV
10 1 (0.024%) Epicor Tropos
10 1 (0.024%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 2,556 (60.84%) Microsoft 365
2 2,221 (52.87%) Azure
3 1,062 (25.28%) Entra ID
4 495 (11.78%) AWS
5 229 (5.45%) IaaS
6 226 (5.38%) OneDrive
7 210 (5.00%) PaaS
8 181 (4.31%) SaaS
9 137 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
10 112 (2.67%) GCP
11 110 (2.62%) Power Platform
12 101 (2.40%) Mimecast
13 78 (1.86%) Azure Storage
14 68 (1.62%) WhatsApp
15 67 (1.59%) PowerApps
15 67 (1.59%) Serverless
16 61 (1.45%) Azure Sentinel
17 55 (1.31%) Azure Monitor
18 54 (1.29%) Power Automate
19 51 (1.21%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1,010 (24.04%) DNS
2 886 (21.09%) Firewall
3 846 (20.14%) DHCP
4 585 (13.93%) WAN
5 508 (12.09%) LAN
6 505 (12.02%) VPN
7 371 (8.83%) TCP/IP
8 323 (7.69%) Wireless
9 290 (6.90%) SAN
10 251 (5.97%) VLAN
11 239 (5.69%) Wi-Fi
12 170 (4.05%) VoIP
13 158 (3.76%) SD-WAN
14 140 (3.33%) Internet
15 131 (3.12%) Cisco IOS
16 125 (2.98%) Remote Desktop
17 112 (2.67%) Network Security
18 105 (2.50%) WebEx
19 93 (2.21%) NAS
20 72 (1.71%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 413 (9.83%) SQL Server
2 132 (3.14%) Amazon RDS
3 67 (1.59%) MySQL
4 58 (1.38%) Power BI
5 50 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
6 46 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
7 27 (0.64%) MongoDB
8 20 (0.48%) Oracle Database
8 20 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 18 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 16 (0.38%) SAP HANA
11 15 (0.36%) Elasticsearch
12 12 (0.29%) InterSystems Cache
12 12 (0.29%) Metadata
12 12 (0.29%) Oracle Reports
13 11 (0.26%) Redis
13 11 (0.26%) Relational Database
14 10 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
15 7 (0.17%) MariaDB
15 7 (0.17%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 65 (1.55%) Jenkins
2 64 (1.52%) JIRA
3 56 (1.33%) Git
4 37 (0.88%) GitLab
5 23 (0.55%) MSI
6 20 (0.48%) Artifactory
7 19 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
8 16 (0.38%) AdminStudio
8 16 (0.38%) InstallShield
8 16 (0.38%) SonarQube
9 15 (0.36%) Visual Studio
10 13 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
11 12 (0.29%) Axure RP
11 12 (0.29%) Bitbucket
11 12 (0.29%) Maven
12 10 (0.24%) Chocolatey
13 9 (0.21%) Visual Studio Code
14 8 (0.19%) git-flow
15 7 (0.17%) MSBuild
15 7 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 1,252 (29.80%) Social Skills
2 517 (12.31%) Finance
3 258 (6.14%) Analytical Skills
4 197 (4.69%) Legal
5 192 (4.57%) Law
6 175 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 146 (3.48%) Retail
8 142 (3.38%) Public Sector
9 135 (3.21%) Organisational Skills
10 124 (2.95%) Telecoms
11 118 (2.81%) Banking
12 66 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
13 65 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
14 61 (1.45%) Manufacturing
15 36 (0.86%) Marketing
16 35 (0.83%) Financial Institution
17 32 (0.76%) Investment Banking
18 29 (0.69%) Games
19 27 (0.64%) Back Office
20 26 (0.62%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 790 (18.81%) Support Engineer
2 678 (16.14%) Analyst
3 663 (15.78%) IT Support
4 654 (15.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 545 (12.97%) Senior
6 473 (11.26%) IT Engineer
7 401 (9.55%) 2nd Line Support
8 351 (8.36%) Support Analyst
9 289 (6.88%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 274 (6.52%) IT Support Engineer
11 267 (6.36%) IT Analyst
12 221 (5.26%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
13 213 (5.07%) Desktop Support
14 191 (4.55%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 188 (4.48%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 188 (4.48%) Service Analyst
16 186 (4.43%) IT Support Analyst
17 181 (4.31%) 3rd Line Support
18 166 (3.95%) Service Desk Analyst
19 164 (3.90%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (1.52%) .NET
2 59 (1.40%) ARM Templates
3 54 (1.29%) JSON
4 46 (1.09%) Elastic Stack
5 41 (0.98%) LDAP
6 33 (0.79%) Web Services
7 30 (0.71%) SAML
8 29 (0.69%) HTML
9 27 (0.64%) YAML
10 25 (0.60%) XML
11 24 (0.57%) .NET Framework
12 22 (0.52%) ASP.NET
13 18 (0.43%) OAuth
13 18 (0.43%) REST
14 17 (0.40%) RabbitMQ
15 16 (0.38%) RESTful
16 14 (0.33%) SailPoint
17 12 (0.29%) Middleware
18 11 (0.26%) CSS
19 10 (0.24%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 283 (6.74%) Data Centre
2 198 (4.71%) Management Information System
3 190 (4.52%) Driving Licence
4 144 (3.43%) Self-Motivation
5 135 (3.21%) Public Cloud
6 132 (3.14%) Video Conferencing
7 122 (2.90%) PKI
8 97 (2.31%) Wiki
9 95 (2.26%) Onboarding
10 94 (2.24%) Clustering
11 92 (2.19%) Virtual Team
12 89 (2.12%) Replication
13 64 (1.52%) iPhone
14 57 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
15 48 (1.14%) CMDB
16 45 (1.07%) Smartphone
17 32 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
18 31 (0.74%) Life Science
19 30 (0.71%) Hedge funds
20 27 (0.64%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3,042 (72.41%) Windows
2 1,616 (38.47%) Windows Server
3 982 (23.38%) Windows 10
4 398 (9.47%) Linux
5 364 (8.66%) Windows Server 2016
6 340 (8.09%) Windows Server 2019
7 326 (7.76%) Windows Server 2012
8 271 (6.45%) Android
9 203 (4.83%) Apple iOS
10 160 (3.81%) Mac OS
11 139 (3.31%) Windows 7
12 75 (1.79%) Unix
13 74 (1.76%) Windows 8
14 72 (1.71%) Windows Server 2008
15 56 (1.33%) Ubuntu
16 53 (1.26%) Windows Server 2003
17 50 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 46 (1.09%) VMS
19 33 (0.79%) Mac OS X
20 20 (0.48%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 907 (21.59%) ITIL
2 799 (19.02%) Problem-Solving
3 772 (18.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 762 (18.14%) Customer Service
5 356 (8.47%) DevOps
6 317 (7.55%) Cybersecurity
7 297 (7.07%) Disaster Recovery
8 294 (7.00%) Agile
9 247 (5.88%) Service Management
10 243 (5.78%) Migration
11 229 (5.45%) ITSM
11 229 (5.45%) Mobile Device Management
12 215 (5.12%) Information Security
13 212 (5.05%) Service Delivery
14 200 (4.76%) Computer Science
15 193 (4.59%) Mentoring
16 192 (4.57%) Business Continuity
17 189 (4.50%) Project Management
18 183 (4.36%) Change Management
19 178 (4.24%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 934 (22.23%) PowerShell
2 557 (13.26%) SQL
3 214 (5.09%) Python
4 152 (3.62%) Bash
5 111 (2.64%) C#
6 55 (1.31%) VB
7 36 (0.86%) Perl
8 35 (0.83%) VBScript
9 33 (0.79%) T-SQL
10 31 (0.74%) Bicep
11 30 (0.71%) JavaScript
12 28 (0.67%) Java
13 16 (0.38%) Shell Script
14 9 (0.21%) MATLAB
15 8 (0.19%) Ruby
16 7 (0.17%) Korn
17 6 (0.14%) PHP
17 6 (0.14%) TypeScript
18 5 (0.12%) C
18 5 (0.12%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 659 (15.69%) Degree
2 551 (13.12%) Security Cleared
3 418 (9.95%) SC Cleared
4 325 (7.74%) Microsoft Certification
5 226 (5.38%) DV Cleared
6 179 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 161 (3.83%) Azure Certification
8 142 (3.38%) Cisco Certification
9 128 (3.05%) MCSE
10 122 (2.90%) CCNA
11 103 (2.45%) Master's Degree
12 98 (2.33%) MCSA
13 86 (2.05%) ITIL Certification
14 68 (1.62%) A+ Certification
15 67 (1.59%) MCP
16 59 (1.40%) CISSP
17 54 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
18 48 (1.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
19 47 (1.12%) AWS Certification
20 46 (1.09%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 379 (9.02%) SLA
2 116 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 111 (2.64%) Cyber Essentials
4 52 (1.24%) QA
5 49 (1.17%) GDPR
6 41 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 38 (0.90%) NIST
8 19 (0.45%) Accessibility
9 12 (0.29%) PCI DSS
10 10 (0.24%) NCSC
11 8 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 7 (0.17%) ISO 9001
13 6 (0.14%) IASME
13 6 (0.14%) PMO
14 5 (0.12%) Data Quality
14 5 (0.12%) Disclosure Scotland
15 4 (0.095%) COBIT
15 4 (0.095%) HL7
15 4 (0.095%) RMADS
15 4 (0.095%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 933 (22.21%) VMware Infrastructure
2 580 (13.81%) Hyper-V
3 267 (6.36%) VMware ESXi
4 174 (4.14%) vSphere
5 159 (3.78%) Virtual Machines
6 155 (3.69%) XenApp
7 147 (3.50%) Virtual Desktop
8 123 (2.93%) XenDesktop
9 117 (2.79%) Microsoft App-V
10 86 (2.05%) Docker
11 81 (1.93%) Firmware
12 54 (1.29%) Virtual Servers
13 33 (0.79%) VMware NSX
14 25 (0.60%) BitLocker
15 19 (0.45%) Terminal Services
16 17 (0.40%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 16 (0.38%) DFS Replication
18 15 (0.36%) VMware Workstation
19 14 (0.33%) vCloud
20 11 (0.26%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 761 (18.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 750 (17.85%) SCCM
3 182 (4.33%) Terraform
4 171 (4.07%) SCOM
5 168 (4.00%) Kubernetes
6 165 (3.93%) Ansible
7 121 (2.88%) WSUS
8 107 (2.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 100 (2.38%) AirWatch
10 91 (2.17%) vCenter Server
11 76 (1.81%) Single Sign-On
12 54 (1.29%) Jamf Pro
13 52 (1.24%) FortiGate
14 50 (1.19%) Failover Clustering
15 48 (1.14%) Microsoft Clustering
16 46 (1.09%) Puppet
17 41 (0.98%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
18 37 (0.88%) Nessus
19 29 (0.69%) Grafana
20 27 (0.64%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 2,682 (63.84%) Microsoft
2 1,341 (31.92%) VMware
3 584 (13.90%) Citrix
4 531 (12.64%) Cisco
5 222 (5.28%) Veeam
6 204 (4.86%) ServiceNow
7 197 (4.69%) HP
8 168 (4.00%) Apple
9 123 (2.93%) Dell
10 118 (2.81%) Meraki
11 116 (2.76%) Oracle
12 112 (2.67%) Google
13 110 (2.62%) SolarWinds
14 80 (1.90%) Palo Alto
15 79 (1.88%) Sophos
16 66 (1.57%) Aruba
17 61 (1.45%) Fortinet
18 59 (1.40%) SAP
19 57 (1.36%) Remedy
20 56 (1.33%) iManage