Active Directory Jobs

Microsoft Active Directory
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 21 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 33 46
Rank change year-on-year -21 +13 +33
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 2,612 6,053 5,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.64% 5.41% 5.84%
As % of the System Software category 41.01% 49.87% 37.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,833 4,676 4,466
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,500 £25,420
25th Percentile £29,750 £28,250 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £37,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% -6.25% -
75th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £65,625 £73,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £35,000 £36,870
% change year-on-year - -5.07% +5.34%

All System Software Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 6,369 12,137 14,144
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.31% 10.86% 15.51%
Number of salaries quoted 3,687 9,231 9,508
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £35,500 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £76,250 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £94,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -5.00%

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 21 June 2025.

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 21 June 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
England -21 2,526 £38,500 +2.67% 3,016
UK excluding London -27 1,736 £35,000 - 1,970
Work from Home -16 957 £40,450 -10.11% 1,045
London -11 704 £50,000 - 1,201
North of England -50 450 £32,000 -8.57% 546
South East -29 416 £40,000 +5.26% 519
Midlands -5 411 £35,000 +4.48% 323
Yorkshire -1 240 £30,000 -14.29% 184
West Midlands -1 239 £38,000 +8.57% 169
East of England -23 231 £32,500 +4.84% 172
South West -8 193 £32,500 -12.16% 236
East Midlands -17 172 £32,000 -1.54% 154
North West -109 149 £37,500 - 299
North East -2 61 £32,000 -5.88% 66
Scotland -53 19 £36,250 +6.62% 112
Wales -19 17 £38,094 +34.66% 59
Northern Ireland +38 5 £52,500 +40.00% 32
Isle of Man +13 2 £34,500 -19.77%
Channel Islands -4 1 £45,000 -47.06%

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
1 623 (23.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 400 (15.31%) SharePoint
3 64 (2.45%) IIS
4 29 (1.11%) Confluence
5 13 (0.50%) Tomcat
6 11 (0.42%) IBM Domino
7 9 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2013
7 9 (0.34%) Skype for Business
8 8 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2010
9 7 (0.27%) Apache
10 6 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
11 5 (0.19%) Liferay
12 4 (0.15%) CMS
12 4 (0.15%) Office Communications Server
13 3 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
13 3 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2007
13 3 (0.11%) WordPress
14 2 (0.077%) JOnAS
14 2 (0.077%) WebSphere
14 2 (0.077%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 300 (11.49%) Microsoft Office
2 86 (3.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 36 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.42%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.38%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.27%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 5 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.15%) AutoCAD
9 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.077%) Acrobat
10 2 (0.077%) Revit
11 1 (0.038%) Autodesk Inventor
11 1 (0.038%) Sketch
11 1 (0.038%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 23 (0.88%) Dynamics NAV
2 9 (0.34%) SAP Business One
3 7 (0.27%) SAP ERP
4 6 (0.23%) Elite 3E
4 6 (0.23%) Sage 200
5 4 (0.15%) Carpe Diem
5 4 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.15%) Fidessa
6 3 (0.11%) Sage 50
7 2 (0.077%) Eikon
7 2 (0.077%) Magento
7 2 (0.077%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.038%) assyst
8 1 (0.038%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.038%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.038%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.038%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.038%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,379 (52.79%) Microsoft 365
2 1,225 (46.90%) Azure
3 688 (26.34%) Entra ID
4 320 (12.25%) AWS
5 182 (6.97%) OneDrive
6 101 (3.87%) Serverless
7 89 (3.41%) AWS Lambda
8 63 (2.41%) Mimecast
8 63 (2.41%) SaaS
9 59 (2.26%) IaaS
10 51 (1.95%) PaaS
11 50 (1.91%) Power Platform
12 42 (1.61%) Google Workspace
13 38 (1.45%) Cloud Computing
14 36 (1.38%) Amazon EC2
15 34 (1.30%) Amazon S3
16 33 (1.26%) GCP
17 32 (1.23%) Power Automate
18 30 (1.15%) AWS KMS
18 30 (1.15%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 643 (24.62%) Firewall
2 516 (19.75%) DNS
3 399 (15.28%) DHCP
4 297 (11.37%) Broadband
5 280 (10.72%) WAN
6 265 (10.15%) LAN
7 249 (9.53%) VPN
8 210 (8.04%) TCP/IP
9 181 (6.93%) VLAN
10 144 (5.51%) VoIP
11 128 (4.90%) Wi-Fi
12 124 (4.75%) SSL
13 119 (4.56%) SAN
14 99 (3.79%) Wireless
15 97 (3.71%) SSH
16 77 (2.95%) Network Security
17 63 (2.41%) Remote Desktop
18 53 (2.03%) SD-WAN
19 50 (1.91%) NAS
20 41 (1.57%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (5.78%) SQL Server
2 66 (2.53%) Amazon RDS
3 26 (1.00%) Power BI
4 21 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 10 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (0.34%) MySQL
7 9 (0.34%) NoSQL
8 5 (0.19%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 5 (0.19%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.15%) Metadata
10 3 (0.11%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.11%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (0.11%) Tableau
11 2 (0.077%) EDMS
11 2 (0.077%) HDInsight
11 2 (0.077%) MS Access
11 2 (0.077%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.077%) Star Schema
12 1 (0.038%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 63 (2.41%) JIRA
2 40 (1.53%) Jenkins
3 32 (1.23%) Git
4 26 (1.00%) Vagrant
5 11 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
6 7 (0.27%) Bitbucket Server
6 7 (0.27%) GitLab
7 6 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (0.19%) Spinnaker
8 5 (0.19%) Visual Studio
8 5 (0.19%) WiX
9 4 (0.15%) YouTrack
10 3 (0.11%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.11%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.11%) Metasploit
11 2 (0.077%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (0.077%) Subversion
12 1 (0.038%) Burp Suite
12 1 (0.038%) Eclipse
12 1 (0.038%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 1,179 (45.14%) Social Skills
2 233 (8.92%) Finance
3 188 (7.20%) Analytical Skills
4 129 (4.94%) Law
5 125 (4.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 95 (3.64%) Retail
7 90 (3.45%) Legal
8 76 (2.91%) Manufacturing
9 72 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
10 69 (2.64%) Public Sector
11 39 (1.49%) Banking
12 35 (1.34%) Telecoms
13 26 (1.00%) Automotive
14 25 (0.96%) Advertising
15 23 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
16 22 (0.84%) Games
17 21 (0.80%) German Language
18 19 (0.73%) Marketing
18 19 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
19 14 (0.54%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 604 (23.12%) Support Engineer
2 576 (22.05%) IT Support
3 449 (17.19%) Analyst
4 284 (10.87%) Support Analyst
5 277 (10.60%) IT Engineer
6 259 (9.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 247 (9.46%) 2nd Line Support
8 198 (7.58%) IT Analyst
9 177 (6.78%) Senior
10 157 (6.01%) IT Support Engineer
11 153 (5.86%) IT Support Analyst
12 131 (5.02%) Cloud Engineer
13 122 (4.67%) Desktop Support
14 114 (4.36%) Infrastructure Support
15 113 (4.33%) Technical Support
16 111 (4.25%) 1st Line Support
17 109 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
18 104 (3.98%) 3rd Line Support
19 101 (3.87%) Service Analyst
20 92 (3.52%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (3.37%) Web Services
2 82 (3.14%) RESTful
3 29 (1.11%) LDAP
4 28 (1.07%) SailPoint
5 25 (0.96%) SAML
6 16 (0.61%) REST
7 15 (0.57%) JSON
8 14 (0.54%) SOAP
9 13 (0.50%) YAML
10 11 (0.42%) XML
11 10 (0.38%) .NET
12 8 (0.31%) OAuth
13 7 (0.27%) 802.1X
13 7 (0.27%) CSS
13 7 (0.27%) EDI
13 7 (0.27%) HTML
14 6 (0.23%) OpenID
15 5 (0.19%) Django
15 5 (0.19%) Flask
15 5 (0.19%) React
Miscellaneous
1 186 (7.12%) Onboarding
2 170 (6.51%) Management Information System
3 156 (5.97%) Driving Licence
4 138 (5.28%) PKI
5 92 (3.52%) Cyber Threat
6 82 (3.14%) Cyberattack
7 75 (2.87%) NHS
8 70 (2.68%) Operational Technology
9 69 (2.64%) Data Centre
10 60 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
11 52 (1.99%) Clustering
12 49 (1.88%) Video Conferencing
13 45 (1.72%) CCTV
14 37 (1.42%) Replication
15 34 (1.30%) iPhone
16 30 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
16 30 (1.15%) Social Media
17 29 (1.11%) Virtual Team
18 28 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
19 26 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1,861 (71.25%) Windows
2 811 (31.05%) Windows Server
3 385 (14.74%) Windows 10
4 276 (10.57%) Windows Server 2012
5 261 (9.99%) Linux
6 170 (6.51%) Mac OS
7 137 (5.25%) Windows Server 2016
7 137 (5.25%) Windows Server 2019
8 91 (3.48%) Android
9 88 (3.37%) Apple iOS
10 51 (1.95%) VMS
11 39 (1.49%) Mac OS X
12 36 (1.38%) Windows 7
13 32 (1.23%) Unix
14 23 (0.88%) Ubuntu
15 17 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 12 (0.46%) Windows Server 2008
17 11 (0.42%) CentOS
18 10 (0.38%) Amazon Linux
19 8 (0.31%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 627 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
2 524 (20.06%) Customer Service
3 499 (19.10%) ITIL
4 382 (14.62%) Cybersecurity
5 315 (12.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 254 (9.72%) Coaching
7 242 (9.26%) Proactive Monitoring
8 233 (8.92%) Proactive Maintenance
9 215 (8.23%) Broadcast Engineering
9 215 (8.23%) Post-Production
9 215 (8.23%) Procure-to-Pay
10 183 (7.01%) DevOps
11 175 (6.70%) Mentoring
12 164 (6.28%) Continuous Improvement
13 157 (6.01%) Identity Management
14 155 (5.93%) Disaster Recovery
15 154 (5.90%) Roadmaps
16 150 (5.74%) ITSM
17 144 (5.51%) Incident Management
18 129 (4.94%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 483 (18.49%) PowerShell
2 222 (8.50%) Python
3 191 (7.31%) SQL
4 45 (1.72%) Bash
5 27 (1.03%) Groovy
5 27 (1.03%) Java
6 17 (0.65%) JavaScript
7 14 (0.54%) Perl
8 12 (0.46%) Shell Script
9 10 (0.38%) C#
9 10 (0.38%) VBA
10 5 (0.19%) Korn
11 4 (0.15%) Bicep
11 4 (0.15%) C++
11 4 (0.15%) Ruby
11 4 (0.15%) VB
12 3 (0.11%) Progress 4GL
12 3 (0.11%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.11%) VBScript
13 2 (0.077%) PHP
Qualifications
1 612 (23.43%) Degree
2 286 (10.95%) Microsoft Certification
3 190 (7.27%) Security Cleared
4 131 (5.02%) DBS Check
5 120 (4.59%) Azure Certification
6 104 (3.98%) SC Cleared
7 93 (3.56%) DV Cleared
8 86 (3.29%) A+ Certification
9 84 (3.22%) Cisco Certification
10 73 (2.79%) MCSA
11 67 (2.57%) CCNA
12 62 (2.37%) MCSE
13 50 (1.91%) Network+ Certification
14 41 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
15 39 (1.49%) MCP
16 36 (1.38%) CCNP
17 33 (1.26%) AWS Certification
18 31 (1.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 31 (1.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
19 24 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 192 (7.35%) SLA
2 163 (6.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 118 (4.52%) NIST
4 80 (3.06%) GDPR
5 49 (1.88%) Cyber Essentials
6 17 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 16 (0.61%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.31%) QA
9 7 (0.27%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.19%) ISO 9001
10 5 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
11 4 (0.15%) Data Quality
11 4 (0.15%) ISO 22301
11 4 (0.15%) NCSC
12 3 (0.11%) Accessibility
12 3 (0.11%) COBIT
12 3 (0.11%) ISO 14001
12 3 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.077%) GRC
13 2 (0.077%) SOC 2
System Software
1 417 (15.96%) VMware Infrastructure
2 295 (11.29%) Hyper-V
3 86 (3.29%) VMware ESXi
4 81 (3.10%) Virtual Desktop
5 80 (3.06%) Virtual Servers
6 57 (2.18%) Virtual Machines
7 52 (1.99%) Docker
8 50 (1.91%) vSphere
9 29 (1.11%) Terminal Services
9 29 (1.11%) XenApp
10 20 (0.77%) BitLocker
11 16 (0.61%) DFS Replication
12 10 (0.38%) Firmware
13 9 (0.34%) Microsoft App-V
14 5 (0.19%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 5 (0.19%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 5 (0.19%) ISA Server
14 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 5 (0.19%) VMware NSX
14 5 (0.19%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 522 (19.98%) Microsoft Intune
2 173 (6.62%) Terraform
3 167 (6.39%) SCCM
4 92 (3.52%) Ansible
5 75 (2.87%) Single Sign-On
6 66 (2.53%) Kubernetes
7 52 (1.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 37 (1.42%) Jamf Pro
9 35 (1.34%) SCOM
10 34 (1.30%) vCenter Server
11 32 (1.23%) WSUS
12 26 (1.00%) Prometheus
13 24 (0.92%) Grafana
14 20 (0.77%) Puppet
15 17 (0.65%) NetBackup
16 15 (0.57%) AirWatch
17 14 (0.54%) Autotask
17 14 (0.54%) FortiGate
17 14 (0.54%) vMotion
18 12 (0.46%) Nessus
Vendors
1 1,733 (66.35%) Microsoft
2 540 (20.67%) VMware
3 311 (11.91%) Cisco
4 225 (8.61%) Sun
5 154 (5.90%) Citrix
6 152 (5.82%) Apple
7 133 (5.09%) Meraki
8 131 (5.02%) ServiceNow
9 116 (4.44%) Veeam
10 91 (3.48%) Thales
11 75 (2.87%) HP
12 72 (2.76%) Google
13 61 (2.34%) Okta
14 59 (2.26%) Dell
15 44 (1.68%) Fortinet
16 43 (1.65%) Sophos
17 36 (1.38%) Salesforce
17 36 (1.38%) SonicWALL
18 35 (1.34%) SolarWinds
19 33 (1.26%) Palo Alto