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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 37 81
Rank change year-on-year +2 +44 -24
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 4,742 5,068 7,652
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.25% 6.28% 4.37%
As % of the System Software category 50.11% 39.45% 25.11%
Number of salaries quoted 3,571 4,299 6,208
10th Percentile £25,500 £25,500 £24,750
25th Percentile £29,250 £30,750 £29,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.88%
75th Percentile £53,750 £57,875 £56,250
90th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,000 £36,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year +1.37% - -2.67%

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 9,464 12,848 30,470
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.47% 15.92% 17.38%
Number of salaries quoted 7,021 8,994 15,471
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,293 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 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
England +3 4,384 £40,000 - 624
UK excluding London +7 3,561 £37,000 +1.37% 596
Work from Home +20 1,584 £45,000 -5.26% 252
London -6 1,087 £52,000 +4.00% 102
South East -4 983 £40,000 +12.68% 148
North of England +22 860 £37,500 +4.17% 170
Midlands +17 638 £35,000 -3.45% 79
South West +19 453 £37,000 - 93
North West +10 413 £38,000 -8.43% 76
West Midlands +11 388 £36,000 +1.77% 54
East of England +6 343 £32,000 -8.57% 53
Yorkshire +16 323 £35,225 +8.38% 63
East Midlands +2 246 £35,000 -6.67% 25
Scotland -46 201 £35,500 -5.33% 36
North East +15 124 £35,750 -8.94% 36
Wales +21 75 £31,500 -19.75% 7
Northern Ireland -18 8 £37,500 -16.67% 28
Channel Islands -4 2 £85,000 +25.93%
Isle of Man -15 1 £36,000 -50.34% 1

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 1,192 (25.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 783 (16.51%) SharePoint
3 91 (1.92%) IIS
4 33 (0.70%) Exchange Server 2013
5 21 (0.44%) OpenStack
5 21 (0.44%) SharePoint 2010
5 21 (0.44%) SharePoint 2013
6 19 (0.40%) Skype for Business
7 18 (0.38%) Confluence
8 15 (0.32%) Tomcat
9 13 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2010
10 9 (0.19%) WordPress
11 8 (0.17%) Apache
12 6 (0.13%) CMS
12 6 (0.13%) SharePoint Server
13 5 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2007
13 5 (0.11%) IBM Domino
14 4 (0.084%) BizTalk Server
14 4 (0.084%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
14 4 (0.084%) Exchange Server 2000
Applications
1 731 (15.42%) Microsoft Office
2 120 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 54 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.38%) MS Visio
5 16 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.063%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.042%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.021%) CATIA
9 1 (0.021%) NASTRAN
9 1 (0.021%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 17 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
2 16 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
4 5 (0.11%) Elite 3E
4 5 (0.11%) Sage 200
4 5 (0.11%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.084%) Eikon
6 3 (0.063%) iTrent
6 3 (0.063%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.063%) Sage X3
7 2 (0.042%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.021%) assyst
8 1 (0.021%) Carpe Diem
8 1 (0.021%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.021%) Epicor Tropos
8 1 (0.021%) MIS ActiveH
8 1 (0.021%) Sage 300 ERP
Cloud Services
1 2,753 (58.06%) Microsoft 365
2 2,445 (51.56%) Azure
3 1,479 (31.19%) Entra ID
4 391 (8.25%) AWS
5 339 (7.15%) OneDrive
6 129 (2.72%) IaaS
7 128 (2.70%) Power Platform
7 128 (2.70%) SaaS
8 103 (2.17%) Mimecast
9 89 (1.88%) Cloud Computing
10 88 (1.86%) GCP
11 87 (1.83%) PaaS
12 86 (1.81%) Azure DevOps
12 86 (1.81%) Azure Monitor
13 83 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
14 75 (1.58%) Azure Storage
15 74 (1.56%) Power Automate
16 66 (1.39%) Google Workspace
17 64 (1.35%) PowerApps
18 48 (1.01%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 995 (20.98%) DNS
2 983 (20.73%) Firewall
3 736 (15.52%) DHCP
4 591 (12.46%) LAN
5 586 (12.36%) WAN
6 457 (9.64%) VPN
7 417 (8.79%) TCP/IP
8 312 (6.58%) SAN
9 256 (5.40%) Broadband
10 255 (5.38%) VLAN
10 255 (5.38%) Wi-Fi
11 241 (5.08%) Wireless
12 220 (4.64%) 5G
13 189 (3.99%) VoIP
14 168 (3.54%) Internet
15 150 (3.16%) Network Security
16 123 (2.59%) NAS
17 113 (2.38%) Remote Desktop
18 94 (1.98%) SD-WAN
19 86 (1.81%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 288 (6.07%) SQL Server
2 90 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
3 77 (1.62%) Power BI
4 54 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
5 46 (0.97%) MySQL
6 44 (0.93%) Metadata
7 34 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
8 24 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 19 (0.40%) Relational Database
10 18 (0.38%) Redis
11 15 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 14 (0.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 11 (0.23%) MariaDB
13 11 (0.23%) Oracle Database
14 10 (0.21%) RDBMS
15 9 (0.19%) Data Warehouse
15 9 (0.19%) Elasticsearch
15 9 (0.19%) NoSQL
16 8 (0.17%) Amazon Redshift
17 6 (0.13%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 94 (1.98%) Git
2 77 (1.62%) Jenkins
3 64 (1.35%) JIRA
4 48 (1.01%) Bitbucket
5 44 (0.93%) Artifactory
6 21 (0.44%) MSI
7 15 (0.32%) GitLab
8 13 (0.27%) AdminStudio
8 13 (0.27%) InstallShield
9 12 (0.25%) Visual Studio
10 9 (0.19%) Trac
10 9 (0.19%) Visual Studio Code
11 7 (0.15%) Katalon Studio
12 6 (0.13%) Moq
12 6 (0.13%) Postman
12 6 (0.13%) Robot Framework
12 6 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
12 6 (0.13%) SpecFlow
13 4 (0.084%) Selenium
13 4 (0.084%) SoapUI
General
1 1,433 (30.22%) Social Skills
2 632 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 626 (13.20%) Finance
4 376 (7.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 255 (5.38%) Law
6 181 (3.82%) Legal
7 157 (3.31%) Organisational Skills
8 147 (3.10%) Retail
9 141 (2.97%) Manufacturing
10 119 (2.51%) Public Sector
11 115 (2.43%) Telecoms
12 99 (2.09%) Banking
13 92 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
14 71 (1.50%) Marketing
15 48 (1.01%) Games
16 46 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
17 41 (0.86%) Local Government
18 37 (0.78%) Advertising
19 32 (0.67%) Back Office
20 22 (0.46%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 795 (16.77%) Analyst
2 774 (16.32%) IT Support
3 762 (16.07%) Support Engineer
4 666 (14.04%) Senior
5 621 (13.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 572 (12.06%) IT Engineer
7 356 (7.51%) 2nd Line Support
8 351 (7.40%) IT Support Engineer
9 303 (6.39%) IT Analyst
10 288 (6.07%) Support Analyst
11 274 (5.78%) IT Technician
12 272 (5.74%) Service Analyst
13 261 (5.50%) Lead
14 256 (5.40%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 253 (5.34%) Service Desk Analyst
16 234 (4.93%) Technical Specialist
17 211 (4.45%) Linux Specialist
18 201 (4.24%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
19 181 (3.82%) Support Technician
20 176 (3.71%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (1.98%) LDAP
2 78 (1.64%) SAML
3 63 (1.33%) Web Services
4 58 (1.22%) .NET
5 56 (1.18%) RESTful
6 55 (1.16%) OpenID
7 51 (1.08%) JSON
8 50 (1.05%) XML
9 44 (0.93%) JSON-LD
10 43 (0.91%) ARM Templates
11 42 (0.89%) YAML
12 26 (0.55%) OAuth
13 22 (0.46%) HTML
13 22 (0.46%) REST
14 21 (0.44%) .NET Core
15 19 (0.40%) React
16 18 (0.38%) 802.1X
17 17 (0.36%) SailPoint
18 16 (0.34%) CSS
19 14 (0.30%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 300 (6.33%) Management Information System
2 257 (5.42%) Data Centre
3 253 (5.34%) Driving Licence
4 213 (4.49%) Social Media
5 187 (3.94%) Self-Motivation
6 135 (2.85%) Onboarding
7 123 (2.59%) Replication
8 120 (2.53%) PKI
9 119 (2.51%) Clustering
10 112 (2.36%) Public Cloud
11 87 (1.83%) Smartphone
12 71 (1.50%) Enterprise Cloud
13 64 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
14 61 (1.29%) iPhone
15 58 (1.22%) Cyberattack
16 54 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
17 50 (1.05%) Video Conferencing
18 47 (0.99%) iPad
19 45 (0.95%) Private Cloud
20 44 (0.93%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 3,103 (65.44%) Windows
2 1,582 (33.36%) Windows Server
3 940 (19.82%) Windows 10
4 673 (14.19%) Linux
5 311 (6.56%) Windows Server 2016
6 295 (6.22%) Windows Server 2019
7 278 (5.86%) Ubuntu
8 271 (5.71%) Windows Server 2012
9 184 (3.88%) Android
10 176 (3.71%) Mac OS
11 162 (3.42%) Apple iOS
12 121 (2.55%) Windows 7
13 77 (1.62%) Windows Server 2008
14 72 (1.52%) VMS
15 46 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 43 (0.91%) Mac OS X
17 37 (0.78%) CentOS
18 32 (0.67%) Windows 8
19 29 (0.61%) Unix
20 18 (0.38%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 959 (20.22%) ITIL
2 904 (19.06%) Problem-Solving
3 863 (18.20%) Customer Service
4 775 (16.34%) Cybersecurity
5 752 (15.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 385 (8.12%) Service Management
7 364 (7.68%) Agile
8 307 (6.47%) ITSM
9 288 (6.07%) Roadmaps
10 286 (6.03%) Service Delivery
11 283 (5.97%) Disaster Recovery
12 274 (5.78%) CRM
13 269 (5.67%) IT Strategy
14 263 (5.55%) DevOps
15 255 (5.38%) Change Management
16 245 (5.17%) Continuous Improvement
17 243 (5.12%) Project Management
18 239 (5.04%) Artificial Intelligence
19 236 (4.98%) Incident Management
20 232 (4.89%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 748 (15.77%) PowerShell
2 504 (10.63%) SQL
3 324 (6.83%) Bash
4 146 (3.08%) Python
5 90 (1.90%) C#
6 55 (1.16%) VB
7 54 (1.14%) Bicep
8 48 (1.01%) Go
9 44 (0.93%) Prolog
9 44 (0.93%) SPARQL
10 42 (0.89%) Java
11 32 (0.67%) VBScript
12 27 (0.57%) JavaScript
13 21 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
13 21 (0.44%) Perl
14 18 (0.38%) ActionScript
14 18 (0.38%) R
15 16 (0.34%) T-SQL
16 9 (0.19%) PHP
16 9 (0.19%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 586 (12.36%) Degree
2 443 (9.34%) Security Cleared
3 419 (8.84%) Microsoft Certification
4 271 (5.71%) SC Cleared
5 191 (4.03%) DV Cleared
6 148 (3.12%) Azure Certification
7 147 (3.10%) Cisco Certification
8 128 (2.70%) A+ Certification
9 124 (2.61%) DBS Check
10 123 (2.59%) MCP
11 117 (2.47%) MCSE
12 104 (2.19%) CCNA
13 97 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
14 74 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
15 71 (1.50%) MCSA
16 51 (1.08%) MCITP
17 47 (0.99%) CISSP
18 44 (0.93%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
19 39 (0.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
20 37 (0.78%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 341 (7.19%) SLA
2 109 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 106 (2.24%) GDPR
4 105 (2.21%) Cyber Essentials
5 31 (0.65%) QA
6 30 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 25 (0.53%) NIST
8 23 (0.49%) Accessibility
9 16 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 15 (0.32%) PCI DSS
11 12 (0.25%) Data Quality
12 11 (0.23%) IASME
12 11 (0.23%) SOC 2
13 10 (0.21%) ISO 9001
14 8 (0.17%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.13%) NIST 800
16 4 (0.084%) GRC
16 4 (0.084%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 4 (0.084%) PMO
16 4 (0.084%) WCAG
System Software
1 942 (19.87%) VMware Infrastructure
2 693 (14.61%) Hyper-V
3 237 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
4 180 (3.80%) vSphere
5 156 (3.29%) Virtual Machines
6 135 (2.85%) Virtual Desktop
7 105 (2.21%) XenApp
8 85 (1.79%) XenDesktop
9 55 (1.16%) Docker
9 55 (1.16%) Virtual Servers
10 52 (1.10%) RACF
11 27 (0.57%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 26 (0.55%) VMware Workstation
13 25 (0.53%) Firmware
14 21 (0.44%) Microsoft App-V
15 20 (0.42%) Terminal Services
16 18 (0.38%) VMware NSX
17 17 (0.36%) OpenSSH
18 16 (0.34%) NFS
18 16 (0.34%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 1,012 (21.34%) Microsoft Intune
2 540 (11.39%) SCCM
3 270 (5.69%) Jamf Pro
4 166 (3.50%) WSUS
5 145 (3.06%) Terraform
6 137 (2.89%) vCenter Server
7 115 (2.43%) Ansible
8 111 (2.34%) Single Sign-On
9 107 (2.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 105 (2.21%) SCOM
11 96 (2.02%) Kubernetes
12 43 (0.91%) Failover Clustering
13 34 (0.72%) ZABBIX
14 33 (0.70%) Backup Exec
15 32 (0.67%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
16 31 (0.65%) Microsoft Clustering
17 23 (0.49%) FortiGate
17 23 (0.49%) Grafana
18 21 (0.44%) NetBackup
19 20 (0.42%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 3,179 (67.04%) Microsoft
2 1,378 (29.06%) VMware
3 490 (10.33%) Cisco
4 373 (7.87%) Citrix
5 301 (6.35%) Veeam
6 285 (6.01%) CyberArk
7 210 (4.43%) Tanium
8 195 (4.11%) Dell
9 191 (4.03%) Apple
10 173 (3.65%) ServiceNow
11 169 (3.56%) HP
12 135 (2.85%) Google
13 129 (2.72%) Meraki
14 86 (1.81%) Fortinet
15 79 (1.67%) Oracle
16 77 (1.62%) SolarWinds
17 71 (1.50%) Sophos
18 63 (1.33%) IBM
19 61 (1.29%) Palo Alto
20 60 (1.27%) NetApp