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

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 50 73
Rank change year-on-year +18 +23 -30
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 5,990 5,720 7,653
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.05% 5.65% 4.82%
As % of the System Software category 49.90% 36.72% 26.24%
Number of salaries quoted 4,835 4,746 6,208
10th Percentile £24,500 £25,000 £24,625
25th Percentile £28,290 £30,063 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - -5.88%
75th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £55,194
90th Percentile £66,000 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £36,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year -4.11% +4.29% -6.67%

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 12,004 15,576 29,164
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.12% 15.39% 18.36%
Number of salaries quoted 9,512 10,289 15,723
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £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 13 May 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 13 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
England +20 5,525 £37,500 -6.25% 1,065
UK excluding London +15 4,373 £35,000 -4.11% 866
Work from Home +20 1,876 £46,500 +3.33% 343
London +25 1,477 £51,125 +2.25% 247
South East +1 1,181 £37,500 +7.14% 216
North of England +33 1,072 £33,750 -11.18% 193
Midlands +27 764 £33,500 -10.67% 166
South West +18 532 £37,500 +2.74% 114
North West +6 497 £37,500 -6.25% 105
East of England +13 474 £31,000 -17.33% 123
West Midlands +29 465 £35,000 -9.68% 107
Yorkshire +44 388 £32,500 -8.45% 68
East Midlands +19 293 £32,500 -10.96% 59
Scotland -44 243 £35,000 -2.10% 52
North East +29 187 £33,000 -8.33% 22
Wales +18 88 £28,290 -24.56% 16
Northern Ireland -6 13 £37,500 -9.64% 7
Channel Islands -1 4 £85,000 +34.92%
Isle of Man - 4 £43,000 - 2

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 1,645 (27.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 946 (15.79%) SharePoint
3 151 (2.52%) IIS
4 46 (0.77%) Exchange Server 2013
5 30 (0.50%) Exchange Server 2010
6 29 (0.48%) Confluence
6 29 (0.48%) OpenStack
7 24 (0.40%) Skype for Business
8 18 (0.30%) SharePoint 2013
9 17 (0.28%) CMS
9 17 (0.28%) WordPress
10 16 (0.27%) SharePoint 2010
11 12 (0.20%) Tomcat
12 11 (0.18%) Apache
12 11 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2007
13 8 (0.13%) SAS
14 6 (0.10%) Exchange Server 2000
15 5 (0.083%) SharePoint Server
16 4 (0.067%) Exchange Server 2003
16 4 (0.067%) nginx
Applications
1 934 (15.59%) Microsoft Office
2 150 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 64 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
5 17 (0.28%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.083%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.067%) AutoCAD
9 3 (0.050%) SPSS
10 2 (0.033%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.033%) CATIA
10 2 (0.033%) InCopy
10 2 (0.033%) InDesign
10 2 (0.033%) NASTRAN
11 1 (0.017%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.017%) PTC Creo
11 1 (0.017%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.017%) Weka
Business Applications
1 29 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.18%) NEC Housing
2 11 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
3 9 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
4 7 (0.12%) SAP ERP
5 6 (0.10%) Elite 3E
6 5 (0.083%) Sage 200
7 4 (0.067%) Eikon
7 4 (0.067%) Epicor Tropos
7 4 (0.067%) Sage X3
8 3 (0.050%) Adaptiv
8 3 (0.050%) Teamcenter
9 2 (0.033%) assyst
9 2 (0.033%) iTrent
9 2 (0.033%) SAP Business One
10 1 (0.017%) Carpe Diem
10 1 (0.017%) MIS ActiveH
10 1 (0.017%) Sage 300 ERP
10 1 (0.017%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3,663 (61.15%) Microsoft 365
2 2,987 (49.87%) Azure
3 1,650 (27.55%) Entra ID
4 482 (8.05%) AWS
5 424 (7.08%) OneDrive
6 178 (2.97%) Power Platform
7 169 (2.82%) IaaS
8 152 (2.54%) SaaS
9 133 (2.22%) PaaS
10 121 (2.02%) Mimecast
11 117 (1.95%) Azure DevOps
12 104 (1.74%) GCP
13 98 (1.64%) Power Automate
14 84 (1.40%) Cloud Computing
15 81 (1.35%) Google Workspace
16 79 (1.32%) PowerApps
17 78 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
18 77 (1.29%) Azure Monitor
19 68 (1.14%) Nutanix
20 53 (0.88%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 1,294 (21.60%) DNS
2 1,289 (21.52%) Firewall
3 983 (16.41%) DHCP
4 809 (13.51%) WAN
5 702 (11.72%) LAN
6 581 (9.70%) VPN
7 510 (8.51%) TCP/IP
8 426 (7.11%) SAN
9 384 (6.41%) Wireless
10 356 (5.94%) Wi-Fi
11 302 (5.04%) VLAN
12 262 (4.37%) Broadband
13 261 (4.36%) VoIP
14 220 (3.67%) 5G
15 212 (3.54%) SD-WAN
16 184 (3.07%) Internet
17 165 (2.75%) Network Security
18 152 (2.54%) Remote Desktop
19 140 (2.34%) NAS
20 119 (1.99%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 394 (6.58%) SQL Server
2 105 (1.75%) Power BI
3 95 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
4 65 (1.09%) Metadata
5 64 (1.07%) MySQL
6 51 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
7 48 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
8 42 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 31 (0.52%) Relational Database
10 30 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 20 (0.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 19 (0.32%) Oracle Database
13 17 (0.28%) Redis
14 16 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
15 15 (0.25%) RDBMS
16 13 (0.22%) MariaDB
16 13 (0.22%) NoSQL
17 12 (0.20%) Amazon Redshift
17 12 (0.20%) Elasticsearch
18 7 (0.12%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 114 (1.90%) Jenkins
2 106 (1.77%) Git
3 85 (1.42%) Bitbucket
4 80 (1.34%) JIRA
5 66 (1.10%) Artifactory
6 28 (0.47%) GitLab
7 12 (0.20%) Visual Studio
8 11 (0.18%) MSI
9 10 (0.17%) Trac
10 7 (0.12%) Katalon Studio
11 6 (0.10%) CircleCI
11 6 (0.10%) git-flow
11 6 (0.10%) Robot Framework
11 6 (0.10%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (0.083%) Moq
12 5 (0.083%) Postman
12 5 (0.083%) SpecFlow
13 4 (0.067%) Hudson
13 4 (0.067%) InstallShield
13 4 (0.067%) Selenium
General
1 1,926 (32.15%) Social Skills
2 721 (12.04%) Analytical Skills
3 693 (11.57%) Finance
4 436 (7.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 364 (6.08%) Law
6 218 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
7 213 (3.56%) Retail
8 179 (2.99%) Legal
9 168 (2.80%) Manufacturing
10 149 (2.49%) Public Sector
11 139 (2.32%) Telecoms
12 106 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
13 100 (1.67%) Marketing
14 88 (1.47%) Banking
15 51 (0.85%) Games
15 51 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
16 50 (0.83%) Local Government
17 43 (0.72%) Back Office
18 28 (0.47%) Aerospace
19 27 (0.45%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1,219 (20.35%) IT Support
2 1,027 (17.15%) Support Engineer
3 962 (16.06%) Analyst
4 815 (13.61%) IT Engineer
5 747 (12.47%) Senior
6 734 (12.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 557 (9.30%) IT Support Engineer
8 466 (7.78%) 2nd Line Support
9 382 (6.38%) IT Analyst
10 363 (6.06%) IT Technician
11 360 (6.01%) Support Analyst
12 319 (5.33%) Lead
13 316 (5.28%) Service Analyst
14 306 (5.11%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 294 (4.91%) Service Desk Analyst
16 256 (4.27%) 1st Line Support
17 251 (4.19%) Support Technician
18 242 (4.04%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
19 235 (3.92%) Technical Specialist
20 226 (3.77%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (1.90%) LDAP
2 101 (1.69%) SAML
3 92 (1.54%) JSON
4 86 (1.44%) Web Services
5 83 (1.39%) .NET
6 82 (1.37%) RESTful
7 74 (1.24%) XML
8 73 (1.22%) OpenID
9 65 (1.09%) JSON-LD
10 51 (0.85%) ARM Templates
11 29 (0.48%) HTML
11 29 (0.48%) OAuth
12 23 (0.38%) CSS
13 22 (0.37%) .NET Core
14 21 (0.35%) 802.1X
14 21 (0.35%) React
15 20 (0.33%) REST
16 16 (0.27%) OLE
16 16 (0.27%) YAML
17 15 (0.25%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 375 (6.26%) Driving Licence
2 356 (5.94%) Data Centre
3 296 (4.94%) Management Information System
4 262 (4.37%) Self-Motivation
5 219 (3.66%) Social Media
6 192 (3.21%) Onboarding
7 157 (2.62%) Replication
8 143 (2.39%) Video Conferencing
9 129 (2.15%) Public Cloud
10 127 (2.12%) PKI
11 111 (1.85%) Clustering
12 95 (1.59%) Wiki
13 94 (1.57%) Smartphone
14 82 (1.37%) Enterprise Cloud
15 72 (1.20%) iPhone
16 66 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
17 65 (1.09%) Reference Data
18 63 (1.05%) Cyberattack
19 62 (1.04%) iPad
20 48 (0.80%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4,148 (69.25%) Windows
2 2,150 (35.89%) Windows Server
3 1,271 (21.22%) Windows 10
4 826 (13.79%) Linux
5 390 (6.51%) Windows Server 2016
6 364 (6.08%) Windows Server 2019
7 356 (5.94%) Windows Server 2012
8 297 (4.96%) Ubuntu
9 274 (4.57%) Android
10 221 (3.69%) Mac OS
11 187 (3.12%) Windows 7
12 165 (2.75%) Apple iOS
13 92 (1.54%) Windows Server 2008
14 84 (1.40%) VMS
15 82 (1.37%) Windows 8
16 65 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 46 (0.77%) Unix
18 44 (0.73%) CentOS
19 42 (0.70%) Mac OS X
20 30 (0.50%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,239 (20.68%) ITIL
2 1,166 (19.47%) Problem-Solving
3 1,040 (17.36%) Customer Service
4 956 (15.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 862 (14.39%) Cybersecurity
6 387 (6.46%) Agile
7 382 (6.38%) Service Management
8 372 (6.21%) Disaster Recovery
9 362 (6.04%) ITSM
10 320 (5.34%) Mentoring
11 314 (5.24%) DevOps
12 311 (5.19%) Service Delivery
13 303 (5.06%) CRM
14 301 (5.03%) IT Strategy
15 297 (4.96%) Migration
16 296 (4.94%) Continuous Improvement
17 293 (4.89%) Project Management
18 289 (4.82%) Roadmaps
19 270 (4.51%) Incident Management
20 258 (4.31%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 903 (15.08%) PowerShell
2 599 (10.00%) SQL
3 340 (5.68%) Bash
4 147 (2.45%) Python
5 111 (1.85%) C#
6 69 (1.15%) Go
7 65 (1.09%) Prolog
7 65 (1.09%) SPARQL
8 45 (0.75%) T-SQL
8 45 (0.75%) VB
9 38 (0.63%) Bicep
10 35 (0.58%) JavaScript
10 35 (0.58%) VBScript
11 31 (0.52%) Perl
12 30 (0.50%) Java
13 27 (0.45%) PL/SQL
14 19 (0.32%) R
15 15 (0.25%) TypeScript
16 13 (0.22%) Shell Script
17 12 (0.20%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 787 (13.14%) Degree
2 559 (9.33%) Security Cleared
3 494 (8.25%) Microsoft Certification
4 326 (5.44%) SC Cleared
5 261 (4.36%) DV Cleared
6 198 (3.31%) Cisco Certification
7 188 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
8 177 (2.95%) Azure Certification
9 175 (2.92%) A+ Certification
10 160 (2.67%) DBS Check
11 153 (2.55%) MCP
12 152 (2.54%) CCNA
13 151 (2.52%) MCSE
14 108 (1.80%) Master's Degree
15 106 (1.77%) MCSA
16 89 (1.49%) ITIL Certification
17 75 (1.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 53 (0.88%) Network+ Certification
19 51 (0.85%) CISSP
20 47 (0.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 474 (7.91%) SLA
2 128 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 124 (2.07%) Cyber Essentials
4 108 (1.80%) GDPR
5 34 (0.57%) NIST
6 29 (0.48%) Accessibility
7 25 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 18 (0.30%) QA
9 14 (0.23%) Data Quality
10 13 (0.22%) PCI DSS
10 13 (0.22%) SOC 2
11 12 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 11 (0.18%) PMO
13 9 (0.15%) GRC
14 6 (0.10%) NIST 800
15 5 (0.083%) IASME
15 5 (0.083%) ISO 9001
16 4 (0.067%) NCSC
17 3 (0.050%) JSP 440
17 3 (0.050%) WCAG
System Software
1 1,177 (19.65%) VMware Infrastructure
2 926 (15.46%) Hyper-V
3 356 (5.94%) VMware ESXi
4 207 (3.46%) vSphere
5 206 (3.44%) XenApp
6 183 (3.06%) XenDesktop
7 160 (2.67%) Virtual Desktop
8 147 (2.45%) Virtual Machines
9 99 (1.65%) Microsoft App-V
10 81 (1.35%) Docker
11 78 (1.30%) Virtual Servers
12 45 (0.75%) VirtualBox
13 38 (0.63%) Firmware
14 26 (0.43%) VMware Workstation
15 25 (0.42%) Terminal Services
16 22 (0.37%) VMware Server
17 20 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 18 (0.30%) NFS
18 18 (0.30%) pfSense
19 14 (0.23%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 1,191 (19.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 684 (11.42%) SCCM
3 264 (4.41%) Jamf Pro
4 181 (3.02%) WSUS
5 155 (2.59%) vCenter Server
6 140 (2.34%) Terraform
7 133 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
8 130 (2.17%) Ansible
9 120 (2.00%) SCOM
10 114 (1.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 109 (1.82%) Kubernetes
12 99 (1.65%) AirWatch
13 44 (0.73%) Failover Clustering
14 42 (0.70%) FortiGate
14 42 (0.70%) NetBackup
15 40 (0.67%) ZABBIX
16 37 (0.62%) Backup Exec
17 34 (0.57%) Microsoft Clustering
18 28 (0.47%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
19 24 (0.40%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 3,999 (66.76%) Microsoft
2 1,739 (29.03%) VMware
3 661 (11.04%) Cisco
4 596 (9.95%) Citrix
5 405 (6.76%) Veeam
6 235 (3.92%) CyberArk
7 228 (3.81%) Apple
8 214 (3.57%) HP
9 210 (3.51%) Tanium
10 198 (3.31%) ServiceNow
11 187 (3.12%) Dell
12 165 (2.75%) Google
13 141 (2.35%) Meraki
14 108 (1.80%) SolarWinds
15 106 (1.77%) NetApp
16 104 (1.74%) Sophos
17 96 (1.60%) Oracle
18 95 (1.59%) Fortinet
19 80 (1.34%) Red Hat
20 76 (1.27%) Commvault