Senior Active Directory Engineer Job Trends

Senior Microsoft Active Directory Engineer
UK

The median Senior Microsoft Active Directory Engineer salary in the UK is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 April 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 713 637 869
Rank change year-on-year -76 +232 +97
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Active Directory Engineer 6 1 11
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.007% 0.002% 0.012%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.007% 0.003% 0.012%
Number of salaries quoted 6 1 7
10th Percentile £82,500 - £52,500
25th Percentile £85,000 - £52,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% +18.18% +2.80%
75th Percentile £95,000 - £58,125
90th Percentile - - £59,550
UK excluding London median annual salary - - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 80,885 37,363 89,466
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.69% 89.33% 94.57%
Number of salaries quoted 51,875 23,453 66,238
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -11.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

Senior Active Directory Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Active Directory Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Senior Active Directory Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Senior Active Directory Engineer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Senior Active Directory Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Active Directory Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Senior Active Directory Engineer
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Active Directory Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 20 April 2026. 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
Work from Home +11 4 £90,000 +38.46%
London - 2 £82,500 -
England - 2 £82,500 - 2

Senior Active Directory Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 20 April 2026, Senior Active Directory Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Senior Active Directory Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (83.33%) Entra ID
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (66.67%) Azure Sentinel
3 4 (66.67%) DHCP
3 4 (66.67%) DNS
3 4 (66.67%) FIDO
3 4 (66.67%) Migration
3 4 (66.67%) Okta
3 4 (66.67%) Project Management
3 4 (66.67%) Remediation Plan
3 4 (66.67%) Runbook
3 4 (66.67%) SailPoint
3 4 (66.67%) Security Hardening
3 4 (66.67%) Windows
3 4 (66.67%) Windows Server
4 2 (33.33%) Firewall
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) ITIL
4 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (33.33%) VPN
5 1 (16.67%) Agile
5 1 (16.67%) Availability Management
5 1 (16.67%) AWS
5 1 (16.67%) Business Strategy
5 1 (16.67%) Cisco
5 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security

Senior Active Directory Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (83.33%) Entra ID
3 4 (66.67%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (16.67%) AWS
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) DHCP
1 4 (66.67%) DNS
2 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) VPN
3 1 (16.67%) NGFW
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) FIDO
1 4 (66.67%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Replication
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
1 4 (66.67%) Windows Server
2 1 (16.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Migration
1 4 (66.67%) Project Management
1 4 (66.67%) Remediation Plan
1 4 (66.67%) Runbook
1 4 (66.67%) Security Hardening
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
3 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (16.67%) Document Management
3 1 (16.67%) High Availability
3 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (16.67%) Identity Management
3 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
3 1 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Practice Management
3 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (66.67%) Okta
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco