Active Directory Jobs in Wales

Microsoft Active Directory
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 38 59 37
Rank change year-on-year +21 -22 -12
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 75 80 121
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 3.89% 4.68% 6.18%
As % of the System Software category 39.06% 31.75% 41.72%
Number of salaries quoted 61 66 93
10th Percentile £24,500 £23,625 £27,250
25th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £39,250 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.75% -12.78% +38.46%
75th Percentile £42,500 £49,875 £50,000
90th Percentile £50,000 £70,422 £61,000
UK median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year - - -5.88%

All System Software Skills
Wales

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 in Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 192 252 290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 9.95% 14.74% 14.80%
Number of salaries quoted 134 125 206
10th Percentile £24,325 £25,750 £31,000
25th Percentile £28,290 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -10.00% +21.95%
75th Percentile £50,000 £62,500 £62,726
90th Percentile £60,125 £73,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Wales

Active Directory
Salary Trend in Wales

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

Salary trend for Active Directory in Wales

Active Directory
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in Wales over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Active Directory in Wales

Active Directory
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Active Directory within the Wales region 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
South Wales +22 52 £28,290 -29.28% 4
North Wales +8 17 £34,000 +3.03%
West Wales +7 6 £46,500 +43.08%
Mid Wales -7 1 - - 1
Dyfed - 1 £38,000 - 1
Active Directory
UK

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 30 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (20.00%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.00%) Confluence
3 3 (4.00%) Jupyter
3 3 (4.00%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.33%) IIS
Applications
1 18 (24.00%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (8.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (8.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 46 (61.33%) Microsoft 365
2 39 (52.00%) Azure
3 27 (36.00%) Entra ID
4 8 (10.67%) OneDrive
5 3 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (4.00%) Nutanix
6 2 (2.67%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.33%) AWS
7 1 (1.33%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.33%) GCP
7 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (33.33%) DNS
2 23 (30.67%) Firewall
3 21 (28.00%) DHCP
4 12 (16.00%) Remote Desktop
5 9 (12.00%) TCP/IP
6 8 (10.67%) VPN
7 7 (9.33%) Unified Communications
7 7 (9.33%) Wireless
8 6 (8.00%) Internet
8 6 (8.00%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (5.33%) MPLS
9 4 (5.33%) SAN
9 4 (5.33%) WAN
10 3 (4.00%) Extranet
10 3 (4.00%) Network Security
11 2 (2.67%) LAN
11 2 (2.67%) SD-WAN
11 2 (2.67%) VoIP
12 1 (1.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.33%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.00%) Metabase
3 2 (2.67%) Power BI
4 1 (1.33%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (1.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (8.00%) JIRA
2 3 (4.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 18 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (18.67%) Finance
3 11 (14.67%) Manufacturing
4 8 (10.67%) Advertising
5 4 (5.33%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.00%) Local Government
6 3 (4.00%) Police
7 1 (1.33%) Banking
7 1 (1.33%) Law
7 1 (1.33%) Retail
7 1 (1.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (26.67%) IT Technician
2 16 (21.33%) IT Support
3 15 (20.00%) Support Engineer
4 13 (17.33%) Analyst
4 13 (17.33%) Senior
5 11 (14.67%) Service Analyst
6 9 (12.00%) IT Engineer
6 9 (12.00%) Service Desk Analyst
7 8 (10.67%) IT Support Engineer
8 7 (9.33%) Support Analyst
8 7 (9.33%) Support Technician
9 6 (8.00%) Desktop Engineer
9 6 (8.00%) Desktop Support
9 6 (8.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 6 (8.00%) Service Desk Support
9 6 (8.00%) Service Desk Support Analyst
10 5 (6.67%) 2nd Line Support
10 5 (6.67%) Consultant
10 5 (6.67%) IT Support Technician
11 4 (5.33%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.00%) SAML
2 1 (1.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.67%) Data Centre
2 7 (9.33%) Replication
3 6 (8.00%) Smartphone
4 4 (5.33%) Driving Licence
5 3 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (4.00%) Management Information System
5 3 (4.00%) Raspberry Pi
5 3 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.33%) Clustering
6 1 (1.33%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.33%) iPad
6 1 (1.33%) Life Science
6 1 (1.33%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.33%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 54 (72.00%) Windows
2 28 (37.33%) Windows Server
3 9 (12.00%) Linux
3 9 (12.00%) Windows 10
3 9 (12.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 8 (10.67%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (6.67%) Android
5 5 (6.67%) Apple iOS
6 4 (5.33%) Mac OS
6 4 (5.33%) Windows 7
7 2 (2.67%) VMS
7 2 (2.67%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (2.67%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (26.67%) Customer Service
2 18 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (14.67%) ITIL
4 7 (9.33%) Service Delivery
5 6 (8.00%) Break/Fix
5 6 (8.00%) Coaching
5 6 (8.00%) ITSM
5 6 (8.00%) Ticket Management
6 5 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (6.67%) Information Security
6 5 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (6.67%) Line Management
6 5 (6.67%) Project Management
7 4 (5.33%) CI/CD
7 4 (5.33%) Customer-Centricity
7 4 (5.33%) Mathematics
8 3 (4.00%) Hardware Maintenance
8 3 (4.00%) Infrastructure Maintenance
8 3 (4.00%) Power Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (6.67%) SQL
2 4 (5.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (14.67%) Degree
2 7 (9.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (8.00%) CCNA
3 6 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.00%) MCSE
5 2 (2.67%) MCP
5 2 (2.67%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.67%) PMP
6 1 (1.33%) MCITP
6 1 (1.33%) MCSA
6 1 (1.33%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (13.33%) SLA
2 2 (2.67%) GDPR
2 2 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 13 (17.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (5.33%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (4.00%) Docker
3 3 (4.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (2.67%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.33%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (28.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (8.00%) SCCM
3 3 (4.00%) Ansible
3 3 (4.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (4.00%) SCOM
3 3 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (2.67%) SmoothWall
5 1 (1.33%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (1.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 59 (78.67%) Microsoft
2 15 (20.00%) VMware
3 11 (14.67%) Veeam
4 10 (13.33%) Cisco
5 7 (9.33%) Meraki
6 5 (6.67%) Citrix
6 5 (6.67%) Sophos
7 4 (5.33%) Asigra
7 4 (5.33%) Datto
7 4 (5.33%) HP
7 4 (5.33%) Sage
8 3 (4.00%) Fortinet
8 3 (4.00%) NetApp
8 3 (4.00%) Okta
9 2 (2.67%) ServiceNow
10 1 (1.33%) Barracuda Networks
10 1 (1.33%) Dell
10 1 (1.33%) IBM
10 1 (1.33%) Ivanti
10 1 (1.33%) SAP