Active Directory Jobs in the West Midlands

Microsoft Active Directory
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 34 45 44
Rank change year-on-year +11 -1 -16
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 388 302 542
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 5.55% 5.95% 6.21%
As % of the System Software category 61.30% 48.32% 52.07%
Number of salaries quoted 295 272 499
10th Percentile £24,000 £24,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £27,500 £26,875 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,000 £35,375 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -16.76% +13.33%
75th Percentile £50,250 £48,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £61,500
England median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year - - -5.88%

All System Software Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 633 625 1,041
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 9.05% 12.31% 11.92%
Number of salaries quoted 492 461 870
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,750 £26,925
25th Percentile £31,531 £31,250 £36,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -10.53% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,625 £65,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Active Directory as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in the West Midlands

Active Directory
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Active Directory in the West Midlands

Active Directory
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Salary histogram for Active Directory in the West Midlands

Active Directory
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Active Directory within the West Midlands 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
Birmingham +7 127 £37,750 -3.08% 14
Staffordshire -3 95 £30,000 -14.29% 15
Warwickshire +22 29 £39,000 -30.67% 7
Shropshire +16 25 £34,250 +24.55% 3
Worcestershire -8 21 £36,298 +15.23% 4
Solihull +6 13 £62,500 +127.27% 1
Coventry -6 9 £39,750 +2.58% 4
Herefordshire +7 7 £27,500 -31.25% 1
Wednesbury -5 5 £30,000 -14.29%
Walsall 0 3 - - 1
Wolverhampton -12 2 - - 1
Stourbridge - 2 £50,000 -
West Bromwich 0 1 £34,000 - 1
Sutton Coldfield -11 1 £27,000 +1.89%
Halesowen - 1 £25,000 -
Brierley Hill - 1 £35,000 -
Active Directory
England

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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
1 102 (26.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 57 (14.69%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.77%) IIS
4 2 (0.52%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.26%) Apache
5 1 (0.26%) nginx
Applications
1 56 (14.43%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (3.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.77%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (1.55%) Dynamics NAV
2 5 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.03%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (1.03%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.26%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 261 (67.27%) Microsoft 365
2 175 (45.10%) Azure
3 116 (29.90%) Entra ID
4 22 (5.67%) OneDrive
5 19 (4.90%) Google Workspace
6 17 (4.38%) AWS
7 10 (2.58%) Power Platform
8 9 (2.32%) Azure Sentinel
9 8 (2.06%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (1.80%) Cloud Computing
10 7 (1.80%) IaaS
11 6 (1.55%) Power Automate
12 5 (1.29%) Mimecast
12 5 (1.29%) SaaS
13 4 (1.03%) GCP
14 3 (0.77%) PowerApps
15 2 (0.52%) Azure Stack
15 2 (0.52%) Cohesity
15 2 (0.52%) PaaS
16 1 (0.26%) DigitalOcean
Communications & Networking
1 106 (27.32%) DNS
2 98 (25.26%) DHCP
3 90 (23.20%) Firewall
4 60 (15.46%) WAN
5 55 (14.18%) LAN
6 47 (12.11%) TCP/IP
7 36 (9.28%) VLAN
8 35 (9.02%) Wi-Fi
9 26 (6.70%) VPN
10 21 (5.41%) SAN
11 19 (4.90%) Network Security
12 15 (3.87%) VoIP
12 15 (3.87%) Wireless
13 13 (3.35%) PBX
14 10 (2.58%) SMTP
15 9 (2.32%) FTP
15 9 (2.32%) SNMP
16 8 (2.06%) Fibre Channel
16 8 (2.06%) iSCSI
16 8 (2.06%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (7.73%) SQL Server
2 9 (2.32%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (1.80%) MySQL
3 7 (1.80%) Power BI
3 7 (1.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 6 (1.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (0.52%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Database
General
1 143 (36.86%) Social Skills
2 64 (16.49%) Analytical Skills
3 39 (10.05%) Law
4 28 (7.22%) Finance
5 25 (6.44%) Retail
6 19 (4.90%) Manufacturing
7 13 (3.35%) Legal
7 13 (3.35%) Telecoms
8 11 (2.84%) Automotive
9 10 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.80%) Local Government
12 6 (1.55%) Banking
13 5 (1.29%) Games
13 5 (1.29%) Police
14 3 (0.77%) Advertising
14 3 (0.77%) Military
14 3 (0.77%) Public Sector
15 2 (0.52%) Back Office
15 2 (0.52%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 88 (22.68%) IT Support
2 81 (20.88%) Support Engineer
3 74 (19.07%) IT Engineer
4 53 (13.66%) Senior
5 51 (13.14%) Analyst
5 51 (13.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 46 (11.86%) IT Support Engineer
7 28 (7.22%) IT Analyst
8 27 (6.96%) 2nd Line Support
9 25 (6.44%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 25 (6.44%) IT Technician
10 22 (5.67%) Support Technician
11 20 (5.15%) Administrator
12 18 (4.64%) 1st Line Support
12 18 (4.64%) IT Support Analyst
12 18 (4.64%) Service Desk Engineer
13 16 (4.12%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
13 16 (4.12%) Systems Engineer
14 15 (3.87%) 3rd Line Support
14 15 (3.87%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.29%) ADO
1 5 (1.29%) HTML
2 2 (0.52%) LDAP
3 1 (0.26%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.26%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 34 (8.76%) Data Centre
2 31 (7.99%) Management Information System
3 20 (5.15%) Replication
4 18 (4.64%) Driving Licence
5 16 (4.12%) PKI
6 14 (3.61%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (2.84%) Clustering
7 11 (2.84%) Fat Client
7 11 (2.84%) Private Cloud
7 11 (2.84%) Public Cloud
7 11 (2.84%) Thin Client
8 9 (2.32%) CCTV
9 8 (2.06%) Cyberattack
9 8 (2.06%) Onboarding
10 7 (1.80%) Product Ownership
11 6 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.55%) Smartphone
12 5 (1.29%) Client/Server
12 5 (1.29%) EFT
12 5 (1.29%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 289 (74.48%) Windows
2 172 (44.33%) Windows Server
3 77 (19.85%) Windows 10
4 46 (11.86%) Linux
5 31 (7.99%) Windows Server 2012
5 31 (7.99%) Windows Server 2019
6 30 (7.73%) Windows Server 2016
7 13 (3.35%) Mac OS
7 13 (3.35%) Ubuntu
8 9 (2.32%) CentOS
9 7 (1.80%) Mac OS X
9 7 (1.80%) Windows 7
10 4 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (1.03%) VMS
10 4 (1.03%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.77%) Android
11 3 (0.77%) Windows Server 2003
12 2 (0.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (21.39%) Customer Service
2 81 (20.88%) Problem-Solving
3 79 (20.36%) Cybersecurity
4 78 (20.10%) ITIL
5 67 (17.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 41 (10.57%) Service Management
7 37 (9.54%) Project Delivery
8 26 (6.70%) Change Management
9 25 (6.44%) Continuous Improvement
9 25 (6.44%) Roadmaps
10 24 (6.19%) Service Delivery
11 23 (5.93%) Agile
11 23 (5.93%) Disaster Recovery
11 23 (5.93%) Identity Access Management
11 23 (5.93%) Server Management
12 20 (5.15%) Line Management
13 19 (4.90%) Multi-Factor Authentication
14 18 (4.64%) Patch Management
15 17 (4.38%) Computer Science
15 17 (4.38%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 61 (15.72%) PowerShell
2 49 (12.63%) SQL
3 5 (1.29%) PHP
4 4 (1.03%) Bash
5 3 (0.77%) R
5 3 (0.77%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.26%) Bicep
6 1 (0.26%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 62 (15.98%) Microsoft Certification
2 52 (13.40%) Degree
3 35 (9.02%) Security Cleared
4 22 (5.67%) MCSE
5 19 (4.90%) SC Cleared
6 16 (4.12%) CCNA
6 16 (4.12%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (3.61%) MCP
8 12 (3.09%) Azure Certification
8 12 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (2.84%) A+ Certification
10 9 (2.32%) DV Cleared
10 9 (2.32%) ITIL Certification
11 8 (2.06%) MCSA
12 7 (1.80%) DBS Check
12 7 (1.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 6 (1.55%) HNC
13 6 (1.55%) HND
14 5 (1.29%) CCNP
14 5 (1.29%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (11.34%) SLA
2 13 (3.35%) Cyber Essentials
3 9 (2.32%) GDPR
4 3 (0.77%) JSP 440
4 3 (0.77%) NIST
5 2 (0.52%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 105 (27.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 92 (23.71%) Hyper-V
3 38 (9.79%) VMware ESXi
4 21 (5.41%) vSphere
5 14 (3.61%) Virtual Servers
6 10 (2.58%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (2.06%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 7 (1.80%) Docker
8 7 (1.80%) VMware NSX
8 7 (1.80%) VMware Workstation
8 7 (1.80%) XenApp
8 7 (1.80%) XenDesktop
9 5 (1.29%) RACF
10 4 (1.03%) NFS
10 4 (1.03%) pfSense
10 4 (1.03%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.26%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.26%) Firmware
11 1 (0.26%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 75 (19.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 66 (17.01%) SCCM
3 17 (4.38%) Terraform
4 16 (4.12%) vCenter Server
5 13 (3.35%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (2.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 8 (2.06%) Failover Clustering
8 7 (1.80%) AirWatch
8 7 (1.80%) Kubernetes
8 7 (1.80%) SCOM
9 5 (1.29%) WSUS
10 3 (0.77%) Autotask
10 3 (0.77%) Backup Exec
10 3 (0.77%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.52%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Clustering
11 2 (0.52%) VxRail
12 1 (0.26%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 247 (63.66%) Microsoft
2 157 (40.46%) VMware
3 45 (11.60%) Veeam
4 43 (11.08%) Cisco
5 41 (10.57%) Dell
6 32 (8.25%) Citrix
7 27 (6.96%) Apple
8 17 (4.38%) HP
8 17 (4.38%) ServiceNow
9 16 (4.12%) Fortinet
10 14 (3.61%) Google
11 13 (3.35%) Adobe
12 12 (3.09%) Ubiquiti
13 11 (2.84%) Sage
13 11 (2.84%) Sophos
14 10 (2.58%) Remedy
14 10 (2.58%) WatchGuard
15 9 (2.32%) EqualLogic
15 9 (2.32%) Zerto
16 8 (2.06%) Meraki