Active Directory Jobs in West Yorkshire

Microsoft Active Directory
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 30 83
Rank change year-on-year -3 +53 -53
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 90 182 176
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 6.55% 5.90% 3.63%
As % of the System Software category 52.02% 52.30% 26.27%
Number of salaries quoted 67 147 137
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,000 £23,650
25th Percentile £26,750 £28,750 £28,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £35,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.08% -5.33% +15.38%
75th Percentile £41,500 £57,500 £48,750
90th Percentile £64,000 £65,000 £65,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £30,000 £32,500 £34,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% -5.80% +6.15%

All System Software Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 173 348 670
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 12.58% 11.28% 13.80%
Number of salaries quoted 135 286 403
10th Percentile £26,750 £27,875 £28,250
25th Percentile £29,750 £31,344 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £49,500 £52,750
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% -6.16% +5.50%
75th Percentile £81,250 £62,833 £72,500
90th Percentile £105,051 £69,500 £87,419
Yorkshire median annual salary £36,250 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -14.71% -5.56% -10.00%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in West Yorkshire

Active Directory
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for Active Directory in West Yorkshire

Active Directory
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Active Directory in West Yorkshire

Active Directory
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 30 May 2025. 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
Leeds +1 41 £29,000 -42.00% 39
Knottingley - 7 - -
Pontefract -6 6 - - 2
Castleford - 6 - -
Brighouse -2 4 £27,500 -8.33% 1
Dewsbury -6 4 £35,000 +70.73%
Batley -5 3 £33,500 -10.67% 4
Ossett - 3 £30,000 - 1
Huddersfield +7 2 £27,500 +10.00%
Bradford -12 2 £35,000 +18.14% 28
Wakefield +8 1 £31,000 +10.71% 18
Halifax -7 1 £28,000 +23.35%
Active Directory
Yorkshire

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 16 (17.78%) SharePoint
2 5 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (3.33%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (4.44%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.33%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 31 (34.44%) Microsoft 365
2 27 (30.00%) Azure
3 14 (15.56%) Entra ID
4 5 (5.56%) OneDrive
5 4 (4.44%) IaaS
5 4 (4.44%) PaaS
5 4 (4.44%) Power Platform
6 3 (3.33%) Google Workspace
6 3 (3.33%) SaaS
7 2 (2.22%) AWS
7 2 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (2.22%) Mimecast
8 1 (1.11%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.11%) Nutanix
8 1 (1.11%) Rubrik
8 1 (1.11%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 30 (33.33%) Firewall
2 19 (21.11%) Cisco IOS
3 13 (14.44%) DNS
4 12 (13.33%) Wireless
5 11 (12.22%) LAN
6 10 (11.11%) DHCP
6 10 (11.11%) TCP/IP
7 8 (8.89%) VPN
8 5 (5.56%) WAN
9 2 (2.22%) IP Telephony
9 2 (2.22%) SAN
9 2 (2.22%) VLAN
10 1 (1.11%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.78%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.44%) Power BI
3 2 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.22%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (1.11%) JIRA
General
1 25 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 19 (21.11%) Law
3 9 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (3.33%) Retail
5 1 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.11%) Legal
5 1 (1.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (37.78%) Analyst
2 23 (25.56%) IT Support
2 23 (25.56%) Support Analyst
3 22 (24.44%) 2nd Line Support
4 20 (22.22%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
5 19 (21.11%) IT Analyst
6 17 (18.89%) IT Engineer
7 13 (14.44%) IT Support Analyst
8 9 (10.00%) Help Desk Analyst
9 8 (8.89%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 7 (7.78%) Instrumentation Engineer
10 7 (7.78%) Service Analyst
10 7 (7.78%) Service Desk Analyst
10 7 (7.78%) Service Desk Engineer
11 6 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (6.67%) Senior
12 4 (4.44%) 1st/2nd Line Support
12 4 (4.44%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
12 4 (4.44%) Azure Engineer
12 4 (4.44%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.44%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 19 (21.11%) Operational Technology
2 3 (3.33%) Driving Licence
2 3 (3.33%) Enterprise Cloud
2 3 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (3.33%) NHS
3 2 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.22%) HP Storage
3 2 (2.22%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 77 (85.56%) Windows
2 29 (32.22%) Windows Server
3 26 (28.89%) Linux
4 19 (21.11%) Mac OS X
5 14 (15.56%) Windows 10
6 3 (3.33%) Unix
7 2 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (2.22%) VMS
7 2 (2.22%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (24.44%) Cybersecurity
2 19 (21.11%) Network Design
2 19 (21.11%) Network Management
3 17 (18.89%) Service Delivery
4 16 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (12.22%) Customer Service
6 10 (11.11%) ITIL
7 8 (8.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (5.56%) Containerisation
8 5 (5.56%) ERP
8 5 (5.56%) Process Improvement
9 4 (4.44%) Business Intelligence
9 4 (4.44%) Collaborative Culture
9 4 (4.44%) Identity Management
9 4 (4.44%) Infrastructure Automation
9 4 (4.44%) Systems Analysis
10 3 (3.33%) Disaster Recovery
10 3 (3.33%) Incident Management
10 3 (3.33%) ITSM
10 3 (3.33%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 24 (26.67%) Python
2 22 (24.44%) SQL
3 8 (8.89%) PowerShell
4 4 (4.44%) Bash
4 4 (4.44%) Bicep
5 1 (1.11%) Perl
Qualifications
1 16 (17.78%) Microsoft Certification
2 14 (15.56%) Degree
3 12 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 12 (13.33%) Security Cleared
4 10 (11.11%) CCNP
4 10 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (11.11%) MCSA
5 4 (4.44%) Azure Certification
6 3 (3.33%) DBS Check
7 2 (2.22%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.11%) A+ Certification
8 1 (1.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.78%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (21.11%) Virtual Servers
2 6 (6.67%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.11%) NFS
4 1 (1.11%) pfSense
4 1 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.11%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (8.89%) SCCM
2 7 (7.78%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (6.67%) Ansible
4 5 (5.56%) Terraform
5 3 (3.33%) Backup Exec
5 3 (3.33%) WSUS
6 2 (2.22%) Kubernetes
6 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 2 (2.22%) SCOM
7 1 (1.11%) NetBackup
7 1 (1.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 35 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 20 (22.22%) Cisco
3 9 (10.00%) VMware
4 4 (4.44%) Citrix
4 4 (4.44%) Veeam
5 3 (3.33%) Google
5 3 (3.33%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.33%) SAP
5 3 (3.33%) Sun
5 3 (3.33%) Veritas
6 2 (2.22%) Avaya
6 2 (2.22%) Dell
6 2 (2.22%) HP
6 2 (2.22%) Oracle
6 2 (2.22%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.22%) SonicWALL
7 1 (1.11%) Commvault
7 1 (1.11%) NetApp
7 1 (1.11%) SolarWinds