Active Directory Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Microsoft Active Directory
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Active Directory skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 47 28
Rank change year-on-year -30 -19 +54
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 68 67 182
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 1.99% 4.98% 6.41%
As % of the System Software category 32.85% 43.79% 53.69%
Number of salaries quoted 58 63 152
10th Percentile £25,425 £26,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £26,750 £28,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £30,500 £35,225
Median % change year-on-year +6.56% -13.41% -6.07%
75th Percentile £43,250 £41,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £50,443 £65,500 £63,750
Yorkshire median annual salary £32,500 £30,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -7.14%

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 207 153 339
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 6.05% 11.37% 11.93%
Number of salaries quoted 126 133 288
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,750 £27,675
25th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,000 £49,250
Median % change year-on-year +8.49% +7.61% -6.64%
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £99,695 £67,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £42,500 £37,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +13.33% -11.76% -5.56%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Active Directory relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Active Directory job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Active Directory
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Active Directory.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Active Directory

Active Directory
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 17 May 2026.

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 17 May 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
Leeds -48 41 £33,000 +10.00% 9
Wakefield +2 8 £31,000 - 3
Bradford -11 7 £45,000 +28.57% 2
Batley +7 6 £32,500 -2.99%
Dewsbury +5 5 £32,500 -7.14% 1
Huddersfield -10 1 £26,750 -2.73% 1
Active Directory
Yorkshire

Active Directory
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 12 (17.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (13.24%) SharePoint
3 6 (8.82%) IIS
Applications
1 27 (39.71%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 60 (88.24%) Microsoft 365
2 41 (60.29%) Azure
3 9 (13.24%) Entra ID
4 5 (7.35%) AWS
5 4 (5.88%) Google Workspace
6 2 (2.94%) IaaS
6 2 (2.94%) OCI
6 2 (2.94%) PaaS
6 2 (2.94%) Power Automate
6 2 (2.94%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.94%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.47%) GCP
7 1 (1.47%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 39 (57.35%) DHCP
1 39 (57.35%) DNS
2 29 (42.65%) TCP/IP
3 24 (35.29%) LAN
3 24 (35.29%) WAN
4 10 (14.71%) Firewall
4 10 (14.71%) VLAN
4 10 (14.71%) VPN
5 6 (8.82%) NAS
5 6 (8.82%) SAN
5 6 (8.82%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (4.41%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.82%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (2.94%) Power BI
2 2 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.47%) JIRA
General
1 25 (36.76%) Social Skills
2 10 (14.71%) Documentation Skills
3 6 (8.82%) Manufacturing
4 4 (5.88%) Advertising
4 4 (5.88%) Retail
5 2 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.94%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.94%) Tech for Good
6 1 (1.47%) Finance
6 1 (1.47%) Games
Job Titles
1 41 (60.29%) IT Support
2 14 (20.59%) IT Engineer
3 12 (17.65%) Analyst
3 12 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 12 (17.65%) Support Analyst
4 10 (14.71%) IT Support Engineer
4 10 (14.71%) Support Engineer
5 9 (13.24%) 2nd Line Support
5 9 (13.24%) IT Support Technician
5 9 (13.24%) IT Technician
5 9 (13.24%) Senior
5 9 (13.24%) Support Technician
6 8 (11.76%) Infrastructure Support
7 7 (10.29%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 6 (8.82%) 1st/2nd Line Support
8 6 (8.82%) Desktop Analyst
8 6 (8.82%) Desktop Support
8 6 (8.82%) Desktop Support Analyst
8 6 (8.82%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (7.35%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.47%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (17.65%) Driving Licence
2 9 (13.24%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.41%) Replication
3 3 (4.41%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.94%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 61 (89.71%) Windows
2 44 (64.71%) Windows Server
3 19 (27.94%) Windows 10
4 6 (8.82%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (7.35%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (4.41%) Android
6 3 (4.41%) Mac OS
6 3 (4.41%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (2.94%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (29.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 18 (26.47%) Incident Management
2 18 (26.47%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (22.06%) Service Delivery
4 13 (19.12%) Customer Service
5 12 (17.65%) ITIL
6 11 (16.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (16.18%) Knowledge Transfer
7 10 (14.71%) Cybersecurity
7 10 (14.71%) Mentoring
8 7 (10.29%) Coaching
8 7 (10.29%) ITSM
9 6 (8.82%) Data Loss Prevention
9 6 (8.82%) Disaster Recovery
10 5 (7.35%) Asset Management
10 5 (7.35%) ERP
11 3 (4.41%) Data Centre Operations
11 3 (4.41%) Server Management
12 2 (2.94%) Actionable Insight
12 2 (2.94%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 12 (17.65%) PowerShell
2 2 (2.94%) Bash
3 1 (1.47%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 16 (23.53%) SC Cleared
1 16 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.82%) A+ Certification
2 6 (8.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 6 (8.82%) Network+ Certification
3 3 (4.41%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.94%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.94%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (2.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (2.94%) GDPR
1 2 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 16 (23.53%) Hyper-V
2 13 (19.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.94%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (20.59%) SCCM
2 6 (8.82%) VxRail
2 6 (8.82%) WSUS
3 5 (7.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (4.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 66 (97.06%) Microsoft
2 31 (45.59%) VMware
3 20 (29.41%) Citrix
4 11 (16.18%) Veeam
5 6 (8.82%) Cisco
5 6 (8.82%) Commvault
5 6 (8.82%) Dell
5 6 (8.82%) HP
5 6 (8.82%) Meraki
5 6 (8.82%) Tenable
5 6 (8.82%) Zerto
6 4 (5.88%) Google
7 2 (2.94%) CyberArk
7 2 (2.94%) Datto
7 2 (2.94%) Fortinet
7 2 (2.94%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.94%) SonicWALL
7 2 (2.94%) WatchGuard
8 1 (1.47%) Freshdesk
8 1 (1.47%) SAP