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 24 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 29 69
Rank change year-on-year -9 +40 -32
DemandTrendPermanent jobs citing Active Directory 120 154 130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 7.26% 5.99% 4.35%
As % of the System Software category 65.93% 52.38% 30.81%
Number of salaries quoted 97 100 100
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £26,750 £30,875 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £43,387 £33,250
Median % change year-on-year -22.79% +30.49% -2.21%
75th Percentile £48,750 £64,063 £50,000
90th Percentile £66,750 £85,000 £58,875
Yorkshire median annual salary £30,000 £35,225 £32,500
% change year-on-year -14.83% +8.38% -

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.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 182 294 422
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 11.00% 11.43% 14.11%
Number of salaries quoted 142 215 267
10th Percentile £26,300 £29,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £27,500 £40,994 £32,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £49,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.24% -1.00% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,125 £67,070
90th Percentile £77,375 £69,500 £78,107
Yorkshire median annual salary £32,500 £47,500 £41,235
% change year-on-year -31.58% +15.19% -15.85%

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

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 24 August 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 24 August 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
DemandTrendPermanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leeds -12 51 £29,000 -42.00% 30
Batley - 16 £47,500 - 3
Bradford -12 7 £41,500 +36.07% 2
Knottingley - 7 - -
Pontefract - 6 - -
Castleford - 6 - -
Brighouse +1 5 £27,500 -8.33%
Ossett - 5 £30,000 -
Dewsbury - 4 £35,000 -
Halifax 0 2 £28,000 -
Huddersfield +4 1 £27,500 - 1
Wakefield +2 1 £31,000 - 2
Mirfield - 1 £35,000 -
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 23 (19.17%) SharePoint
2 14 (11.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.33%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (7.50%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (4.17%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 58 (48.33%) Microsoft 365
2 46 (38.33%) Azure
3 21 (17.50%) SaaS
4 15 (12.50%) IaaS
4 15 (12.50%) PaaS
5 12 (10.00%) Entra ID
6 7 (5.83%) AWS
7 5 (4.17%) Google Workspace
7 5 (4.17%) OneDrive
8 2 (1.67%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.67%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.83%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.83%) Rubrik
9 1 (0.83%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 38 (31.67%) DNS
2 36 (30.00%) DHCP
3 31 (25.83%) Firewall
4 25 (20.83%) TCP/IP
5 19 (15.83%) Cisco IOS
6 13 (10.83%) VLAN
7 11 (9.17%) Wireless
8 7 (5.83%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (5.00%) VPN
10 4 (3.33%) LAN
11 2 (1.67%) Remote Desktop
12 1 (0.83%) WAN
12 1 (0.83%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.67%) Power BI
2 2 (1.67%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (0.83%) JIRA
General
1 44 (36.67%) Social Skills
2 24 (20.00%) Law
3 16 (13.33%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (5.00%) Manufacturing
4 6 (5.00%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.17%) Retail
6 2 (1.67%) Legal
6 2 (1.67%) Publishing
7 1 (0.83%) Finance
7 1 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.83%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 42 (35.00%) Analyst
2 29 (24.17%) IT Support
2 29 (24.17%) Support Analyst
3 26 (21.67%) IT Analyst
4 25 (20.83%) 2nd Line Support
5 20 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
5 20 (16.67%) IT Engineer
6 16 (13.33%) Help Desk Analyst
6 16 (13.33%) IT Support Analyst
7 10 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (8.33%) Service Analyst
7 10 (8.33%) Service Desk Analyst
8 9 (7.50%) Senior
9 8 (6.67%) 1st Line Support
9 8 (6.67%) 1st Line Support Analyst
9 8 (6.67%) 3rd Line Support
10 7 (5.83%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
10 7 (5.83%) Instrumentation Engineer
10 7 (5.83%) Service Desk Support Analyst
10 7 (5.83%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.50%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 19 (15.83%) Operational Technology
2 6 (5.00%) FMCG
2 6 (5.00%) Onboarding
3 4 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.50%) Driving Licence
4 3 (2.50%) Enterprise Cloud
4 3 (2.50%) NHS
5 2 (1.67%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 109 (90.83%) Windows
2 56 (46.67%) Windows Server
3 31 (25.83%) Linux
4 19 (15.83%) Mac OS X
5 18 (15.00%) Windows 10
6 7 (5.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (2.50%) Unix
8 1 (0.83%) VMS
8 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (18.33%) Cybersecurity
3 21 (17.50%) Customer Service
4 19 (15.83%) Network Design
4 19 (15.83%) Network Management
5 16 (13.33%) Incident Management
6 12 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 12 (10.00%) Process Improvement
6 12 (10.00%) Service Delivery
6 12 (10.00%) Virtual Environments
7 10 (8.33%) Containerisation
7 10 (8.33%) ITIL
8 8 (6.67%) ITSM
9 7 (5.83%) Migration
10 6 (5.00%) Collaborative Culture
10 6 (5.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (5.00%) Patch Management
10 6 (5.00%) Project Delivery
10 6 (5.00%) Test Automation
11 5 (4.17%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 31 (25.83%) PowerShell
2 29 (24.17%) Python
3 15 (12.50%) SQL
4 4 (3.33%) Bash
5 3 (2.50%) Bicep
6 1 (0.83%) Perl
Qualifications
1 21 (17.50%) SC Cleared
1 21 (17.50%) Security Cleared
2 20 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 18 (15.00%) Degree
4 10 (8.33%) CCNP
4 10 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (8.33%) MCSA
5 7 (5.83%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 3 (2.50%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 3 (2.50%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.50%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.67%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.50%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (23.33%) Hyper-V
2 19 (15.83%) Virtual Servers
3 14 (11.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.83%) NFS
4 1 (0.83%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 12 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (8.33%) Ansible
2 10 (8.33%) SCCM
3 7 (5.83%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
3 7 (5.83%) SCOM
3 7 (5.83%) WSUS
4 5 (4.17%) Kubernetes
5 3 (2.50%) Terraform
6 1 (0.83%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 58 (48.33%) Microsoft
2 22 (18.33%) VMware
3 21 (17.50%) Cisco
4 7 (5.83%) Oracle
4 7 (5.83%) Red Hat
5 6 (5.00%) Sophos
6 5 (4.17%) Google
6 5 (4.17%) Salesforce
6 5 (4.17%) SAP
6 5 (4.17%) Sun
7 4 (3.33%) Citrix
8 1 (0.83%) Commvault
8 1 (0.83%) Meraki
8 1 (0.83%) NetApp
8 1 (0.83%) Veeam