Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Skill Sets
Period
to 27 January 2022

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Active Directory skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Active Directory over the 6 months to 27 January 2022 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Microsoft Active Directory
UK > Work from Home
6 months to
27 Jan 2022		 Same period 2021 Same period 2020
Rank 73 57 62
Rank change year-on-year -16 +5 +19
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 1,197 563 346
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 4.04% 5.04% 4.75%
As % of the System Software category 22.50% 25.56% 28.62%
Number of salaries quoted 954 507 304
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,750 £26,075
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £42,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -21.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £39,000 £40,000 £36,500
% change year-on-year -2.50% +9.59% -2.67%

Active Directory is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for system software skills.

All System Software Skills
Work from Home
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 5,320 2,203 1,209
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.94% 19.71% 16.60%
Number of salaries quoted 4,196 2,017 1,008
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,469 £41,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £82,500 £71,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

Active Directory
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Active Directory as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Active Directory trend for jobs with a WFH option

Active Directory
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Active Directory.

Active Directory salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Active Directory
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Active Directory over the 6 months to 27 January 2022.

Active Directory salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

For the 6 months to 27 January 2022, Active Directory job roles required the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with a WFH option and a requirement for Active Directory.

1 848 (70.84%) Windows
2 833 (69.59%) Microsoft
3 801 (66.92%) Microsoft 365
4 793 (66.25%) Azure
5 527 (44.03%) Windows Server
6 438 (36.59%) Azure Active Directory
7 386 (32.25%) VMware
8 299 (24.98%) Windows 10
9 279 (23.31%) Social Skills
10 267 (22.31%) Microsoft Intune
11 254 (21.22%) PowerShell
11 254 (21.22%) Firewall
12 247 (20.63%) VMware Infrastructure
13 242 (20.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 223 (18.63%) SCCM
15 219 (18.30%) SharePoint
16 204 (17.04%) ITIL
17 203 (16.96%) Presales
18 202 (16.88%) SQL Server
19 200 (16.71%) DNS
20 183 (15.29%) Finance
21 178 (14.87%) Migration
21 178 (14.87%) AWS
22 164 (13.70%) Data Centre
23 160 (13.37%) Hyper-V
24 155 (12.95%) Problem-Solving
25 154 (12.87%) Linux
26 153 (12.78%) Citrix
27 149 (12.45%) VPN
27 149 (12.45%) Public Cloud

Active Directory
Co-occurring IT Skills with a WFH Option by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 219 (18.30%) SharePoint
2 127 (10.61%) MS Exchange
3 65 (5.43%) IIS
4 22 (1.84%) Skype for Business
5 21 (1.75%) CMS
6 20 (1.67%) Confluence
7 16 (1.34%) Exchange Server 2010
8 14 (1.17%) BizTalk Server
9 13 (1.09%) WordPress
10 11 (0.92%) Umbraco
11 10 (0.84%) Apache
12 8 (0.67%) Exchange Server 2013
13 7 (0.58%) Drupal
14 6 (0.50%) Sitecore CMS
15 5 (0.42%) nginx
16 4 (0.33%) Apache Spark
16 4 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
16 4 (0.33%) Office Communications Server
16 4 (0.33%) SharePoint 2010
16 4 (0.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 123 (10.28%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.084%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.084%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (1.34%) Sentinel
2 13 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.75%) Workfront
4 7 (0.58%) Salesforce.com CRM
5 6 (0.50%) Sage 200
6 4 (0.33%) Misys Midas
7 2 (0.17%) Distributed Ledger
7 2 (0.17%) Findur
7 2 (0.17%) R3 Corda
7 2 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.084%) Carpe Diem
8 1 (0.084%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 801 (66.92%) Microsoft 365
2 793 (66.25%) Azure
3 438 (36.59%) Azure Active Directory
4 178 (14.87%) AWS
5 107 (8.94%) IaaS
5 107 (8.94%) OneDrive
6 99 (8.27%) PaaS
7 59 (4.93%) SaaS
8 47 (3.93%) Serverless
9 46 (3.84%) Azure Monitor
10 44 (3.68%) Power Platform
11 35 (2.92%) GCP
12 21 (1.75%) Google Workspace
12 21 (1.75%) Power Automate
13 20 (1.67%) Azure Sentinel
13 20 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
14 19 (1.59%) Azure Logic Apps
14 19 (1.59%) PowerApps
15 17 (1.42%) Mimecast
16 10 (0.84%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 254 (21.22%) Firewall
2 200 (16.71%) DNS
3 149 (12.45%) VPN
4 148 (12.36%) DHCP
5 132 (11.03%) WAN
6 125 (10.44%) LAN
7 107 (8.94%) TCP/IP
8 75 (6.27%) SAN
9 52 (4.34%) VoIP
10 49 (4.09%) Remote Desktop
11 48 (4.01%) VLAN
12 45 (3.76%) Unified Communications
13 32 (2.67%) Network Security
14 31 (2.59%) NAS
15 27 (2.26%) Wi-Fi
16 22 (1.84%) Skype
16 22 (1.84%) Wireless
17 17 (1.42%) NetScaler
18 15 (1.25%) IP Telephony
19 13 (1.09%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 202 (16.88%) SQL Server
2 30 (2.51%) Power BI
3 26 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
4 25 (2.09%) MySQL
5 20 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
7 13 (1.09%) Oracle Database
8 10 (0.84%) MariaDB
9 8 (0.67%) InfluxDB
9 8 (0.67%) SQL Server 2016
10 5 (0.42%) SQL Server 2014
11 4 (0.33%) Blockchain
11 4 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (0.33%) Hadoop
11 4 (0.33%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.33%) Relational Database
11 4 (0.33%) SQL Server 2008
11 4 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.17%) BusinessObjects
12 2 (0.17%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 33 (2.76%) JIRA
2 21 (1.75%) Git (software)
3 15 (1.25%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.92%) TeamCity
5 10 (0.84%) Octopus Deploy
6 9 (0.75%) Bitbucket
7 6 (0.50%) GitLab
7 6 (0.50%) Visual Studio
8 5 (0.42%) Postman
9 4 (0.33%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 2 (0.17%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.17%) Jasmine
11 2 (0.17%) Karma Test Runner
11 2 (0.17%) Protractor
11 2 (0.17%) Visual Studio Team System
12 1 (0.084%) ERwin
12 1 (0.084%) PVCS
12 1 (0.084%) Subversion
12 1 (0.084%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 279 (23.31%) Social Skills
2 183 (15.29%) Finance
3 83 (6.93%) Public Sector
4 75 (6.27%) Retail
5 62 (5.18%) Marketing
6 61 (5.10%) Analytical Skills
6 61 (5.10%) Manufacturing
7 51 (4.26%) Banking
8 41 (3.43%) Automotive
9 34 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
10 33 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
11 26 (2.17%) Telecoms
12 25 (2.09%) Pharmaceutical
13 22 (1.84%) Advertising
14 17 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
15 13 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 12 (1.00%) Law
17 10 (0.84%) Legal
18 9 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
19 7 (0.58%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 196 (16.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 170 (14.20%) Consultant
3 162 (13.53%) Analyst
4 148 (12.36%) Architect
5 121 (10.11%) Technical Consultant
6 103 (8.60%) IT Engineer
7 102 (8.52%) Cloud Consultant
7 102 (8.52%) IT Support
8 93 (7.77%) Support Engineer
9 84 (7.02%) Solutions Architect
10 65 (5.43%) IT Analyst
11 63 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
12 60 (5.01%) Azure Engineer
12 60 (5.01%) Support Analyst
13 48 (4.01%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 45 (3.76%) AWS Architect
15 44 (3.68%) 2nd Line Support
16 42 (3.51%) AWS Solutions Architect
17 41 (3.43%) Developer
17 41 (3.43%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (5.60%) .NET
2 25 (2.09%) JSON
3 22 (1.84%) SAML
4 21 (1.75%) LDAP
5 18 (1.50%) ARM Templates
5 18 (1.50%) HTML
6 17 (1.42%) CSS
7 14 (1.17%) ASP.NET Web API
7 14 (1.17%) REST
7 14 (1.17%) XML
8 13 (1.09%) .NET Core
9 12 (1.00%) ASP.NET
9 12 (1.00%) Web Services
10 10 (0.84%) OAuth
10 10 (0.84%) OpenID
11 9 (0.75%) ASP.NET MVC
12 6 (0.50%) .NET Framework
12 6 (0.50%) AngularJS
12 6 (0.50%) Elastic Stack
12 6 (0.50%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 164 (13.70%) Data Centre
2 149 (12.45%) Public Cloud
3 69 (5.76%) Self-Motivation
4 40 (3.34%) Management Information System
5 33 (2.76%) Driving Licence
6 28 (2.34%) Video Conferencing
7 25 (2.09%) Clustering
8 21 (1.75%) Mobile App
9 20 (1.67%) User Experience
10 18 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
10 18 (1.50%) Replication
11 14 (1.17%) Smartphone
12 12 (1.00%) iPhone
12 12 (1.00%) Virtual Team
13 10 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
13 10 (0.84%) PKI
14 8 (0.67%) Linux Command Line
15 7 (0.58%) Blog
15 7 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
15 7 (0.58%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 848 (70.84%) Windows
2 527 (44.03%) Windows Server
3 299 (24.98%) Windows 10
4 154 (12.87%) Linux
5 97 (8.10%) Windows Server 2012
6 96 (8.02%) Windows Server 2019
7 88 (7.35%) Windows Server 2016
8 53 (4.43%) Android
8 53 (4.43%) Apple iOS
9 47 (3.93%) Windows 7
10 35 (2.92%) Windows Server 2008
11 32 (2.67%) CentOS
12 24 (2.01%) Unix
13 22 (1.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 22 (1.84%) Windows Server 2003
14 21 (1.75%) Mac OS
15 14 (1.17%) Ubuntu
16 10 (0.84%) Mac OS X
17 6 (0.50%) Windows 8
18 5 (0.42%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (20.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 204 (17.04%) ITIL
3 203 (16.96%) Presales
4 178 (14.87%) Migration
5 155 (12.95%) Problem-Solving
6 141 (11.78%) DevOps
7 116 (9.69%) Agile Software Development
8 107 (8.94%) Requirements Gathering
9 97 (8.10%) Cybersecurity
10 87 (7.27%) Project Delivery
11 70 (5.85%) Service Delivery
12 66 (5.51%) Mentoring
13 64 (5.35%) Project Management
14 62 (5.18%) Customer Engagement
15 60 (5.01%) Disaster Recovery
16 59 (4.93%) Service Management
17 57 (4.76%) Coaching
18 55 (4.59%) Infrastructure as Code
19 52 (4.34%) CI/CD
20 51 (4.26%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 254 (21.22%) PowerShell
2 132 (11.03%) SQL
3 48 (4.01%) C#
4 37 (3.09%) Python
5 19 (1.59%) JavaScript
6 17 (1.42%) Java
7 15 (1.25%) PL/SQL
8 11 (0.92%) C
9 9 (0.75%) VBScript
10 8 (0.67%) T-SQL
10 8 (0.67%) VB.NET
11 6 (0.50%) Bash
11 6 (0.50%) Bicep
12 5 (0.42%) VB
13 4 (0.33%) Perl
14 2 (0.17%) C++
14 2 (0.17%) R
14 2 (0.17%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.17%) VBA
15 1 (0.084%) Ada
Qualifications
1 127 (10.61%) Security Cleared
2 117 (9.77%) Microsoft Certification
3 110 (9.19%) SC Cleared
4 79 (6.60%) Degree
5 71 (5.93%) MCSE
6 44 (3.68%) AWS Certification
7 37 (3.09%) CISSP
8 35 (2.92%) MCSA
9 30 (2.51%) Cisco Certification
9 30 (2.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 26 (2.17%) CCNA
11 18 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
12 17 (1.42%) ITIL Certification
12 17 (1.42%) MCP
13 16 (1.34%) DV Cleared
14 10 (0.84%) MCITP
15 9 (0.75%) DBS Check
15 9 (0.75%) MCTS
15 9 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Certification
16 7 (0.58%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (6.77%) SLA
2 75 (6.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 54 (4.51%) GDPR
4 53 (4.43%) Cyber Essentials
5 34 (2.84%) NIST
5 34 (2.84%) PCI DSS
6 22 (1.84%) QA
7 10 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 8 (0.67%) NCSC
8 8 (0.67%) PMO
9 6 (0.50%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.17%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.17%) IASME
11 1 (0.084%) DICOM
11 1 (0.084%) HL7
11 1 (0.084%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 1 (0.084%) SOC 2
System Software
1 247 (20.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 160 (13.37%) Hyper-V
3 77 (6.43%) Virtual Desktop
4 64 (5.35%) vSphere
5 38 (3.17%) XenApp
6 31 (2.59%) XenDesktop
7 30 (2.51%) Virtual Machines
7 30 (2.51%) VMware ESXi
8 27 (2.26%) Docker
9 17 (1.42%) BitLocker
9 17 (1.42%) Virtual Servers
10 12 (1.00%) Terminal Services
11 11 (0.92%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 8 (0.67%) VMware Server
13 6 (0.50%) Microsoft App-V
14 2 (0.17%) NFS
14 2 (0.17%) Terminal Server
15 1 (0.084%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
15 1 (0.084%) iptables
15 1 (0.084%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 267 (22.31%) Microsoft Intune
2 223 (18.63%) SCCM
3 91 (7.60%) Single Sign-On
4 84 (7.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 55 (4.59%) Terraform
6 43 (3.59%) WSUS
7 38 (3.17%) Kubernetes
8 37 (3.09%) Ansible
9 28 (2.34%) SCOM
10 17 (1.42%) NetBackup
11 16 (1.34%) AirWatch
12 15 (1.25%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 14 (1.17%) Puppet
14 11 (0.92%) Jamf Pro
15 10 (0.84%) Backup Exec
16 8 (0.67%) vCenter Server
17 7 (0.58%) Cisco Prime
17 7 (0.58%) Failover Clustering
18 6 (0.50%) Cisco CUCM
18 6 (0.50%) Opscode Chef
Vendors
1 833 (69.59%) Microsoft
2 386 (32.25%) VMware
3 153 (12.78%) Citrix
4 120 (10.03%) Cisco
5 110 (9.19%) Apple
6 57 (4.76%) Veeam
7 49 (4.09%) Adobe
8 45 (3.76%) HP
9 44 (3.68%) Oracle
10 43 (3.59%) ServiceNow
11 39 (3.26%) Google
12 27 (2.26%) Sophos
13 26 (2.17%) Dell
13 26 (2.17%) Meraki
14 25 (2.09%) Ivanti
15 19 (1.59%) Juniper
15 19 (1.59%) Red Hat
16 17 (1.42%) EMC
16 17 (1.42%) Palo Alto
16 17 (1.42%) Splunk