Active Directory Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Microsoft Active Directory
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 20 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 44 61
Rank change year-on-year -17 +17 +50
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 958 1,927 1,828
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 4.87% 5.38% 4.96%
As % of the System Software category 35.07% 45.30% 34.81%
Number of salaries quoted 566 1,361 1,569
10th Percentile £26,500 £27,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £34,000 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,450 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.11% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £70,625 £70,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £38,500 £37,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year +2.67% -6.25% -

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 2,732 4,254 5,251
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.90% 11.88% 14.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,335 3,230 4,158
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,338
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,206 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% -0.54%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £102,410 £85,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -

Active Directory
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Active Directory as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Active Directory trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Active Directory
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Active Directory over the 6 months to 20 June 2025.

Active Directory salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 239 (24.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 128 (13.36%) SharePoint
3 36 (3.76%) IIS
4 12 (1.25%) Tomcat
5 4 (0.42%) IBM Domino
6 3 (0.31%) Apache
6 3 (0.31%) Confluence
6 3 (0.31%) Skype for Business
7 2 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
7 2 (0.21%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.21%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.10%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.10%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 89 (9.29%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.31%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.21%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.10%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.10%) Autodesk Inventor
6 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.10%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 6 (0.63%) Elite 3E
2 4 (0.42%) Carpe Diem
3 3 (0.31%) Sage 50
4 2 (0.21%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.10%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 419 (43.74%) Microsoft 365
2 400 (41.75%) Azure
3 194 (20.25%) Entra ID
4 147 (15.34%) AWS
5 83 (8.66%) Serverless
6 82 (8.56%) AWS Lambda
7 51 (5.32%) OneDrive
8 31 (3.24%) IaaS
8 31 (3.24%) SaaS
9 20 (2.09%) Cloud Computing
9 20 (2.09%) Microsoft Copilot
10 17 (1.77%) Power Automate
11 16 (1.67%) PaaS
12 15 (1.57%) Azure Sentinel
12 15 (1.57%) Mimecast
13 13 (1.36%) Power Platform
14 12 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
15 8 (0.84%) Azure DevOps
15 8 (0.84%) Azure Key Vault
16 6 (0.63%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 297 (31.00%) Broadband
2 153 (15.97%) Firewall
3 131 (13.67%) DNS
4 102 (10.65%) DHCP
5 97 (10.13%) SSL
6 94 (9.81%) WAN
7 82 (8.56%) SSH
8 74 (7.72%) LAN
9 65 (6.78%) VPN
10 39 (4.07%) VLAN
11 36 (3.76%) SAN
11 36 (3.76%) VoIP
12 35 (3.65%) TCP/IP
13 34 (3.55%) Wi-Fi
13 34 (3.55%) Wireless
14 24 (2.51%) Remote Desktop
15 21 (2.19%) Network Security
16 20 (2.09%) SD-WAN
17 14 (1.46%) WLAN
18 12 (1.25%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (5.85%) SQL Server
2 10 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (0.31%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 3 (0.31%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (0.31%) Power BI
4 2 (0.21%) EDMS
4 2 (0.21%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.10%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.10%) DB2
5 1 (0.10%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.10%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.10%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.10%) MS Access
5 1 (0.10%) MySQL
5 1 (0.10%) QlikView
5 1 (0.10%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (1.46%) JIRA
2 5 (0.52%) Visual Studio
3 4 (0.42%) Git
3 4 (0.42%) WiX
4 3 (0.31%) Artifactory
5 2 (0.21%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.21%) Metasploit
5 2 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.10%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.10%) Fiddler
6 1 (0.10%) Selenium
6 1 (0.10%) TestRail
6 1 (0.10%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 537 (56.05%) Social Skills
2 87 (9.08%) Finance
3 46 (4.80%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (4.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 35 (3.65%) Legal
6 33 (3.44%) Organisational Skills
7 30 (3.13%) Law
8 23 (2.40%) Retail
9 21 (2.19%) German Language
10 20 (2.09%) Public Sector
11 16 (1.67%) Manufacturing
12 13 (1.36%) Games
13 12 (1.25%) Telecoms
14 10 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (0.94%) Czech Language
16 8 (0.84%) Automotive
16 8 (0.84%) Welsh Language
17 6 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
17 6 (0.63%) Marketing
18 5 (0.52%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 323 (33.72%) Support Engineer
2 172 (17.95%) IT Support
3 110 (11.48%) Cloud Engineer
4 106 (11.06%) Analyst
5 96 (10.02%) 2nd Line Support
6 89 (9.29%) DevOps Engineer
7 84 (8.77%) IT Engineer
8 80 (8.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 59 (6.16%) IT Analyst
10 54 (5.64%) Support Analyst
11 52 (5.43%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 49 (5.11%) 3rd Line Support
12 49 (5.11%) IT Support Engineer
13 40 (4.18%) Senior
14 38 (3.97%) 1st Line Support
14 38 (3.97%) IT Support Analyst
15 35 (3.65%) Service Analyst
16 32 (3.34%) Service Desk Analyst
17 31 (3.24%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
18 30 (3.13%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (8.56%) RESTful
1 82 (8.56%) Web Services
2 22 (2.30%) SailPoint
3 13 (1.36%) REST
3 13 (1.36%) SOAP
4 11 (1.15%) JSON
5 10 (1.04%) SAML
6 9 (0.94%) XML
7 6 (0.63%) .NET
7 6 (0.63%) LDAP
8 5 (0.52%) .NET Framework
9 4 (0.42%) ARM Templates
9 4 (0.42%) Blazor
9 4 (0.42%) COM
9 4 (0.42%) Entity Framework
10 3 (0.31%) EJB
11 2 (0.21%) Middleware
11 2 (0.21%) OAuth
11 2 (0.21%) Software Packaging
11 2 (0.21%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 132 (13.78%) Onboarding
2 128 (13.36%) Management Information System
3 97 (10.13%) PKI
4 83 (8.66%) Cyber Threat
5 82 (8.56%) Cyberattack
6 49 (5.11%) Driving Licence
7 24 (2.51%) Data Centre
8 22 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
8 22 (2.30%) Virtual Team
9 18 (1.88%) Video Conferencing
10 16 (1.67%) Security Posture
11 13 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
11 13 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
12 12 (1.25%) Clustering
13 11 (1.15%) iPhone
14 9 (0.94%) IoT
15 8 (0.84%) Public Cloud
16 7 (0.73%) EPoS
16 7 (0.73%) Microsoft Licensing
16 7 (0.73%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 656 (68.48%) Windows
2 230 (24.01%) Windows Server 2012
3 222 (23.17%) Windows Server
4 86 (8.98%) Windows 10
5 77 (8.04%) Linux
6 47 (4.91%) Windows Server 2019
7 41 (4.28%) Windows Server 2016
8 37 (3.86%) Mac OS
9 28 (2.92%) Android
10 25 (2.61%) Apple iOS
11 14 (1.46%) Unix
12 11 (1.15%) Windows 7
13 7 (0.73%) CentOS
14 6 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 5 (0.52%) VMS
15 5 (0.52%) Windows Server 2008
16 3 (0.31%) AIX
16 3 (0.31%) Rocky
16 3 (0.31%) Ubuntu
17 2 (0.21%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (24.11%) Proactive Monitoring
2 228 (23.80%) Coaching
3 226 (23.59%) Proactive Maintenance
4 215 (22.44%) Broadcast Engineering
4 215 (22.44%) Post-Production
4 215 (22.44%) Procure-to-Pay
5 160 (16.70%) Cybersecurity
6 147 (15.34%) ITIL
7 145 (15.14%) Problem-Solving
8 135 (14.09%) Customer Service
9 117 (12.21%) DevOps
10 111 (11.59%) Roadmaps
11 109 (11.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 88 (9.19%) Mentoring
13 86 (8.98%) Key Management
14 84 (8.77%) Use Case
15 83 (8.66%) Deployment Automation
15 83 (8.66%) Vulnerability Assessment
16 82 (8.56%) Programme Delivery
17 61 (6.37%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 168 (17.54%) PowerShell
2 120 (12.53%) Python
3 34 (3.55%) SQL
4 19 (1.98%) Bash
5 13 (1.36%) Java
6 11 (1.15%) JavaScript
7 9 (0.94%) VBA
8 5 (0.52%) C#
8 5 (0.52%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.42%) C++
10 3 (0.31%) Bicep
10 3 (0.31%) Progress 4GL
11 2 (0.21%) Go
11 2 (0.21%) Groovy
12 1 (0.10%) PHP
12 1 (0.10%) RPG
12 1 (0.10%) RPG IV
12 1 (0.10%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.10%) VB
12 1 (0.10%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 315 (32.88%) Degree
2 57 (5.95%) Microsoft Certification
3 43 (4.49%) Azure Certification
4 28 (2.92%) Security Cleared
5 23 (2.40%) DBS Check
6 21 (2.19%) MCSA
7 19 (1.98%) AWS Certification
8 18 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
8 18 (1.88%) DV Cleared
8 18 (1.88%) Network+ Certification
9 17 (1.77%) SC Cleared
10 16 (1.67%) A+ Certification
11 15 (1.57%) CCNA
11 15 (1.57%) MCSE
12 9 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
12 9 (0.94%) CompTIA Security+
12 9 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
13 8 (0.84%) CISSP
14 7 (0.73%) CISM
14 7 (0.73%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (11.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 105 (10.96%) NIST
3 60 (6.26%) SLA
4 24 (2.51%) GDPR
5 12 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (0.52%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.31%) NCSC
9 2 (0.21%) COBIT
9 2 (0.21%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.21%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.10%) QA
System Software
1 113 (11.80%) VMware Infrastructure
2 76 (7.93%) Hyper-V
3 18 (1.88%) VMware ESXi
4 17 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (1.46%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (1.46%) XenApp
6 13 (1.36%) vSphere
7 11 (1.15%) Terminal Services
8 6 (0.63%) Docker
8 6 (0.63%) Firmware
9 4 (0.42%) BitLocker
9 4 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.42%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.31%) Dovecot
10 3 (0.31%) NFS
10 3 (0.31%) Postfix
11 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.21%) SRDF
11 2 (0.21%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 2 (0.21%) Xen
Systems Management
1 183 (19.10%) Microsoft Intune
2 99 (10.33%) Terraform
3 52 (5.43%) SCCM
4 30 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
5 24 (2.51%) Ansible
6 21 (2.19%) Kubernetes
7 11 (1.15%) WSUS
8 9 (0.94%) SCOM
9 8 (0.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 7 (0.73%) AirWatch
10 7 (0.73%) Jamf Pro
11 6 (0.63%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 6 (0.63%) SmoothWall
12 4 (0.42%) ZENworks
13 3 (0.31%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
14 2 (0.21%) FortiGate
14 2 (0.21%) Host Intrusion Detection System
14 2 (0.21%) Packer
14 2 (0.21%) SCOrch
14 2 (0.21%) SCSM
Vendors
1 652 (68.06%) Microsoft
2 217 (22.65%) Sun
3 151 (15.76%) VMware
4 86 (8.98%) Thales
5 83 (8.66%) Cisco
6 54 (5.64%) Meraki
7 41 (4.28%) Apple
8 37 (3.86%) Citrix
9 30 (3.13%) Okta
10 26 (2.71%) SonicWALL
11 24 (2.51%) ServiceNow
12 22 (2.30%) Salesforce
13 19 (1.98%) Veeam
14 18 (1.88%) HP
14 18 (1.88%) Oracle
15 15 (1.57%) Dell
16 14 (1.46%) CheckPoint
16 14 (1.46%) NetApp
16 14 (1.46%) Sophos
17 13 (1.36%) Fortinet