Active Directory Jobs in England

Microsoft Active Directory
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 47 73
Rank change year-on-year +20 +26 -28
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 5,499 5,076 6,747
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.29% 5.80% 4.90%
As % of the System Software category 51.24% 37.15% 27.17%
Number of salaries quoted 4,422 4,251 5,516
10th Percentile £24,500 £25,250 £24,625
25th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - -5.88%
75th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £55,044
90th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
UK median annual salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% - -5.88%

All System Software Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 10,731 13,665 24,831
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 12.28% 15.60% 18.04%
Number of salaries quoted 8,626 9,197 13,748
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £27,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £86,743 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in England

Active Directory
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Active Directory in England

Active Directory
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in England over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Active Directory in England

Active Directory
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Active Directory within the England region over the 6 months to 23 May 2024. 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
London +26 1,428 £50,000 - 241
South East +1 1,165 £37,500 +7.14% 220
North of England +30 1,092 £35,000 -7.89% 213
Midlands +28 771 £33,500 -7.59% 153
South West +20 543 £37,500 +1.35% 129
North West +6 507 £37,500 -11.76% 117
East of England +12 476 £31,000 -17.33% 102
West Midlands +30 465 £34,000 -2.86% 90
Yorkshire +40 394 £32,500 -5.11% 81
East Midlands +17 300 £32,500 -10.96% 63
North East +29 191 £33,000 -8.97% 18
Active Directory
UK

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1,526 (27.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 889 (16.17%) SharePoint
3 142 (2.58%) IIS
4 44 (0.80%) Exchange Server 2013
5 29 (0.53%) Exchange Server 2010
6 24 (0.44%) Confluence
7 23 (0.42%) Skype for Business
8 20 (0.36%) OpenStack
8 20 (0.36%) SharePoint 2013
9 18 (0.33%) SharePoint 2010
10 17 (0.31%) WordPress
11 16 (0.29%) CMS
12 12 (0.22%) Tomcat
13 11 (0.20%) Apache
13 11 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2007
14 8 (0.15%) SAS
15 6 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2000
16 5 (0.091%) SharePoint Server
17 4 (0.073%) BizTalk Server
17 4 (0.073%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 875 (15.91%) Microsoft Office
2 128 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 54 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
5 17 (0.31%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.091%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.073%) AutoCAD
9 3 (0.055%) SPSS
10 2 (0.036%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.036%) CATIA
10 2 (0.036%) InCopy
10 2 (0.036%) InDesign
10 2 (0.036%) NASTRAN
11 1 (0.018%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.018%) PTC Creo
11 1 (0.018%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.018%) Weka
Business Applications
1 30 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.20%) NEC Housing
2 11 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
3 9 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
4 6 (0.11%) Elite 3E
4 6 (0.11%) SAP ERP
5 5 (0.091%) Sage 200
6 4 (0.073%) Eikon
6 4 (0.073%) Epicor Tropos
7 3 (0.055%) Sage X3
7 3 (0.055%) Teamcenter
8 2 (0.036%) Adaptiv
8 2 (0.036%) assyst
8 2 (0.036%) iTrent
9 1 (0.018%) Carpe Diem
9 1 (0.018%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.018%) MIS ActiveH
9 1 (0.018%) Sage 300 ERP
9 1 (0.018%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.018%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3,369 (61.27%) Microsoft 365
2 2,730 (49.65%) Azure
3 1,554 (28.26%) Entra ID
4 431 (7.84%) AWS
5 393 (7.15%) OneDrive
6 158 (2.87%) Power Platform
7 153 (2.78%) IaaS
8 140 (2.55%) SaaS
9 116 (2.11%) Mimecast
10 111 (2.02%) PaaS
11 95 (1.73%) GCP
12 89 (1.62%) Power Automate
13 86 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
14 76 (1.38%) Google Workspace
15 74 (1.35%) Azure Monitor
16 73 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
17 67 (1.22%) Cloud Computing
17 67 (1.22%) PowerApps
18 63 (1.15%) Nutanix
19 51 (0.93%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 1,223 (22.24%) DNS
2 1,211 (22.02%) Firewall
3 928 (16.88%) DHCP
4 772 (14.04%) WAN
5 657 (11.95%) LAN
6 550 (10.00%) VPN
7 480 (8.73%) TCP/IP
8 407 (7.40%) SAN
9 364 (6.62%) Wireless
10 340 (6.18%) Wi-Fi
11 282 (5.13%) VLAN
12 262 (4.76%) Broadband
13 239 (4.35%) VoIP
14 220 (4.00%) 5G
15 202 (3.67%) SD-WAN
16 173 (3.15%) Internet
17 155 (2.82%) Network Security
18 131 (2.38%) NAS
19 130 (2.36%) Remote Desktop
20 105 (1.91%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 357 (6.49%) SQL Server
2 91 (1.65%) Power BI
3 89 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
4 58 (1.05%) MySQL
5 46 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
6 44 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
7 38 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 29 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 27 (0.49%) Relational Database
10 20 (0.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 18 (0.33%) Redis
12 16 (0.29%) Oracle Database
13 13 (0.24%) MariaDB
14 12 (0.22%) Data Warehouse
14 12 (0.22%) Elasticsearch
15 11 (0.20%) NoSQL
16 10 (0.18%) Amazon Redshift
16 10 (0.18%) RDBMS
17 7 (0.13%) Data Lake
17 7 (0.13%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 70 (1.27%) JIRA
2 38 (0.69%) Jenkins
3 34 (0.62%) Git
4 21 (0.38%) GitLab
5 15 (0.27%) Bitbucket
6 12 (0.22%) MSI
7 10 (0.18%) Trac
7 10 (0.18%) Visual Studio
8 7 (0.13%) Katalon Studio
9 6 (0.11%) Robot Framework
9 6 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (0.091%) AdminStudio
10 5 (0.091%) InstallShield
10 5 (0.091%) Octopus Deploy
11 4 (0.073%) Hudson
12 3 (0.055%) Moq
12 3 (0.055%) Postman
12 3 (0.055%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.055%) SpecFlow
13 2 (0.036%) webpack
General
1 1,807 (32.86%) Social Skills
2 690 (12.55%) Analytical Skills
3 614 (11.17%) Finance
4 340 (6.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 282 (5.13%) Law
6 205 (3.73%) Retail
7 201 (3.66%) Legal
8 199 (3.62%) Organisational Skills
9 156 (2.84%) Manufacturing
10 125 (2.27%) Banking
10 125 (2.27%) Telecoms
11 106 (1.93%) Public Sector
12 100 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
13 45 (0.82%) Back Office
13 45 (0.82%) Local Government
14 44 (0.80%) Games
15 33 (0.60%) Marketing
16 30 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
17 27 (0.49%) Aerospace
18 25 (0.45%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1,132 (20.59%) IT Support
2 964 (17.53%) Support Engineer
3 924 (16.80%) Analyst
4 777 (14.13%) IT Engineer
5 699 (12.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 679 (12.35%) Senior
7 533 (9.69%) IT Support Engineer
8 425 (7.73%) 2nd Line Support
9 348 (6.33%) IT Analyst
10 336 (6.11%) IT Technician
11 327 (5.95%) Support Analyst
12 294 (5.35%) Service Analyst
13 290 (5.27%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 273 (4.96%) Service Desk Analyst
15 242 (4.40%) 1st Line Support
15 242 (4.40%) Lead
16 235 (4.27%) Support Technician
17 233 (4.24%) Technical Specialist
18 231 (4.20%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
19 210 (3.82%) Linux Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (1.31%) .NET
2 48 (0.87%) ARM Templates
3 41 (0.75%) LDAP
4 31 (0.56%) SAML
5 27 (0.49%) OAuth
6 26 (0.47%) HTML
7 23 (0.42%) CSS
8 21 (0.38%) .NET Core
8 21 (0.38%) 802.1X
9 18 (0.33%) JSON
9 18 (0.33%) React
10 16 (0.29%) OLE
10 16 (0.29%) YAML
11 15 (0.27%) REST
12 14 (0.25%) Web Services
13 13 (0.24%) LAMP
13 13 (0.24%) RESTful
13 13 (0.24%) SailPoint
14 12 (0.22%) EJB
15 10 (0.18%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 375 (6.82%) Driving Licence
2 295 (5.36%) Data Centre
3 245 (4.46%) Self-Motivation
4 219 (3.98%) Management Information System
5 218 (3.96%) Social Media
6 154 (2.80%) Onboarding
7 141 (2.56%) Replication
8 131 (2.38%) Video Conferencing
9 126 (2.29%) PKI
10 123 (2.24%) Public Cloud
11 112 (2.04%) Clustering
12 96 (1.75%) Smartphone
13 89 (1.62%) Wiki
14 60 (1.09%) iPad
15 59 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
16 57 (1.04%) iPhone
17 48 (0.87%) Private Cloud
18 46 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
19 44 (0.80%) Cyberattack
19 44 (0.80%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 3,844 (69.90%) Windows
2 1,960 (35.64%) Windows Server
3 1,184 (21.53%) Windows 10
4 776 (14.11%) Linux
5 365 (6.64%) Windows Server 2016
6 337 (6.13%) Windows Server 2019
7 331 (6.02%) Windows Server 2012
8 291 (5.29%) Ubuntu
9 247 (4.49%) Android
10 209 (3.80%) Mac OS
11 176 (3.20%) Windows 7
12 144 (2.62%) Apple iOS
13 85 (1.55%) Windows Server 2008
14 84 (1.53%) VMS
15 73 (1.33%) Windows 8
16 62 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 43 (0.78%) Unix
18 41 (0.75%) Mac OS X
19 32 (0.58%) CentOS
20 29 (0.53%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,151 (20.93%) ITIL
2 1,070 (19.46%) Problem-Solving
3 976 (17.75%) Customer Service
4 900 (16.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 814 (14.80%) Cybersecurity
6 368 (6.69%) Service Management
7 353 (6.42%) Agile
8 336 (6.11%) Disaster Recovery
9 332 (6.04%) ITSM
10 304 (5.53%) CRM
11 295 (5.36%) Mentoring
12 294 (5.35%) IT Strategy
13 283 (5.15%) Service Delivery
14 276 (5.02%) DevOps
14 276 (5.02%) Project Management
15 275 (5.00%) Migration
16 265 (4.82%) Continuous Improvement
17 253 (4.60%) Incident Management
18 242 (4.40%) Artificial Intelligence
19 235 (4.27%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 888 (16.15%) PowerShell
2 595 (10.82%) SQL
3 334 (6.07%) Bash
4 138 (2.51%) Python
5 98 (1.78%) C#
6 49 (0.89%) VB
7 40 (0.73%) Bicep
8 38 (0.69%) T-SQL
9 37 (0.67%) VBScript
10 31 (0.56%) JavaScript
10 31 (0.56%) Perl
11 28 (0.51%) Java
12 27 (0.49%) PL/SQL
13 19 (0.35%) R
14 13 (0.24%) TypeScript
15 12 (0.22%) ActionScript
16 11 (0.20%) Ruby
17 9 (0.16%) VB.NET
18 8 (0.15%) Shell Script
19 6 (0.11%) Korn
Qualifications
1 728 (13.24%) Degree
2 502 (9.13%) Security Cleared
3 467 (8.49%) Microsoft Certification
4 284 (5.16%) SC Cleared
5 244 (4.44%) DV Cleared
6 179 (3.26%) Cisco Certification
7 164 (2.98%) A+ Certification
8 162 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
9 158 (2.87%) DBS Check
10 154 (2.80%) MCP
11 147 (2.67%) Azure Certification
12 143 (2.60%) MCSE
13 139 (2.53%) CCNA
14 98 (1.78%) Master's Degree
15 92 (1.67%) MCSA
16 85 (1.55%) ITIL Certification
17 65 (1.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 48 (0.87%) CCNP
18 48 (0.87%) Network+ Certification
19 46 (0.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 435 (7.91%) SLA
2 106 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 105 (1.91%) Cyber Essentials
4 89 (1.62%) GDPR
5 33 (0.60%) NIST
6 25 (0.45%) Accessibility
7 15 (0.27%) Data Quality
8 13 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 13 (0.24%) SOC 2
9 11 (0.20%) PMO
10 10 (0.18%) QA
11 9 (0.16%) PCI DSS
12 7 (0.13%) GRC
13 6 (0.11%) NIST 800
14 5 (0.091%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 4 (0.073%) ISO 9001
15 4 (0.073%) NCSC
16 3 (0.055%) HIPAA
16 3 (0.055%) JSP 440
17 2 (0.036%) ITGC
System Software
1 1,064 (19.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 885 (16.09%) Hyper-V
3 345 (6.27%) VMware ESXi
4 205 (3.73%) XenApp
5 194 (3.53%) vSphere
6 179 (3.26%) XenDesktop
7 150 (2.73%) Virtual Desktop
8 132 (2.40%) Virtual Machines
9 94 (1.71%) Microsoft App-V
10 74 (1.35%) Virtual Servers
11 68 (1.24%) Docker
12 43 (0.78%) RACF
13 42 (0.76%) VirtualBox
14 35 (0.64%) Firmware
15 27 (0.49%) Terminal Services
16 26 (0.47%) VMware Workstation
17 22 (0.40%) VMware Server
18 20 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
19 19 (0.35%) NFS
20 18 (0.33%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 1,110 (20.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 638 (11.60%) SCCM
3 263 (4.78%) Jamf Pro
4 180 (3.27%) WSUS
5 155 (2.82%) vCenter Server
6 129 (2.35%) Terraform
7 128 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
8 115 (2.09%) SCOM
9 112 (2.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 109 (1.98%) Ansible
11 94 (1.71%) Kubernetes
12 92 (1.67%) AirWatch
13 42 (0.76%) Failover Clustering
14 41 (0.75%) NetBackup
15 38 (0.69%) FortiGate
16 36 (0.65%) Backup Exec
16 36 (0.65%) Microsoft Clustering
17 34 (0.62%) ZABBIX
18 26 (0.47%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
19 24 (0.44%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 3,759 (68.36%) Microsoft
2 1,599 (29.08%) VMware
3 615 (11.18%) Cisco
4 556 (10.11%) Citrix
5 377 (6.86%) Veeam
6 275 (5.00%) CyberArk
7 223 (4.06%) Apple
8 210 (3.82%) Tanium
9 196 (3.56%) HP
10 192 (3.49%) ServiceNow
11 183 (3.33%) Dell
12 154 (2.80%) Google
13 122 (2.22%) Meraki
14 100 (1.82%) SolarWinds
15 98 (1.78%) NetApp
16 92 (1.67%) Fortinet
17 89 (1.62%) Sophos
18 88 (1.60%) Oracle
19 74 (1.35%) Red Hat
20 72 (1.31%) Commvault