Active Directory Jobs in the North of England

Microsoft Active Directory
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 61 39
Rank change year-on-year +33 -22 -11
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 1,074 950 1,226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 6.14% 5.55% 6.75%
As % of the System Software category 55.05% 39.01% 37.06%
Number of salaries quoted 922 792 1,033
10th Percentile £23,500 £23,500 £22,000
25th Percentile £26,500 £26,500 £25,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £38,000 £33,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +15.15% -12.00%
75th Percentile £45,000 £48,188 £46,750
90th Percentile £61,250 £59,950 £57,500
England median annual salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% - -5.88%

All System Software Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,951 2,435 3,308
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 11.15% 14.22% 18.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1,667 1,598 2,382
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,750 £33,813 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,250 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.05% -3.57% +3.16%
75th Percentile £57,500 £67,070 £65,000
90th Percentile £69,500 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in the North of England

Active Directory
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Active Directory in the North of England

Active Directory
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in the North of England over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Active Directory in the North of England

Active Directory
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 14 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
North West +10 499 £37,500 -6.25% 108
Yorkshire +45 386 £32,500 -8.45% 70
North East +26 189 £33,000 -8.33% 23
Active Directory
England

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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
1 282 (26.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 151 (14.06%) SharePoint
3 24 (2.23%) IIS
4 11 (1.02%) Exchange Server 2013
5 5 (0.47%) SharePoint Server
5 5 (0.47%) Skype for Business
6 4 (0.37%) CMS
7 2 (0.19%) Confluence
7 2 (0.19%) Resin
8 1 (0.093%) Site Server
Applications
1 178 (16.57%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (1.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.093%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.47%) SAP ERP
2 4 (0.37%) Epicor Tropos
3 2 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 710 (66.11%) Microsoft 365
2 566 (52.70%) Azure
3 302 (28.12%) Entra ID
4 107 (9.96%) AWS
5 66 (6.15%) OneDrive
6 42 (3.91%) Power Platform
7 28 (2.61%) PowerApps
8 27 (2.51%) Power Automate
9 24 (2.23%) SaaS
10 18 (1.68%) GCP
11 17 (1.58%) IaaS
12 14 (1.30%) Azure Key Vault
12 14 (1.30%) Mimecast
13 13 (1.21%) Dynamics 365
13 13 (1.21%) PaaS
14 12 (1.12%) AWS KMS
15 10 (0.93%) Azure Logic Apps
16 8 (0.74%) Azure DevOps
16 8 (0.74%) Cloud Computing
17 7 (0.65%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 249 (23.18%) DNS
2 220 (20.48%) Firewall
3 216 (20.11%) DHCP
4 183 (17.04%) WAN
5 164 (15.27%) LAN
6 106 (9.87%) VPN
7 97 (9.03%) SAN
8 89 (8.29%) TCP/IP
9 71 (6.61%) VoIP
10 62 (5.77%) Wi-Fi
11 43 (4.00%) WLAN
12 42 (3.91%) VLAN
13 41 (3.82%) Wireless
14 35 (3.26%) NAS
15 33 (3.07%) Network Security
16 32 (2.98%) Internet
17 22 (2.05%) SD-WAN
18 19 (1.77%) SSL
19 16 (1.49%) Remote Desktop
20 13 (1.21%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (7.54%) SQL Server
2 23 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
3 17 (1.58%) Azure SQL Database
3 17 (1.58%) Power BI
4 7 (0.65%) MySQL
4 7 (0.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (0.47%) MaxDB
5 5 (0.47%) NoSQL
5 5 (0.47%) Redis
5 5 (0.47%) SAP HANA
6 3 (0.28%) Crystal Reports
7 2 (0.19%) DB2
8 1 (0.093%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.093%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.093%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (0.37%) Visual Studio
2 3 (0.28%) JIRA
3 2 (0.19%) Moq
3 2 (0.19%) MSTest
3 2 (0.19%) Postman
3 2 (0.19%) SpecFlow
3 2 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (0.19%) webpack
4 1 (0.093%) Git
4 1 (0.093%) MSI
General
1 393 (36.59%) Social Skills
2 117 (10.89%) Finance
3 94 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
3 94 (8.75%) Law
4 75 (6.98%) Retail
5 49 (4.56%) Organisational Skills
6 44 (4.10%) Manufacturing
6 44 (4.10%) Public Sector
7 19 (1.77%) Legal
7 19 (1.77%) Telecoms
8 9 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (0.74%) Local Government
10 6 (0.56%) French Language
10 6 (0.56%) German Language
10 6 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (0.56%) Italian Language
10 6 (0.56%) Portuguese Language
10 6 (0.56%) Spanish Language
10 6 (0.56%) Swedish Language
10 6 (0.56%) Turkish Language
Job Titles
1 222 (20.67%) IT Support
2 211 (19.65%) Analyst
3 172 (16.01%) Support Engineer
4 169 (15.74%) IT Engineer
5 156 (14.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 119 (11.08%) IT Support Engineer
7 91 (8.47%) Service Analyst
8 87 (8.10%) Service Desk Analyst
9 86 (8.01%) 2nd Line Support
10 79 (7.36%) Senior
11 74 (6.89%) IT Analyst
11 74 (6.89%) IT Technician
12 61 (5.68%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 57 (5.31%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
14 53 (4.93%) Support Analyst
15 52 (4.84%) IT Manager
16 51 (4.75%) 1st Line Support
16 51 (4.75%) Infrastructure Specialist
17 45 (4.19%) 3rd Line Engineer
18 44 (4.10%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (1.49%) OLE
2 13 (1.21%) .NET
3 8 (0.74%) OAuth
3 8 (0.74%) RESTful
4 6 (0.56%) CSS
4 6 (0.56%) LDAP
4 6 (0.56%) Middleware
5 5 (0.47%) BREW
5 5 (0.47%) SAP Basis
5 5 (0.47%) SAP Fiori
6 4 (0.37%) HTML
7 3 (0.28%) REST
7 3 (0.28%) Web Services
8 2 (0.19%) .NET Framework
8 2 (0.19%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.19%) Jest
8 2 (0.19%) Node.js
8 2 (0.19%) OAuth2
8 2 (0.19%) React
8 2 (0.19%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 104 (9.68%) Driving Licence
2 54 (5.03%) Data Centre
3 49 (4.56%) Management Information System
4 37 (3.45%) Onboarding
5 34 (3.17%) Public Cloud
6 32 (2.98%) Enterprise Storage
7 27 (2.51%) Smartphone
8 23 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
9 22 (2.05%) Clustering
10 19 (1.77%) Fat Client
10 19 (1.77%) PMI
10 19 (1.77%) Thin Client
11 18 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
12 17 (1.58%) Hybrid Cloud
12 17 (1.58%) PKI
12 17 (1.58%) Replication
13 14 (1.30%) Cyberattack
14 13 (1.21%) EPoS
15 12 (1.12%) Private Cloud
16 9 (0.84%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 677 (63.04%) Windows
2 366 (34.08%) Windows Server
3 185 (17.23%) Windows 10
4 96 (8.94%) Linux
5 64 (5.96%) Windows Server 2016
6 61 (5.68%) Windows Server 2012
7 58 (5.40%) Windows Server 2019
8 41 (3.82%) Mac OS
9 29 (2.70%) Android
10 26 (2.42%) Apple iOS
11 20 (1.86%) Windows Server 2008
12 18 (1.68%) Windows 7
13 11 (1.02%) Unix
14 10 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 10 (0.93%) VMS
14 10 (0.93%) Windows 8
15 8 (0.74%) Windows Vista
16 5 (0.47%) Windows Server 2003
17 4 (0.37%) Debian
18 3 (0.28%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 265 (24.67%) ITIL
2 232 (21.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 225 (20.95%) Problem-Solving
4 223 (20.76%) Customer Service
5 103 (9.59%) Cybersecurity
6 100 (9.31%) Disaster Recovery
7 91 (8.47%) Migration
8 75 (6.98%) Incident Management
9 74 (6.89%) Service Management
10 68 (6.33%) ITSM
11 65 (6.05%) Mentoring
12 62 (5.77%) Project Management
13 60 (5.59%) Continuous Improvement
14 54 (5.03%) ERP
15 53 (4.93%) Agile
16 51 (4.75%) Time Management
17 49 (4.56%) Roadmaps
17 49 (4.56%) Server Management
18 45 (4.19%) Service Delivery
19 43 (4.00%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 136 (12.66%) PowerShell
2 120 (11.17%) SQL
3 27 (2.51%) Python
4 17 (1.58%) Bash
5 16 (1.49%) R
6 14 (1.30%) VBScript
7 10 (0.93%) C#
8 8 (0.74%) Java
9 7 (0.65%) JavaScript
10 5 (0.47%) ABAP
11 4 (0.37%) VB
12 2 (0.19%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.19%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.093%) Bicep
13 1 (0.093%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.093%) Perl
Qualifications
1 141 (13.13%) Microsoft Certification
2 108 (10.06%) Degree
3 60 (5.59%) Azure Certification
4 40 (3.72%) MCP
5 34 (3.17%) A+ Certification
6 24 (2.23%) MCSA
7 23 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (2.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 22 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
8 22 (2.05%) DBS Check
9 21 (1.96%) MCSE
10 19 (1.77%) PMI Certification
11 18 (1.68%) CCNA
11 18 (1.68%) Security Cleared
12 12 (1.12%) CISSP
12 12 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
13 11 (1.02%) SC Cleared
14 8 (0.74%) GIAC
15 7 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
16 6 (0.56%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (7.73%) SLA
2 36 (3.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
4 12 (1.12%) NIST
5 5 (0.47%) GDPR
6 3 (0.28%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.19%) QA
7 2 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.093%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.093%) NCSC
8 1 (0.093%) PMO
8 1 (0.093%) SOC 2
System Software
1 187 (17.41%) Hyper-V
2 173 (16.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (4.19%) VMware ESXi
4 30 (2.79%) Virtual Machines
5 29 (2.70%) Virtual Desktop
6 21 (1.96%) vSphere
7 11 (1.02%) Virtual Servers
8 8 (0.74%) XenApp
9 7 (0.65%) VMware Server
9 7 (0.65%) XenDesktop
10 4 (0.37%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.28%) Firmware
11 3 (0.28%) VMware Workstation
12 2 (0.19%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.093%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.093%) DFS Replication
13 1 (0.093%) Docker
13 1 (0.093%) Dovecot
13 1 (0.093%) Postfix
13 1 (0.093%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 200 (18.62%) Microsoft Intune
2 83 (7.73%) SCCM
3 27 (2.51%) SCOM
4 24 (2.23%) Single Sign-On
4 24 (2.23%) vCenter Server
4 24 (2.23%) WSUS
5 22 (2.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 19 (1.77%) Failover Clustering
7 14 (1.30%) ZABBIX
8 12 (1.12%) CA Single Sign-On
8 12 (1.12%) FortiGate
8 12 (1.12%) Jamf Pro
8 12 (1.12%) Opsgenie
8 12 (1.12%) VxRail
9 9 (0.84%) Autotask
9 9 (0.84%) Kubernetes
9 9 (0.84%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 7 (0.65%) Grafana
10 7 (0.65%) Prometheus
10 7 (0.65%) Terraform
Vendors
1 729 (67.88%) Microsoft
2 311 (28.96%) VMware
3 110 (10.24%) Cisco
4 87 (8.10%) Citrix
5 59 (5.49%) Veeam
6 43 (4.00%) Apple
7 37 (3.45%) ServiceNow
7 37 (3.45%) SolarWinds
8 31 (2.89%) NetApp
9 30 (2.79%) Dell
10 28 (2.61%) Fortinet
11 21 (1.96%) CA
11 21 (1.96%) Sophos
12 20 (1.86%) Aruba
12 20 (1.86%) HP
13 17 (1.58%) Epicor
13 17 (1.58%) SAP
14 16 (1.49%) Adobe
15 14 (1.30%) Oracle
16 13 (1.21%) Datto