Active Directory Jobs in the South West

Microsoft Active Directory
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 33 53 58
Rank change year-on-year +20 +5 -1
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 543 350 426
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 5.70% 5.20% 5.13%
As % of the System Software category 44.36% 29.91% 29.32%
Number of salaries quoted 474 294 264
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,500 £23,500
25th Percentile £29,000 £28,813 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £37,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.35% +5.71% -
75th Percentile £51,500 £47,500 £47,500
90th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £66,750
England median annual salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% - -5.88%

All System Software Skills
South West

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 South West with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,224 1,170 1,453
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 12.85% 17.38% 17.51%
Number of salaries quoted 975 695 878
10th Percentile £27,218 £27,500 £28,175
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £62,000 £72,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £79,500 £82,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in the South West

Active Directory
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in the South West.

Salary trend for Active Directory in the South West

Active Directory
Salary Histogram in the South West

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

Salary histogram for Active Directory in the South West

Active Directory
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Active Directory within the South West 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
Gloucestershire +24 150 £40,000 +15.11% 11
Bristol +47 125 £37,500 +25.00% 36
Wiltshire +1 91 £49,000 +15.29% 35
Somerset +27 62 £29,605 -27.79% 21
Devon -6 55 £40,000 +22.14% 14
Dorset -18 48 £37,000 -7.50% 10
Cornwall -12 11 £30,000 -11.76% 4
Active Directory
England

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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
1 159 (29.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 99 (18.23%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.21%) SharePoint 2010
3 12 (2.21%) SharePoint 2013
4 5 (0.92%) IIS
5 3 (0.55%) Apache
5 3 (0.55%) GlassFish
5 3 (0.55%) JBoss
5 3 (0.55%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.37%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.18%) Confluence
7 1 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.18%) Moodle
Applications
1 80 (14.73%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 296 (54.51%) Microsoft 365
2 244 (44.94%) Azure
3 126 (23.20%) Entra ID
4 57 (10.50%) AWS
5 54 (9.94%) OneDrive
6 31 (5.71%) GCP
7 19 (3.50%) IaaS
8 17 (3.13%) Power Platform
9 16 (2.95%) PaaS
10 10 (1.84%) SaaS
11 9 (1.66%) Dynamics 365
12 8 (1.47%) Mimecast
12 8 (1.47%) Nutanix
13 7 (1.29%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (1.10%) PowerApps
15 5 (0.92%) Cloud Computing
15 5 (0.92%) OpenShift
15 5 (0.92%) Power Automate
15 5 (0.92%) WhatsApp
16 3 (0.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 94 (17.31%) DNS
2 87 (16.02%) LAN
3 78 (14.36%) DHCP
3 78 (14.36%) WAN
4 76 (14.00%) Firewall
5 64 (11.79%) TCP/IP
6 49 (9.02%) VPN
7 42 (7.73%) SAN
8 39 (7.18%) Wi-Fi
9 37 (6.81%) Wireless
10 23 (4.24%) VLAN
11 19 (3.50%) Remote Desktop
12 16 (2.95%) Network Security
13 14 (2.58%) NAS
14 12 (2.21%) Internet
14 12 (2.21%) VSAN
14 12 (2.21%) WLAN
15 11 (2.03%) IPsec
16 10 (1.84%) VoIP
17 9 (1.66%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (4.60%) SQL Server
2 8 (1.47%) MySQL
3 7 (1.29%) Power BI
4 5 (0.92%) RDBMS
4 5 (0.92%) Relational Database
5 4 (0.74%) Oracle Database
6 3 (0.55%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.55%) Oracle Database 12c
6 3 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.37%) Crystal Reports
8 1 (0.18%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 4 (0.74%) JIRA
2 2 (0.37%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.18%) GitLab
3 1 (0.18%) MSI
General
1 176 (32.41%) Social Skills
2 43 (7.92%) Finance
3 41 (7.55%) Organisational Skills
4 35 (6.45%) Public Sector
5 31 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (3.87%) Legal
7 18 (3.31%) Law
8 16 (2.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (2.95%) Telecoms
9 15 (2.76%) Manufacturing
10 11 (2.03%) Aerospace
11 9 (1.66%) Automotive
11 9 (1.66%) Banking
12 5 (0.92%) Fire and Rescue
12 5 (0.92%) Marketing
12 5 (0.92%) Military
13 4 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.74%) Publishing
14 3 (0.55%) Retail
15 2 (0.37%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 139 (25.60%) Support Engineer
2 102 (18.78%) IT Support
3 94 (17.31%) IT Engineer
4 83 (15.29%) Analyst
5 79 (14.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 60 (11.05%) Senior
7 56 (10.31%) 2nd Line Support
8 51 (9.39%) IT Support Engineer
9 50 (9.21%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 44 (8.10%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 39 (7.18%) IT Technician
12 36 (6.63%) Service Analyst
13 35 (6.45%) Field Engineer
14 34 (6.26%) Desktop Support
15 31 (5.71%) Service Desk Analyst
15 31 (5.71%) Support Technician
16 28 (5.16%) Desktop Engineer
16 28 (5.16%) Desktop Support Engineer
17 27 (4.97%) IT Support Technician
18 26 (4.79%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.10%) EJB
2 5 (0.92%) SAML
3 4 (0.74%) JSON
4 3 (0.55%) ARM Templates
4 3 (0.55%) LDAP
5 1 (0.18%) RESTEasy
5 1 (0.18%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 89 (16.39%) Driving Licence
2 45 (8.29%) Self-Motivation
3 30 (5.52%) Management Information System
4 17 (3.13%) iPhone
5 16 (2.95%) Clustering
5 16 (2.95%) Smartphone
6 15 (2.76%) Replication
7 12 (2.21%) Data Centre
7 12 (2.21%) PKI
8 11 (2.03%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.29%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.10%) CMDB
10 6 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.10%) Fat Client
10 6 (1.10%) Thin Client
11 5 (0.92%) EMC VNX
11 5 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (0.74%) Cyberattack
12 4 (0.74%) Enterprise Storage
13 3 (0.55%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 416 (76.61%) Windows
2 218 (40.15%) Windows Server
3 142 (26.15%) Windows 10
4 58 (10.68%) Linux
5 46 (8.47%) Windows Server 2016
6 44 (8.10%) Windows Server 2019
7 37 (6.81%) Windows Server 2012
8 35 (6.45%) Mac OS
9 32 (5.89%) Windows 7
10 16 (2.95%) AIX
10 16 (2.95%) Apple iOS
10 16 (2.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 15 (2.76%) Android
12 11 (2.03%) Windows Server 2008
13 4 (0.74%) Unix
13 4 (0.74%) Windows 8
13 4 (0.74%) Windows XP
14 3 (0.55%) Solaris
15 2 (0.37%) Windows 2000
16 1 (0.18%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (24.86%) ITIL
2 114 (20.99%) Customer Service
3 90 (16.57%) Problem-Solving
4 89 (16.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 57 (10.50%) Service Management
6 46 (8.47%) ITSM
7 45 (8.29%) Incident Management
8 42 (7.73%) Time Management
9 41 (7.55%) Service Delivery
10 40 (7.37%) Change Management
10 40 (7.37%) Mentoring
11 34 (6.26%) Continuous Improvement
12 32 (5.89%) Cybersecurity
12 32 (5.89%) Mobile Device Management
13 31 (5.71%) Project Delivery
14 29 (5.34%) Information Security
15 25 (4.60%) Roadmaps
16 24 (4.42%) Agile
17 23 (4.24%) Project Management
18 22 (4.05%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 111 (20.44%) PowerShell
2 59 (10.87%) SQL
3 19 (3.50%) Python
4 14 (2.58%) Bash
5 8 (1.47%) Java
6 5 (0.92%) C#
7 1 (0.18%) Go
7 1 (0.18%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.18%) VB
Qualifications
1 137 (25.23%) Security Cleared
2 102 (18.78%) SC Cleared
3 56 (10.31%) Degree
3 56 (10.31%) DV Cleared
4 48 (8.84%) DBS Check
5 44 (8.10%) Microsoft Certification
6 40 (7.37%) A+ Certification
7 27 (4.97%) MCP
8 26 (4.79%) ITIL Certification
9 19 (3.50%) MCSE
10 16 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
11 13 (2.39%) MCITP
12 9 (1.66%) Network+ Certification
13 7 (1.29%) MCSA
14 5 (0.92%) CCNA
14 5 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
14 5 (0.92%) GIAC
15 4 (0.74%) CCA
15 4 (0.74%) Citrix Certification
16 3 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (8.84%) SLA
2 21 (3.87%) GDPR
3 10 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.29%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.37%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.18%) Data Quality
System Software
1 124 (22.84%) VMware Infrastructure
2 96 (17.68%) Hyper-V
3 21 (3.87%) vSphere
4 20 (3.68%) XenDesktop
5 19 (3.50%) VMware ESXi
5 19 (3.50%) XenApp
6 10 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (1.66%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (1.29%) VMware Workstation
9 5 (0.92%) Docker
9 5 (0.92%) RACF
10 3 (0.55%) Forefront TMG
11 2 (0.37%) Terminal Server
11 2 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.18%) DFS Replication
12 1 (0.18%) Firmware
12 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.18%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.18%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 107 (19.71%) SCCM
2 89 (16.39%) Microsoft Intune
3 19 (3.50%) WSUS
4 16 (2.95%) Backup Exec
5 14 (2.58%) vCenter Server
6 12 (2.21%) NetBackup
7 10 (1.84%) McAfee ePO
7 10 (1.84%) Nagios
8 8 (1.47%) Kubernetes
8 8 (1.47%) SCVMM
9 6 (1.10%) Icinga
9 6 (1.10%) SCOM
10 5 (0.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.92%) Ansible
10 5 (0.92%) EMC NetWorker
10 5 (0.92%) Jamf Pro
10 5 (0.92%) OfficeScan
11 4 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.74%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
12 3 (0.55%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 383 (70.53%) Microsoft
2 161 (29.65%) VMware
3 51 (9.39%) Cisco
3 51 (9.39%) Citrix
4 40 (7.37%) HP
5 33 (6.08%) Google
6 32 (5.89%) Veeam
7 25 (4.60%) Dell
8 24 (4.42%) Oracle
9 22 (4.05%) ServiceNow
10 21 (3.87%) SolarWinds
11 20 (3.68%) McAfee
12 18 (3.31%) Red Hat
13 16 (2.95%) Veritas
14 15 (2.76%) Symantec
15 14 (2.58%) Aruba
16 13 (2.39%) Hitachi
16 13 (2.39%) NetApp
17 12 (2.21%) Apple
17 12 (2.21%) MobileIron