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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 47 73
Rank change year-on-year +20 +26 -29
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 5,501 5,106 6,741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.36% 5.79% 4.98%
As % of the System Software category 51.35% 37.23% 27.54%
Number of salaries quoted 4,462 4,279 5,536
10th Percentile £24,500 £25,416 £24,750
25th Percentile £28,500 £30,250 £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 £55,777
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 10,712 13,713 24,476
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 12.39% 15.54% 18.09%
Number of salaries quoted 8,654 9,266 13,782
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £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 £86,250 £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 18 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 18 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 1,454 £50,750 +1.50% 263
South East 0 1,172 £37,500 +7.14% 235
North of England +32 1,078 £33,500 -11.84% 210
Midlands +30 767 £33,500 -8.22% 163
South West +24 538 £37,500 +4.17% 121
North West +7 499 £37,500 -8.54% 111
East of England +13 467 £31,000 -17.33% 121
West Midlands +29 465 £34,000 -6.21% 101
Yorkshire +46 388 £32,500 -7.14% 80
East Midlands +20 296 £32,500 -10.96% 62
North East +27 191 £32,750 -9.03% 21
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 1,538 (27.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 889 (16.16%) SharePoint
3 143 (2.60%) IIS
4 45 (0.82%) Exchange Server 2013
5 29 (0.53%) Exchange Server 2010
6 25 (0.45%) Confluence
7 24 (0.44%) Skype for Business
8 20 (0.36%) OpenStack
9 19 (0.35%) SharePoint 2013
10 17 (0.31%) CMS
10 17 (0.31%) SharePoint 2010
10 17 (0.31%) WordPress
11 12 (0.22%) Tomcat
12 11 (0.20%) Apache
12 11 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2007
13 8 (0.15%) SAS
14 6 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2000
15 5 (0.091%) SharePoint Server
16 4 (0.073%) BizTalk Server
16 4 (0.073%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 882 (16.03%) Microsoft Office
2 128 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 52 (0.95%) 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%) Adaptiv
7 3 (0.055%) Sage X3
7 3 (0.055%) Teamcenter
8 2 (0.036%) assyst
8 2 (0.036%) iTrent
9 1 (0.018%) Carpe Diem
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 3,404 (61.88%) Microsoft 365
2 2,735 (49.72%) Azure
3 1,518 (27.59%) Entra ID
4 430 (7.82%) AWS
5 390 (7.09%) OneDrive
6 158 (2.87%) Power Platform
7 153 (2.78%) IaaS
8 141 (2.56%) SaaS
9 115 (2.09%) Mimecast
10 114 (2.07%) PaaS
11 95 (1.73%) GCP
12 90 (1.64%) Power Automate
13 88 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
14 77 (1.40%) Google Workspace
15 73 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
16 71 (1.29%) Azure Monitor
17 69 (1.25%) PowerApps
18 67 (1.22%) Cloud Computing
19 62 (1.13%) Nutanix
20 50 (0.91%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 1,224 (22.25%) DNS
2 1,214 (22.07%) Firewall
3 932 (16.94%) DHCP
4 778 (14.14%) WAN
5 662 (12.03%) LAN
6 552 (10.03%) VPN
7 485 (8.82%) TCP/IP
8 409 (7.44%) SAN
9 366 (6.65%) Wireless
10 343 (6.24%) Wi-Fi
11 285 (5.18%) VLAN
12 262 (4.76%) Broadband
13 246 (4.47%) VoIP
14 220 (4.00%) 5G
15 205 (3.73%) SD-WAN
16 169 (3.07%) Internet
17 155 (2.82%) Network Security
18 131 (2.38%) NAS
19 128 (2.33%) Remote Desktop
20 110 (2.00%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 361 (6.56%) SQL Server
2 93 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
3 92 (1.67%) Power BI
4 61 (1.11%) MySQL
5 47 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
6 45 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
7 39 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 30 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 26 (0.47%) Relational Database
10 20 (0.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 17 (0.31%) Oracle Database
11 17 (0.31%) Redis
12 14 (0.25%) MariaDB
13 12 (0.22%) Data Warehouse
14 11 (0.20%) Elasticsearch
14 11 (0.20%) NoSQL
15 10 (0.18%) Amazon Redshift
15 10 (0.18%) RDBMS
16 7 (0.13%) InfluxDB
16 7 (0.13%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 72 (1.31%) JIRA
2 40 (0.73%) Jenkins
3 32 (0.58%) Git
4 22 (0.40%) GitLab
5 17 (0.31%) Bitbucket
6 11 (0.20%) 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%) Octopus Deploy
11 4 (0.073%) AdminStudio
11 4 (0.073%) Hudson
11 4 (0.073%) InstallShield
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 1,821 (33.10%) Social Skills
2 693 (12.60%) Analytical Skills
3 578 (10.51%) Finance
4 342 (6.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 292 (5.31%) Law
6 207 (3.76%) Retail
7 201 (3.65%) Organisational Skills
8 175 (3.18%) Legal
9 156 (2.84%) Manufacturing
10 125 (2.27%) Telecoms
11 112 (2.04%) Public Sector
12 101 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
13 94 (1.71%) Banking
14 45 (0.82%) Games
14 45 (0.82%) Local Government
15 44 (0.80%) Back Office
16 33 (0.60%) Marketing
17 30 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
18 27 (0.49%) Aerospace
19 25 (0.45%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1,136 (20.65%) IT Support
2 967 (17.58%) Support Engineer
3 895 (16.27%) Analyst
4 779 (14.16%) IT Engineer
5 698 (12.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 648 (11.78%) Senior
7 532 (9.67%) IT Support Engineer
8 426 (7.74%) 2nd Line Support
9 347 (6.31%) IT Analyst
10 336 (6.11%) IT Technician
11 323 (5.87%) Support Analyst
12 294 (5.34%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 293 (5.33%) Service Analyst
14 272 (4.94%) Service Desk Analyst
15 246 (4.47%) 1st Line Support
15 246 (4.47%) Lead
16 233 (4.24%) Support Technician
16 233 (4.24%) Technical Specialist
17 232 (4.22%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
18 210 (3.82%) Linux Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (1.29%) .NET
2 49 (0.89%) ARM Templates
3 41 (0.75%) LDAP
4 31 (0.56%) SAML
5 27 (0.49%) HTML
5 27 (0.49%) OAuth
6 23 (0.42%) CSS
7 21 (0.38%) 802.1X
7 21 (0.38%) JSON
8 20 (0.36%) .NET Core
9 18 (0.33%) React
10 16 (0.29%) OLE
10 16 (0.29%) YAML
11 15 (0.27%) REST
12 14 (0.25%) SailPoint
12 14 (0.25%) Web Services
13 13 (0.24%) LAMP
13 13 (0.24%) RESTful
14 12 (0.22%) EJB
15 10 (0.18%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 374 (6.80%) Driving Licence
2 296 (5.38%) Data Centre
3 246 (4.47%) Self-Motivation
4 218 (3.96%) Social Media
5 189 (3.44%) Management Information System
6 155 (2.82%) Onboarding
7 143 (2.60%) Replication
8 135 (2.45%) Video Conferencing
9 128 (2.33%) PKI
10 122 (2.22%) Public Cloud
11 108 (1.96%) Clustering
12 96 (1.75%) Smartphone
13 93 (1.69%) Wiki
14 60 (1.09%) iPad
15 59 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
16 57 (1.04%) iPhone
17 48 (0.87%) Private Cloud
18 47 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
19 45 (0.82%) Fat Client
19 45 (0.82%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 3,880 (70.53%) Windows
2 1,988 (36.14%) Windows Server
3 1,196 (21.74%) Windows 10
4 780 (14.18%) Linux
5 373 (6.78%) Windows Server 2016
6 342 (6.22%) Windows Server 2019
7 336 (6.11%) Windows Server 2012
8 289 (5.25%) Ubuntu
9 250 (4.54%) Android
10 209 (3.80%) Mac OS
11 178 (3.24%) Windows 7
12 146 (2.65%) Apple iOS
13 86 (1.56%) Windows Server 2008
14 82 (1.49%) VMS
15 76 (1.38%) Windows 8
16 65 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 44 (0.80%) Unix
18 41 (0.75%) Mac OS X
19 33 (0.60%) CentOS
20 29 (0.53%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,155 (21.00%) ITIL
2 1,077 (19.58%) Problem-Solving
3 975 (17.72%) Customer Service
4 902 (16.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 794 (14.43%) Cybersecurity
6 369 (6.71%) Service Management
7 336 (6.11%) Disaster Recovery
8 335 (6.09%) ITSM
9 311 (5.65%) Agile
10 305 (5.54%) CRM
11 298 (5.42%) Mentoring
12 297 (5.40%) IT Strategy
13 286 (5.20%) Service Delivery
14 282 (5.13%) Project Management
15 277 (5.04%) DevOps
16 275 (5.00%) Migration
17 267 (4.85%) Continuous Improvement
18 256 (4.65%) Incident Management
19 242 (4.40%) Artificial Intelligence
20 238 (4.33%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 859 (15.62%) PowerShell
2 568 (10.33%) SQL
3 335 (6.09%) Bash
4 139 (2.53%) Python
5 98 (1.78%) C#
6 46 (0.84%) VB
7 39 (0.71%) T-SQL
8 38 (0.69%) Bicep
9 36 (0.65%) VBScript
10 32 (0.58%) JavaScript
11 31 (0.56%) Perl
12 29 (0.53%) Java
13 27 (0.49%) PL/SQL
14 19 (0.35%) R
15 13 (0.24%) TypeScript
16 12 (0.22%) Ruby
17 11 (0.20%) ActionScript
18 9 (0.16%) VB.NET
19 7 (0.13%) Korn
19 7 (0.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 738 (13.42%) Degree
2 502 (9.13%) Security Cleared
3 474 (8.62%) Microsoft Certification
4 286 (5.20%) SC Cleared
5 242 (4.40%) DV Cleared
6 182 (3.31%) Cisco Certification
7 168 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
8 164 (2.98%) A+ Certification
9 158 (2.87%) DBS Check
10 152 (2.76%) MCP
11 151 (2.74%) Azure Certification
12 148 (2.69%) MCSE
13 141 (2.56%) CCNA
14 105 (1.91%) Master's Degree
15 97 (1.76%) MCSA
16 90 (1.64%) ITIL Certification
17 70 (1.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 48 (0.87%) Network+ Certification
19 47 (0.85%) CCNP
20 46 (0.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 445 (8.09%) SLA
2 109 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 108 (1.96%) Cyber Essentials
4 94 (1.71%) GDPR
5 33 (0.60%) NIST
6 26 (0.47%) Accessibility
7 14 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 14 (0.25%) Data Quality
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%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 1,079 (19.61%) VMware Infrastructure
2 890 (16.18%) Hyper-V
3 353 (6.42%) VMware ESXi
4 206 (3.74%) XenApp
5 194 (3.53%) vSphere
6 181 (3.29%) XenDesktop
7 149 (2.71%) Virtual Desktop
8 131 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
9 97 (1.76%) Microsoft App-V
10 76 (1.38%) Virtual Servers
11 68 (1.24%) Docker
12 43 (0.78%) VirtualBox
13 37 (0.67%) Firmware
14 26 (0.47%) Terminal Services
14 26 (0.47%) VMware Workstation
15 21 (0.38%) VMware Server
16 20 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 19 (0.35%) NFS
18 18 (0.33%) pfSense
19 14 (0.25%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 1,105 (20.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 645 (11.73%) SCCM
3 264 (4.80%) Jamf Pro
4 179 (3.25%) WSUS
5 154 (2.80%) vCenter Server
6 130 (2.36%) Single Sign-On
7 122 (2.22%) Terraform
8 114 (2.07%) SCOM
9 112 (2.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 106 (1.93%) Ansible
11 96 (1.75%) AirWatch
12 92 (1.67%) Kubernetes
13 41 (0.75%) Failover Clustering
13 41 (0.75%) NetBackup
14 40 (0.73%) FortiGate
15 35 (0.64%) Microsoft Clustering
16 34 (0.62%) Backup Exec
17 33 (0.60%) ZABBIX
18 26 (0.47%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
19 24 (0.44%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 3,753 (68.22%) Microsoft
2 1,620 (29.45%) VMware
3 621 (11.29%) Cisco
4 564 (10.25%) Citrix
5 377 (6.85%) Veeam
6 241 (4.38%) CyberArk
7 223 (4.05%) Apple
8 210 (3.82%) Tanium
9 198 (3.60%) HP
10 189 (3.44%) ServiceNow
11 181 (3.29%) Dell
12 156 (2.84%) Google
13 124 (2.25%) Meraki
14 103 (1.87%) SolarWinds
15 99 (1.80%) NetApp
16 93 (1.69%) Fortinet
17 91 (1.65%) Sophos
18 89 (1.62%) Oracle
19 76 (1.38%) Red Hat
20 73 (1.33%) Commvault