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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 44 75
Rank change year-on-year +15 +31 -26
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 5,555 4,914 6,828
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.90% 5.94% 4.75%
As % of the System Software category 51.31% 38.51% 26.45%
Number of salaries quoted 4,370 4,154 5,526
10th Percentile £24,500 £25,420 £24,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £30,500 £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 £57,500 £55,000
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 10,826 12,761 25,818
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.49% 15.44% 17.96%
Number of salaries quoted 8,484 8,834 13,779
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £27,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,250 £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 £56,325
% change year-on-year -9.09% -2.35% +2.41%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +14 1,400 £50,000 - 220
South East -3 1,193 £38,000 +8.57% 212
North of England +26 1,103 £35,000 -6.67% 202
Midlands +21 797 £33,500 -9.46% 149
South West +19 542 £37,500 +1.35% 120
North West +9 520 £37,500 -11.76% 109
East of England +11 493 £31,000 -13.89% 71
West Midlands +24 477 £35,000 -4.76% 80
Yorkshire +34 396 £33,500 -1.47% 74
East Midlands +9 315 £32,500 -10.96% 69
North East +19 187 £33,000 -9.59% 22
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 1,513 (27.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 902 (16.24%) SharePoint
3 141 (2.54%) IIS
4 44 (0.79%) Exchange Server 2013
5 28 (0.50%) Exchange Server 2010
6 23 (0.41%) SharePoint 2013
6 23 (0.41%) Skype for Business
7 22 (0.40%) Confluence
8 21 (0.38%) SharePoint 2010
9 20 (0.36%) OpenStack
10 18 (0.32%) WordPress
11 16 (0.29%) CMS
12 13 (0.23%) Tomcat
13 11 (0.20%) Apache
13 11 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2007
14 8 (0.14%) SAS
15 6 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2000
16 5 (0.090%) SharePoint Server
17 4 (0.072%) Exchange Server 2003
17 4 (0.072%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 891 (16.04%) Microsoft Office
2 132 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 54 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
5 18 (0.32%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.054%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.054%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.054%) SPSS
8 2 (0.036%) CATIA
8 2 (0.036%) NASTRAN
9 1 (0.018%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.018%) Weka
Business Applications
1 27 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
3 9 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
3 9 (0.16%) NEC Housing
4 6 (0.11%) SAP ERP
5 5 (0.090%) Elite 3E
5 5 (0.090%) Sage 200
6 4 (0.072%) Eikon
7 3 (0.054%) iTrent
7 3 (0.054%) Sage X3
7 3 (0.054%) Teamcenter
8 2 (0.036%) assyst
8 2 (0.036%) Epicor Tropos
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 S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3,398 (61.17%) Microsoft 365
2 2,797 (50.35%) Azure
3 1,599 (28.78%) Entra ID
4 448 (8.06%) AWS
5 395 (7.11%) OneDrive
6 158 (2.84%) IaaS
7 155 (2.79%) Power Platform
8 140 (2.52%) SaaS
9 119 (2.14%) Mimecast
10 107 (1.93%) PaaS
11 99 (1.78%) GCP
12 92 (1.66%) Power Automate
13 83 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
14 82 (1.48%) Azure Monitor
15 79 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
15 79 (1.42%) Google Workspace
16 72 (1.30%) Cloud Computing
17 70 (1.26%) PowerApps
18 65 (1.17%) Nutanix
19 60 (1.08%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 1,241 (22.34%) DNS
2 1,219 (21.94%) Firewall
3 942 (16.96%) DHCP
4 759 (13.66%) WAN
5 678 (12.21%) LAN
6 548 (9.86%) VPN
7 499 (8.98%) TCP/IP
8 393 (7.07%) SAN
9 350 (6.30%) Wi-Fi
10 348 (6.26%) Wireless
11 285 (5.13%) VLAN
12 263 (4.73%) Broadband
13 243 (4.37%) VoIP
14 220 (3.96%) 5G
15 183 (3.29%) Internet
16 173 (3.11%) SD-WAN
17 162 (2.92%) Network Security
18 130 (2.34%) NAS
19 128 (2.30%) Remote Desktop
20 82 (1.48%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 358 (6.44%) SQL Server
2 91 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
3 88 (1.58%) Power BI
4 58 (1.04%) MySQL
5 47 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
6 45 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
7 33 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 28 (0.50%) Relational Database
8 28 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 20 (0.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 18 (0.32%) Redis
11 16 (0.29%) Oracle Database
12 14 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
13 13 (0.23%) MariaDB
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 68 (1.22%) JIRA
2 37 (0.67%) Git
3 35 (0.63%) Jenkins
4 19 (0.34%) GitLab
5 15 (0.27%) MSI
6 11 (0.20%) Bitbucket
7 10 (0.18%) Trac
7 10 (0.18%) Visual Studio
8 7 (0.13%) AdminStudio
8 7 (0.13%) InstallShield
8 7 (0.13%) Katalon Studio
9 6 (0.11%) Robot Framework
9 6 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (0.090%) Octopus Deploy
11 4 (0.072%) Hudson
12 3 (0.054%) Moq
12 3 (0.054%) Postman
12 3 (0.054%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.054%) SpecFlow
13 2 (0.036%) webpack
General
1 1,809 (32.57%) Social Skills
2 707 (12.73%) Analytical Skills
3 624 (11.23%) Finance
4 341 (6.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 281 (5.06%) Law
6 210 (3.78%) Legal
7 201 (3.62%) Organisational Skills
8 197 (3.55%) Retail
9 160 (2.88%) Manufacturing
10 126 (2.27%) Telecoms
11 115 (2.07%) Banking
12 105 (1.89%) Public Sector
13 99 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
14 49 (0.88%) Games
15 44 (0.79%) Back Office
15 44 (0.79%) Local Government
16 36 (0.65%) Marketing
17 32 (0.58%) Advertising
18 31 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
19 28 (0.50%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,116 (20.09%) IT Support
2 966 (17.39%) Support Engineer
3 939 (16.90%) Analyst
4 781 (14.06%) IT Engineer
5 712 (12.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 672 (12.10%) Senior
7 533 (9.59%) IT Support Engineer
8 423 (7.61%) 2nd Line Support
9 352 (6.34%) IT Analyst
9 352 (6.34%) IT Technician
10 330 (5.94%) Support Analyst
11 310 (5.58%) Service Analyst
12 290 (5.22%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 286 (5.15%) Service Desk Analyst
14 256 (4.61%) Lead
15 245 (4.41%) 1st Line Support
16 244 (4.39%) Support Technician
17 235 (4.23%) Technical Specialist
18 230 (4.14%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
19 211 (3.80%) Linux Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (1.35%) .NET
2 48 (0.86%) ARM Templates
3 47 (0.85%) LDAP
4 30 (0.54%) SAML
5 29 (0.52%) OAuth
6 24 (0.43%) HTML
7 23 (0.41%) CSS
8 22 (0.40%) 802.1X
9 21 (0.38%) .NET Core
10 20 (0.36%) Web Services
10 20 (0.36%) YAML
11 19 (0.34%) React
12 16 (0.29%) OLE
13 15 (0.27%) REST
14 14 (0.25%) JSON
14 14 (0.25%) RESTful
15 13 (0.23%) LAMP
15 13 (0.23%) SailPoint
16 11 (0.20%) EJB
17 9 (0.16%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 374 (6.73%) Driving Licence
2 289 (5.20%) Data Centre
3 248 (4.46%) Self-Motivation
4 230 (4.14%) Management Information System
5 216 (3.89%) Social Media
6 158 (2.84%) Onboarding
7 141 (2.54%) Replication
8 128 (2.30%) PKI
9 126 (2.27%) Public Cloud
10 116 (2.09%) Clustering
11 107 (1.93%) Video Conferencing
12 97 (1.75%) Smartphone
13 62 (1.12%) Wiki
14 61 (1.10%) iPad
15 60 (1.08%) iPhone
16 59 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
17 54 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
18 48 (0.86%) Private Cloud
19 45 (0.81%) Cyberattack
19 45 (0.81%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 3,848 (69.27%) Windows
2 1,954 (35.18%) Windows Server
3 1,171 (21.08%) Windows 10
4 787 (14.17%) Linux
5 374 (6.73%) Windows Server 2016
6 346 (6.23%) Windows Server 2019
7 327 (5.89%) Windows Server 2012
8 298 (5.36%) Ubuntu
9 231 (4.16%) Android
10 213 (3.83%) Mac OS
11 172 (3.10%) Windows 7
12 149 (2.68%) Apple iOS
13 87 (1.57%) VMS
14 84 (1.51%) Windows Server 2008
15 67 (1.21%) Windows 8
16 57 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 43 (0.77%) Mac OS X
18 39 (0.70%) Unix
19 35 (0.63%) CentOS
20 26 (0.47%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,163 (20.94%) ITIL
2 1,086 (19.55%) Problem-Solving
3 1,025 (18.45%) Customer Service
4 908 (16.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 820 (14.76%) Cybersecurity
6 386 (6.95%) Service Management
7 354 (6.37%) Agile
8 344 (6.19%) ITSM
9 338 (6.08%) Disaster Recovery
10 302 (5.44%) CRM
11 297 (5.35%) Service Delivery
12 293 (5.27%) IT Strategy
13 292 (5.26%) Mentoring
14 284 (5.11%) DevOps
15 281 (5.06%) Project Management
16 279 (5.02%) Migration
17 269 (4.84%) Continuous Improvement
18 254 (4.57%) Incident Management
19 245 (4.41%) Roadmaps
20 243 (4.37%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 881 (15.86%) PowerShell
2 581 (10.46%) SQL
3 337 (6.07%) Bash
4 144 (2.59%) Python
5 102 (1.84%) C#
6 55 (0.99%) VB
7 47 (0.85%) Bicep
8 40 (0.72%) VBScript
9 34 (0.61%) Java
9 34 (0.61%) T-SQL
10 33 (0.59%) JavaScript
11 32 (0.58%) Perl
12 24 (0.43%) PL/SQL
13 19 (0.34%) R
14 15 (0.27%) ActionScript
15 13 (0.23%) TypeScript
16 9 (0.16%) Ruby
16 9 (0.16%) VB.NET
17 8 (0.14%) Shell Script
18 7 (0.13%) PHP
Qualifications
1 718 (12.93%) Degree
2 513 (9.23%) Security Cleared
3 471 (8.48%) Microsoft Certification
4 289 (5.20%) SC Cleared
5 249 (4.48%) DV Cleared
6 170 (3.06%) Cisco Certification
7 164 (2.95%) A+ Certification
8 162 (2.92%) DBS Check
9 159 (2.86%) MCP
10 153 (2.75%) Azure Certification
11 143 (2.57%) MCSE
12 136 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
13 133 (2.39%) CCNA
14 88 (1.58%) ITIL Certification
15 83 (1.49%) MCSA
16 72 (1.30%) Master's Degree
17 61 (1.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 49 (0.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 49 (0.88%) Network+ Certification
19 48 (0.86%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 440 (7.92%) SLA
2 116 (2.09%) Cyber Essentials
3 112 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 94 (1.69%) GDPR
5 32 (0.58%) NIST
6 26 (0.47%) Accessibility
7 18 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 18 (0.32%) Data Quality
8 14 (0.25%) QA
9 13 (0.23%) SOC 2
10 10 (0.18%) PCI DSS
11 9 (0.16%) PMO
12 7 (0.13%) GRC
13 6 (0.11%) NIST 800
13 6 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 5 (0.090%) ISO 9001
15 4 (0.072%) HIPAA
15 4 (0.072%) NCSC
16 3 (0.054%) JSP 440
17 2 (0.036%) GxP
System Software
1 1,077 (19.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 883 (15.90%) Hyper-V
3 315 (5.67%) VMware ESXi
4 204 (3.67%) vSphere
5 185 (3.33%) XenApp
6 160 (2.88%) Virtual Desktop
7 157 (2.83%) XenDesktop
8 144 (2.59%) Virtual Machines
9 78 (1.40%) Virtual Servers
10 71 (1.28%) Microsoft App-V
11 65 (1.17%) Docker
12 45 (0.81%) RACF
13 38 (0.68%) VirtualBox
14 35 (0.63%) Firmware
15 30 (0.54%) Terminal Services
16 27 (0.49%) VMware Workstation
17 24 (0.43%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 21 (0.38%) VMware Server
19 19 (0.34%) NFS
20 18 (0.32%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 1,128 (20.31%) Microsoft Intune
2 623 (11.22%) SCCM
3 267 (4.81%) Jamf Pro
4 187 (3.37%) WSUS
5 157 (2.83%) vCenter Server
6 142 (2.56%) Terraform
7 129 (2.32%) Single Sign-On
8 121 (2.18%) SCOM
9 115 (2.07%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 115 (2.07%) Ansible
10 95 (1.71%) Kubernetes
11 65 (1.17%) AirWatch
12 41 (0.74%) NetBackup
13 40 (0.72%) Failover Clustering
14 39 (0.70%) Microsoft Clustering
15 37 (0.67%) Backup Exec
15 37 (0.67%) FortiGate
16 34 (0.61%) ZABBIX
17 27 (0.49%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
18 25 (0.45%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 3,785 (68.14%) Microsoft
2 1,604 (28.87%) VMware
3 594 (10.69%) Cisco
4 533 (9.59%) Citrix
5 375 (6.75%) Veeam
6 277 (4.99%) CyberArk
7 229 (4.12%) Apple
8 210 (3.78%) Tanium
9 198 (3.56%) HP
10 194 (3.49%) ServiceNow
11 192 (3.46%) Dell
12 160 (2.88%) Google
13 129 (2.32%) Meraki
14 98 (1.76%) SolarWinds
15 93 (1.67%) Sophos
16 92 (1.66%) Fortinet
17 90 (1.62%) NetApp
17 90 (1.62%) Oracle
18 72 (1.30%) Red Hat
19 71 (1.28%) Commvault