Active Directory Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Active Directory
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 32 48 42
Rank change year-on-year +16 -6 -10
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 4,370 3,577 4,531
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.10% 6.07% 6.31%
As % of the System Software category 49.77% 38.72% 36.98%
Number of salaries quoted 3,676 2,938 3,720
10th Percentile £23,750 £24,000 £23,500
25th Percentile £26,750 £27,000 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £36,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% +4.29% -6.67%
75th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £48,750
90th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £60,000
UK median annual salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% - -5.88%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 8,780 9,237 12,251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.26% 15.66% 17.06%
Number of salaries quoted 7,027 5,749 8,322
10th Percentile £25,700 £25,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,070 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Active Directory as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in the UK excluding London

Active Directory
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Active Directory in the UK excluding London

Active Directory
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Active Directory in the UK excluding London

Active Directory
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Active Directory within the UK excluding London 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
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
Scotland -46 243 £35,000 -7.28% 55
North East +27 191 £32,750 -9.03% 21
Wales +19 87 £28,290 -24.56% 18
Northern Ireland -12 12 £37,500 -16.67% 6
Channel Islands 0 4 £85,000 -5.56%
Isle of Man - 4 £43,000 - 2
Active Directory
UK

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1,157 (26.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 718 (16.43%) SharePoint
3 108 (2.47%) IIS
4 31 (0.71%) Exchange Server 2013
5 25 (0.57%) OpenStack
6 15 (0.34%) CMS
7 14 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2010
8 12 (0.27%) SharePoint 2010
8 12 (0.27%) SharePoint 2013
8 12 (0.27%) WordPress
9 11 (0.25%) Confluence
9 11 (0.25%) Skype for Business
10 9 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2007
11 7 (0.16%) Apache
12 6 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2000
13 5 (0.11%) SharePoint Server
13 5 (0.11%) Tomcat
14 4 (0.092%) Exchange Server 2003
14 4 (0.092%) IBM Notes
14 4 (0.092%) SAS
Applications
1 725 (16.59%) Microsoft Office
2 127 (2.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 52 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
5 16 (0.37%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.069%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.046%) CATIA
8 2 (0.046%) NASTRAN
9 1 (0.023%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.023%) PTC Creo
9 1 (0.023%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 9 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
1 9 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
2 6 (0.14%) SAP ERP
3 5 (0.11%) Sage 200
4 4 (0.092%) Epicor Tropos
4 4 (0.092%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.069%) Sage X3
5 3 (0.069%) Teamcenter
6 2 (0.046%) assyst
6 2 (0.046%) iTrent
7 1 (0.023%) MIS ActiveH
7 1 (0.023%) Sage 300 ERP
7 1 (0.023%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2,782 (63.66%) Microsoft 365
2 2,092 (47.87%) Azure
3 1,137 (26.02%) Entra ID
4 339 (7.76%) OneDrive
5 305 (6.98%) AWS
6 123 (2.81%) Power Platform
7 91 (2.08%) IaaS
8 85 (1.95%) SaaS
9 77 (1.76%) GCP
10 69 (1.58%) Mimecast
11 63 (1.44%) Power Automate
12 57 (1.30%) Cloud Computing
12 57 (1.30%) PaaS
13 55 (1.26%) PowerApps
14 53 (1.21%) Google Workspace
15 46 (1.05%) Azure DevOps
16 45 (1.03%) Nutanix
17 38 (0.87%) Dynamics 365
18 34 (0.78%) Azure Monitor
19 33 (0.76%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1,001 (22.91%) DNS
2 995 (22.77%) Firewall
3 790 (18.08%) DHCP
4 553 (12.65%) WAN
5 504 (11.53%) LAN
6 420 (9.61%) TCP/IP
7 408 (9.34%) VPN
8 335 (7.67%) SAN
9 262 (6.00%) Wi-Fi
10 240 (5.49%) VLAN
11 227 (5.19%) Wireless
12 226 (5.17%) VoIP
13 122 (2.79%) Network Security
14 110 (2.52%) NAS
15 107 (2.45%) Internet
16 105 (2.40%) Remote Desktop
17 97 (2.22%) Broadband
18 85 (1.95%) SD-WAN
19 77 (1.76%) 5G
19 77 (1.76%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 260 (5.95%) SQL Server
2 88 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
3 83 (1.90%) Power BI
4 65 (1.49%) Metadata
5 37 (0.85%) MySQL
6 33 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
7 18 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
7 18 (0.41%) Relational Database
8 17 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 15 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 14 (0.32%) Oracle Database
11 11 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (0.21%) NoSQL
12 9 (0.21%) RDBMS
12 9 (0.21%) Redis
13 8 (0.18%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (0.18%) MariaDB
14 6 (0.14%) InfluxDB
14 6 (0.14%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 90 (2.06%) Git
2 88 (2.01%) Jenkins
3 68 (1.56%) Bitbucket
4 65 (1.49%) Artifactory
5 40 (0.92%) JIRA
6 10 (0.23%) MSI
6 10 (0.23%) Trac
7 9 (0.21%) Visual Studio
8 7 (0.16%) GitLab
9 6 (0.14%) Robot Framework
9 6 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.092%) AdminStudio
10 4 (0.092%) Hudson
10 4 (0.092%) InstallShield
11 3 (0.069%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.069%) Visual Studio Code
12 2 (0.046%) Postman
12 2 (0.046%) SpecFlow
12 2 (0.046%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 2 (0.046%) webpack
General
1 1,411 (32.29%) Social Skills
2 435 (9.95%) Finance
3 398 (9.11%) Analytical Skills
4 263 (6.02%) Law
5 226 (5.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 182 (4.16%) Organisational Skills
7 158 (3.62%) Manufacturing
8 157 (3.59%) Retail
9 127 (2.91%) Telecoms
10 108 (2.47%) Legal
11 104 (2.38%) Public Sector
12 85 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
12 85 (1.95%) Marketing
13 33 (0.76%) Games
14 30 (0.69%) Local Government
15 24 (0.55%) Banking
16 23 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
17 21 (0.48%) Advertising
18 19 (0.43%) Aerospace
19 18 (0.41%) Police
Job Titles
1 937 (21.44%) IT Support
2 828 (18.95%) Support Engineer
3 703 (16.09%) Analyst
4 702 (16.06%) IT Engineer
5 583 (13.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 482 (11.03%) IT Support Engineer
7 425 (9.73%) Senior
8 384 (8.79%) 2nd Line Support
9 325 (7.44%) IT Technician
10 277 (6.34%) IT Analyst
11 245 (5.61%) Lead
11 245 (5.61%) Support Analyst
12 242 (5.54%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 242 (5.54%) Service Analyst
13 234 (5.35%) Support Technician
14 224 (5.13%) Service Desk Analyst
15 218 (4.99%) 1st Line Support
16 201 (4.60%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
17 193 (4.42%) 3rd Line Support
18 190 (4.35%) IT Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (2.08%) LDAP
2 82 (1.88%) SAML
3 79 (1.81%) JSON
3 79 (1.81%) RESTful
4 73 (1.67%) Web Services
5 71 (1.62%) OpenID
6 70 (1.60%) XML
7 65 (1.49%) JSON-LD
8 29 (0.66%) .NET
9 23 (0.53%) ARM Templates
10 16 (0.37%) OLE
11 14 (0.32%) CSS
12 12 (0.27%) HTML
12 12 (0.27%) OAuth
13 8 (0.18%) 802.1X
14 7 (0.16%) EJB
14 7 (0.16%) SailPoint
15 6 (0.14%) LAMP
15 6 (0.14%) Middleware
15 6 (0.14%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 358 (8.19%) Driving Licence
2 244 (5.58%) Data Centre
3 223 (5.10%) Management Information System
4 208 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
5 133 (3.04%) Onboarding
6 115 (2.63%) Replication
7 104 (2.38%) PKI
8 85 (1.95%) Clustering
9 80 (1.83%) Public Cloud
10 73 (1.67%) Enterprise Cloud
11 68 (1.56%) Social Media
12 66 (1.51%) Smartphone
13 65 (1.49%) Reference Data
14 43 (0.98%) Enterprise Storage
15 41 (0.94%) Fat Client
15 41 (0.94%) Thin Client
16 36 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
16 36 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
17 34 (0.78%) Private Cloud
18 33 (0.76%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 3,113 (71.24%) Windows
2 1,735 (39.70%) Windows Server
3 897 (20.53%) Windows 10
4 503 (11.51%) Linux
5 332 (7.60%) Windows Server 2016
6 312 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
7 283 (6.48%) Windows Server 2012
8 163 (3.73%) Mac OS
9 162 (3.71%) Windows 7
10 135 (3.09%) Android
11 119 (2.72%) Apple iOS
12 100 (2.29%) Ubuntu
13 78 (1.78%) Windows 8
14 56 (1.28%) Windows Server 2008
15 41 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 39 (0.89%) VMS
17 38 (0.87%) CentOS
18 30 (0.69%) Unix
19 28 (0.64%) Windows Server 2003
20 24 (0.55%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 991 (22.68%) ITIL
2 917 (20.98%) Problem-Solving
3 850 (19.45%) Customer Service
4 758 (17.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 536 (12.27%) Cybersecurity
6 301 (6.89%) Service Management
7 267 (6.11%) Disaster Recovery
8 259 (5.93%) Agile
9 240 (5.49%) Mentoring
10 232 (5.31%) Service Delivery
11 226 (5.17%) ITSM
12 217 (4.97%) Roadmaps
13 214 (4.90%) Incident Management
14 213 (4.87%) Project Management
15 204 (4.67%) Migration
16 196 (4.49%) Continuous Improvement
17 186 (4.26%) Change Management
18 166 (3.80%) DevOps
19 152 (3.48%) Project Delivery
20 151 (3.46%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 605 (13.84%) PowerShell
2 434 (9.93%) SQL
3 140 (3.20%) Bash
4 103 (2.36%) Python
5 69 (1.58%) Go
6 65 (1.49%) Prolog
6 65 (1.49%) SPARQL
7 49 (1.12%) C#
8 45 (1.03%) VB
9 36 (0.82%) VBScript
10 26 (0.59%) JavaScript
11 19 (0.43%) Perl
11 19 (0.43%) R
12 18 (0.41%) Bicep
12 18 (0.41%) Java
13 16 (0.37%) T-SQL
14 11 (0.25%) ActionScript
15 9 (0.21%) PL/SQL
16 8 (0.18%) VB.NET
17 7 (0.16%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 511 (11.69%) Degree
2 432 (9.89%) Security Cleared
3 411 (9.41%) Microsoft Certification
4 274 (6.27%) SC Cleared
5 199 (4.55%) DV Cleared
6 159 (3.64%) A+ Certification
7 150 (3.43%) Cisco Certification
8 146 (3.34%) MCP
9 131 (3.00%) DBS Check
10 125 (2.86%) CCNA
11 120 (2.75%) Azure Certification
12 116 (2.65%) MCSE
13 81 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
14 75 (1.72%) ITIL Certification
15 68 (1.56%) MCSA
16 46 (1.05%) CCNP
17 44 (1.01%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 42 (0.96%) Network+ Certification
19 33 (0.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
20 26 (0.59%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 355 (8.12%) SLA
2 95 (2.17%) GDPR
3 81 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 79 (1.81%) Cyber Essentials
5 21 (0.48%) NIST
6 17 (0.39%) Accessibility
7 14 (0.32%) Data Quality
8 8 (0.18%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (0.11%) ISO 9001
11 4 (0.092%) NCSC
12 3 (0.069%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.069%) JSP 440
12 3 (0.069%) QA
12 3 (0.069%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.023%) GRC
13 1 (0.023%) ISO 14001
13 1 (0.023%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 1 (0.023%) PMO
13 1 (0.023%) SOC 2
System Software
1 908 (20.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 839 (19.20%) Hyper-V
3 180 (4.12%) VMware ESXi
4 155 (3.55%) vSphere
5 126 (2.88%) Virtual Machines
6 125 (2.86%) Virtual Desktop
7 93 (2.13%) XenApp
8 78 (1.78%) XenDesktop
9 53 (1.21%) Docker
10 45 (1.03%) Virtual Servers
11 43 (0.98%) VirtualBox
12 32 (0.73%) Firmware
13 21 (0.48%) VMware Server
14 20 (0.46%) VMware Workstation
15 19 (0.43%) Terminal Services
16 18 (0.41%) pfSense
17 16 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 16 (0.37%) NFS
18 14 (0.32%) Citrix Hypervisor
19 11 (0.25%) OpenSSH
Systems Management
1 800 (18.31%) Microsoft Intune
2 448 (10.25%) SCCM
3 143 (3.27%) WSUS
4 106 (2.43%) SCOM
5 102 (2.33%) vCenter Server
6 100 (2.29%) Jamf Pro
7 76 (1.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 69 (1.58%) Kubernetes
9 61 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
10 53 (1.21%) Ansible
11 47 (1.08%) Terraform
12 41 (0.94%) Failover Clustering
13 39 (0.89%) ZABBIX
14 37 (0.85%) FortiGate
15 32 (0.73%) NetBackup
16 25 (0.57%) Backup Exec
16 25 (0.57%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
17 24 (0.55%) EMC NetWorker
18 20 (0.46%) Grafana
19 18 (0.41%) VxRail
Vendors
1 2,915 (66.70%) Microsoft
2 1,356 (31.03%) VMware
3 438 (10.02%) Cisco
4 375 (8.58%) Citrix
5 318 (7.28%) Veeam
6 160 (3.66%) Apple
6 160 (3.66%) Dell
7 153 (3.50%) HP
8 127 (2.91%) ServiceNow
9 111 (2.54%) Meraki
10 109 (2.49%) Google
11 95 (2.17%) CyberArk
12 94 (2.15%) Sophos
13 89 (2.04%) Fortinet
13 89 (2.04%) NetApp
14 73 (1.67%) SolarWinds
15 68 (1.56%) Oracle
16 67 (1.53%) Tanium
17 60 (1.37%) Aruba
18 58 (1.33%) Adobe