Microsoft Active Directory
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 33 50 75
Rank change year-on-year +17 +25 -31
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 5,962 5,605 7,628
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.97% 5.65% 4.75%
As % of the System Software category 49.77% 36.45% 25.83%
Number of salaries quoted 4,797 4,644 6,153
10th Percentile £24,500 £25,000 £24,750
25th Percentile £28,290 £30,000 £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 £56,250
90th Percentile £65,625 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £36,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year -4.11% +4.29% -6.67%

All System Software Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 11,980 15,379 29,531
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.99% 15.51% 18.37%
Number of salaries quoted 9,464 10,075 15,564
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,860 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,000
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 £85,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Active Directory as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in the UK

Active Directory
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Active Directory in the UK

Active Directory
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Active Directory in the UK

Active Directory
Top 19 Job Locations

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 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
England +20 5,501 £37,500 -6.25% 1,096
UK excluding London +16 4,370 £35,000 -4.11% 911
Work from Home +17 1,868 £45,000 - 373
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
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
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1,623 (27.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 944 (15.83%) SharePoint
3 150 (2.52%) IIS
4 45 (0.75%) Exchange Server 2013
5 29 (0.49%) Confluence
5 29 (0.49%) Exchange Server 2010
6 27 (0.45%) OpenStack
7 24 (0.40%) Skype for Business
8 19 (0.32%) SharePoint 2013
9 17 (0.29%) CMS
9 17 (0.29%) SharePoint 2010
9 17 (0.29%) WordPress
10 12 (0.20%) Tomcat
11 11 (0.18%) Apache
11 11 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2007
12 8 (0.13%) SAS
13 6 (0.10%) Exchange Server 2000
14 5 (0.084%) SharePoint Server
15 4 (0.067%) BizTalk Server
15 4 (0.067%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 932 (15.63%) Microsoft Office
2 151 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 66 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
5 17 (0.29%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.084%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.067%) AutoCAD
9 3 (0.050%) SPSS
10 2 (0.034%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.034%) CATIA
10 2 (0.034%) InCopy
10 2 (0.034%) InDesign
10 2 (0.034%) NASTRAN
11 1 (0.017%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.017%) PTC Creo
11 1 (0.017%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.017%) Weka
Business Applications
1 30 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.18%) NEC Housing
2 11 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
3 9 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
4 6 (0.10%) Elite 3E
4 6 (0.10%) SAP ERP
5 5 (0.084%) Sage 200
6 4 (0.067%) Eikon
6 4 (0.067%) Epicor Tropos
7 3 (0.050%) Adaptiv
7 3 (0.050%) Sage X3
7 3 (0.050%) Teamcenter
8 2 (0.034%) assyst
8 2 (0.034%) iTrent
9 1 (0.017%) Carpe Diem
9 1 (0.017%) MIS ActiveH
9 1 (0.017%) Sage 300 ERP
9 1 (0.017%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.017%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3,642 (61.09%) Microsoft 365
2 2,970 (49.82%) Azure
3 1,662 (27.88%) Entra ID
4 470 (7.88%) AWS
5 428 (7.18%) OneDrive
6 178 (2.99%) Power Platform
7 167 (2.80%) IaaS
8 153 (2.57%) SaaS
9 129 (2.16%) PaaS
10 120 (2.01%) Mimecast
11 112 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
12 103 (1.73%) GCP
13 99 (1.66%) Power Automate
14 86 (1.44%) Cloud Computing
15 81 (1.36%) Dynamics 365
15 81 (1.36%) Google Workspace
16 78 (1.31%) Azure Monitor
16 78 (1.31%) PowerApps
17 69 (1.16%) Nutanix
18 53 (0.89%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 1,288 (21.60%) DNS
2 1,277 (21.42%) Firewall
3 974 (16.34%) DHCP
4 809 (13.57%) WAN
5 702 (11.77%) LAN
6 575 (9.64%) VPN
7 507 (8.50%) TCP/IP
8 424 (7.11%) SAN
9 383 (6.42%) Wireless
10 358 (6.00%) Wi-Fi
11 300 (5.03%) VLAN
12 262 (4.39%) Broadband
13 256 (4.29%) VoIP
14 220 (3.69%) 5G
15 209 (3.51%) SD-WAN
16 189 (3.17%) Internet
17 166 (2.78%) Network Security
18 152 (2.55%) Remote Desktop
19 139 (2.33%) NAS
20 116 (1.95%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 387 (6.49%) SQL Server
2 104 (1.74%) Power BI
3 94 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
4 65 (1.09%) Metadata
5 63 (1.06%) MySQL
6 50 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
7 48 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
8 40 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 30 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 29 (0.49%) Relational Database
11 20 (0.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 18 (0.30%) Redis
13 17 (0.29%) Oracle Database
14 16 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
15 14 (0.23%) MariaDB
16 13 (0.22%) NoSQL
16 13 (0.22%) RDBMS
17 12 (0.20%) Elasticsearch
18 10 (0.17%) Amazon Redshift
19 8 (0.13%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 113 (1.90%) Jenkins
2 105 (1.76%) Git
3 85 (1.43%) Bitbucket
4 80 (1.34%) JIRA
5 66 (1.11%) Artifactory
6 27 (0.45%) GitLab
7 12 (0.20%) Visual Studio
8 11 (0.18%) MSI
9 10 (0.17%) Trac
10 7 (0.12%) Katalon Studio
11 6 (0.10%) Robot Framework
11 6 (0.10%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (0.084%) CircleCI
12 5 (0.084%) git-flow
12 5 (0.084%) Moq
12 5 (0.084%) Octopus Deploy
12 5 (0.084%) Postman
12 5 (0.084%) SpecFlow
13 4 (0.067%) Hudson
13 4 (0.067%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,929 (32.35%) Social Skills
2 725 (12.16%) Analytical Skills
3 701 (11.76%) Finance
4 436 (7.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 362 (6.07%) Law
6 217 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
7 215 (3.61%) Retail
8 187 (3.14%) Legal
9 170 (2.85%) Manufacturing
10 145 (2.43%) Public Sector
11 139 (2.33%) Telecoms
12 103 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
13 100 (1.68%) Marketing
14 98 (1.64%) Banking
15 51 (0.86%) Games
16 50 (0.84%) Local Government
17 49 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
18 44 (0.74%) Back Office
19 31 (0.52%) Advertising
20 27 (0.45%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,213 (20.35%) IT Support
2 1,025 (17.19%) Support Engineer
3 958 (16.07%) Analyst
4 815 (13.67%) IT Engineer
5 749 (12.56%) Senior
6 724 (12.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 556 (9.33%) IT Support Engineer
8 463 (7.77%) 2nd Line Support
9 379 (6.36%) IT Analyst
10 364 (6.11%) IT Technician
11 356 (5.97%) Support Analyst
12 321 (5.38%) Lead
13 311 (5.22%) Service Analyst
14 304 (5.10%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 289 (4.85%) Service Desk Analyst
16 253 (4.24%) 1st Line Support
17 250 (4.19%) Support Technician
18 241 (4.04%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
19 234 (3.92%) Technical Specialist
20 223 (3.74%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (1.86%) LDAP
2 102 (1.71%) SAML
3 90 (1.51%) JSON
4 85 (1.43%) Web Services
5 82 (1.38%) RESTful
6 81 (1.36%) .NET
7 74 (1.24%) XML
8 73 (1.22%) OpenID
9 65 (1.09%) JSON-LD
10 49 (0.82%) ARM Templates
11 29 (0.49%) OAuth
12 27 (0.45%) HTML
13 23 (0.39%) CSS
14 22 (0.37%) .NET Core
15 21 (0.35%) 802.1X
15 21 (0.35%) React
16 19 (0.32%) REST
17 16 (0.27%) OLE
17 16 (0.27%) YAML
18 15 (0.25%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 382 (6.41%) Driving Licence
2 348 (5.84%) Data Centre
3 301 (5.05%) Management Information System
4 256 (4.29%) Self-Motivation
5 219 (3.67%) Social Media
6 189 (3.17%) Onboarding
7 157 (2.63%) Replication
8 142 (2.38%) Video Conferencing
9 128 (2.15%) PKI
9 128 (2.15%) Public Cloud
10 111 (1.86%) Clustering
11 97 (1.63%) Smartphone
12 93 (1.56%) Wiki
13 82 (1.38%) Enterprise Cloud
14 71 (1.19%) iPhone
15 66 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
16 65 (1.09%) Reference Data
17 62 (1.04%) Cyberattack
17 62 (1.04%) iPad
18 49 (0.82%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4,122 (69.14%) Windows
2 2,131 (35.74%) Windows Server
3 1,268 (21.27%) Windows 10
4 820 (13.75%) Linux
5 392 (6.57%) Windows Server 2016
6 363 (6.09%) Windows Server 2019
7 359 (6.02%) Windows Server 2012
8 295 (4.95%) Ubuntu
9 271 (4.55%) Android
10 217 (3.64%) Mac OS
11 185 (3.10%) Windows 7
12 166 (2.78%) Apple iOS
13 89 (1.49%) Windows Server 2008
14 85 (1.43%) VMS
15 78 (1.31%) Windows 8
16 65 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 46 (0.77%) Unix
18 44 (0.74%) CentOS
19 43 (0.72%) Mac OS X
20 29 (0.49%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,232 (20.66%) ITIL
2 1,164 (19.52%) Problem-Solving
3 1,043 (17.49%) Customer Service
4 948 (15.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 857 (14.37%) Cybersecurity
6 398 (6.68%) Agile
7 385 (6.46%) Service Management
8 363 (6.09%) Disaster Recovery
9 360 (6.04%) ITSM
10 318 (5.33%) Mentoring
11 314 (5.27%) Service Delivery
12 309 (5.18%) DevOps
13 305 (5.12%) CRM
14 300 (5.03%) IT Strategy
15 296 (4.96%) Roadmaps
16 295 (4.95%) Project Management
17 292 (4.90%) Migration
18 291 (4.88%) Continuous Improvement
19 265 (4.44%) Incident Management
20 259 (4.34%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 899 (15.08%) PowerShell
2 599 (10.05%) SQL
3 340 (5.70%) Bash
4 143 (2.40%) Python
5 108 (1.81%) C#
6 69 (1.16%) Go
7 65 (1.09%) Prolog
7 65 (1.09%) SPARQL
8 46 (0.77%) VB
9 44 (0.74%) T-SQL
10 38 (0.64%) Bicep
11 36 (0.60%) VBScript
12 35 (0.59%) JavaScript
13 31 (0.52%) Perl
14 30 (0.50%) Java
15 27 (0.45%) PL/SQL
16 19 (0.32%) R
17 15 (0.25%) TypeScript
18 12 (0.20%) Ruby
18 12 (0.20%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 779 (13.07%) Degree
2 555 (9.31%) Security Cleared
3 496 (8.32%) Microsoft Certification
4 322 (5.40%) SC Cleared
5 257 (4.31%) DV Cleared
6 197 (3.30%) Cisco Certification
7 185 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
8 175 (2.94%) Azure Certification
9 173 (2.90%) A+ Certification
10 160 (2.68%) DBS Check
11 157 (2.63%) MCSE
12 153 (2.57%) MCP
13 151 (2.53%) CCNA
14 105 (1.76%) Master's Degree
15 103 (1.73%) MCSA
16 90 (1.51%) ITIL Certification
17 74 (1.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 50 (0.84%) CISSP
18 50 (0.84%) Network+ Certification
19 49 (0.82%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 468 (7.85%) SLA
2 126 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 125 (2.10%) Cyber Essentials
4 109 (1.83%) GDPR
5 35 (0.59%) NIST
6 29 (0.49%) Accessibility
7 24 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 17 (0.29%) QA
9 14 (0.23%) Data Quality
9 14 (0.23%) PCI DSS
10 13 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 13 (0.22%) SOC 2
11 11 (0.18%) PMO
12 9 (0.15%) GRC
13 6 (0.10%) NIST 800
14 5 (0.084%) IASME
14 5 (0.084%) ISO 9001
15 4 (0.067%) NCSC
16 3 (0.050%) HIPAA
16 3 (0.050%) WCAG
System Software
1 1,155 (19.37%) VMware Infrastructure
2 917 (15.38%) Hyper-V
3 358 (6.00%) VMware ESXi
4 209 (3.51%) vSphere
5 206 (3.46%) XenApp
6 183 (3.07%) XenDesktop
7 160 (2.68%) Virtual Desktop
8 144 (2.42%) Virtual Machines
9 97 (1.63%) Microsoft App-V
10 81 (1.36%) Docker
11 77 (1.29%) Virtual Servers
12 43 (0.72%) VirtualBox
13 37 (0.62%) Firmware
14 26 (0.44%) Terminal Services
14 26 (0.44%) VMware Workstation
15 21 (0.35%) VMware Server
16 20 (0.34%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 19 (0.32%) NFS
18 18 (0.30%) pfSense
19 14 (0.23%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 1,189 (19.94%) Microsoft Intune
2 680 (11.41%) SCCM
3 266 (4.46%) Jamf Pro
4 180 (3.02%) WSUS
5 156 (2.62%) vCenter Server
6 142 (2.38%) Terraform
7 136 (2.28%) Single Sign-On
8 128 (2.15%) Ansible
9 120 (2.01%) SCOM
10 113 (1.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 107 (1.79%) Kubernetes
12 96 (1.61%) AirWatch
13 43 (0.72%) Failover Clustering
14 41 (0.69%) FortiGate
14 41 (0.69%) NetBackup
14 41 (0.69%) ZABBIX
15 37 (0.62%) Backup Exec
16 35 (0.59%) Microsoft Clustering
17 26 (0.44%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
18 24 (0.40%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 3,992 (66.96%) Microsoft
2 1,712 (28.72%) VMware
3 658 (11.04%) Cisco
4 587 (9.85%) Citrix
5 399 (6.69%) Veeam
6 245 (4.11%) CyberArk
7 226 (3.79%) Apple
8 210 (3.52%) Tanium
9 209 (3.51%) HP
10 196 (3.29%) ServiceNow
11 188 (3.15%) Dell
12 166 (2.78%) Google
13 141 (2.36%) Meraki
14 106 (1.78%) NetApp
15 103 (1.73%) SolarWinds
16 102 (1.71%) Sophos
17 96 (1.61%) Fortinet
18 94 (1.58%) Oracle
19 79 (1.33%) Red Hat
20 75 (1.26%) Commvault