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

6 months to
21 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 4,388 3,560 4,568
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.12% 6.05% 6.28%
As % of the System Software category 49.85% 38.43% 36.99%
Number of salaries quoted 3,669 2,920 3,757
10th Percentile £23,500 £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 8,802 9,263 12,348
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.27% 15.73% 16.97%
Number of salaries quoted 7,016 5,738 8,389
10th Percentile £25,625 £25,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,750
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 £67,500 £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 21 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 21 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 -1 1,169 £37,500 +7.14% 205
North of England +33 1,088 £35,000 -7.89% 211
Midlands +26 770 £33,500 -8.22% 161
South West +23 539 £37,500 +2.74% 122
North West +9 506 £37,500 -9.64% 112
East of England +12 473 £31,000 -15.65% 106
West Midlands +32 468 £34,750 -4.14% 92
Yorkshire +42 393 £32,500 -5.80% 82
East Midlands +17 296 £32,500 -10.96% 69
Scotland -49 246 £35,000 -7.28% 52
North East +26 189 £33,000 -8.33% 20
Wales +18 85 £28,290 -24.56% 18
Northern Ireland -3 12 £37,500 -16.67% 3
Channel Islands 0 4 £85,000 -5.56%
Isle of Man -12 4 £43,000 -40.69% 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 1,160 (26.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 719 (16.39%) SharePoint
3 108 (2.46%) IIS
4 30 (0.68%) 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
10 10 (0.23%) Skype for Business
11 9 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2007
12 7 (0.16%) Apache
13 6 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2000
14 5 (0.11%) SharePoint Server
14 5 (0.11%) Tomcat
15 4 (0.091%) Exchange Server 2003
15 4 (0.091%) IBM Notes
15 4 (0.091%) SAS
Applications
1 726 (16.55%) Microsoft Office
2 129 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 55 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
5 16 (0.36%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.068%) 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 (0.091%) Epicor Tropos
4 4 (0.091%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.068%) Sage X3
5 3 (0.068%) 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 2,772 (63.17%) Microsoft 365
2 2,087 (47.56%) Azure
3 1,162 (26.48%) Entra ID
4 344 (7.84%) OneDrive
5 306 (6.97%) AWS
6 121 (2.76%) Power Platform
7 92 (2.10%) IaaS
8 85 (1.94%) SaaS
9 75 (1.71%) GCP
10 70 (1.60%) Mimecast
11 62 (1.41%) Power Automate
12 58 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
13 56 (1.28%) PaaS
14 54 (1.23%) PowerApps
15 52 (1.19%) Google Workspace
16 47 (1.07%) Nutanix
17 46 (1.05%) Azure DevOps
18 38 (0.87%) Dynamics 365
19 35 (0.80%) Azure Monitor
20 30 (0.68%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1,004 (22.88%) DNS
2 992 (22.61%) Firewall
3 792 (18.05%) DHCP
4 552 (12.58%) WAN
5 504 (11.49%) LAN
6 419 (9.55%) TCP/IP
7 412 (9.39%) VPN
8 336 (7.66%) SAN
9 258 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
10 239 (5.45%) VLAN
11 227 (5.17%) Wireless
12 222 (5.06%) VoIP
13 124 (2.83%) Network Security
14 110 (2.51%) NAS
15 108 (2.46%) Internet
16 106 (2.42%) Remote Desktop
17 97 (2.21%) Broadband
18 84 (1.91%) SD-WAN
19 77 (1.75%) 5G
19 77 (1.75%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 257 (5.86%) SQL Server
2 85 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
3 82 (1.87%) Power BI
4 65 (1.48%) Metadata
5 36 (0.82%) MySQL
6 32 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
7 19 (0.43%) Relational Database
8 18 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
9 17 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 14 (0.32%) Oracle Database
10 14 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 10 (0.23%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (0.21%) RDBMS
13 8 (0.18%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (0.18%) NoSQL
13 8 (0.18%) Redis
14 7 (0.16%) MariaDB
15 6 (0.14%) Crystal Reports
15 6 (0.14%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 91 (2.07%) Git
2 88 (2.01%) Jenkins
3 68 (1.55%) Bitbucket
4 65 (1.48%) Artifactory
5 40 (0.91%) JIRA
6 11 (0.25%) MSI
7 10 (0.23%) Trac
8 9 (0.21%) Visual Studio
9 7 (0.16%) GitLab
10 6 (0.14%) Robot Framework
10 6 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (0.11%) AdminStudio
11 5 (0.11%) InstallShield
12 4 (0.091%) Hudson
13 3 (0.068%) SonarQube
13 3 (0.068%) Visual Studio Code
14 2 (0.046%) Moq
14 2 (0.046%) Postman
14 2 (0.046%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 2 (0.046%) webpack
General
1 1,410 (32.13%) Social Skills
2 462 (10.53%) Finance
3 398 (9.07%) Analytical Skills
4 262 (5.97%) Law
5 226 (5.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 181 (4.12%) Organisational Skills
7 158 (3.60%) Manufacturing
8 155 (3.53%) Retail
9 127 (2.89%) Legal
9 127 (2.89%) Telecoms
10 102 (2.32%) Public Sector
11 85 (1.94%) Marketing
12 84 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
13 46 (1.05%) Banking
14 33 (0.75%) Games
15 30 (0.68%) Local Government
16 23 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
17 21 (0.48%) Advertising
18 19 (0.43%) Aerospace
19 17 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 933 (21.26%) IT Support
2 829 (18.89%) Support Engineer
3 720 (16.41%) Analyst
4 700 (15.95%) IT Engineer
5 582 (13.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 480 (10.94%) IT Support Engineer
7 445 (10.14%) Senior
8 387 (8.82%) 2nd Line Support
9 324 (7.38%) IT Technician
10 275 (6.27%) IT Analyst
11 246 (5.61%) Lead
12 243 (5.54%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 243 (5.54%) Support Analyst
13 242 (5.52%) Service Analyst
14 234 (5.33%) Support Technician
15 224 (5.10%) Service Desk Analyst
16 217 (4.95%) 1st Line Support
17 203 (4.63%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
18 191 (4.35%) 3rd Line Support
19 190 (4.33%) IT Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (2.07%) LDAP
2 82 (1.87%) SAML
3 79 (1.80%) RESTful
4 78 (1.78%) JSON
5 73 (1.66%) Web Services
6 71 (1.62%) OpenID
7 70 (1.60%) XML
8 65 (1.48%) JSON-LD
9 29 (0.66%) .NET
10 24 (0.55%) ARM Templates
11 16 (0.36%) OLE
12 14 (0.32%) CSS
13 12 (0.27%) HTML
13 12 (0.27%) OAuth
14 8 (0.18%) 802.1X
15 7 (0.16%) EJB
15 7 (0.16%) SailPoint
16 6 (0.14%) LAMP
16 6 (0.14%) Middleware
16 6 (0.14%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 356 (8.11%) Driving Licence
2 245 (5.58%) Management Information System
3 244 (5.56%) Data Centre
4 210 (4.79%) Self-Motivation
5 131 (2.99%) Onboarding
6 114 (2.60%) Replication
7 103 (2.35%) PKI
8 85 (1.94%) Clustering
9 80 (1.82%) Public Cloud
10 73 (1.66%) Enterprise Cloud
11 68 (1.55%) Social Media
12 67 (1.53%) Smartphone
13 65 (1.48%) Reference Data
14 42 (0.96%) Enterprise Storage
15 41 (0.93%) Fat Client
15 41 (0.93%) Thin Client
16 36 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
16 36 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
17 34 (0.77%) Private Cloud
18 33 (0.75%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 3,106 (70.78%) Windows
2 1,723 (39.27%) Windows Server
3 900 (20.51%) Windows 10
4 505 (11.51%) Linux
5 331 (7.54%) Windows Server 2016
6 311 (7.09%) Windows Server 2019
7 283 (6.45%) Windows Server 2012
8 164 (3.74%) Mac OS
9 163 (3.71%) Windows 7
10 135 (3.08%) Android
11 120 (2.73%) Apple iOS
12 100 (2.28%) Ubuntu
13 78 (1.78%) Windows 8
14 58 (1.32%) Windows Server 2008
15 39 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 39 (0.89%) VMS
16 38 (0.87%) CentOS
17 31 (0.71%) Unix
18 28 (0.64%) Windows Server 2003
19 24 (0.55%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 997 (22.72%) ITIL
2 917 (20.90%) Problem-Solving
3 847 (19.30%) Customer Service
4 754 (17.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 555 (12.65%) Cybersecurity
6 302 (6.88%) Service Management
7 285 (6.49%) Agile
8 268 (6.11%) Disaster Recovery
9 241 (5.49%) Roadmaps
10 240 (5.47%) Mentoring
11 232 (5.29%) Service Delivery
12 226 (5.15%) ITSM
13 214 (4.88%) Project Management
14 211 (4.81%) Incident Management
15 206 (4.69%) Migration
16 198 (4.51%) Continuous Improvement
17 187 (4.26%) Change Management
18 167 (3.81%) DevOps
19 156 (3.56%) Identity Access Management
20 152 (3.46%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 622 (14.18%) PowerShell
2 455 (10.37%) SQL
3 140 (3.19%) Bash
4 102 (2.32%) Python
5 69 (1.57%) Go
6 65 (1.48%) Prolog
6 65 (1.48%) SPARQL
7 51 (1.16%) C#
8 47 (1.07%) VB
9 37 (0.84%) VBScript
10 25 (0.57%) JavaScript
11 20 (0.46%) Perl
12 19 (0.43%) Bicep
12 19 (0.43%) R
13 18 (0.41%) Java
14 15 (0.34%) T-SQL
15 11 (0.25%) ActionScript
16 9 (0.21%) PL/SQL
17 8 (0.18%) Shell Script
17 8 (0.18%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 513 (11.69%) Degree
2 433 (9.87%) Security Cleared
3 409 (9.32%) Microsoft Certification
4 275 (6.27%) SC Cleared
5 199 (4.54%) DV Cleared
6 159 (3.62%) A+ Certification
7 148 (3.37%) Cisco Certification
8 147 (3.35%) MCP
9 130 (2.96%) DBS Check
10 123 (2.80%) CCNA
11 118 (2.69%) Azure Certification
12 115 (2.62%) MCSE
13 82 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
14 75 (1.71%) ITIL Certification
15 67 (1.53%) MCSA
16 46 (1.05%) CCNP
17 45 (1.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 42 (0.96%) Network+ Certification
19 33 (0.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
20 26 (0.59%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 355 (8.09%) SLA
2 95 (2.16%) GDPR
3 81 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 79 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials
5 21 (0.48%) NIST
6 16 (0.36%) Accessibility
7 15 (0.34%) Data Quality
8 8 (0.18%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 4 (0.091%) ISO 9001
10 4 (0.091%) NCSC
10 4 (0.091%) QA
11 3 (0.068%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.068%) JSP 440
11 3 (0.068%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.023%) GRC
12 1 (0.023%) GxP
12 1 (0.023%) ISO 14001
12 1 (0.023%) PMO
12 1 (0.023%) SOC 2
System Software
1 906 (20.65%) VMware Infrastructure
2 836 (19.05%) Hyper-V
3 182 (4.15%) VMware ESXi
4 155 (3.53%) vSphere
5 128 (2.92%) Virtual Machines
6 125 (2.85%) Virtual Desktop
7 93 (2.12%) XenApp
8 78 (1.78%) XenDesktop
9 52 (1.19%) Docker
10 45 (1.03%) Virtual Servers
11 43 (0.98%) VirtualBox
12 31 (0.71%) Firmware
12 31 (0.71%) RACF
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 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 16 (0.36%) NFS
18 13 (0.30%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 802 (18.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 450 (10.26%) SCCM
3 144 (3.28%) WSUS
4 107 (2.44%) SCOM
5 104 (2.37%) vCenter Server
6 100 (2.28%) Jamf Pro
7 77 (1.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 70 (1.60%) Kubernetes
9 61 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
10 52 (1.19%) Ansible
11 45 (1.03%) Terraform
12 41 (0.93%) Failover Clustering
13 40 (0.91%) ZABBIX
14 37 (0.84%) 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%) Autotask
Vendors
1 2,934 (66.86%) Microsoft
2 1,356 (30.90%) VMware
3 437 (9.96%) Cisco
4 375 (8.55%) Citrix
5 319 (7.27%) Veeam
6 162 (3.69%) Apple
7 160 (3.65%) Dell
8 154 (3.51%) HP
9 128 (2.92%) ServiceNow
10 117 (2.67%) CyberArk
11 109 (2.48%) Meraki
12 106 (2.42%) Google
13 94 (2.14%) Sophos
14 89 (2.03%) NetApp
15 88 (2.01%) Fortinet
16 73 (1.66%) SolarWinds
17 69 (1.57%) Oracle
18 67 (1.53%) Tanium
19 59 (1.34%) Adobe
19 59 (1.34%) Aruba