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

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 47 71
Rank change year-on-year +20 +24 -27
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 5,525 5,217 6,766
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.45% 5.79% 5.05%
As % of the System Software category 51.48% 37.48% 27.90%
Number of salaries quoted 4,496 4,379 5,587
10th Percentile £24,500 £25,416 £24,575
25th Percentile £28,448 £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 £55,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £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 10,732 13,919 24,254
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 12.52% 15.45% 18.09%
Number of salaries quoted 8,696 9,476 13,931
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £38,500
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 13 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 13 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 +25 1,477 £51,125 +2.25% 249
South East +1 1,181 £37,500 +7.14% 220
North of England +33 1,072 £33,750 -11.18% 202
Midlands +27 764 £33,500 -10.67% 171
South West +18 532 £37,500 +2.74% 121
North West +6 497 £37,500 -6.25% 111
East of England +13 474 £31,000 -17.33% 123
West Midlands +29 465 £35,000 -9.68% 109
Yorkshire +44 388 £32,500 -8.45% 70
East Midlands +19 293 £32,500 -10.96% 62
North East +29 187 £33,000 -8.33% 23
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 1,559 (28.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 891 (16.13%) SharePoint
3 144 (2.61%) IIS
4 46 (0.83%) Exchange Server 2013
5 30 (0.54%) Exchange Server 2010
6 25 (0.45%) Confluence
7 24 (0.43%) Skype for Business
8 22 (0.40%) OpenStack
9 18 (0.33%) SharePoint 2013
10 17 (0.31%) CMS
10 17 (0.31%) WordPress
11 16 (0.29%) SharePoint 2010
12 12 (0.22%) 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%) nginx
Applications
1 884 (16.00%) Microsoft Office
2 127 (2.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 50 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
5 17 (0.31%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.090%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.072%) AutoCAD
9 3 (0.054%) 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 29 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.20%) NEC Housing
2 11 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
3 9 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
4 7 (0.13%) SAP ERP
5 6 (0.11%) Elite 3E
6 5 (0.090%) Sage 200
7 4 (0.072%) Eikon
7 4 (0.072%) Epicor Tropos
7 4 (0.072%) Sage X3
8 3 (0.054%) Adaptiv
8 3 (0.054%) Teamcenter
9 2 (0.036%) assyst
9 2 (0.036%) iTrent
9 2 (0.036%) SAP Business One
10 1 (0.018%) Carpe Diem
10 1 (0.018%) MIS ActiveH
10 1 (0.018%) Sage 300 ERP
10 1 (0.018%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3,421 (61.92%) Microsoft 365
2 2,746 (49.70%) Azure
3 1,505 (27.24%) Entra ID
4 440 (7.96%) AWS
5 386 (6.99%) OneDrive
6 158 (2.86%) Power Platform
7 154 (2.79%) IaaS
8 139 (2.52%) SaaS
9 117 (2.12%) PaaS
10 116 (2.10%) Mimecast
11 95 (1.72%) GCP
12 92 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
13 89 (1.61%) Power Automate
14 77 (1.39%) Google Workspace
15 70 (1.27%) Azure Monitor
15 70 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
15 70 (1.27%) PowerApps
16 65 (1.18%) Cloud Computing
17 61 (1.10%) Nutanix
18 50 (0.90%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 1,230 (22.26%) DNS
2 1,226 (22.19%) Firewall
3 942 (17.05%) DHCP
4 778 (14.08%) WAN
5 661 (11.96%) LAN
6 558 (10.10%) VPN
7 488 (8.83%) TCP/IP
8 411 (7.44%) SAN
9 367 (6.64%) Wireless
10 341 (6.17%) Wi-Fi
11 287 (5.19%) VLAN
12 262 (4.74%) Broadband
13 251 (4.54%) VoIP
14 220 (3.98%) 5G
15 208 (3.76%) SD-WAN
16 164 (2.97%) Internet
17 154 (2.79%) Network Security
18 132 (2.39%) NAS
19 128 (2.32%) Remote Desktop
20 113 (2.05%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 367 (6.64%) SQL Server
2 94 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
3 93 (1.68%) Power BI
4 62 (1.12%) MySQL
5 48 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
6 45 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
7 41 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 30 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 28 (0.51%) Relational Database
10 20 (0.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 19 (0.34%) Oracle Database
12 16 (0.29%) Redis
13 13 (0.24%) MariaDB
14 12 (0.22%) Amazon Redshift
14 12 (0.22%) Data Warehouse
14 12 (0.22%) RDBMS
15 11 (0.20%) Elasticsearch
15 11 (0.20%) NoSQL
16 7 (0.13%) Data Lake
16 7 (0.13%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 72 (1.30%) JIRA
2 40 (0.72%) 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 4 (0.072%) AdminStudio
10 4 (0.072%) Hudson
10 4 (0.072%) InstallShield
10 4 (0.072%) Octopus Deploy
10 4 (0.072%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 3 (0.054%) Moq
11 3 (0.054%) Postman
11 3 (0.054%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.054%) SpecFlow
General
1 1,817 (32.89%) Social Skills
2 689 (12.47%) Analytical Skills
3 571 (10.33%) Finance
4 342 (6.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 294 (5.32%) Law
6 206 (3.73%) Retail
7 202 (3.66%) Organisational Skills
8 168 (3.04%) Legal
9 154 (2.79%) Manufacturing
10 125 (2.26%) Telecoms
11 114 (2.06%) Public Sector
12 104 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
13 85 (1.54%) Banking
14 45 (0.81%) Games
14 45 (0.81%) Local Government
15 43 (0.78%) Back Office
16 33 (0.60%) Marketing
17 31 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
18 28 (0.51%) Aerospace
19 24 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1,142 (20.67%) IT Support
2 969 (17.54%) Support Engineer
3 899 (16.27%) Analyst
4 779 (14.10%) IT Engineer
5 707 (12.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 647 (11.71%) Senior
7 533 (9.65%) IT Support Engineer
8 429 (7.76%) 2nd Line Support
9 350 (6.33%) IT Analyst
10 335 (6.06%) IT Technician
11 326 (5.90%) Support Analyst
12 298 (5.39%) Service Analyst
13 296 (5.36%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 277 (5.01%) Service Desk Analyst
15 249 (4.51%) 1st Line Support
16 244 (4.42%) Lead
17 234 (4.24%) Support Technician
17 234 (4.24%) Technical Specialist
18 233 (4.22%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
19 210 (3.80%) Linux Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (1.32%) .NET
2 51 (0.92%) ARM Templates
3 44 (0.80%) LDAP
4 30 (0.54%) SAML
5 29 (0.52%) HTML
6 27 (0.49%) OAuth
7 23 (0.42%) CSS
7 23 (0.42%) JSON
8 21 (0.38%) 802.1X
9 20 (0.36%) .NET Core
10 18 (0.33%) React
11 16 (0.29%) OLE
11 16 (0.29%) REST
11 16 (0.29%) YAML
12 15 (0.27%) Web Services
13 14 (0.25%) SailPoint
14 13 (0.24%) LAMP
14 13 (0.24%) RESTful
15 12 (0.22%) EJB
16 11 (0.20%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 367 (6.64%) Driving Licence
2 302 (5.47%) Data Centre
3 252 (4.56%) Self-Motivation
4 218 (3.95%) Social Media
5 183 (3.31%) Management Information System
6 156 (2.82%) Onboarding
7 143 (2.59%) Replication
8 136 (2.46%) Video Conferencing
9 127 (2.30%) PKI
10 123 (2.23%) Public Cloud
11 108 (1.95%) Clustering
12 95 (1.72%) Wiki
13 93 (1.68%) Smartphone
14 60 (1.09%) iPad
15 59 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
16 57 (1.03%) iPhone
17 47 (0.85%) Private Cloud
18 46 (0.83%) Security Posture
19 45 (0.81%) Fat Client
19 45 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3,905 (70.68%) Windows
2 2,005 (36.29%) Windows Server
3 1,199 (21.70%) Windows 10
4 785 (14.21%) Linux
5 371 (6.71%) Windows Server 2016
6 343 (6.21%) Windows Server 2019
7 333 (6.03%) Windows Server 2012
8 291 (5.27%) Ubuntu
9 253 (4.58%) Android
10 213 (3.86%) Mac OS
11 180 (3.26%) Windows 7
12 145 (2.62%) Apple iOS
13 89 (1.61%) Windows Server 2008
14 81 (1.47%) VMS
15 80 (1.45%) Windows 8
16 65 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 44 (0.80%) Unix
18 40 (0.72%) Mac OS X
19 33 (0.60%) CentOS
20 30 (0.54%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,163 (21.05%) ITIL
2 1,079 (19.53%) Problem-Solving
3 972 (17.59%) Customer Service
4 910 (16.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 798 (14.44%) Cybersecurity
6 366 (6.62%) Service Management
7 345 (6.24%) Disaster Recovery
8 337 (6.10%) ITSM
9 303 (5.48%) CRM
10 300 (5.43%) Agile
11 298 (5.39%) IT Strategy
11 298 (5.39%) Mentoring
12 283 (5.12%) Service Delivery
13 281 (5.09%) DevOps
14 280 (5.07%) Migration
14 280 (5.07%) Project Management
15 271 (4.90%) Continuous Improvement
16 261 (4.72%) Incident Management
17 242 (4.38%) Artificial Intelligence
18 237 (4.29%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 861 (15.58%) PowerShell
2 569 (10.30%) SQL
3 335 (6.06%) Bash
4 143 (2.59%) Python
5 101 (1.83%) C#
6 45 (0.81%) VB
7 40 (0.72%) T-SQL
8 38 (0.69%) Bicep
9 35 (0.63%) VBScript
10 32 (0.58%) JavaScript
11 31 (0.56%) Perl
12 29 (0.52%) Java
13 27 (0.49%) PL/SQL
14 19 (0.34%) R
15 13 (0.24%) TypeScript
16 12 (0.22%) Ruby
17 10 (0.18%) ActionScript
18 9 (0.16%) VB.NET
19 7 (0.13%) Korn
19 7 (0.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 746 (13.50%) Degree
2 504 (9.12%) Security Cleared
3 471 (8.52%) Microsoft Certification
4 288 (5.21%) SC Cleared
5 246 (4.45%) DV Cleared
6 183 (3.31%) Cisco Certification
7 171 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
8 166 (3.00%) A+ Certification
9 158 (2.86%) DBS Check
10 152 (2.75%) MCP
11 150 (2.71%) Azure Certification
12 142 (2.57%) CCNA
12 142 (2.57%) MCSE
13 108 (1.95%) Master's Degree
14 100 (1.81%) MCSA
15 89 (1.61%) ITIL Certification
16 71 (1.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 51 (0.92%) Network+ Certification
18 47 (0.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
19 44 (0.80%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 451 (8.16%) SLA
2 110 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 107 (1.94%) Cyber Essentials
4 92 (1.67%) GDPR
5 31 (0.56%) NIST
6 26 (0.47%) Accessibility
7 15 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 14 (0.25%) Data Quality
9 13 (0.24%) SOC 2
10 11 (0.20%) PMO
10 11 (0.20%) QA
11 8 (0.14%) PCI DSS
12 7 (0.13%) GRC
13 6 (0.11%) NIST 800
14 4 (0.072%) ISO 9001
14 4 (0.072%) NCSC
14 4 (0.072%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.054%) JSP 440
16 2 (0.036%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 2 (0.036%) ITGC
System Software
1 1,101 (19.93%) VMware Infrastructure
2 900 (16.29%) Hyper-V
3 351 (6.35%) VMware ESXi
4 206 (3.73%) XenApp
5 193 (3.49%) vSphere
6 181 (3.28%) XenDesktop
7 149 (2.70%) Virtual Desktop
8 134 (2.43%) Virtual Machines
9 99 (1.79%) Microsoft App-V
10 77 (1.39%) Virtual Servers
11 67 (1.21%) Docker
12 45 (0.81%) VirtualBox
13 38 (0.69%) Firmware
14 26 (0.47%) VMware Workstation
15 25 (0.45%) Terminal Services
16 22 (0.40%) VMware Server
17 20 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 18 (0.33%) NFS
18 18 (0.33%) pfSense
19 14 (0.25%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 1,105 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 649 (11.75%) SCCM
3 262 (4.74%) Jamf Pro
4 180 (3.26%) WSUS
5 153 (2.77%) vCenter Server
6 127 (2.30%) Single Sign-On
7 119 (2.15%) Terraform
8 114 (2.06%) SCOM
9 113 (2.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 107 (1.94%) Ansible
11 99 (1.79%) AirWatch
12 93 (1.68%) Kubernetes
13 42 (0.76%) Failover Clustering
13 42 (0.76%) NetBackup
14 41 (0.74%) FortiGate
15 34 (0.62%) Backup Exec
15 34 (0.62%) Microsoft Clustering
16 32 (0.58%) ZABBIX
17 28 (0.51%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
18 24 (0.43%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 3,758 (68.02%) Microsoft
2 1,647 (29.81%) VMware
3 624 (11.29%) Cisco
4 573 (10.37%) Citrix
5 383 (6.93%) Veeam
6 232 (4.20%) CyberArk
7 225 (4.07%) Apple
8 210 (3.80%) Tanium
9 203 (3.67%) HP
10 191 (3.46%) ServiceNow
11 180 (3.26%) Dell
12 154 (2.79%) Google
13 124 (2.24%) Meraki
14 108 (1.95%) SolarWinds
15 99 (1.79%) NetApp
16 93 (1.68%) Sophos
17 92 (1.67%) Fortinet
18 91 (1.65%) Oracle
19 77 (1.39%) Red Hat
20 74 (1.34%) Commvault