Active Directory Specialist Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Active Directory Specialist
UK > UK excluding London

The median Microsoft Active Directory Specialist salary in the UK excluding London is £55,763 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 734 724 852
Rank change year-on-year -10 +128 -140
Permanent jobs requiring an Active Directory Specialist 36 9 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.047% 0.016% 0.015%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.050% 0.018% 0.016%
Number of salaries quoted 32 7 3
10th Percentile £52,000 £65,050 £47,200
25th Percentile £55,000 £72,750 £55,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,763 £73,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.13% +5.00% +55.56%
75th Percentile £59,000 £74,250 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £55,763 £73,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -24.13% +5.00% +47.37%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 72,397 50,271 70,852
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 88.93% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 50,949 29,577 42,673
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,238
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.49% +5.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Active Directory Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Active Directory Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory Specialist in the UK excluding London

Active Directory Specialist
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Active Directory Specialist in the UK excluding London

Active Directory Specialist
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 Specialist within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
South East +17 34 £55,763 -24.13% 4
Scotland -69 1 - -
North of England - 1 - -
North East - 1 - -
Active Directory Specialist
UK

Active Directory Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Active Directory Specialist job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Active Directory Specialist in the job title.

1 36 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 34 (94.44%) Azure
3 31 (86.11%) Security Cleared
4 27 (75.00%) DV Cleared
5 23 (63.89%) PowerShell
5 23 (63.89%) Analytics
5 23 (63.89%) Windows Server
5 23 (63.89%) PKI
5 23 (63.89%) Release Management
5 23 (63.89%) C#
5 23 (63.89%) VBScript
5 23 (63.89%) VB
5 23 (63.89%) Windows
5 23 (63.89%) DHCP
5 23 (63.89%) DNS
5 23 (63.89%) Microsoft
5 23 (63.89%) Entra ID
5 23 (63.89%) Social Skills
5 23 (63.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 23 (63.89%) Log Analytics
5 23 (63.89%) Azure Monitor
6 18 (50.00%) SC Cleared
7 17 (47.22%) DevOps
7 17 (47.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 17 (47.22%) Kubernetes
7 17 (47.22%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 17 (47.22%) Virtual Machines
7 17 (47.22%) Virtual Desktop
7 17 (47.22%) Privileged Identity Management
7 17 (47.22%) Self-Motivation

Active Directory Specialist Skill Set
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 17 (47.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 34 (94.44%) Azure
2 23 (63.89%) Azure Monitor
2 23 (63.89%) Entra ID
3 17 (47.22%) Azure Storage
3 17 (47.22%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 23 (63.89%) DHCP
1 23 (63.89%) DNS
2 17 (47.22%) Firewall
General
1 23 (63.89%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (47.22%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 23 (63.89%) PKI
2 17 (47.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (63.89%) Windows
1 23 (63.89%) Windows Server
2 17 (47.22%) Linux
2 17 (47.22%) Windows Server 2016
2 17 (47.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (63.89%) Analytics
1 23 (63.89%) Log Analytics
1 23 (63.89%) Release Management
2 17 (47.22%) Agile
2 17 (47.22%) CI/CD
2 17 (47.22%) DevOps
2 17 (47.22%) Identity Management
2 17 (47.22%) Infrastructure as Code
2 17 (47.22%) ITIL
2 17 (47.22%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 17 (47.22%) Privileged Identity Management
2 17 (47.22%) RBAC
2 17 (47.22%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (63.89%) C#
1 23 (63.89%) PowerShell
1 23 (63.89%) VB
1 23 (63.89%) VBScript
2 17 (47.22%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 31 (86.11%) Security Cleared
2 27 (75.00%) DV Cleared
3 18 (50.00%) SC Cleared
4 17 (47.22%) Degree
4 17 (47.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
System Software
1 36 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 17 (47.22%) Virtual Desktop
2 17 (47.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (63.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 17 (47.22%) Kubernetes
2 17 (47.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (47.22%) SCCM
2 17 (47.22%) SCOM
2 17 (47.22%) WSUS
Vendors
1 23 (63.89%) Microsoft