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

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 47 41
Rank change year-on-year +15 -6 -9
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 4,372 3,617 4,576
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.17% 6.07% 6.38%
As % of the System Software category 49.78% 39.23% 37.26%
Number of salaries quoted 3,689 2,976 3,768
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 8,782 9,219 12,282
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.39% 15.46% 17.13%
Number of salaries quoted 7,049 5,801 8,405
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
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 £66,700 £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 14 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 14 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 +2 1,180 £37,500 +7.14% 219
North of England +33 1,074 £34,000 -10.53% 195
Midlands +27 761 £33,500 -10.67% 157
South West +19 531 £37,500 +2.74% 122
North West +10 499 £37,500 -6.25% 109
East of England +11 476 £31,000 -17.33% 122
West Midlands +25 461 £34,750 -8.85% 99
Yorkshire +45 386 £32,500 -8.45% 68
East Midlands +18 294 £32,500 -10.96% 58
Scotland -42 243 £35,000 -6.67% 52
North East +26 189 £33,000 -8.33% 20
Wales +20 88 £28,290 -24.56% 18
Northern Ireland -1 13 £37,500 -13.29% 7
Channel Islands -1 4 £85,000 +34.92%
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 1,164 (26.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 719 (16.45%) SharePoint
3 109 (2.49%) IIS
4 31 (0.71%) Exchange Server 2013
5 26 (0.59%) 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%) Skype for Business
10 10 (0.23%) Confluence
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
1 723 (16.54%) Microsoft Office
2 127 (2.90%) 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 NAV
2 8 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.16%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
4 5 (0.11%) Sage 200
5 4 (0.091%) Epicor Tropos
6 3 (0.069%) Sage X3
6 3 (0.069%) Teamcenter
7 2 (0.046%) assyst
7 2 (0.046%) iTrent
8 1 (0.023%) MIS ActiveH
8 1 (0.023%) Sage 300 ERP
8 1 (0.023%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2,789 (63.79%) Microsoft 365
2 2,100 (48.03%) Azure
3 1,125 (25.73%) Entra ID
4 338 (7.73%) OneDrive
5 310 (7.09%) AWS
6 124 (2.84%) Power Platform
7 90 (2.06%) IaaS
8 85 (1.94%) SaaS
9 77 (1.76%) GCP
10 70 (1.60%) Mimecast
11 62 (1.42%) Power Automate
12 58 (1.33%) PaaS
13 56 (1.28%) Cloud Computing
14 55 (1.26%) PowerApps
15 53 (1.21%) Google Workspace
16 47 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
17 44 (1.01%) Nutanix
18 38 (0.87%) Dynamics 365
19 34 (0.78%) WhatsApp
20 33 (0.75%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 1,004 (22.96%) DNS
2 997 (22.80%) Firewall
3 793 (18.14%) DHCP
4 555 (12.69%) WAN
5 508 (11.62%) LAN
6 422 (9.65%) TCP/IP
7 414 (9.47%) VPN
8 333 (7.62%) SAN
9 258 (5.90%) Wi-Fi
10 239 (5.47%) VLAN
11 227 (5.19%) VoIP
12 226 (5.17%) Wireless
13 122 (2.79%) Network Security
14 110 (2.52%) NAS
15 106 (2.42%) Remote Desktop
16 105 (2.40%) Internet
17 97 (2.22%) Broadband
18 85 (1.94%) 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 38 (0.87%) MySQL
6 33 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
7 18 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
7 18 (0.41%) Relational Database
7 18 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 15 (0.34%) Oracle Database
8 15 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 11 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (0.21%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (0.21%) NoSQL
10 9 (0.21%) RDBMS
10 9 (0.21%) Redis
11 8 (0.18%) MariaDB
12 6 (0.14%) InfluxDB
12 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 (0.91%) 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 (0.091%) AdminStudio
10 4 (0.091%) Hudson
10 4 (0.091%) 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 1,405 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 426 (9.74%) Finance
3 392 (8.97%) Analytical Skills
4 264 (6.04%) Law
5 225 (5.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 181 (4.14%) Organisational Skills
7 157 (3.59%) Manufacturing
8 155 (3.55%) Retail
9 127 (2.90%) Telecoms
10 105 (2.40%) Public Sector
11 99 (2.26%) Legal
12 87 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
13 85 (1.94%) Marketing
14 33 (0.75%) Games
15 30 (0.69%) Local Government
16 24 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
17 20 (0.46%) Aerospace
18 18 (0.41%) Advertising
18 18 (0.41%) Police
19 16 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 940 (21.50%) IT Support
2 829 (18.96%) Support Engineer
3 704 (16.10%) IT Engineer
4 699 (15.99%) Analyst
5 588 (13.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 485 (11.09%) IT Support Engineer
7 422 (9.65%) Senior
8 384 (8.78%) 2nd Line Support
9 325 (7.43%) IT Technician
10 278 (6.36%) IT Analyst
11 248 (5.67%) Support Analyst
12 244 (5.58%) Service Analyst
13 243 (5.56%) Lead
14 242 (5.54%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 235 (5.38%) Support Technician
16 226 (5.17%) Service Desk Analyst
17 220 (5.03%) 1st Line Support
18 201 (4.60%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
19 194 (4.44%) 3rd Line Support
20 190 (4.35%) IT Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (2.13%) LDAP
2 82 (1.88%) SAML
3 80 (1.83%) JSON
4 79 (1.81%) RESTful
5 73 (1.67%) Web Services
6 71 (1.62%) OpenID
7 70 (1.60%) XML
8 65 (1.49%) JSON-LD
9 29 (0.66%) .NET
10 24 (0.55%) ARM Templates
11 16 (0.37%) 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%) RabbitMQ
15 7 (0.16%) SailPoint
16 6 (0.14%) LAMP
16 6 (0.14%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 352 (8.05%) Driving Licence
2 248 (5.67%) Data Centre
3 216 (4.94%) Management Information System
4 210 (4.80%) Self-Motivation
5 134 (3.06%) Onboarding
6 114 (2.61%) Replication
7 101 (2.31%) PKI
8 85 (1.94%) Clustering
9 82 (1.88%) Public Cloud
10 73 (1.67%) Enterprise Cloud
11 68 (1.56%) Social Media
12 65 (1.49%) Reference Data
13 63 (1.44%) Smartphone
14 42 (0.96%) Enterprise Storage
14 42 (0.96%) Fat Client
14 42 (0.96%) Thin Client
15 36 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
16 35 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
17 34 (0.78%) CCTV
17 34 (0.78%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3,121 (71.39%) Windows
2 1,741 (39.82%) Windows Server
3 894 (20.45%) Windows 10
4 507 (11.60%) Linux
5 334 (7.64%) Windows Server 2016
6 314 (7.18%) Windows Server 2019
7 282 (6.45%) Windows Server 2012
8 164 (3.75%) Mac OS
9 162 (3.71%) Windows 7
10 134 (3.06%) Android
11 116 (2.65%) Apple iOS
12 100 (2.29%) Ubuntu
13 79 (1.81%) 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 29 (0.66%) Unix
18 29 (0.66%) Windows Server 2003
19 24 (0.55%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 988 (22.60%) ITIL
2 916 (20.95%) Problem-Solving
3 850 (19.44%) Customer Service
4 760 (17.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 533 (12.19%) Cybersecurity
6 300 (6.86%) Service Management
7 271 (6.20%) Disaster Recovery
8 250 (5.72%) Agile
9 241 (5.51%) Mentoring
10 234 (5.35%) Service Delivery
11 227 (5.19%) ITSM
12 218 (4.99%) Incident Management
13 211 (4.83%) Project Management
13 211 (4.83%) Roadmaps
14 206 (4.71%) Migration
15 199 (4.55%) Continuous Improvement
16 189 (4.32%) Change Management
17 167 (3.82%) DevOps
18 152 (3.48%) Server Management
19 151 (3.45%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 602 (13.77%) PowerShell
2 421 (9.63%) SQL
3 140 (3.20%) Bash
4 106 (2.42%) Python
5 69 (1.58%) Go
6 65 (1.49%) Prolog
6 65 (1.49%) SPARQL
7 49 (1.12%) C#
8 44 (1.01%) 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 10 (0.23%) ActionScript
15 9 (0.21%) PL/SQL
16 8 (0.18%) VB.NET
17 7 (0.16%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 509 (11.64%) Degree
2 435 (9.95%) Security Cleared
3 407 (9.31%) Microsoft Certification
4 276 (6.31%) SC Cleared
5 203 (4.64%) DV Cleared
6 158 (3.61%) A+ Certification
7 149 (3.41%) Cisco Certification
8 144 (3.29%) MCP
9 131 (3.00%) DBS Check
10 124 (2.84%) CCNA
11 123 (2.81%) Azure Certification
12 111 (2.54%) MCSE
13 81 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
14 74 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
15 68 (1.56%) MCSA
16 45 (1.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 44 (1.01%) CCNP
18 43 (0.98%) Network+ Certification
19 32 (0.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
20 26 (0.59%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 358 (8.19%) SLA
2 94 (2.15%) GDPR
3 82 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 77 (1.76%) Cyber Essentials
5 21 (0.48%) NIST
6 17 (0.39%) Accessibility
7 14 (0.32%) Data Quality
8 7 (0.16%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (0.11%) ISO 9001
11 4 (0.091%) NCSC
11 4 (0.091%) QA
12 3 (0.069%) JSP 440
13 2 (0.046%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.023%) GxP
14 1 (0.023%) HIPAA
14 1 (0.023%) ISO 14001
14 1 (0.023%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 1 (0.023%) PMO
14 1 (0.023%) SOC 2
System Software
1 914 (20.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 843 (19.28%) Hyper-V
3 179 (4.09%) VMware ESXi
4 153 (3.50%) vSphere
5 128 (2.93%) Virtual Machines
6 127 (2.90%) Virtual Desktop
7 91 (2.08%) XenApp
8 77 (1.76%) XenDesktop
9 53 (1.21%) Docker
10 45 (1.03%) Virtual Servers
11 43 (0.98%) VirtualBox
12 33 (0.75%) 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 10 (0.23%) OpenSSH
Systems Management
1 803 (18.37%) Microsoft Intune
2 449 (10.27%) SCCM
3 144 (3.29%) WSUS
4 107 (2.45%) SCOM
5 102 (2.33%) vCenter Server
6 99 (2.26%) Jamf Pro
7 78 (1.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 70 (1.60%) Kubernetes
9 60 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
10 54 (1.24%) Ansible
11 47 (1.08%) Terraform
12 42 (0.96%) Failover Clustering
13 39 (0.89%) ZABBIX
14 38 (0.87%) FortiGate
15 32 (0.73%) NetBackup
16 26 (0.59%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
17 24 (0.55%) Backup Exec
17 24 (0.55%) EMC NetWorker
18 20 (0.46%) Grafana
19 18 (0.41%) VxRail
Vendors
1 2,912 (66.61%) Microsoft
2 1,365 (31.22%) VMware
3 437 (10.00%) Cisco
4 377 (8.62%) Citrix
5 319 (7.30%) Veeam
6 162 (3.71%) Apple
7 160 (3.66%) Dell
8 155 (3.55%) HP
9 130 (2.97%) ServiceNow
10 111 (2.54%) Meraki
11 108 (2.47%) Google
12 95 (2.17%) Sophos
13 89 (2.04%) Fortinet
13 89 (2.04%) NetApp
14 86 (1.97%) CyberArk
15 76 (1.74%) SolarWinds
16 69 (1.58%) Oracle
17 67 (1.53%) Tanium
18 62 (1.42%) Aruba
19 58 (1.33%) Adobe