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

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 50 77
Rank change year-on-year +17 +27 -32
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 5,959 5,581 7,631
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.90% 5.67% 4.66%
As % of the System Software category 49.68% 36.37% 25.38%
Number of salaries quoted 4,752 4,613 6,129
10th Percentile £24,500 £25,000 £24,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £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 £56,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £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 11,994 15,343 30,068
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.88% 15.58% 18.35%
Number of salaries quoted 9,423 10,001 15,538
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £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 £86,000 £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 23 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 23 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 5,499 £37,500 -6.25% 1,050
UK excluding London +16 4,395 £35,000 -4.11% 860
Work from Home +21 1,897 £45,000 - 368
London +26 1,428 £50,000 - 242
South East +1 1,165 £37,500 +7.14% 219
North of England +30 1,092 £35,000 -7.89% 212
Midlands +28 771 £33,500 -7.59% 153
South West +20 543 £37,500 +1.35% 129
North West +6 507 £37,500 -11.76% 117
East of England +12 476 £31,000 -17.33% 102
West Midlands +30 465 £34,000 -2.86% 90
Yorkshire +40 394 £32,500 -5.11% 80
East Midlands +17 300 £32,500 -10.96% 63
Scotland -45 244 £33,500 -7.59% 47
North East +29 191 £33,000 -8.97% 18
Wales +19 86 £28,290 -25.55% 16
Northern Ireland -6 12 £37,500 -16.67% 4
Channel Islands 0 4 £85,000 -5.56%
Isle of Man -9 4 £43,000 -40.69% 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 1,610 (27.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 945 (15.86%) SharePoint
3 149 (2.50%) IIS
4 44 (0.74%) Exchange Server 2013
5 29 (0.49%) Exchange Server 2010
6 28 (0.47%) Confluence
7 27 (0.45%) OpenStack
8 23 (0.39%) Skype for Business
9 20 (0.34%) SharePoint 2013
10 18 (0.30%) SharePoint 2010
11 17 (0.29%) WordPress
12 16 (0.27%) CMS
13 12 (0.20%) Tomcat
14 11 (0.18%) Apache
14 11 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2007
15 8 (0.13%) SAS
16 6 (0.10%) Exchange Server 2000
17 5 (0.084%) SharePoint Server
18 4 (0.067%) BizTalk Server
18 4 (0.067%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 926 (15.54%) Microsoft Office
2 151 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 68 (1.14%) 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%) Sage X3
7 3 (0.050%) Teamcenter
8 2 (0.034%) Adaptiv
8 2 (0.034%) assyst
8 2 (0.034%) iTrent
9 1 (0.017%) Carpe Diem
9 1 (0.017%) Dynamics GP
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 3,603 (60.46%) Microsoft 365
2 2,962 (49.71%) Azure
3 1,702 (28.56%) Entra ID
4 470 (7.89%) AWS
5 431 (7.23%) OneDrive
6 178 (2.99%) Power Platform
7 166 (2.79%) IaaS
8 152 (2.55%) SaaS
9 125 (2.10%) PaaS
10 121 (2.03%) Mimecast
11 109 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
12 103 (1.73%) GCP
13 98 (1.64%) Power Automate
14 86 (1.44%) Cloud Computing
15 81 (1.36%) Azure Monitor
15 81 (1.36%) Dynamics 365
16 80 (1.34%) Google Workspace
17 76 (1.28%) PowerApps
18 70 (1.17%) Nutanix
19 54 (0.91%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 1,285 (21.56%) DNS
2 1,272 (21.35%) Firewall
3 969 (16.26%) DHCP
4 803 (13.48%) WAN
5 697 (11.70%) LAN
6 572 (9.60%) VPN
7 502 (8.42%) TCP/IP
8 422 (7.08%) SAN
9 380 (6.38%) Wireless
10 355 (5.96%) Wi-Fi
11 297 (4.98%) VLAN
12 262 (4.40%) Broadband
13 249 (4.18%) VoIP
14 220 (3.69%) 5G
15 205 (3.44%) SD-WAN
16 192 (3.22%) Internet
17 164 (2.75%) Network Security
18 154 (2.58%) Remote Desktop
19 139 (2.33%) NAS
20 111 (1.86%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 381 (6.39%) SQL Server
2 103 (1.73%) Power BI
3 90 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
4 65 (1.09%) Metadata
5 60 (1.01%) MySQL
6 49 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
7 47 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
8 39 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 30 (0.50%) Relational Database
10 29 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 20 (0.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 18 (0.30%) Redis
13 16 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
13 16 (0.27%) Oracle Database
14 13 (0.22%) MariaDB
14 13 (0.22%) RDBMS
15 12 (0.20%) Elasticsearch
15 12 (0.20%) NoSQL
16 10 (0.17%) Amazon Redshift
17 7 (0.12%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 111 (1.86%) Jenkins
2 107 (1.80%) Git
3 83 (1.39%) Bitbucket
4 78 (1.31%) JIRA
5 66 (1.11%) Artifactory
6 26 (0.44%) GitLab
7 12 (0.20%) MSI
7 12 (0.20%) Visual Studio
8 10 (0.17%) Trac
9 7 (0.12%) Katalon Studio
10 6 (0.10%) Robot Framework
10 6 (0.10%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (0.084%) AdminStudio
11 5 (0.084%) CircleCI
11 5 (0.084%) git-flow
11 5 (0.084%) InstallShield
11 5 (0.084%) Moq
11 5 (0.084%) Octopus Deploy
11 5 (0.084%) Postman
11 5 (0.084%) SpecFlow
General
1 1,913 (32.10%) Social Skills
2 740 (12.42%) Finance
3 720 (12.08%) Analytical Skills
4 434 (7.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 352 (5.91%) Law
6 216 (3.62%) Legal
7 215 (3.61%) Organisational Skills
8 213 (3.57%) Retail
9 170 (2.85%) Manufacturing
10 139 (2.33%) Public Sector
10 139 (2.33%) Telecoms
11 133 (2.23%) Banking
12 102 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
13 100 (1.68%) Marketing
14 51 (0.86%) Games
15 50 (0.84%) Local Government
16 49 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
17 45 (0.76%) Back Office
18 31 (0.52%) Advertising
19 27 (0.45%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,209 (20.29%) IT Support
2 1,023 (17.17%) Support Engineer
3 989 (16.60%) Analyst
4 813 (13.64%) IT Engineer
5 783 (13.14%) Senior
6 724 (12.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 557 (9.35%) IT Support Engineer
8 462 (7.75%) 2nd Line Support
9 380 (6.38%) IT Analyst
10 364 (6.11%) IT Technician
11 358 (6.01%) Support Analyst
12 317 (5.32%) Lead
13 312 (5.24%) Service Analyst
14 300 (5.03%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 290 (4.87%) Service Desk Analyst
16 252 (4.23%) Support Technician
17 251 (4.21%) 1st Line Support
18 240 (4.03%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
19 234 (3.93%) Technical Specialist
20 223 (3.74%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (1.86%) LDAP
2 102 (1.71%) SAML
3 87 (1.46%) JSON
4 85 (1.43%) Web Services
5 82 (1.38%) .NET
5 82 (1.38%) RESTful
6 74 (1.24%) XML
7 73 (1.23%) OpenID
8 65 (1.09%) JSON-LD
9 48 (0.81%) ARM Templates
10 29 (0.49%) OAuth
11 26 (0.44%) HTML
12 23 (0.39%) .NET Core
12 23 (0.39%) CSS
13 21 (0.35%) 802.1X
13 21 (0.35%) React
14 19 (0.32%) REST
15 16 (0.27%) OLE
15 16 (0.27%) YAML
16 15 (0.25%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 382 (6.41%) Driving Licence
2 345 (5.79%) Data Centre
3 335 (5.62%) Management Information System
4 255 (4.28%) Self-Motivation
5 219 (3.68%) Social Media
6 188 (3.15%) Onboarding
7 155 (2.60%) Replication
8 138 (2.32%) Video Conferencing
9 129 (2.16%) Public Cloud
10 126 (2.11%) PKI
11 115 (1.93%) Clustering
12 97 (1.63%) Smartphone
13 89 (1.49%) Wiki
14 82 (1.38%) Enterprise Cloud
15 71 (1.19%) iPhone
16 65 (1.09%) Reference Data
17 64 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
18 62 (1.04%) Cyberattack
18 62 (1.04%) iPad
19 49 (0.82%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4,084 (68.53%) Windows
2 2,101 (35.26%) Windows Server
3 1,256 (21.08%) Windows 10
4 815 (13.68%) Linux
5 385 (6.46%) Windows Server 2016
6 358 (6.01%) Windows Server 2019
7 355 (5.96%) Windows Server 2012
8 296 (4.97%) Ubuntu
9 268 (4.50%) Android
10 217 (3.64%) Mac OS
11 183 (3.07%) Windows 7
12 165 (2.77%) Apple iOS
13 89 (1.49%) Windows Server 2008
14 87 (1.46%) VMS
15 75 (1.26%) Windows 8
16 62 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 45 (0.76%) Unix
18 43 (0.72%) CentOS
18 43 (0.72%) Mac OS X
19 29 (0.49%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,227 (20.59%) ITIL
2 1,154 (19.37%) Problem-Solving
3 1,043 (17.50%) Customer Service
4 943 (15.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 878 (14.73%) Cybersecurity
6 444 (7.45%) Agile
7 383 (6.43%) Service Management
8 362 (6.07%) Disaster Recovery
9 357 (5.99%) ITSM
10 332 (5.57%) Roadmaps
11 313 (5.25%) Mentoring
12 311 (5.22%) Service Delivery
13 306 (5.14%) DevOps
14 304 (5.10%) CRM
15 297 (4.98%) IT Strategy
16 291 (4.88%) Migration
17 289 (4.85%) Continuous Improvement
17 289 (4.85%) Project Management
18 263 (4.41%) Incident Management
19 249 (4.18%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 927 (15.56%) PowerShell
2 629 (10.56%) SQL
3 338 (5.67%) Bash
4 142 (2.38%) Python
5 108 (1.81%) C#
6 70 (1.17%) Go
7 65 (1.09%) Prolog
7 65 (1.09%) SPARQL
8 49 (0.82%) VB
9 43 (0.72%) T-SQL
10 40 (0.67%) Bicep
11 37 (0.62%) VBScript
12 34 (0.57%) JavaScript
13 31 (0.52%) Perl
14 29 (0.49%) Java
15 27 (0.45%) PL/SQL
16 19 (0.32%) R
17 15 (0.25%) TypeScript
18 13 (0.22%) Shell Script
19 12 (0.20%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 768 (12.89%) Degree
2 554 (9.30%) Security Cleared
3 490 (8.22%) Microsoft Certification
4 319 (5.35%) SC Cleared
5 259 (4.35%) DV Cleared
6 193 (3.24%) Cisco Certification
7 179 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 173 (2.90%) A+ Certification
9 170 (2.85%) Azure Certification
10 160 (2.69%) DBS Check
11 155 (2.60%) MCP
12 153 (2.57%) MCSE
13 148 (2.48%) CCNA
14 99 (1.66%) MCSA
15 98 (1.64%) Master's Degree
16 85 (1.43%) ITIL Certification
17 69 (1.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 50 (0.84%) CCNP
18 50 (0.84%) Network+ Certification
19 49 (0.82%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 457 (7.67%) SLA
2 122 (2.05%) Cyber Essentials
3 121 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 103 (1.73%) GDPR
5 34 (0.57%) NIST
6 28 (0.47%) Accessibility
7 23 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 17 (0.29%) QA
9 15 (0.25%) Data Quality
10 13 (0.22%) PCI DSS
10 13 (0.22%) SOC 2
11 12 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 11 (0.18%) PMO
13 9 (0.15%) GRC
14 6 (0.10%) NIST 800
15 5 (0.084%) IASME
16 4 (0.067%) ISO 9001
16 4 (0.067%) NCSC
17 3 (0.050%) HIPAA
17 3 (0.050%) WCAG
System Software
1 1,139 (19.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 913 (15.32%) Hyper-V
3 350 (5.87%) VMware ESXi
4 209 (3.51%) vSphere
5 205 (3.44%) XenApp
6 181 (3.04%) XenDesktop
7 162 (2.72%) Virtual Desktop
8 144 (2.42%) Virtual Machines
9 94 (1.58%) Microsoft App-V
10 80 (1.34%) Docker
11 75 (1.26%) Virtual Servers
12 48 (0.81%) RACF
13 42 (0.70%) VirtualBox
14 35 (0.59%) Firmware
15 27 (0.45%) Terminal Services
16 26 (0.44%) VMware Workstation
17 22 (0.37%) VMware Server
18 20 (0.34%) Microsoft Virtual Server
19 19 (0.32%) NFS
20 18 (0.30%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 1,195 (20.05%) Microsoft Intune
2 674 (11.31%) SCCM
3 265 (4.45%) Jamf Pro
4 181 (3.04%) WSUS
5 157 (2.63%) vCenter Server
6 147 (2.47%) Terraform
7 134 (2.25%) Single Sign-On
8 129 (2.16%) Ansible
9 121 (2.03%) SCOM
10 113 (1.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 109 (1.83%) Kubernetes
12 92 (1.54%) AirWatch
13 44 (0.74%) Failover Clustering
14 42 (0.70%) ZABBIX
15 41 (0.69%) NetBackup
16 39 (0.65%) Backup Exec
16 39 (0.65%) FortiGate
17 36 (0.60%) Microsoft Clustering
18 26 (0.44%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
19 24 (0.40%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 3,998 (67.09%) Microsoft
2 1,691 (28.38%) VMware
3 651 (10.92%) Cisco
4 581 (9.75%) Citrix
5 399 (6.70%) Veeam
6 283 (4.75%) CyberArk
7 226 (3.79%) Apple
8 210 (3.52%) Tanium
9 207 (3.47%) HP
10 199 (3.34%) ServiceNow
11 190 (3.19%) Dell
12 164 (2.75%) Google
13 138 (2.32%) Meraki
14 105 (1.76%) NetApp
15 100 (1.68%) SolarWinds
15 100 (1.68%) Sophos
16 95 (1.59%) Fortinet
17 93 (1.56%) Oracle
18 78 (1.31%) Red Hat
19 74 (1.24%) Commvault