Active Directory Jobs in the East of England

Microsoft Active Directory
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 31 31
Rank change year-on-year +12 0 +2
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 475 422 473
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 7.75% 7.97% 7.33%
As % of the System Software category 55.36% 48.96% 42.54%
Number of salaries quoted 386 346 387
10th Percentile £23,750 £25,125 £25,000
25th Percentile £25,750 £28,500 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,000 £37,500 £36,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.33% +4.17% -1.37%
75th Percentile £42,500 £52,500 £53,750
90th Percentile £53,125 £63,750 £65,250
England median annual salary £38,000 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -5.88%

All System Software Skills
East of 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 the East of England with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 858 862 1,112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 13.99% 16.28% 17.22%
Number of salaries quoted 718 593 568
10th Percentile £24,830 £26,250 £25,905
25th Percentile £26,281 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £46,500 £43,250
Median % change year-on-year -13.98% +7.51% -8.95%
75th Percentile £57,500 £63,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £67,650 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Active Directory as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in the East of England

Active Directory
Salary Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in the East of England.

Salary trend for Active Directory in the East of England

Active Directory
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in the East of England over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Active Directory in the East of England

Active Directory
Job Locations in the East of 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 East of England region over the 6 months to 11 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
Hertfordshire +10 170 £37,500 -11.76% 41
Cambridgeshire 0 92 £32,000 -11.11% 38
Essex +6 74 £27,500 -21.43% 9
Norfolk +20 63 £29,000 +48.72% 11
Suffolk +8 49 £27,500 +5.77% 12
Bedfordshire +32 27 £26,000 -42.22% 11
Active Directory
England

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of 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
1 150 (31.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 88 (18.53%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.74%) Exchange Server 2013
3 13 (2.74%) IIS
4 8 (1.68%) CMS
5 6 (1.26%) Exchange Server 2007
5 6 (1.26%) Exchange Server 2010
5 6 (1.26%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.84%) SAS
6 4 (0.84%) Skype for Business
7 2 (0.42%) Exchange Server 2003
7 2 (0.42%) WordPress
Applications
1 86 (18.11%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (2.53%) Spreadsheet
3 10 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.63%) Dynamics NAV
1 3 (0.63%) iTrent
2 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 346 (72.84%) Microsoft 365
2 170 (35.79%) Azure
3 65 (13.68%) Entra ID
4 45 (9.47%) AWS
5 25 (5.26%) OneDrive
6 15 (3.16%) GCP
7 13 (2.74%) Mimecast
8 9 (1.89%) Google Workspace
9 7 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (1.47%) SaaS
9 7 (1.47%) Serverless
10 6 (1.26%) Nutanix
11 4 (0.84%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (0.63%) Apigee
12 3 (0.63%) Azure API Management
12 3 (0.63%) Azure Service Fabric
12 3 (0.63%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (0.63%) Rubrik
12 3 (0.63%) WhatsApp
13 2 (0.42%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 106 (22.32%) Firewall
2 77 (16.21%) WAN
3 76 (16.00%) DNS
4 67 (14.11%) LAN
5 64 (13.47%) DHCP
6 50 (10.53%) VPN
7 42 (8.84%) SAN
8 38 (8.00%) VLAN
9 36 (7.58%) TCP/IP
10 30 (6.32%) VoIP
11 28 (5.89%) Wi-Fi
12 26 (5.47%) Wireless
13 15 (3.16%) MPLS
14 13 (2.74%) SD-WAN
15 11 (2.32%) Remote Desktop
15 11 (2.32%) WLAN
16 10 (2.11%) Internet
17 9 (1.89%) NAS
18 8 (1.68%) Network Security
18 8 (1.68%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (4.21%) SQL Server
2 11 (2.32%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.63%) Data Lake
4 3 (0.63%) MySQL
5 2 (0.42%) Power BI
6 1 (0.21%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (1.26%) JIRA
2 1 (0.21%) JMeter
2 1 (0.21%) Selenium
General
1 174 (36.63%) Social Skills
2 48 (10.11%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (8.42%) Finance
4 23 (4.84%) Manufacturing
5 13 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
6 10 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (2.11%) Retail
7 8 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.47%) Telecoms
9 6 (1.26%) Public Sector
10 5 (1.05%) Aerospace
10 5 (1.05%) Publishing
11 4 (0.84%) Legal
11 4 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.63%) Games
12 3 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.42%) Automotive
13 2 (0.42%) Law
14 1 (0.21%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 144 (30.32%) IT Support
2 109 (22.95%) Analyst
3 89 (18.74%) Support Engineer
4 86 (18.11%) IT Engineer
5 67 (14.11%) IT Support Engineer
6 57 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 54 (11.37%) 2nd Line Support
8 49 (10.32%) Support Technician
9 45 (9.47%) IT Analyst
9 45 (9.47%) IT Technician
10 39 (8.21%) Service Analyst
10 39 (8.21%) Service Desk Analyst
11 33 (6.95%) IT Support Technician
12 32 (6.74%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 32 (6.74%) Support Analyst
13 29 (6.11%) Administrator
13 29 (6.11%) IT Support Analyst
14 25 (5.26%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
15 23 (4.84%) IT Administrator
15 23 (4.84%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (0.84%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (0.63%) ARM Templates
2 3 (0.63%) JSON
2 3 (0.63%) RESTful
3 2 (0.42%) CSS
3 2 (0.42%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (6.53%) Self-Motivation
2 29 (6.11%) Data Centre
3 19 (4.00%) Driving Licence
4 16 (3.37%) Operational Technology
5 10 (2.11%) iPad
5 10 (2.11%) Security Posture
6 9 (1.89%) Onboarding
6 9 (1.89%) Replication
6 9 (1.89%) Smartcard
7 8 (1.68%) Clustering
7 8 (1.68%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.26%) Cyber Security Posture
8 6 (1.26%) Life Science
9 4 (0.84%) Fat Client
9 4 (0.84%) Smartphone
9 4 (0.84%) Thin Client
10 3 (0.63%) CCTV
10 3 (0.63%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.42%) CMDB
11 2 (0.42%) Handset
Operating Systems
1 346 (72.84%) Windows
2 187 (39.37%) Windows Server
3 102 (21.47%) Windows 10
4 54 (11.37%) Linux
5 34 (7.16%) Android
6 26 (5.47%) Windows Server 2019
7 23 (4.84%) Windows Server 2016
8 22 (4.63%) Mac OS
9 12 (2.53%) Windows 7
10 11 (2.32%) Apple iOS
10 11 (2.32%) Windows Server 2012
11 10 (2.11%) Debian
12 8 (1.68%) Windows Server 2003
13 7 (1.47%) Windows Server 2008
14 6 (1.26%) Mac OS X
14 6 (1.26%) Ubuntu
15 5 (1.05%) Windows 8
16 4 (0.84%) VMS
17 1 (0.21%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (22.53%) Problem-Solving
2 97 (20.42%) ITIL
3 82 (17.26%) Customer Service
4 64 (13.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 47 (9.89%) Server Management
6 42 (8.84%) Cybersecurity
7 27 (5.68%) Service Delivery
8 24 (5.05%) Root Cause Analysis
9 23 (4.84%) Infrastructure Maintenance
9 23 (4.84%) Performance Monitoring
9 23 (4.84%) Project Delivery
10 21 (4.42%) Benchmarking
10 21 (4.42%) Data Centre Operations
10 21 (4.42%) Vulnerability Management
11 20 (4.21%) Disaster Recovery
12 19 (4.00%) Configuration Management
12 19 (4.00%) Incident Management
13 18 (3.79%) Project Management
13 18 (3.79%) Statistics
13 18 (3.79%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 62 (13.05%) PowerShell
2 37 (7.79%) SQL
3 7 (1.47%) JavaScript
3 7 (1.47%) Shell Script
4 5 (1.05%) VB
5 2 (0.42%) C#
5 2 (0.42%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 64 (13.47%) Degree
2 37 (7.79%) Microsoft Certification
3 29 (6.11%) Security Cleared
4 25 (5.26%) SC Cleared
5 19 (4.00%) CCNA
5 19 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
5 19 (4.00%) MCSE
6 18 (3.79%) A+ Certification
7 14 (2.95%) Azure Certification
8 12 (2.53%) ITIL Certification
9 8 (1.68%) DBS Check
9 8 (1.68%) DV Cleared
10 7 (1.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 5 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.05%) MCSA
12 2 (0.42%) CCAA
12 2 (0.42%) Citrix Certification
12 2 (0.42%) MCP
12 2 (0.42%) MCTS
13 1 (0.21%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (8.63%) SLA
2 9 (1.89%) GDPR
3 4 (0.84%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.42%) NCSC
5 1 (0.21%) GxP
5 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 95 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 93 (19.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (5.68%) Virtual Desktop
3 27 (5.68%) vSphere
4 16 (3.37%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.84%) Terminal Services
7 3 (0.63%) Docker
7 3 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.42%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.21%) Samba
Systems Management
1 58 (12.21%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (2.74%) SCCM
3 11 (2.32%) WSUS
4 8 (1.68%) Failover Clustering
5 7 (1.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 6 (1.26%) Jamf Pro
6 6 (1.26%) ZABBIX
7 5 (1.05%) vCenter Server
8 4 (0.84%) WhatsUp Gold
9 3 (0.63%) Ansible
9 3 (0.63%) HAProxy
9 3 (0.63%) Kubernetes
9 3 (0.63%) Terraform
10 2 (0.42%) DatAdvantage
10 2 (0.42%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.42%) NetCrunch
10 2 (0.42%) QRadar
10 2 (0.42%) SCOM
10 2 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.42%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 310 (65.26%) Microsoft
2 168 (35.37%) VMware
3 43 (9.05%) Citrix
4 34 (7.16%) Cisco
5 32 (6.74%) Meraki
6 25 (5.26%) NetApp
7 24 (5.05%) Veeam
8 18 (3.79%) Apple
9 14 (2.95%) HP
10 11 (2.32%) Acronis
10 11 (2.32%) Dell
10 11 (2.32%) Google
11 10 (2.11%) Sophos
12 8 (1.68%) Red Hat
13 7 (1.47%) ServiceNow
13 7 (1.47%) Synology
14 6 (1.26%) Aruba
14 6 (1.26%) Sage
15 4 (0.84%) CheckPoint
15 4 (0.84%) Symantec