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 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 32 47 42
Rank change year-on-year +15 -5 -10
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 4,387 3,637 4,522
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.18% 6.07% 6.37%
As % of the System Software category 49.78% 39.51% 37.20%
Number of salaries quoted 3,704 2,990 3,721
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 £47,531 £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 8,812 9,205 12,157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.41% 15.37% 17.11%
Number of salaries quoted 7,076 5,835 8,318
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,350 £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 £66,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £83,038
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% -1.79% +1.82%

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 11 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 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
South East +1 1,187 £37,500 +7.14% 220
North of England +34 1,073 £33,500 -11.26% 191
Midlands +28 766 £33,500 -10.67% 155
South West +17 533 £37,500 +4.17% 112
North West +7 496 £37,500 -6.25% 102
East of England +12 475 £31,000 -17.33% 123
West Midlands +27 466 £35,000 -9.68% 100
Yorkshire +40 390 £32,500 -8.45% 69
East Midlands +17 294 £33,000 -9.59% 55
Scotland -42 245 £35,000 +2.94% 49
North East +30 187 £33,000 -8.33% 22
Wales +16 89 £28,520 -23.95% 17
Northern Ireland -6 13 £37,500 -9.64% 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 1,174 (26.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 716 (16.32%) SharePoint
3 109 (2.48%) 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%) IBM Notes
15 4 (0.091%) nginx
15 4 (0.091%) SAS
Applications
1 726 (16.55%) Microsoft Office
2 125 (2.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 50 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
5 16 (0.36%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.068%) 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 8 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
2 7 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.16%) SAP ERP
3 5 (0.11%) Sage 200
4 4 (0.091%) Epicor Tropos
4 4 (0.091%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.091%) Sage X3
5 3 (0.068%) iTrent
5 3 (0.068%) Teamcenter
6 2 (0.046%) assyst
7 1 (0.023%) MIS ActiveH
7 1 (0.023%) Sage 300 ERP
7 1 (0.023%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2,801 (63.85%) Microsoft 365
2 2,106 (48.01%) Azure
3 1,128 (25.71%) Entra ID
4 335 (7.64%) OneDrive
5 311 (7.09%) AWS
6 125 (2.85%) Power Platform
7 90 (2.05%) IaaS
8 84 (1.91%) SaaS
9 77 (1.76%) GCP
10 70 (1.60%) Mimecast
11 63 (1.44%) Power Automate
12 58 (1.32%) PaaS
13 56 (1.28%) PowerApps
14 55 (1.25%) Cloud Computing
15 53 (1.21%) Google Workspace
16 47 (1.07%) Azure DevOps
17 44 (1.00%) Nutanix
18 39 (0.89%) Dynamics 365
19 35 (0.80%) WhatsApp
20 33 (0.75%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 1,006 (22.93%) Firewall
2 1,001 (22.82%) DNS
3 793 (18.08%) DHCP
4 551 (12.56%) WAN
5 504 (11.49%) LAN
6 420 (9.57%) TCP/IP
7 415 (9.46%) VPN
8 337 (7.68%) SAN
9 258 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
10 240 (5.47%) VLAN
11 231 (5.27%) VoIP
12 224 (5.11%) Wireless
13 121 (2.76%) Network Security
14 110 (2.51%) NAS
15 105 (2.39%) Remote Desktop
16 104 (2.37%) Internet
17 97 (2.21%) Broadband
18 85 (1.94%) SD-WAN
19 77 (1.76%) 5G
19 77 (1.76%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 262 (5.97%) SQL Server
2 88 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
3 84 (1.91%) Power BI
4 65 (1.48%) Metadata
5 39 (0.89%) MySQL
6 34 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
7 19 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
8 18 (0.41%) Relational Database
9 17 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 15 (0.34%) Oracle Database
10 15 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 11 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (0.21%) Amazon Redshift
12 9 (0.21%) NoSQL
12 9 (0.21%) RDBMS
12 9 (0.21%) Redis
13 8 (0.18%) Data Warehouse
13 8 (0.18%) MariaDB
14 6 (0.14%) InfluxDB
14 6 (0.14%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 90 (2.05%) Git
2 88 (2.01%) Jenkins
3 68 (1.55%) Bitbucket
4 65 (1.48%) 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 (0.068%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.068%) Visual Studio Code
12 2 (0.046%) Moq
12 2 (0.046%) Postman
12 2 (0.046%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 2 (0.046%) webpack
General
1 1,406 (32.05%) Social Skills
2 426 (9.71%) Finance
3 395 (9.00%) Analytical Skills
4 264 (6.02%) Law
5 227 (5.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 183 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
7 157 (3.58%) Manufacturing
7 157 (3.58%) Retail
8 127 (2.89%) Telecoms
9 106 (2.42%) Public Sector
10 101 (2.30%) Legal
11 88 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
12 85 (1.94%) Marketing
13 33 (0.75%) Games
14 30 (0.68%) Local Government
15 24 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
16 20 (0.46%) Aerospace
17 18 (0.41%) Advertising
18 17 (0.39%) Police
18 17 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 941 (21.45%) IT Support
2 828 (18.87%) Support Engineer
3 707 (16.12%) Analyst
4 701 (15.98%) IT Engineer
5 592 (13.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 482 (10.99%) IT Support Engineer
7 419 (9.55%) Senior
8 389 (8.87%) 2nd Line Support
9 323 (7.36%) IT Technician
10 280 (6.38%) IT Analyst
11 249 (5.68%) Support Analyst
12 246 (5.61%) Service Analyst
13 244 (5.56%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 241 (5.49%) Lead
15 234 (5.33%) Support Technician
16 228 (5.20%) Service Desk Analyst
17 221 (5.04%) 1st Line Support
18 203 (4.63%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
19 197 (4.49%) 3rd Line Support
20 189 (4.31%) IT Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (2.12%) LDAP
2 82 (1.87%) SAML
3 81 (1.85%) JSON
4 80 (1.82%) RESTful
5 73 (1.66%) Web Services
6 71 (1.62%) OpenID
7 70 (1.60%) XML
8 65 (1.48%) JSON-LD
9 29 (0.66%) .NET
10 24 (0.55%) ARM Templates
11 16 (0.36%) 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 (8.02%) Driving Licence
2 249 (5.68%) Data Centre
3 217 (4.95%) Management Information System
4 211 (4.81%) Self-Motivation
5 134 (3.05%) Onboarding
6 114 (2.60%) Replication
7 102 (2.33%) PKI
8 85 (1.94%) Clustering
9 81 (1.85%) Public Cloud
10 73 (1.66%) Enterprise Cloud
11 68 (1.55%) Social Media
12 65 (1.48%) Reference Data
13 63 (1.44%) Smartphone
14 42 (0.96%) Fat Client
14 42 (0.96%) Thin Client
15 41 (0.93%) Enterprise Storage
16 36 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
17 35 (0.80%) CCTV
17 35 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
18 34 (0.78%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3,130 (71.35%) Windows
2 1,751 (39.91%) Windows Server
3 897 (20.45%) Windows 10
4 510 (11.63%) Linux
5 333 (7.59%) Windows Server 2016
6 316 (7.20%) Windows Server 2019
7 282 (6.43%) Windows Server 2012
8 165 (3.76%) Mac OS
9 164 (3.74%) Windows 7
10 135 (3.08%) Android
11 116 (2.64%) Apple iOS
12 101 (2.30%) Ubuntu
13 83 (1.89%) Windows 8
14 59 (1.34%) Windows Server 2008
15 42 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 39 (0.89%) VMS
17 38 (0.87%) CentOS
18 30 (0.68%) Unix
19 29 (0.66%) Windows Server 2003
20 24 (0.55%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 993 (22.64%) ITIL
2 917 (20.90%) Problem-Solving
3 851 (19.40%) Customer Service
4 765 (17.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 537 (12.24%) Cybersecurity
6 299 (6.82%) Service Management
7 272 (6.20%) Disaster Recovery
8 250 (5.70%) Agile
9 240 (5.47%) Mentoring
10 230 (5.24%) Service Delivery
11 226 (5.15%) ITSM
12 221 (5.04%) Incident Management
13 212 (4.83%) Project Management
14 210 (4.79%) Roadmaps
15 207 (4.72%) Migration
16 200 (4.56%) Continuous Improvement
17 188 (4.29%) Change Management
18 167 (3.81%) DevOps
19 153 (3.49%) Server Management
20 152 (3.46%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 606 (13.81%) PowerShell
2 427 (9.73%) SQL
3 140 (3.19%) Bash
4 108 (2.46%) Python
5 69 (1.57%) Go
6 65 (1.48%) Prolog
6 65 (1.48%) SPARQL
7 49 (1.12%) C#
8 44 (1.00%) VB
9 35 (0.80%) VBScript
10 27 (0.62%) JavaScript
11 19 (0.43%) Perl
11 19 (0.43%) R
12 18 (0.41%) Bicep
12 18 (0.41%) Java
13 17 (0.39%) 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
1 513 (11.69%) Degree
2 439 (10.01%) Security Cleared
3 411 (9.37%) Microsoft Certification
4 281 (6.41%) SC Cleared
5 204 (4.65%) DV Cleared
6 161 (3.67%) A+ Certification
7 149 (3.40%) Cisco Certification
8 145 (3.31%) MCP
9 131 (2.99%) DBS Check
10 124 (2.83%) CCNA
11 123 (2.80%) Azure Certification
12 112 (2.55%) MCSE
13 80 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
14 72 (1.64%) ITIL Certification
15 70 (1.60%) MCSA
16 46 (1.05%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 44 (1.00%) Network+ Certification
18 43 (0.98%) CCNP
19 34 (0.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
20 26 (0.59%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 359 (8.18%) SLA
2 94 (2.14%) GDPR
3 82 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 77 (1.76%) Cyber Essentials
5 21 (0.48%) NIST
6 18 (0.41%) 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 (0.068%) JSP 440
13 2 (0.046%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.023%) GRC
14 1 (0.023%) GxP
14 1 (0.023%) HIPAA
14 1 (0.023%) ISO 14001
14 1 (0.023%) PMO
14 1 (0.023%) SOC 2
System Software
1 925 (21.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 846 (19.28%) Hyper-V
3 178 (4.06%) VMware ESXi
4 152 (3.46%) vSphere
5 129 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
6 126 (2.87%) Virtual Desktop
7 93 (2.12%) XenApp
8 79 (1.80%) XenDesktop
9 53 (1.21%) Docker
10 45 (1.03%) Virtual Servers
10 45 (1.03%) VirtualBox
11 33 (0.75%) Firmware
12 21 (0.48%) VMware Server
13 20 (0.46%) VMware Workstation
14 19 (0.43%) Terminal Services
15 18 (0.41%) pfSense
16 16 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 16 (0.36%) NFS
17 14 (0.32%) Citrix Hypervisor
18 10 (0.23%) OpenSSH
Systems Management
1 803 (18.30%) Microsoft Intune
2 452 (10.30%) SCCM
3 143 (3.26%) WSUS
4 107 (2.44%) SCOM
5 103 (2.35%) 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 (1.23%) Ansible
11 46 (1.05%) Terraform
12 43 (0.98%) Failover Clustering
13 38 (0.87%) FortiGate
13 38 (0.87%) ZABBIX
14 32 (0.73%) NetBackup
15 26 (0.59%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
16 24 (0.55%) Backup Exec
16 24 (0.55%) EMC NetWorker
17 19 (0.43%) Grafana
18 18 (0.41%) VxRail
Vendors
1 2,923 (66.63%) Microsoft
2 1,375 (31.34%) VMware
3 439 (10.01%) Cisco
4 381 (8.68%) Citrix
5 319 (7.27%) Veeam
6 164 (3.74%) Apple
7 162 (3.69%) Dell
8 157 (3.58%) HP
9 129 (2.94%) ServiceNow
10 112 (2.55%) Meraki
11 108 (2.46%) Google
12 95 (2.17%) Sophos
13 89 (2.03%) Fortinet
13 89 (2.03%) NetApp
14 86 (1.96%) CyberArk
15 77 (1.76%) SolarWinds
16 69 (1.57%) Oracle
17 67 (1.53%) Tanium
18 63 (1.44%) Aruba
19 58 (1.32%) Adobe