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 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 50 75
Rank change year-on-year +18 +25 -31
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 6,016 5,696 7,591
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.06% 5.65% 4.82%
As % of the System Software category 49.92% 36.85% 26.23%
Number of salaries quoted 4,857 4,726 6,162
10th Percentile £24,500 £25,000 £24,625
25th Percentile £28,290 £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 £56,250 £56,000
90th Percentile £65,625 £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 12,052 15,456 28,935
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.14% 15.32% 18.36%
Number of salaries quoted 9,555 10,247 15,617
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -1.79% +1.82%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £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 11 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 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
England +20 5,546 £38,000 -5.00% 1,042
UK excluding London +15 4,387 £35,000 -4.11% 843
Work from Home +17 1,884 £46,500 +3.33% 339
London +26 1,487 £51,250 +2.50% 246
South East +1 1,187 £37,500 +7.14% 220
North of England +34 1,073 £33,500 -11.26% 190
Midlands +28 766 £33,500 -10.67% 152
South West +17 533 £37,500 +4.17% 110
North West +7 496 £37,500 -6.25% 103
East of England +12 475 £31,000 -17.33% 121
West Midlands +27 466 £35,000 -9.68% 96
Yorkshire +40 390 £32,500 -8.45% 67
East Midlands +17 294 £33,000 -9.59% 56
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
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 1,655 (27.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 949 (15.77%) SharePoint
3 151 (2.51%) IIS
4 46 (0.76%) Exchange Server 2013
5 30 (0.50%) Confluence
5 30 (0.50%) Exchange Server 2010
6 29 (0.48%) OpenStack
7 24 (0.40%) Skype for Business
8 18 (0.30%) SharePoint 2013
9 17 (0.28%) CMS
9 17 (0.28%) WordPress
10 16 (0.27%) SharePoint 2010
11 12 (0.20%) Tomcat
12 11 (0.18%) Apache
12 11 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2007
13 8 (0.13%) SAS
14 6 (0.100%) Exchange Server 2000
15 5 (0.083%) SharePoint Server
16 4 (0.066%) Exchange Server 2003
16 4 (0.066%) nginx
Applications
1 942 (15.66%) Microsoft Office
2 150 (2.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 64 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
5 17 (0.28%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.083%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.066%) AutoCAD
9 3 (0.050%) SPSS
10 2 (0.033%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.033%) CATIA
10 2 (0.033%) InCopy
10 2 (0.033%) InDesign
10 2 (0.033%) 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 28 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.18%) NEC Housing
2 11 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
3 8 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
4 7 (0.12%) SAP ERP
5 6 (0.100%) Elite 3E
6 5 (0.083%) Sage 200
7 4 (0.066%) Adaptiv
7 4 (0.066%) Eikon
7 4 (0.066%) Epicor Tropos
7 4 (0.066%) Sage X3
8 3 (0.050%) iTrent
8 3 (0.050%) Teamcenter
9 2 (0.033%) assyst
9 2 (0.033%) SAP Business One
10 1 (0.017%) Carpe Diem
10 1 (0.017%) MIS ActiveH
10 1 (0.017%) Sage 300 ERP
10 1 (0.017%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3,677 (61.12%) Microsoft 365
2 2,994 (49.77%) Azure
3 1,656 (27.53%) Entra ID
4 485 (8.06%) AWS
5 425 (7.06%) OneDrive
6 179 (2.98%) Power Platform
7 171 (2.84%) IaaS
8 153 (2.54%) SaaS
9 133 (2.21%) PaaS
10 121 (2.01%) Mimecast
11 118 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
12 104 (1.73%) GCP
13 99 (1.65%) Power Automate
14 84 (1.40%) Cloud Computing
15 81 (1.35%) Google Workspace
16 80 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
16 80 (1.33%) PowerApps
17 77 (1.28%) Azure Monitor
18 68 (1.13%) Nutanix
19 53 (0.88%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 1,295 (21.53%) DNS
2 1,294 (21.51%) Firewall
3 985 (16.37%) DHCP
4 813 (13.51%) WAN
5 704 (11.70%) LAN
6 586 (9.74%) VPN
7 511 (8.49%) TCP/IP
8 431 (7.16%) SAN
9 386 (6.42%) Wireless
10 356 (5.92%) Wi-Fi
11 302 (5.02%) VLAN
12 263 (4.37%) VoIP
13 262 (4.36%) Broadband
14 220 (3.66%) 5G
15 214 (3.56%) SD-WAN
16 185 (3.08%) Internet
17 166 (2.76%) Network Security
18 153 (2.54%) Remote Desktop
19 140 (2.33%) NAS
20 121 (2.01%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 397 (6.60%) SQL Server
2 106 (1.76%) Power BI
3 95 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
4 66 (1.10%) MySQL
5 65 (1.08%) Metadata
6 52 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
7 50 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
8 41 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 31 (0.52%) Relational Database
10 30 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 20 (0.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 19 (0.32%) Oracle Database
13 17 (0.28%) Redis
14 15 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
14 15 (0.25%) RDBMS
15 13 (0.22%) MariaDB
15 13 (0.22%) NoSQL
16 12 (0.20%) Amazon Redshift
16 12 (0.20%) Elasticsearch
17 7 (0.12%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 115 (1.91%) Jenkins
2 107 (1.78%) Git
3 86 (1.43%) Bitbucket
4 82 (1.36%) JIRA
5 66 (1.10%) Artifactory
6 29 (0.48%) GitLab
7 12 (0.20%) Visual Studio
8 11 (0.18%) MSI
9 10 (0.17%) Trac
10 7 (0.12%) Katalon Studio
11 6 (0.100%) CircleCI
11 6 (0.100%) git-flow
11 6 (0.100%) Robot Framework
11 6 (0.100%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (0.083%) Moq
12 5 (0.083%) Postman
12 5 (0.083%) SpecFlow
13 4 (0.066%) Hudson
13 4 (0.066%) InstallShield
13 4 (0.066%) Selenium
General
1 1,937 (32.20%) Social Skills
2 724 (12.03%) Analytical Skills
3 696 (11.57%) Finance
4 437 (7.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 364 (6.05%) Law
6 218 (3.62%) Organisational Skills
7 215 (3.57%) Retail
8 180 (2.99%) Legal
9 168 (2.79%) Manufacturing
10 149 (2.48%) Public Sector
11 139 (2.31%) Telecoms
12 106 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
13 100 (1.66%) Marketing
14 90 (1.50%) Banking
15 51 (0.85%) Games
15 51 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
16 50 (0.83%) Local Government
17 43 (0.71%) Back Office
18 28 (0.47%) Aerospace
19 27 (0.45%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1,223 (20.33%) IT Support
2 1,031 (17.14%) Support Engineer
3 970 (16.12%) Analyst
4 816 (13.56%) IT Engineer
5 747 (12.42%) Senior
6 739 (12.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 557 (9.26%) IT Support Engineer
8 470 (7.81%) 2nd Line Support
9 383 (6.37%) IT Analyst
10 363 (6.03%) Support Analyst
11 362 (6.02%) IT Technician
12 319 (5.30%) Lead
13 317 (5.27%) Service Analyst
14 309 (5.14%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 295 (4.90%) Service Desk Analyst
16 257 (4.27%) 1st Line Support
17 250 (4.16%) Support Technician
18 245 (4.07%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
19 235 (3.91%) Technical Specialist
20 227 (3.77%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (1.89%) LDAP
2 101 (1.68%) SAML
3 93 (1.55%) JSON
4 86 (1.43%) Web Services
5 83 (1.38%) .NET
5 83 (1.38%) RESTful
6 74 (1.23%) XML
7 73 (1.21%) OpenID
8 65 (1.08%) JSON-LD
9 51 (0.85%) ARM Templates
10 29 (0.48%) HTML
10 29 (0.48%) OAuth
11 23 (0.38%) CSS
12 22 (0.37%) .NET Core
13 21 (0.35%) 802.1X
13 21 (0.35%) React
14 20 (0.33%) REST
15 16 (0.27%) OLE
15 16 (0.27%) YAML
16 15 (0.25%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 377 (6.27%) Driving Licence
2 358 (5.95%) Data Centre
3 296 (4.92%) Management Information System
4 262 (4.36%) Self-Motivation
5 219 (3.64%) Social Media
6 192 (3.19%) Onboarding
7 158 (2.63%) Replication
8 145 (2.41%) Video Conferencing
9 128 (2.13%) PKI
9 128 (2.13%) Public Cloud
10 112 (1.86%) Clustering
11 97 (1.61%) Wiki
12 95 (1.58%) Smartphone
13 82 (1.36%) Enterprise Cloud
14 72 (1.20%) iPhone
15 67 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
16 65 (1.08%) Reference Data
17 63 (1.05%) Cyberattack
18 62 (1.03%) iPad
19 48 (0.80%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4,168 (69.28%) Windows
2 2,159 (35.89%) Windows Server
3 1,276 (21.21%) Windows 10
4 831 (13.81%) Linux
5 394 (6.55%) Windows Server 2016
6 366 (6.08%) Windows Server 2019
7 359 (5.97%) Windows Server 2012
8 298 (4.95%) Ubuntu
9 276 (4.59%) Android
10 222 (3.69%) Mac OS
11 188 (3.13%) Windows 7
12 165 (2.74%) Apple iOS
13 94 (1.56%) Windows Server 2008
14 85 (1.41%) VMS
15 84 (1.40%) Windows 8
16 66 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 48 (0.80%) Unix
18 44 (0.73%) CentOS
19 42 (0.70%) Mac OS X
20 30 (0.50%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,241 (20.63%) ITIL
2 1,170 (19.45%) Problem-Solving
3 1,045 (17.37%) Customer Service
4 961 (15.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 863 (14.35%) Cybersecurity
6 388 (6.45%) Agile
7 382 (6.35%) Service Management
8 374 (6.22%) Disaster Recovery
9 363 (6.03%) ITSM
10 321 (5.34%) Mentoring
11 317 (5.27%) DevOps
12 311 (5.17%) Service Delivery
13 302 (5.02%) CRM
13 302 (5.02%) IT Strategy
14 299 (4.97%) Migration
15 297 (4.94%) Continuous Improvement
16 294 (4.89%) Project Management
17 288 (4.79%) Roadmaps
18 272 (4.52%) Incident Management
19 261 (4.34%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 911 (15.14%) PowerShell
2 601 (9.99%) SQL
3 342 (5.68%) Bash
4 150 (2.49%) Python
5 111 (1.85%) C#
6 69 (1.15%) Go
7 65 (1.08%) Prolog
7 65 (1.08%) SPARQL
8 46 (0.76%) T-SQL
9 45 (0.75%) VB
10 38 (0.63%) Bicep
11 36 (0.60%) JavaScript
12 35 (0.58%) VBScript
13 32 (0.53%) Perl
14 30 (0.50%) Java
15 27 (0.45%) PL/SQL
16 19 (0.32%) R
17 15 (0.25%) TypeScript
18 13 (0.22%) Ruby
18 13 (0.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 793 (13.18%) Degree
2 565 (9.39%) Security Cleared
3 496 (8.24%) Microsoft Certification
4 331 (5.50%) SC Cleared
5 262 (4.36%) DV Cleared
6 198 (3.29%) Cisco Certification
7 189 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
8 177 (2.94%) Azure Certification
9 176 (2.93%) A+ Certification
10 160 (2.66%) DBS Check
11 153 (2.54%) MCP
12 152 (2.53%) CCNA
12 152 (2.53%) MCSE
13 110 (1.83%) Master's Degree
14 107 (1.78%) MCSA
15 88 (1.46%) ITIL Certification
16 76 (1.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 53 (0.88%) Network+ Certification
18 51 (0.85%) CISSP
19 48 (0.80%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 479 (7.96%) SLA
2 128 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 124 (2.06%) Cyber Essentials
4 108 (1.80%) GDPR
5 34 (0.57%) NIST
6 30 (0.50%) Accessibility
7 25 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 18 (0.30%) QA
9 14 (0.23%) 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 (0.100%) NIST 800
15 5 (0.083%) IASME
15 5 (0.083%) ISO 9001
16 4 (0.066%) NCSC
17 3 (0.050%) JSP 440
17 3 (0.050%) WCAG
System Software
1 1,187 (19.73%) VMware Infrastructure
2 927 (15.41%) Hyper-V
3 361 (6.00%) VMware ESXi
4 208 (3.46%) XenApp
5 207 (3.44%) vSphere
6 185 (3.08%) XenDesktop
7 160 (2.66%) Virtual Desktop
8 148 (2.46%) Virtual Machines
9 101 (1.68%) Microsoft App-V
10 81 (1.35%) Docker
11 79 (1.31%) Virtual Servers
12 45 (0.75%) VirtualBox
13 38 (0.63%) Firmware
14 26 (0.43%) VMware Workstation
15 25 (0.42%) Terminal Services
16 22 (0.37%) VMware Server
17 20 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 18 (0.30%) NFS
18 18 (0.30%) pfSense
19 14 (0.23%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 1,192 (19.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 688 (11.44%) SCCM
3 264 (4.39%) Jamf Pro
4 181 (3.01%) WSUS
5 156 (2.59%) vCenter Server
6 141 (2.34%) Terraform
7 133 (2.21%) Single Sign-On
8 132 (2.19%) Ansible
9 121 (2.01%) SCOM
10 114 (1.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 109 (1.81%) Kubernetes
12 101 (1.68%) AirWatch
13 45 (0.75%) Failover Clustering
14 42 (0.70%) FortiGate
14 42 (0.70%) NetBackup
15 40 (0.66%) ZABBIX
16 37 (0.62%) Backup Exec
17 34 (0.57%) Microsoft Clustering
18 28 (0.47%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
19 24 (0.40%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 4,019 (66.81%) Microsoft
2 1,750 (29.09%) VMware
3 664 (11.04%) Cisco
4 599 (9.96%) Citrix
5 405 (6.73%) Veeam
6 235 (3.91%) CyberArk
7 230 (3.82%) Apple
8 214 (3.56%) HP
9 210 (3.49%) Tanium
10 198 (3.29%) ServiceNow
11 189 (3.14%) Dell
12 165 (2.74%) Google
13 142 (2.36%) Meraki
14 110 (1.83%) SolarWinds
15 106 (1.76%) NetApp
16 104 (1.73%) Sophos
17 97 (1.61%) Oracle
18 95 (1.58%) Fortinet
19 81 (1.35%) Red Hat
20 76 (1.26%) Commvault