Active Directory Jobs in the West Midlands

Microsoft Active Directory
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Active Directory skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Active Directory over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 37 20 44
Rank change year-on-year -17 +24 -16
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 306 316 511
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 5.06% 8.17% 6.10%
As % of the System Software category 58.62% 59.18% 54.42%
Number of salaries quoted 191 294 466
10th Percentile £23,999 £25,500 £24,813
25th Percentile £26,750 £30,680 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,500 £39,475 £43,126
Median % change year-on-year -7.54% -8.46% +15.00%
75th Percentile £52,750 £51,422 £53,750
90th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £63,750
England median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% - -

All System Software Skills
West Midlands

Active Directory falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring system software skills in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 522 534 939
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 8.63% 13.81% 11.22%
Number of salaries quoted 332 460 800
10th Percentile £25,525 £26,250 £26,700
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -10.53% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £69,950 £67,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in the West Midlands

Active Directory
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Active Directory in the West Midlands

Active Directory
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Salary histogram for Active Directory in the West Midlands

Active Directory
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Active Directory within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Staffordshire -6 95 £35,000 -2.10% 11
Birmingham -16 91 £37,000 -5.01% 22
Warwickshire -20 27 £42,500 -22.73% 16
Shropshire +3 20 £36,500 -8.75% 4
Worcestershire -9 12 £38,750 -8.82% 3
Solihull +1 7 £52,500 +100.00%
Herefordshire +1 7 £27,500 -31.25% 5
West Bromwich 0 5 £37,000 -
Coventry -18 4 £50,000 +0.88% 9
Wednesbury -5 2 - -
Wolverhampton -8 2 - - 1
Halesowen - 1 £25,000 -
Stourbridge - 1 £40,000 -
Sutton Coldfield - 1 £27,000 -
Active Directory
England

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 62 (20.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 40 (13.07%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.33%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 51 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (8.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (3.27%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.31%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.31%) Sage 200
3 2 (0.65%) Magento
3 2 (0.65%) TIBCO iProcess
3 2 (0.65%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.33%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 186 (60.78%) Microsoft 365
2 149 (48.69%) Azure
3 94 (30.72%) Entra ID
4 18 (5.88%) Google Workspace
5 16 (5.23%) OneDrive
6 10 (3.27%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (2.61%) Power Platform
8 5 (1.63%) AWS
8 5 (1.63%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (1.63%) Mimecast
8 5 (1.63%) Power Automate
9 4 (1.31%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (1.31%) Azure Stack
9 4 (1.31%) Cohesity
9 4 (1.31%) SaaS
10 3 (0.98%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 3 (0.98%) IaaS
11 2 (0.65%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.65%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (0.65%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 92 (30.07%) DNS
2 86 (28.10%) DHCP
3 84 (27.45%) Firewall
4 46 (15.03%) WAN
5 44 (14.38%) LAN
6 43 (14.05%) TCP/IP
7 36 (11.76%) VLAN
8 28 (9.15%) Wi-Fi
9 26 (8.50%) VPN
10 25 (8.17%) Wireless
11 19 (6.21%) Network Security
12 17 (5.56%) SAN
13 14 (4.58%) BGP
13 14 (4.58%) OSPF
13 14 (4.58%) WLAN
14 9 (2.94%) Remote Desktop
15 8 (2.61%) Fibre Channel
15 8 (2.61%) PBX
16 6 (1.96%) VSAN
17 4 (1.31%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (10.46%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.96%) Power BI
3 5 (1.63%) MySQL
4 3 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (0.65%) Tableau
6 1 (0.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 132 (43.14%) Social Skills
2 54 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (11.11%) Law
4 33 (10.78%) Retail
5 26 (8.50%) Finance
6 19 (6.21%) Automotive
7 18 (5.88%) Telecoms
8 16 (5.23%) Manufacturing
9 14 (4.58%) Legal
10 7 (2.29%) Advertising
10 7 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.63%) Back Office
11 5 (1.63%) Banking
12 4 (1.31%) Local Government
13 3 (0.98%) Military
13 3 (0.98%) Public Sector
14 2 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
15 1 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.33%) Police
Job Titles
1 49 (16.01%) IT Support
2 48 (15.69%) Analyst
2 48 (15.69%) IT Engineer
3 40 (13.07%) Senior
4 35 (11.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 30 (9.80%) Support Engineer
6 26 (8.50%) Administrator
7 25 (8.17%) Systems Engineer
8 22 (7.19%) 1st Line Support
9 20 (6.54%) IT Technician
10 17 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support
10 17 (5.56%) IT Analyst
10 17 (5.56%) IT Support Engineer
11 16 (5.23%) Service Desk Engineer
12 15 (4.90%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 12 (3.92%) Network Engineer
13 12 (3.92%) Senior Analyst
13 12 (3.92%) Service Analyst
13 12 (3.92%) Service Desk Analyst
13 12 (3.92%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.63%) ADO
1 5 (1.63%) HTML
2 4 (1.31%) Middleware
2 4 (1.31%) SAML
3 3 (0.98%) 802.1X
3 3 (0.98%) Web Services
4 2 (0.65%) .NET
4 2 (0.65%) JSON
4 2 (0.65%) REST
4 2 (0.65%) XML
4 2 (0.65%) XSLT
5 1 (0.33%) LDAP
5 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.33%) OAuth
5 1 (0.33%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 35 (11.44%) Management Information System
2 27 (8.82%) Data Centre
3 15 (4.90%) Replication
4 14 (4.58%) Smartphone
5 10 (3.27%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.94%) PKI
6 9 (2.94%) Public Cloud
7 7 (2.29%) Driving Licence
8 6 (1.96%) CCTV
8 6 (1.96%) Cyberattack
8 6 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.63%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.31%) Cloud Native
10 4 (1.31%) Clustering
10 4 (1.31%) FMCG
10 4 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.31%) Wiki
11 3 (0.98%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 204 (66.67%) Windows
2 127 (41.50%) Windows Server
3 78 (25.49%) Windows 10
4 40 (13.07%) Linux
5 33 (10.78%) Windows Server 2016
6 30 (9.80%) Windows Server 2019
7 21 (6.86%) Ubuntu
7 21 (6.86%) Windows Server 2012
8 15 (4.90%) Mac OS X
9 9 (2.94%) Windows Server 2008
10 5 (1.63%) CentOS
10 5 (1.63%) Mac OS
11 4 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (1.31%) VMS
12 3 (0.98%) Windows 7
13 2 (0.65%) Windows Server 2003
14 1 (0.33%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (24.51%) Problem-Solving
2 73 (23.86%) Customer Service
3 58 (18.95%) ITIL
4 53 (17.32%) Cybersecurity
5 39 (12.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 34 (11.11%) Service Management
7 27 (8.82%) Project Delivery
8 24 (7.84%) Computer Science
9 22 (7.19%) Incident Management
10 21 (6.86%) Roadmaps
10 21 (6.86%) Server Management
11 19 (6.21%) ITSM
12 18 (5.88%) Continuous Improvement
13 17 (5.56%) Identity Access Management
13 17 (5.56%) Information Security
13 17 (5.56%) Multi-Factor Authentication
13 17 (5.56%) Systems Engineering
14 16 (5.23%) Patch Management
14 16 (5.23%) RBAC
15 14 (4.58%) Business Case
Programming Languages
1 65 (21.24%) PowerShell
2 57 (18.63%) SQL
3 5 (1.63%) PHP
4 4 (1.31%) Bash
5 3 (0.98%) R
6 2 (0.65%) C#
6 2 (0.65%) T-SQL
6 2 (0.65%) VB
6 2 (0.65%) VB6
Qualifications
1 57 (18.63%) Microsoft Certification
2 53 (17.32%) Degree
3 30 (9.80%) MCSE
4 29 (9.48%) Security Cleared
5 19 (6.21%) Azure Certification
5 19 (6.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (4.58%) HNC
6 14 (4.58%) HND
7 13 (4.25%) CCNA
7 13 (4.25%) Cisco Certification
7 13 (4.25%) SC Cleared
8 9 (2.94%) ITIL Certification
8 9 (2.94%) MCP
9 8 (2.61%) A+ Certification
9 8 (2.61%) MCSA
9 8 (2.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 7 (2.29%) DBS Check
10 7 (2.29%) Network+ Certification
11 5 (1.63%) DV Cleared
12 4 (1.31%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (16.01%) SLA
2 9 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.96%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (0.98%) JSP 440
4 3 (0.98%) NIST
5 2 (0.65%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.33%) GDPR
6 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 87 (28.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 69 (22.55%) Hyper-V
3 30 (9.80%) VMware ESXi
4 18 (5.88%) vSphere
5 8 (2.61%) VMware NSX
6 7 (2.29%) Virtual Servers
6 7 (2.29%) XenApp
6 7 (2.29%) XenDesktop
7 5 (1.63%) Docker
7 5 (1.63%) RACF
7 5 (1.63%) VMware Workstation
8 4 (1.31%) Firmware
8 4 (1.31%) pfSense
8 4 (1.31%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (1.31%) VMware Server
9 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.98%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 51 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 42 (13.73%) SCCM
3 17 (5.56%) Terraform
4 14 (4.58%) Single Sign-On
4 14 (4.58%) vCenter Server
5 13 (4.25%) SCOM
6 9 (2.94%) Kubernetes
7 8 (2.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (1.31%) AirWatch
8 4 (1.31%) Microsoft Clustering
8 4 (1.31%) VxRail
8 4 (1.31%) WSUS
9 3 (0.98%) Ansible
9 3 (0.98%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 172 (56.21%) Microsoft
2 110 (35.95%) VMware
3 34 (11.11%) Veeam
4 33 (10.78%) Cisco
5 31 (10.13%) Dell
6 27 (8.82%) Citrix
7 20 (6.54%) Fortinet
7 20 (6.54%) Ubiquiti
8 19 (6.21%) Apple
9 18 (5.88%) Google
10 17 (5.56%) ServiceNow
11 11 (3.59%) HP
12 8 (2.61%) CyberArk
13 7 (2.29%) Zscaler
14 6 (1.96%) Remedy
14 6 (1.96%) Sage
14 6 (1.96%) WatchGuard
14 6 (1.96%) Zerto
15 5 (1.63%) EMC
15 5 (1.63%) Sophos