Active Directory Jobs with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Active Directory
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 25 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 43 62 103
Rank change year-on-year +19 +41 -34
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 1,900 1,966 2,624
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 5.57% 4.93% 3.64%
As % of the System Software category 44.63% 33.05% 19.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,369 1,655 2,219
10th Percentile £27,645 £25,600 £25,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £32,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.26%
75th Percentile £57,500 £63,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £75,500
UK median annual salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% - -5.88%

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,257 5,948 13,789
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.48% 14.93% 19.14%
Number of salaries quoted 3,333 4,389 7,685
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £86,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,687
% change year-on-year -9.09% -1.23% +1.25%

Active Directory
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Active Directory as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Active Directory trend for jobs with a WFH option

Active Directory
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Active Directory.

Active Directory salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Active Directory
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Active Directory over the 6 months to 25 May 2024.

Active Directory salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 491 (25.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 271 (14.26%) SharePoint
3 68 (3.58%) IIS
4 15 (0.79%) OpenStack
5 11 (0.58%) Exchange Server 2013
6 9 (0.47%) Tomcat
7 6 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2000
8 4 (0.21%) Apache
8 4 (0.21%) SAS
9 3 (0.16%) Confluence
9 3 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2007
9 3 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2010
9 3 (0.16%) GlassFish
9 3 (0.16%) JBoss
10 2 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
10 2 (0.11%) WordPress
11 1 (0.053%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.053%) IBM Domino
11 1 (0.053%) Site Server
Applications
1 191 (10.05%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
4 3 (0.16%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.16%) SPSS
5 2 (0.11%) CATIA
5 2 (0.11%) NASTRAN
6 1 (0.053%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 26 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.58%) NEC Housing
3 10 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
4 8 (0.42%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.21%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.11%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.053%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.053%) MIS ActiveH
7 1 (0.053%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 1,204 (63.37%) Azure
2 1,028 (54.11%) Microsoft 365
3 816 (42.95%) Entra ID
4 154 (8.11%) AWS
5 97 (5.11%) OneDrive
6 74 (3.89%) IaaS
7 69 (3.63%) Power Platform
8 54 (2.84%) SaaS
9 45 (2.37%) Azure Storage
10 42 (2.21%) PaaS
11 41 (2.16%) GCP
12 40 (2.11%) Azure Monitor
12 40 (2.11%) Nutanix
13 36 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
14 35 (1.84%) Power Automate
15 34 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
16 33 (1.74%) PowerApps
17 31 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
18 27 (1.42%) GitHub
19 26 (1.37%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 439 (23.11%) DNS
2 402 (21.16%) Firewall
3 316 (16.63%) DHCP
4 257 (13.53%) WAN
5 229 (12.05%) Broadband
6 220 (11.58%) 5G
7 208 (10.95%) LAN
8 175 (9.21%) VPN
9 145 (7.63%) SAN
10 123 (6.47%) TCP/IP
11 116 (6.11%) Wi-Fi
12 93 (4.89%) Internet
13 72 (3.79%) Wireless
14 68 (3.58%) VLAN
15 59 (3.11%) Remote Desktop
15 59 (3.11%) SD-WAN
16 57 (3.00%) VoIP
17 38 (2.00%) Network Security
18 32 (1.68%) WLAN
19 30 (1.58%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (8.89%) SQL Server
2 44 (2.32%) Power BI
3 36 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
4 34 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 24 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
6 19 (1.00%) Relational Database
7 16 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 15 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
9 14 (0.74%) MySQL
9 14 (0.74%) Oracle Database
10 12 (0.63%) Redis
11 10 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
12 8 (0.42%) NoSQL
13 7 (0.37%) Elasticsearch
13 7 (0.37%) RDBMS
14 5 (0.26%) MariaDB
14 5 (0.26%) MongoDB
14 5 (0.26%) PostgreSQL
14 5 (0.26%) PowerPivot
15 4 (0.21%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 34 (1.79%) JIRA
2 22 (1.16%) Git
3 15 (0.79%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.53%) GitLab
4 10 (0.53%) Trac
5 5 (0.26%) MSI
6 4 (0.21%) AdminStudio
6 4 (0.21%) CircleCI
6 4 (0.21%) git-flow
6 4 (0.21%) InstallShield
7 3 (0.16%) Moq
7 3 (0.16%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (0.16%) Postman
7 3 (0.16%) Selenium
7 3 (0.16%) SoapUI
7 3 (0.16%) SpecFlow
7 3 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 544 (28.63%) Social Skills
2 339 (17.84%) Analytical Skills
3 305 (16.05%) Finance
4 258 (13.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 110 (5.79%) Legal
6 79 (4.16%) Banking
7 73 (3.84%) Law
8 71 (3.74%) Retail
9 63 (3.32%) Organisational Skills
10 58 (3.05%) Public Sector
11 29 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
12 25 (1.32%) Telecoms
13 22 (1.16%) Games
14 19 (1.00%) German Language
15 16 (0.84%) Advertising
16 13 (0.68%) Marketing
16 13 (0.68%) Police
17 12 (0.63%) Aerospace
17 12 (0.63%) General Ledger
17 12 (0.63%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 411 (21.63%) Senior
2 306 (16.11%) Analyst
3 293 (15.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 227 (11.95%) IT Support
5 226 (11.89%) Support Engineer
6 223 (11.74%) IT Engineer
7 213 (11.21%) Technical Specialist
8 210 (11.05%) Linux Specialist
9 135 (7.11%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
10 127 (6.68%) Senior Linux Specialist
10 127 (6.68%) Senior Technical Specialist
10 127 (6.68%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
11 124 (6.53%) IT Analyst
12 122 (6.42%) IT Support Engineer
13 111 (5.84%) Support Analyst
14 101 (5.32%) 3rd Line Support
15 95 (5.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 87 (4.58%) 2nd Line Support
17 85 (4.47%) Lead
18 84 (4.42%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (1.37%) .NET
2 22 (1.16%) ARM Templates
3 17 (0.89%) LDAP
3 17 (0.89%) OAuth
4 10 (0.53%) CSS
5 8 (0.42%) ASP.NET
5 8 (0.42%) HTML
5 8 (0.42%) RabbitMQ
5 8 (0.42%) React
5 8 (0.42%) SailPoint
6 7 (0.37%) ASP.NET MVC
6 7 (0.37%) REST
7 6 (0.32%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Graph
7 6 (0.32%) RESTful
7 6 (0.32%) SAML
7 6 (0.32%) SPFx
8 5 (0.26%) Entity Framework
8 5 (0.26%) Middleware
8 5 (0.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 217 (11.42%) Social Media
2 158 (8.32%) Data Centre
3 138 (7.26%) Self-Motivation
4 127 (6.68%) Management Information System
5 91 (4.79%) Driving Licence
6 75 (3.95%) Public Cloud
7 73 (3.84%) PKI
8 55 (2.89%) Onboarding
9 43 (2.26%) Clustering
10 35 (1.84%) Private Cloud
11 33 (1.74%) Enterprise Storage
12 30 (1.58%) Replication
13 29 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
14 27 (1.42%) Video Conferencing
15 25 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
16 23 (1.21%) IoT
17 21 (1.11%) Client/Server
18 19 (1.00%) iPad
19 18 (0.95%) Cyberattack
20 15 (0.79%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 1,229 (64.68%) Windows
2 678 (35.68%) Windows Server
3 463 (24.37%) Linux
4 346 (18.21%) Windows 10
5 252 (13.26%) Ubuntu
6 145 (7.63%) Windows Server 2016
7 118 (6.21%) Windows Server 2012
8 113 (5.95%) Windows Server 2019
9 61 (3.21%) Windows 7
10 46 (2.42%) VMS
11 42 (2.21%) Apple iOS
12 36 (1.89%) Windows 8
13 28 (1.47%) Android
14 27 (1.42%) Windows Server 2008
15 26 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 25 (1.32%) Mac OS
17 20 (1.05%) Unix
18 10 (0.53%) Mac OS X
19 8 (0.42%) CentOS
20 7 (0.37%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 483 (25.42%) Cybersecurity
2 398 (20.95%) ITIL
3 389 (20.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 276 (14.53%) Problem-Solving
5 264 (13.89%) CRM
6 239 (12.58%) Customer Service
7 228 (12.00%) IT Strategy
8 222 (11.68%) Artificial Intelligence
9 215 (11.32%) Technology Strategy
10 205 (10.79%) Agile
11 149 (7.84%) DevOps
12 128 (6.74%) Disaster Recovery
12 128 (6.74%) Roadmaps
13 126 (6.63%) Information Security
14 125 (6.58%) Mentoring
15 114 (6.00%) Service Management
16 96 (5.05%) Migration
17 95 (5.00%) Identity Access Management
18 89 (4.68%) Project Management
19 88 (4.63%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 392 (20.63%) PowerShell
2 261 (13.74%) Bash
3 252 (13.26%) SQL
4 51 (2.68%) Python
5 50 (2.63%) C#
6 41 (2.16%) VB
7 36 (1.89%) T-SQL
8 34 (1.79%) VBScript
9 26 (1.37%) PL/SQL
10 20 (1.05%) Perl
11 17 (0.89%) Bicep
12 15 (0.79%) Java
13 14 (0.74%) JavaScript
14 13 (0.68%) ActionScript
15 6 (0.32%) Korn
15 6 (0.32%) Ruby
15 6 (0.32%) TypeScript
16 4 (0.21%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.21%) VBA
17 3 (0.16%) R
Qualifications
1 231 (12.16%) Degree
2 175 (9.21%) Security Cleared
3 132 (6.95%) Microsoft Certification
4 98 (5.16%) DV Cleared
5 88 (4.63%) SC Cleared
6 64 (3.37%) Azure Certification
7 45 (2.37%) MCP
8 29 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
9 26 (1.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 21 (1.11%) MCSE
11 20 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
12 19 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
13 18 (0.95%) CCNA
13 18 (0.95%) DBS Check
14 16 (0.84%) APMP
15 14 (0.74%) A+ Certification
15 14 (0.74%) MCITP
15 14 (0.74%) PMI Certification
16 11 (0.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 10 (0.53%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (4.42%) SLA
2 55 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 51 (2.68%) Cyber Essentials
4 14 (0.74%) Data Quality
4 14 (0.74%) GDPR
4 14 (0.74%) NIST
5 12 (0.63%) SOC 2
6 9 (0.47%) Accessibility
7 8 (0.42%) GRC
8 7 (0.37%) QA
9 4 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.21%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.16%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.16%) JSP 440
10 3 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.16%) WCAG
11 2 (0.11%) GxP
11 2 (0.11%) ITGC
11 2 (0.11%) PMO
12 1 (0.053%) HIPAA
System Software
1 395 (20.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 288 (15.16%) Hyper-V
3 94 (4.95%) VMware ESXi
4 85 (4.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 71 (3.74%) Virtual Machines
6 62 (3.26%) vSphere
7 53 (2.79%) Docker
8 50 (2.63%) RACF
8 50 (2.63%) XenApp
9 41 (2.16%) XenDesktop
10 28 (1.47%) VirtualBox
11 20 (1.05%) Virtual Servers
12 18 (0.95%) NFS
13 14 (0.74%) VMware Workstation
14 12 (0.63%) OpenSSH
14 12 (0.63%) Terminal Services
15 11 (0.58%) Firmware
16 10 (0.53%) pfSense
17 9 (0.47%) Forefront TMG
17 9 (0.47%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 557 (29.32%) Microsoft Intune
2 214 (11.26%) Jamf Pro
3 170 (8.95%) SCCM
4 97 (5.11%) Ansible
5 86 (4.53%) WSUS
6 83 (4.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 79 (4.16%) Terraform
8 73 (3.84%) Single Sign-On
9 69 (3.63%) vCenter Server
10 64 (3.37%) Kubernetes
11 49 (2.58%) SCOM
12 27 (1.42%) Microsoft Clustering
13 24 (1.26%) ZABBIX
14 19 (1.00%) Grafana
15 17 (0.89%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
16 14 (0.74%) PowerCLI
17 12 (0.63%) CA Single Sign-On
17 12 (0.63%) IBM BigFix
17 12 (0.63%) Opsgenie
17 12 (0.63%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1,359 (71.53%) Microsoft
2 584 (30.74%) VMware
3 273 (14.37%) CyberArk
4 210 (11.05%) Tanium
5 158 (8.32%) Cisco
6 147 (7.74%) Citrix
7 82 (4.32%) Apple
7 82 (4.32%) ServiceNow
8 78 (4.11%) Veeam
9 57 (3.00%) Meraki
10 52 (2.74%) Dell
11 49 (2.58%) Adobe
12 44 (2.32%) Fortinet
12 44 (2.32%) SolarWinds
13 43 (2.26%) HP
14 40 (2.11%) NetApp
15 38 (2.00%) Oracle
16 35 (1.84%) Commvault
16 35 (1.84%) Red Hat
17 28 (1.47%) iManage