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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 51 74
Rank change year-on-year +19 +23 -31
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 6,019 5,711 7,561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.11% 5.62% 4.80%
As % of the System Software category 49.93% 36.71% 26.19%
Number of salaries quoted 4,859 4,735 6,159
10th Percentile £24,500 £25,000 £24,500
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% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £52,500 £56,000 £55,680
90th Percentile £66,250 £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 12,056 15,557 28,873
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.24% 15.32% 18.34%
Number of salaries quoted 9,543 10,268 15,675
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,687
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -1.23% +1.25%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,336 £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 7 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 7 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 5,542 £38,000 -5.00% 1,126
UK excluding London +15 4,386 £35,000 -4.11% 917
Work from Home +18 1,888 £46,625 +3.61% 338
London +28 1,490 £52,500 +5.00% 257
South East +2 1,184 £37,500 +8.70% 253
North of England +36 1,073 £33,000 -13.16% 197
Midlands +27 765 £33,500 -10.67% 197
South West +19 531 £37,500 +4.17% 111
North West +7 494 £37,500 -6.25% 110
East of England +12 476 £31,000 -17.33% 129
West Midlands +28 465 £35,000 -12.50% 105
Yorkshire +42 392 £32,500 -9.72% 64
East Midlands +19 294 £32,500 -10.96% 92
Scotland -42 249 £35,000 -6.67% 52
North East +27 187 £33,000 -8.33% 27
Wales +20 89 £28,520 -23.95% 22
Northern Ireland -5 13 £37,500 -9.64% 8
Channel Islands -2 4 £85,000 +136.11%
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 1,657 (27.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 942 (15.65%) SharePoint
3 150 (2.49%) IIS
4 46 (0.76%) Exchange Server 2013
5 31 (0.52%) Exchange Server 2010
6 30 (0.50%) Confluence
7 29 (0.48%) OpenStack
8 25 (0.42%) Skype for Business
9 18 (0.30%) WordPress
10 17 (0.28%) CMS
11 16 (0.27%) SharePoint 2013
12 14 (0.23%) SharePoint 2010
13 12 (0.20%) Tomcat
14 11 (0.18%) Apache
14 11 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2007
15 8 (0.13%) SAS
16 6 (0.100%) Exchange Server 2000
17 5 (0.083%) SharePoint Server
18 4 (0.066%) Exchange Server 2003
18 4 (0.066%) nginx
Applications
1 942 (15.65%) Microsoft Office
2 149 (2.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 64 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
5 16 (0.27%) 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 12 (0.20%) NEC Housing
3 10 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
4 8 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
5 7 (0.12%) SAP ERP
6 6 (0.100%) Elite 3E
7 5 (0.083%) Adaptiv
7 5 (0.083%) Sage 200
8 4 (0.066%) Eikon
8 4 (0.066%) Epicor Tropos
8 4 (0.066%) Sage X3
9 3 (0.050%) assyst
9 3 (0.050%) iTrent
9 3 (0.050%) Teamcenter
10 2 (0.033%) SAP Business One
10 2 (0.033%) SAP S/4HANA
11 1 (0.017%) Carpe Diem
11 1 (0.017%) MIS ActiveH
11 1 (0.017%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 1 (0.017%) Sage 300 ERP
Cloud Services
1 3,675 (61.06%) Microsoft 365
2 2,990 (49.68%) Azure
3 1,651 (27.43%) Entra ID
4 482 (8.01%) AWS
5 425 (7.06%) OneDrive
6 176 (2.92%) Power Platform
7 168 (2.79%) IaaS
8 153 (2.54%) SaaS
9 132 (2.19%) PaaS
10 124 (2.06%) Mimecast
11 120 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
12 101 (1.68%) GCP
13 96 (1.59%) Power Automate
14 87 (1.45%) Cloud Computing
15 85 (1.41%) Google Workspace
16 78 (1.30%) PowerApps
17 76 (1.26%) Dynamics 365
18 74 (1.23%) Azure Monitor
19 67 (1.11%) Nutanix
20 52 (0.86%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1,297 (21.55%) Firewall
2 1,295 (21.52%) DNS
3 987 (16.40%) DHCP
4 820 (13.62%) WAN
5 706 (11.73%) LAN
6 592 (9.84%) VPN
7 514 (8.54%) TCP/IP
8 430 (7.14%) SAN
9 396 (6.58%) Wireless
10 354 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
11 307 (5.10%) VLAN
12 264 (4.39%) VoIP
13 262 (4.35%) Broadband
14 220 (3.66%) 5G
15 217 (3.61%) SD-WAN
16 185 (3.07%) Internet
17 167 (2.77%) Network Security
18 152 (2.53%) Remote Desktop
19 142 (2.36%) NAS
20 126 (2.09%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 396 (6.58%) SQL Server
2 104 (1.73%) Power BI
3 96 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
4 67 (1.11%) MySQL
5 65 (1.08%) Metadata
6 52 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
7 50 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
8 42 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 31 (0.52%) Relational Database
10 29 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 20 (0.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 18 (0.30%) Oracle Database
13 17 (0.28%) Redis
14 15 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
14 15 (0.25%) RDBMS
15 13 (0.22%) MariaDB
16 12 (0.20%) Amazon Redshift
16 12 (0.20%) Elasticsearch
16 12 (0.20%) NoSQL
17 7 (0.12%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 117 (1.94%) Jenkins
2 108 (1.79%) Git
3 86 (1.43%) Bitbucket
4 82 (1.36%) JIRA
5 66 (1.10%) Artifactory
6 32 (0.53%) GitLab
7 12 (0.20%) Visual Studio
8 11 (0.18%) MSI
9 10 (0.17%) Trac
10 7 (0.12%) CircleCI
10 7 (0.12%) git-flow
10 7 (0.12%) Katalon Studio
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 1,940 (32.23%) Social Skills
2 716 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
3 694 (11.53%) Finance
4 435 (7.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 362 (6.01%) Law
6 216 (3.59%) Retail
7 215 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
8 178 (2.96%) Legal
9 166 (2.76%) Manufacturing
10 150 (2.49%) Public Sector
11 136 (2.26%) Telecoms
12 108 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
13 101 (1.68%) Marketing
14 89 (1.48%) Banking
15 51 (0.85%) Games
15 51 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
16 50 (0.83%) Local Government
17 41 (0.68%) Back Office
18 28 (0.47%) Advertising
18 28 (0.47%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,227 (20.39%) IT Support
2 1,032 (17.15%) Support Engineer
3 965 (16.03%) Analyst
4 822 (13.66%) IT Engineer
5 746 (12.39%) Senior
6 735 (12.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 560 (9.30%) IT Support Engineer
8 472 (7.84%) 2nd Line Support
9 382 (6.35%) IT Analyst
10 362 (6.01%) Support Analyst
11 358 (5.95%) IT Technician
12 319 (5.30%) Lead
13 318 (5.28%) Service Analyst
14 309 (5.13%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 296 (4.92%) Service Desk Analyst
16 259 (4.30%) 1st Line Support
17 247 (4.10%) Support Technician
18 246 (4.09%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
19 236 (3.92%) Technical Specialist
20 227 (3.77%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (1.89%) LDAP
2 100 (1.66%) SAML
3 92 (1.53%) JSON
4 86 (1.43%) Web Services
5 83 (1.38%) .NET
5 83 (1.38%) RESTful
6 74 (1.23%) XML
7 72 (1.20%) OpenID
8 65 (1.08%) JSON-LD
9 51 (0.85%) ARM Templates
10 30 (0.50%) HTML
11 28 (0.47%) OAuth
12 23 (0.38%) CSS
13 22 (0.37%) .NET Core
14 21 (0.35%) 802.1X
15 20 (0.33%) React
15 20 (0.33%) REST
16 16 (0.27%) Elastic Stack
16 16 (0.27%) OLE
16 16 (0.27%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 378 (6.28%) Driving Licence
2 356 (5.91%) Data Centre
3 301 (5.00%) Management Information System
4 263 (4.37%) Self-Motivation
5 219 (3.64%) Social Media
6 196 (3.26%) Onboarding
7 159 (2.64%) Replication
8 149 (2.48%) Video Conferencing
9 129 (2.14%) PKI
10 128 (2.13%) Public Cloud
11 112 (1.86%) Clustering
12 100 (1.66%) Wiki
13 91 (1.51%) Smartphone
14 82 (1.36%) Enterprise Cloud
15 73 (1.21%) iPhone
16 67 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
17 65 (1.08%) Reference Data
18 63 (1.05%) Cyberattack
19 62 (1.03%) iPad
20 48 (0.80%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4,176 (69.38%) Windows
2 2,168 (36.02%) Windows Server
3 1,276 (21.20%) Windows 10
4 834 (13.86%) Linux
5 395 (6.56%) Windows Server 2016
6 369 (6.13%) Windows Server 2019
7 364 (6.05%) Windows Server 2012
8 299 (4.97%) Ubuntu
9 276 (4.59%) Android
10 223 (3.70%) Mac OS
11 187 (3.11%) Windows 7
12 161 (2.67%) Apple iOS
13 96 (1.59%) Windows Server 2008
14 86 (1.43%) VMS
15 83 (1.38%) Windows 8
16 66 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 49 (0.81%) Unix
18 43 (0.71%) CentOS
19 41 (0.68%) Mac OS X
20 30 (0.50%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,233 (20.49%) ITIL
2 1,169 (19.42%) Problem-Solving
3 1,044 (17.35%) Customer Service
4 957 (15.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 861 (14.30%) Cybersecurity
6 387 (6.43%) Agile
7 378 (6.28%) Service Management
8 377 (6.26%) Disaster Recovery
9 363 (6.03%) ITSM
10 319 (5.30%) Mentoring
11 318 (5.28%) DevOps
12 310 (5.15%) Service Delivery
13 302 (5.02%) Migration
14 301 (5.00%) CRM
14 301 (5.00%) IT Strategy
15 296 (4.92%) Continuous Improvement
16 290 (4.82%) Project Management
17 288 (4.78%) Roadmaps
18 269 (4.47%) Incident Management
19 258 (4.29%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 917 (15.24%) PowerShell
2 600 (9.97%) SQL
3 344 (5.72%) Bash
4 152 (2.53%) Python
5 113 (1.88%) C#
6 69 (1.15%) Go
7 65 (1.08%) Prolog
7 65 (1.08%) SPARQL
8 47 (0.78%) T-SQL
9 45 (0.75%) VB
10 39 (0.65%) Bicep
11 36 (0.60%) JavaScript
12 35 (0.58%) VBScript
13 31 (0.52%) Perl
14 30 (0.50%) Java
15 28 (0.47%) PL/SQL
16 19 (0.32%) R
17 15 (0.25%) TypeScript
18 14 (0.23%) Shell Script
19 13 (0.22%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 795 (13.21%) Degree
2 568 (9.44%) Security Cleared
3 490 (8.14%) Microsoft Certification
4 334 (5.55%) SC Cleared
5 262 (4.35%) DV Cleared
6 196 (3.26%) Cisco Certification
7 194 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
8 176 (2.92%) A+ Certification
9 175 (2.91%) Azure Certification
10 159 (2.64%) DBS Check
11 151 (2.51%) MCP
12 150 (2.49%) CCNA
13 147 (2.44%) MCSE
14 113 (1.88%) Master's Degree
15 106 (1.76%) MCSA
16 88 (1.46%) ITIL Certification
17 74 (1.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 53 (0.88%) CISSP
18 53 (0.88%) Network+ Certification
19 48 (0.80%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 479 (7.96%) SLA
2 123 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials
2 123 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 108 (1.79%) GDPR
4 33 (0.55%) NIST
5 30 (0.50%) Accessibility
6 25 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 18 (0.30%) QA
8 13 (0.22%) Data Quality
8 13 (0.22%) PCI DSS
9 12 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 12 (0.20%) SOC 2
10 11 (0.18%) PMO
11 9 (0.15%) GRC
12 6 (0.100%) NIST 800
13 5 (0.083%) IASME
13 5 (0.083%) ISO 9001
14 4 (0.066%) NCSC
15 3 (0.050%) JSP 440
15 3 (0.050%) WCAG
System Software
1 1,184 (19.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 926 (15.38%) Hyper-V
3 361 (6.00%) VMware ESXi
4 206 (3.42%) vSphere
4 206 (3.42%) XenApp
5 183 (3.04%) XenDesktop
6 163 (2.71%) Virtual Desktop
7 149 (2.48%) Virtual Machines
8 104 (1.73%) Microsoft App-V
9 82 (1.36%) Docker
10 77 (1.28%) Virtual Servers
11 45 (0.75%) VirtualBox
12 38 (0.63%) Firmware
13 26 (0.43%) VMware Workstation
14 25 (0.42%) Terminal Services
15 21 (0.35%) VMware Server
16 18 (0.30%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 18 (0.30%) NFS
16 18 (0.30%) pfSense
17 14 (0.23%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 1,197 (19.89%) Microsoft Intune
2 690 (11.46%) SCCM
3 265 (4.40%) Jamf Pro
4 182 (3.02%) WSUS
5 155 (2.58%) vCenter Server
6 143 (2.38%) Terraform
7 134 (2.23%) Ansible
8 131 (2.18%) Single Sign-On
9 121 (2.01%) SCOM
10 113 (1.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 110 (1.83%) Kubernetes
12 105 (1.74%) AirWatch
13 46 (0.76%) Failover Clustering
14 44 (0.73%) FortiGate
15 42 (0.70%) NetBackup
16 40 (0.66%) ZABBIX
17 36 (0.60%) Backup Exec
18 34 (0.56%) Microsoft Clustering
19 28 (0.47%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
20 24 (0.40%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 4,006 (66.56%) Microsoft
2 1,744 (28.97%) VMware
3 671 (11.15%) Cisco
4 594 (9.87%) Citrix
5 406 (6.75%) Veeam
6 235 (3.90%) CyberArk
7 231 (3.84%) Apple
8 216 (3.59%) HP
9 210 (3.49%) Tanium
10 202 (3.36%) ServiceNow
11 185 (3.07%) Dell
12 168 (2.79%) Google
13 145 (2.41%) Meraki
14 111 (1.84%) SolarWinds
15 106 (1.76%) NetApp
16 105 (1.74%) Sophos
17 97 (1.61%) Oracle
18 95 (1.58%) Fortinet
19 81 (1.35%) Red Hat
20 76 (1.26%) Commvault