Active Directory Jobs in England

Microsoft Active Directory
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 45 73
Rank change year-on-year +17 +28 -29
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 5,525 4,962 6,811
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.07% 5.90% 4.82%
As % of the System Software category 51.30% 38.25% 26.62%
Number of salaries quoted 4,398 4,183 5,540
10th Percentile £24,500 £25,400 £24,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £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 £57,250 £55,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
UK median annual salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% - -5.88%

All System Software Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 10,770 12,973 25,587
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.84% 15.42% 18.12%
Number of salaries quoted 8,554 8,948 13,746
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,625 £27,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% -0.90% +0.91%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Active Directory as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in England

Active Directory
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in England.

Salary trend for Active Directory in England

Active Directory
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Active Directory in England

Active Directory
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Active Directory within the England region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
London +16 1,405 £50,000 - 223
South East -4 1,171 £37,500 +7.14% 202
North of England +27 1,100 £35,000 -7.89% 204
Midlands +25 789 £33,500 -8.22% 137
South West +22 541 £37,500 +1.35% 118
North West +13 514 £37,500 -11.76% 113
East of England +11 493 £31,000 -17.33% 76
West Midlands +26 476 £35,000 -2.78% 75
Yorkshire +37 395 £32,500 -5.80% 75
East Midlands +14 308 £32,500 -13.33% 62
North East +28 191 £33,000 -8.33% 19
Active Directory
UK

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1,514 (27.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 891 (16.13%) SharePoint
3 142 (2.57%) IIS
4 44 (0.80%) Exchange Server 2013
5 28 (0.51%) Exchange Server 2010
6 23 (0.42%) Confluence
6 23 (0.42%) Skype for Business
7 21 (0.38%) SharePoint 2013
8 20 (0.36%) OpenStack
9 19 (0.34%) SharePoint 2010
10 17 (0.31%) WordPress
11 16 (0.29%) CMS
12 13 (0.24%) Tomcat
13 11 (0.20%) Apache
13 11 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2007
14 8 (0.14%) SAS
15 6 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2000
16 5 (0.090%) SharePoint Server
17 4 (0.072%) Exchange Server 2003
17 4 (0.072%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 887 (16.05%) Microsoft Office
2 132 (2.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 56 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.33%) MS Visio
4 18 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
5 8 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.072%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.054%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.054%) SPSS
8 2 (0.036%) CATIA
8 2 (0.036%) NASTRAN
9 1 (0.018%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.018%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.018%) InCopy
9 1 (0.018%) InDesign
9 1 (0.018%) Weka
Business Applications
1 28 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
3 10 (0.18%) NEC Housing
4 9 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
5 6 (0.11%) SAP ERP
6 5 (0.090%) Elite 3E
6 5 (0.090%) Sage 200
7 4 (0.072%) Eikon
8 3 (0.054%) Epicor Tropos
8 3 (0.054%) iTrent
8 3 (0.054%) Sage X3
8 3 (0.054%) Teamcenter
9 2 (0.036%) assyst
10 1 (0.018%) Carpe Diem
10 1 (0.018%) Dynamics GP
10 1 (0.018%) MIS ActiveH
10 1 (0.018%) Sage 300 ERP
10 1 (0.018%) SAP Business One
10 1 (0.018%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3,377 (61.12%) Microsoft 365
2 2,762 (49.99%) Azure
3 1,582 (28.63%) Entra ID
4 434 (7.86%) AWS
5 395 (7.15%) OneDrive
6 155 (2.81%) Power Platform
7 151 (2.73%) IaaS
8 136 (2.46%) SaaS
9 119 (2.15%) Mimecast
10 107 (1.94%) PaaS
11 97 (1.76%) GCP
12 91 (1.65%) Power Automate
13 83 (1.50%) Azure DevOps
14 78 (1.41%) Azure Monitor
14 78 (1.41%) Google Workspace
15 77 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
16 70 (1.27%) Cloud Computing
17 69 (1.25%) PowerApps
18 62 (1.12%) Nutanix
19 57 (1.03%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 1,228 (22.23%) DNS
2 1,218 (22.05%) Firewall
3 935 (16.92%) DHCP
4 757 (13.70%) WAN
5 665 (12.04%) LAN
6 546 (9.88%) VPN
7 490 (8.87%) TCP/IP
8 404 (7.31%) SAN
9 347 (6.28%) Wireless
10 343 (6.21%) Wi-Fi
11 278 (5.03%) VLAN
12 262 (4.74%) Broadband
13 241 (4.36%) VoIP
14 220 (3.98%) 5G
15 182 (3.29%) SD-WAN
16 181 (3.28%) Internet
17 156 (2.82%) Network Security
18 130 (2.35%) NAS
18 130 (2.35%) Remote Desktop
19 86 (1.56%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 355 (6.43%) SQL Server
2 90 (1.63%) Power BI
3 89 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
4 58 (1.05%) MySQL
5 46 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
6 44 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
7 35 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 28 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 27 (0.49%) Relational Database
10 20 (0.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 18 (0.33%) Redis
12 16 (0.29%) Oracle Database
13 13 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
13 13 (0.24%) MariaDB
14 12 (0.22%) Elasticsearch
15 11 (0.20%) NoSQL
16 10 (0.18%) Amazon Redshift
16 10 (0.18%) RDBMS
17 7 (0.13%) Data Lake
17 7 (0.13%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 69 (1.25%) JIRA
2 36 (0.65%) Git
2 36 (0.65%) Jenkins
3 20 (0.36%) GitLab
4 14 (0.25%) MSI
5 13 (0.24%) Bitbucket
6 10 (0.18%) Trac
6 10 (0.18%) Visual Studio
7 7 (0.13%) Katalon Studio
8 6 (0.11%) AdminStudio
8 6 (0.11%) InstallShield
8 6 (0.11%) Robot Framework
8 6 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (0.090%) Octopus Deploy
10 4 (0.072%) Hudson
11 3 (0.054%) Moq
11 3 (0.054%) Postman
11 3 (0.054%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.054%) SpecFlow
12 2 (0.036%) webpack
General
1 1,802 (32.62%) Social Skills
2 693 (12.54%) Analytical Skills
3 618 (11.19%) Finance
4 338 (6.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 277 (5.01%) Law
6 204 (3.69%) Legal
7 202 (3.66%) Organisational Skills
7 202 (3.66%) Retail
8 156 (2.82%) Manufacturing
9 129 (2.33%) Telecoms
10 119 (2.15%) Banking
11 107 (1.94%) Public Sector
12 100 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
13 47 (0.85%) Games
14 46 (0.83%) Back Office
15 44 (0.80%) Local Government
16 34 (0.62%) Marketing
17 32 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
18 28 (0.51%) Aerospace
19 27 (0.49%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1,116 (20.20%) IT Support
2 968 (17.52%) Support Engineer
3 934 (16.90%) Analyst
4 773 (13.99%) IT Engineer
5 706 (12.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 676 (12.24%) Senior
7 530 (9.59%) IT Support Engineer
8 422 (7.64%) 2nd Line Support
9 350 (6.33%) IT Analyst
10 344 (6.23%) IT Technician
11 328 (5.94%) Support Analyst
12 304 (5.50%) Service Analyst
13 287 (5.19%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 281 (5.09%) Service Desk Analyst
15 253 (4.58%) Lead
16 241 (4.36%) 1st Line Support
16 241 (4.36%) Support Technician
17 234 (4.24%) Technical Specialist
18 229 (4.14%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
19 210 (3.80%) Linux Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (1.34%) .NET
2 48 (0.87%) ARM Templates
3 46 (0.83%) LDAP
4 30 (0.54%) SAML
5 28 (0.51%) OAuth
6 25 (0.45%) HTML
7 23 (0.42%) CSS
8 21 (0.38%) .NET Core
8 21 (0.38%) 802.1X
9 19 (0.34%) Web Services
10 18 (0.33%) React
11 16 (0.29%) OLE
11 16 (0.29%) YAML
12 15 (0.27%) REST
13 14 (0.25%) JSON
13 14 (0.25%) RESTful
14 13 (0.24%) LAMP
14 13 (0.24%) SailPoint
15 12 (0.22%) EJB
16 9 (0.16%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 375 (6.79%) Driving Licence
2 298 (5.39%) Data Centre
3 249 (4.51%) Self-Motivation
4 228 (4.13%) Management Information System
5 217 (3.93%) Social Media
6 158 (2.86%) Onboarding
7 141 (2.55%) Replication
8 128 (2.32%) PKI
9 126 (2.28%) Public Cloud
10 115 (2.08%) Video Conferencing
11 114 (2.06%) Clustering
12 95 (1.72%) Smartphone
13 72 (1.30%) Wiki
14 60 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
15 59 (1.07%) iPad
16 58 (1.05%) iPhone
17 52 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
18 47 (0.85%) Private Cloud
19 45 (0.81%) Fat Client
19 45 (0.81%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 3,843 (69.56%) Windows
2 1,961 (35.49%) Windows Server
3 1,178 (21.32%) Windows 10
4 779 (14.10%) Linux
5 371 (6.71%) Windows Server 2016
6 342 (6.19%) Windows Server 2019
7 327 (5.92%) Windows Server 2012
8 293 (5.30%) Ubuntu
9 235 (4.25%) Android
10 209 (3.78%) Mac OS
11 176 (3.19%) Windows 7
12 145 (2.62%) Apple iOS
13 86 (1.56%) VMS
13 86 (1.56%) Windows Server 2008
14 70 (1.27%) Windows 8
15 60 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 42 (0.76%) Mac OS X
17 41 (0.74%) Unix
18 35 (0.63%) CentOS
19 26 (0.47%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,158 (20.96%) ITIL
2 1,072 (19.40%) Problem-Solving
3 1,003 (18.15%) Customer Service
4 903 (16.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 819 (14.82%) Cybersecurity
6 379 (6.86%) Service Management
7 355 (6.43%) Agile
8 340 (6.15%) ITSM
9 338 (6.12%) Disaster Recovery
10 303 (5.48%) CRM
11 298 (5.39%) Mentoring
12 295 (5.34%) IT Strategy
13 292 (5.29%) Service Delivery
14 281 (5.09%) Migration
15 274 (4.96%) DevOps
15 274 (4.96%) Project Management
16 266 (4.81%) Continuous Improvement
17 257 (4.65%) Incident Management
18 242 (4.38%) Artificial Intelligence
19 239 (4.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 885 (16.02%) PowerShell
2 593 (10.73%) SQL
3 332 (6.01%) Bash
4 134 (2.43%) Python
5 101 (1.83%) C#
6 52 (0.94%) VB
7 45 (0.81%) Bicep
8 39 (0.71%) VBScript
9 35 (0.63%) T-SQL
10 32 (0.58%) Java
10 32 (0.58%) JavaScript
11 30 (0.54%) Perl
12 25 (0.45%) PL/SQL
13 19 (0.34%) R
14 14 (0.25%) ActionScript
15 13 (0.24%) TypeScript
16 10 (0.18%) Ruby
17 9 (0.16%) VB.NET
18 8 (0.14%) Shell Script
19 5 (0.090%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 724 (13.10%) Degree
2 512 (9.27%) Security Cleared
3 472 (8.54%) Microsoft Certification
4 291 (5.27%) SC Cleared
5 249 (4.51%) DV Cleared
6 176 (3.19%) Cisco Certification
7 163 (2.95%) A+ Certification
8 160 (2.90%) DBS Check
9 156 (2.82%) MCP
10 151 (2.73%) Azure Certification
11 144 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
12 141 (2.55%) MCSE
13 138 (2.50%) CCNA
14 89 (1.61%) MCSA
15 87 (1.57%) ITIL Certification
16 80 (1.45%) Master's Degree
17 65 (1.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 49 (0.89%) Network+ Certification
19 48 (0.87%) CCNP
19 48 (0.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 435 (7.87%) SLA
2 109 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 107 (1.94%) Cyber Essentials
4 91 (1.65%) GDPR
5 33 (0.60%) NIST
6 25 (0.45%) Accessibility
7 15 (0.27%) Data Quality
8 14 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 13 (0.24%) QA
9 13 (0.24%) SOC 2
10 10 (0.18%) PCI DSS
10 10 (0.18%) PMO
11 7 (0.13%) GRC
12 6 (0.11%) NIST 800
12 6 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.072%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.072%) ISO 9001
13 4 (0.072%) NCSC
14 3 (0.054%) JSP 440
15 2 (0.036%) GxP
System Software
1 1,074 (19.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 888 (16.07%) Hyper-V
3 324 (5.86%) VMware ESXi
4 198 (3.58%) vSphere
5 192 (3.48%) XenApp
6 165 (2.99%) XenDesktop
7 156 (2.82%) Virtual Desktop
8 136 (2.46%) Virtual Machines
9 77 (1.39%) Microsoft App-V
9 77 (1.39%) Virtual Servers
10 65 (1.18%) Docker
11 45 (0.81%) RACF
12 41 (0.74%) VirtualBox
13 35 (0.63%) Firmware
14 29 (0.52%) Terminal Services
15 27 (0.49%) VMware Workstation
16 23 (0.42%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 22 (0.40%) VMware Server
18 19 (0.34%) NFS
19 18 (0.33%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 1,125 (20.36%) Microsoft Intune
2 632 (11.44%) SCCM
3 265 (4.80%) Jamf Pro
4 183 (3.31%) WSUS
5 157 (2.84%) vCenter Server
6 134 (2.43%) Terraform
7 129 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
8 117 (2.12%) SCOM
9 113 (2.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 111 (2.01%) Ansible
11 93 (1.68%) Kubernetes
12 74 (1.34%) AirWatch
13 42 (0.76%) Failover Clustering
14 41 (0.74%) NetBackup
15 37 (0.67%) Backup Exec
15 37 (0.67%) FortiGate
16 36 (0.65%) Microsoft Clustering
17 34 (0.62%) ZABBIX
18 27 (0.49%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
19 25 (0.45%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 3,767 (68.18%) Microsoft
2 1,608 (29.10%) VMware
3 596 (10.79%) Cisco
4 545 (9.86%) Citrix
5 375 (6.79%) Veeam
6 277 (5.01%) CyberArk
7 225 (4.07%) Apple
8 210 (3.80%) Tanium
9 198 (3.58%) HP
10 192 (3.48%) ServiceNow
11 186 (3.37%) Dell
12 158 (2.86%) Google
13 124 (2.24%) Meraki
14 97 (1.76%) SolarWinds
15 96 (1.74%) NetApp
16 90 (1.63%) Fortinet
16 90 (1.63%) Sophos
17 89 (1.61%) Oracle
18 71 (1.29%) Red Hat
19 69 (1.25%) Commvault