Active Directory Jobs in Kent

Microsoft Active Directory
South East > Kent

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Kent 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 22 11 25
Rank change year-on-year -11 +14 -7
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 121 135 148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 7.65% 12.98% 10.46%
As % of the System Software category 62.69% 69.95% 56.06%
Number of salaries quoted 110 119 144
10th Percentile £23,000 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £27,813 £28,000 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,500 £40,000 £38,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.75% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £43,750 £46,000 £47,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £57,550 £48,750
South East median annual salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,400
% change year-on-year +7.14% -1.13% -11.50%

All System Software Skills
Kent

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 Kent with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 193 193 264
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 12.21% 18.56% 18.66%
Number of salaries quoted 174 150 190
10th Percentile £23,075 £25,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £30,500 £29,750 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £44,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +12.82%
75th Percentile £57,500 £53,500 £48,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £57,500
South East median annual salary £47,500 £48,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.06% -3.00% -

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Kent

Active Directory
Salary Trend in Kent

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

Salary trend for Active Directory in Kent

Active Directory
Salary Histogram in Kent

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

Salary histogram for Active Directory in Kent

Active Directory
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Active Directory within the Kent 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
Maidstone +17 35 £33,000 +24.53% 5
Dartford 0 13 £31,500 +10.53% 4
Tonbridge - 7 £36,500 - 3
Chatham +15 6 £70,000 -20.77% 3
Canterbury - 6 £31,874 -
West Malling -6 5 £65,000 -
Sevenoaks -5 3 £50,000 +66.67% 2
Tunbridge Wells -17 3 £65,000 +113.11%
Faversham - 3 £24,000 -
Sittingbourne -7 2 £24,500 -38.75% 1
Active Directory
South East

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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 35 (28.93%) SharePoint
2 23 (19.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.65%) IIS
Applications
1 32 (26.45%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (6.61%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 74 (61.16%) Microsoft 365
2 60 (49.59%) Azure
3 38 (31.40%) Entra ID
4 13 (10.74%) AWS
5 7 (5.79%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (4.96%) OneDrive
7 4 (3.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (2.48%) Azure App Service
9 2 (1.65%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.65%) IaaS
9 2 (1.65%) SaaS
9 2 (1.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 53 (43.80%) DNS
2 41 (33.88%) Firewall
3 37 (30.58%) DHCP
4 15 (12.40%) TCP/IP
5 14 (11.57%) WAN
6 13 (10.74%) VLAN
6 13 (10.74%) VPN
7 12 (9.92%) LAN
8 8 (6.61%) Wireless
9 7 (5.79%) FTP
10 6 (4.96%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (3.31%) SAN
11 4 (3.31%) WLAN
12 3 (2.48%) NAS
12 3 (2.48%) Network Security
13 2 (1.65%) IP Telephony
13 2 (1.65%) SNMP
14 1 (0.83%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.44%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (5.79%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (1.65%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (3.31%) Git
2 3 (2.48%) Visual Studio
General
1 29 (23.97%) Social Skills
2 16 (13.22%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (4.96%) Finance
3 6 (4.96%) Manufacturing
4 3 (2.48%) Legal
4 3 (2.48%) Local Government
4 3 (2.48%) Retail
5 2 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (33.88%) Analyst
2 25 (20.66%) Support Analyst
3 21 (17.36%) 3rd Line Support
3 21 (17.36%) Support Engineer
4 20 (16.53%) 1st Line Support
4 20 (16.53%) IT Support
5 19 (15.70%) Lead
6 18 (14.88%) Help Desk Support
7 17 (14.05%) Help Desk Analyst
7 17 (14.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 16 (13.22%) 1st Line Support Analyst
9 12 (9.92%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
9 12 (9.92%) First Line Help Desk Analyst
9 12 (9.92%) First Line Help Desk Support
9 12 (9.92%) Help Desk Support Analyst
9 12 (9.92%) Senior
10 10 (8.26%) IT Engineer
10 10 (8.26%) IT Support Engineer
11 7 (5.79%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 7 (5.79%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.96%) .NET
2 3 (2.48%) ASP.NET
2 3 (2.48%) CSS
2 3 (2.48%) HTML
2 3 (2.48%) jQuery
2 3 (2.48%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.79%) Client/Server
1 7 (5.79%) Management Information System
2 5 (4.13%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.31%) Replication
3 4 (3.31%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.48%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.65%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.65%) Clustering
6 1 (0.83%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.83%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 88 (72.73%) Windows
2 31 (25.62%) Windows Server
3 27 (22.31%) Windows 10
4 7 (5.79%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (4.96%) Android
5 6 (4.96%) Apple iOS
6 4 (3.31%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (2.48%) Mac OS X
7 3 (2.48%) VMS
8 2 (1.65%) Mac OS
8 2 (1.65%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.83%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (31.40%) Problem-Solving
2 35 (28.93%) ITIL
3 26 (21.49%) Customer Service
4 22 (18.18%) Mentoring
4 22 (18.18%) Project Management
5 19 (15.70%) Process Improvement
6 17 (14.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 16 (13.22%) Cybersecurity
8 15 (12.40%) Incident Management
9 14 (11.57%) Patch Management
9 14 (11.57%) Strategic Planning
10 13 (10.74%) Business Continuity
10 13 (10.74%) Performance Optimisation
10 13 (10.74%) Proactive Maintenance
11 11 (9.09%) DevOps
11 11 (9.09%) Penetration Testing
11 11 (9.09%) Threat Detection
11 11 (9.09%) Vulnerability Remediation
12 9 (7.44%) Gamification
12 9 (7.44%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 16 (13.22%) SQL
2 4 (3.31%) PowerShell
3 3 (2.48%) C#
3 3 (2.48%) JavaScript
3 3 (2.48%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 14 (11.57%) Security Cleared
2 13 (10.74%) CCNP
2 13 (10.74%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (10.74%) MCSE
2 13 (10.74%) Microsoft Certification
3 10 (8.26%) Degree
4 8 (6.61%) Azure Certification
5 5 (4.13%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (12.40%) SLA
2 11 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 17 (14.05%) Hyper-V
2 6 (4.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.31%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.65%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.83%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.83%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (9.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (9.09%) WSUS
3 3 (2.48%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Clustering
4 2 (1.65%) SolarWinds Orion
4 2 (1.65%) Terraform
4 2 (1.65%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 74 (61.16%) Microsoft
2 22 (18.18%) Cisco
2 22 (18.18%) VMware
3 12 (9.92%) WatchGuard
4 7 (5.79%) Meraki
5 6 (4.96%) Veeam
6 4 (3.31%) Citrix
7 3 (2.48%) Apple
8 2 (1.65%) Bloomberg
8 2 (1.65%) Sage
8 2 (1.65%) SolarWinds