Active Directory Jobs in the South West

Microsoft Active Directory
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 55 59
Rank change year-on-year +24 +4 -6
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 538 347 420
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 5.74% 5.19% 5.14%
As % of the System Software category 44.57% 30.02% 29.37%
Number of salaries quoted 474 293 263
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,500 £23,100
25th Percentile £29,290 £28,500 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £36,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +2.86% -
75th Percentile £51,500 £46,567 £47,500
90th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £66,750
England median annual salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% - -5.88%

All System Software Skills
South West

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 the South West with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,207 1,156 1,430
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 12.88% 17.30% 17.50%
Number of salaries quoted 972 697 874
10th Percentile £27,338 £27,500 £27,575
25th Percentile £32,688 £35,000 £36,656
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £62,500 £72,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in the South West

Active Directory
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Active Directory in the South West

Active Directory
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in the South West over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Active Directory in the South West

Active Directory
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Active Directory within the South West region over the 6 months to 18 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
Gloucestershire +28 152 £41,500 +27.69% 9
Bristol +39 118 £37,500 +25.00% 33
Wiltshire +2 92 £49,000 +15.29% 28
Somerset +21 62 £29,605 -27.79% 20
Devon -3 56 £40,000 +22.14% 16
Dorset -27 46 £37,000 -5.13% 11
Cornwall -14 11 £30,000 -11.76% 3
Active Directory
England

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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
1 156 (29.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 96 (17.84%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.23%) SharePoint 2010
3 12 (2.23%) SharePoint 2013
4 5 (0.93%) IIS
5 3 (0.56%) Apache
5 3 (0.56%) GlassFish
5 3 (0.56%) JBoss
5 3 (0.56%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.37%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.19%) Confluence
7 1 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.19%) Moodle
Applications
1 80 (14.87%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 294 (54.65%) Microsoft 365
2 245 (45.54%) Azure
3 121 (22.49%) Entra ID
4 56 (10.41%) AWS
5 52 (9.67%) OneDrive
6 31 (5.76%) GCP
7 19 (3.53%) IaaS
7 19 (3.53%) Power Platform
8 17 (3.16%) PaaS
9 11 (2.04%) SaaS
10 9 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (1.49%) Mimecast
11 8 (1.49%) Nutanix
12 7 (1.30%) PowerApps
13 6 (1.12%) Power Automate
14 5 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
14 5 (0.93%) OpenShift
14 5 (0.93%) WhatsApp
15 3 (0.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 93 (17.29%) DNS
2 87 (16.17%) LAN
3 79 (14.68%) WAN
4 77 (14.31%) DHCP
4 77 (14.31%) Firewall
5 63 (11.71%) TCP/IP
6 49 (9.11%) VPN
7 40 (7.43%) SAN
8 39 (7.25%) Wi-Fi
9 36 (6.69%) Wireless
10 23 (4.28%) VLAN
11 18 (3.35%) Remote Desktop
12 16 (2.97%) Network Security
13 14 (2.60%) NAS
14 12 (2.23%) Internet
14 12 (2.23%) VSAN
14 12 (2.23%) WLAN
15 11 (2.04%) IPsec
16 10 (1.86%) SD-WAN
16 10 (1.86%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (4.83%) SQL Server
2 8 (1.49%) MySQL
2 8 (1.49%) Power BI
3 5 (0.93%) RDBMS
3 5 (0.93%) Relational Database
4 4 (0.74%) Oracle Database
5 3 (0.56%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.56%) Oracle Database 12c
5 3 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.37%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (0.19%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.19%) PowerPivot
7 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (0.74%) JIRA
2 2 (0.37%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.19%) GitLab
3 1 (0.19%) MSI
General
1 175 (32.53%) Social Skills
2 41 (7.62%) Organisational Skills
3 40 (7.43%) Finance
4 37 (6.88%) Public Sector
5 29 (5.39%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (3.53%) Law
7 17 (3.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (3.16%) Legal
8 16 (2.97%) Telecoms
9 15 (2.79%) Manufacturing
10 11 (2.04%) Aerospace
11 9 (1.67%) Automotive
12 5 (0.93%) Banking
12 5 (0.93%) Fire and Rescue
12 5 (0.93%) Marketing
12 5 (0.93%) Military
13 4 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.74%) Publishing
14 3 (0.56%) Retail
15 2 (0.37%) Games
Job Titles
1 138 (25.65%) Support Engineer
2 98 (18.22%) IT Support
3 94 (17.47%) IT Engineer
4 82 (15.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 78 (14.50%) Analyst
6 61 (11.34%) Senior
7 55 (10.22%) 2nd Line Support
8 51 (9.48%) IT Support Engineer
9 49 (9.11%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 43 (7.99%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 39 (7.25%) IT Technician
12 35 (6.51%) Field Engineer
12 35 (6.51%) Service Analyst
13 34 (6.32%) Desktop Support
14 30 (5.58%) Service Desk Analyst
14 30 (5.58%) Support Technician
15 28 (5.20%) Desktop Engineer
15 28 (5.20%) Desktop Support Engineer
16 27 (5.02%) IT Support Technician
17 26 (4.83%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.12%) EJB
1 6 (1.12%) JSON
2 5 (0.93%) SAML
3 4 (0.74%) ARM Templates
4 3 (0.56%) LDAP
5 1 (0.19%) RESTEasy
5 1 (0.19%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 88 (16.36%) Driving Licence
2 45 (8.36%) Self-Motivation
3 26 (4.83%) Management Information System
4 17 (3.16%) iPhone
5 15 (2.79%) Clustering
5 15 (2.79%) Smartphone
6 14 (2.60%) Replication
7 12 (2.23%) Data Centre
7 12 (2.23%) PKI
8 11 (2.04%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.30%) CMDB
9 7 (1.30%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.12%) Fat Client
10 6 (1.12%) Thin Client
11 5 (0.93%) EMC VNX
11 5 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (0.74%) Cyberattack
12 4 (0.74%) Data Structures
12 4 (0.74%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 415 (77.14%) Windows
2 220 (40.89%) Windows Server
3 142 (26.39%) Windows 10
4 58 (10.78%) Linux
5 46 (8.55%) Windows Server 2016
6 44 (8.18%) Windows Server 2019
7 38 (7.06%) Windows Server 2012
8 33 (6.13%) Mac OS
9 32 (5.95%) Windows 7
10 17 (3.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 16 (2.97%) AIX
12 15 (2.79%) Apple iOS
13 14 (2.60%) Android
14 11 (2.04%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.74%) Unix
15 4 (0.74%) Windows 8
15 4 (0.74%) Windows XP
16 3 (0.56%) Solaris
17 2 (0.37%) Windows 2000
18 1 (0.19%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (24.54%) ITIL
2 112 (20.82%) Customer Service
3 92 (17.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 88 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
5 56 (10.41%) Service Management
6 47 (8.74%) Incident Management
7 46 (8.55%) ITSM
8 42 (7.81%) Time Management
9 41 (7.62%) Service Delivery
10 40 (7.43%) Change Management
10 40 (7.43%) Mentoring
11 33 (6.13%) Continuous Improvement
11 33 (6.13%) Mobile Device Management
12 31 (5.76%) Project Delivery
13 29 (5.39%) Cybersecurity
14 25 (4.65%) Information Security
15 22 (4.09%) Configuration Management
15 22 (4.09%) Project Management
16 21 (3.90%) Customer Requirements
16 21 (3.90%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 110 (20.45%) PowerShell
2 55 (10.22%) SQL
3 20 (3.72%) Python
4 15 (2.79%) Bash
5 8 (1.49%) Java
6 5 (0.93%) C#
7 1 (0.19%) Go
7 1 (0.19%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.19%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.19%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.19%) VB
Qualifications
1 140 (26.02%) Security Cleared
2 102 (18.96%) SC Cleared
3 58 (10.78%) DV Cleared
4 55 (10.22%) Degree
5 47 (8.74%) DBS Check
6 44 (8.18%) Microsoft Certification
7 40 (7.43%) A+ Certification
8 26 (4.83%) ITIL Certification
9 25 (4.65%) MCP
10 19 (3.53%) MCSE
11 16 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
12 13 (2.42%) MCITP
13 9 (1.67%) Network+ Certification
14 7 (1.30%) MCSA
15 6 (1.12%) GIAC
16 5 (0.93%) CCNA
16 5 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
17 4 (0.74%) CompTIA Security+
18 3 (0.56%) Azure Certification
18 3 (0.56%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (8.74%) SLA
2 21 (3.90%) GDPR
3 10 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.56%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.19%) Data Quality
System Software
1 126 (23.42%) VMware Infrastructure
2 97 (18.03%) Hyper-V
3 21 (3.90%) vSphere
4 20 (3.72%) VMware ESXi
5 19 (3.53%) XenDesktop
6 18 (3.35%) XenApp
7 11 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (1.67%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (1.30%) VMware Workstation
10 5 (0.93%) Docker
11 3 (0.56%) Forefront TMG
12 2 (0.37%) Firmware
12 2 (0.37%) Terminal Server
12 2 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.19%) DFS Replication
13 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.19%) RACF
13 1 (0.19%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 108 (20.07%) SCCM
2 91 (16.91%) Microsoft Intune
3 19 (3.53%) WSUS
4 15 (2.79%) Backup Exec
5 14 (2.60%) vCenter Server
6 12 (2.23%) NetBackup
7 10 (1.86%) McAfee ePO
7 10 (1.86%) Nagios
8 8 (1.49%) Kubernetes
8 8 (1.49%) SCVMM
9 6 (1.12%) Icinga
10 5 (0.93%) Ansible
10 5 (0.93%) EMC NetWorker
10 5 (0.93%) Jamf Pro
10 5 (0.93%) OfficeScan
11 4 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.74%) SCOM
11 4 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.56%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.56%) Oracle Statspack
Vendors
1 376 (69.89%) Microsoft
2 165 (30.67%) VMware
3 52 (9.67%) Cisco
4 51 (9.48%) Citrix
5 40 (7.43%) HP
6 33 (6.13%) Google
7 31 (5.76%) Veeam
8 24 (4.46%) Dell
8 24 (4.46%) Oracle
9 22 (4.09%) ServiceNow
9 22 (4.09%) SolarWinds
10 20 (3.72%) McAfee
11 19 (3.53%) Red Hat
12 15 (2.79%) Veritas
13 14 (2.60%) Aruba
13 14 (2.60%) Symantec
14 13 (2.42%) Hitachi
14 13 (2.42%) NetApp
15 12 (2.23%) Meraki
15 12 (2.23%) MobileIron