Active Directory Jobs in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Active Directory
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 30 67
Rank change year-on-year -3 +37 -12
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 447 423 332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 6.09% 7.55% 4.42%
As % of the System Software category 45.75% 45.93% 31.41%
Number of salaries quoted 395 365 268
10th Percentile £26,250 £23,500 £23,388
25th Percentile £31,250 £27,500 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -13.33% -11.76%
75th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
90th Percentile £59,000 £58,750 £62,875
South East median annual salary £38,000 £35,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year +8.57% -5.41% -7.50%

All System Software Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 977 921 1,057
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.32% 16.45% 14.09%
Number of salaries quoted 760 618 664
10th Percentile £28,500 £24,850 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,000 £30,000 £32,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £82,500
South East median annual salary £47,500 £48,675 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.41% -2.65% -4.31%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in the Thames Valley

Active Directory
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Active Directory in the Thames Valley

Active Directory
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Active Directory in the Thames Valley

Active Directory
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Active Directory within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 9 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
Berkshire +28 241 £50,000 +51.52% 31
Oxfordshire +3 115 £40,000 +23.08% 20
Buckinghamshire -37 91 £38,000 +16.92% 15
Active Directory
South East

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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
1 112 (25.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 98 (21.92%) SharePoint
3 18 (4.03%) IIS
4 7 (1.57%) WordPress
5 5 (1.12%) Exchange Server 2013
5 5 (1.12%) OpenStack
Applications
1 68 (15.21%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (3.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (2.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (2.46%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.67%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 277 (61.97%) Microsoft 365
2 221 (49.44%) Azure
3 99 (22.15%) Entra ID
4 66 (14.77%) OneDrive
5 28 (6.26%) Azure Monitor
6 26 (5.82%) Azure Storage
7 24 (5.37%) Power Platform
8 16 (3.58%) Power Automate
9 13 (2.91%) Google Workspace
9 13 (2.91%) OCI
9 13 (2.91%) PowerApps
9 13 (2.91%) WhatsApp
10 12 (2.68%) iTunes
11 11 (2.46%) Cloud Computing
11 11 (2.46%) ShareGate
12 9 (2.01%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (1.12%) PaaS
14 4 (0.89%) SaaS
15 3 (0.67%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 134 (29.98%) Firewall
2 121 (27.07%) DNS
3 81 (18.12%) DHCP
4 41 (9.17%) Wi-Fi
5 32 (7.16%) Wireless
6 28 (6.26%) SAN
6 28 (6.26%) WAN
7 24 (5.37%) VoIP
8 22 (4.92%) Network Security
9 21 (4.70%) LAN
10 20 (4.47%) TCP/IP
10 20 (4.47%) VPN
11 14 (3.13%) SSL
11 14 (3.13%) VLAN
12 11 (2.46%) NAS
13 9 (2.01%) SNMP
14 8 (1.79%) 4G
14 8 (1.79%) DSL
14 8 (1.79%) LTE
14 8 (1.79%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (9.40%) SQL Server
2 24 (5.37%) Power BI
3 17 (3.80%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (2.01%) MySQL
5 6 (1.34%) Oracle Database
6 5 (1.12%) InfluxDB
6 5 (1.12%) MariaDB
6 5 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 9 (2.01%) MSI
2 7 (1.57%) AdminStudio
2 7 (1.57%) InstallShield
3 5 (1.12%) Git
3 5 (1.12%) Jenkins
General
1 159 (35.57%) Social Skills
2 28 (6.26%) Organisational Skills
3 23 (5.15%) Finance
4 22 (4.92%) Documentation Skills
5 20 (4.47%) Legal
5 20 (4.47%) Manufacturing
6 19 (4.25%) Law
7 16 (3.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (3.36%) Analytical Skills
9 13 (2.91%) Pharmaceutical
10 8 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.12%) Marketing
11 5 (1.12%) Retail
12 3 (0.67%) Banking
12 3 (0.67%) Public Sector
13 2 (0.45%) Games
14 1 (0.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 75 (16.78%) IT Support
2 66 (14.77%) Support Engineer
3 61 (13.65%) IT Engineer
4 60 (13.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 56 (12.53%) Analyst
6 44 (9.84%) IT Support Engineer
7 41 (9.17%) IT Analyst
8 37 (8.28%) Support Specialist
9 36 (8.05%) 2nd Line Support
9 36 (8.05%) Active Directory Specialist
9 36 (8.05%) Azure Specialist
10 35 (7.83%) Senior
11 32 (7.16%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 32 (7.16%) IT Technician
12 30 (6.71%) Active Directory Support
12 30 (6.71%) Systems Engineer
13 29 (6.49%) 3rd Line Support
14 26 (5.82%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 23 (5.15%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
15 23 (5.15%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (4.03%) ARM Templates
2 5 (1.12%) .NET
3 4 (0.89%) LAMP
3 4 (0.89%) LDAP
4 3 (0.67%) Azure Blueprints
4 3 (0.67%) FIDO
4 3 (0.67%) OAuth
4 3 (0.67%) OpenID
4 3 (0.67%) SailPoint
4 3 (0.67%) SAML
4 3 (0.67%) WebAuthn
5 1 (0.22%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 42 (9.40%) Self-Motivation
2 33 (7.38%) PKI
3 31 (6.94%) Data Centre
4 20 (4.47%) Onboarding
5 18 (4.03%) Driving Licence
6 17 (3.80%) Smartphone
7 13 (2.91%) CMDB
8 9 (2.01%) Private Cloud
9 7 (1.57%) Shadow IT
10 6 (1.34%) Replication
11 5 (1.12%) Educational Technology
11 5 (1.12%) Public Cloud
12 4 (0.89%) EMC VNX
12 4 (0.89%) Linux Command Line
13 3 (0.67%) Hybrid Cloud
13 3 (0.67%) iPhone
13 3 (0.67%) Social Media
13 3 (0.67%) Wiki
14 2 (0.45%) Online Games
14 2 (0.45%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 325 (72.71%) Windows
2 181 (40.49%) Windows Server
3 146 (32.66%) Windows 10
4 84 (18.79%) Windows Server 2016
5 82 (18.34%) Windows Server 2019
6 78 (17.45%) Linux
7 60 (13.42%) Windows Server 2012
8 32 (7.16%) Apple iOS
9 26 (5.82%) Android
10 25 (5.59%) Windows 7
11 18 (4.03%) Mac OS
12 17 (3.80%) Windows XP
13 12 (2.68%) Windows NT
14 9 (2.01%) CentOS
14 9 (2.01%) Ubuntu
15 7 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 7 (1.57%) Windows 8
16 5 (1.12%) VMS
17 4 (0.89%) Mac OS X
17 4 (0.89%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (25.28%) ITIL
2 101 (22.60%) Problem-Solving
3 91 (20.36%) Customer Service
4 82 (18.34%) Cybersecurity
5 74 (16.55%) Service Management
6 68 (15.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 47 (10.51%) Agile
8 42 (9.40%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 42 (9.40%) Release Management
9 40 (8.95%) ITSM
10 39 (8.72%) Change Management
11 36 (8.05%) Change Control
12 34 (7.61%) DevOps
13 33 (7.38%) Analytics
14 32 (7.16%) Project Management
15 28 (6.26%) Roadmaps
16 27 (6.04%) Break/Fix
16 27 (6.04%) Log Analytics
17 26 (5.82%) Asset Management
17 26 (5.82%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 88 (19.69%) PowerShell
2 61 (13.65%) SQL
3 36 (8.05%) C#
4 31 (6.94%) VB
5 25 (5.59%) VBScript
6 18 (4.03%) Bicep
7 14 (3.13%) Bash
8 11 (2.46%) Python
9 5 (1.12%) JavaScript
9 5 (1.12%) Perl
9 5 (1.12%) PL/SQL
9 5 (1.12%) T-SQL
9 5 (1.12%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 122 (27.29%) Security Cleared
2 97 (21.70%) Degree
3 87 (19.46%) DV Cleared
3 87 (19.46%) SC Cleared
4 34 (7.61%) Microsoft Certification
5 30 (6.71%) Cisco Certification
5 30 (6.71%) MCP
6 26 (5.82%) CCNA
7 24 (5.37%) A+ Certification
8 18 (4.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 17 (3.80%) HNC
10 12 (2.68%) CCNP
11 11 (2.46%) ITIL Certification
11 11 (2.46%) Master's Degree
12 7 (1.57%) Network+ Certification
13 5 (1.12%) MCSE
14 4 (0.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 2 (0.45%) CCENT
15 2 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
15 2 (0.45%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (10.29%) SLA
2 8 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (0.89%) QA
4 3 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (0.67%) GDPR
4 3 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 102 (22.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 74 (16.55%) Hyper-V
3 26 (5.82%) Virtual Desktop
4 21 (4.70%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (4.25%) Firmware
6 17 (3.80%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (2.91%) vSphere
8 8 (1.79%) Docker
8 8 (1.79%) Microsoft App-V
9 5 (1.12%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 4 (0.89%) XenApp
11 3 (0.67%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.22%) NFS
Systems Management
1 118 (26.40%) SCCM
2 95 (21.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 55 (12.30%) WSUS
4 50 (11.19%) SCOM
5 31 (6.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 23 (5.15%) Kubernetes
7 19 (4.25%) NetBackup
8 18 (4.03%) vCenter Server
9 16 (3.58%) EMC NetWorker
10 12 (2.68%) Sysprep
11 6 (1.34%) Ansible
11 6 (1.34%) Terraform
12 5 (1.12%) Puppet
12 5 (1.12%) Red Hat Spacewalk
13 4 (0.89%) PaperCut
14 3 (0.67%) Jamf Pro
14 3 (0.67%) Nagios
14 3 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
15 2 (0.45%) Nessus
16 1 (0.22%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 354 (79.19%) Microsoft
2 152 (34.00%) VMware
3 49 (10.96%) Citrix
4 47 (10.51%) Cisco
5 42 (9.40%) Veeam
6 23 (5.15%) Oracle
7 22 (4.92%) Apple
7 22 (4.92%) HP
7 22 (4.92%) ServiceNow
8 21 (4.70%) Dell
8 21 (4.70%) Google
9 19 (4.25%) Palo Alto
10 18 (4.03%) Juniper
11 16 (3.58%) Adobe
11 16 (3.58%) EMC
12 12 (2.68%) 3PAR
12 12 (2.68%) Extreme Networks
12 12 (2.68%) Symantec
13 11 (2.46%) Nintex
14 9 (2.01%) Dynatrace