Active Directory Jobs in England

Microsoft Active Directory
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Active Directory skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Active Directory over the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 29 43
Rank change year-on-year -21 +14 +32
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 2,536 5,598 4,847
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.11% 5.75% 6.00%
As % of the System Software category 42.38% 51.44% 38.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,779 4,361 4,111
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,500 £25,500
25th Percentile £29,750 £28,250 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £37,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% -6.25% -
75th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £38,500 £37,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year +2.67% -6.25% -

All System Software Skills
England

Active Directory falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring system software skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 5,984 10,882 12,567
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 12.06% 11.18% 15.55%
Number of salaries quoted 3,455 8,436 8,716
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £37,090
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £49,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £75,498 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £86,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £49,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.06% -10.00% -

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 22 June 2025.

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 22 June 2025. 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 -14 704 £50,000 - 1,396
North of England -50 454 £32,000 -8.57% 624
South East -27 418 £40,000 +5.26% 853
Midlands -4 413 £35,000 +4.30% 336
Yorkshire -3 242 £30,000 -14.29% 210
West Midlands -3 240 £38,000 +8.57% 167
East of England -23 231 £32,500 +4.84% 184
South West -9 195 £32,500 -12.16% 260
East Midlands -15 173 £32,000 -1.54% 160
North West -110 150 £37,500 -0.66% 345
North East -4 62 £32,000 -5.88% 72
South Coast - 1 £59,000 -
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
1 604 (23.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 383 (15.10%) SharePoint
3 60 (2.37%) IIS
4 29 (1.14%) Confluence
5 12 (0.47%) Tomcat
6 11 (0.43%) IBM Domino
7 9 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2013
7 9 (0.35%) Skype for Business
8 8 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2010
9 7 (0.28%) Apache
10 5 (0.20%) Liferay
11 4 (0.16%) CMS
11 4 (0.16%) Office Communications Server
11 4 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
12 3 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2007
12 3 (0.12%) WordPress
13 2 (0.079%) Apache Airflow
13 2 (0.079%) BizTalk Server
13 2 (0.079%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.079%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 288 (11.36%) Microsoft Office
2 86 (3.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 36 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.39%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.35%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.28%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 5 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.16%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.079%) Acrobat
9 2 (0.079%) Microsoft Project
9 2 (0.079%) Revit
10 1 (0.039%) Autodesk Inventor
10 1 (0.039%) Sketch
10 1 (0.039%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 23 (0.91%) Dynamics NAV
2 9 (0.35%) SAP Business One
3 7 (0.28%) SAP ERP
4 6 (0.24%) Elite 3E
4 6 (0.24%) Sage 200
5 4 (0.16%) Carpe Diem
5 4 (0.16%) Fidessa
6 3 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.12%) Sage 50
7 2 (0.079%) Eikon
7 2 (0.079%) Magento
7 2 (0.079%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.039%) assyst
8 1 (0.039%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.039%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.039%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.039%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.039%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,329 (52.41%) Microsoft 365
2 1,181 (46.57%) Azure
3 664 (26.18%) Entra ID
4 312 (12.30%) AWS
5 173 (6.82%) OneDrive
6 100 (3.94%) Serverless
7 89 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
8 61 (2.41%) Mimecast
9 49 (1.93%) IaaS
10 45 (1.77%) SaaS
11 44 (1.74%) Power Platform
12 42 (1.66%) Google Workspace
13 37 (1.46%) Amazon EC2
13 37 (1.46%) Cloud Computing
13 37 (1.46%) PaaS
14 35 (1.38%) Amazon S3
15 31 (1.22%) AWS KMS
15 31 (1.22%) Power Automate
15 31 (1.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 30 (1.18%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 631 (24.88%) Firewall
2 484 (19.09%) DNS
3 375 (14.79%) DHCP
4 297 (11.71%) Broadband
5 277 (10.92%) WAN
6 261 (10.29%) LAN
7 244 (9.62%) VPN
8 200 (7.89%) TCP/IP
9 178 (7.02%) VLAN
10 145 (5.72%) VoIP
11 125 (4.93%) Wi-Fi
12 123 (4.85%) SSL
13 116 (4.57%) SAN
14 98 (3.86%) Wireless
15 97 (3.82%) SSH
16 76 (3.00%) Network Security
17 62 (2.44%) Remote Desktop
18 52 (2.05%) SD-WAN
19 47 (1.85%) NAS
20 40 (1.58%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (5.52%) SQL Server
2 69 (2.72%) Amazon RDS
3 21 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (0.79%) Power BI
5 13 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
6 10 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (0.35%) NoSQL
8 8 (0.32%) MySQL
9 5 (0.20%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 5 (0.20%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.16%) Metadata
11 3 (0.12%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.079%) EDMS
12 2 (0.079%) HDInsight
12 2 (0.079%) Oracle Reports
12 2 (0.079%) Relational Database
12 2 (0.079%) Star Schema
12 2 (0.079%) Tableau
13 1 (0.039%) BusinessObjects
13 1 (0.039%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 61 (2.41%) JIRA
2 40 (1.58%) Jenkins
3 33 (1.30%) Git
4 27 (1.06%) Vagrant
5 11 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
6 7 (0.28%) Bitbucket Server
6 7 (0.28%) GitLab
7 6 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (0.20%) Spinnaker
9 4 (0.16%) YouTrack
10 3 (0.12%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.12%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.12%) Metasploit
11 2 (0.079%) Subversion
12 1 (0.039%) Eclipse
12 1 (0.039%) Fiddler
12 1 (0.039%) Selenium
12 1 (0.039%) TestRail
12 1 (0.039%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.039%) WiX
General
1 1,146 (45.19%) Social Skills
2 219 (8.64%) Finance
3 180 (7.10%) Analytical Skills
4 126 (4.97%) Law
5 121 (4.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 94 (3.71%) Retail
7 88 (3.47%) Legal
8 74 (2.92%) Manufacturing
9 71 (2.80%) Public Sector
10 70 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
11 39 (1.54%) Banking
12 33 (1.30%) Telecoms
13 27 (1.06%) Automotive
14 26 (1.03%) Advertising
15 22 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
16 21 (0.83%) Games
16 21 (0.83%) German Language
17 18 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
18 17 (0.67%) Marketing
19 16 (0.63%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 596 (23.50%) Support Engineer
2 556 (21.92%) IT Support
3 434 (17.11%) Analyst
4 274 (10.80%) Support Analyst
5 268 (10.57%) IT Engineer
6 259 (10.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 241 (9.50%) 2nd Line Support
8 190 (7.49%) IT Analyst
9 176 (6.94%) Senior
10 149 (5.88%) IT Support Engineer
11 148 (5.84%) IT Support Analyst
12 127 (5.01%) Cloud Engineer
13 118 (4.65%) Desktop Support
14 117 (4.61%) Infrastructure Support
15 111 (4.38%) 1st Line Support
15 111 (4.38%) Technical Support
16 107 (4.22%) DevOps Engineer
17 102 (4.02%) 3rd Line Support
18 94 (3.71%) Service Analyst
19 90 (3.55%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (3.47%) Web Services
2 82 (3.23%) RESTful
3 28 (1.10%) SailPoint
4 25 (0.99%) LDAP
4 25 (0.99%) SAML
5 15 (0.59%) JSON
6 12 (0.47%) REST
7 11 (0.43%) XML
7 11 (0.43%) YAML
8 10 (0.39%) SOAP
9 8 (0.32%) OAuth
10 7 (0.28%) 802.1X
10 7 (0.28%) CSS
10 7 (0.28%) EDI
10 7 (0.28%) HTML
11 6 (0.24%) OpenID
12 5 (0.20%) Django
12 5 (0.20%) Flask
12 5 (0.20%) React
13 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 183 (7.22%) Onboarding
2 159 (6.27%) Management Information System
3 150 (5.91%) Driving Licence
4 137 (5.40%) PKI
5 92 (3.63%) Cyber Threat
6 82 (3.23%) Cyberattack
7 73 (2.88%) NHS
8 70 (2.76%) Operational Technology
9 66 (2.60%) Data Centre
10 61 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
11 50 (1.97%) Clustering
12 48 (1.89%) Video Conferencing
13 44 (1.74%) CCTV
14 35 (1.38%) Replication
15 34 (1.34%) iPhone
16 30 (1.18%) Social Media
17 29 (1.14%) Virtual Team
18 28 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
19 27 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
20 24 (0.95%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1,803 (71.10%) Windows
2 793 (31.27%) Windows Server
3 361 (14.24%) Windows 10
4 273 (10.76%) Windows Server 2012
5 261 (10.29%) Linux
6 168 (6.62%) Mac OS
7 136 (5.36%) Windows Server 2019
8 133 (5.24%) Windows Server 2016
9 89 (3.51%) Android
10 86 (3.39%) Apple iOS
11 48 (1.89%) VMS
12 39 (1.54%) Mac OS X
13 33 (1.30%) Windows 7
14 32 (1.26%) Unix
15 23 (0.91%) Ubuntu
16 17 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 11 (0.43%) CentOS
17 11 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
18 10 (0.39%) Amazon Linux
19 8 (0.32%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 602 (23.74%) Problem-Solving
2 511 (20.15%) Customer Service
3 474 (18.69%) ITIL
4 372 (14.67%) Cybersecurity
5 310 (12.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 254 (10.02%) Coaching
7 232 (9.15%) Proactive Monitoring
8 224 (8.83%) Proactive Maintenance
9 215 (8.48%) Broadcast Engineering
9 215 (8.48%) Post-Production
9 215 (8.48%) Procure-to-Pay
10 175 (6.90%) DevOps
11 170 (6.70%) Mentoring
12 160 (6.31%) Continuous Improvement
13 154 (6.07%) Roadmaps
14 153 (6.03%) Identity Management
15 151 (5.95%) Disaster Recovery
16 137 (5.40%) ITSM
17 135 (5.32%) Incident Management
18 121 (4.77%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 471 (18.57%) PowerShell
2 217 (8.56%) Python
3 188 (7.41%) SQL
4 38 (1.50%) Bash
5 28 (1.10%) Groovy
6 27 (1.06%) Java
7 17 (0.67%) JavaScript
8 14 (0.55%) Perl
9 12 (0.47%) Shell Script
10 9 (0.35%) VBA
11 5 (0.20%) C#
11 5 (0.20%) Korn
12 4 (0.16%) Bicep
12 4 (0.16%) VB
13 3 (0.12%) Progress 4GL
13 3 (0.12%) Ruby
13 3 (0.12%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.12%) VBScript
14 2 (0.079%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.079%) PHP
Qualifications
1 593 (23.38%) Degree
2 271 (10.69%) Microsoft Certification
3 186 (7.33%) Security Cleared
4 119 (4.69%) DBS Check
5 104 (4.10%) Azure Certification
6 103 (4.06%) SC Cleared
7 89 (3.51%) DV Cleared
8 88 (3.47%) A+ Certification
9 83 (3.27%) Cisco Certification
10 67 (2.64%) CCNA
11 65 (2.56%) MCSA
12 54 (2.13%) MCSE
13 51 (2.01%) Network+ Certification
14 40 (1.58%) MCP
15 38 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
16 35 (1.38%) CCNP
17 33 (1.30%) AWS Certification
18 31 (1.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
19 30 (1.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
20 24 (0.95%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 182 (7.18%) SLA
2 157 (6.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 116 (4.57%) NIST
4 76 (3.00%) GDPR
5 46 (1.81%) Cyber Essentials
6 16 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 13 (0.51%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.32%) QA
9 7 (0.28%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.20%) ISO 9001
10 5 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
11 4 (0.16%) Data Quality
11 4 (0.16%) ISO 22301
11 4 (0.16%) NCSC
12 3 (0.12%) Accessibility
12 3 (0.12%) COBIT
12 3 (0.12%) ISO 14001
13 2 (0.079%) GRC
13 2 (0.079%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.079%) SOC 2
System Software
1 398 (15.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 283 (11.16%) Hyper-V
3 84 (3.31%) VMware ESXi
4 80 (3.15%) Virtual Servers
5 72 (2.84%) Virtual Desktop
6 55 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
7 49 (1.93%) Docker
7 49 (1.93%) vSphere
8 30 (1.18%) Terminal Services
9 29 (1.14%) XenApp
10 19 (0.75%) BitLocker
11 17 (0.67%) DFS Replication
12 9 (0.35%) Firmware
12 9 (0.35%) Microsoft App-V
13 5 (0.20%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 5 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 5 (0.20%) ISA Server
13 5 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 5 (0.20%) VMware NSX
14 4 (0.16%) Dovecot
Systems Management
1 503 (19.83%) Microsoft Intune
2 170 (6.70%) Terraform
3 164 (6.47%) SCCM
4 91 (3.59%) Ansible
5 75 (2.96%) Single Sign-On
6 63 (2.48%) Kubernetes
7 51 (2.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 37 (1.46%) Jamf Pro
9 34 (1.34%) vCenter Server
10 33 (1.30%) SCOM
11 31 (1.22%) WSUS
12 27 (1.06%) Prometheus
13 25 (0.99%) Grafana
14 20 (0.79%) Puppet
15 17 (0.67%) NetBackup
16 15 (0.59%) FortiGate
17 14 (0.55%) AirWatch
17 14 (0.55%) vMotion
18 13 (0.51%) Autotask
19 11 (0.43%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 1,679 (66.21%) Microsoft
2 517 (20.39%) VMware
3 305 (12.03%) Cisco
4 225 (8.87%) Sun
5 154 (6.07%) Citrix
6 150 (5.91%) Apple
7 133 (5.24%) Meraki
8 127 (5.01%) ServiceNow
9 117 (4.61%) Veeam
10 91 (3.59%) Thales
11 74 (2.92%) HP
12 70 (2.76%) Google
13 60 (2.37%) Okta
14 57 (2.25%) Dell
15 44 (1.74%) Fortinet
16 43 (1.70%) Sophos
17 37 (1.46%) SonicWALL
18 33 (1.30%) Palo Alto
18 33 (1.30%) Salesforce
18 33 (1.30%) SAP
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