Active Directory Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Active Directory Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Microsoft Active Directory Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £39,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 June 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 552 759 705
Rank change year-on-year +207 -54 +149
Permanent jobs requiring an Active Directory Engineer 16 16 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.040% 0.020% 0.035%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.045% 0.021% 0.039%
Number of salaries quoted 16 8 14
10th Percentile - £23,725 -
25th Percentile £31,250 £25,000 £24,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,500 £42,500 £25,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.06% +70.00% -47.37%
75th Percentile £47,625 £55,625 £52,188
90th Percentile £52,500 £59,750 £57,500
UK median annual salary £39,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -28.18% +4.76% -12.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 35,502 76,581 48,697
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.52% 94.89% 88.79%
Number of salaries quoted 18,292 53,406 29,107
10th Percentile £26,000 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -6.54% +6.47%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £80,627
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Active Directory Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Active Directory Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory Engineer in the UK excluding London

Active Directory Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Active Directory Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Active Directory Engineer in the UK excluding London

Active Directory Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Active Directory Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Active Directory Engineer in the UK excluding London

Active Directory Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Active Directory Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 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
Midlands +83 10 £37,500 -
East Midlands - 7 £32,500 -
West Midlands +71 3 £39,500 -
East of England +40 2 £66,000 +20.00% 1
North of England +72 1 £40,000 +60.00%
Northern Ireland +35 1 £47,500 -
Yorkshire - 1 £40,000 -
South East - 1 £30,000 - 7
South West - 1 £46,500 -
Active Directory Engineer
UK

Active Directory Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 15 June 2025, Active Directory Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Active Directory Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 13 (81.25%) Windows
3 12 (75.00%) Microsoft
4 9 (56.25%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (50.00%) Entra ID
6 7 (43.75%) Windows Server
6 7 (43.75%) Firewall
6 7 (43.75%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (37.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (31.25%) DNS
8 5 (31.25%) Azure
9 4 (25.00%) CCNA
9 4 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (25.00%) DHCP
9 4 (25.00%) SQL Server
9 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
10 3 (18.75%) IIS
10 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (18.75%) SharePoint
10 3 (18.75%) VMware
10 3 (18.75%) PKI
10 3 (18.75%) Incident Management
10 3 (18.75%) Degree
10 3 (18.75%) Hyper-V
10 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
11 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
11 2 (12.50%) SCCM
11 2 (12.50%) SIEM
11 2 (12.50%) vSphere
11 2 (12.50%) SaaS

Active Directory Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (43.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (18.75%) IIS
2 3 (18.75%) SharePoint
3 1 (6.25%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (50.00%) Entra ID
3 5 (31.25%) Azure
4 2 (12.50%) SaaS
5 1 (6.25%) Mimecast
5 1 (6.25%) Nutanix
5 1 (6.25%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 7 (43.75%) Firewall
2 5 (31.25%) DNS
3 4 (25.00%) DHCP
4 2 (12.50%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (12.50%) SAN
5 1 (6.25%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 6 (37.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) PKI
2 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (12.50%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.25%) Driving Licence
3 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (81.25%) Windows
2 7 (43.75%) Windows Server
3 1 (6.25%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (18.75%) Incident Management
2 2 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (12.50%) Information Security
2 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (12.50%) Risk Assessment
2 2 (12.50%) SIEM
3 1 (6.25%) Agile
3 1 (6.25%) Data Analysis
3 1 (6.25%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (6.25%) ITIL
3 1 (6.25%) ITSM
3 1 (6.25%) Migration
3 1 (6.25%) PRINCE2
3 1 (6.25%) RBAC
3 1 (6.25%) Roadmaps
3 1 (6.25%) Service Management
3 1 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (6.25%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (6.25%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (6.25%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) CCNA
1 4 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (18.75%) Degree
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (12.50%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (18.75%) Hyper-V
2 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (12.50%) Terminal Services
3 2 (12.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) SCCM
1 2 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (6.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (6.25%) Ansible
Vendors
1 12 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) VMware
3 2 (12.50%) Dell
3 2 (12.50%) HP
3 2 (12.50%) NetApp
4 1 (6.25%) Cisco
4 1 (6.25%) Palo Alto
4 1 (6.25%) SolarWinds
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