Microsoft Active Directory
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 51 72
Rank change year-on-year +20 +21 -29
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 6,115 5,851 7,592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.20% 5.64% 4.85%
As % of the System Software category 50.04% 36.84% 26.51%
Number of salaries quoted 4,932 4,816 6,216
10th Percentile £24,500 £25,000 £24,500
25th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £55,313
90th Percentile £66,250 £71,500 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £36,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% -6.67%

All System Software Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 12,221 15,884 28,634
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.39% 15.31% 18.29%
Number of salaries quoted 9,686 10,479 15,796
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,954 £27,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -1.79% +1.82%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in the UK

Active Directory
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Active Directory in the UK

Active Directory
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Active Directory over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Active Directory in the UK

Active Directory
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Active Directory within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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
England +20 5,629 £38,000 -5.00% 990
UK excluding London +16 4,457 £35,000 -2.78% 820
Work from Home +20 1,920 £46,958 +4.35% 305
London +28 1,514 £52,500 +5.00% 224
South East +5 1,224 £37,500 +10.29% 214
North of England +35 1,071 £33,000 -13.16% 187
Midlands +21 776 £33,500 -8.22% 159
South West +21 544 £37,500 +4.17% 88
North West +9 492 £37,500 -6.25% 105
East of England +12 477 £31,000 -17.33% 114
West Midlands +26 475 £35,000 -6.67% 100
Yorkshire +42 390 £32,500 -9.72% 61
East Midlands +12 295 £33,000 -5.71% 59
Scotland -41 255 £34,000 - 56
North East +29 189 £33,000 -8.33% 25
Wales +18 90 £28,750 -23.33% 19
Northern Ireland -8 14 £38,750 +6.90% 6
Channel Islands -2 4 £85,000 +136.11%
Isle of Man - 4 £43,000 - 2

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1,702 (27.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 951 (15.55%) SharePoint
3 154 (2.52%) IIS
4 45 (0.74%) Exchange Server 2013
5 34 (0.56%) Exchange Server 2010
6 31 (0.51%) Confluence
7 29 (0.47%) OpenStack
8 25 (0.41%) Skype for Business
9 18 (0.29%) WordPress
10 17 (0.28%) CMS
11 16 (0.26%) SharePoint 2013
12 14 (0.23%) SharePoint 2010
13 12 (0.20%) Tomcat
14 11 (0.18%) Apache
14 11 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2007
15 8 (0.13%) SAS
16 6 (0.098%) Exchange Server 2000
17 5 (0.082%) SharePoint Server
17 5 (0.082%) Site Server
18 4 (0.065%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 946 (15.47%) Microsoft Office
2 149 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 64 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
5 16 (0.26%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.082%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.065%) AutoCAD
9 3 (0.049%) SPSS
10 2 (0.033%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.033%) CATIA
10 2 (0.033%) InCopy
10 2 (0.033%) InDesign
10 2 (0.033%) NASTRAN
11 1 (0.016%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.016%) PTC Creo
11 1 (0.016%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.016%) Weka
Business Applications
1 29 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.21%) NEC Housing
3 10 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
4 8 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
5 7 (0.11%) SAP ERP
6 6 (0.098%) Adaptiv
6 6 (0.098%) Elite 3E
7 5 (0.082%) Sage 200
8 4 (0.065%) Eikon
8 4 (0.065%) Epicor Tropos
8 4 (0.065%) Sage X3
9 3 (0.049%) iTrent
9 3 (0.049%) Teamcenter
10 2 (0.033%) assyst
10 2 (0.033%) SAP Business One
10 2 (0.033%) SAP S/4HANA
11 1 (0.016%) Carpe Diem
11 1 (0.016%) MIS ActiveH
11 1 (0.016%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 1 (0.016%) Sage 300 ERP
Cloud Services
1 3,712 (60.70%) Microsoft 365
2 3,011 (49.24%) Azure
3 1,659 (27.13%) Entra ID
4 484 (7.91%) AWS
5 423 (6.92%) OneDrive
6 178 (2.91%) Power Platform
7 171 (2.80%) IaaS
8 154 (2.52%) SaaS
9 131 (2.14%) PaaS
10 125 (2.04%) Mimecast
11 124 (2.03%) Azure DevOps
12 102 (1.67%) GCP
13 98 (1.60%) Power Automate
14 86 (1.41%) Google Workspace
15 85 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
16 79 (1.29%) PowerApps
17 77 (1.26%) Dynamics 365
18 74 (1.21%) Azure Monitor
19 70 (1.14%) Nutanix
20 53 (0.87%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1,318 (21.55%) Firewall
2 1,316 (21.52%) DNS
3 1,002 (16.39%) DHCP
4 828 (13.54%) WAN
5 709 (11.59%) LAN
6 601 (9.83%) VPN
7 514 (8.41%) TCP/IP
8 437 (7.15%) SAN
9 405 (6.62%) Wireless
10 359 (5.87%) Wi-Fi
11 317 (5.18%) VLAN
12 268 (4.38%) VoIP
13 262 (4.28%) Broadband
14 221 (3.61%) SD-WAN
15 220 (3.60%) 5G
16 183 (2.99%) Internet
17 167 (2.73%) Network Security
18 155 (2.53%) Remote Desktop
19 146 (2.39%) NAS
20 131 (2.14%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 404 (6.61%) SQL Server
2 106 (1.73%) Power BI
3 97 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
4 66 (1.08%) MySQL
5 65 (1.06%) Metadata
6 50 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
7 48 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
8 45 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 31 (0.51%) Relational Database
10 30 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 20 (0.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 19 (0.31%) MongoDB
12 19 (0.31%) Oracle Database
13 15 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
13 15 (0.25%) RDBMS
13 15 (0.25%) Redis
14 12 (0.20%) Amazon Redshift
14 12 (0.20%) Elasticsearch
14 12 (0.20%) NoSQL
15 11 (0.18%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 119 (1.95%) Jenkins
2 108 (1.77%) Git
3 87 (1.42%) Bitbucket
4 83 (1.36%) JIRA
5 66 (1.08%) Artifactory
6 32 (0.52%) GitLab
7 12 (0.20%) Visual Studio
8 11 (0.18%) MSI
9 10 (0.16%) Trac
10 7 (0.11%) CircleCI
10 7 (0.11%) git-flow
11 6 (0.098%) Katalon Studio
11 6 (0.098%) Robot Framework
11 6 (0.098%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (0.082%) Moq
12 5 (0.082%) Postman
12 5 (0.082%) SpecFlow
13 4 (0.065%) Hudson
13 4 (0.065%) Selenium
13 4 (0.065%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 1,957 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 722 (11.81%) Analytical Skills
3 698 (11.41%) Finance
4 454 (7.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 364 (5.95%) Law
6 218 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
6 218 (3.57%) Retail
7 179 (2.93%) Legal
8 166 (2.71%) Manufacturing
9 152 (2.49%) Public Sector
10 136 (2.22%) Telecoms
11 108 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
12 101 (1.65%) Marketing
13 92 (1.50%) Banking
14 51 (0.83%) Games
15 50 (0.82%) Local Government
15 50 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
16 41 (0.67%) Back Office
17 28 (0.46%) Advertising
17 28 (0.46%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,239 (20.26%) IT Support
2 1,051 (17.19%) Support Engineer
3 978 (15.99%) Analyst
4 831 (13.59%) IT Engineer
5 768 (12.56%) Senior
6 759 (12.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 563 (9.21%) IT Support Engineer
8 480 (7.85%) 2nd Line Support
9 383 (6.26%) IT Analyst
10 366 (5.99%) Support Analyst
11 357 (5.84%) IT Technician
12 318 (5.20%) Service Analyst
13 317 (5.18%) Lead
14 314 (5.13%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 297 (4.86%) Service Desk Analyst
16 262 (4.28%) 1st Line Support
17 250 (4.09%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
18 247 (4.04%) Support Technician
19 238 (3.89%) Technical Specialist
20 228 (3.73%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (1.88%) LDAP
2 100 (1.64%) SAML
3 97 (1.59%) JSON
4 85 (1.39%) Web Services
5 83 (1.36%) RESTful
6 82 (1.34%) .NET
7 74 (1.21%) XML
8 73 (1.19%) OpenID
9 65 (1.06%) JSON-LD
10 53 (0.87%) ARM Templates
11 30 (0.49%) HTML
11 30 (0.49%) OAuth
12 23 (0.38%) CSS
13 22 (0.36%) .NET Core
14 21 (0.34%) 802.1X
15 20 (0.33%) React
16 19 (0.31%) REST
17 16 (0.26%) OLE
17 16 (0.26%) SailPoint
18 14 (0.23%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 382 (6.25%) Driving Licence
2 361 (5.90%) Data Centre
3 317 (5.18%) Management Information System
4 266 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
5 219 (3.58%) Social Media
6 197 (3.22%) Onboarding
7 159 (2.60%) Replication
8 154 (2.52%) Video Conferencing
9 136 (2.22%) PKI
10 129 (2.11%) Public Cloud
11 117 (1.91%) Clustering
12 105 (1.72%) Wiki
13 93 (1.52%) Smartphone
14 81 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
15 71 (1.16%) iPhone
16 68 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
17 65 (1.06%) Reference Data
18 63 (1.03%) Cyberattack
18 63 (1.03%) iPad
19 49 (0.80%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 4,247 (69.45%) Windows
2 2,216 (36.24%) Windows Server
3 1,293 (21.14%) Windows 10
4 849 (13.88%) Linux
5 404 (6.61%) Windows Server 2016
6 376 (6.15%) Windows Server 2012
6 376 (6.15%) Windows Server 2019
7 299 (4.89%) Ubuntu
8 281 (4.60%) Android
9 225 (3.68%) Mac OS
10 193 (3.16%) Windows 7
11 163 (2.67%) Apple iOS
12 101 (1.65%) Windows Server 2008
13 88 (1.44%) VMS
14 86 (1.41%) Windows 8
15 68 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 50 (0.82%) Unix
17 43 (0.70%) CentOS
18 40 (0.65%) Mac OS X
19 31 (0.51%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,243 (20.33%) ITIL
2 1,181 (19.31%) Problem-Solving
3 1,047 (17.12%) Customer Service
4 987 (16.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 871 (14.24%) Cybersecurity
6 386 (6.31%) Agile
7 384 (6.28%) Disaster Recovery
7 384 (6.28%) Service Management
8 369 (6.03%) ITSM
9 338 (5.53%) DevOps
10 323 (5.28%) Mentoring
11 316 (5.17%) Service Delivery
12 308 (5.04%) Migration
13 303 (4.96%) CRM
14 300 (4.91%) Continuous Improvement
14 300 (4.91%) IT Strategy
15 295 (4.82%) Project Management
16 287 (4.69%) Roadmaps
17 280 (4.58%) Incident Management
18 264 (4.32%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 951 (15.55%) PowerShell
2 626 (10.24%) SQL
3 363 (5.94%) Bash
4 175 (2.86%) Python
5 112 (1.83%) C#
6 69 (1.13%) Go
7 65 (1.06%) Prolog
7 65 (1.06%) SPARQL
8 49 (0.80%) T-SQL
9 45 (0.74%) VB
10 38 (0.62%) Bicep
11 36 (0.59%) JavaScript
12 35 (0.57%) Perl
12 35 (0.57%) VBScript
13 30 (0.49%) Java
14 29 (0.47%) PL/SQL
15 19 (0.31%) R
16 15 (0.25%) TypeScript
17 14 (0.23%) Ruby
17 14 (0.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 822 (13.44%) Degree
2 593 (9.70%) Security Cleared
3 496 (8.11%) Microsoft Certification
4 353 (5.77%) SC Cleared
5 275 (4.50%) DV Cleared
6 211 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
7 200 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
8 178 (2.91%) A+ Certification
9 175 (2.86%) Azure Certification
10 165 (2.70%) CCNA
11 161 (2.63%) DBS Check
12 149 (2.44%) MCP
13 148 (2.42%) MCSE
14 118 (1.93%) Master's Degree
15 106 (1.73%) MCSA
16 88 (1.44%) ITIL Certification
17 75 (1.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 55 (0.90%) Network+ Certification
19 53 (0.87%) CISSP
20 48 (0.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 485 (7.93%) SLA
2 127 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials
2 127 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 108 (1.77%) GDPR
4 36 (0.59%) NIST
5 29 (0.47%) Accessibility
6 26 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 18 (0.29%) QA
8 16 (0.26%) Data Quality
9 13 (0.21%) PCI DSS
10 12 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 12 (0.20%) SOC 2
11 11 (0.18%) PMO
12 9 (0.15%) GRC
13 6 (0.098%) NIST 800
14 5 (0.082%) IASME
14 5 (0.082%) ISO 9001
15 4 (0.065%) NCSC
16 3 (0.049%) JSP 440
16 3 (0.049%) WCAG
System Software
1 1,216 (19.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 944 (15.44%) Hyper-V
3 370 (6.05%) VMware ESXi
4 212 (3.47%) XenApp
5 211 (3.45%) vSphere
6 189 (3.09%) XenDesktop
7 167 (2.73%) Virtual Desktop
8 151 (2.47%) Virtual Machines
9 109 (1.78%) Microsoft App-V
10 82 (1.34%) Docker
11 80 (1.31%) Virtual Servers
12 47 (0.77%) VirtualBox
13 39 (0.64%) Firmware
14 26 (0.43%) VMware Workstation
15 25 (0.41%) Terminal Services
16 21 (0.34%) VMware Server
17 19 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 19 (0.31%) NFS
18 18 (0.29%) pfSense
19 14 (0.23%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 1,204 (19.69%) Microsoft Intune
2 703 (11.50%) SCCM
3 263 (4.30%) Jamf Pro
4 186 (3.04%) WSUS
5 157 (2.57%) vCenter Server
6 139 (2.27%) Terraform
7 134 (2.19%) Ansible
8 132 (2.16%) Single Sign-On
9 122 (2.00%) SCOM
10 114 (1.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 111 (1.82%) AirWatch
12 109 (1.78%) Kubernetes
13 50 (0.82%) Failover Clustering
14 46 (0.75%) FortiGate
15 43 (0.70%) NetBackup
16 41 (0.67%) ZABBIX
17 39 (0.64%) Microsoft Clustering
18 35 (0.57%) Backup Exec
19 31 (0.51%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
20 25 (0.41%) Nessus
Vendors
1 4,062 (66.43%) Microsoft
2 1,785 (29.19%) VMware
3 693 (11.33%) Cisco
4 607 (9.93%) Citrix
5 407 (6.66%) Veeam
6 235 (3.84%) CyberArk
7 233 (3.81%) Apple
8 220 (3.60%) HP
9 210 (3.43%) Tanium
10 203 (3.32%) ServiceNow
11 184 (3.01%) Dell
12 169 (2.76%) Google
13 146 (2.39%) Meraki
14 119 (1.95%) SolarWinds
15 107 (1.75%) Sophos
16 106 (1.73%) NetApp
17 100 (1.64%) Oracle
18 94 (1.54%) Fortinet
19 83 (1.36%) Red Hat
20 77 (1.26%) Aruba