Active Directory Contracts in the North East

Microsoft Active Directory
England > North East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East with a requirement for Active Directory skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Active Directory over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 39 12
Rank change year-on-year +21 -27 +14
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 21 18 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 6.18% 4.15% 9.77%
As % of the System Software category 52.50% 20.45% 57.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 13 33
10th Percentile £148 £138 £121
25th Percentile £188 £185 £165
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £208 £280 £250
Median % change year-on-year -25.89% +12.00% -33.33%
75th Percentile £609 £675 £475
90th Percentile £650 £700 £565
England median daily rate £400 £425 £400
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £66.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year - +288.24% -8.11%
England median hourly rate £17.69 £18.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year -4.38% +5.71% +8.95%

All System Software Skills
North East

Active Directory is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North East with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 40 88 87
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 11.76% 20.28% 16.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 59 54
10th Percentile £158 £250 £151
25th Percentile £190 £519 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £600 £438
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% +37.14% -2.78%
75th Percentile £544 £728 £550
90th Percentile £650 £838 £646
England median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £15.24
25th Percentile - - £15.53
Median hourly rate £60.00 £66.00 £16.43
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +301.70% -17.85%
75th Percentile - - £16.92
90th Percentile - - £16.97
England median hourly rate £21.50 £49.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -56.57% +160.53% -1.30%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in the North East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in the North East.

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in the North East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in the North East over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in the North East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in the North East.

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in the North East

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Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Active Directory within the North East region over the 6 months to 24 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tyne and Wear +25 17 £525 +133.33% 14
Durham +4 4 £190 -73.79% 5
Active Directory
England

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (23.81%) Azure
3 4 (19.05%) Entra ID
4 3 (14.29%) AWS
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (4.76%) GCP
5 1 (4.76%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) DNS
2 2 (9.52%) DHCP
2 2 (9.52%) Firewall
2 2 (9.52%) Remote Desktop
2 2 (9.52%) Wireless
3 1 (4.76%) SMTP
3 1 (4.76%) VoIP
3 1 (4.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) GitLab
1 1 (4.76%) Gradle
1 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.76%) Liquibase
1 1 (4.76%) SonarQube
1 1 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Finance
4 1 (4.76%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Desktop Support
2 4 (19.05%) Analyst
2 4 (19.05%) Deskside Analyst
2 4 (19.05%) Deskside Support
2 4 (19.05%) Deskside Support Analyst
2 4 (19.05%) Desktop Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Support Analyst
3 3 (14.29%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
4 2 (9.52%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (9.52%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Mobile Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Penetration Tester
4 2 (9.52%) Support Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Tester
5 1 (4.76%) 1st Line Support
5 1 (4.76%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) jQuery
1 1 (4.76%) JSON
1 1 (4.76%) Keycloak
1 1 (4.76%) LDAP
1 1 (4.76%) Node.js
1 1 (4.76%) RESTful
1 1 (4.76%) SOAP
1 1 (4.76%) Spring
1 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
1 1 (4.76%) Swagger
1 1 (4.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Driving Licence
1 4 (19.05%) EPoS
2 2 (9.52%) Mobile App
2 2 (9.52%) NHS
2 2 (9.52%) Operational Technology
3 1 (4.76%) Clustering
3 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.76%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 19 (90.48%) Windows
2 7 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 4 (19.05%) Windows 10
4 3 (14.29%) Linux
5 2 (9.52%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (4.76%) Ubuntu
6 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (19.05%) B2B
2 3 (14.29%) ITIL
2 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (14.29%) Software Deployment
3 2 (9.52%) Application Security
3 2 (9.52%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (9.52%) Ethical Hacking
3 2 (9.52%) Hardware Maintenance
3 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (9.52%) Offensive Security
3 2 (9.52%) Patch Management
3 2 (9.52%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (9.52%) Red Team
3 2 (9.52%) Service Management
4 1 (4.76%) CI/CD
4 1 (4.76%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (4.76%) Customer Service
4 1 (4.76%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (4.76%) Migration
4 1 (4.76%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.52%) C++
1 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
1 2 (9.52%) Python
2 1 (4.76%) Java
2 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (38.10%) Security Cleared
2 6 (28.57%) DV Cleared
3 3 (14.29%) Degree
4 2 (9.52%) CEH
4 2 (9.52%) CREST Certified
4 2 (9.52%) GIAC
4 2 (9.52%) GPEN
4 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (9.52%) OSCP
4 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
5 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (4.76%) MCSE
5 1 (4.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) NIST
2 1 (4.76%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (9.52%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.76%) BitLocker
3 1 (4.76%) Docker
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (4.76%) Terminal Services
3 1 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (4.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) SCCM
2 1 (4.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (4.76%) Anchore
2 1 (4.76%) Ansible
2 1 (4.76%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (4.76%) Kibana
2 1 (4.76%) Packer
2 1 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (4.76%) vCenter Server
2 1 (4.76%) vMotion
Vendors
1 9 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 5 (23.81%) VMware
3 3 (14.29%) Citrix
4 1 (4.76%) Google
4 1 (4.76%) HP
4 1 (4.76%) Infoblox
4 1 (4.76%) Symantec