Active Directory Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Microsoft Active Directory
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Active Directory skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Active Directory over the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 19 35
Rank change year-on-year -3 +16 -16
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 15 13 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 5.98% 5.46% 4.56%
As % of the System Software category 41.67% 48.15% 19.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 13 11
10th Percentile £188 £188 £134
25th Percentile £191 £220 £169
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £333 £550 £225
Median % change year-on-year -39.55% +144.44% -40.00%
75th Percentile £459 £650 £298
90th Percentile £588 - £675
North East median daily rate £300 £500 £280
% change year-on-year -40.00% +78.57% +6.67%

All System Software Skills
Tyne and Wear

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 36 27 72
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 14.34% 11.34% 23.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 19 51
10th Percentile £189 £186 £213
25th Percentile £313 £265 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% -16.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £573 £619 £766
90th Percentile £625 £650 £846
North East median daily rate £385 £425 £600
% change year-on-year -9.41% -29.17% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £60.00 -
North East median hourly rate - £60.00 -

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Active Directory as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Tyne and Wear

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in Tyne and Wear

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in Tyne and Wear

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in Tyne and Wear.

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in Tyne and Wear

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 13 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Newcastle upon Tyne -7 12 £340 -43.33% 19
Sunderland +1 3 £195 - 6
Active Directory
North East

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (6.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) IaaS
2 4 (26.67%) PaaS
3 3 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (6.67%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 10 (66.67%) DNS
2 1 (6.67%) DHCP
2 1 (6.67%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (6.67%) WebEx
General
1 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Legal
2 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Active Directory Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Desktop Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Desktop Support
2 4 (26.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
3 3 (20.00%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support
3 3 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Mobile Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Service Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Wintel Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Wintel Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (6.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 14 (93.33%) Windows
2 4 (26.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (6.67%) Android
3 1 (6.67%) Windows 7
3 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (20.00%) ITIL
1 3 (20.00%) Patch Management
1 3 (20.00%) Service Management
2 1 (6.67%) Customer Service
2 1 (6.67%) ITSM
2 1 (6.67%) Migration
2 1 (6.67%) Server Management
2 1 (6.67%) Server Migrations
2 1 (6.67%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) A+ Certification
2 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) SCCM
2 1 (6.67%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (6.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (26.67%) SolarWinds
3 2 (13.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (6.67%) Bomgar
4 1 (6.67%) VMware