Active Directory Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Microsoft Active Directory
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring Active Directory skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 34 17
Rank change year-on-year -9 -17 +22
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 16 36 33
As % of all permanent jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 2.84% 6.22% 9.65%
As % of the System Software category 55.17% 72.00% 55.93%
Number of salaries quoted 14 18 30
10th Percentile £26,400 £30,400 £24,759
25th Percentile £28,500 £34,813 £29,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £29,000 £36,750 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.09% +13.08% -35.00%
75th Percentile £29,500 £46,311 £43,625
90th Percentile £45,250 £46,667 £53,000
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £29,000 £36,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year -19.44% +10.77% -21.23%

All System Software Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 29 50 59
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 5.15% 8.64% 17.25%
Number of salaries quoted 20 25 52
10th Percentile £28,200 £32,500 £25,375
25th Percentile £28,500 £35,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £29,000 £44,274 £44,250
Median % change year-on-year -34.50% +0.05% -29.20%
75th Percentile £63,688 £57,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £78,000 £71,666 £63,625
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £47,500 £44,274 £41,500
% change year-on-year +7.29% +6.68% -30.76%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Active Directory relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Active Directory job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Active Directory
Salary Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Active Directory.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Active Directory

Active Directory
Salary Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Salary distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Active Directory in Newcastle upon Tyne

Active Directory
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 11 (68.75%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (75.00%) Azure
1 12 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
2 1 (6.25%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 11 (68.75%) Firewall
1 11 (68.75%) TCP/IP
2 10 (62.50%) VLAN
2 10 (62.50%) Wireless
3 1 (6.25%) DHCP
3 1 (6.25%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (62.50%) Amazon RDS
General
1 14 (87.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Support Engineer
1 10 (62.50%) Technical Engineer
1 10 (62.50%) Technical Support
1 10 (62.50%) Technical Support Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Help Desk Technician
3 1 (6.25%) IT Technician
3 1 (6.25%) Security Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Senior
3 1 (6.25%) Service Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Service Desk Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) Software Packaging
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Windows
2 1 (6.25%) Android
2 1 (6.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) Customer Service
2 10 (62.50%) Collaborative Working
2 10 (62.50%) Customer-Centricity
3 2 (12.50%) ITIL
4 1 (6.25%) Asset Management
4 1 (6.25%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (6.25%) Customer Engagement
4 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (6.25%) Incident Response
4 1 (6.25%) Information Security
4 1 (6.25%) Patch Management
4 1 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (6.25%) Security Operations
4 1 (6.25%) Service Delivery
4 1 (6.25%) SIEM
4 1 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (6.25%) Task Automation
4 1 (6.25%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (6.25%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 11 (68.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (62.50%) Hyper-V
3 1 (6.25%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (62.50%) FortiGate
1 10 (62.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (6.25%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (6.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 11 (68.75%) VMware
3 10 (62.50%) Cisco
3 10 (62.50%) SonicWALL
3 10 (62.50%) Veeam
3 10 (62.50%) WatchGuard
4 1 (6.25%) Citrix
4 1 (6.25%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (6.25%) Qualys
4 1 (6.25%) Zscaler