Active Directory Jobs in Tyne and Wear

Microsoft Active Directory
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Active Directory skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Active Directory over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 20 49
Rank change year-on-year -20 +29 0
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 18 115 52
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 3.85% 8.57% 5.66%
As % of the System Software category 58.06% 64.97% 44.83%
Number of salaries quoted 9 107 43
10th Percentile £26,700 £23,250 £23,250
25th Percentile £28,500 £31,125 £30,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,198 £32,500 £36,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -10.96% +17.74%
75th Percentile £37,500 £43,250 £47,375
90th Percentile £38,500 £52,500 £62,250
North East median annual salary £32,599 £33,000 £36,000
% change year-on-year -1.22% -8.33% +5.88%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring system software skills in Tyne and Wear.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 31 177 116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 6.64% 13.19% 12.64%
Number of salaries quoted 17 166 86
10th Percentile £27,900 £25,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,599 £31,250 £34,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £37,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -28.57% -
75th Percentile £68,250 £52,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,666 £67,109 £82,500
North East median annual salary £37,500 £37,500 £45,750
% change year-on-year - -18.03% +1.67%

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
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Salary trend for Active Directory in Tyne and Wear

Active Directory
Salary Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Active Directory in Tyne and Wear

Active Directory
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Active Directory within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 11 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Newcastle upon Tyne -18 10 £33,198 +2.15% 18
Sunderland +16 3 £34,000 -32.00% 5
Gateshead -1 3 £29,000 -11.45% 1
South Shields - 2 - -
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 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (72.22%) Azure
2 10 (55.56%) Entra ID
3 9 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (33.33%) Firewall
2 3 (16.67%) WAN
3 2 (11.11%) DHCP
3 2 (11.11%) DNS
3 2 (11.11%) Internet
3 2 (11.11%) Unified Communications
3 2 (11.11%) VPN
3 2 (11.11%) Wireless
4 1 (5.56%) LAN
4 1 (5.56%) NAS
4 1 (5.56%) SAN
4 1 (5.56%) VoIP
4 1 (5.56%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) EDMS
2 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (11.11%) Finance
1 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Law
2 1 (5.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Identity Management Specialist
1 9 (50.00%) Technology Specialist
2 2 (11.11%) 2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
2 2 (11.11%) Analyst
2 2 (11.11%) Applications Support
2 2 (11.11%) IT Analyst
2 2 (11.11%) IT Technician
2 2 (11.11%) Senior
2 2 (11.11%) Senior IT Technician
2 2 (11.11%) Senior Technician
2 2 (11.11%) Service Analyst
2 2 (11.11%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) IT Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Network Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Network Systems Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (50.00%) NHS
2 2 (11.11%) Housing Association
3 1 (5.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (27.78%) Windows
1 5 (27.78%) Windows Server
2 3 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (5.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) ITIL
2 9 (50.00%) Identity Management
3 3 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (11.11%) Change Control
4 2 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (11.11%) IT Strategy
4 2 (11.11%) Project Management
4 2 (11.11%) Server Management
4 2 (11.11%) Trend Analysis
4 2 (11.11%) Virtual Environments
5 1 (5.56%) Antivirus Management
5 1 (5.56%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (5.56%) Customer Service
5 1 (5.56%) Decision-Making
5 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (5.56%) Presales
5 1 (5.56%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (5.56%) Process Improvement
5 1 (5.56%) Software Deployment
5 1 (5.56%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 2 (11.11%) Progress 4GL
1 2 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (50.00%) DBS Check
1 9 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Hyper-V
2 3 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 13 (72.22%) Microsoft
2 4 (22.22%) VMware
3 2 (11.11%) Capita
3 2 (11.11%) Progress
3 2 (11.11%) Sun