Active Directory Jobs in Scotland

Microsoft Active Directory
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 99 55 78
Rank change year-on-year -44 +23 -31
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 247 232 241
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 3.64% 5.19% 3.98%
As % of the System Software category 34.89% 30.29% 25.64%
Number of salaries quoted 143 146 177
10th Percentile £24,100 £23,000 £21,800
25th Percentile £26,475 £25,500 £25,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,000 £36,250 £34,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.97% +6.62% -2.86%
75th Percentile £50,250 £53,000 £48,000
90th Percentile £59,800 £78,125 £60,000
UK median annual salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% - -5.88%

All System Software Skills
Scotland

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 advertised in Scotland with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 708 766 940
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 10.43% 17.12% 15.52%
Number of salaries quoted 394 367 582
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,500 £26,680
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.82% -4.35% +21.05%
75th Percentile £61,949 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% -0.90% +0.91%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Scotland

Active Directory
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Active Directory in Scotland

Active Directory
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in Scotland over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Active Directory in Scotland

Active Directory
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Active Directory within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 28 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
Glasgow -64 148 £42,500 +13.33% 13
Edinburgh +32 49 £32,500 -23.53% 26
Argyll and Bute - 17 £27,400 -
Dundee -10 6 - -
Aberdeen -33 5 £35,000 +4.48% 2
Fife -8 4 £33,000 +10.00% 2
Aberdeenshire +9 3 £28,500 +11.76%
North Lanarkshire -7 3 £29,000 -22.44% 1
Midlothian -4 2 - - 8
Stirling -4 2 £34,750 +39.00%
East Ayrshire - 2 £24,000 -
Scottish Borders - 2 £23,000 -
South Lanarkshire -5 1 £35,000 -12.50%
West Dunbartonshire - 1 £27,500 -
Active Directory
UK

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 38 (15.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (8.91%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.02%) IIS
4 1 (0.40%) JOnAS
Applications
1 12 (4.86%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 107 (43.32%) Microsoft 365
2 93 (37.65%) Azure
3 69 (27.94%) Entra ID
4 8 (3.24%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (3.24%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (2.43%) OneDrive
5 6 (2.43%) Power Platform
6 4 (1.62%) AWS
6 4 (1.62%) Azure AKS
6 4 (1.62%) PowerApps
7 3 (1.21%) Azure API Management
7 3 (1.21%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (1.21%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (1.21%) Azure Storage
7 3 (1.21%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (1.21%) Mimecast
7 3 (1.21%) Power Automate
7 3 (1.21%) SaaS
7 3 (1.21%) Slack
7 3 (1.21%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 70 (28.34%) Kerberos
2 18 (7.29%) WAN
3 15 (6.07%) Firewall
4 14 (5.67%) DNS
5 11 (4.45%) LAN
5 11 (4.45%) VLAN
6 8 (3.24%) NAS
6 8 (3.24%) TCP/IP
6 8 (3.24%) VoIP
6 8 (3.24%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (2.83%) SAN
8 6 (2.43%) Cisco IOS
9 5 (2.02%) VPN
9 5 (2.02%) Wireless
10 4 (1.62%) DHCP
10 4 (1.62%) Internet
10 4 (1.62%) Remote Desktop
11 3 (1.21%) Network Security
11 3 (1.21%) Structured Cabling
12 2 (0.81%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (26.32%) Metadata
2 9 (3.64%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.21%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (1.21%) Power BI
4 2 (0.81%) DTS
5 1 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.40%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.40%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.40%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 70 (28.34%) Git
2 68 (27.53%) Bitbucket
2 68 (27.53%) Jenkins
3 65 (26.32%) Artifactory
General
1 94 (38.06%) Finance
2 79 (31.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 66 (26.72%) Law
4 65 (26.32%) Marketing
5 27 (10.93%) Social Skills
6 11 (4.45%) Legal
7 10 (4.05%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (2.83%) Banking
8 7 (2.83%) Games
8 7 (2.83%) Retail
9 6 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.43%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.62%) Billing
11 3 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.21%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.81%) Police
Job Titles
1 68 (27.53%) Lead
2 65 (26.32%) Lead Software Engineer
2 65 (26.32%) Software Engineer
3 53 (21.46%) Senior
4 42 (17.00%) Senior Software Engineer
5 38 (15.38%) Analyst
6 32 (12.96%) IT Support
7 25 (10.12%) 2nd Line Support
8 20 (8.10%) Support Analyst
8 20 (8.10%) Support Engineer
9 19 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 18 (7.29%) IT Manager
11 17 (6.88%) Infrastructure Support
11 17 (6.88%) IT Analyst
12 14 (5.67%) 3rd Line Support
13 11 (4.45%) Administrator
13 11 (4.45%) IT Engineer
13 11 (4.45%) IT Support Analyst
13 11 (4.45%) Systems Engineer
14 9 (3.64%) IT Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (28.34%) LDAP
2 69 (27.94%) JSON
2 69 (27.94%) RESTful
2 69 (27.94%) Web Services
2 69 (27.94%) XML
3 68 (27.53%) OpenID
3 68 (27.53%) SAML
4 65 (26.32%) JSON-LD
5 2 (0.81%) ARM Templates
5 2 (0.81%) YAML
6 1 (0.40%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 77 (31.17%) Management Information System
2 68 (27.53%) Enterprise Cloud
3 65 (26.32%) Reference Data
4 8 (3.24%) Data Centre
4 8 (3.24%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.43%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.02%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.62%) Driving Licence
7 4 (1.62%) Learning Management System
8 3 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.21%) iPhone
8 3 (1.21%) Life Science
8 3 (1.21%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.21%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 3 (1.21%) Video Conferencing
9 2 (0.81%) Device Driver
10 1 (0.40%) FMCG
10 1 (0.40%) Housing Association
10 1 (0.40%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.40%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 118 (47.77%) Windows
2 86 (34.82%) Windows Server
3 38 (15.38%) Windows 10
4 14 (5.67%) Linux
4 14 (5.67%) Windows Server 2016
5 13 (5.26%) Windows Server 2012
6 10 (4.05%) Android
7 7 (2.83%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (2.43%) CentOS
9 5 (2.02%) Windows 7
10 4 (1.62%) Debian
10 4 (1.62%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.81%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.81%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.81%) Windows 8
12 1 (0.40%) Unix
12 1 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (32.79%) Identity Access Management
2 77 (31.17%) Roadmaps
3 74 (29.96%) Agile
4 68 (27.53%) Data Modelling
4 68 (27.53%) Test Automation
5 67 (27.13%) CI/CD
6 65 (26.32%) Architectural Design
6 65 (26.32%) Community of Practice
6 65 (26.32%) Continuous Delivery
6 65 (26.32%) Data Pipeline
6 65 (26.32%) Data Transformation
6 65 (26.32%) Information Architecture
6 65 (26.32%) Ontologies
6 65 (26.32%) Operational Stability
6 65 (26.32%) RDF
6 65 (26.32%) SDLC
6 65 (26.32%) Software Engineering
6 65 (26.32%) Use Case
7 35 (14.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 35 (14.17%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 68 (27.53%) Go
2 65 (26.32%) Prolog
2 65 (26.32%) SPARQL
3 23 (9.31%) PowerShell
4 13 (5.26%) SQL
5 3 (1.21%) Bash
5 3 (1.21%) C
5 3 (1.21%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (1.21%) Python
6 2 (0.81%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 20 (8.10%) Security Cleared
2 15 (6.07%) Degree
2 15 (6.07%) DV Cleared
2 15 (6.07%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (3.24%) MCSE
4 6 (2.43%) Azure Certification
4 6 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.02%) MCSA
6 4 (1.62%) RHCT
7 3 (1.21%) A+ Certification
7 3 (1.21%) MCDST
7 3 (1.21%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.81%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.40%) CISM
9 1 (0.40%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.83%) GDPR
2 5 (2.02%) SLA
3 2 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.40%) NIST
4 1 (0.40%) QA
System Software
1 42 (17.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (6.48%) Hyper-V
3 12 (4.86%) vSphere
4 9 (3.64%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (2.02%) RACF
5 5 (2.02%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (1.62%) KVM
7 2 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.81%) XenDesktop
8 1 (0.40%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 36 (14.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (4.86%) SCCM
3 8 (3.24%) ZABBIX
4 5 (2.02%) McAfee ePO
4 5 (2.02%) Terraform
5 3 (1.21%) Ansible
5 3 (1.21%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.81%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.40%) WSUS
Vendors
1 88 (35.63%) Microsoft
2 53 (21.46%) VMware
3 26 (10.53%) Cisco
4 10 (4.05%) Citrix
5 9 (3.64%) Meraki
6 8 (3.24%) CyberArk
6 8 (3.24%) Mitel
7 6 (2.43%) EMC
7 6 (2.43%) Sophos
8 5 (2.02%) ConnectWise
8 5 (2.02%) McAfee
9 4 (1.62%) Dell
9 4 (1.62%) HP
9 4 (1.62%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.62%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.21%) Aderant
10 3 (1.21%) Cadence
10 3 (1.21%) iManage
10 3 (1.21%) Polycom
11 2 (0.81%) Nimble Storage