Active Directory Contracts in Scotland

Microsoft Active Directory
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 41 51
Rank change year-on-year +16 +10 -22
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 133 159 155
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 6.21% 5.89% 4.55%
As % of the System Software category 44.93% 38.31% 38.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 121 115
10th Percentile £176 £156 £135
25th Percentile £200 £200 £160
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £294 £288
Median % change year-on-year +10.54% +2.26% -29.88%
75th Percentile £500 £475 £475
90th Percentile £650 £600 £583
UK median daily rate £425 £425 £400
% change year-on-year - +6.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £18.50
25th Percentile - - £20.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £40.00
75th Percentile - - £47.25
90th Percentile - - £49.36
UK median hourly rate £17.50 £20.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% +7.76%

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 contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 296 415 407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 13.83% 15.38% 11.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 295 289
10th Percentile £189 £193 £158
25th Percentile £313 £373 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £538
90th Percentile £634 £614 £619
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 11
10th Percentile £60.00 £24.34 £17.50
25th Percentile £60.13 £29.66 £18.75
Median hourly rate £60.50 £40.68 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year +48.72% -8.58% -32.58%
75th Percentile £60.75 £50.80 £48.35
90th Percentile - £55.57 £48.75
UK median hourly rate £22.40 £54.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -58.52% +176.92% -9.30%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in Scotland

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in Scotland over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in Scotland

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in Scotland

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 18 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +16 53 £325 -21.24% 20
Edinburgh +13 49 £340 +25.93% 28
South Lanarkshire +13 14 £460 +55.83%
Renfrewshire +1 6 £550 +5.26% 2
Stirling +1 4 £420 +158.86%
Lanarkshire -2 2 £158 -4.55% 3
Dundee -2 1 £166 -60.94%
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 30 (22.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (7.52%) Confluence
3 6 (4.51%) IIS
3 6 (4.51%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.26%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.75%) OpenStack
Applications
1 24 (18.05%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (8.27%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (3.01%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.75%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 49 (36.84%) Microsoft 365
2 42 (31.58%) Entra ID
3 41 (30.83%) Azure
4 7 (5.26%) Azure Sentinel
4 7 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (4.51%) AWS
5 6 (4.51%) Power Platform
6 5 (3.76%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 5 (3.76%) OneDrive
7 3 (2.26%) AWS Direct Connect
7 3 (2.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (1.50%) IaaS
9 1 (0.75%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (0.75%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.75%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.75%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 27 (20.30%) DNS
2 21 (15.79%) DHCP
3 18 (13.53%) VPN
4 15 (11.28%) Firewall
5 7 (5.26%) Remote Desktop
6 6 (4.51%) Kerberos
7 4 (3.01%) SMTP
7 4 (3.01%) SSL
7 4 (3.01%) TCP/IP
8 3 (2.26%) NAS
8 3 (2.26%) SAN
8 3 (2.26%) Skype
9 2 (1.50%) VLAN
10 1 (0.75%) LAN
10 1 (0.75%) VoIP
10 1 (0.75%) VSAN
10 1 (0.75%) WAN
10 1 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.77%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.75%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (8.27%) JIRA
2 6 (4.51%) Bitbucket
2 6 (4.51%) Git
2 6 (4.51%) Jenkins
General
1 38 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 35 (26.32%) Public Sector
3 4 (3.01%) Banking
3 4 (3.01%) Manufacturing
4 3 (2.26%) Finance
4 3 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (0.75%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (16.54%) Analyst
2 13 (9.77%) IT Support
2 13 (9.77%) Support Engineer
3 12 (9.02%) Exchange Engineer
3 12 (9.02%) IT Analyst
3 12 (9.02%) Support Analyst
4 11 (8.27%) Desktop Engineer
5 8 (6.02%) 3rd Line Support
5 8 (6.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (6.02%) IT Support Analyst
6 7 (5.26%) 2nd Line Support
6 7 (5.26%) Architect
6 7 (5.26%) Desktop Support
6 7 (5.26%) Developer
6 7 (5.26%) Infrastructure Support
7 6 (4.51%) Consultant
7 6 (4.51%) Service Analyst
7 6 (4.51%) Service Desk Analyst
8 5 (3.76%) Security Analyst
8 5 (3.76%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.77%) OpenID
2 10 (7.52%) LDAP
3 7 (5.26%) SAML
4 6 (4.51%) JSON
4 6 (4.51%) RESTful
4 6 (4.51%) Web Services
4 6 (4.51%) XML
5 4 (3.01%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.52%) PKI
2 9 (6.77%) Data Centre
3 7 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 6 (4.51%) Enterprise Cloud
5 4 (3.01%) Clustering
5 4 (3.01%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (3.01%) iPhone
5 4 (3.01%) Smartphone
6 3 (2.26%) CMDB
6 3 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.26%) iPad
7 1 (0.75%) Blackberry
7 1 (0.75%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.75%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.75%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.75%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 73 (54.89%) Windows
2 41 (30.83%) Windows 10
3 28 (21.05%) Windows Server
4 14 (10.53%) Windows Server 2016
5 12 (9.02%) Windows 7
6 11 (8.27%) Apple iOS
7 8 (6.02%) Linux
7 8 (6.02%) Windows Server 2012
8 6 (4.51%) CentOS
8 6 (4.51%) Debian
8 6 (4.51%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (2.26%) Android
10 2 (1.50%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (1.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (27.82%) ITIL
2 25 (18.80%) Customer Service
3 14 (10.53%) Service Delivery
4 13 (9.77%) Agile
4 13 (9.77%) Cybersecurity
4 13 (9.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 12 (9.02%) Break/Fix
5 12 (9.02%) Problem Management
5 12 (9.02%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (7.52%) High Availability
6 10 (7.52%) Identity Management
7 9 (6.77%) Identity Access Management
8 8 (6.02%) ITSM
8 8 (6.02%) Roadmaps
9 7 (5.26%) Capacity Management
9 7 (5.26%) Network Management
9 7 (5.26%) Stakeholder Identification
10 6 (4.51%) Email Filtering
10 6 (4.51%) Kalman Filter
10 6 (4.51%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 32 (24.06%) PowerShell
2 6 (4.51%) C
2 6 (4.51%) Go
3 1 (0.75%) SQL
Qualifications
1 49 (36.84%) Security Cleared
2 45 (33.83%) SC Cleared
3 21 (15.79%) Degree
4 14 (10.53%) MCSE
4 14 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (8.27%) A+ Certification
5 11 (8.27%) DV Cleared
6 6 (4.51%) MCSA
6 6 (4.51%) RHCT
7 5 (3.76%) AWS Certification
7 5 (3.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (3.76%) Azure Certification
8 4 (3.01%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (3.01%) MCP
9 1 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.75%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.27%) Disclosure Scotland
2 4 (3.01%) QA
2 4 (3.01%) SLA
3 1 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 16 (12.03%) Hyper-V
2 9 (6.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (5.26%) BitLocker
4 6 (4.51%) KVM
4 6 (4.51%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (3.01%) Microsoft App-V
5 4 (3.01%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.75%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 36 (27.07%) SCCM
2 13 (9.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 12 (9.02%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (5.26%) WSUS
5 4 (3.01%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (3.01%) vCenter Server
5 4 (3.01%) vMotion
6 3 (2.26%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.75%) vRealize
Vendors
1 66 (49.62%) Microsoft
2 21 (15.79%) Citrix
3 18 (13.53%) VMware
4 17 (12.78%) Cisco
5 10 (7.52%) Atlassian
6 8 (6.02%) Apple
7 7 (5.26%) CrowdStrike
7 7 (5.26%) Okta
7 7 (5.26%) Zscaler
8 6 (4.51%) Cadence
8 6 (4.51%) Red Hat
9 5 (3.76%) Oracle
10 4 (3.01%) CyberArk
10 4 (3.01%) Infoblox
10 4 (3.01%) ServiceNow
11 3 (2.26%) HP
12 2 (1.50%) Mitel
13 1 (0.75%) Equitrac
13 1 (0.75%) IFS
13 1 (0.75%) SolarWinds