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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 55 65
Rank change year-on-year -41 +10 -16
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 255 228 250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 3.79% 4.84% 4.33%
As % of the System Software category 34.84% 30.89% 27.47%
Number of salaries quoted 151 146 190
10th Percentile £25,200 £23,000 £21,475
25th Percentile £26,700 £25,000 £25,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £34,000 £33,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.03% -5.71%
75th Percentile £48,875 £53,563 £45,000
90th Percentile £59,000 £72,500 £53,750
UK median annual salary £38,000 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 732 738 910
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 10.87% 15.68% 15.76%
Number of salaries quoted 418 377 578
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,300 £26,904
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £37,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £61,774 £72,500 £74,688
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,715 £85,375
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,687
% change year-on-year -9.09% -1.23% +1.25%

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 4 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 4 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 +17.24% 15
Edinburgh +30 51 £32,500 -13.33% 30
Argyll and Bute - 17 £27,400 -
Aberdeen -27 9 £50,000 +47.06% 1
Dundee -9 6 - -
Fife -10 4 £33,000 +10.00% 1
Aberdeenshire +10 3 £28,500 +11.76%
North Lanarkshire -4 3 £29,000 -
Midlothian -4 2 - - 10
Stirling - 2 £34,750 -
East Ayrshire - 2 £24,000 -
Scottish Borders - 2 £23,000 -
Renfrewshire -4 1 - -
South Lanarkshire -5 1 £35,000 -12.50% 1
Highlands - 1 - - 1
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 40 (15.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (9.41%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.57%) IIS
4 1 (0.39%) JOnAS
Applications
1 16 (6.27%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 116 (45.49%) Microsoft 365
2 101 (39.61%) Azure
3 69 (27.06%) Entra ID
4 8 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (3.14%) Cloud Computing
4 8 (3.14%) Power Platform
5 6 (2.35%) OneDrive
5 6 (2.35%) SaaS
6 5 (1.96%) Azure Sentinel
6 5 (1.96%) IaaS
6 5 (1.96%) PaaS
7 4 (1.57%) Azure AKS
7 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (1.57%) Mimecast
7 4 (1.57%) PowerApps
8 3 (1.18%) Asana
8 3 (1.18%) Azure API Management
8 3 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.18%) Slack
8 3 (1.18%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 70 (27.45%) Kerberos
2 18 (7.06%) WAN
3 17 (6.67%) Firewall
4 16 (6.27%) DNS
5 11 (4.31%) LAN
5 11 (4.31%) VLAN
6 9 (3.53%) VoIP
7 8 (3.14%) NAS
7 8 (3.14%) TCP/IP
7 8 (3.14%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (3.14%) Wireless
8 7 (2.75%) SAN
9 6 (2.35%) Cisco IOS
9 6 (2.35%) Internet
10 5 (1.96%) Network Security
10 5 (1.96%) Remote Desktop
10 5 (1.96%) VPN
11 4 (1.57%) DHCP
12 3 (1.18%) Structured Cabling
13 2 (0.78%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (25.49%) Metadata
2 12 (4.71%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.96%) Power BI
4 3 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.78%) DTS
6 1 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.39%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.39%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.39%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 68 (26.67%) Bitbucket
1 68 (26.67%) Git
1 68 (26.67%) Jenkins
2 65 (25.49%) Artifactory
General
1 86 (33.73%) Finance
2 79 (30.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 66 (25.88%) Law
4 65 (25.49%) Marketing
5 31 (12.16%) Social Skills
6 11 (4.31%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (2.35%) Games
7 6 (2.35%) Legal
7 6 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.35%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.57%) Billing
8 4 (1.57%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.57%) Retail
9 3 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.78%) Banking
10 2 (0.78%) Police
Job Titles
1 68 (26.67%) Lead
2 65 (25.49%) Lead Software Engineer
2 65 (25.49%) Software Engineer
3 47 (18.43%) Senior
4 42 (16.47%) Senior Software Engineer
5 35 (13.73%) Analyst
6 32 (12.55%) IT Support
7 28 (10.98%) 2nd Line Support
8 22 (8.63%) Support Engineer
9 21 (8.24%) Support Analyst
10 20 (7.84%) IT Manager
11 19 (7.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 18 (7.06%) Infrastructure Support
13 16 (6.27%) IT Analyst
14 15 (5.88%) 3rd Line Support
15 14 (5.49%) IT Engineer
16 12 (4.71%) Systems Engineer
17 10 (3.92%) Administrator
17 10 (3.92%) IT Support Analyst
18 9 (3.53%) IT Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (27.45%) LDAP
2 69 (27.06%) JSON
2 69 (27.06%) RESTful
2 69 (27.06%) Web Services
2 69 (27.06%) XML
3 68 (26.67%) OpenID
3 68 (26.67%) SAML
4 65 (25.49%) JSON-LD
5 1 (0.39%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 73 (28.63%) Management Information System
2 68 (26.67%) Enterprise Cloud
3 65 (25.49%) Reference Data
4 8 (3.14%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.75%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.96%) Cloud Native
7 5 (1.96%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.57%) Learning Management System
9 3 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.18%) iPhone
9 3 (1.18%) Life Science
9 3 (1.18%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 3 (1.18%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (0.78%) Device Driver
10 2 (0.78%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.39%) FMCG
11 1 (0.39%) Mainframe
11 1 (0.39%) Replication
11 1 (0.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 129 (50.59%) Windows
2 93 (36.47%) Windows Server
3 41 (16.08%) Windows 10
4 15 (5.88%) Linux
5 13 (5.10%) Windows Server 2016
6 10 (3.92%) Android
6 10 (3.92%) Windows Server 2012
7 7 (2.75%) CentOS
7 7 (2.75%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (1.96%) Windows 7
9 4 (1.57%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (1.18%) Debian
10 3 (1.18%) Windows 8
11 2 (0.78%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.78%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.39%) Unix
12 1 (0.39%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (30.20%) Identity Access Management
2 72 (28.24%) Roadmaps
3 68 (26.67%) Agile
3 68 (26.67%) Data Modelling
3 68 (26.67%) Test Automation
4 66 (25.88%) Use Case
5 65 (25.49%) Architectural Design
5 65 (25.49%) CI/CD
5 65 (25.49%) Community of Practice
5 65 (25.49%) Continuous Delivery
5 65 (25.49%) Data Pipeline
5 65 (25.49%) Data Transformation
5 65 (25.49%) Information Architecture
5 65 (25.49%) Ontologies
5 65 (25.49%) Operational Stability
5 65 (25.49%) RDF
5 65 (25.49%) SDLC
5 65 (25.49%) Software Engineering
6 37 (14.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 36 (14.12%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 68 (26.67%) Go
2 65 (25.49%) Prolog
2 65 (25.49%) SPARQL
3 22 (8.63%) PowerShell
4 11 (4.31%) SQL
5 5 (1.96%) Bash
6 3 (1.18%) C
6 3 (1.18%) Python
Qualifications
1 23 (9.02%) Security Cleared
2 20 (7.84%) Degree
3 17 (6.67%) DV Cleared
4 16 (6.27%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (3.53%) Azure Certification
6 8 (3.14%) MCSE
7 6 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.57%) A+ Certification
8 4 (1.57%) CISM
8 4 (1.57%) CISSP
8 4 (1.57%) MCDST
8 4 (1.57%) MCSA
9 3 (1.18%) RHCT
9 3 (1.18%) SC Cleared
10 2 (0.78%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.39%) CCNA
11 1 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.39%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.92%) GDPR
2 5 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (1.96%) NIST
2 5 (1.96%) SLA
3 3 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.39%) QA
System Software
1 40 (15.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (5.88%) Hyper-V
3 11 (4.31%) vSphere
4 8 (3.14%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.57%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (1.18%) KVM
7 2 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.78%) XenDesktop
8 1 (0.39%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 40 (15.69%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (5.88%) SCCM
3 8 (3.14%) ZABBIX
4 5 (1.96%) Ansible
4 5 (1.96%) McAfee ePO
4 5 (1.96%) Terraform
5 3 (1.18%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.78%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.39%) CASB
7 1 (0.39%) CSIRT
7 1 (0.39%) SysTrack
7 1 (0.39%) WSUS
Vendors
1 96 (37.65%) Microsoft
2 52 (20.39%) VMware
3 27 (10.59%) Cisco
4 10 (3.92%) Meraki
5 9 (3.53%) Citrix
6 8 (3.14%) Mitel
7 6 (2.35%) EMC
7 6 (2.35%) Sophos
8 5 (1.96%) ConnectWise
8 5 (1.96%) Dell
8 5 (1.96%) HP
8 5 (1.96%) McAfee
8 5 (1.96%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.57%) Aderant
9 4 (1.57%) iManage
10 3 (1.18%) Cadence
10 3 (1.18%) CyberArk
10 3 (1.18%) Polycom
10 3 (1.18%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.78%) NetApp