Active Directory Contracts in Glasgow

Microsoft Active Directory
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow requiring Active Directory skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Active Directory over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 29 45
Rank change year-on-year -25 +16 -16
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 28 53 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 3.64% 6.29% 4.91%
As % of the System Software category 25.00% 46.49% 30.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 37 37
10th Percentile £200 £175 £243
25th Percentile £370 £200 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £325 £413
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -21.24% +31.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £472
90th Percentile £600 £650 £650
Scotland median daily rate £430 £325 £294
% change year-on-year +32.31% +10.54% +2.26%

All System Software Skills
Glasgow

Active Directory falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 112 114 142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 14.55% 13.52% 16.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 82 90
10th Percentile £350 £193 £250
25th Percentile £407 £313 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £405 £470
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -13.78% +10.53%
75th Percentile £528 £501 £610
90th Percentile £582 £630 £739
Scotland median daily rate £458 £438 £475
% change year-on-year +4.57% -7.89% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate - - £57.50
75th Percentile - - £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £70.00 £60.50 £40.68
% change year-on-year +15.70% +48.72% -8.58%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Glasgow

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in Glasgow

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in Glasgow over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in Glasgow

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in Glasgow

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 8 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (17.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.57%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 16 (57.14%) Azure
2 11 (39.29%) Entra ID
3 10 (35.71%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (10.71%) AWS
5 1 (3.57%) OneDrive
5 1 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) DHCP
1 2 (7.14%) DNS
1 2 (7.14%) TCP/IP
1 2 (7.14%) Unified Communications
2 1 (3.57%) VPN
2 1 (3.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Git
General
1 18 (64.29%) Social Skills
2 12 (42.86%) Public Sector
3 4 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (14.29%) Finance
4 2 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (42.86%) Analyst
2 4 (14.29%) Service Analyst
2 4 (14.29%) Service Desk Analyst
3 3 (10.71%) 3rd Line Support
3 3 (10.71%) Administrator
3 3 (10.71%) Designer
3 3 (10.71%) Support Analyst
3 3 (10.71%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (7.14%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Architect
4 2 (7.14%) CyberArk Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Developer
4 2 (7.14%) Help Desk Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Designer
4 2 (7.14%) IT Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Security Architect
4 2 (7.14%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (3.57%) Deployment Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) IT Support Analyst
5 1 (3.57%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) .NET
1 3 (10.71%) LDAP
1 3 (10.71%) X-Windows
2 1 (3.57%) .NET Framework
2 1 (3.57%) AngularJS
2 1 (3.57%) ASP.NET
2 1 (3.57%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (3.57%) ASP.NET MVC 5
2 1 (3.57%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (3.57%) Blazor
2 1 (3.57%) CSS
2 1 (3.57%) HTML
2 1 (3.57%) JSON
2 1 (3.57%) React
2 1 (3.57%) REST
2 1 (3.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.57%) Blackberry
1 1 (3.57%) CMDB
1 1 (3.57%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (3.57%) Insider Threat
1 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
1 1 (3.57%) Security Posture
1 1 (3.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (50.00%) Windows
2 8 (28.57%) Linux
2 8 (28.57%) Windows Server
3 7 (25.00%) Unix
4 3 (10.71%) Mac OS
5 2 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (7.14%) Windows 10
6 1 (3.57%) Android
6 1 (3.57%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (46.43%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (32.14%) ITIL
3 6 (21.43%) Privileged Access Management
4 5 (17.86%) Customer Service
5 4 (14.29%) ITSM
6 3 (10.71%) Business Continuity
6 3 (10.71%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (10.71%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (10.71%) Information Security
6 3 (10.71%) Line Management
6 3 (10.71%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (10.71%) Storage Management
6 3 (10.71%) Task Automation
7 2 (7.14%) Proactive Monitoring
7 2 (7.14%) RBAC
7 2 (7.14%) Roadmaps
7 2 (7.14%) Runbook
7 2 (7.14%) Secrets Management
7 2 (7.14%) SIEM
7 2 (7.14%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 6 (21.43%) PowerShell
2 3 (10.71%) C#
2 3 (10.71%) Shell Script
3 2 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.57%) Bicep
4 1 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (25.00%) Degree
2 4 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.71%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.57%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.57%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) SLA
2 3 (10.71%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (10.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (3.57%) GRC
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) Docker
1 3 (10.71%) Hyper-V
1 3 (10.71%) Virtual Servers
2 2 (7.14%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.57%) BitLocker
3 1 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (7.14%) Ansible
2 2 (7.14%) Progress Chef
2 2 (7.14%) Puppet
2 2 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (3.57%) SCCM
Vendors
1 16 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 6 (21.43%) CyberArk
3 3 (10.71%) VMware
4 2 (7.14%) BeyondTrust
4 2 (7.14%) Oracle
4 2 (7.14%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.57%) Adobe
5 1 (3.57%) Equitrac
5 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow