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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 42 56
Rank change year-on-year +11 +14 -27
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 131 162 152
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 5.90% 5.68% 4.30%
As % of the System Software category 43.38% 38.21% 38.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 127 111
10th Percentile £176 £157 £135
25th Percentile £200 £203 £160
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £300 £325
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -7.69% -19.75%
75th Percentile £619 £513 £475
90th Percentile £700 £600 £613
UK median daily rate £411 £425 £413
% change year-on-year -3.29% +3.03% +4.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 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 £17.69 £19.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -6.89% +8.57% +7.69%

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 302 424 392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 13.60% 14.86% 11.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 316 274
10th Percentile £188 £203 £158
25th Percentile £324 £380 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £538
90th Percentile £650 £628 £638
UK median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +8.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 2 17
10th Percentile - £24.34 £17.50
25th Percentile £60.00 £29.66 £20.00
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 £48.75
90th Percentile - £55.57 £53.75
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £52.13 £20.00
% change year-on-year -56.84% +160.65% -

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 24 April 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 24 April 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 +15 56 £325 -13.33% 17
Edinburgh +1 34 £475 +69.64% 31
South Lanarkshire +13 19 £600 +103.25% 2
Renfrewshire +3 10 £538 +2.87% 2
Stirling +1 4 £420 +110.00%
Dundee +2 2 £166 -71.74%
Lanarkshire -4 1 £185 +12.12% 4
South Ayrshire - 1 - -
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 35 (26.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (11.45%) Confluence
2 15 (11.45%) IIS
3 12 (9.16%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.29%) SharePoint Server
4 3 (2.29%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.76%) OpenStack
Applications
1 13 (9.92%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (5.34%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.29%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.76%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 48 (36.64%) Microsoft 365
2 41 (31.30%) Azure
3 38 (29.01%) Entra ID
4 9 (6.87%) AWS
5 7 (5.34%) Azure Sentinel
6 6 (4.58%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (3.82%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 5 (3.82%) OneDrive
8 4 (3.05%) Power Platform
9 3 (2.29%) AWS Direct Connect
9 3 (2.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (1.53%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (1.53%) IaaS
11 1 (0.76%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 28 (21.37%) DNS
2 15 (11.45%) DHCP
2 15 (11.45%) Firewall
3 7 (5.34%) SAN
3 7 (5.34%) VPN
4 6 (4.58%) Kerberos
5 5 (3.82%) LAN
5 5 (3.82%) Remote Desktop
5 5 (3.82%) SMTP
5 5 (3.82%) TCP/IP
5 5 (3.82%) WAN
6 3 (2.29%) NAS
6 3 (2.29%) Skype
6 3 (2.29%) SSL
6 3 (2.29%) VLAN
7 2 (1.53%) VSAN
8 1 (0.76%) VoIP
8 1 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.63%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (3.82%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (12.21%) JIRA
2 11 (8.40%) Git
3 6 (4.58%) Bitbucket
3 6 (4.58%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.82%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 37 (28.24%) Public Sector
1 37 (28.24%) Social Skills
2 5 (3.82%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (3.05%) Banking
3 4 (3.05%) Manufacturing
3 4 (3.05%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (2.29%) Finance
5 1 (0.76%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (16.03%) Analyst
2 15 (11.45%) IT Support
3 12 (9.16%) Exchange Engineer
4 11 (8.40%) Developer
4 11 (8.40%) IT Analyst
4 11 (8.40%) Support Analyst
4 11 (8.40%) Support Engineer
5 9 (6.87%) Consultant
6 8 (6.11%) 3rd Line Support
6 8 (6.11%) Architect
6 8 (6.11%) IT Support Analyst
7 7 (5.34%) 2nd Line Support
7 7 (5.34%) Infrastructure Consultant
7 7 (5.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (4.58%) IT Engineer
8 6 (4.58%) Senior
9 5 (3.82%) Active Directory Engineer
9 5 (3.82%) IT Support Engineer
9 5 (3.82%) PowerShell Developer
9 5 (3.82%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (8.40%) LDAP
2 9 (6.87%) JSON
2 9 (6.87%) OpenID
2 9 (6.87%) XML
3 6 (4.58%) RESTful
3 6 (4.58%) Web Services
4 4 (3.05%) SailPoint
5 3 (2.29%) .NET
5 3 (2.29%) .NET Remoting
5 3 (2.29%) REST
5 3 (2.29%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.40%) Data Centre
1 11 (8.40%) PKI
2 7 (5.34%) Clustering
3 6 (4.58%) Enterprise Cloud
4 5 (3.82%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.05%) CMDB
5 4 (3.05%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (3.05%) iPhone
5 4 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (3.05%) Smartphone
6 3 (2.29%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (2.29%) iPad
7 1 (0.76%) Blackberry
7 1 (0.76%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.76%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.76%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 71 (54.20%) Windows
2 35 (26.72%) Windows Server
3 30 (22.90%) Windows 10
4 16 (12.21%) Windows Server 2016
5 11 (8.40%) Apple iOS
5 11 (8.40%) Windows Server 2012
6 8 (6.11%) Linux
7 7 (5.34%) Windows Server 2008
8 6 (4.58%) CentOS
8 6 (4.58%) Debian
9 5 (3.82%) Windows Server 2003
9 5 (3.82%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (2.29%) Android
10 3 (2.29%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (17.56%) ITIL
2 17 (12.98%) Customer Service
3 16 (12.21%) Agile
4 12 (9.16%) Problem Management
4 12 (9.16%) Roadmaps
5 11 (8.40%) Cybersecurity
5 11 (8.40%) High Availability
5 11 (8.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 11 (8.40%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (7.63%) Identity Access Management
7 9 (6.87%) Identity Management
8 7 (5.34%) Capacity Management
8 7 (5.34%) ITSM
8 7 (5.34%) Migration
8 7 (5.34%) Project Delivery
9 6 (4.58%) Continuous Integration
9 6 (4.58%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 6 (4.58%) OO
9 6 (4.58%) Security Patching
9 6 (4.58%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 50 (38.17%) PowerShell
2 6 (4.58%) C
2 6 (4.58%) Go
3 4 (3.05%) Python
4 3 (2.29%) Bash
Qualifications
1 44 (33.59%) Security Cleared
2 36 (27.48%) SC Cleared
3 19 (14.50%) Degree
4 17 (12.98%) DV Cleared
5 11 (8.40%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (6.87%) MCSE
7 6 (4.58%) MCSA
7 6 (4.58%) RHCT
8 5 (3.82%) AWS Certification
8 5 (3.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 5 (3.82%) Azure Certification
9 4 (3.05%) CCNA
9 4 (3.05%) CCNP
9 4 (3.05%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (2.29%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (1.53%) A+ Certification
11 2 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
12 1 (0.76%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.76%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.63%) Disclosure Scotland
2 4 (3.05%) QA
2 4 (3.05%) SLA
3 1 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 17 (12.98%) Hyper-V
2 15 (11.45%) VMware ESXi
3 10 (7.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (6.87%) BitLocker
5 6 (4.58%) KVM
6 5 (3.82%) Microsoft App-V
6 5 (3.82%) Terminal Services
7 3 (2.29%) vSphere
8 2 (1.53%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 23 (17.56%) SCCM
2 15 (11.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 12 (9.16%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (5.34%) vCenter Server
5 5 (3.82%) vMotion
6 3 (2.29%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (2.29%) WSUS
7 2 (1.53%) McAfee ePO
7 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.76%) vRealize
Vendors
1 59 (45.04%) Microsoft
2 31 (23.66%) VMware
3 20 (15.27%) Citrix
4 10 (7.63%) Atlassian
5 8 (6.11%) Apple
6 6 (4.58%) Cadence
6 6 (4.58%) HP
6 6 (4.58%) Red Hat
6 6 (4.58%) ServiceNow
7 5 (3.82%) Cisco
7 5 (3.82%) Infoblox
7 5 (3.82%) Oracle
8 4 (3.05%) CyberArk
8 4 (3.05%) F5
9 3 (2.29%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (2.29%) Okta
9 3 (2.29%) Zscaler
10 2 (1.53%) Mitel
10 2 (1.53%) Symantec
10 2 (1.53%) Veritas