Active Directory Job Trends in Fife

Microsoft Active Directory
Scotland > Fife

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Fife requiring Active Directory skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 - 22
Rank change year-on-year - - -10
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 6 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Fife 14.63% - 2.06%
As % of the System Software category 100.00% - 25.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 - £33,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £33,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median annual salary £30,000 £36,000 £33,750
% change year-on-year -16.67% +6.67% +0.75%

All System Software Skills
Fife

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 6 0 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Fife 14.63% - 8.25%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 8
10th Percentile - - £33,000
25th Percentile £31,250 - £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 - £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +53.85%
75th Percentile £33,750 - £55,000
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -25.00% +20.00% -9.09%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Fife

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Active Directory relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Fife.

Active Directory job vacancy trend in Fife

Active Directory
Salary Trend in Fife

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Fife citing Active Directory.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Fife citing Active Directory

Active Directory
Job Locations in Fife

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Active Directory within the Fife region over the 6 months to 10 April 2026. 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
Dunfermline - 2 - -
Kirkcaldy - 2 £32,500 - 1
Active Directory
Scotland

Active Directory
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Fife by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) Entra ID
2 4 (66.67%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Broadband
General
1 6 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (66.67%) Games
2 4 (66.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
1 3 (50.00%) IAM Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) IT Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) IT Support
2 2 (33.33%) IT Support Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Support Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Systems Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) GraphQL
1 4 (66.67%) LDAP
1 4 (66.67%) OAuth
1 4 (66.67%) OpenID
1 4 (66.67%) REST
1 4 (66.67%) SAML
1 4 (66.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Cyber Threat
1 4 (66.67%) Cyberattack
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
1 4 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 4 (66.67%) Programme Delivery
1 4 (66.67%) Regulatory Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (33.33%) ERP
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Bash
1 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 4 (66.67%) T-SQL
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) NCSC
1 4 (66.67%) NIST