Active Directory Jobs in Scotland

Microsoft Active Directory
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Active Directory skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Active Directory over the 6 months leading up to 6 December 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 75 51 76
Rank change year-on-year -24 +25 -20
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 129 179 205
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.50% 6.19% 4.08%
As % of the System Software category 47.78% 40.68% 25.85%
Number of salaries quoted 83 122 133
10th Percentile £26,300 £25,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £27,323 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,727 £40,000 £35,556
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% +12.50% +1.59%
75th Percentile £54,462 £56,875 £47,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £64,900 £58,750
UK median annual salary £42,500 £42,000 £41,500
% change year-on-year +1.19% +1.20% +6.41%

All System Software Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 270 440 793
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 5.24% 15.22% 15.80%
Number of salaries quoted 159 319 490
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,323 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,125 £37,500 £41,227
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £52,500 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -6.25% +12.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,433 £67,603
90th Percentile £78,000 £80,000 £77,715
UK median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +1.82% -1.79% +1.82%

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 6 December 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 6 December 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 +3 61 £37,250 -6.88% 17
Edinburgh +15 47 £52,500 +31.25% 12
Aberdeen -15 6 £50,000 -9.09% 5
Perth and Kinross -6 3 £31,000 -27.06% 3
Lanarkshire -8 3 £32,500 +41.30% 5
Stirling - 3 £31,500 -
Scottish Borders 0 1 £31,500 -7.35%
Dumfries and Galloway -1 1 £31,000 +12.14% 1
Midlothian -17 1 £26,500 -5.36% 1
Aberdeenshire - 1 £50,000 - 2
East Lothian - 1 £32,500 -
Argyll and Bute - 1 - - 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 24 (18.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (17.83%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (9.30%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 79 (61.24%) Azure
2 71 (55.04%) Entra ID
3 63 (48.84%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (11.63%) IaaS
4 15 (11.63%) PaaS
4 15 (11.63%) SaaS
5 11 (8.53%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (7.75%) AWS
6 10 (7.75%) Azure Logic Apps
7 9 (6.98%) OneDrive
8 8 (6.20%) Azure Storage
8 8 (6.20%) Microsoft Purview
9 7 (5.43%) GCP
9 7 (5.43%) Power Platform
10 6 (4.65%) Serverless
11 5 (3.88%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (3.88%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (3.88%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (3.88%) GitHub
11 5 (3.88%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 29 (22.48%) Firewall
2 22 (17.05%) DNS
3 21 (16.28%) DHCP
4 17 (13.18%) LAN
5 16 (12.40%) WAN
6 9 (6.98%) TCP/IP
7 8 (6.20%) Wireless
8 7 (5.43%) VPN
9 6 (4.65%) VoIP
10 4 (3.10%) Broadband
10 4 (3.10%) Remote Desktop
11 3 (2.33%) Network Security
11 3 (2.33%) Software-Defined Networking
11 3 (2.33%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (1.55%) Cisco IOS
12 2 (1.55%) Intranet
13 1 (0.78%) Internet
13 1 (0.78%) SAN
13 1 (0.78%) Skype
13 1 (0.78%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.08%) SQL Server
2 10 (7.75%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (3.88%) Power BI
4 1 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.78%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (8.53%) Git
2 1 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 44 (34.11%) Social Skills
2 31 (24.03%) Finance
3 14 (10.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 14 (10.85%) Law
4 9 (6.98%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.43%) Legal
6 4 (3.10%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.10%) Retail
7 3 (2.33%) Games
8 2 (1.55%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.78%) Automotive
9 1 (0.78%) Banking
9 1 (0.78%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.78%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.78%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 25 (19.38%) Cloud Engineer
2 18 (13.95%) IT Support
3 14 (10.85%) IT Technician
4 13 (10.08%) IT Engineer
5 12 (9.30%) Azure Engineer
6 11 (8.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (7.75%) Administrator
7 10 (7.75%) Support Engineer
8 9 (6.98%) Analyst
8 9 (6.98%) Security Manager
8 9 (6.98%) Systems Administrator
9 8 (6.20%) CloudOps Engineer
9 8 (6.20%) IT Administrator
9 8 (6.20%) IT Support Engineer
9 8 (6.20%) IT Systems Administrator
9 8 (6.20%) Operations Engineer
10 7 (5.43%) Applications Support
10 7 (5.43%) Cybersecurity Manager
10 7 (5.43%) Lead
11 6 (4.65%) Desktop Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.65%) ARM Templates
2 4 (3.10%) ADO
3 3 (2.33%) YAML
4 1 (0.78%) CSS
4 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.78%) React
4 1 (0.78%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.75%) Private Cloud
2 9 (6.98%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (3.10%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.33%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.55%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.78%) Digital Signage
6 1 (0.78%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (0.78%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.78%) Replication
6 1 (0.78%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 78 (60.47%) Windows
2 54 (41.86%) Windows Server
3 16 (12.40%) Windows 10
4 12 (9.30%) Linux
5 8 (6.20%) Android
5 8 (6.20%) CentOS
6 7 (5.43%) Windows 7
7 6 (4.65%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (3.88%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (3.10%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (2.33%) Apple iOS
10 3 (2.33%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (28.68%) Problem-Solving
2 34 (26.36%) DevOps
3 25 (19.38%) Customer Service
4 21 (16.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 20 (15.50%) ITIL
6 18 (13.95%) Cybersecurity
7 16 (12.40%) Ticket Management
8 15 (11.63%) CI/CD
9 13 (10.08%) Data Management
10 12 (9.30%) Incident Response
11 11 (8.53%) Patch Management
11 11 (8.53%) Project Management
12 10 (7.75%) Disaster Recovery
12 10 (7.75%) Fintech
13 9 (6.98%) Agile
13 9 (6.98%) Project Delivery
13 9 (6.98%) Security Monitoring
13 9 (6.98%) Server Management
14 8 (6.20%) Infrastructure as Code
14 8 (6.20%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 40 (31.01%) PowerShell
2 19 (14.73%) SQL
3 15 (11.63%) Bash
4 5 (3.88%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (2.33%) Bicep
6 2 (1.55%) VBScript
7 1 (0.78%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (6.98%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (6.20%) Degree
3 7 (5.43%) Azure Certification
4 5 (3.88%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.55%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.78%) CCNA
6 1 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.78%) MCSA
6 1 (0.78%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (1.55%) NIST
1 2 (1.55%) SLA
2 1 (0.78%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.78%) GDPR
2 1 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 17 (13.18%) Hyper-V
1 17 (13.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (9.30%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (3.88%) Docker
3 5 (3.88%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.55%) vSphere
5 1 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 20 (15.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (13.18%) Terraform
3 10 (7.75%) SCCM
4 6 (4.65%) Kubernetes
5 5 (3.88%) Ansible
6 2 (1.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.78%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.78%) VxRail
Vendors
1 67 (51.94%) Microsoft
2 28 (21.71%) VMware
3 11 (8.53%) Cisco
4 7 (5.43%) Apple
4 7 (5.43%) Meraki
5 6 (4.65%) Sophos
6 4 (3.10%) Citrix
7 2 (1.55%) Aderant
7 2 (1.55%) Google
7 2 (1.55%) iManage
7 2 (1.55%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.78%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.78%) Draytek
8 1 (0.78%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.78%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.78%) Juniper
8 1 (0.78%) Mitel
8 1 (0.78%) N-able
8 1 (0.78%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.78%) Veeam