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 10 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 145 97 53
Rank change year-on-year -48 -44 +30
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 21 245 234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.67% 3.56% 5.42%
As % of the System Software category 10.71% 35.15% 31.97%
Number of salaries quoted 18 140 147
10th Percentile £28,475 £24,450 £22,900
25th Percentile £30,500 £26,700 £25,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £33,750 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +48.15% -3.57% +6.87%
75th Percentile £53,750 £50,250 £53,375
90th Percentile £72,125 £60,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £38,500 £37,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year +2.67% -6.25% -

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 196 697 732
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 6.24% 10.12% 16.96%
Number of salaries quoted 103 389 355
10th Percentile £32,350 £26,250 £24,850
25th Percentile £47,500 £32,500 £34,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £50,000 £54,882
Median % change year-on-year +29.00% -8.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £82,751 £62,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £108,250 £75,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -2.35%

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 10 June 2025.

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 10 June 2025. 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 +38 8 £32,500 -23.53% 16
Edinburgh -25 7 £55,000 +69.23% 15
Dunbartonshire - 3 £52,500 -
Aberdeen +31 1 £50,000 +66.67% 4
Aberdeenshire +7 1 - - 2
North Lanarkshire -1 1 £28,500 -1.72%
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 8 (38.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (28.57%) SharePoint
3 2 (9.52%) IIS
3 2 (9.52%) JOnAS
3 2 (9.52%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (61.90%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (33.33%) Azure
3 5 (23.81%) Entra ID
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Stack
5 1 (4.76%) AWS
5 1 (4.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (4.76%) IaaS
5 1 (4.76%) OneDrive
5 1 (4.76%) PaaS
5 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (33.33%) DHCP
1 7 (33.33%) DNS
2 6 (28.57%) TCP/IP
3 4 (19.05%) Firewall
4 3 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (9.52%) Internet
5 2 (9.52%) LAN
5 2 (9.52%) NAS
5 2 (9.52%) VLAN
6 1 (4.76%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (4.76%) WAN
General
1 8 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Military
2 2 (9.52%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Advertising
3 1 (4.76%) Back Office
3 1 (4.76%) Finance
3 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.76%) Law
3 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) IT Engineer
1 5 (23.81%) Support Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) Analyst
2 3 (14.29%) Desktop Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) Desktop Support
2 3 (14.29%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) Field Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) Field Support Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) IT Support
2 3 (14.29%) IT Support Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Data Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 2 (9.52%) IT Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) Lead
3 2 (9.52%) Service Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) Service Desk Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) Team Leader
4 1 (4.76%) 2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) PySpark
2 1 (4.76%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Driving Licence
2 2 (9.52%) Data Centre
2 2 (9.52%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (9.52%) Replication
3 1 (4.76%) Cyber Security Posture
3 1 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 16 (76.19%) Windows
2 9 (42.86%) Windows 10
3 7 (33.33%) Windows Server
4 3 (14.29%) VMS
5 2 (9.52%) Windows 7
5 2 (9.52%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (9.52%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (19.05%) Customer Service
2 4 (19.05%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (14.29%) ITIL
3 3 (14.29%) Virtual Environments
4 2 (9.52%) Analytics
4 2 (9.52%) Architectural Design
4 2 (9.52%) Computer Science
4 2 (9.52%) Customer Experience
4 2 (9.52%) Data Architecture
4 2 (9.52%) Data Governance
4 2 (9.52%) Data Management
4 2 (9.52%) Design Patterns
4 2 (9.52%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 2 (9.52%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (9.52%) Line Management
4 2 (9.52%) Mentoring
4 2 (9.52%) Service Delivery
4 2 (9.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 4 (19.05%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (38.10%) Degree
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (9.52%) DV Cleared
3 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (9.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.76%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (38.10%) Hyper-V
2 7 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (9.52%) vSphere
4 1 (4.76%) BitLocker
4 1 (4.76%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (38.10%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.76%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 17 (80.95%) Microsoft
2 8 (38.10%) VMware
3 3 (14.29%) Cisco
4 2 (9.52%) arcserve
4 2 (9.52%) Juniper
4 2 (9.52%) McAfee
4 2 (9.52%) NetApp
4 2 (9.52%) Nimsoft
4 2 (9.52%) Sage
4 2 (9.52%) ServiceNow
4 2 (9.52%) Splunk
5 1 (4.76%) Apple
5 1 (4.76%) Dell