Active Directory Jobs in Scotland

Microsoft Active Directory
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Active Directory skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Active Directory over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 99 57 71
Rank change year-on-year -42 +14 -19
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory 245 224 251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 3.65% 4.85% 4.33%
As % of the System Software category 34.03% 30.39% 27.70%
Number of salaries quoted 146 143 188
10th Percentile £24,850 £23,000 £21,850
25th Percentile £26,700 £25,000 £25,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £34,000 £33,250
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +2.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £50,250 £54,375 £47,500
90th Percentile £59,500 £72,500 £57,500
UK median annual salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% - -5.88%

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 permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 720 737 906
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 10.74% 15.97% 15.62%
Number of salaries quoted 410 372 573
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,500 £26,744
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £61,250 £72,813 £73,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,715 £85,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% -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 11 May 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 11 May 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 -73 143 £42,500 +30.77% 15
Edinburgh +27 49 £32,500 -16.13% 27
Argyll and Bute - 17 £27,400 -
Aberdeen -29 7 £45,000 +25.00% 1
Dundee -8 6 - -
Fife -8 4 £33,000 +10.00% 1
Aberdeenshire +11 3 £28,500 +11.76%
North Lanarkshire -4 3 £29,000 -
Midlothian -4 2 - - 8
Stirling - 2 £34,750 -
East Ayrshire - 2 £24,000 -
Scottish Borders - 2 £23,000 -
Renfrewshire -4 1 - - 1
South Lanarkshire -5 1 £35,000 -12.50%
West Dunbartonshire - 1 £27,500 -
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 39 (15.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (9.39%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.63%) IIS
4 1 (0.41%) JOnAS
Applications
1 14 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 112 (45.71%) Microsoft 365
2 98 (40.00%) Azure
3 67 (27.35%) Entra ID
4 8 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (3.27%) Cloud Computing
5 7 (2.86%) Power Platform
6 6 (2.45%) OneDrive
7 5 (2.04%) Azure Sentinel
7 5 (2.04%) SaaS
8 4 (1.63%) Azure AKS
8 4 (1.63%) IaaS
8 4 (1.63%) Mimecast
8 4 (1.63%) PaaS
8 4 (1.63%) PowerApps
9 3 (1.22%) Asana
9 3 (1.22%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (1.22%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.22%) Power Automate
9 3 (1.22%) Slack
9 3 (1.22%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 70 (28.57%) Kerberos
2 18 (7.35%) WAN
3 16 (6.53%) Firewall
4 15 (6.12%) DNS
5 11 (4.49%) LAN
5 11 (4.49%) VLAN
6 9 (3.67%) VoIP
7 8 (3.27%) NAS
7 8 (3.27%) TCP/IP
7 8 (3.27%) Wi-Fi
8 7 (2.86%) SAN
8 7 (2.86%) Wireless
9 6 (2.45%) Cisco IOS
9 6 (2.45%) Internet
10 5 (2.04%) Network Security
10 5 (2.04%) Remote Desktop
10 5 (2.04%) VPN
11 3 (1.22%) DHCP
11 3 (1.22%) Structured Cabling
12 2 (0.82%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (26.53%) Metadata
2 12 (4.90%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.63%) Power BI
4 3 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.82%) DTS
6 1 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.41%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.41%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.41%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 68 (27.76%) Bitbucket
1 68 (27.76%) Git
1 68 (27.76%) Jenkins
2 65 (26.53%) Artifactory
General
1 86 (35.10%) Finance
2 79 (32.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 66 (26.94%) Law
4 65 (26.53%) Marketing
5 29 (11.84%) Social Skills
6 11 (4.49%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (2.45%) Games
7 6 (2.45%) Legal
7 6 (2.45%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.45%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.63%) Billing
8 4 (1.63%) Retail
9 3 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.22%) Public Sector
10 2 (0.82%) Banking
10 2 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.82%) Police
Job Titles
1 68 (27.76%) Lead
2 65 (26.53%) Lead Software Engineer
2 65 (26.53%) Software Engineer
3 47 (19.18%) Senior
4 42 (17.14%) Senior Software Engineer
5 34 (13.88%) Analyst
6 31 (12.65%) IT Support
7 26 (10.61%) 2nd Line Support
8 21 (8.57%) Support Analyst
9 20 (8.16%) IT Manager
10 19 (7.76%) Support Engineer
11 18 (7.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 16 (6.53%) Infrastructure Support
12 16 (6.53%) IT Analyst
13 15 (6.12%) 3rd Line Support
14 12 (4.90%) IT Engineer
14 12 (4.90%) Systems Engineer
15 10 (4.08%) Administrator
15 10 (4.08%) IT Support Analyst
16 9 (3.67%) IT Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (28.57%) LDAP
2 69 (28.16%) JSON
2 69 (28.16%) RESTful
2 69 (28.16%) Web Services
2 69 (28.16%) XML
3 68 (27.76%) OpenID
3 68 (27.76%) SAML
4 65 (26.53%) JSON-LD
5 1 (0.41%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 72 (29.39%) Management Information System
2 68 (27.76%) Enterprise Cloud
3 65 (26.53%) Reference Data
4 8 (3.27%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.86%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.04%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.63%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.63%) Learning Management System
9 3 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.22%) iPhone
9 3 (1.22%) Life Science
9 3 (1.22%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 3 (1.22%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (0.82%) Device Driver
10 2 (0.82%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.41%) FMCG
11 1 (0.41%) Mainframe
11 1 (0.41%) Replication
11 1 (0.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 120 (48.98%) Windows
2 88 (35.92%) Windows Server
3 38 (15.51%) Windows 10
4 14 (5.71%) Linux
5 13 (5.31%) Windows Server 2016
6 10 (4.08%) Android
6 10 (4.08%) Windows Server 2012
7 7 (2.86%) CentOS
7 7 (2.86%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (1.63%) Windows 7
8 4 (1.63%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (1.22%) Debian
9 3 (1.22%) Windows 8
10 2 (0.82%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.82%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.41%) Unix
11 1 (0.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (31.43%) Identity Access Management
2 72 (29.39%) Roadmaps
3 69 (28.16%) Agile
4 68 (27.76%) Data Modelling
4 68 (27.76%) Test Automation
5 65 (26.53%) Architectural Design
5 65 (26.53%) CI/CD
5 65 (26.53%) Community of Practice
5 65 (26.53%) Continuous Delivery
5 65 (26.53%) Data Pipeline
5 65 (26.53%) Data Transformation
5 65 (26.53%) Information Architecture
5 65 (26.53%) Ontologies
5 65 (26.53%) Operational Stability
5 65 (26.53%) RDF
5 65 (26.53%) SDLC
5 65 (26.53%) Software Engineering
5 65 (26.53%) Use Case
6 36 (14.69%) ITIL
7 34 (13.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 68 (27.76%) Go
2 65 (26.53%) Prolog
2 65 (26.53%) SPARQL
3 21 (8.57%) PowerShell
4 10 (4.08%) SQL
5 5 (2.04%) Bash
6 3 (1.22%) C
6 3 (1.22%) Python
7 1 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 20 (8.16%) Security Cleared
2 18 (7.35%) Degree
3 15 (6.12%) DV Cleared
3 15 (6.12%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (3.27%) Azure Certification
5 7 (2.86%) MCSE
6 6 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.63%) A+ Certification
7 4 (1.63%) MCDST
7 4 (1.63%) MCSA
8 3 (1.22%) CISM
8 3 (1.22%) CISSP
8 3 (1.22%) RHCT
8 3 (1.22%) SC Cleared
9 2 (0.82%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.41%) CCNA
10 1 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.67%) GDPR
2 5 (2.04%) SLA
3 3 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.22%) NIST
4 2 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.41%) QA
System Software
1 40 (16.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (6.12%) Hyper-V
3 11 (4.49%) vSphere
4 9 (3.67%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.63%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (1.22%) KVM
7 2 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.82%) XenDesktop
8 1 (0.41%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 39 (15.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (5.31%) SCCM
3 8 (3.27%) ZABBIX
4 5 (2.04%) Ansible
4 5 (2.04%) McAfee ePO
4 5 (2.04%) Terraform
5 3 (1.22%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.82%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.41%) WSUS
Vendors
1 90 (36.73%) Microsoft
2 51 (20.82%) VMware
3 27 (11.02%) Cisco
4 10 (4.08%) Meraki
5 9 (3.67%) Citrix
6 8 (3.27%) Mitel
7 6 (2.45%) EMC
7 6 (2.45%) Sophos
8 5 (2.04%) ConnectWise
8 5 (2.04%) Dell
8 5 (2.04%) HP
8 5 (2.04%) McAfee
9 4 (1.63%) Aderant
9 4 (1.63%) iManage
9 4 (1.63%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.22%) Cadence
10 3 (1.22%) CyberArk
10 3 (1.22%) Polycom
10 3 (1.22%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.82%) NetApp