Active Directory Federation Services Contracts

Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Active Directory Federation Services skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Active Directory Federation Services over the 6 months to 30 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 480 445 595
Rank change year-on-year -35 +150 -114
Contract jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services 92 256 249
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.46% 0.28%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.77% 2.89% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 192 194
10th Percentile £388 £400 £400
25th Percentile £459 £449 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +5.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £580
90th Percentile £660 £724 £671
UK excluding London median daily rate £605 £550 £475
% change year-on-year +10.00% +15.79% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - £52.25
25th Percentile - - £53.75
Median hourly rate £23.80 - £57.50
75th Percentile - - £67.88
90th Percentile - - £73.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £67.25
% change year-on-year - - +6.75%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Active Directory Federation Services is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,194 8,858 13,817
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.11% 15.79% 15.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,765 6,327 9,985
10th Percentile £275 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £564
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% -2.48% +12.80%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 207 188
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.63 £13.72
25th Percentile £20.25 £25.71 £15.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £21.89
Median % change year-on-year -47.83% +162.68% -45.28%
75th Percentile £52.63 £73.73 £42.59
90th Percentile £71.25 £83.30 £57.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.75 £20.00
% change year-on-year -6.43% +113.75% -13.83%

Active Directory Federation Services
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Active Directory Federation Services as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory Federation Services in the UK

Active Directory Federation Services
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services.

Daily rate trend for Active Directory Federation Services in the UK

Active Directory Federation Services
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services over the 6 months to 30 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory Federation Services in the UK

Active Directory Federation Services
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services.

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory Federation Services in the UK

Active Directory Federation Services
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services within the UK over the 6 months to 30 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -7 76 £605 +21.00% 22
UK excluding London -11 53 £605 +10.00% 15
London +28 36 £475 -5.00% 6
Work from Home +6 33 £605 +11.52% 14
South East +22 27 £605 +34.44% 4
Scotland +31 13 £525 -2.33% 1
South West -15 8 £675 +22.73% 2
North of England +21 4 £450 -18.18% 7
North West +16 2 £420 -23.64% 4
Yorkshire +14 1 - - 2
West Midlands -1 1 £640 -6.91% 1
Midlands -5 1 £640 -5.19% 1
North East - 1 £500 - 1

Active Directory Federation Services
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 41 (44.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (10.87%) SharePoint
3 9 (9.78%) Confluence
4 2 (2.17%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (2.17%) Exchange Server 2013
4 2 (2.17%) IIS
5 1 (1.09%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 3 (3.26%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 55 (59.78%) Azure
2 49 (53.26%) Entra ID
3 44 (47.83%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (21.74%) Azure Monitor
4 20 (21.74%) Azure Storage
5 5 (5.43%) AWS
5 5 (5.43%) Azure Sentinel
5 5 (5.43%) IaaS
5 5 (5.43%) Mimecast
6 3 (3.26%) Nutanix
6 3 (3.26%) OneDrive
7 2 (2.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.17%) GitHub
7 2 (2.17%) Rubrik
8 1 (1.09%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.09%) Azure Stack
8 1 (1.09%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.09%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.09%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 43 (46.74%) DNS
2 34 (36.96%) DHCP
3 26 (28.26%) Firewall
4 7 (7.61%) SAN
5 6 (6.52%) NAS
6 5 (5.43%) LAN
7 4 (4.35%) DKIM
7 4 (4.35%) DMARC
7 4 (4.35%) Skype
8 3 (3.26%) SMTP
8 3 (3.26%) TCP/IP
8 3 (3.26%) WAN
9 2 (2.17%) Extranet
9 2 (2.17%) Internet
9 2 (2.17%) VPN
9 2 (2.17%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (2.17%) Wireless
10 1 (1.09%) DSL
10 1 (1.09%) Fibre Channel
10 1 (1.09%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (21.74%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.43%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (4.35%) MySQL
3 4 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (9.78%) JIRA
2 2 (2.17%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.09%) GitLab
3 1 (1.09%) Visual Studio
General
1 25 (27.17%) Social Skills
2 22 (23.91%) Public Sector
3 9 (9.78%) Finance
4 3 (3.26%) Military
5 2 (2.17%) German Language
5 2 (2.17%) Marketing
6 1 (1.09%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.09%) French Language
Job Titles
1 20 (21.74%) Active Directory Support
1 20 (21.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 15 (16.30%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (15.22%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (15.22%) Support Specialist
4 13 (14.13%) Azure Engineer
5 11 (11.96%) Active Directory Engineer
6 9 (9.78%) Exchange Engineer
6 9 (9.78%) Support Engineer
7 8 (8.70%) Consultant
7 8 (8.70%) Wintel Engineer
8 7 (7.61%) Administrator
9 6 (6.52%) Active Directory Support Engineer
10 5 (5.43%) Active Directory Consultant
10 5 (5.43%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (4.35%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 4 (4.35%) 3rd Line Support
11 4 (4.35%) Active Directory Administrator
11 4 (4.35%) Architect
11 4 (4.35%) Azure Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (21.74%) ARM Templates
2 3 (3.26%) .NET
2 3 (3.26%) LDAP
3 2 (2.17%) SAML
3 2 (2.17%) Software Packaging
4 1 (1.09%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.09%) OAuth
4 1 (1.09%) OpenID
4 1 (1.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 34 (36.96%) PKI
2 21 (22.83%) Self-Motivation
3 19 (20.65%) Replication
4 6 (6.52%) Fat Client
4 6 (6.52%) Thin Client
5 3 (3.26%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.17%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.17%) IoT
6 2 (2.17%) Social Media
7 1 (1.09%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.09%) Clustering
7 1 (1.09%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.09%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 63 (68.48%) Windows
2 46 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 42 (45.65%) Windows Server 2016
4 40 (43.48%) Windows Server 2019
5 27 (29.35%) Linux
6 4 (4.35%) Ubuntu
6 4 (4.35%) Windows 10
7 2 (2.17%) Unix
8 1 (1.09%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (1.09%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (34.78%) Identity Management
2 31 (33.70%) Agile
3 30 (32.61%) Migration
4 26 (28.26%) DevOps
4 26 (28.26%) ITIL
5 24 (26.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 23 (25.00%) Service Management
7 22 (23.91%) Analytics
7 22 (23.91%) Infrastructure as Code
8 21 (22.83%) CI/CD
8 21 (22.83%) Privileged Identity Management
8 21 (22.83%) RBAC
8 21 (22.83%) Release Management
9 20 (21.74%) Log Analytics
9 20 (21.74%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 11 (11.96%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (10.87%) Disaster Recovery
12 9 (9.78%) Problem Management
13 7 (7.61%) Network Virtualisation
13 7 (7.61%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 54 (58.70%) PowerShell
2 21 (22.83%) C#
3 20 (21.74%) Bicep
3 20 (21.74%) VB
3 20 (21.74%) VBScript
4 4 (4.35%) Python
4 4 (4.35%) SQL
5 1 (1.09%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.09%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 55 (59.78%) Security Cleared
2 38 (41.30%) DV Cleared
3 35 (38.04%) SC Cleared
4 34 (36.96%) Degree
5 20 (21.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 5 (5.43%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.52%) SLA
2 1 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.09%) QA
System Software
1 88 (95.65%) Active Directory
2 23 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 20 (21.74%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (10.87%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 3 (3.26%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (2.17%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 2 (2.17%) BitLocker
7 2 (2.17%) Hyper-V
7 2 (2.17%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (1.09%) UAG
8 1 (1.09%) VMware NSX
8 1 (1.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (32.61%) SCCM
2 28 (30.43%) SCOM
3 26 (28.26%) Microsoft Intune
3 26 (28.26%) WSUS
4 21 (22.83%) Kubernetes
5 6 (6.52%) Ansible
6 5 (5.43%) ZABBIX
7 4 (4.35%) Nessus
7 4 (4.35%) Red Hat Satellite
7 4 (4.35%) vCenter Server
8 3 (3.26%) OPNET
8 3 (3.26%) Terraform
8 3 (3.26%) VxRail
9 2 (2.17%) McAfee ePO
9 2 (2.17%) NetBackup
9 2 (2.17%) SCVMM
9 2 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (1.09%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (1.09%) Kibana
10 1 (1.09%) logstash
Vendors
1 49 (53.26%) Microsoft
2 19 (20.65%) Veeam
3 13 (14.13%) VMware
4 9 (9.78%) Atlassian
5 6 (6.52%) SolarWinds
6 4 (4.35%) Oracle
6 4 (4.35%) Red Hat
7 3 (3.26%) Dell
7 3 (3.26%) EMC
7 3 (3.26%) Proofpoint
7 3 (3.26%) Remedy
8 2 (2.17%) Brocade
8 2 (2.17%) Dell Compellent
8 2 (2.17%) Equitrac
8 2 (2.17%) F5
8 2 (2.17%) Facebook
8 2 (2.17%) McAfee
8 2 (2.17%) Mitel
8 2 (2.17%) MobileIron
8 2 (2.17%) Twitter