Active Directory Federation Services Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Active Directory Federation Services skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 93 111
Rank change year-on-year -18 +18 +9
Contract jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services 4 10 16
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.27% 0.66% 0.92%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.59% 5.26% 6.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 16
10th Percentile £599 - £576
25th Percentile £609 £603 £605
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £610
Median % change year-on-year - +2.46% +19.61%
75th Percentile £644 £650 £615
90th Percentile £655 - -
South East median daily rate £474 £625 £610
% change year-on-year -24.24% +2.46% +23.86%

All Systems Management Skills
Berkshire

Active Directory Federation Services falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 251 190 256
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 16.96% 12.51% 14.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 133 204
10th Percentile £318 £330 £150
25th Percentile £406 £390 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +15.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £540 £638 £615
90th Percentile £610 £688 £696
South East median daily rate £492 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -1.60% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 7
10th Percentile £18.44 - -
25th Percentile £18.87 - £48.40
Median hourly rate £20.00 - £49.73
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.58%
75th Percentile £80.00 - £66.82
90th Percentile £82.80 - £68.63
South East median hourly rate £40.00 £34.00 £48.40
% change year-on-year +17.65% -29.75% +14.87%

Active Directory Federation Services
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Active Directory Federation Services relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Active Directory Federation Services job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Active Directory Federation Services
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Active Directory Federation Services.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Active Directory Federation Services

Active Directory Federation Services
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Active Directory Federation Services.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Active Directory Federation Services

Active Directory Federation Services
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading +7 3 £625 - 1
Bracknell - 1 - -
Active Directory Federation Services
South East

Active Directory Federation Services
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
1 1 (25.00%) VSAN
1 1 (25.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Fiddler
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Support
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Architect
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) OAuth
2 2 (50.00%) OAuth2
2 2 (50.00%) OpenID
2 2 (50.00%) SAML
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) PKI
1 1 (25.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Privileged Identity Management
2 1 (25.00%) RBAC
2 1 (25.00%) Resource Management
2 1 (25.00%) Server Management
2 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (25.00%) VMware NSX
3 1 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) BeyondTrust
3 1 (25.00%) CyberArk