Active Directory Federation Services Contract Job Trends in England

Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Active Directory Federation Services skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 427 436 416
Rank change year-on-year +9 -20 +71
Contract jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services 121 41 135
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.37% 0.16% 0.35%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.38% 1.06% 2.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 29 97
10th Percentile £425 £400 £348
25th Percentile £488 £450 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £613 £651 £615
90th Percentile £699 £688 £713
UK median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £55.00
Median hourly rate - - £55.70
75th Percentile - - £57.93
90th Percentile - - £60.67
UK median hourly rate - - £55.70

All Systems Management Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,083 3,861 4,776
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.49% 14.71% 12.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,524 2,498 3,489
10th Percentile £312 £313 £252
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -9.95%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 47 157
10th Percentile £17.67 £14.13 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £20.49 £20.00
Median hourly rate £48.00 £26.50 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +81.13% -39.43% -5.11%
75th Percentile £63.32 £61.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.50 £75.66 £76.92
UK median hourly rate £51.25 £25.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +100.98% -44.78% +11.18%

Active Directory Federation Services
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Active Directory Federation Services job vacancy trend in England

Active Directory Federation Services
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Active Directory Federation Services
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services in England over the 6 months to 2 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory Federation Services in England

Active Directory Federation Services
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

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

Active Directory Federation Services
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 2 February 2026. 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
London -1 41 £581 +25.62% 4
South West +18 39 £575 -11.54% 4
South East -10 21 £525 -17.65% 7
North of England -37 18 £510 +27.42% 4
North West -19 13 £550 +37.50% 2
Yorkshire -53 4 £469 -35.31% 2
North East - 2 £550 -
Active Directory Federation Services
UK

Active Directory Federation Services
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 30 (24.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (16.53%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.31%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.83%) Confluence
4 1 (0.83%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 8 (6.61%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (5.79%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 68 (56.20%) Azure
2 67 (55.37%) Entra ID
3 31 (25.62%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (8.26%) OneDrive
5 9 (7.44%) PaaS
6 8 (6.61%) AWS
6 8 (6.61%) SaaS
7 7 (5.79%) Azure Service Fabric
8 4 (3.31%) GCP
8 4 (3.31%) Nutanix
8 4 (3.31%) ShareGate
9 3 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.48%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (2.48%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (2.48%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (1.65%) IaaS
11 1 (0.83%) GitHub
11 1 (0.83%) GitHub Copilot
11 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (0.83%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 62 (51.24%) DNS
2 35 (28.93%) Kerberos
3 34 (28.10%) DHCP
4 28 (23.14%) Firewall
5 8 (6.61%) Skype
6 5 (4.13%) TCP/IP
6 5 (4.13%) WebEx
7 4 (3.31%) NetScaler
8 3 (2.48%) HTTP
8 3 (2.48%) Network Security
8 3 (2.48%) VSAN
9 2 (1.65%) DKIM
9 2 (1.65%) DMARC
9 2 (1.65%) Wireshark
9 2 (1.65%) X.500
10 1 (0.83%) Internet
10 1 (0.83%) Intranet
10 1 (0.83%) SMTP
10 1 (0.83%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.79%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.83%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (3.31%) JIRA
2 2 (1.65%) Fiddler
2 2 (1.65%) Git
General
1 33 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 16 (13.22%) Documentation Skills
3 15 (12.40%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (7.44%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.96%) Finance
6 5 (4.13%) Legal
7 2 (1.65%) Military
8 1 (0.83%) Banking
8 1 (0.83%) International Banking
8 1 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (14.05%) Architect
2 14 (11.57%) Platform Engineer
3 9 (7.44%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (6.61%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (5.79%) Consultant
5 7 (5.79%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 6 (4.96%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (4.13%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 5 (4.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (4.13%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
7 5 (4.13%) Technical Architect
8 4 (3.31%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
8 4 (3.31%) Migration Consultant
8 4 (3.31%) Senior
9 3 (2.48%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 3 (2.48%) Data Analyst
9 3 (2.48%) Microsoft Consultant
9 3 (2.48%) Security Architect
9 3 (2.48%) Security Engineer
9 3 (2.48%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (37.19%) OAuth
2 43 (35.54%) SAML
3 37 (30.58%) LDAP
4 26 (21.49%) OpenID
5 18 (14.88%) OAuth2
6 11 (9.09%) SailPoint
7 9 (7.44%) ARM Templates
8 7 (5.79%) Entity Framework
8 7 (5.79%) YAML
9 5 (4.13%) XMPP
10 3 (2.48%) JSON
10 3 (2.48%) Microsoft Graph
11 2 (1.65%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 38 (31.40%) Replication
2 16 (13.22%) Private Cloud
3 13 (10.74%) PKI
4 10 (8.26%) Onboarding
5 7 (5.79%) BYOD
6 6 (4.96%) Data Centre
7 5 (4.13%) Product Ownership
8 4 (3.31%) Public Cloud
9 3 (2.48%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (2.48%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.65%) Educational Technology
11 1 (0.83%) Driving Licence
11 1 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 66 (54.55%) Windows
2 52 (42.98%) Windows Server
3 18 (14.88%) Linux
4 8 (6.61%) Windows 10
5 6 (4.96%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (4.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (3.31%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (3.31%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (2.48%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (38.02%) Identity Access Management
2 40 (33.06%) RBAC
3 33 (27.27%) Migration
4 23 (19.01%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (17.36%) Disaster Recovery
5 21 (17.36%) High Availability
6 19 (15.70%) Root Cause Analysis
7 17 (14.05%) Load Balancing
8 16 (13.22%) DevOps
8 16 (13.22%) Task Automation
9 15 (12.40%) Identity Management
9 15 (12.40%) Roadmaps
10 14 (11.57%) Mentoring
11 13 (10.74%) Digital Identity
11 13 (10.74%) Zero Trust
12 12 (9.92%) Infrastructure as Code
12 12 (9.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 12 (9.92%) Platform Engineering
12 12 (9.92%) Service Management
13 11 (9.09%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 85 (70.25%) PowerShell
2 10 (8.26%) SQL
3 6 (4.96%) Python
4 5 (4.13%) Bash
4 5 (4.13%) Perl
5 4 (3.31%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 85 (70.25%) Security Cleared
2 61 (50.41%) SC Cleared
3 30 (24.79%) Microsoft Certification
4 25 (20.66%) DV Cleared
5 14 (11.57%) Degree
6 7 (5.79%) MCSA
6 7 (5.79%) MCSE
7 5 (4.13%) Azure Certification
7 5 (4.13%) CCDP
7 5 (4.13%) CCNA
7 5 (4.13%) CCNP
7 5 (4.13%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (2.48%) CISM
8 3 (2.48%) CISSP
9 2 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.65%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (15.70%) GDPR
2 14 (11.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 9 (7.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (5.79%) NCSC
5 4 (3.31%) NIST
6 3 (2.48%) SLA
System Software
1 111 (91.74%) Active Directory
2 22 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (8.26%) Docker
4 8 (6.61%) VMware NSX
5 4 (3.31%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (3.31%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (3.31%) vSphere
6 3 (2.48%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.65%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 50 (41.32%) Single Sign-On
2 16 (13.22%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (6.61%) vCenter Server
4 6 (4.96%) SCCM
5 4 (3.31%) Kubernetes
5 4 (3.31%) Terraform
6 3 (2.48%) Ansible
6 3 (2.48%) OPNET
6 3 (2.48%) WSUS
7 2 (1.65%) CA Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 106 (87.60%) Microsoft
2 34 (28.10%) VMware
3 17 (14.05%) Okta
4 10 (8.26%) Cisco
5 9 (7.44%) Veeam
6 5 (4.13%) Citrix
6 5 (4.13%) Red Hat
6 5 (4.13%) SolarWinds
7 4 (3.31%) F5
8 3 (2.48%) LogRhythm
9 2 (1.65%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.83%) BeyondTrust
10 1 (0.83%) Proofpoint