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 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 536 477 486
Rank change year-on-year -59 +9 -5
Contract jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services 71 25 63
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.16% 0.091% 0.18%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.19% 0.59% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 15 38
10th Percentile £468 £159 £351
25th Percentile £488 £178 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £325 £605
Median % change year-on-year +69.23% -46.28% +15.24%
75th Percentile £656 £563 £608
90th Percentile £760 £641 £628
UK median daily rate £550 £363 £575
% change year-on-year +51.72% -36.96% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £23.80
UK median hourly rate - - £23.80

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 5,969 4,241 4,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.30% 15.46% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,079 2,816 3,350
10th Percentile £319 £305 £300
25th Percentile £421 £408 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.24% -2.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £601 £613 £625
90th Percentile £690 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £518 £510 £518
% change year-on-year +1.50% -1.57% -5.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 54 84
10th Percentile £20.09 £21.39 £17.22
25th Percentile £35.22 £27.06 £22.08
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.12% +81.97% -44.55%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.88 £50.94
90th Percentile £79.50 £82.07 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £58.50 £39.00 £31.25
% change year-on-year +50.00% +24.80% -45.65%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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
South East -51 30 £525 +194.94% 1
London -50 21 £541 +3.02% 2
North of England -61 16 £662 - 1
North West -38 12 £662 - 1
South West -31 7 £575 - 1
Yorkshire - 3 £565 -
North East - 1 £675 -
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 8 (11.27%) SharePoint
2 5 (7.04%) Confluence
2 5 (7.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (4.23%) Apache
3 3 (4.23%) IIS
3 3 (4.23%) nginx
3 3 (4.23%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.41%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 4 (5.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (1.41%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 56 (78.87%) Azure
2 46 (64.79%) Entra ID
3 23 (32.39%) AWS
4 17 (23.94%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (12.68%) GCP
6 4 (5.63%) OneDrive
7 3 (4.23%) Cloudflare
7 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (4.23%) PaaS
8 2 (2.82%) Amazon ECR
8 2 (2.82%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.82%) IaaS
8 2 (2.82%) Nutanix
8 2 (2.82%) SaaS
8 2 (2.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (1.41%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.41%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (1.41%) Azure Service Fabric
Communications & Networking
1 26 (36.62%) DNS
2 22 (30.99%) Kerberos
3 21 (29.58%) DHCP
4 9 (12.68%) Firewall
5 4 (5.63%) SSL
6 2 (2.82%) BIG-IP
6 2 (2.82%) NAS
6 2 (2.82%) NetScaler
6 2 (2.82%) Network Security
6 2 (2.82%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.41%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.63%) Metadata
2 3 (4.23%) MySQL
2 3 (4.23%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.41%) GIS
Development Applications
1 10 (14.08%) JIRA
2 2 (2.82%) Git
2 2 (2.82%) GitLab
General
1 13 (18.31%) Finance
2 11 (15.49%) Social Skills
3 6 (8.45%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (7.04%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.23%) Banking
7 2 (2.82%) Retail
8 1 (1.41%) Aviation
8 1 (1.41%) Legal
8 1 (1.41%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (16.90%) Architect
2 6 (8.45%) Lead
3 5 (7.04%) Technical Architect
4 4 (5.63%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (5.63%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 3 (4.23%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 3 (4.23%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (4.23%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (4.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (4.23%) IT Support
5 3 (4.23%) IT Support Technician
5 3 (4.23%) IT Technician
5 3 (4.23%) Security Architect
5 3 (4.23%) Support Technician
5 3 (4.23%) Technology Manager
6 2 (2.82%) Analyst
6 2 (2.82%) Consultant
6 2 (2.82%) Data Analyst
6 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Engineer
6 2 (2.82%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (49.30%) LDAP
2 27 (38.03%) OAuth
2 27 (38.03%) SAML
3 21 (29.58%) OpenID
4 9 (12.68%) OAuth2
5 4 (5.63%) SailPoint
5 4 (5.63%) YAML
6 3 (4.23%) .NET
6 3 (4.23%) ARM Templates
6 3 (4.23%) JSON
6 3 (4.23%) LAMP
6 3 (4.23%) LEMP Stack
6 3 (4.23%) REST
6 3 (4.23%) Web Services
7 2 (2.82%) SOAP
8 1 (1.41%) CSS
8 1 (1.41%) CSS3
8 1 (1.41%) Entity Framework
8 1 (1.41%) HTML
8 1 (1.41%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 15 (21.13%) Replication
2 7 (9.86%) PKI
3 4 (5.63%) Clustering
3 4 (5.63%) Data Centre
3 4 (5.63%) Onboarding
3 4 (5.63%) Public Cloud
4 3 (4.23%) Educational Technology
4 3 (4.23%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (4.23%) Private Cloud
4 3 (4.23%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.82%) BYOD
5 2 (2.82%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.82%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (2.82%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.41%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.41%) IoT
6 1 (1.41%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 19 (26.76%) Windows
2 14 (19.72%) Windows Server
3 10 (14.08%) Linux
4 4 (5.63%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (5.63%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (4.23%) CentOS
5 3 (4.23%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.41%) Android
6 1 (1.41%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (32.39%) Migration
2 17 (23.94%) Zero Trust
3 16 (22.54%) Root Cause Analysis
4 15 (21.13%) DevOps
5 14 (19.72%) Cybersecurity
6 13 (18.31%) Identity Access Management
7 12 (16.90%) CI/CD
7 12 (16.90%) Roadmaps
8 11 (15.49%) Data Protection
8 11 (15.49%) Digital Identity
9 10 (14.08%) Agile
9 10 (14.08%) High Availability
9 10 (14.08%) ITIL
10 9 (12.68%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (12.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 8 (11.27%) Architectural Patterns
11 8 (11.27%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (11.27%) RBAC
12 7 (9.86%) Infrastructure as Code
12 7 (9.86%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 32 (45.07%) PowerShell
2 7 (9.86%) Java
3 5 (7.04%) Python
4 3 (4.23%) Bash
5 2 (2.82%) SQL
6 1 (1.41%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.41%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 35 (49.30%) Security Cleared
2 27 (38.03%) SC Cleared
3 13 (18.31%) Degree
4 6 (8.45%) DV Cleared
5 5 (7.04%) Azure Certification
6 4 (5.63%) CISSP
6 4 (5.63%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (4.23%) AWS Certification
7 3 (4.23%) CISM
7 3 (4.23%) Master's Degree
8 2 (2.82%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (1.41%) CEH
9 1 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.41%) GIAC
9 1 (1.41%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (1.41%) MCSA
9 1 (1.41%) MCSE
9 1 (1.41%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (18.31%) GDPR
2 6 (8.45%) NCSC
3 5 (7.04%) NIST
4 4 (5.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (4.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (4.23%) SLA
6 1 (1.41%) NIST 800
System Software
1 63 (88.73%) Active Directory
2 11 (15.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.63%) VMware NSX
4 3 (4.23%) Docker
4 3 (4.23%) Dovecot
4 3 (4.23%) OpenAM
4 3 (4.23%) Postfix
4 3 (4.23%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (2.82%) UAG
5 2 (2.82%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.82%) vSphere
6 1 (1.41%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 1 (1.41%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 18 (25.35%) Single Sign-On
2 11 (15.49%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (9.86%) Terraform
4 6 (8.45%) CA Single Sign-On
5 5 (7.04%) Ansible
5 5 (7.04%) SCCM
6 4 (5.63%) Kubernetes
6 4 (5.63%) PingFederate
7 3 (4.23%) HAProxy
8 2 (2.82%) vCenter Server
9 1 (1.41%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 55 (77.46%) Microsoft
2 11 (15.49%) VMware
3 5 (7.04%) Cisco
3 5 (7.04%) F5
3 5 (7.04%) Okta
4 4 (5.63%) Ping Identity
4 4 (5.63%) ServiceNow
5 3 (4.23%) CyberArk
5 3 (4.23%) Forcepoint
5 3 (4.23%) Juniper
5 3 (4.23%) Proofpoint
5 3 (4.23%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.82%) BeyondTrust
6 2 (2.82%) Sparx
6 2 (2.82%) Thycotic
6 2 (2.82%) Veeam
7 1 (1.41%) Becrypt
7 1 (1.41%) ESRI
7 1 (1.41%) LogRhythm
7 1 (1.41%) MobileIron