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 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 468 460 429
Rank change year-on-year -8 -31 +125
Contract jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services 76 47 143
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.25% 0.16% 0.37%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.53% 1.08% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 33 104
10th Percentile £305 £380 £363
25th Percentile £463 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £605 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +10.00%
75th Percentile £618 £650 £670
90th Percentile £708 £720 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +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
% change year-on-year - - -7.17%

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 4,960 4,341 5,337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.02% 14.32% 13.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,375 2,785 3,869
10th Percentile £308 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £531 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.39% -3.55% -6.38%
75th Percentile £612 £643 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £744
UK median daily rate £512 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -2.57% -3.31% -5.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 60 161
10th Percentile £17.67 £15.05 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £23.75 £21.25
Median hourly rate £39.50 £32.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +21.54% -29.62% +34.83%
75th Percentile £65.57 £60.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.75 £74.75 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £27.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +25.93% -41.53% +44.31%

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 13 December 2025.

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 13 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
South West +20 33 £565 - 3
South East -10 15 £447 -27.32% 10
North of England -32 11 £550 +37.50% 10
London -9 10 £563 +18.42% 6
North West -9 8 £550 +81.07% 5
West Midlands -31 3 £325 -21.21%
Midlands -41 3 £325 -21.21%
Yorkshire -39 2 £468 -35.45% 5
North East - 2 £550 -
East of England -13 1 - - 4
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 24 (31.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (25.00%) SharePoint
3 4 (5.26%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (1.32%) Confluence
4 1 (1.32%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 6 (7.89%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 36 (47.37%) Entra ID
2 32 (42.11%) Azure
3 20 (26.32%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (13.16%) OneDrive
4 10 (13.16%) SaaS
5 6 (7.89%) AWS
6 4 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (5.26%) Amazon S3
6 4 (5.26%) IaaS
6 4 (5.26%) PaaS
6 4 (5.26%) ShareGate
7 3 (3.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (3.95%) AWS Direct Connect
7 3 (3.95%) AWS KMS
7 3 (3.95%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (3.95%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (3.95%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (3.95%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (3.95%) Serverless
7 3 (3.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 31 (40.79%) DNS
2 20 (26.32%) Firewall
3 8 (10.53%) Skype
4 6 (7.89%) Kerberos
5 5 (6.58%) DHCP
5 5 (6.58%) WebEx
6 4 (5.26%) HTTP
6 4 (5.26%) VSAN
7 3 (3.95%) Wireshark
8 2 (2.63%) DKIM
8 2 (2.63%) DMARC
8 2 (2.63%) TCP/IP
8 2 (2.63%) X.500
9 1 (1.32%) Internet
9 1 (1.32%) Intranet
9 1 (1.32%) iSCSI
9 1 (1.32%) SAN
9 1 (1.32%) SMTP
9 1 (1.32%) VLAN
9 1 (1.32%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.53%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.32%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (5.26%) JIRA
2 3 (3.95%) Fiddler
3 2 (2.63%) MSI
4 1 (1.32%) GitLab
General
1 22 (28.95%) Social Skills
2 12 (15.79%) Documentation Skills
3 11 (14.47%) Public Sector
4 8 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.58%) Legal
6 3 (3.95%) Military
7 2 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.32%) Finance
Job Titles
1 14 (18.42%) Architect
2 10 (13.16%) Platform Engineer
3 8 (10.53%) Senior
4 7 (9.21%) Analyst
4 7 (9.21%) Consultant
5 6 (7.89%) Data Analyst
5 6 (7.89%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (5.26%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
6 4 (5.26%) Migration Consultant
6 4 (5.26%) Support Engineer
7 3 (3.95%) Administrator
7 3 (3.95%) AWS Administrator
7 3 (3.95%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 3 (3.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Consultant
7 3 (3.95%) Security Architect
7 3 (3.95%) Security Engineer
7 3 (3.95%) Technical Engineer
7 3 (3.95%) Technical Support
7 3 (3.95%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (35.53%) OAuth
2 24 (31.58%) SAML
3 22 (28.95%) OpenID
4 16 (21.05%) OAuth2
5 8 (10.53%) LDAP
6 5 (6.58%) XMPP
7 4 (5.26%) Microsoft Graph
7 4 (5.26%) SailPoint
8 3 (3.95%) JSON
9 2 (2.63%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 13 (17.11%) PKI
2 11 (14.47%) Replication
3 10 (13.16%) Onboarding
3 10 (13.16%) Private Cloud
4 5 (6.58%) Product Ownership
5 4 (5.26%) Data Centre
6 3 (3.95%) Cyber Defence
6 3 (3.95%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.32%) Blackberry
7 1 (1.32%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 45 (59.21%) Windows
2 27 (35.53%) Windows Server
3 18 (23.68%) Linux
4 8 (10.53%) Windows 10
5 5 (6.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (5.26%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (3.95%) Apple iOS
7 3 (3.95%) Mac OS
7 3 (3.95%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (2.63%) Android
8 2 (2.63%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (36.84%) Identity Access Management
2 23 (30.26%) RBAC
3 15 (19.74%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (18.42%) Identity Management
4 14 (18.42%) Migration
5 12 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 11 (14.47%) Load Balancing
6 11 (14.47%) Mobile Device Management
6 11 (14.47%) Service Management
7 10 (13.16%) Platform Engineering
7 10 (13.16%) Validation
8 9 (11.84%) Mentoring
9 8 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (10.53%) ITSM
9 8 (10.53%) Server Management
9 8 (10.53%) Zero Trust
10 7 (9.21%) Change Management
10 7 (9.21%) ITIL
10 7 (9.21%) Roadmaps
10 7 (9.21%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 48 (63.16%) PowerShell
2 8 (10.53%) Python
3 7 (9.21%) Bash
4 5 (6.58%) Perl
4 5 (6.58%) SQL
5 4 (5.26%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 52 (68.42%) Security Cleared
2 34 (44.74%) SC Cleared
3 22 (28.95%) Microsoft Certification
4 19 (25.00%) DV Cleared
5 6 (7.89%) Degree
6 5 (6.58%) Azure Certification
6 5 (6.58%) CCDP
6 5 (6.58%) CCNA
6 5 (6.58%) CCNP
6 5 (6.58%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (3.95%) CISM
7 3 (3.95%) CISSP
8 2 (2.63%) MCITP
8 2 (2.63%) MCP
8 2 (2.63%) MCSA
8 2 (2.63%) MCSE
8 2 (2.63%) MCTS
8 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Certified Master
9 1 (1.32%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (1.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (9.21%) NCSC
3 5 (6.58%) GDPR
4 4 (5.26%) NIST
System Software
1 64 (84.21%) Active Directory
2 13 (17.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (7.89%) VMware NSX
4 4 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (3.95%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (2.63%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 2 (2.63%) Hyper-V
7 1 (1.32%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (35.53%) Single Sign-On
2 8 (10.53%) vCenter Server
3 5 (6.58%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (5.26%) Terraform
5 3 (3.95%) OPNET
5 3 (3.95%) WSUS
6 2 (2.63%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (1.32%) Ansible
7 1 (1.32%) CA Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 67 (88.16%) Microsoft
2 25 (32.89%) VMware
3 11 (14.47%) Cisco
4 6 (7.89%) Citrix
4 6 (7.89%) Veeam
5 5 (6.58%) Red Hat
5 5 (6.58%) SolarWinds
6 3 (3.95%) AppDynamics
6 3 (3.95%) Dynatrace
6 3 (3.95%) LogRhythm
6 3 (3.95%) Okta
7 2 (2.63%) Apple
7 2 (2.63%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.32%) Adobe
8 1 (1.32%) Aruba
8 1 (1.32%) BeyondTrust
8 1 (1.32%) ESET
8 1 (1.32%) HP
8 1 (1.32%) Meraki
8 1 (1.32%) Proofpoint