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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 457 435 407
Rank change year-on-year -22 -28 +93
Contract jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services 84 43 136
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.27% 0.16% 0.37%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.73% 1.11% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 30 97
10th Percentile £362 £395 £363
25th Percentile £475 £416 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £506 £568
Median % change year-on-year +8.64% -10.79% +13.50%
75th Percentile £594 £650 £658
90th Percentile £701 £659 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £506 £550
% change year-on-year +8.64% -7.95% +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 4,850 3,877 4,818
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.64% 14.51% 13.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,351 2,511 3,511
10th Percentile £313 £313 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% -8.09%
75th Percentile £606 £639 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -6.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 51 150
10th Percentile £18.57 £15.22 £16.10
25th Percentile £21.29 £21.02 £20.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 £26.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +98.11% -42.62% +24.07%
75th Percentile £63.32 £61.25 £65.94
90th Percentile £79.20 £77.50 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £24.84 £46.18
% change year-on-year +111.35% -46.21% +31.94%

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 12 January 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 12 January 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 West +15 33 £565 - 7
London -4 25 £555 +20.00% 5
North of England -39 14 £510 +27.42% 7
South East -12 10 £500 -21.57% 7
North West -26 9 £550 +37.50% 3
Yorkshire -35 4 £469 -35.31% 4
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 (35.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (21.43%) SharePoint
3 4 (4.76%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (1.19%) Confluence
4 1 (1.19%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 8 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (8.33%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 38 (45.24%) Entra ID
2 37 (44.05%) Azure
3 26 (30.95%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (11.90%) OneDrive
5 6 (7.14%) AWS
5 6 (7.14%) Azure Service Fabric
5 6 (7.14%) PaaS
5 6 (7.14%) SaaS
6 4 (4.76%) GCP
6 4 (4.76%) ShareGate
7 2 (2.38%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (2.38%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (2.38%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (2.38%) Nutanix
8 1 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 32 (38.10%) DNS
2 20 (23.81%) Firewall
3 12 (14.29%) Kerberos
4 8 (9.52%) Skype
5 7 (8.33%) DHCP
6 5 (5.95%) WebEx
7 3 (3.57%) HTTP
7 3 (3.57%) TCP/IP
7 3 (3.57%) VSAN
8 2 (2.38%) DKIM
8 2 (2.38%) DMARC
8 2 (2.38%) NetScaler
8 2 (2.38%) Wireshark
8 2 (2.38%) X.500
9 1 (1.19%) Internet
9 1 (1.19%) Intranet
9 1 (1.19%) SMTP
9 1 (1.19%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.19%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 3 (3.57%) JIRA
2 2 (2.38%) Fiddler
3 1 (1.19%) MSI
General
1 29 (34.52%) Social Skills
2 11 (13.10%) Documentation Skills
3 10 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.95%) Legal
6 4 (4.76%) Finance
7 1 (1.19%) Banking
7 1 (1.19%) International Banking
7 1 (1.19%) Military
7 1 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (15.48%) Architect
2 12 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
3 7 (8.33%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 6 (7.14%) Consultant
4 6 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (5.95%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (4.76%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
6 4 (4.76%) Migration Consultant
6 4 (4.76%) Senior
7 3 (3.57%) Analyst
7 3 (3.57%) Data Analyst
7 3 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Consultant
7 3 (3.57%) Security Architect
7 3 (3.57%) Support Engineer
8 2 (2.38%) 3rd Line Support
8 2 (2.38%) Technical Architect
8 2 (2.38%) Technical Support
8 2 (2.38%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (35.71%) OAuth
2 28 (33.33%) SAML
3 24 (28.57%) OpenID
4 16 (19.05%) OAuth2
5 14 (16.67%) LDAP
6 10 (11.90%) SailPoint
7 6 (7.14%) ARM Templates
7 6 (7.14%) Entity Framework
7 6 (7.14%) YAML
8 5 (5.95%) XMPP
9 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Graph
10 2 (2.38%) JSON
10 2 (2.38%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.67%) Replication
2 13 (15.48%) PKI
3 12 (14.29%) Private Cloud
4 10 (11.90%) Onboarding
5 7 (8.33%) BYOD
6 5 (5.95%) Product Ownership
7 3 (3.57%) Cyber Defence
7 3 (3.57%) Data Centre
7 3 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (2.38%) Public Cloud
9 1 (1.19%) Blackberry
9 1 (1.19%) Driving Licence
9 1 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 43 (51.19%) Windows
2 30 (35.71%) Windows Server
3 13 (15.48%) Linux
4 8 (9.52%) Windows 10
5 5 (5.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (4.76%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (4.76%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (3.57%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (2.38%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (1.19%) Android
9 1 (1.19%) Apple iOS
9 1 (1.19%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (34.52%) Identity Access Management
2 25 (29.76%) RBAC
3 21 (25.00%) Migration
4 17 (20.24%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (19.05%) Root Cause Analysis
6 15 (17.86%) Roadmaps
7 14 (16.67%) Identity Management
8 13 (15.48%) Load Balancing
9 12 (14.29%) DevOps
10 11 (13.10%) Mentoring
10 11 (13.10%) Service Management
11 10 (11.90%) Platform Engineering
11 10 (11.90%) Zero Trust
12 9 (10.71%) Disaster Recovery
12 9 (10.71%) High Availability
12 9 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 9 (10.71%) Validation
13 8 (9.52%) Mobile Device Management
13 8 (9.52%) Server Management
13 8 (9.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 54 (64.29%) PowerShell
2 9 (10.71%) SQL
3 6 (7.14%) Python
4 5 (5.95%) Bash
4 5 (5.95%) Perl
5 3 (3.57%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 55 (65.48%) Security Cleared
2 37 (44.05%) SC Cleared
3 28 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 19 (22.62%) DV Cleared
5 10 (11.90%) Degree
6 8 (9.52%) MCSA
6 8 (9.52%) MCSE
7 5 (5.95%) CCDP
7 5 (5.95%) CCNA
7 5 (5.95%) CCNP
7 5 (5.95%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (3.57%) Azure Certification
8 3 (3.57%) CISM
8 3 (3.57%) CISSP
9 1 (1.19%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (1.19%) MCITP
9 1 (1.19%) MCP
9 1 (1.19%) MCTS
9 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Certified Master
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (8.33%) GDPR
2 7 (8.33%) NCSC
3 3 (3.57%) NIST
4 2 (2.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.19%) SLA
System Software
1 75 (89.29%) Active Directory
2 13 (15.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (8.33%) Docker
4 5 (5.95%) VMware NSX
5 4 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (3.57%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (2.38%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 2 (2.38%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (2.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 33 (39.29%) Single Sign-On
2 13 (15.48%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (9.52%) vCenter Server
4 3 (3.57%) OPNET
4 3 (3.57%) WSUS
5 2 (2.38%) Kubernetes
5 2 (2.38%) SCCM
5 2 (2.38%) Terraform
6 1 (1.19%) Ansible
6 1 (1.19%) CA Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 74 (88.10%) Microsoft
2 25 (29.76%) VMware
3 10 (11.90%) Cisco
4 7 (8.33%) Veeam
5 5 (5.95%) Citrix
5 5 (5.95%) Okta
5 5 (5.95%) Red Hat
5 5 (5.95%) SolarWinds
6 2 (2.38%) CyberArk
6 2 (2.38%) F5
6 2 (2.38%) LogRhythm
7 1 (1.19%) BeyondTrust
7 1 (1.19%) Proofpoint