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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 479 477 458
Rank change year-on-year -2 -19 +171
Contract jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services 33 51 132
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.15% 0.31%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.76% 1.13% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 30 94
10th Percentile £162 £374 £389
25th Percentile £246 £438 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £605 £605
Median % change year-on-year -23.80% - +18.63%
75th Percentile £575 £608 £682
90th Percentile £663 £618 £738
UK median daily rate £475 £570 £575
% change year-on-year -16.67% -0.87% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
Median hourly rate - £23.80 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -56.73% -8.33%
UK median hourly rate - £23.80 £55.00
% change year-on-year - -56.73% -6.38%

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 4,357 4,498 6,234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.68% 13.66% 14.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,888 3,077 4,451
10th Percentile £300 £306 £325
25th Percentile £408 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £675
90th Percentile £688 £713 £760
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 53 158
10th Percentile £18.87 £20.10 £18.43
25th Percentile £21.37 £24.18 £26.06
Median hourly rate £36.75 £40.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.13% -21.95% +114.35%
75th Percentile £63.49 £62.50 £75.38
90th Percentile £76.48 £74.00 £78.88
UK median hourly rate £28.25 £38.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -26.62% -30.00% +130.03%

Active Directory Federation Services
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Active Directory Federation Services as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory Federation Services 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 East +17 15 £224 -63.06% 4
South West +34 9 £550 - 2
West Midlands -15 3 £325 -38.97%
Midlands -25 3 £325 -38.97%
North of England -13 2 - - 2
North West -14 2 - -
London +6 1 £525 +5.00% 1
East of England +5 1 - -
Active Directory Federation Services
UK

Active Directory Federation Services
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (27.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (15.15%) SharePoint
3 2 (6.06%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (3.03%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 7 (21.21%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.03%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 15 (45.45%) Azure
1 15 (45.45%) Entra ID
2 8 (24.24%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (12.12%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (12.12%) Amazon S3
3 4 (12.12%) AWS
3 4 (12.12%) IaaS
3 4 (12.12%) PaaS
3 4 (12.12%) SaaS
4 3 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (9.09%) AWS CloudTrail
4 3 (9.09%) AWS Direct Connect
4 3 (9.09%) AWS KMS
4 3 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (9.09%) Serverless
4 3 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (6.06%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (3.03%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 11 (33.33%) DNS
2 7 (21.21%) Firewall
3 6 (18.18%) DHCP
3 6 (18.18%) Skype
4 5 (15.15%) VSAN
5 1 (3.03%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (3.03%) HTTP
5 1 (3.03%) iSCSI
5 1 (3.03%) Kerberos
5 1 (3.03%) NAS
5 1 (3.03%) SAN
5 1 (3.03%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.03%) VLAN
5 1 (3.03%) VoIP
5 1 (3.03%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.15%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (6.06%) JIRA
1 2 (6.06%) MSI
2 1 (3.03%) Fiddler
2 1 (3.03%) GitLab
General
1 10 (30.30%) Public Sector
2 8 (24.24%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (9.09%) Military
4 2 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Finance
5 1 (3.03%) Marketing
5 1 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (21.21%) Analyst
2 6 (18.18%) Data Analyst
3 5 (15.15%) Architect
4 4 (12.12%) Administrator
4 4 (12.12%) Security Architect
4 4 (12.12%) Senior
4 4 (12.12%) Support Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) AWS Administrator
5 3 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Consultant
6 2 (6.06%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Security Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Technical Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Technical Support
6 2 (6.06%) Technical Support Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Active Directory Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Active Directory Support
7 1 (3.03%) Active Directory Support Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Azure Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.15%) OAuth
2 3 (9.09%) LDAP
2 3 (9.09%) ModSecurity
2 3 (9.09%) SAML
3 2 (6.06%) .NET
3 2 (6.06%) JSON
4 1 (3.03%) ARM Templates
4 1 (3.03%) CSS
4 1 (3.03%) HTML
4 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (3.03%) OpenID
4 1 (3.03%) React
4 1 (3.03%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 8 (24.24%) PKI
2 4 (12.12%) Cyber Defence
2 4 (12.12%) Data Centre
2 4 (12.12%) Onboarding
2 4 (12.12%) Private Cloud
3 2 (6.06%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (6.06%) Replication
4 1 (3.03%) Blackberry
4 1 (3.03%) Driving Licence
4 1 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (51.52%) Windows
2 13 (39.39%) Linux
3 7 (21.21%) Windows 10
4 4 (12.12%) Windows Server
5 3 (9.09%) Apple iOS
5 3 (9.09%) Mac OS
5 3 (9.09%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (6.06%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (21.21%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 6 (18.18%) Data Management
2 6 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (18.18%) ITIL
3 5 (15.15%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (15.15%) Identity Access Management
3 5 (15.15%) Migration
3 5 (15.15%) Service Management
4 4 (12.12%) Agile
4 4 (12.12%) Analytics
4 4 (12.12%) DevOps
4 4 (12.12%) Identity Management
4 4 (12.12%) Mobile Device Management
4 4 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (12.12%) Roadmaps
4 4 (12.12%) Workflow
5 3 (9.09%) Design Patterns
5 3 (9.09%) Key Management
5 3 (9.09%) Log Analytics
5 3 (9.09%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 12 (36.36%) PowerShell
2 5 (15.15%) SQL
3 2 (6.06%) Bash
3 2 (6.06%) C#
3 2 (6.06%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (6.06%) Python
4 1 (3.03%) Bicep
4 1 (3.03%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.03%) VB
4 1 (3.03%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 22 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 20 (60.61%) SC Cleared
3 5 (15.15%) Degree
3 5 (15.15%) DV Cleared
4 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (9.09%) Azure Certification
6 2 (6.06%) MCITP
6 2 (6.06%) MCP
6 2 (6.06%) MCSA
6 2 (6.06%) MCSE
6 2 (6.06%) MCTS
6 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Certified Master
7 1 (3.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (3.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.12%) NCSC
2 3 (9.09%) NIST
3 2 (6.06%) GDPR
3 2 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 21 (63.64%) Active Directory
2 8 (24.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (12.12%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (12.12%) VMware NSX
4 3 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (6.06%) Hyper-V
6 1 (3.03%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (3.03%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (18.18%) vCenter Server
2 4 (12.12%) OPNET
3 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (9.09%) Terraform
4 2 (6.06%) Ansible
4 2 (6.06%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (6.06%) WSUS
5 1 (3.03%) Kubernetes
5 1 (3.03%) Puppet
5 1 (3.03%) SCCM
5 1 (3.03%) SCOM
Vendors
1 31 (93.94%) Microsoft
2 10 (30.30%) VMware
3 4 (12.12%) Cisco
3 4 (12.12%) Veeam
4 3 (9.09%) AppDynamics
4 3 (9.09%) Dynatrace
4 3 (9.09%) SolarWinds
5 2 (6.06%) Apple
5 2 (6.06%) LogRhythm
6 1 (3.03%) Adobe
6 1 (3.03%) Aruba
6 1 (3.03%) Atlassian
6 1 (3.03%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (3.03%) Citrix
6 1 (3.03%) CyberArk
6 1 (3.03%) ESET
6 1 (3.03%) HP
6 1 (3.03%) Meraki