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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 499 464 466
Rank change year-on-year -35 +2 +4
Contract jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services 99 19 73
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.23% 0.078% 0.19%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.77% 0.49% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 13 40
10th Percentile £425 £165 £383
25th Percentile £488 £179 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £450 £605
Median % change year-on-year +23.33% -25.62% +21.00%
75th Percentile £625 £588 £608
90th Percentile £730 £662 £618
UK median daily rate £568 £450 £600
% change year-on-year +26.11% -25.00% +11.63%
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 5,582 3,860 4,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.21% 15.78% 12.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,829 2,621 3,369
10th Percentile £318 £308 £285
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £523
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.91% -9.13%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £507 £513 £514
% change year-on-year -1.07% -0.29% -6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 37 91
10th Percentile £20.09 £18.13 £14.00
25th Percentile £31.25 £21.39 £20.50
Median hourly rate £57.00 £40.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.50% +33.33% -43.32%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.40 £52.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.18 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £37.50 £32.00
% change year-on-year +46.67% +17.19% -44.35%

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 10 June 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 10 June 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 -37 43 £575 +16.16%
South East -47 28 £525 +196.61% 4
North of England -58 19 £550 +37.33% 1
North West -27 14 £550 +37.33% 1
South West -14 12 £650 +6.12%
Yorkshire - 4 £470 -
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 12 (12.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (8.08%) SharePoint
3 4 (4.04%) Confluence
4 3 (3.03%) Apache
4 3 (3.03%) IIS
4 3 (3.03%) nginx
4 3 (3.03%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.01%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 9 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (8.08%) Veritas eDiscovery
2 2 (2.02%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 74 (74.75%) Azure
2 62 (62.63%) Entra ID
3 28 (28.28%) Microsoft 365
4 24 (24.24%) AWS
5 10 (10.10%) GCP
6 9 (9.09%) PaaS
7 7 (7.07%) Azure Service Fabric
8 4 (4.04%) Microsoft Copilot
8 4 (4.04%) Nutanix
8 4 (4.04%) OneDrive
9 3 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (3.03%) Cloudflare
9 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (2.02%) IaaS
10 2 (2.02%) SaaS
11 1 (1.01%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (1.01%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (1.01%) GitHub
11 1 (1.01%) GitHub Copilot
11 1 (1.01%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 41 (41.41%) DNS
2 34 (34.34%) DHCP
2 34 (34.34%) Kerberos
3 16 (16.16%) Firewall
4 5 (5.05%) Network Security
5 4 (4.04%) NetScaler
5 4 (4.04%) SSL
5 4 (4.04%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.02%) BIG-IP
6 2 (2.02%) NAS
7 1 (1.01%) SAN
7 1 (1.01%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.04%) Metadata
2 3 (3.03%) MySQL
2 3 (3.03%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.01%) GIS
Development Applications
1 7 (7.07%) JIRA
2 2 (2.02%) Git
General
1 21 (21.21%) Social Skills
2 15 (15.15%) Finance
3 9 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.07%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (5.05%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.02%) Banking
6 2 (2.02%) Retail
7 1 (1.01%) Aviation
7 1 (1.01%) International Banking
7 1 (1.01%) Legal
7 1 (1.01%) Military
Job Titles
1 16 (16.16%) Architect
2 11 (11.11%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 9 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (8.08%) Technical Architect
5 7 (7.07%) Lead
6 6 (6.06%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (5.05%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 5 (5.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.04%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
8 4 (4.04%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (3.03%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (3.03%) Consultant
9 3 (3.03%) IT Support
9 3 (3.03%) IT Support Technician
9 3 (3.03%) IT Technician
9 3 (3.03%) Security Architect
9 3 (3.03%) Support Technician
10 2 (2.02%) Analyst
10 2 (2.02%) Data Analyst
10 2 (2.02%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (44.44%) LDAP
2 38 (38.38%) OAuth
2 38 (38.38%) SAML
3 21 (21.21%) OpenID
4 10 (10.10%) OAuth2
4 10 (10.10%) SailPoint
4 10 (10.10%) YAML
5 9 (9.09%) ARM Templates
6 7 (7.07%) Entity Framework
7 3 (3.03%) .NET
7 3 (3.03%) JSON
7 3 (3.03%) LAMP
7 3 (3.03%) LEMP Stack
7 3 (3.03%) REST
7 3 (3.03%) Web Services
8 2 (2.02%) SOAP
9 1 (1.01%) CSS
9 1 (1.01%) CSS3
9 1 (1.01%) HTML
9 1 (1.01%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 27 (27.27%) Replication
2 9 (9.09%) BYOD
3 7 (7.07%) Data Centre
4 6 (6.06%) Onboarding
4 6 (6.06%) Private Cloud
4 6 (6.06%) Public Cloud
5 4 (4.04%) Clustering
6 3 (3.03%) Educational Technology
6 3 (3.03%) PKI
7 2 (2.02%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.02%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.02%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.01%) Driving Licence
8 1 (1.01%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 37 (37.37%) Windows
2 32 (32.32%) Windows Server
3 13 (13.13%) Linux
4 6 (6.06%) Windows Server 2012
4 6 (6.06%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (3.03%) CentOS
5 3 (3.03%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.01%) Android
6 1 (1.01%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (33.33%) Migration
2 27 (27.27%) High Availability
2 27 (27.27%) Identity Access Management
3 26 (26.26%) Root Cause Analysis
4 23 (23.23%) DevOps
4 23 (23.23%) Disaster Recovery
5 20 (20.20%) RBAC
6 18 (18.18%) Zero Trust
7 17 (17.17%) Roadmaps
8 16 (16.16%) CI/CD
9 15 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (14.14%) Infrastructure as Code
11 13 (13.13%) Task Automation
12 12 (12.12%) Data Protection
12 12 (12.12%) Digital Identity
13 11 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 10 (10.10%) Architectural Patterns
14 10 (10.10%) Cybersecurity
14 10 (10.10%) Microservices
15 9 (9.09%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 54 (54.55%) PowerShell
2 8 (8.08%) SQL
3 7 (7.07%) Java
4 4 (4.04%) Python
5 3 (3.03%) Bash
6 1 (1.01%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.01%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 57 (57.58%) Security Cleared
2 44 (44.44%) SC Cleared
3 16 (16.16%) Degree
4 14 (14.14%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (11.11%) DV Cleared
6 8 (8.08%) MCSA
6 8 (8.08%) MCSE
7 5 (5.05%) Azure Certification
8 3 (3.03%) AWS Certification
8 3 (3.03%) CISM
8 3 (3.03%) CISSP
9 2 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (2.02%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (1.01%) CEH
10 1 (1.01%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (23.23%) GDPR
2 14 (14.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 6 (6.06%) NCSC
4 5 (5.05%) NIST
5 4 (4.04%) SLA
6 3 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (1.01%) NIST 800
System Software
1 92 (92.93%) Active Directory
2 17 (17.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (10.10%) Docker
4 7 (7.07%) VMware NSX
5 5 (5.05%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (4.04%) vSphere
7 3 (3.03%) Dovecot
7 3 (3.03%) Postfix
8 2 (2.02%) UAG
8 2 (2.02%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (1.01%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 34 (34.34%) Single Sign-On
2 20 (20.20%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (7.07%) SCCM
4 6 (6.06%) CA Single Sign-On
5 5 (5.05%) Ansible
5 5 (5.05%) Terraform
6 4 (4.04%) Kubernetes
6 4 (4.04%) PingFederate
7 3 (3.03%) HAProxy
8 2 (2.02%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 80 (80.81%) Microsoft
2 17 (17.17%) VMware
3 14 (14.14%) Okta
4 7 (7.07%) F5
5 5 (5.05%) Cisco
6 4 (4.04%) Ping Identity
6 4 (4.04%) ServiceNow
6 4 (4.04%) Veeam
7 3 (3.03%) CyberArk
7 3 (3.03%) Forcepoint
7 3 (3.03%) Juniper
7 3 (3.03%) Proofpoint
7 3 (3.03%) Red Hat
8 2 (2.02%) BeyondTrust
8 2 (2.02%) Sparx
8 2 (2.02%) Thycotic
9 1 (1.01%) Becrypt
9 1 (1.01%) ESRI
9 1 (1.01%) LogRhythm
9 1 (1.01%) MobileIron