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 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 462 446 434
Rank change year-on-year -16 -12 +24
Contract jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services 117 29 98
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.30% 0.12% 0.26%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.12% 0.76% 2.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 22 59
10th Percentile £448 £450 £373
25th Percentile £488 £470 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £605 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% +21.00% -
75th Percentile £613 £651 £608
90th Percentile £712 £731 £627
UK median daily rate £565 £615 £500
% change year-on-year -8.13% +23.00% -

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 5,520 3,830 4,391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.00% 15.64% 11.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,817 2,650 3,200
10th Percentile £314 £313 £250
25th Percentile £413 £423 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -9.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 35 122
10th Percentile £20.09 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £37.89 £22.30 £17.72
Median hourly rate £56.50 £27.25 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +107.34% -4.39% -50.43%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.50 £52.88
90th Percentile £74.41 £78.22 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £26.48 £30.00
% change year-on-year +107.74% -11.75% -47.83%

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 18 April 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 18 April 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 -13 43 £555 +8.82% 2
South West -1 30 £594 -3.06% 3
North of England -48 25 £550 +37.33%
South East -28 20 £525 -16.00% 2
North West -31 19 £550 +80.92%
Yorkshire -53 4 £469 -35.31%
North East - 3 £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 17 (14.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (9.40%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.42%) Confluence
4 1 (0.85%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 8 (6.84%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (6.84%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 68 (58.12%) Azure
1 68 (58.12%) Entra ID
2 28 (23.93%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (11.97%) AWS
4 9 (7.69%) GCP
4 9 (7.69%) PaaS
5 7 (5.98%) Azure Service Fabric
6 4 (3.42%) Nutanix
6 4 (3.42%) OneDrive
7 3 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.71%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (1.71%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (1.71%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (1.71%) IaaS
8 2 (1.71%) SaaS
9 1 (0.85%) GitHub
9 1 (0.85%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (0.85%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 58 (49.57%) DNS
2 36 (30.77%) DHCP
2 36 (30.77%) Kerberos
3 27 (23.08%) Firewall
4 5 (4.27%) Network Security
4 5 (4.27%) WebEx
5 4 (3.42%) NetScaler
5 4 (3.42%) SSL
5 4 (3.42%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.71%) DKIM
6 2 (1.71%) DMARC
6 2 (1.71%) X.500
7 1 (0.85%) Intranet
7 1 (0.85%) NAS
7 1 (0.85%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.27%) Metadata
2 1 (0.85%) GIS
Development Applications
1 7 (5.98%) JIRA
2 2 (1.71%) Git
General
1 27 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 16 (13.68%) Documentation Skills
3 14 (11.97%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (10.26%) Finance
5 6 (5.13%) Legal
6 5 (4.27%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.71%) Banking
7 2 (1.71%) Retail
8 1 (0.85%) International Banking
8 1 (0.85%) Military
Job Titles
1 20 (17.09%) Architect
2 11 (9.40%) Platform Engineer
3 9 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (7.69%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 7 (5.98%) Azure Engineer
4 7 (5.98%) Solutions Architect
4 7 (5.98%) Technical Architect
5 5 (4.27%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 5 (4.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (3.42%) Consultant
6 4 (3.42%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
6 4 (3.42%) Lead
7 3 (2.56%) IT Support
7 3 (2.56%) IT Support Technician
7 3 (2.56%) IT Technician
7 3 (2.56%) Support Technician
8 2 (1.71%) Analyst
8 2 (1.71%) Data Analyst
8 2 (1.71%) Security Engineer
8 2 (1.71%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (41.88%) OAuth
1 49 (41.88%) SAML
2 40 (34.19%) LDAP
3 31 (26.50%) OpenID
4 22 (18.80%) OAuth2
5 10 (8.55%) SailPoint
6 9 (7.69%) ARM Templates
7 7 (5.98%) Entity Framework
7 7 (5.98%) YAML
8 5 (4.27%) XMPP
9 2 (1.71%) JSON
10 1 (0.85%) CSS
10 1 (0.85%) CSS3
10 1 (0.85%) HTML
10 1 (0.85%) HTML5
10 1 (0.85%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 38 (32.48%) Replication
2 12 (10.26%) Private Cloud
3 9 (7.69%) BYOD
4 7 (5.98%) Data Centre
5 6 (5.13%) PKI
6 5 (4.27%) Onboarding
6 5 (4.27%) Product Ownership
7 4 (3.42%) Clustering
7 4 (3.42%) Public Cloud
8 3 (2.56%) Educational Technology
9 2 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.71%) Operational Technology
10 1 (0.85%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 60 (51.28%) Windows
2 52 (44.44%) Windows Server
3 15 (12.82%) Linux
4 5 (4.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (3.42%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (3.42%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.85%) Android
6 1 (0.85%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (35.04%) Identity Access Management
2 38 (32.48%) RBAC
3 35 (29.91%) Migration
4 28 (23.93%) High Availability
5 24 (20.51%) Disaster Recovery
5 24 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (17.95%) Root Cause Analysis
7 19 (16.24%) DevOps
8 17 (14.53%) Load Balancing
9 15 (12.82%) Roadmaps
10 14 (11.97%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (11.97%) Mentoring
10 14 (11.97%) Task Automation
11 13 (11.11%) Digital Identity
11 13 (11.11%) Zero Trust
12 12 (10.26%) Identity Management
12 12 (10.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 12 (10.26%) Technical Leadership
13 11 (9.40%) CI/CD
13 11 (9.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 74 (63.25%) PowerShell
2 8 (6.84%) SQL
3 6 (5.13%) Python
4 5 (4.27%) Bash
4 5 (4.27%) Perl
5 4 (3.42%) Java
6 2 (1.71%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.85%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 75 (64.10%) Security Cleared
2 48 (41.03%) SC Cleared
3 30 (25.64%) Microsoft Certification
4 27 (23.08%) DV Cleared
5 16 (13.68%) Degree
6 8 (6.84%) MCSA
6 8 (6.84%) MCSE
7 5 (4.27%) CCDP
7 5 (4.27%) CCNA
7 5 (4.27%) CCNP
7 5 (4.27%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (3.42%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.71%) CISM
9 2 (1.71%) CISSP
9 2 (1.71%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (16.24%) GDPR
2 15 (12.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 6 (5.13%) NIST
4 4 (3.42%) SLA
5 3 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.85%) NCSC
6 1 (0.85%) NIST 800
System Software
1 110 (94.02%) Active Directory
2 20 (17.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (8.55%) Docker
4 7 (5.98%) VMware NSX
5 5 (4.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (3.42%) vSphere
7 2 (1.71%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 2 (1.71%) UAG
7 2 (1.71%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.85%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 51 (43.59%) Single Sign-On
2 19 (16.24%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (5.98%) SCCM
4 6 (5.13%) CA Single Sign-On
5 4 (3.42%) Kubernetes
5 4 (3.42%) PingFederate
6 2 (1.71%) Ansible
6 2 (1.71%) Terraform
6 2 (1.71%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 94 (80.34%) Microsoft
2 31 (26.50%) VMware
3 15 (12.82%) Okta
4 7 (5.98%) Cisco
5 5 (4.27%) Citrix
5 5 (4.27%) Red Hat
6 4 (3.42%) CyberArk
6 4 (3.42%) F5
6 4 (3.42%) Ping Identity
6 4 (3.42%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.42%) Veeam
7 3 (2.56%) BeyondTrust
8 2 (1.71%) LogRhythm
8 2 (1.71%) Thycotic
9 1 (0.85%) Becrypt
9 1 (0.85%) ESRI
9 1 (0.85%) MobileIron