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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 475 457 448
Rank change year-on-year -18 -9 -7
Contract jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services 97 27 90
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.24% 0.11% 0.24%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.75% 0.71% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 20 51
10th Percentile £425 £445 £363
25th Percentile £488 £459 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £590 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.93% +12.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £613 £651 £608
90th Percentile £712 £681 £615
UK median daily rate £575 £615 £550
% change year-on-year -6.50% +11.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
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 5,532 3,793 4,348
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.74% 15.61% 11.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,822 2,626 3,145
10th Percentile £320 £313 £250
25th Percentile £413 £420 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £628 £625
90th Percentile £697 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -8.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 34 118
10th Percentile £20.09 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £41.33 £23.64 £17.73
Median hourly rate £57.00 £27.38 £26.38
Median % change year-on-year +108.22% +3.76% -54.12%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.44 £50.19
90th Percentile £74.10 £76.09 £70.38
UK median hourly rate £56.50 £26.45 £30.00
% change year-on-year +113.61% -11.83% -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 29 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 29 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 -43 41 £555 +12.12% 1
North of England -58 20 £550 +37.33%
South East -43 19 £525 -17.65% 1
South West -18 18 £650 +6.12% 1
North West -22 15 £550 +80.92%
Yorkshire -57 4 £469 -35.31%
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 (12.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (6.19%) SharePoint
3 4 (4.12%) Confluence
4 1 (1.03%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 8 (8.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (8.25%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 66 (68.04%) Azure
2 63 (64.95%) Entra ID
3 28 (28.87%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (14.43%) AWS
5 9 (9.28%) GCP
5 9 (9.28%) PaaS
6 7 (7.22%) Azure Service Fabric
7 4 (4.12%) Nutanix
7 4 (4.12%) OneDrive
8 3 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.06%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (2.06%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (2.06%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (2.06%) IaaS
9 2 (2.06%) SaaS
10 1 (1.03%) GitHub
10 1 (1.03%) GitHub Copilot
10 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (1.03%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 46 (47.42%) DNS
2 36 (37.11%) DHCP
3 34 (35.05%) Kerberos
4 17 (17.53%) Firewall
5 5 (5.15%) Network Security
6 4 (4.12%) NetScaler
6 4 (4.12%) SSL
6 4 (4.12%) TCP/IP
7 2 (2.06%) DKIM
7 2 (2.06%) DMARC
8 1 (1.03%) Intranet
8 1 (1.03%) NAS
8 1 (1.03%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.15%) Metadata
2 1 (1.03%) GIS
Development Applications
1 7 (7.22%) JIRA
2 2 (2.06%) Git
General
1 22 (22.68%) Social Skills
2 12 (12.37%) Finance
3 11 (11.34%) Documentation Skills
4 9 (9.28%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.15%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.06%) Banking
6 2 (2.06%) Retail
7 1 (1.03%) International Banking
7 1 (1.03%) Legal
7 1 (1.03%) Military
Job Titles
1 14 (14.43%) Architect
2 9 (9.28%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (9.28%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 7 (7.22%) Azure Engineer
4 5 (5.15%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 5 (5.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (5.15%) Platform Engineer
4 5 (5.15%) Technical Architect
5 4 (4.12%) Consultant
5 4 (4.12%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
5 4 (4.12%) Lead
6 3 (3.09%) IT Support
6 3 (3.09%) IT Support Technician
6 3 (3.09%) IT Technician
6 3 (3.09%) Support Technician
7 2 (2.06%) Analyst
7 2 (2.06%) Azure Security Engineer
7 2 (2.06%) Data Analyst
7 2 (2.06%) Security Engineer
7 2 (2.06%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (39.18%) LDAP
2 37 (38.14%) OAuth
2 37 (38.14%) SAML
3 19 (19.59%) OpenID
4 11 (11.34%) OAuth2
5 10 (10.31%) SailPoint
6 9 (9.28%) ARM Templates
7 7 (7.22%) Entity Framework
7 7 (7.22%) YAML
8 2 (2.06%) JSON
9 1 (1.03%) CSS
9 1 (1.03%) CSS3
9 1 (1.03%) HTML
9 1 (1.03%) HTML5
9 1 (1.03%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 30 (30.93%) Replication
2 9 (9.28%) BYOD
3 7 (7.22%) Data Centre
4 6 (6.19%) Private Cloud
5 5 (5.15%) Onboarding
6 4 (4.12%) Clustering
6 4 (4.12%) PKI
6 4 (4.12%) Public Cloud
7 3 (3.09%) Educational Technology
8 2 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (2.06%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (2.06%) Operational Technology
9 1 (1.03%) Cloud Native
9 1 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 42 (43.30%) Windows
2 35 (36.08%) Windows Server
3 10 (10.31%) Linux
4 4 (4.12%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (4.12%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (1.03%) Android
5 1 (1.03%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (36.08%) Migration
2 31 (31.96%) Identity Access Management
3 28 (28.87%) High Availability
4 26 (26.80%) RBAC
5 24 (24.74%) Disaster Recovery
6 21 (21.65%) Root Cause Analysis
7 19 (19.59%) DevOps
8 15 (15.46%) Roadmaps
9 14 (14.43%) Infrastructure as Code
9 14 (14.43%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (14.43%) Task Automation
10 13 (13.40%) Digital Identity
10 13 (13.40%) Zero Trust
11 11 (11.34%) CI/CD
12 10 (10.31%) Data Protection
13 9 (9.28%) E-Discovery
13 9 (9.28%) Identity Management
13 9 (9.28%) Load Balancing
13 9 (9.28%) Mentoring
13 9 (9.28%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 57 (58.76%) PowerShell
2 8 (8.25%) SQL
3 4 (4.12%) Java
4 2 (2.06%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (1.03%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.03%) Python
Qualifications
1 57 (58.76%) Security Cleared
2 41 (42.27%) SC Cleared
3 18 (18.56%) Microsoft Certification
4 16 (16.49%) Degree
4 16 (16.49%) DV Cleared
5 8 (8.25%) MCSA
5 8 (8.25%) MCSE
6 4 (4.12%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.06%) CISM
7 2 (2.06%) CISSP
7 2 (2.06%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (19.59%) GDPR
2 15 (15.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 6 (6.19%) NIST
4 4 (4.12%) SLA
5 3 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.03%) NCSC
6 1 (1.03%) NIST 800
System Software
1 90 (92.78%) Active Directory
2 17 (17.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (10.31%) Docker
4 7 (7.22%) VMware NSX
5 5 (5.15%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (4.12%) vSphere
7 2 (2.06%) UAG
7 2 (2.06%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (1.03%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 39 (40.21%) Single Sign-On
2 19 (19.59%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (7.22%) SCCM
4 6 (6.19%) CA Single Sign-On
5 4 (4.12%) Kubernetes
5 4 (4.12%) PingFederate
6 2 (2.06%) Ansible
6 2 (2.06%) Terraform
6 2 (2.06%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 77 (79.38%) Microsoft
2 19 (19.59%) VMware
3 15 (15.46%) Okta
4 4 (4.12%) CyberArk
4 4 (4.12%) F5
4 4 (4.12%) Ping Identity
4 4 (4.12%) ServiceNow
4 4 (4.12%) Veeam
5 3 (3.09%) BeyondTrust
6 2 (2.06%) Cisco
6 2 (2.06%) LogRhythm
6 2 (2.06%) Thycotic
7 1 (1.03%) Becrypt
7 1 (1.03%) ESRI
7 1 (1.03%) MobileIron