Active Directory Federation Services Contracts in England

Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Active Directory Federation Services skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Active Directory Federation Services over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 459 452 441
Rank change year-on-year -7 -11 +112
Contract jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services 26 90 218
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.24% 0.43%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.69% 2.05% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 50 166
10th Percentile £440 £359 £363
25th Percentile £456 £431 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £545 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.50% +9.00% -
75th Percentile £650 £608 £585
90th Percentile £688 £621 £728
UK median daily rate £605 £558 £500
% change year-on-year +8.52% +11.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
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 3,779 4,390 7,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.52% 11.80% 15.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,614 3,174 5,772
10th Percentile £313 £250 £350
25th Percentile £420 £409 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% -
75th Percentile £628 £625 £680
90th Percentile £738 £700 £755
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 120 184
10th Percentile £15.22 £14.00 £16.83
25th Percentile £23.64 £17.74 £23.13
Median hourly rate £27.38 £27.25 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.46% -52.61% +167.44%
75th Percentile £62.44 £51.13 £72.80
90th Percentile £76.09 £70.13 £82.16
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services in England.

Daily rate trend for Active Directory Federation Services in England

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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory Federation Services in England

Active Directory Federation Services
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services in England.

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory Federation Services in England

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 1 May 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
London -2 11 £495 +4.21% 6
North of England +18 5 £401 -11.00% 3
South West +41 4 £613 +36.87% 2
South East +27 4 £638 +5.37% 4
North West +19 4 £304 -27.62% 1
Yorkshire +6 1 £725 +54.67% 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 10 (38.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (34.62%) SharePoint
3 3 (11.54%) Confluence
3 3 (11.54%) IIS
3 3 (11.54%) Skype for Business
4 2 (7.69%) nginx
4 2 (7.69%) SharePoint Server
4 2 (7.69%) Traefik
5 1 (3.85%) Apache
5 1 (3.85%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (3.85%) Mattermost
Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (3.85%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 18 (69.23%) Azure
2 17 (65.38%) Entra ID
3 11 (42.31%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (26.92%) AWS
5 6 (23.08%) SaaS
6 5 (19.23%) OneDrive
7 4 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (15.38%) GCP
8 2 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (7.69%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (3.85%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (3.85%) Azure Service Fabric
9 1 (3.85%) Azure Storage
9 1 (3.85%) Slack
9 1 (3.85%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 9 (34.62%) DNS
2 6 (23.08%) Firewall
3 4 (15.38%) DHCP
3 4 (15.38%) Network Security
3 4 (15.38%) NGFW
3 4 (15.38%) Skype
3 4 (15.38%) SSL
4 3 (11.54%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.85%) Intranet
5 1 (3.85%) Kerberos
5 1 (3.85%) LAN
5 1 (3.85%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (3.85%) SMTP
5 1 (3.85%) VSAN
5 1 (3.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) SQL Server
2 2 (7.69%) MongoDB
2 2 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (19.23%) JIRA
2 4 (15.38%) GitLab
3 3 (11.54%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (30.77%) Finance
1 8 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 5 (19.23%) Public Sector
3 4 (15.38%) Military
4 2 (7.69%) Banking
4 2 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Publishing
5 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (30.77%) Architect
2 6 (23.08%) Security Architect
3 4 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Azure Architect
4 3 (11.54%) Senior
5 2 (7.69%) Active Directory Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Messaging Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Microsoft 365 Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Technical Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Wintel Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Wintel Technical Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Applications Specialist
6 1 (3.85%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (19.23%) SAML
2 2 (7.69%) ARM Templates
2 2 (7.69%) cloud-init
2 2 (7.69%) Kafka
2 2 (7.69%) Keycloak
2 2 (7.69%) LDAP
3 1 (3.85%) .NET
3 1 (3.85%) Entity Framework
3 1 (3.85%) ModSecurity
3 1 (3.85%) SOAP
3 1 (3.85%) XML
3 1 (3.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) PKI
2 4 (15.38%) Onboarding
3 3 (11.54%) BYOD
3 3 (11.54%) Data Centre
4 2 (7.69%) Blackberry
4 2 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (7.69%) Management Information System
4 2 (7.69%) Security Posture
5 1 (3.85%) Blog
5 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.85%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.85%) Mobile App
5 1 (3.85%) Operational Technology
5 1 (3.85%) Public Cloud
5 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (65.38%) Windows
2 9 (34.62%) Windows Server
3 7 (26.92%) Linux
3 7 (26.92%) Windows 10
4 5 (19.23%) Mac OS
5 4 (15.38%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (15.38%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (7.69%) Android
6 2 (7.69%) Apple iOS
6 2 (7.69%) CentOS
6 2 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (7.69%) Unix
7 1 (3.85%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (46.15%) Migration
2 9 (34.62%) Agile
2 9 (34.62%) Identity Management
3 7 (26.92%) DevOps
3 7 (26.92%) Root Cause Analysis
4 6 (23.08%) CI/CD
4 6 (23.08%) ITIL
5 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (19.23%) Microservices
6 4 (15.38%) Analytics
6 4 (15.38%) Change Management
6 4 (15.38%) Data Loss Prevention
6 4 (15.38%) Data Security
6 4 (15.38%) ITSM
6 4 (15.38%) Network Load Balancing
6 4 (15.38%) RBAC
6 4 (15.38%) Security Architecture
6 4 (15.38%) SIEM
6 4 (15.38%) Task Automation
6 4 (15.38%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 7 (26.92%) PowerShell
2 4 (15.38%) Bash
2 4 (15.38%) Python
3 3 (11.54%) C#
3 3 (11.54%) VB
3 3 (11.54%) VBScript
4 2 (7.69%) Go
4 2 (7.69%) JavaScript
4 2 (7.69%) SQL
5 1 (3.85%) Bicep
5 1 (3.85%) Java
Qualifications
1 13 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (46.15%) SC Cleared
3 4 (15.38%) CISM
3 4 (15.38%) CISSP
3 4 (15.38%) Degree
3 4 (15.38%) DV Cleared
4 3 (11.54%) MCSE
4 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (7.69%) AWS Certification
5 2 (7.69%) Azure Certification
5 2 (7.69%) MCP
5 2 (7.69%) MCSA
6 1 (3.85%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (3.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (3.85%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (19.23%) NCSC
2 1 (3.85%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (88.46%) Active Directory
2 7 (26.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (15.38%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (11.54%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (7.69%) BitLocker
5 2 (7.69%) Hyper-V
5 2 (7.69%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (7.69%) XenDesktop
6 1 (3.85%) Docker
6 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (3.85%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (3.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (34.62%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (23.08%) SCCM
3 5 (19.23%) Terraform
4 4 (15.38%) Kubernetes
5 3 (11.54%) Forefront Identity Manager
5 3 (11.54%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (11.54%) Prometheus
6 2 (7.69%) Consul
6 2 (7.69%) Grafana
6 2 (7.69%) HAProxy
6 2 (7.69%) Istio
6 2 (7.69%) linkerd
6 2 (7.69%) Packer
6 2 (7.69%) Rancher
6 2 (7.69%) SCOM
6 2 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (7.69%) WSUS
6 2 (7.69%) ZABBIX
7 1 (3.85%) OPNET
7 1 (3.85%) Puppet
Vendors
1 22 (84.62%) Microsoft
2 10 (38.46%) VMware
3 3 (11.54%) Apple
3 3 (11.54%) ESET
3 3 (11.54%) Splunk
4 2 (7.69%) Atlassian
4 2 (7.69%) Citrix
4 2 (7.69%) McAfee
4 2 (7.69%) Okta
4 2 (7.69%) Symantec
5 1 (3.85%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (3.85%) Commvault
5 1 (3.85%) Oracle
5 1 (3.85%) Remedy
5 1 (3.85%) SolarWinds