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 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 485 449 456
Rank change year-on-year -36 +7 -12
Contract jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services 97 20 77
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.24% 0.082% 0.21%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.77% 0.53% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 15 43
10th Percentile £425 £168 £367
25th Percentile £488 £290 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £495 £605
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% -18.18% +21.00%
75th Percentile £613 £641 £608
90th Percentile £692 £713 £663
UK median daily rate £575 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% +14.29%
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 5,484 3,773 4,393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.34% 15.54% 12.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,797 2,594 3,219
10th Percentile £319 £308 £257
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% +0.96% -9.57%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £715 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £513
% change year-on-year -3.85% +1.46% -8.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 39 105
10th Percentile £20.09 £17.55 £14.00
25th Percentile £39.65 £22.60 £17.72
Median hourly rate £56.50 £29.00 £25.77
Median % change year-on-year +94.83% +12.56% -50.75%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.40 £48.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £83.27 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £27.50 £25.77
% change year-on-year +100.00% +6.73% -52.44%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -21 42 £575 +12.75% 4
South East -48 21 £525 +196.61% 6
North of England -48 20 £550 -2.27% 3
South West -26 15 £600 -2.04% 1
North West -29 14 £550 +37.33% 3
Yorkshire -53 5 £469 -35.31% 1
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 13 (13.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (7.22%) SharePoint
3 4 (4.12%) Confluence
4 1 (1.03%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 9 (9.28%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (8.25%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 68 (70.10%) Azure
2 64 (65.98%) Entra ID
3 29 (29.90%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (16.49%) AWS
5 10 (10.31%) GCP
6 9 (9.28%) PaaS
7 7 (7.22%) Azure Service Fabric
8 5 (5.15%) OneDrive
9 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Copilot
9 4 (4.12%) Nutanix
10 3 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (2.06%) IaaS
11 2 (2.06%) SaaS
12 1 (1.03%) Azure Logic Apps
12 1 (1.03%) Azure Monitor
12 1 (1.03%) Azure Sentinel
12 1 (1.03%) GitHub
12 1 (1.03%) GitHub Copilot
12 1 (1.03%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 41 (42.27%) DNS
2 36 (37.11%) DHCP
3 35 (36.08%) Kerberos
4 14 (14.43%) Firewall
5 5 (5.15%) Network Security
6 4 (4.12%) NetScaler
6 4 (4.12%) SSL
6 4 (4.12%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.03%) Intranet
7 1 (1.03%) NAS
7 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 15 (15.46%) Finance
3 9 (9.28%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.25%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (4.12%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.06%) Banking
6 2 (2.06%) Retail
7 1 (1.03%) Aviation
7 1 (1.03%) International Banking
7 1 (1.03%) Legal
7 1 (1.03%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (12.37%) Architect
2 11 (11.34%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 9 (9.28%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (6.19%) Azure Engineer
4 6 (6.19%) Technical Architect
5 5 (5.15%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 5 (5.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (5.15%) Lead
5 5 (5.15%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (4.12%) Consultant
6 4 (4.12%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
7 3 (3.09%) IT Support
7 3 (3.09%) IT Support Technician
7 3 (3.09%) IT Technician
7 3 (3.09%) Support Technician
8 2 (2.06%) Analyst
8 2 (2.06%) Data Analyst
8 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Engineer
8 2 (2.06%) Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.03%) Active Directory Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (41.24%) LDAP
2 36 (37.11%) OAuth
2 36 (37.11%) SAML
3 18 (18.56%) OpenID
4 10 (10.31%) SailPoint
5 9 (9.28%) ARM Templates
5 9 (9.28%) OAuth2
6 7 (7.22%) Entity Framework
6 7 (7.22%) YAML
7 2 (2.06%) JSON
7 2 (2.06%) REST
8 1 (1.03%) .NET
8 1 (1.03%) CSS
8 1 (1.03%) CSS3
8 1 (1.03%) HTML
8 1 (1.03%) HTML5
8 1 (1.03%) SOAP
8 1 (1.03%) Web Services
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%) Driving Licence
9 1 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 38 (39.18%) Windows
2 33 (34.02%) 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 33 (34.02%) Migration
2 29 (29.90%) Identity Access Management
3 28 (28.87%) High Availability
4 25 (25.77%) Root Cause Analysis
5 24 (24.74%) Disaster Recovery
6 23 (23.71%) RBAC
7 20 (20.62%) DevOps
8 17 (17.53%) Roadmaps
8 17 (17.53%) Zero Trust
9 15 (15.46%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (14.43%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (14.43%) Task Automation
11 13 (13.40%) Digital Identity
12 12 (12.37%) CI/CD
13 11 (11.34%) Data Protection
14 9 (9.28%) E-Discovery
14 9 (9.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 8 (8.25%) Identity Management
15 8 (8.25%) Microservices
15 8 (8.25%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 55 (56.70%) PowerShell
2 8 (8.25%) SQL
3 5 (5.15%) Java
4 1 (1.03%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.03%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (1.03%) Python
Qualifications
1 55 (56.70%) Security Cleared
2 40 (41.24%) SC Cleared
3 17 (17.53%) Microsoft Certification
4 15 (15.46%) Degree
5 13 (13.40%) DV Cleared
6 8 (8.25%) MCSA
6 8 (8.25%) MCSE
7 4 (4.12%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (2.06%) CISM
8 2 (2.06%) CISSP
8 2 (2.06%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (1.03%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (20.62%) GDPR
2 15 (15.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (5.15%) NIST
4 4 (4.12%) SLA
5 3 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (2.06%) NCSC
7 1 (1.03%) NIST 800
System Software
1 89 (91.75%) 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 36 (37.11%) Single Sign-On
2 20 (20.62%) 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 78 (80.41%) Microsoft
2 18 (18.56%) 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
5 3 (3.09%) Forcepoint
5 3 (3.09%) Proofpoint
6 2 (2.06%) Cisco
6 2 (2.06%) Thycotic
7 1 (1.03%) Becrypt
7 1 (1.03%) ESRI
7 1 (1.03%) LogRhythm
7 1 (1.03%) MobileIron