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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 476 467 604
Rank change year-on-year -9 +137 -128
Contract jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services 74 169 183
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.36% 0.26%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.61% 2.36% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 124 144
10th Percentile £385 £393 £387
25th Percentile £475 £450 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year +21.00% +1.01% +2.86%
75th Percentile £608 £645 £575
90th Percentile £613 £731 £653
UK median daily rate £600 £538 £500
% change year-on-year +11.63% +7.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - £58.33
25th Percentile - - £61.44
Median hourly rate £23.80 - £67.25
75th Percentile - - £72.44
90th Percentile - - £75.18
UK median hourly rate £23.80 - £57.50
% change year-on-year - - -8.73%

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 4,609 7,176 11,085
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.29% 15.26% 15.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,370 5,190 8,132
10th Percentile £290 £350 £358
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £625 £684 £675
90th Percentile £700 £767 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -6.36% -2.65% +10.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 166 155
10th Percentile £15.49 £17.61 £12.93
25th Percentile £20.50 £25.71 £15.25
Median hourly rate £30.75 £52.93 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.90% +146.16% -12.07%
75th Percentile £52.31 £75.00 £27.75
90th Percentile £71.25 £84.38 £58.25
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £57.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -43.48% +161.36% -44.30%

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 12 June 2024.

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 12 June 2024. 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 +24 35 £475 -5.00% 8
South East +25 28 £605 +34.44% 4
South West -10 6 £675 +22.73% 1
North of England +17 3 £450 -27.27% 2
North West +15 2 £420 -32.12% 1
West Midlands +5 2 £640 -6.91% 2
Midlands -1 2 £640 -5.19% 2
North East - 1 £500 -
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 30 (40.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (8.11%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.05%) IIS
4 2 (2.70%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (2.70%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (1.35%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 2 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.35%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 53 (71.62%) Azure
2 45 (60.81%) Entra ID
3 42 (56.76%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (28.38%) Azure Monitor
4 21 (28.38%) Azure Storage
5 7 (9.46%) Mimecast
6 6 (8.11%) AWS
7 4 (5.41%) Nutanix
8 3 (4.05%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (4.05%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (4.05%) IaaS
8 3 (4.05%) Rubrik
9 2 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.70%) GitHub
9 2 (2.70%) OneDrive
10 1 (1.35%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.35%) Azure Stack
10 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (1.35%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.35%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 41 (55.41%) DNS
2 33 (44.59%) DHCP
3 25 (33.78%) Firewall
4 8 (10.81%) SAN
5 7 (9.46%) NAS
6 5 (6.76%) DKIM
6 5 (6.76%) DMARC
7 4 (5.41%) LAN
8 3 (4.05%) Extranet
8 3 (4.05%) Internet
8 3 (4.05%) VPN
8 3 (4.05%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (4.05%) Wireless
9 2 (2.70%) Skype
10 1 (1.35%) Fibre Channel
10 1 (1.35%) Intranet
10 1 (1.35%) Kerberos
10 1 (1.35%) SMTP
10 1 (1.35%) VSAN
10 1 (1.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (25.68%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.41%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (5.41%) MySQL
2 4 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (2.70%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.35%) GitLab
2 1 (1.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 24 (32.43%) Social Skills
2 15 (20.27%) Public Sector
3 9 (12.16%) Finance
4 2 (2.70%) German Language
4 2 (2.70%) Marketing
5 1 (1.35%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.35%) Military
Job Titles
1 21 (28.38%) Active Directory Support
2 19 (25.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 14 (18.92%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (18.92%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (18.92%) Support Specialist
4 12 (16.22%) Azure Engineer
5 10 (13.51%) Active Directory Engineer
5 10 (13.51%) Support Engineer
6 8 (10.81%) Consultant
7 7 (9.46%) Active Directory Support Engineer
8 5 (6.76%) Active Directory Consultant
8 5 (6.76%) Wintel Engineer
9 4 (5.41%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 4 (5.41%) 3rd Line Support
9 4 (5.41%) Administrator
9 4 (5.41%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (4.05%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 3 (4.05%) Active Directory Administrator
10 3 (4.05%) Architect
10 3 (4.05%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (28.38%) ARM Templates
2 3 (4.05%) .NET
2 3 (4.05%) LDAP
2 3 (4.05%) Software Packaging
3 2 (2.70%) SAML
4 1 (1.35%) ADO
4 1 (1.35%) OAuth
4 1 (1.35%) OpenID
4 1 (1.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 33 (44.59%) PKI
2 22 (29.73%) Self-Motivation
3 17 (22.97%) Replication
4 7 (9.46%) Fat Client
4 7 (9.46%) Thin Client
5 4 (5.41%) Virtual Team
6 3 (4.05%) Data Centre
7 2 (2.70%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.70%) Social Media
8 1 (1.35%) Client/Server
8 1 (1.35%) Clustering
8 1 (1.35%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 55 (74.32%) Windows
2 43 (58.11%) Windows Server
3 40 (54.05%) Windows Server 2016
3 40 (54.05%) Windows Server 2019
4 26 (35.14%) Linux
5 4 (5.41%) Ubuntu
6 3 (4.05%) Unix
7 2 (2.70%) Windows 10
8 1 (1.35%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (1.35%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (36.49%) DevOps
1 27 (36.49%) Migration
2 26 (35.14%) Agile
2 26 (35.14%) ITIL
3 24 (32.43%) Identity Management
3 24 (32.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (29.73%) Analytics
4 22 (29.73%) CI/CD
4 22 (29.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 22 (29.73%) Privileged Identity Management
4 22 (29.73%) RBAC
4 22 (29.73%) Release Management
4 22 (29.73%) Service Management
5 21 (28.38%) Log Analytics
5 21 (28.38%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 9 (12.16%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (10.81%) Disaster Recovery
8 6 (8.11%) Network Virtualisation
9 5 (6.76%) Infrastructure Automation
9 5 (6.76%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 44 (59.46%) PowerShell
2 22 (29.73%) C#
3 21 (28.38%) Bicep
3 21 (28.38%) VB
3 21 (28.38%) VBScript
4 3 (4.05%) Python
5 2 (2.70%) SQL
6 1 (1.35%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 43 (58.11%) Security Cleared
2 37 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 27 (36.49%) SC Cleared
4 24 (32.43%) Degree
5 21 (28.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (4.05%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.41%) SLA
2 1 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.35%) QA
System Software
1 71 (95.95%) Active Directory
2 22 (29.73%) Virtual Desktop
3 21 (28.38%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (12.16%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (5.41%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (4.05%) BitLocker
6 3 (4.05%) Hyper-V
6 3 (4.05%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (2.70%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (1.35%) UAG
8 1 (1.35%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (1.35%) VMware NSX
8 1 (1.35%) vSphere
8 1 (1.35%) XenApp
8 1 (1.35%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 30 (40.54%) SCCM
2 28 (37.84%) Microsoft Intune
3 27 (36.49%) WSUS
4 26 (35.14%) SCOM
5 22 (29.73%) Kubernetes
6 6 (8.11%) Ansible
7 4 (5.41%) Nessus
7 4 (5.41%) Red Hat Satellite
7 4 (5.41%) Terraform
7 4 (5.41%) vCenter Server
7 4 (5.41%) VxRail
7 4 (5.41%) ZABBIX
8 3 (4.05%) NetBackup
8 3 (4.05%) SCVMM
9 2 (2.70%) McAfee ePO
9 2 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (1.35%) Consul
10 1 (1.35%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Clustering
10 1 (1.35%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 47 (63.51%) Microsoft
2 18 (24.32%) Veeam
3 13 (17.57%) VMware
4 5 (6.76%) SolarWinds
5 4 (5.41%) Dell
5 4 (5.41%) EMC
5 4 (5.41%) Oracle
5 4 (5.41%) Proofpoint
5 4 (5.41%) Red Hat
6 3 (4.05%) Avaya
6 3 (4.05%) Brocade
6 3 (4.05%) Cisco
6 3 (4.05%) Commvault
6 3 (4.05%) F5
6 3 (4.05%) Forcepoint
6 3 (4.05%) HP
6 3 (4.05%) Juniper
6 3 (4.05%) Mitel
6 3 (4.05%) MobileIron
6 3 (4.05%) Wyse