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 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 482 484 480
Rank change year-on-year +2 -4 +120
Contract jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services 25 53 143
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.091% 0.16% 0.31%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.58% 1.17% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 30 105
10th Percentile £158 £374 £402
25th Percentile £177 £543 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £605 £525
Median % change year-on-year -46.28% +15.24% +5.00%
75th Percentile £528 £608 £683
90th Percentile £602 £666 £738
UK median daily rate £325 £605 £538
% change year-on-year -46.28% +12.56% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 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 4,284 4,516 6,832
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.52% 13.38% 15.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,851 3,244 4,880
10th Percentile £300 £300 £338
25th Percentile £406 £420 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £570
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -7.89% -0.87%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £687
90th Percentile £695 £700 £771
UK median daily rate £503 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.37% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 72 152
10th Percentile £19.88 £17.72 £18.50
25th Percentile £26.45 £23.41 £25.71
Median hourly rate £55.00 £30.50 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year +80.33% -40.49% +125.27%
75th Percentile £66.04 £58.13 £73.75
90th Percentile £81.78 £74.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £31.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +20.97% -46.09% +147.52%

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 August 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 August 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
South East +7 12 £178 -70.58% 4
South West +34 3 £575 +28.49% 2
West Midlands -1 3 £325 -38.97% 1
Midlands -13 3 £325 -38.97% 1
London +3 2 £510 -4.23% 5
East of England +14 1 - - 3
North West +1 1 - - 2
North of England -8 1 - - 2
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 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.00%) Apache
2 1 (4.00%) Confluence
2 1 (4.00%) IIS
2 1 (4.00%) Mattermost
2 1 (4.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (28.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 15 (60.00%) Entra ID
2 14 (56.00%) Azure
3 6 (24.00%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (20.00%) PaaS
5 4 (16.00%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (16.00%) Amazon S3
5 4 (16.00%) AWS
5 4 (16.00%) IaaS
5 4 (16.00%) SaaS
6 3 (12.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (12.00%) AWS CloudTrail
6 3 (12.00%) AWS Direct Connect
6 3 (12.00%) AWS KMS
6 3 (12.00%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (12.00%) Serverless
6 3 (12.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (8.00%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (8.00%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (4.00%) Azure Service Fabric
8 1 (4.00%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 7 (28.00%) DNS
2 5 (20.00%) DHCP
3 4 (16.00%) Firewall
4 2 (8.00%) VSAN
5 1 (4.00%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (4.00%) HTTP
5 1 (4.00%) iSCSI
5 1 (4.00%) NAS
5 1 (4.00%) SAN
5 1 (4.00%) TCP/IP
5 1 (4.00%) VLAN
5 1 (4.00%) VoIP
5 1 (4.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) JIRA
2 2 (8.00%) GitLab
2 2 (8.00%) MSI
3 1 (4.00%) Fiddler
General
1 8 (32.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (12.00%) Military
2 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Finance
4 1 (4.00%) Marketing
4 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) Analyst
2 6 (24.00%) Data Analyst
3 5 (20.00%) Senior
4 4 (16.00%) Administrator
5 3 (12.00%) AWS Administrator
5 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Support Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Architect
6 2 (8.00%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Technical Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Technical Support
6 2 (8.00%) Technical Support Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Active Directory Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Active Directory Support
7 1 (4.00%) Applications Specialist
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Consultant
7 1 (4.00%) Consultant
7 1 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (4.00%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) .NET
1 2 (8.00%) ARM Templates
1 2 (8.00%) OAuth
2 1 (4.00%) CSS
2 1 (4.00%) Entity Framework
2 1 (4.00%) HTML
2 1 (4.00%) JSON
2 1 (4.00%) LDAP
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (4.00%) ModSecurity
2 1 (4.00%) React
2 1 (4.00%) SOAP
2 1 (4.00%) XML
2 1 (4.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Onboarding
1 3 (12.00%) PKI
2 2 (8.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (8.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.00%) Blackberry
3 1 (4.00%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (4.00%) Driving Licence
3 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.00%) Replication
3 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (48.00%) Windows
2 9 (36.00%) Linux
3 4 (16.00%) Mac OS
4 3 (12.00%) Apple iOS
4 3 (12.00%) Windows Server
5 2 (8.00%) Android
5 2 (8.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (8.00%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (4.00%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (4.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (24.00%) Data Management
1 6 (24.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (20.00%) DevOps
3 4 (16.00%) Agile
3 4 (16.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (16.00%) ITIL
3 4 (16.00%) Mobile Device Management
3 4 (16.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 4 (16.00%) Workflow
4 3 (12.00%) Analytics
4 3 (12.00%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (12.00%) Identity Management
4 3 (12.00%) Key Management
4 3 (12.00%) Migration
4 3 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (8.00%) Application Packaging
5 2 (8.00%) Customer Engagement
5 2 (8.00%) Data Protection
5 2 (8.00%) Privileged Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (36.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (12.00%) Bash
2 3 (12.00%) Python
2 3 (12.00%) SQL
3 2 (8.00%) C#
4 1 (4.00%) Bicep
4 1 (4.00%) Java
4 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.00%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (4.00%) VB
4 1 (4.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 16 (64.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (60.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (16.00%) Degree
4 3 (12.00%) DV Cleared
4 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (8.00%) Azure Certification
5 2 (8.00%) MCITP
5 2 (8.00%) MCP
5 2 (8.00%) MCSA
5 2 (8.00%) MCSE
5 2 (8.00%) MCTS
5 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Certified Master
6 1 (4.00%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (4.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (4.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) NCSC
1 1 (4.00%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (64.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (12.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (12.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (8.00%) vSphere
4 1 (4.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (4.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Jamf Pro
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (12.00%) Terraform
2 2 (8.00%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (4.00%) Ansible
3 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.00%) OPNET
3 1 (4.00%) Puppet
3 1 (4.00%) SCCM
3 1 (4.00%) SCOM
3 1 (4.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 21 (84.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.00%) VMware
3 3 (12.00%) AppDynamics
3 3 (12.00%) Apple
3 3 (12.00%) Dynatrace
4 2 (8.00%) Atlassian
4 2 (8.00%) ESET
5 1 (4.00%) Adobe
5 1 (4.00%) Aruba
5 1 (4.00%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (4.00%) Cisco
5 1 (4.00%) Citrix
5 1 (4.00%) HP
5 1 (4.00%) LogRhythm
5 1 (4.00%) Meraki
5 1 (4.00%) Oracle
5 1 (4.00%) Veeam