Active Directory Federation Services Contract Job Trends in London

Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Active Directory Federation Services skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 371 370 354
Rank change year-on-year -1 -16 +177
Contract jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services 10 12 67
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.072% 0.078% 0.33%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.45% 0.53% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 47
10th Percentile £478 £373 £363
25th Percentile £508 £406 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +21.62% -7.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £619 £533 £678
90th Percentile £659 £604 £723
England median daily rate £550 £605 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +7.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £23.80 -
England median hourly rate - £23.80 £55.70
% change year-on-year - -57.27% -7.17%

All Systems Management Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,210 2,252 3,070
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.94% 14.61% 15.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,455 1,473 2,310
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £688
90th Percentile £725 £763 £781
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 18 36
10th Percentile £21.64 £22.81 £22.38
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £30.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -55.00% +140.00%
75th Percentile £60.63 £61.88 £67.75
90th Percentile £63.71 £103.60 £85.78
England median hourly rate £34.00 £37.50 £48.70
% change year-on-year -9.33% -23.00% +94.80%

Active Directory Federation Services
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Active Directory Federation Services relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Active Directory Federation Services job vacancy trend in London

Active Directory Federation Services
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Active Directory Federation Services.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Active Directory Federation Services

Active Directory Federation Services
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services in London over the 6 months to 11 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory Federation Services in London

Active Directory Federation Services
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Active Directory Federation Services.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Active Directory Federation Services

Active Directory Federation Services
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (80.00%) Entra ID
3 5 (50.00%) SaaS
4 3 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (20.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) DNS
2 3 (30.00%) Kerberos
3 2 (20.00%) DKIM
3 2 (20.00%) DMARC
3 2 (20.00%) HTTP
3 2 (20.00%) X.500
4 1 (10.00%) Firewall
4 1 (10.00%) Internet
4 1 (10.00%) SMTP
4 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (10.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Fiddler
General
1 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Identity Management Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Active Directory Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Collaboration Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Messaging Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Messaging Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Support
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) LDAP
1 3 (30.00%) SailPoint
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Graph
2 2 (20.00%) OAuth
3 1 (10.00%) OAuth2
3 1 (10.00%) OpenID
3 1 (10.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Onboarding
2 3 (30.00%) PKI
3 2 (20.00%) Replication
4 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Identity Access Management
2 5 (50.00%) RBAC
3 4 (40.00%) API Integration
3 4 (40.00%) Privileged Access Management
3 4 (40.00%) Runbook
3 4 (40.00%) Zero Trust
4 3 (30.00%) DevSecOps
4 3 (30.00%) Project Delivery
4 3 (30.00%) Roadmaps
5 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (20.00%) Migration
5 2 (20.00%) Mobile Device Management
5 2 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
6 1 (10.00%) Change Management
6 1 (10.00%) Configuration Management
6 1 (10.00%) Identity Management
6 1 (10.00%) Information Security
6 1 (10.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) CISM
2 3 (30.00%) CISSP
3 1 (10.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (40.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 9 (90.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (20.00%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) Okta