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 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 359 376 363
Rank change year-on-year +17 -13 +167
Contract jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services 8 11 63
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.059% 0.070% 0.31%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.38% 0.48% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 45
10th Percentile £508 £370 £363
25th Percentile £511 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £606 £544 £681
90th Percentile £618 £620 £733
England median daily rate £550 £605 £575
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.22% +12.75%
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% -18.69%

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 2,127 2,271 3,184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.71% 14.51% 15.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,392 1,500 2,385
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 £700
90th Percentile £720 £763 £798
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 16 34
10th Percentile £21.64 - £22.75
25th Percentile £26.00 £23.80 £25.71
Median hourly rate £39.50 £32.25 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.48% -46.25% +140.00%
75th Percentile £60.63 £63.00 £69.25
90th Percentile £63.71 £106.00 £87.22
England median hourly rate £34.00 £37.75 £48.70
% change year-on-year -9.93% -22.48% +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
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 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (75.00%) Entra ID
3 5 (62.50%) SaaS
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) DNS
1 3 (37.50%) Kerberos
2 2 (25.00%) HTTP
2 2 (25.00%) X.500
3 1 (12.50%) Firewall
3 1 (12.50%) Internet
3 1 (12.50%) SMTP
3 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
3 1 (12.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Fiddler
General
1 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Identity Management Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Active Directory Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Support
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) LDAP
1 3 (37.50%) SailPoint
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Graph
2 2 (25.00%) OAuth
3 1 (12.50%) OAuth2
3 1 (12.50%) OpenID
3 1 (12.50%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 3 (37.50%) PKI
3 2 (25.00%) Replication
4 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Identity Access Management
2 5 (62.50%) RBAC
3 4 (50.00%) API Integration
3 4 (50.00%) Privileged Access Management
3 4 (50.00%) Runbook
3 4 (50.00%) Zero Trust
4 3 (37.50%) DevSecOps
4 3 (37.50%) Project Delivery
5 1 (12.50%) Change Management
5 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
5 1 (12.50%) Customer Engagement
5 1 (12.50%) DevOps
5 1 (12.50%) Identity Management
5 1 (12.50%) Information Security
5 1 (12.50%) ITIL
5 1 (12.50%) Privileged Identity Management
5 1 (12.50%) Product Roadmap
5 1 (12.50%) Resource Management
5 1 (12.50%) Security Hardening
5 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) CISM
2 3 (37.50%) CISSP
3 1 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (50.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (87.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (25.00%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (37.50%) Okta