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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 339 340 339
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 +141
Contract jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services 25 16 64
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.18% 0.11% 0.35%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.14% 0.77% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 14 38
10th Percentile £425 £408 £389
25th Percentile £492 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -7.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £591 £542 £658
90th Percentile £615 £693 £683
England median daily rate £550 £513 £559
% change year-on-year +7.32% -8.28% +11.75%

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 2,186 2,080 2,466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.49% 14.81% 13.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,484 1,372 1,836
10th Percentile £352 £350 £350
25th Percentile £431 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £568 £571
Median % change year-on-year -7.49% -0.66% -8.60%
75th Percentile £638 £680 £675
90th Percentile £725 £788 £750
England median daily rate £513 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% -8.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 17 29
10th Percentile £20.76 £22.55 £20.23
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £27.25
Median hourly rate £53.25 £29.00 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +83.62% -50.00% +132.00%
75th Percentile £63.32 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.99 £104.80 £78.00
England median hourly rate £50.61 £26.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +90.98% -42.62% +24.07%

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 January 2026.

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
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 11 January 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
South London - 5 £541 - 2
Central London -15 1 - - 1
Active Directory Federation Services
England

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 10 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (8.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (28.00%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 18 (72.00%) Azure
2 16 (64.00%) Entra ID
3 10 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (24.00%) Azure Service Fabric
4 6 (24.00%) PaaS
5 5 (20.00%) SaaS
6 2 (8.00%) OneDrive
7 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (28.00%) DNS
2 5 (20.00%) Kerberos
3 2 (8.00%) DHCP
3 2 (8.00%) DKIM
3 2 (8.00%) DMARC
3 2 (8.00%) HTTP
3 2 (8.00%) X.500
4 1 (4.00%) Firewall
4 1 (4.00%) Internet
4 1 (4.00%) SMTP
4 1 (4.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (4.00%) Unified Communications
4 1 (4.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Fiddler
General
1 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.00%) Banking
2 1 (4.00%) Finance
2 1 (4.00%) International Banking
2 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 6 (24.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Senior
4 2 (8.00%) Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Identity Management Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Active Directory Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Collaboration Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) Messaging Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365 Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Senior Messaging Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Support Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Technical Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) Technical Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Technical Support
5 1 (4.00%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (36.00%) SailPoint
2 6 (24.00%) ARM Templates
2 6 (24.00%) Entity Framework
2 6 (24.00%) YAML
3 5 (20.00%) LDAP
4 4 (16.00%) OAuth
5 3 (12.00%) SAML
6 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (4.00%) OAuth2
7 1 (4.00%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) BYOD
2 4 (16.00%) Onboarding
2 4 (16.00%) Replication
3 3 (12.00%) PKI
4 2 (8.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.00%) Windows
2 4 (16.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 9 (36.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 9 (36.00%) High Availability
2 9 (36.00%) Migration
3 8 (32.00%) Identity Access Management
4 7 (28.00%) DevOps
4 7 (28.00%) E-Discovery
4 7 (28.00%) RBAC
5 6 (24.00%) B2C
5 6 (24.00%) CI/CD
5 6 (24.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (24.00%) Microservices
5 6 (24.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 5 (20.00%) Contingency Planning
6 5 (20.00%) PLM
6 5 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
7 4 (16.00%) API Integration
7 4 (16.00%) Privileged Access Management
7 4 (16.00%) Runbook
7 4 (16.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 17 (68.00%) PowerShell
2 6 (24.00%) SQL
3 1 (4.00%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (4.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (48.00%) SC Cleared
1 12 (48.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (28.00%) Degree
2 7 (28.00%) MCSA
2 7 (28.00%) MCSE
2 7 (28.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (12.00%) CISM
3 3 (12.00%) CISSP
4 1 (4.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (16.00%) NCSC
2 2 (8.00%) GDPR
2 2 (8.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (4.00%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (96.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (20.00%) Docker
3 2 (8.00%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 11 (44.00%) Single Sign-On
2 10 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (88.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (20.00%) Okta