Active Directory Federation Services Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS)
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring Active Directory Federation Services skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 0.40% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 3.85% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £315 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £330 - -
75th Percentile £345 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £550 £304 £388
% change year-on-year +81.07% -21.61% -25.30%

All Systems Management Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 26 26 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 10.36% 11.45% 18.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 15 15
10th Percentile £282 £163 £243
25th Percentile £300 £250 £298
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £450 £350
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +28.57% -26.32%
75th Percentile £510 £506 £484
90th Percentile £598 £565 £519
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate - - £18.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.86%
75th Percentile - - £19.31
90th Percentile - - £19.43
North West median hourly rate £42.69 £43.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -0.73% -6.89% -2.78%

Active Directory Federation Services
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Active Directory Federation Services job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Active Directory Federation Services
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

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

Active Directory Federation Services
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside region over the 6 months to 16 December 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
Liverpool - 1 £330 -
Active Directory Federation Services
North West

Active Directory Federation Services
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) NetScaler
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Stability
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam
1 1 (100.00%) VMware