Active Directory Federation Services Contract Job Trends in the North West

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Active Directory Federation Services skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 117 145
Rank change year-on-year -12 +28 +34
Contract jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services 3 1 7
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.13% 0.042% 0.24%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.94% 0.36% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - £298
25th Percentile £369 - £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £400 £388
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +3.23% -29.55%
75th Percentile £406 - £400
90th Percentile - - £529
England median daily rate £461 £605 £600
% change year-on-year -23.80% +0.83% +14.29%

All Systems Management Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 320 279 473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.15% 11.78% 16.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 156 310
10th Percentile £267 £228 £313
25th Percentile £350 £375 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £484 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -3.25% -4.76%
75th Percentile £576 £577 £575
90th Percentile £650 £656 £663
England median daily rate £507 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.38% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 11 45
10th Percentile - £21.05 £18.05
25th Percentile £15.50 £24.18 £40.63
Median hourly rate £18.87 £31.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -39.13% -32.87% +112.03%
75th Percentile £63.40 £47.47 £47.83
90th Percentile £75.88 £68.18 £76.55
England median hourly rate £34.00 £36.17 £50.00
% change year-on-year -5.99% -27.67% +109.12%

Active Directory Federation Services
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Active Directory Federation Services job vacancy trend in the North West

Active Directory Federation Services
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Active Directory Federation Services.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Active Directory Federation Services

Active Directory Federation Services
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Active Directory Federation Services.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Active Directory Federation Services

Active Directory Federation Services
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 20 October 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
Cheshire -22 3 £388 -3.13%
Active Directory Federation Services
England

Active Directory Federation Services
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (33.33%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
General
1 2 (66.67%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Military
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (33.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Log Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 2 (66.67%) Security Operations
2 2 (66.67%) SIEM
2 2 (66.67%) SOAR
2 2 (66.67%) Threat Detection
2 2 (66.67%) Use Case
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (66.67%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Certification
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) LogRhythm
3 1 (33.33%) Proofpoint