Active Directory Federation Services Contract Job Trends in Reading

Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Active Directory Federation Services skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 82 74
Rank change year-on-year +7 -8 +19
Contract jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services 3 9 16
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.41% 0.88% 1.56%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.50% 8.04% 10.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 16
10th Percentile £599 - £576
25th Percentile £609 £603 £605
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £610
Median % change year-on-year - +2.46% +19.61%
75th Percentile £644 £650 £615
90th Percentile £655 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £625 £625 £610
% change year-on-year - +2.46% +19.61%

All Systems Management Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 120 112 149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 16.46% 10.98% 14.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 77 130
10th Percentile £255 £400 £205
25th Percentile £411 £475 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £615
90th Percentile £646 £700 £689
Berkshire median daily rate £475 £520 £450
% change year-on-year -8.65% +15.56% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £59.50 - -
25th Percentile £66.25 - -
Median hourly rate £78.50 - £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.18%
75th Percentile £83.00 - -
90th Percentile £84.80 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £20.00 - £49.73
% change year-on-year - - -9.58%

Active Directory Federation Services
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Active Directory Federation Services job vacancy trend in Reading

Active Directory Federation Services
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

Active Directory Federation Services
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) VSAN
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Solutions Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Architect
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) OAuth
1 2 (66.67%) OAuth2
1 2 (66.67%) OpenID
1 2 (66.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
1 1 (33.33%) Private Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) RBAC
2 1 (33.33%) Server Management
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (33.33%) VMware NSX
3 1 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) BeyondTrust
2 1 (33.33%) CyberArk