Active Directory Federation Services Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Active Directory Federation Services skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Active Directory Federation Services over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 182 194
Rank change year-on-year +27 +12 +50
Contract jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services 4 23 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.13% 0.41% 0.48%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.10% 3.22% 3.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 19 22
10th Percentile £606 £590 £230
25th Percentile £610 £603 £241
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £605 £431
Median % change year-on-year +5.37% +40.29% -9.21%
75th Percentile £650 £608 £531
90th Percentile - £613 £561
England median daily rate £575 £545 £500
% change year-on-year +5.50% +9.00% -

All Systems Management Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 364 715 809
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 12.09% 12.86% 13.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 504 593
10th Percentile £318 £209 £308
25th Percentile £425 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £475 £543
Median % change year-on-year +5.37% -12.52% +8.60%
75th Percentile £591 £600 £625
90th Percentile £663 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 17 20
10th Percentile £20.77 £14.00 £18.27
25th Percentile £21.98 £23.63 £47.31
Median hourly rate £23.99 £47.50 £61.38
Median % change year-on-year -49.51% -22.61% +182.18%
75th Percentile £25.99 £50.00 £74.03
90th Percentile £27.20 £66.00 £76.31
England median hourly rate £27.38 £27.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year +0.46% -52.61% +167.44%

Active Directory Federation Services
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Active Directory Federation Services as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory Federation Services in the South East

Active Directory Federation Services
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Active Directory Federation Services in the South East

Active Directory Federation Services
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory Federation Services in the South East

Active Directory Federation Services
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Thames Valley +26 4 £638 +5.37%
Berkshire +14 4 £638 +5.37%
Hampshire +25 1 £650 -
Active Directory Federation Services
England

Active Directory Federation Services
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (75.00%) GCP
3 2 (50.00%) SaaS
4 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Storage
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Network Security
1 3 (75.00%) NGFW
1 3 (75.00%) SSL
2 1 (25.00%) DHCP
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory Support
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) SAML
2 1 (25.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (25.00%) PKI
1 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
1 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Application Security
1 3 (75.00%) Data Security
1 3 (75.00%) Microservices
1 3 (75.00%) Network Load Balancing
1 3 (75.00%) RBAC
1 3 (75.00%) Security Architecture
1 3 (75.00%) SIEM
1 3 (75.00%) TOGAF
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
3 1 (25.00%) Information Security
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 1 (25.00%) Privileged Identity Management
3 1 (25.00%) Release Management
3 1 (25.00%) Service Management
3 1 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bicep
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) VB
1 1 (25.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) CISM
1 3 (75.00%) CISSP
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM
1 1 (25.00%) SCOM
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
1 1 (25.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) VMware