Active Directory Federation Services Contract Job Trends in the South East

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Active Directory Federation Services skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 164 195
Rank change year-on-year +9 +31 +62
Contract jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services 17 16 18
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.48% 0.36% 0.32%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.22% 2.56% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 14 13
10th Percentile £156 - £560
25th Percentile £166 £603 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £179 £605 £610
Median % change year-on-year -70.41% -0.82% +19.61%
75th Percentile £358 £608 £615
90th Percentile £500 - -
England median daily rate £461 £605 £610
% change year-on-year -23.80% -0.82% +16.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £55.70
90th Percentile - - £56.12
England median hourly rate - £23.80 £55.70
% change year-on-year - -57.27% -7.17%

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 528 624 710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.84% 14.17% 12.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 352 465 491
10th Percentile £250 £278 £208
25th Percentile £389 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.25% -6.98% +7.50%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £645
90th Percentile £622 £688 £725
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 26
10th Percentile £18.87 £20.38 £23.50
25th Percentile £19.00 £28.06 £42.10
Median hourly rate £20.00 £35.08 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.99% -36.21% +14.86%
75th Percentile £55.00 £41.75 £74.68
90th Percentile £84.33 £54.35 £76.53
England median hourly rate £34.00 £38.00 £53.75
% change year-on-year -10.53% -29.30% +124.80%

Active Directory Federation Services
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Active Directory Federation Services job vacancy trend in the South East

Active Directory Federation Services
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Active Directory Federation Services.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Active Directory Federation Services

Active Directory Federation Services
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services in the South East over the 6 months to 3 October 2025.

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

Active Directory Federation Services
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Active Directory Federation Services.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Active Directory Federation Services

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 3 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
Thames Valley +9 13 £178 -70.58% 3
Oxfordshire - 9 £177 - 2
Berkshire +2 4 £650 +7.44% 1
Hampshire +12 3 £474 -27.15%
Surrey - 1 £163 -
Active Directory Federation Services
England

Active Directory Federation Services
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (52.94%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.88%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) Azure
2 4 (23.53%) Entra ID
3 3 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (11.76%) SaaS
5 1 (5.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.88%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) HTTP
1 2 (11.76%) Wireshark
2 1 (5.88%) DHCP
2 1 (5.88%) DNS
2 1 (5.88%) Kerberos
2 1 (5.88%) VoIP
2 1 (5.88%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Fiddler
General
1 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
1 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Finance
2 1 (5.88%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Analyst
2 8 (47.06%) Data Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Support Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Technical Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Technical Support
3 3 (17.65%) Technical Support Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Administrator
4 1 (5.88%) Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) IT Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) IT Support
4 1 (5.88%) IT Support Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Solutions Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Support Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) VMware Architect
4 1 (5.88%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) OAuth
2 3 (17.65%) LDAP
2 3 (17.65%) SAML
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (5.88%) .NET
4 1 (5.88%) CSS
4 1 (5.88%) HTML
4 1 (5.88%) OpenID
4 1 (5.88%) React
4 1 (5.88%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (11.76%) Driving Licence
3 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Private Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Windows
2 2 (11.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Data Management
2 5 (29.41%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (17.65%) Customer Engagement
3 3 (17.65%) Data Protection
3 3 (17.65%) Identity Management
3 3 (17.65%) Zero Trust
4 2 (11.76%) Customer Service
4 2 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
4 2 (11.76%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 2 (11.76%) Privileged Access Management
4 2 (11.76%) Privileged Identity Management
4 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (11.76%) Resource Management
5 1 (5.88%) Customer Experience
5 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (5.88%) Marketing Automation
5 1 (5.88%) Principle of Least Privilege
5 1 (5.88%) RBAC
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.88%) C#
2 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 10 (58.82%) SC Cleared
1 10 (58.82%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) GDPR
1 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.88%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (47.06%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.88%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.88%) VMware NSX
2 1 (5.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Ansible
1 1 (5.88%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) VMware
3 1 (5.88%) Adobe
3 1 (5.88%) Apple
3 1 (5.88%) Cisco
3 1 (5.88%) CyberArk
3 1 (5.88%) Meraki