Active Directory Federation Services Contracts in the South West

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 107 148 134
Rank change year-on-year +41 -14 +35
Contract jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services 4 9 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.24% 0.28% 0.91%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.31% 2.21% 5.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 31
10th Percentile £569 - -
25th Percentile £578 £210 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £448 £500
Median % change year-on-year +36.87% -10.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £653 £706 £575
90th Percentile £666 £713 £725
England median daily rate £575 £545 £500
% change year-on-year +5.50% +9.00% -

All Systems Management Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 305 407 605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 18.18% 12.72% 16.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 312 499
10th Percentile £293 £205 £324
25th Percentile £440 £391 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.86% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £626 £591 £644
90th Percentile £700 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 15 21
10th Percentile £31.15 - £53.75
25th Percentile £56.13 - £60.70
Median hourly rate £74.35 £40.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +85.88% -38.46% +225.00%
75th Percentile £79.77 £72.85 £78.00
90th Percentile £81.68 £76.28 £86.00
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 West

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Active Directory Federation Services
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West 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
Wiltshire +33 3 £613 -9.26% 2
Gloucestershire +11 1 - -
Active Directory Federation Services
England

Active Directory Federation Services
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (25.00%) Apache
2 1 (25.00%) IIS
2 1 (25.00%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
3 1 (25.00%) DHCP
3 1 (25.00%) LAN
3 1 (25.00%) Skype
3 1 (25.00%) SMTP
3 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (25.00%) VSAN
3 1 (25.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Military
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365 Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Wintel Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Wintel Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Wintel Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) LDAP
1 1 (25.00%) ModSecurity
1 1 (25.00%) SOAP
1 1 (25.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) PKI
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (50.00%) Linux
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (25.00%) Android
4 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
4 1 (25.00%) Mac OS
4 1 (25.00%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) Office Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (25.00%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Technology Roadmap
3 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) VB
2 1 (25.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) MCP
3 1 (25.00%) MCSA
3 1 (25.00%) MCSE
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) NCSC
2 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (25.00%) BitLocker
3 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) SCCM
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (25.00%) OPNET
2 1 (25.00%) Puppet
2 1 (25.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Atlassian
3 1 (25.00%) McAfee
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (25.00%) Remedy
3 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (25.00%) Symantec