Active Directory Federation Services Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 98 124 130
Rank change year-on-year +26 +6 +24
Contract jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services 4 21 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.26% 0.78% 0.72%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.19% 6.54% 5.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 18 17
10th Percentile £606 £583 -
25th Percentile £610 £603 £230
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £605 £400
Median % change year-on-year +5.37% +51.25% -15.79%
75th Percentile £650 £608 £475
90th Percentile - £609 £560
South East median daily rate £638 £605 £431
% change year-on-year +5.37% +40.29% -9.21%

All Systems Management Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 183 321 362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 12.11% 11.95% 12.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 243 273
10th Percentile £318 £205 £303
25th Percentile £413 £300 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £578 £608 £623
90th Percentile £663 £650 £725
South East median daily rate £501 £475 £543
% change year-on-year +5.37% -12.52% +8.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 11
10th Percentile - £21.34 £48.50
25th Percentile - £28.41 £54.69
Median hourly rate - £38.75 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - -41.29% +5.60%
75th Percentile - £52.81 £75.38
90th Percentile - £66.50 £81.37
South East median hourly rate £23.99 £47.50 £61.38
% change year-on-year -49.51% -22.61% +182.18%

Active Directory Federation Services
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory Federation Services in the Thames Valley

Active Directory Federation Services
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory Federation Services in the Thames Valley

Active Directory Federation Services
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory Federation Services in the Thames Valley

Active Directory Federation Services
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +14 4 £638 +5.37%
Active Directory Federation Services
South East

Active Directory Federation Services
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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