Active Directory Federation Services Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 323 344 334
Rank change year-on-year +21 -10 +72
Contract jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services 13 55 129
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.26% 0.54%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.69% 2.34% 3.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 40 104
10th Percentile £361 £383 £400
25th Percentile £563 £464 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £605 £513
Median % change year-on-year +3.31% +18.05% +7.89%
75th Percentile £650 £608 £653
90th Percentile £688 £689 £731
UK median daily rate £605 £558 £500
% change year-on-year +8.52% +11.50% -

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,884 2,353 3,632
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.76% 11.33% 15.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,320 1,702 2,664
10th Percentile £235 £210 £275
25th Percentile £391 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £620
90th Percentile £657 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 79 139
10th Percentile £14.86 £14.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.59 £17.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £25.34 £38.50 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -34.18% -12.00% +118.75%
75th Percentile £43.69 £51.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.35 £70.25 £75.10
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

Active Directory Federation Services
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Active Directory Federation Services as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory Federation Services in the UK excluding London

Active Directory Federation Services
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Active Directory Federation Services in the UK excluding London

Active Directory Federation Services
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory Federation Services in the UK excluding London

Active Directory Federation Services
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory Federation Services in the UK excluding London

Active Directory Federation Services
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
North of England +18 5 £401 -11.00% 3
South West +41 4 £613 +36.87% 2
South East +27 4 £638 +5.37% 4
North West +19 4 £304 -27.62% 1
Yorkshire +6 1 £725 +54.67% 1
Active Directory Federation Services
UK

Active Directory Federation Services
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (53.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (46.15%) SharePoint
3 2 (15.38%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (7.69%) Apache
4 1 (7.69%) Confluence
4 1 (7.69%) IIS
4 1 (7.69%) nginx
4 1 (7.69%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) Azure
2 7 (53.85%) Entra ID
2 7 (53.85%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (38.46%) SaaS
4 4 (30.77%) AWS
5 3 (23.08%) GCP
6 2 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (15.38%) OneDrive
7 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (7.69%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (7.69%) Azure Storage
7 1 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (53.85%) DNS
2 3 (23.08%) DHCP
2 3 (23.08%) Firewall
2 3 (23.08%) Network Security
2 3 (23.08%) NGFW
2 3 (23.08%) SSL
3 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
4 1 (7.69%) Intranet
4 1 (7.69%) LAN
4 1 (7.69%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (7.69%) Skype
4 1 (7.69%) SMTP
4 1 (7.69%) VSAN
4 1 (7.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
1 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) GitLab
2 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
3 2 (15.38%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Military
3 2 (15.38%) Publishing
4 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Architect
2 4 (30.77%) Security Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Technical Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Wintel Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Wintel Technical Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Active Directory Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Active Directory Support
4 1 (7.69%) Active Directory Support Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Applications Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Desktop Support
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Support Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) SAML
2 2 (15.38%) LDAP
3 1 (7.69%) .NET
3 1 (7.69%) ARM Templates
3 1 (7.69%) cloud-init
3 1 (7.69%) Kafka
3 1 (7.69%) Keycloak
3 1 (7.69%) ModSecurity
3 1 (7.69%) SOAP
3 1 (7.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) PKI
2 2 (15.38%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (15.38%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.69%) Blog
3 1 (7.69%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (7.69%) Mobile App
3 1 (7.69%) Operational Technology
3 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
3 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (76.92%) Windows
2 6 (46.15%) Windows Server
3 4 (30.77%) Linux
3 4 (30.77%) Windows 10
3 4 (30.77%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (30.77%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (23.08%) Mac OS
5 2 (15.38%) Android
5 2 (15.38%) Apple iOS
6 1 (7.69%) CentOS
6 1 (7.69%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Agile
2 6 (46.15%) ITIL
2 6 (46.15%) Migration
2 6 (46.15%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (30.77%) Data Loss Prevention
3 4 (30.77%) Identity Management
3 4 (30.77%) ITSM
3 4 (30.77%) Task Automation
4 3 (23.08%) Analytics
4 3 (23.08%) Application Security
4 3 (23.08%) Data Security
4 3 (23.08%) DevOps
4 3 (23.08%) Microservices
4 3 (23.08%) Network Load Balancing
4 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (23.08%) RBAC
4 3 (23.08%) Security Architecture
4 3 (23.08%) SIEM
4 3 (23.08%) TOGAF
5 2 (15.38%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) PowerShell
2 3 (23.08%) VB
2 3 (23.08%) VBScript
3 1 (7.69%) Bash
3 1 (7.69%) Bicep
3 1 (7.69%) C#
3 1 (7.69%) Go
3 1 (7.69%) Java
3 1 (7.69%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (69.23%) SC Cleared
1 9 (69.23%) Security Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) Degree
3 3 (23.08%) CISM
3 3 (23.08%) CISSP
3 3 (23.08%) DV Cleared
4 2 (15.38%) MCP
4 2 (15.38%) MCSA
4 2 (15.38%) MCSE
4 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
5 1 (7.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (7.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) NCSC
2 1 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (92.31%) Active Directory
2 6 (46.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (30.77%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (15.38%) BitLocker
4 2 (15.38%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (7.69%) Hyper-V
5 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (7.69%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (7.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (30.77%) SCCM
3 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
3 2 (15.38%) SCOM
3 2 (15.38%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (15.38%) Terraform
3 2 (15.38%) WSUS
4 1 (7.69%) Ansible
4 1 (7.69%) Consul
4 1 (7.69%) Grafana
4 1 (7.69%) HAProxy
4 1 (7.69%) Istio
4 1 (7.69%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (7.69%) linkerd
4 1 (7.69%) OPNET
4 1 (7.69%) Packer
4 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
4 1 (7.69%) Puppet
4 1 (7.69%) Rancher
4 1 (7.69%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 11 (84.62%) Microsoft
2 7 (53.85%) VMware
3 2 (15.38%) McAfee
3 2 (15.38%) Symantec
4 1 (7.69%) Apple
4 1 (7.69%) Atlassian
4 1 (7.69%) ESET
4 1 (7.69%) Okta
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle
4 1 (7.69%) Remedy
4 1 (7.69%) SolarWinds
4 1 (7.69%) Splunk