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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 344 328 353
Rank change year-on-year -16 +25 +84
Contract jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services 23 47 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.26% 0.32%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.01% 2.04% 2.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 32 55
10th Percentile £158 £413 £413
25th Percentile £176 £445 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £605 £550
Median % change year-on-year -46.28% +10.00% +10.00%
75th Percentile £608 £608 £719
90th Percentile £668 £660 £735
UK median daily rate £400 £590 £550
% change year-on-year -32.20% +7.27% +10.00%

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 2,284 2,302 3,109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.89% 12.57% 14.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,544 1,661 2,177
10th Percentile £237 £250 £275
25th Percentile £383 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £524
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -4.57% +2.23%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £619
90th Percentile £638 £656 £700
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.60% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 41 106
10th Percentile £18.44 £22.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.25 £25.38 £20.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +19.10% - +130.90%
75th Percentile £67.00 £68.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £83.60 £74.44 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £37.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -4.00% -31.82% +139.13%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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
South East +14 13 £178 -70.58% 4
South West +33 5 £613 -9.26% 5
West Midlands -16 3 £325 -38.97%
Midlands -16 3 £325 -38.97%
East of England +11 1 - - 2
North West -8 1 - - 4
North of England -14 1 - - 4
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 5 (21.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (30.43%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 11 (47.83%) Azure
2 10 (43.48%) Entra ID
3 5 (21.74%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (17.39%) IaaS
4 4 (17.39%) PaaS
4 4 (17.39%) SaaS
5 3 (13.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (13.04%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (13.04%) Amazon S3
5 3 (13.04%) AWS
5 3 (13.04%) AWS CloudTrail
5 3 (13.04%) AWS Direct Connect
5 3 (13.04%) AWS KMS
5 3 (13.04%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (13.04%) Serverless
5 3 (13.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (8.70%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 6 (26.09%) DNS
1 6 (26.09%) Firewall
2 5 (21.74%) DHCP
2 5 (21.74%) VSAN
3 3 (13.04%) Skype
4 1 (4.35%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (4.35%) HTTP
4 1 (4.35%) iSCSI
4 1 (4.35%) NAS
4 1 (4.35%) SAN
4 1 (4.35%) TCP/IP
4 1 (4.35%) VLAN
4 1 (4.35%) VoIP
4 1 (4.35%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Fiddler
1 1 (4.35%) JIRA
1 1 (4.35%) MSI
General
1 6 (26.09%) Public Sector
2 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Marketing
4 1 (4.35%) Military
4 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Analyst
2 6 (26.09%) Data Analyst
3 5 (21.74%) Architect
4 4 (17.39%) Administrator
4 4 (17.39%) Security Architect
4 4 (17.39%) Senior
5 3 (13.04%) AWS Administrator
5 3 (13.04%) Support Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Technical Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Technical Support
6 2 (8.70%) Technical Support Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Consultant
7 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) IT Support
7 1 (4.35%) IT Support Analyst
7 1 (4.35%) Security Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (4.35%) Support Analyst
7 1 (4.35%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) ModSecurity
1 3 (13.04%) OAuth
2 2 (8.70%) .NET
3 1 (4.35%) ARM Templates
3 1 (4.35%) CSS
3 1 (4.35%) HTML
3 1 (4.35%) JSON
3 1 (4.35%) LDAP
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (4.35%) React
3 1 (4.35%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) PKI
2 4 (17.39%) Cyber Defence
2 4 (17.39%) Data Centre
2 4 (17.39%) Private Cloud
3 2 (8.70%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (8.70%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.35%) Blackberry
4 1 (4.35%) Driving Licence
4 1 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.35%) Replication
4 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (52.17%) Windows
2 9 (39.13%) Linux
3 4 (17.39%) Windows 10
3 4 (17.39%) Windows Server
4 3 (13.04%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (13.04%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (4.35%) Android
5 1 (4.35%) Apple iOS
5 1 (4.35%) Mac OS
5 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (26.09%) Data Management
1 6 (26.09%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 5 (21.74%) ITIL
3 4 (17.39%) Identity Management
3 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (17.39%) Roadmaps
3 4 (17.39%) Workflow
4 3 (13.04%) Agile
4 3 (13.04%) Analytics
4 3 (13.04%) Design Patterns
4 3 (13.04%) Key Management
4 3 (13.04%) Service Management
4 3 (13.04%) Technology Roadmap
5 2 (8.70%) Customer Engagement
5 2 (8.70%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (8.70%) Data Protection
5 2 (8.70%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (8.70%) Migration
5 2 (8.70%) Mobile Device Management
5 2 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) PowerShell
2 5 (21.74%) SQL
3 2 (8.70%) C#
4 1 (4.35%) Bash
4 1 (4.35%) Bicep
4 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.35%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (4.35%) Python
4 1 (4.35%) VB
4 1 (4.35%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 15 (65.22%) Security Cleared
2 14 (60.87%) SC Cleared
3 4 (17.39%) Degree
4 3 (13.04%) DV Cleared
5 2 (8.70%) Azure Certification
5 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (4.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (4.35%) MCITP
6 1 (4.35%) MCP
6 1 (4.35%) MCSA
6 1 (4.35%) MCSE
6 1 (4.35%) MCTS
6 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certified Master
6 1 (4.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) NCSC
2 1 (4.35%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (52.17%) Active Directory
2 5 (21.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (17.39%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (8.70%) Hyper-V
5 1 (4.35%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (4.35%) VMware NSX
5 1 (4.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) OPNET
2 3 (13.04%) vCenter Server
3 2 (8.70%) Ansible
3 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (8.70%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (8.70%) Terraform
4 1 (4.35%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.35%) Puppet
4 1 (4.35%) SCCM
4 1 (4.35%) SCOM
4 1 (4.35%) WSUS
Vendors
1 22 (95.65%) Microsoft
2 7 (30.43%) VMware
3 3 (13.04%) AppDynamics
3 3 (13.04%) Dynatrace
4 1 (4.35%) Adobe
4 1 (4.35%) Apple
4 1 (4.35%) Aruba
4 1 (4.35%) Atlassian
4 1 (4.35%) Cisco
4 1 (4.35%) Citrix
4 1 (4.35%) HP
4 1 (4.35%) LogRhythm
4 1 (4.35%) Meraki
4 1 (4.35%) Veeam