Active Directory Federation Services Contract Job Trends

Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Active Directory Federation Services skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 496 488 471
Rank change year-on-year -8 -17 -33
Contract jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services 126 32 116
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.11% 0.27%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.96% 0.69% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 24 68
10th Percentile £464 £450 £410
25th Percentile £488 £485 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £615 £513
Median % change year-on-year -8.13% +20.00% +2.50%
75th Percentile £613 £651 £608
90th Percentile £711 £719 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £560 £615 £605
% change year-on-year -8.94% +1.65% +21.00%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 6,428 4,662 5,128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.92% 15.84% 11.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,425 3,203 3,687
10th Percentile £323 £313 £256
25th Percentile £413 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -9.57%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -0.50% +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 50 128
10th Percentile £20.09 £14.42 £14.00
25th Percentile £30.63 £21.38 £17.72
Median hourly rate £55.00 £26.48 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year +107.74% -13.90% -46.52%
75th Percentile £70.00 £52.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £77.80 £73.00 £70.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +107.55% -11.67% -34.93%

Active Directory Federation Services
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Active Directory Federation Services job vacancy trend in the UK

Active Directory Federation Services
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Active Directory Federation Services
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory Federation Services in the UK

Active Directory Federation Services
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Active Directory Federation Services
Top 10 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 19 April 2026. 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
England -11 117 £555 -8.26% 7
UK excluding London -49 72 £560 -8.94% 7
London -15 43 £555 +8.82% 2
South West 0 30 £594 -3.06% 3
Work from Home -16 28 £600 +14.29% 3
North of England -55 25 £550 +37.33%
South East -33 20 £525 -16.00% 2
North West -28 19 £550 +80.92%
Yorkshire -53 4 £469 -35.31%
North East - 3 £550 -

Active Directory Federation Services
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 17 (13.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (8.73%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.17%) Confluence
4 1 (0.79%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 8 (6.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (6.35%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 69 (54.76%) Azure
1 69 (54.76%) Entra ID
2 28 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (11.11%) AWS
4 9 (7.14%) GCP
4 9 (7.14%) PaaS
5 7 (5.56%) Azure Service Fabric
6 4 (3.17%) Nutanix
6 4 (3.17%) OneDrive
7 3 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.59%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (1.59%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (1.59%) IaaS
8 2 (1.59%) SaaS
9 1 (0.79%) GitHub
9 1 (0.79%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (0.79%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 59 (46.83%) DNS
2 37 (29.37%) DHCP
2 37 (29.37%) Kerberos
3 27 (21.43%) Firewall
4 5 (3.97%) Network Security
4 5 (3.97%) WebEx
5 4 (3.17%) NetScaler
5 4 (3.17%) SSL
5 4 (3.17%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.59%) DKIM
6 2 (1.59%) DMARC
6 2 (1.59%) X.500
7 1 (0.79%) Intranet
7 1 (0.79%) NAS
7 1 (0.79%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.97%) Metadata
2 1 (0.79%) GIS
Development Applications
1 7 (5.56%) JIRA
2 2 (1.59%) Git
General
1 27 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 16 (12.70%) Documentation Skills
3 14 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (9.52%) Finance
5 6 (4.76%) Legal
6 5 (3.97%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.59%) Banking
7 2 (1.59%) Retail
8 1 (0.79%) International Banking
8 1 (0.79%) Military
Job Titles
1 20 (15.87%) Architect
2 11 (8.73%) Platform Engineer
3 9 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (7.14%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 7 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
4 7 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
4 7 (5.56%) Technical Architect
5 5 (3.97%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 5 (3.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (3.17%) Consultant
6 4 (3.17%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
6 4 (3.17%) Lead
7 3 (2.38%) IT Support
7 3 (2.38%) IT Support Technician
7 3 (2.38%) IT Technician
7 3 (2.38%) Support Technician
8 2 (1.59%) Analyst
8 2 (1.59%) Data Analyst
8 2 (1.59%) Security Engineer
8 2 (1.59%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (39.68%) OAuth
1 50 (39.68%) SAML
2 41 (32.54%) LDAP
3 31 (24.60%) OpenID
4 22 (17.46%) OAuth2
5 10 (7.94%) SailPoint
6 9 (7.14%) ARM Templates
7 7 (5.56%) Entity Framework
7 7 (5.56%) YAML
8 5 (3.97%) XMPP
9 2 (1.59%) JSON
10 1 (0.79%) CSS
10 1 (0.79%) CSS3
10 1 (0.79%) HTML
10 1 (0.79%) HTML5
10 1 (0.79%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 39 (30.95%) Replication
2 12 (9.52%) Private Cloud
3 9 (7.14%) BYOD
4 7 (5.56%) Data Centre
5 6 (4.76%) PKI
6 5 (3.97%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.97%) Product Ownership
7 4 (3.17%) Clustering
7 4 (3.17%) Public Cloud
8 3 (2.38%) Educational Technology
9 2 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.59%) Operational Technology
10 1 (0.79%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 68 (53.97%) Windows
2 52 (41.27%) Windows Server
3 15 (11.90%) Linux
4 5 (3.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (3.17%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (3.17%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.79%) Android
6 1 (0.79%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (37.30%) RBAC
2 42 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 35 (27.78%) Migration
4 28 (22.22%) High Availability
5 24 (19.05%) Disaster Recovery
5 24 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
7 19 (15.08%) DevOps
8 17 (13.49%) Load Balancing
9 15 (11.90%) Roadmaps
10 14 (11.11%) Digital Identity
10 14 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (11.11%) Mentoring
10 14 (11.11%) Task Automation
11 13 (10.32%) Zero Trust
12 12 (9.52%) Identity Management
12 12 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 12 (9.52%) Technical Leadership
13 11 (8.73%) CI/CD
13 11 (8.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 75 (59.52%) PowerShell
2 8 (6.35%) SQL
3 6 (4.76%) Python
4 5 (3.97%) Bash
4 5 (3.97%) Perl
5 4 (3.17%) Java
6 2 (1.59%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.79%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 84 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 49 (38.89%) SC Cleared
3 35 (27.78%) DV Cleared
4 30 (23.81%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (12.70%) Degree
6 8 (6.35%) MCSA
6 8 (6.35%) MCSE
7 5 (3.97%) CCDP
7 5 (3.97%) CCNA
7 5 (3.97%) CCNP
7 5 (3.97%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (3.17%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.59%) CISM
9 2 (1.59%) CISSP
9 2 (1.59%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (15.87%) GDPR
2 16 (12.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 6 (4.76%) NIST
4 4 (3.17%) SLA
5 3 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.79%) NCSC
6 1 (0.79%) NIST 800
System Software
1 119 (94.44%) Active Directory
2 20 (15.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (7.94%) Docker
4 7 (5.56%) VMware NSX
5 5 (3.97%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (3.17%) vSphere
7 2 (1.59%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 2 (1.59%) UAG
7 2 (1.59%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.79%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 60 (47.62%) Single Sign-On
2 19 (15.08%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (5.56%) SCCM
4 6 (4.76%) CA Single Sign-On
5 4 (3.17%) Kubernetes
5 4 (3.17%) PingFederate
6 2 (1.59%) Ansible
6 2 (1.59%) Terraform
6 2 (1.59%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 94 (74.60%) Microsoft
2 31 (24.60%) VMware
3 16 (12.70%) Okta
4 7 (5.56%) Cisco
5 5 (3.97%) Citrix
5 5 (3.97%) Red Hat
6 4 (3.17%) CyberArk
6 4 (3.17%) F5
6 4 (3.17%) Ping Identity
6 4 (3.17%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.17%) Veeam
7 3 (2.38%) BeyondTrust
8 2 (1.59%) LogRhythm
8 2 (1.59%) Thycotic
9 1 (0.79%) Becrypt
9 1 (0.79%) ESRI
9 1 (0.79%) MobileIron