Active Directory Federation Services Contracts

Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 525 504 475
Rank change year-on-year -21 -29 +154
Contract jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services 23 81 209
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.072% 0.19% 0.37%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.46% 1.49% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 48 151
10th Percentile £159 £382 £405
25th Percentile £178 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £603 £525
Median % change year-on-year -17.84% +14.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £616 £608 £641
90th Percentile £670 £609 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £325 £605 £546
% change year-on-year -46.28% +10.76% +9.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £23.80 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 4,999 5,441 8,721
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.70% 12.56% 15.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,316 3,864 6,189
10th Percentile £300 £300 £350
25th Percentile £409 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.97% -6.36% -3.51%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £675
90th Percentile £700 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% +4.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 102 187
10th Percentile £13.75 £16.30 £19.60
25th Percentile £20.25 £22.08 £25.71
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -43.48% +155.56%
75th Percentile £63.25 £50.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £71.25 £84.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +37.50% -13.38% +130.90%

Active Directory Federation Services
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory Federation Services in the UK

Active Directory Federation Services
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory Federation Services in the UK

Active Directory Federation Services
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory Federation Services in the UK

Active Directory Federation Services
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory Federation Services in the UK

Active Directory Federation Services
Top 9 Contract 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 6 July 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
England +7 21 £410 -32.23% 16
UK excluding London +14 16 £325 -46.28% 11
South East +21 9 £177 -70.74% 5
South West +37 3 £613 -9.26% 1
Midlands +15 3 £325 -49.22% 1
London +10 3 £525 +23.53% 4
West Midlands +9 3 £325 -49.22% 1
Work from Home +5 3 £550 -9.09% 12
East of England - 1 - - 3

Active Directory Federation Services
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (8.70%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.35%) Apache
3 1 (4.35%) Confluence
3 1 (4.35%) IIS
3 1 (4.35%) Mattermost
Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 15 (65.22%) Entra ID
2 14 (60.87%) Azure
3 5 (21.74%) PaaS
4 4 (17.39%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (17.39%) Amazon S3
4 4 (17.39%) AWS
4 4 (17.39%) IaaS
4 4 (17.39%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (17.39%) SaaS
5 3 (13.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
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 ExpressRoute
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
7 1 (4.35%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (30.43%) DNS
2 6 (26.09%) DHCP
3 5 (21.74%) Firewall
4 3 (13.04%) VSAN
5 2 (8.70%) TCP/IP
6 1 (4.35%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (4.35%) HTTP
6 1 (4.35%) iSCSI
6 1 (4.35%) LAN
6 1 (4.35%) NAS
6 1 (4.35%) SAN
6 1 (4.35%) Skype
6 1 (4.35%) SMTP
6 1 (4.35%) VLAN
6 1 (4.35%) VoIP
6 1 (4.35%) WAN
6 1 (4.35%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) GitLab
2 1 (4.35%) Fiddler
2 1 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 6 (26.09%) Public Sector
2 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Military
4 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Finance
4 1 (4.35%) Marketing
4 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (21.74%) Architect
1 5 (21.74%) Senior
2 4 (17.39%) Administrator
2 4 (17.39%) Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) AWS Administrator
3 3 (13.04%) Azure Architect
3 3 (13.04%) Data Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Support Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Security Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Technical Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Technical Support
4 2 (8.70%) Technical Support Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Applications Specialist
5 1 (4.35%) Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) IT Support Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) OAuth
2 2 (8.70%) .NET
2 2 (8.70%) ARM Templates
2 2 (8.70%) SAML
3 1 (4.35%) CSS
3 1 (4.35%) Entity Framework
3 1 (4.35%) HTML
3 1 (4.35%) LDAP
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (4.35%) ModSecurity
3 1 (4.35%) React
3 1 (4.35%) SailPoint
3 1 (4.35%) SOAP
3 1 (4.35%) XML
3 1 (4.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) PKI
2 3 (13.04%) Data Centre
3 2 (8.70%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (8.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.35%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (4.35%) Driving Licence
4 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
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 Server
4 2 (8.70%) Mac OS
4 2 (8.70%) Windows 10
4 2 (8.70%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (8.70%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (4.35%) Apple iOS
5 1 (4.35%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (17.39%) CI/CD
2 4 (17.39%) Identity Management
2 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (17.39%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 4 (17.39%) Workflow
3 3 (13.04%) Agile
3 3 (13.04%) Data Management
3 3 (13.04%) DevOps
3 3 (13.04%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (13.04%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (13.04%) ITIL
3 3 (13.04%) Key Management
3 3 (13.04%) Migration
3 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (8.70%) Customer Service
4 2 (8.70%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (8.70%) Mobile Device Management
4 2 (8.70%) RBAC
4 2 (8.70%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 7 (30.43%) PowerShell
2 4 (17.39%) SQL
3 3 (13.04%) Bash
3 3 (13.04%) Python
4 2 (8.70%) C#
5 1 (4.35%) Bicep
5 1 (4.35%) Java
5 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.35%) VB
5 1 (4.35%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 11 (47.83%) Security Cleared
2 10 (43.48%) SC Cleared
3 3 (13.04%) Degree
3 3 (13.04%) DV Cleared
4 2 (8.70%) Azure Certification
4 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (8.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (4.35%) CISM
5 1 (4.35%) CISSP
5 1 (4.35%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (4.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) GDPR
1 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.35%) NCSC
1 1 (4.35%) NIST
1 1 (4.35%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (73.91%) Active Directory
2 5 (21.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (17.39%) Hyper-V
4 3 (13.04%) vSphere
5 2 (8.70%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (8.70%) VMware NSX
6 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (4.35%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) Jamf Pro
1 3 (13.04%) Terraform
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (8.70%) SCCM
2 2 (8.70%) SCOM
3 1 (4.35%) Ansible
3 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.35%) OPNET
3 1 (4.35%) Puppet
3 1 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (4.35%) WSUS
Vendors
1 19 (82.61%) Microsoft
2 6 (26.09%) VMware
3 3 (13.04%) AppDynamics
3 3 (13.04%) Apple
3 3 (13.04%) Dynatrace
4 2 (8.70%) Atlassian
4 2 (8.70%) ESET
5 1 (4.35%) Adobe
5 1 (4.35%) Aruba
5 1 (4.35%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (4.35%) Cisco
5 1 (4.35%) Citrix
5 1 (4.35%) CyberArk
5 1 (4.35%) HP
5 1 (4.35%) Meraki
5 1 (4.35%) Oracle
5 1 (4.35%) Remedy
5 1 (4.35%) SolarWinds
5 1 (4.35%) Veeam