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 24 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 534 498 476
Rank change year-on-year -36 -22 -45
Contract jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services 105 22 94
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.076% 0.22%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.60% 0.48% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 16 52
10th Percentile £425 £169 £388
25th Percentile £488 £345 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £510 £600
Median % change year-on-year +12.75% -15.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £613 £647 £608
90th Percentile £702 £706 £674
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £401 £605
% change year-on-year +37.33% -33.80% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
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 6,547 4,552 5,095
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.47% 15.80% 11.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,480 3,104 3,700
10th Percentile £325 £308 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £513
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +1.46% -8.48%
75th Percentile £600 £610 £623
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £491 £489
% change year-on-year +0.15% +0.46% -6.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 47 104
10th Percentile £19.25 £13.75 £14.00
25th Percentile £28.24 £20.68 £19.45
Median hourly rate £55.00 £27.50 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -4.35% -47.73%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.33 £50.06
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.22 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £37.50 £39.25
% change year-on-year +46.67% -4.46% -7.65%

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 24 May 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 24 May 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 -40 99 £555 +12.12% 11
UK excluding London -54 55 £550 +37.33% 11
London -25 42 £575 +12.75% 1
Work from Home -26 25 £600 +21.21% 3
South East -38 24 £525 +196.61% 5
North of England -61 20 £550 -2.27% 2
South West -20 14 £650 +6.12%
North West -29 14 £550 +37.33% 2
Yorkshire -54 5 £469 -35.31%
North East - 1 £675 -

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 13 (12.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (7.62%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.81%) Confluence
4 1 (0.95%) Apache
4 1 (0.95%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.95%) IIS
4 1 (0.95%) nginx
4 1 (0.95%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (8.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (7.62%) Veritas eDiscovery
2 1 (0.95%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 72 (68.57%) Azure
2 65 (61.90%) Entra ID
3 29 (27.62%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (18.10%) AWS
5 10 (9.52%) GCP
6 9 (8.57%) PaaS
7 7 (6.67%) Azure Service Fabric
8 5 (4.76%) OneDrive
9 4 (3.81%) Microsoft Copilot
9 4 (3.81%) Nutanix
10 3 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (2.86%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (1.90%) IaaS
11 2 (1.90%) SaaS
12 1 (0.95%) Azure Logic Apps
12 1 (0.95%) Azure Monitor
12 1 (0.95%) Azure Sentinel
12 1 (0.95%) Cloudflare
12 1 (0.95%) GitHub
12 1 (0.95%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 43 (40.95%) DNS
2 37 (35.24%) DHCP
3 36 (34.29%) Kerberos
4 15 (14.29%) Firewall
5 5 (4.76%) Network Security
6 4 (3.81%) NetScaler
6 4 (3.81%) SSL
6 4 (3.81%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.90%) NAS
8 1 (0.95%) BIG-IP
8 1 (0.95%) Intranet
8 1 (0.95%) SAN
8 1 (0.95%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.76%) Metadata
2 1 (0.95%) GIS
2 1 (0.95%) MySQL
2 1 (0.95%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (6.67%) JIRA
2 2 (1.90%) Git
General
1 23 (21.90%) Social Skills
2 15 (14.29%) Finance
3 9 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.62%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (4.76%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.90%) Banking
6 2 (1.90%) Retail
7 1 (0.95%) Aviation
7 1 (0.95%) International Banking
7 1 (0.95%) Legal
7 1 (0.95%) Military
Job Titles
1 14 (13.33%) Architect
2 11 (10.48%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 9 (8.57%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (5.71%) Azure Engineer
4 6 (5.71%) Technical Architect
5 5 (4.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 5 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (4.76%) Lead
5 5 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (3.81%) Consultant
6 4 (3.81%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
7 3 (2.86%) IT Support
7 3 (2.86%) IT Support Technician
7 3 (2.86%) IT Technician
7 3 (2.86%) Support Technician
8 2 (1.90%) Analyst
8 2 (1.90%) Data Analyst
8 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Engineer
8 2 (1.90%) Security Architect
8 2 (1.90%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (40.95%) LDAP
2 39 (37.14%) OAuth
2 39 (37.14%) SAML
3 20 (19.05%) OpenID
4 11 (10.48%) OAuth2
5 10 (9.52%) SailPoint
6 9 (8.57%) ARM Templates
7 8 (7.62%) YAML
8 7 (6.67%) Entity Framework
9 2 (1.90%) .NET
9 2 (1.90%) JSON
9 2 (1.90%) REST
10 1 (0.95%) CSS
10 1 (0.95%) CSS3
10 1 (0.95%) HTML
10 1 (0.95%) HTML5
10 1 (0.95%) LAMP
10 1 (0.95%) LEMP Stack
10 1 (0.95%) SOAP
10 1 (0.95%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 30 (28.57%) Replication
2 9 (8.57%) BYOD
3 7 (6.67%) Data Centre
4 6 (5.71%) Private Cloud
5 5 (4.76%) Onboarding
5 5 (4.76%) Public Cloud
6 4 (3.81%) Clustering
6 4 (3.81%) PKI
7 3 (2.86%) Educational Technology
8 2 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.90%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.95%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.95%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.95%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 43 (40.95%) Windows
2 32 (30.48%) Windows Server
3 11 (10.48%) Linux
4 4 (3.81%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (3.81%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.95%) Android
5 1 (0.95%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.95%) CentOS
5 1 (0.95%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (31.43%) Migration
2 30 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
3 29 (27.62%) RBAC
4 28 (26.67%) High Availability
5 25 (23.81%) Root Cause Analysis
6 24 (22.86%) Disaster Recovery
7 21 (20.00%) DevOps
8 17 (16.19%) Roadmaps
8 17 (16.19%) Zero Trust
9 15 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (13.33%) CI/CD
10 14 (13.33%) Digital Identity
10 14 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (13.33%) Task Automation
11 11 (10.48%) Data Protection
12 9 (8.57%) Cybersecurity
12 9 (8.57%) E-Discovery
12 9 (8.57%) Mentoring
12 9 (8.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 8 (7.62%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 56 (53.33%) PowerShell
2 8 (7.62%) SQL
3 6 (5.71%) Java
4 2 (1.90%) Python
5 1 (0.95%) Bash
5 1 (0.95%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.95%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 63 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 43 (40.95%) SC Cleared
3 18 (17.14%) DV Cleared
4 16 (15.24%) Degree
4 16 (15.24%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (7.62%) MCSA
5 8 (7.62%) MCSE
6 4 (3.81%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.86%) CISM
7 3 (2.86%) CISSP
8 2 (1.90%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.90%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.95%) CEH
9 1 (0.95%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (21.90%) GDPR
2 16 (15.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (4.76%) NIST
4 4 (3.81%) SLA
5 3 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.86%) NCSC
6 1 (0.95%) NIST 800
System Software
1 97 (92.38%) Active Directory
2 17 (16.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (9.52%) Docker
4 7 (6.67%) VMware NSX
5 5 (4.76%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (3.81%) vSphere
7 2 (1.90%) UAG
7 2 (1.90%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.95%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.95%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.95%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 43 (40.95%) Single Sign-On
2 20 (19.05%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (6.67%) SCCM
4 6 (5.71%) CA Single Sign-On
5 4 (3.81%) Kubernetes
5 4 (3.81%) PingFederate
6 3 (2.86%) Ansible
6 3 (2.86%) Terraform
7 2 (1.90%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.95%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 80 (76.19%) Microsoft
2 18 (17.14%) VMware
3 16 (15.24%) Okta
4 5 (4.76%) F5
5 4 (3.81%) CyberArk
5 4 (3.81%) Ping Identity
5 4 (3.81%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.81%) Veeam
6 3 (2.86%) BeyondTrust
6 3 (2.86%) Cisco
6 3 (2.86%) Forcepoint
6 3 (2.86%) Proofpoint
7 2 (1.90%) Thycotic
8 1 (0.95%) Becrypt
8 1 (0.95%) ESRI
8 1 (0.95%) Juniper
8 1 (0.95%) LogRhythm
8 1 (0.95%) MobileIron
8 1 (0.95%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.95%) Sparx