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 28 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 555 513 505
Rank change year-on-year -42 -8 -24
Contract jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services 91 19 82
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.062% 0.19%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.33% 0.39% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 13 47
10th Percentile £480 £158 £402
25th Percentile £488 £176 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £605
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -13.22% +13.88%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £608
90th Percentile £743 £673 £610
UK excluding London median daily rate £563 £179 £605
% change year-on-year +214.25% -70.41% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
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 6,836 4,813 5,369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.40% 15.75% 12.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,680 3,204 3,831
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £422 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -1.44% -5.45%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 54 103
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £16.05
25th Percentile £22.11 £20.54 £21.29
Median hourly rate £55.50 £37.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +48.00% +15.38% -43.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.36 £50.00
90th Percentile £76.20 £78.34 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £55.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -4.55% +37.50% -6.98%

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 28 June 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 28 June 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 -52 91 £575 +12.75% 9
UK excluding London -63 56 £563 +214.25% 8
London -41 35 £600 +14.29% 1
South East -36 31 £525 +196.61% 2
Work from Home -29 24 £600 +9.09% 4
North of England - 16 £662 - 3
South West -27 12 £650 +6.12% 2
North West - 12 £662 - 2
Yorkshire - 3 £565 - 1
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 8 (8.79%) SharePoint
2 7 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (5.49%) Confluence
4 3 (3.30%) Apache
4 3 (3.30%) IIS
4 3 (3.30%) nginx
4 3 (3.30%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.10%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 6 (6.59%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.30%) Veritas eDiscovery
2 2 (2.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 69 (75.82%) Azure
2 59 (64.84%) Entra ID
3 23 (25.27%) AWS
4 20 (21.98%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (9.89%) GCP
6 4 (4.40%) Microsoft Copilot
6 4 (4.40%) OneDrive
6 4 (4.40%) PaaS
7 3 (3.30%) Cloudflare
7 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (2.20%) Amazon ECR
8 2 (2.20%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.20%) Azure Service Fabric
8 2 (2.20%) IaaS
8 2 (2.20%) Nutanix
8 2 (2.20%) SaaS
8 2 (2.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (1.10%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (1.10%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 39 (42.86%) DNS
2 33 (36.26%) Kerberos
3 32 (35.16%) DHCP
4 14 (15.38%) Firewall
5 5 (5.49%) Network Security
6 4 (4.40%) SSL
7 2 (2.20%) BIG-IP
7 2 (2.20%) NAS
7 2 (2.20%) NetScaler
7 2 (2.20%) TCP/IP
8 1 (1.10%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.40%) Metadata
2 3 (3.30%) MySQL
2 3 (3.30%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.10%) GIS
Development Applications
1 10 (10.99%) JIRA
2 2 (2.20%) Git
2 2 (2.20%) GitLab
General
1 16 (17.58%) Social Skills
2 13 (14.29%) Finance
3 7 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (5.49%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.30%) Banking
6 2 (2.20%) Retail
7 1 (1.10%) Aviation
7 1 (1.10%) Legal
7 1 (1.10%) Military
Job Titles
1 16 (17.58%) Architect
2 8 (8.79%) Technical Architect
3 6 (6.59%) Lead
3 6 (6.59%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 4 (4.40%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (4.40%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (3.30%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 3 (3.30%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (3.30%) Consultant
5 3 (3.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (3.30%) IT Support
5 3 (3.30%) IT Support Technician
5 3 (3.30%) IT Technician
5 3 (3.30%) Security Architect
5 3 (3.30%) Support Technician
5 3 (3.30%) Technology Manager
6 2 (2.20%) Data Analyst
6 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Engineer
6 2 (2.20%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (2.20%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (50.55%) LDAP
2 40 (43.96%) OAuth
2 40 (43.96%) SAML
3 23 (25.27%) OpenID
4 11 (12.09%) OAuth2
5 5 (5.49%) SailPoint
5 5 (5.49%) YAML
6 4 (4.40%) ARM Templates
7 3 (3.30%) .NET
7 3 (3.30%) JSON
7 3 (3.30%) LAMP
7 3 (3.30%) LEMP Stack
7 3 (3.30%) REST
7 3 (3.30%) Web Services
8 2 (2.20%) Entity Framework
8 2 (2.20%) SOAP
9 1 (1.10%) CSS
9 1 (1.10%) CSS3
9 1 (1.10%) HTML
9 1 (1.10%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 27 (29.67%) Replication
2 7 (7.69%) Data Centre
2 7 (7.69%) PKI
3 4 (4.40%) BYOD
3 4 (4.40%) Clustering
3 4 (4.40%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.40%) Private Cloud
3 4 (4.40%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.30%) Educational Technology
4 3 (3.30%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.30%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.20%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.20%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.20%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.10%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.10%) IoT
6 1 (1.10%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 34 (37.36%) Windows
2 29 (31.87%) Windows Server
3 13 (14.29%) Linux
4 4 (4.40%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (4.40%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (3.30%) CentOS
5 3 (3.30%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.10%) Android
6 1 (1.10%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (29.67%) Identity Access Management
2 26 (28.57%) Migration
3 22 (24.18%) High Availability
4 20 (21.98%) RBAC
4 20 (21.98%) Zero Trust
5 18 (19.78%) Disaster Recovery
5 18 (19.78%) Root Cause Analysis
6 16 (17.58%) DevOps
7 14 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
7 14 (15.38%) Roadmaps
8 13 (14.29%) CI/CD
8 13 (14.29%) Task Automation
9 12 (13.19%) Digital Identity
9 12 (13.19%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (12.09%) Data Protection
10 11 (12.09%) Infrastructure as Code
10 11 (12.09%) Technical Leadership
11 10 (10.99%) Agile
11 10 (10.99%) ITIL
11 10 (10.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 48 (52.75%) PowerShell
2 7 (7.69%) Java
3 5 (5.49%) Python
4 3 (3.30%) Bash
4 3 (3.30%) SQL
5 1 (1.10%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.10%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 52 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 39 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 15 (16.48%) Degree
4 11 (12.09%) DV Cleared
5 8 (8.79%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (5.49%) Azure Certification
7 4 (4.40%) CISSP
8 3 (3.30%) AWS Certification
8 3 (3.30%) CISM
8 3 (3.30%) Master's Degree
8 3 (3.30%) MCSA
8 3 (3.30%) MCSE
9 2 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (2.20%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (1.10%) CEH
10 1 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.10%) GIAC
10 1 (1.10%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (1.10%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (25.27%) GDPR
2 14 (15.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 6 (6.59%) NCSC
4 5 (5.49%) NIST
5 3 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (3.30%) SLA
6 1 (1.10%) NIST 800
System Software
1 82 (90.11%) Active Directory
2 15 (16.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (7.69%) VMware NSX
4 4 (4.40%) Docker
5 3 (3.30%) Dovecot
5 3 (3.30%) OpenAM
5 3 (3.30%) Postfix
5 3 (3.30%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (2.20%) UAG
6 2 (2.20%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (2.20%) vSphere
7 1 (1.10%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 1 (1.10%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 31 (34.07%) Single Sign-On
2 13 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (7.69%) Terraform
4 6 (6.59%) CA Single Sign-On
5 5 (5.49%) Ansible
5 5 (5.49%) SCCM
6 4 (4.40%) Kubernetes
6 4 (4.40%) PingFederate
7 3 (3.30%) HAProxy
8 2 (2.20%) vCenter Server
9 1 (1.10%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 72 (79.12%) Microsoft
2 15 (16.48%) Okta
2 15 (16.48%) VMware
3 5 (5.49%) Cisco
3 5 (5.49%) F5
4 4 (4.40%) Ping Identity
4 4 (4.40%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.30%) CyberArk
5 3 (3.30%) Forcepoint
5 3 (3.30%) Juniper
5 3 (3.30%) Proofpoint
5 3 (3.30%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.20%) BeyondTrust
6 2 (2.20%) Sparx
6 2 (2.20%) Thycotic
6 2 (2.20%) Veeam
7 1 (1.10%) Becrypt
7 1 (1.10%) ESRI
7 1 (1.10%) LogRhythm
7 1 (1.10%) MobileIron