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 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 513 499 473
Rank change year-on-year -14 -26 -27
Contract jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services 110 31 113
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.11% 0.26%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.71% 0.67% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 23 64
10th Percentile £430 £450 £390
25th Percentile £488 £478 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £605 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.96% +15.24% +5.00%
75th Percentile £613 £651 £608
90th Percentile £708 £675 £684
UK excluding London median daily rate £568 £615 £605
% change year-on-year -7.72% +1.65% +21.00%
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 6,426 4,620 5,128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.75% 15.73% 11.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,419 3,181 3,668
10th Percentile £325 £313 £250
25th Percentile £413 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -8.93%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -1.00% +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 157 51 127
10th Percentile £20.09 £13.75 £14.00
25th Percentile £34.49 £20.65 £17.77
Median hourly rate £55.00 £26.45 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +107.94% -16.03% -45.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £51.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £77.35 £70.00 £70.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £25.34 £38.50
% change year-on-year +117.05% -34.18% -14.21%

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 26 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 26 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 -23 101 £555 -8.26% 1
UK excluding London -42 56 £568 -7.72% 3
London -39 43 £555 +12.12%
Work from Home -7 28 £600 +14.29% 1
South West -14 20 £650 +6.12% 1
North of England -53 20 £550 +37.33%
South East -50 19 £525 -16.00%
North West -24 15 £550 +80.92%
Yorkshire -57 4 £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 12 (10.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (5.45%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.64%) Confluence
4 1 (0.91%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 8 (7.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (7.27%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 69 (62.73%) Azure
2 64 (58.18%) Entra ID
3 28 (25.45%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (12.73%) AWS
5 9 (8.18%) GCP
5 9 (8.18%) PaaS
6 7 (6.36%) Azure Service Fabric
7 4 (3.64%) Nutanix
7 4 (3.64%) OneDrive
8 3 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.82%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (1.82%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.82%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (1.82%) IaaS
9 2 (1.82%) SaaS
10 1 (0.91%) GitHub
10 1 (0.91%) GitHub Copilot
10 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (0.91%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 50 (45.45%) DNS
2 37 (33.64%) DHCP
2 37 (33.64%) Kerberos
3 18 (16.36%) Firewall
4 5 (4.55%) Network Security
5 4 (3.64%) NetScaler
5 4 (3.64%) SSL
5 4 (3.64%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.82%) DKIM
6 2 (1.82%) DMARC
6 2 (1.82%) X.500
7 1 (0.91%) Intranet
7 1 (0.91%) NAS
7 1 (0.91%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.55%) Metadata
2 1 (0.91%) GIS
Development Applications
1 7 (6.36%) JIRA
2 2 (1.82%) Git
General
1 23 (20.91%) Social Skills
2 12 (10.91%) Documentation Skills
2 12 (10.91%) Finance
3 9 (8.18%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.55%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.82%) Banking
5 2 (1.82%) Retail
6 1 (0.91%) International Banking
6 1 (0.91%) Legal
6 1 (0.91%) Military
Job Titles
1 16 (14.55%) Architect
2 9 (8.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (8.18%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 7 (6.36%) Azure Engineer
4 6 (5.45%) Technical Architect
5 5 (4.55%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 5 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (3.64%) Consultant
6 4 (3.64%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
6 4 (3.64%) Lead
7 3 (2.73%) IT Support
7 3 (2.73%) IT Support Technician
7 3 (2.73%) IT Technician
7 3 (2.73%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.73%) Support Technician
8 2 (1.82%) Azure Security Engineer
8 2 (1.82%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 2 (1.82%) Data Analyst
8 2 (1.82%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (37.27%) LDAP
2 39 (35.45%) OAuth
2 39 (35.45%) SAML
3 20 (18.18%) OpenID
4 12 (10.91%) OAuth2
5 10 (9.09%) SailPoint
6 9 (8.18%) ARM Templates
7 7 (6.36%) Entity Framework
7 7 (6.36%) YAML
8 2 (1.82%) JSON
9 1 (0.91%) CSS
9 1 (0.91%) CSS3
9 1 (0.91%) HTML
9 1 (0.91%) HTML5
9 1 (0.91%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 34 (30.91%) Replication
2 9 (8.18%) BYOD
3 7 (6.36%) Data Centre
4 6 (5.45%) PKI
4 6 (5.45%) Private Cloud
5 5 (4.55%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.64%) Clustering
6 4 (3.64%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.73%) Educational Technology
8 2 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.82%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.91%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 52 (47.27%) Windows
2 37 (33.64%) Windows Server
3 10 (9.09%) Linux
4 4 (3.64%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (3.64%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.91%) Android
5 1 (0.91%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (32.73%) RBAC
2 35 (31.82%) Migration
3 33 (30.00%) Identity Access Management
4 28 (25.45%) High Availability
5 24 (21.82%) Disaster Recovery
6 21 (19.09%) Root Cause Analysis
7 19 (17.27%) DevOps
8 15 (13.64%) Roadmaps
9 14 (12.73%) Digital Identity
9 14 (12.73%) Infrastructure as Code
9 14 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (12.73%) Task Automation
10 13 (11.82%) Zero Trust
11 11 (10.00%) CI/CD
12 10 (9.09%) Data Protection
12 10 (9.09%) Identity Management
12 10 (9.09%) Load Balancing
12 10 (9.09%) Mentoring
12 10 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
13 9 (8.18%) E-Discovery
Programming Languages
1 60 (54.55%) PowerShell
2 8 (7.27%) SQL
3 4 (3.64%) Java
4 2 (1.82%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (0.91%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.91%) Python
Qualifications
1 68 (61.82%) Security Cleared
2 43 (39.09%) SC Cleared
3 25 (22.73%) DV Cleared
4 20 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (14.55%) Degree
6 8 (7.27%) MCSA
6 8 (7.27%) MCSE
7 4 (3.64%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.82%) CISM
8 2 (1.82%) CISSP
8 2 (1.82%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (18.18%) GDPR
2 16 (14.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 6 (5.45%) NIST
4 4 (3.64%) SLA
5 3 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.91%) NCSC
6 1 (0.91%) NIST 800
System Software
1 103 (93.64%) Active Directory
2 17 (15.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (9.09%) Docker
4 7 (6.36%) VMware NSX
5 5 (4.55%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (3.64%) vSphere
7 2 (1.82%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 2 (1.82%) UAG
7 2 (1.82%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.91%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 49 (44.55%) Single Sign-On
2 19 (17.27%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (6.36%) SCCM
4 6 (5.45%) CA Single Sign-On
5 4 (3.64%) Kubernetes
5 4 (3.64%) PingFederate
6 2 (1.82%) Ansible
6 2 (1.82%) Terraform
6 2 (1.82%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 79 (71.82%) Microsoft
2 19 (17.27%) VMware
3 16 (14.55%) Okta
4 4 (3.64%) CyberArk
4 4 (3.64%) F5
4 4 (3.64%) Ping Identity
4 4 (3.64%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.64%) Veeam
5 3 (2.73%) BeyondTrust
6 2 (1.82%) Cisco
6 2 (1.82%) LogRhythm
6 2 (1.82%) Thycotic
7 1 (0.91%) Becrypt
7 1 (0.91%) ESRI
7 1 (0.91%) MobileIron