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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 604 528 509
Rank change year-on-year -76 -19 -23
Contract jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services 61 27 76
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.083% 0.19%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.87% 0.53% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 16 47
10th Percentile £471 £159 £402
25th Percentile £488 £178 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £363 £575
Median % change year-on-year +53.79% -36.96% +9.52%
75th Percentile £685 £593 £608
90th Percentile £775 £644 £634
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £268 £605
% change year-on-year +114.55% -55.70% +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 7,023 5,114 5,357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.31% 15.65% 13.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,769 3,378 3,800
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £505 £520
Median % change year-on-year +1.98% -2.88% -5.45%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £624
90th Percentile £688 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 74 84
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £17.22
25th Percentile £25.07 £20.25 £21.68
Median hourly rate £59.37 £37.75 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year +57.26% +31.30% -50.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.66 £53.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.34 £73.18
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.12 £55.00 £33.58
% change year-on-year +3.85% +63.78% -26.99%

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 July 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 July 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 -75 61 £558 +71.54% 14
UK excluding London -84 44 £575 +114.55% 9
South East -51 25 £525 +194.94% 1
London -64 17 £485 -7.62% 5
North of England -51 15 £662 - 2
North West -34 11 £662 - 2
Work from Home -47 11 £541 +9.27% 8
South West -36 7 £575 - 5
Yorkshire - 3 £565 -
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 7 (11.48%) SharePoint
2 5 (8.20%) Confluence
2 5 (8.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (4.92%) Apache
3 3 (4.92%) IIS
3 3 (4.92%) nginx
3 3 (4.92%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.64%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 4 (6.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (1.64%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 46 (75.41%) Azure
2 37 (60.66%) Entra ID
3 22 (36.07%) AWS
4 15 (24.59%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (14.75%) GCP
6 4 (6.56%) OneDrive
7 3 (4.92%) Cloudflare
7 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (4.92%) PaaS
8 2 (3.28%) Amazon ECR
8 2 (3.28%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.28%) IaaS
8 2 (3.28%) SaaS
8 2 (3.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (1.64%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.64%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.64%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (1.64%) Azure Service Fabric
Communications & Networking
1 17 (27.87%) DNS
2 14 (22.95%) Kerberos
3 12 (19.67%) DHCP
4 8 (13.11%) Firewall
5 4 (6.56%) SSL
6 2 (3.28%) BIG-IP
6 2 (3.28%) NAS
6 2 (3.28%) Network Security
7 1 (1.64%) NetScaler
7 1 (1.64%) SAN
7 1 (1.64%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.56%) Metadata
2 3 (4.92%) MySQL
2 3 (4.92%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.64%) GIS
Development Applications
1 10 (16.39%) JIRA
2 2 (3.28%) Git
2 2 (3.28%) GitLab
General
1 12 (19.67%) Finance
2 11 (18.03%) Social Skills
3 5 (8.20%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (8.20%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.92%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.92%) Banking
5 2 (3.28%) Retail
6 1 (1.64%) Aviation
6 1 (1.64%) Legal
6 1 (1.64%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (19.67%) Architect
2 6 (9.84%) Lead
3 5 (8.20%) Technical Architect
4 4 (6.56%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (6.56%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 3 (4.92%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 3 (4.92%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (4.92%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (4.92%) Security Architect
5 3 (4.92%) Technology Manager
6 2 (3.28%) Analyst
6 2 (3.28%) Consultant
6 2 (3.28%) Data Analyst
6 2 (3.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (3.28%) IT Support
6 2 (3.28%) IT Support Technician
6 2 (3.28%) IT Technician
6 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Engineer
6 2 (3.28%) Support Technician
7 1 (1.64%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (44.26%) LDAP
2 24 (39.34%) OAuth
2 24 (39.34%) SAML
3 21 (34.43%) OpenID
4 9 (14.75%) OAuth2
5 4 (6.56%) SailPoint
5 4 (6.56%) YAML
6 3 (4.92%) .NET
6 3 (4.92%) ARM Templates
6 3 (4.92%) JSON
6 3 (4.92%) LAMP
6 3 (4.92%) LEMP Stack
6 3 (4.92%) REST
6 3 (4.92%) Web Services
7 2 (3.28%) SOAP
8 1 (1.64%) CSS
8 1 (1.64%) CSS3
8 1 (1.64%) FIDO
8 1 (1.64%) HTML
8 1 (1.64%) WebAuthn
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.48%) PKI
1 7 (11.48%) Replication
2 4 (6.56%) Clustering
2 4 (6.56%) Data Centre
2 4 (6.56%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.92%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.92%) Public Cloud
3 3 (4.92%) Security Posture
4 2 (3.28%) BYOD
4 2 (3.28%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.28%) Educational Technology
4 2 (3.28%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (3.28%) Operational Technology
4 2 (3.28%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.64%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.64%) IoT
5 1 (1.64%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 14 (22.95%) Windows
2 10 (16.39%) Linux
3 9 (14.75%) Windows Server
4 3 (4.92%) CentOS
4 3 (4.92%) Ubuntu
4 3 (4.92%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (4.92%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (1.64%) Android
5 1 (1.64%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (29.51%) Migration
2 17 (27.87%) Zero Trust
3 15 (24.59%) Root Cause Analysis
4 14 (22.95%) DevOps
5 13 (21.31%) Cybersecurity
6 12 (19.67%) CI/CD
6 12 (19.67%) Roadmaps
7 10 (16.39%) Agile
7 10 (16.39%) Data Protection
7 10 (16.39%) Identity Access Management
7 10 (16.39%) ITIL
8 9 (14.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 8 (13.11%) Architectural Patterns
9 8 (13.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (13.11%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (11.48%) High Availability
10 7 (11.48%) Infrastructure as Code
10 7 (11.48%) Technical Leadership
11 6 (9.84%) Digital Identity
11 6 (9.84%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 23 (37.70%) PowerShell
2 7 (11.48%) Java
3 5 (8.20%) Python
4 3 (4.92%) Bash
5 2 (3.28%) SQL
6 1 (1.64%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.64%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 27 (44.26%) Security Cleared
2 19 (31.15%) SC Cleared
3 12 (19.67%) Degree
4 6 (9.84%) DV Cleared
5 5 (8.20%) Azure Certification
6 4 (6.56%) CISSP
6 4 (6.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (4.92%) AWS Certification
7 3 (4.92%) CISM
7 3 (4.92%) Master's Degree
8 2 (3.28%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (1.64%) CEH
9 1 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.64%) GIAC
9 1 (1.64%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (1.64%) MCSA
9 1 (1.64%) MCSE
9 1 (1.64%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (16.39%) GDPR
2 6 (9.84%) NCSC
3 5 (8.20%) NIST
4 3 (4.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (4.92%) SLA
5 1 (1.64%) NIST 800
5 1 (1.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 53 (86.89%) Active Directory
2 9 (14.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (6.56%) VMware NSX
4 3 (4.92%) Dovecot
4 3 (4.92%) OpenAM
4 3 (4.92%) Postfix
5 2 (3.28%) Docker
5 2 (3.28%) UAG
5 2 (3.28%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (3.28%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.64%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 1 (1.64%) BitLocker
6 1 (1.64%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (24.59%) Single Sign-On
2 9 (14.75%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (11.48%) Terraform
4 6 (9.84%) CA Single Sign-On
5 5 (8.20%) Ansible
6 4 (6.56%) PingFederate
7 3 (4.92%) HAProxy
7 3 (4.92%) Kubernetes
7 3 (4.92%) SCCM
8 2 (3.28%) vCenter Server
9 1 (1.64%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 46 (75.41%) Microsoft
2 9 (14.75%) VMware
3 5 (8.20%) Cisco
4 4 (6.56%) F5
4 4 (6.56%) Ping Identity
4 4 (6.56%) ServiceNow
5 3 (4.92%) CyberArk
5 3 (4.92%) Forcepoint
5 3 (4.92%) Juniper
5 3 (4.92%) Proofpoint
5 3 (4.92%) Red Hat
6 2 (3.28%) BeyondTrust
6 2 (3.28%) Okta
6 2 (3.28%) Sparx
6 2 (3.28%) Thycotic
7 1 (1.64%) Becrypt
7 1 (1.64%) ESRI
7 1 (1.64%) LogRhythm
7 1 (1.64%) MobileIron
7 1 (1.64%) Veeam