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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 490 488 437
Rank change year-on-year -2 -51 +137
Contract jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services 29 112 287
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.099% 0.26% 0.48%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.63% 2.18% 2.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 63 220
10th Percentile £450 £389 £400
25th Percentile £463 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £651 £608 £600
90th Percentile £675 £685 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £605 £513
% change year-on-year +3.31% +18.05% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 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 4,603 5,146 9,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.74% 11.80% 16.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,154 3,676 6,945
10th Percentile £313 £257 £356
25th Percentile £419 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £563
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -8.43% -0.44%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £675
90th Percentile £725 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 127 209
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.00 £16.48
25th Percentile £20.13 £17.77 £22.75
Median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%
75th Percentile £51.75 £54.38 £71.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.50 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.34 £38.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year -34.18% -12.00% +118.75%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 -2 26 £575 +9.52% 13
UK excluding London +12 13 £625 +3.31% 9
London -6 11 £495 +4.21% 4
Work from Home +25 10 £510 -15.70% 13
North of England +27 5 £401 -11.00% 2
South West +40 4 £613 +36.87% 2
South East +24 4 £638 +5.37% 2
North West +13 4 £304 -27.62% 1
Yorkshire +13 1 £725 +54.67%

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 10 (34.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (31.03%) SharePoint
3 3 (10.34%) Confluence
3 3 (10.34%) IIS
3 3 (10.34%) Skype for Business
4 2 (6.90%) nginx
4 2 (6.90%) SharePoint Server
4 2 (6.90%) Traefik
5 1 (3.45%) Apache
5 1 (3.45%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (3.45%) Mattermost
Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (3.45%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 21 (72.41%) Azure
2 19 (65.52%) Entra ID
3 11 (37.93%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (31.03%) AWS
5 7 (24.14%) SaaS
6 6 (20.69%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (20.69%) GCP
7 5 (17.24%) OneDrive
8 2 (6.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (6.90%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (6.90%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (6.90%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (6.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (3.45%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (3.45%) Azure Service Fabric
9 1 (3.45%) Azure Storage
9 1 (3.45%) PaaS
9 1 (3.45%) Slack
9 1 (3.45%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 9 (31.03%) DNS
2 6 (20.69%) Firewall
2 6 (20.69%) Network Security
2 6 (20.69%) NGFW
2 6 (20.69%) SSL
3 4 (13.79%) DHCP
3 4 (13.79%) Skype
4 3 (10.34%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.45%) Intranet
5 1 (3.45%) Kerberos
5 1 (3.45%) LAN
5 1 (3.45%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (3.45%) SMTP
5 1 (3.45%) VSAN
5 1 (3.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.90%) MongoDB
2 2 (6.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (17.24%) JIRA
2 4 (13.79%) GitLab
3 3 (10.34%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (31.03%) Finance
2 8 (27.59%) Social Skills
3 5 (17.24%) Public Sector
4 4 (13.79%) Military
5 2 (6.90%) Banking
5 2 (6.90%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (6.90%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (6.90%) Publishing
6 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (37.93%) Architect
2 8 (27.59%) Security Architect
3 4 (13.79%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Azure Architect
4 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Architect
4 3 (10.34%) Senior
5 2 (6.90%) Active Directory Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Messaging Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Microsoft 365 Architect
5 2 (6.90%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (6.90%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Technical Architect
5 2 (6.90%) Wintel Architect
5 2 (6.90%) Wintel Technical Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Active Directory Support
6 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (27.59%) SAML
2 2 (6.90%) ARM Templates
2 2 (6.90%) cloud-init
2 2 (6.90%) Kafka
2 2 (6.90%) Keycloak
2 2 (6.90%) LDAP
3 1 (3.45%) .NET
3 1 (3.45%) Entity Framework
3 1 (3.45%) ModSecurity
3 1 (3.45%) OAuth
3 1 (3.45%) SailPoint
3 1 (3.45%) SOAP
3 1 (3.45%) XML
3 1 (3.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) PKI
2 5 (17.24%) Onboarding
3 4 (13.79%) Data Centre
3 4 (13.79%) Security Posture
4 3 (10.34%) BYOD
5 2 (6.90%) Blackberry
5 2 (6.90%) Cloud Native
5 2 (6.90%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (6.90%) Management Information System
5 2 (6.90%) Operational Technology
5 2 (6.90%) Public Cloud
6 1 (3.45%) Blog
6 1 (3.45%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (3.45%) Mobile App
6 1 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (62.07%) Windows
2 10 (34.48%) Windows Server
3 7 (24.14%) Linux
3 7 (24.14%) Windows 10
4 5 (17.24%) Mac OS
5 4 (13.79%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (13.79%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (6.90%) Android
6 2 (6.90%) Apple iOS
6 2 (6.90%) CentOS
6 2 (6.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (6.90%) Unix
7 1 (3.45%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (44.83%) Migration
2 9 (31.03%) Agile
2 9 (31.03%) DevOps
2 9 (31.03%) Identity Management
3 7 (24.14%) Microservices
3 7 (24.14%) Root Cause Analysis
4 6 (20.69%) Application Security
4 6 (20.69%) CI/CD
4 6 (20.69%) Data Security
4 6 (20.69%) ITIL
4 6 (20.69%) Network Load Balancing
4 6 (20.69%) RBAC
4 6 (20.69%) Security Architecture
4 6 (20.69%) SIEM
4 6 (20.69%) TOGAF
5 5 (17.24%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (13.79%) Identity Access Management
6 4 (13.79%) Privileged Access Management
6 4 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (13.79%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (24.14%) PowerShell
2 4 (13.79%) Bash
2 4 (13.79%) Python
3 3 (10.34%) C#
3 3 (10.34%) VB
3 3 (10.34%) VBScript
4 2 (6.90%) Go
4 2 (6.90%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.90%) SQL
5 1 (3.45%) Bicep
5 1 (3.45%) Java
Qualifications
1 13 (44.83%) Security Cleared
2 12 (41.38%) SC Cleared
3 7 (24.14%) CISM
3 7 (24.14%) CISSP
4 4 (13.79%) Azure Certification
4 4 (13.79%) Degree
4 4 (13.79%) DV Cleared
5 3 (10.34%) MCSE
5 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (6.90%) AWS Certification
6 2 (6.90%) MCP
6 2 (6.90%) MCSA
6 2 (6.90%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (3.45%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (3.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.24%) NCSC
2 1 (3.45%) GDPR
2 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.45%) NIST
2 1 (3.45%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (89.66%) Active Directory
2 8 (27.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (13.79%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (10.34%) Hyper-V
4 3 (10.34%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (6.90%) BitLocker
5 2 (6.90%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (6.90%) XenDesktop
6 1 (3.45%) Docker
6 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (3.45%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (3.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (31.03%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (24.14%) Terraform
3 6 (20.69%) SCCM
4 4 (13.79%) Kubernetes
5 3 (10.34%) Forefront Identity Manager
5 3 (10.34%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (10.34%) Prometheus
5 3 (10.34%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (6.90%) Consul
6 2 (6.90%) Grafana
6 2 (6.90%) HAProxy
6 2 (6.90%) Istio
6 2 (6.90%) linkerd
6 2 (6.90%) Packer
6 2 (6.90%) Rancher
6 2 (6.90%) SCOM
6 2 (6.90%) WSUS
6 2 (6.90%) ZABBIX
7 1 (3.45%) Nagios
7 1 (3.45%) OPNET
Vendors
1 25 (86.21%) Microsoft
2 11 (37.93%) VMware
3 3 (10.34%) Apple
3 3 (10.34%) ESET
3 3 (10.34%) Splunk
4 2 (6.90%) Atlassian
4 2 (6.90%) Citrix
4 2 (6.90%) McAfee
4 2 (6.90%) Okta
4 2 (6.90%) Symantec
5 1 (3.45%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (3.45%) Commvault
5 1 (3.45%) CyberArk
5 1 (3.45%) Oracle
5 1 (3.45%) Remedy
5 1 (3.45%) SolarWinds