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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 605 526 505
Rank change year-on-year -79 -21 -29
Contract jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services 58 28 75
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.086% 0.18%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.82% 0.55% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 16 46
10th Percentile £465 £159 £399
25th Percentile £488 £178 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £363 £575
Median % change year-on-year +54.48% -36.96% +9.52%
75th Percentile £687 £593 £608
90th Percentile £775 £644 £639
UK excluding London median daily rate £662 £268 £605
% change year-on-year +147.01% -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 7,067 5,117 5,350
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.34% 15.64% 13.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,797 3,373 3,788
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £503 £520
Median % change year-on-year +2.49% -3.37% -5.45%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 74 86
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £17.36
25th Percentile £25.00 £20.25 £22.08
Median hourly rate £59.37 £37.75 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.26% +25.83% -48.80%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.66 £54.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.34 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.12 £55.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% +61.76% -26.38%

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 25 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 25 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 -80 58 £560 +72.31% 12
UK excluding London -70 41 £662 +147.01% 8
South East -58 24 £613 +244.10% 1
London -51 17 £485 -7.62% 5
North of England -64 15 £662 - 2
North West -42 11 £662 - 2
Work from Home -60 10 £541 +9.27% 8
South West -29 5 £650 +13.04% 5
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 7 (12.07%) SharePoint
2 5 (8.62%) Confluence
2 5 (8.62%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (5.17%) Apache
3 3 (5.17%) IIS
3 3 (5.17%) nginx
3 3 (5.17%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.72%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 4 (6.90%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (1.72%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 44 (75.86%) Azure
2 35 (60.34%) Entra ID
3 22 (37.93%) AWS
4 15 (25.86%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (15.52%) GCP
6 4 (6.90%) OneDrive
7 3 (5.17%) Cloudflare
7 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (3.45%) Amazon ECR
8 2 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (3.45%) PaaS
8 2 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.72%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.72%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.72%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (1.72%) Azure Service Fabric
9 1 (1.72%) IaaS
9 1 (1.72%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (25.86%) DNS
2 13 (22.41%) Kerberos
3 10 (17.24%) DHCP
4 8 (13.79%) Firewall
5 4 (6.90%) SSL
6 2 (3.45%) BIG-IP
6 2 (3.45%) NAS
6 2 (3.45%) Network Security
7 1 (1.72%) NetScaler
7 1 (1.72%) SAN
7 1 (1.72%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.90%) Metadata
2 3 (5.17%) MySQL
2 3 (5.17%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.72%) GIS
Development Applications
1 9 (15.52%) JIRA
2 2 (3.45%) GitLab
3 1 (1.72%) Git
General
1 12 (20.69%) Finance
2 10 (17.24%) Social Skills
3 5 (8.62%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.90%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.17%) Banking
6 2 (3.45%) Retail
7 1 (1.72%) Aviation
7 1 (1.72%) Legal
7 1 (1.72%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (20.69%) Architect
2 6 (10.34%) Lead
3 5 (8.62%) Technical Architect
4 4 (6.90%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 3 (5.17%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (5.17%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (5.17%) Security Architect
5 3 (5.17%) Technology Manager
6 2 (3.45%) Analyst
6 2 (3.45%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 2 (3.45%) Consultant
6 2 (3.45%) Data Analyst
6 2 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (3.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (3.45%) IT Support
6 2 (3.45%) IT Support Technician
6 2 (3.45%) IT Technician
6 2 (3.45%) Support Technician
7 1 (1.72%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
7 1 (1.72%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (44.83%) LDAP
2 24 (41.38%) OAuth
2 24 (41.38%) SAML
3 21 (36.21%) OpenID
4 9 (15.52%) OAuth2
5 4 (6.90%) SailPoint
5 4 (6.90%) YAML
6 3 (5.17%) .NET
6 3 (5.17%) JSON
6 3 (5.17%) LAMP
6 3 (5.17%) LEMP Stack
6 3 (5.17%) REST
6 3 (5.17%) Web Services
7 2 (3.45%) ARM Templates
7 2 (3.45%) SOAP
8 1 (1.72%) CSS
8 1 (1.72%) Entity Framework
8 1 (1.72%) FIDO
8 1 (1.72%) HTML
8 1 (1.72%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.07%) PKI
2 6 (10.34%) Replication
3 4 (6.90%) Clustering
3 4 (6.90%) Data Centre
3 4 (6.90%) Onboarding
4 3 (5.17%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (5.17%) Public Cloud
4 3 (5.17%) Security Posture
5 2 (3.45%) BYOD
5 2 (3.45%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.45%) Educational Technology
5 2 (3.45%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (3.45%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.72%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.72%) IoT
6 1 (1.72%) iSeries
6 1 (1.72%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (22.41%) Windows
2 9 (15.52%) Linux
3 8 (13.79%) Windows Server
4 3 (5.17%) CentOS
4 3 (5.17%) Ubuntu
4 3 (5.17%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (5.17%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (1.72%) Android
5 1 (1.72%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (29.31%) Migration
1 17 (29.31%) Zero Trust
2 14 (24.14%) Root Cause Analysis
3 13 (22.41%) Cybersecurity
3 13 (22.41%) DevOps
4 12 (20.69%) Roadmaps
5 11 (18.97%) CI/CD
6 10 (17.24%) Data Protection
7 9 (15.52%) Agile
7 9 (15.52%) Identity Access Management
7 9 (15.52%) ITIL
7 9 (15.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 8 (13.79%) Architectural Patterns
8 8 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (12.07%) High Availability
9 7 (12.07%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (12.07%) Technical Leadership
10 6 (10.34%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (10.34%) OWASP
11 5 (8.62%) Digital Identity
Programming Languages
1 20 (34.48%) PowerShell
2 7 (12.07%) Java
3 5 (8.62%) Python
4 3 (5.17%) Bash
5 2 (3.45%) SQL
6 1 (1.72%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.72%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 25 (43.10%) Security Cleared
2 18 (31.03%) SC Cleared
3 12 (20.69%) Degree
4 5 (8.62%) DV Cleared
5 4 (6.90%) Azure Certification
5 4 (6.90%) CISSP
6 3 (5.17%) AWS Certification
6 3 (5.17%) CISM
6 3 (5.17%) Master's Degree
6 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (3.45%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.72%) CEH
8 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.72%) GIAC
8 1 (1.72%) MCSA
8 1 (1.72%) MCSE
8 1 (1.72%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (17.24%) GDPR
2 6 (10.34%) NCSC
3 5 (8.62%) NIST
4 3 (5.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (3.45%) SLA
6 1 (1.72%) NIST 800
6 1 (1.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 50 (86.21%) Active Directory
2 8 (13.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (6.90%) VMware NSX
4 3 (5.17%) Dovecot
4 3 (5.17%) OpenAM
4 3 (5.17%) Postfix
5 2 (3.45%) Docker
5 2 (3.45%) UAG
5 2 (3.45%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (3.45%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.72%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 1 (1.72%) BitLocker
6 1 (1.72%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (22.41%) Single Sign-On
2 9 (15.52%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (10.34%) CA Single Sign-On
3 6 (10.34%) Terraform
4 4 (6.90%) Ansible
4 4 (6.90%) PingFederate
5 3 (5.17%) HAProxy
5 3 (5.17%) Kubernetes
5 3 (5.17%) SCCM
6 2 (3.45%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.72%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 43 (74.14%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.79%) VMware
3 5 (8.62%) Cisco
4 4 (6.90%) F5
4 4 (6.90%) Ping Identity
4 4 (6.90%) ServiceNow
5 3 (5.17%) CyberArk
5 3 (5.17%) Forcepoint
5 3 (5.17%) Juniper
5 3 (5.17%) Proofpoint
5 3 (5.17%) Red Hat
6 2 (3.45%) BeyondTrust
6 2 (3.45%) Okta
6 2 (3.45%) Sparx
6 2 (3.45%) Thycotic
7 1 (1.72%) Becrypt
7 1 (1.72%) ESRI
7 1 (1.72%) LogRhythm
7 1 (1.72%) MobileIron
7 1 (1.72%) Veeam