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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 525 503 483
Rank change year-on-year -22 -20 -48
Contract jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services 105 23 96
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.079% 0.23%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.62% 0.50% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 17 53
10th Percentile £425 £171 £391
25th Percentile £488 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £613 £651 £608
90th Percentile £687 £700 £685
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £401 £605
% change year-on-year +37.33% -33.80% +10.00%
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 6,482 4,566 5,096
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.43% 15.69% 11.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,455 3,113 3,684
10th Percentile £325 £305 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £513
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +1.46% -8.15%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £688 £706 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £492 £488
% change year-on-year +0.01% +0.92% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 49 110
10th Percentile £20.09 £13.75 £14.00
25th Percentile £30.63 £21.39 £17.76
Median hourly rate £55.00 £27.50 £26.38
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% +4.24% -49.75%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.25 £50.19
90th Percentile £74.80 £78.96 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £37.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +46.67% +25.00% -25.09%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 -27 97 £555 +12.12% 11
UK excluding London -64 53 £550 +37.33% 11
London -21 42 £575 +12.75% 2
Work from Home -31 25 £600 +21.21% 4
South East -38 22 £525 +196.61% 5
North of England -53 20 £550 -2.27% 3
South West -23 14 £650 +6.12% 1
North West -27 14 £550 +37.33% 3
Yorkshire -48 5 £469 -35.31% 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 13 (12.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (7.62%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.81%) Confluence
4 1 (0.95%) Apache
4 1 (0.95%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.95%) IIS
4 1 (0.95%) nginx
4 1 (0.95%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (8.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (7.62%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 70 (66.67%) Azure
2 65 (61.90%) Entra ID
3 29 (27.62%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (16.19%) AWS
5 10 (9.52%) GCP
6 9 (8.57%) PaaS
7 7 (6.67%) Azure Service Fabric
8 5 (4.76%) OneDrive
9 4 (3.81%) Microsoft Copilot
9 4 (3.81%) Nutanix
10 3 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (2.86%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (1.90%) IaaS
11 2 (1.90%) SaaS
12 1 (0.95%) Azure Logic Apps
12 1 (0.95%) Azure Sentinel
12 1 (0.95%) Cloudflare
12 1 (0.95%) GitHub
12 1 (0.95%) GitHub Copilot
12 1 (0.95%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 43 (40.95%) DNS
2 37 (35.24%) DHCP
3 36 (34.29%) Kerberos
4 15 (14.29%) Firewall
5 5 (4.76%) Network Security
6 4 (3.81%) NetScaler
6 4 (3.81%) SSL
6 4 (3.81%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.90%) NAS
8 1 (0.95%) BIG-IP
8 1 (0.95%) Intranet
8 1 (0.95%) SAN
8 1 (0.95%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.76%) Metadata
2 1 (0.95%) GIS
2 1 (0.95%) MySQL
2 1 (0.95%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (6.67%) JIRA
2 2 (1.90%) Git
General
1 22 (20.95%) Social Skills
2 15 (14.29%) Finance
3 9 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.62%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (3.81%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.90%) Banking
6 2 (1.90%) Retail
7 1 (0.95%) Aviation
7 1 (0.95%) International Banking
7 1 (0.95%) Legal
7 1 (0.95%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (11.43%) Architect
2 11 (10.48%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 9 (8.57%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (5.71%) Azure Engineer
4 6 (5.71%) Technical Architect
5 5 (4.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 5 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (4.76%) Lead
5 5 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (3.81%) Consultant
6 4 (3.81%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
7 3 (2.86%) IT Support
7 3 (2.86%) IT Support Technician
7 3 (2.86%) IT Technician
7 3 (2.86%) Support Technician
8 2 (1.90%) Analyst
8 2 (1.90%) Data Analyst
8 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Engineer
8 2 (1.90%) Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.95%) Active Directory Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (39.05%) LDAP
2 37 (35.24%) OAuth
2 37 (35.24%) SAML
3 18 (17.14%) OpenID
4 10 (9.52%) SailPoint
5 9 (8.57%) ARM Templates
5 9 (8.57%) OAuth2
6 8 (7.62%) YAML
7 7 (6.67%) Entity Framework
8 2 (1.90%) JSON
8 2 (1.90%) REST
9 1 (0.95%) .NET
9 1 (0.95%) CSS
9 1 (0.95%) CSS3
9 1 (0.95%) HTML
9 1 (0.95%) HTML5
9 1 (0.95%) LAMP
9 1 (0.95%) LEMP Stack
9 1 (0.95%) SOAP
9 1 (0.95%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 30 (28.57%) Replication
2 9 (8.57%) BYOD
3 7 (6.67%) Data Centre
4 6 (5.71%) Private Cloud
5 5 (4.76%) Onboarding
5 5 (4.76%) Public Cloud
6 4 (3.81%) Clustering
6 4 (3.81%) PKI
7 3 (2.86%) Educational Technology
8 2 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.90%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.95%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.95%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 45 (42.86%) Windows
2 32 (30.48%) Windows Server
3 11 (10.48%) Linux
4 4 (3.81%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (3.81%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.95%) Android
5 1 (0.95%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.95%) CentOS
5 1 (0.95%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (31.43%) Migration
2 31 (29.52%) RBAC
3 30 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
4 28 (26.67%) High Availability
5 25 (23.81%) Root Cause Analysis
6 24 (22.86%) Disaster Recovery
7 20 (19.05%) DevOps
8 17 (16.19%) Roadmaps
8 17 (16.19%) Zero Trust
9 15 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (13.33%) Digital Identity
10 14 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (13.33%) Task Automation
11 12 (11.43%) CI/CD
12 11 (10.48%) Data Protection
13 9 (8.57%) E-Discovery
13 9 (8.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 8 (7.62%) Identity Management
14 8 (7.62%) Microservices
14 8 (7.62%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 56 (53.33%) PowerShell
2 8 (7.62%) SQL
3 5 (4.76%) Java
4 2 (1.90%) Python
5 1 (0.95%) Bash
5 1 (0.95%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.95%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 63 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 41 (39.05%) SC Cleared
3 20 (19.05%) DV Cleared
4 16 (15.24%) Microsoft Certification
5 15 (14.29%) Degree
6 8 (7.62%) MCSA
6 8 (7.62%) MCSE
7 4 (3.81%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.90%) CISM
8 2 (1.90%) CISSP
8 2 (1.90%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.95%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.95%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (20.00%) GDPR
2 16 (15.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (4.76%) NIST
4 4 (3.81%) SLA
5 3 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.90%) NCSC
7 1 (0.95%) NIST 800
System Software
1 97 (92.38%) Active Directory
2 17 (16.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (9.52%) Docker
4 7 (6.67%) VMware NSX
5 5 (4.76%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (3.81%) vSphere
7 2 (1.90%) UAG
7 2 (1.90%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.95%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.95%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.95%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 44 (41.90%) Single Sign-On
2 20 (19.05%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (6.67%) SCCM
4 6 (5.71%) CA Single Sign-On
5 4 (3.81%) Kubernetes
5 4 (3.81%) PingFederate
6 3 (2.86%) Ansible
6 3 (2.86%) Terraform
7 2 (1.90%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.95%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 78 (74.29%) Microsoft
2 18 (17.14%) VMware
3 16 (15.24%) Okta
4 5 (4.76%) F5
5 4 (3.81%) CyberArk
5 4 (3.81%) Ping Identity
5 4 (3.81%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.81%) Veeam
6 3 (2.86%) BeyondTrust
6 3 (2.86%) Cisco
6 3 (2.86%) Forcepoint
6 3 (2.86%) Proofpoint
7 2 (1.90%) Thycotic
8 1 (0.95%) Becrypt
8 1 (0.95%) ESRI
8 1 (0.95%) Juniper
8 1 (0.95%) LogRhythm
8 1 (0.95%) MobileIron
8 1 (0.95%) Red Hat