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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 495 477 442
Rank change year-on-year -18 -35 +156
Contract jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services 26 96 273
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.089% 0.23% 0.48%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.57% 1.89% 2.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 53 210
10th Percentile £177 £391 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% +20.00% -
75th Percentile £651 £608 £597
90th Percentile £681 £685 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £590 £605 £543
% change year-on-year -2.48% +11.52% +14.21%
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 4,576 5,079 9,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.68% 11.94% 16.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,122 3,654 6,565
10th Percentile £311 £263 £356
25th Percentile £413 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £560
Median % change year-on-year +1.99% -8.13% -0.88%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £675
90th Percentile £711 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £494 £525
% change year-on-year +0.35% -5.86% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 112 200
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £21.04 £17.72 £22.67
Median hourly rate £26.88 £25.77 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.31% -53.15% +144.44%
75th Percentile £53.75 £50.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.08 £71.25 £83.08
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.75 £28.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year -3.48% -32.35% +112.50%

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 16 May 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 16 May 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 +13 23 £550 -9.09% 19
UK excluding London +10 14 £590 -2.48% 10
Work from Home +1 8 £495 -18.18% 15
London -7 7 £495 +4.21% 11
South East +33 6 £392 -35.21% 6
South West +37 4 £613 -9.26%
North of England +18 4 £563 +25.06% 1
North West +9 3 £401 -4.64% 1
Yorkshire +14 1 £725 -

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 6 (23.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (19.23%) SharePoint
3 3 (11.54%) Confluence
3 3 (11.54%) IIS
4 2 (7.69%) nginx
4 2 (7.69%) SharePoint Server
4 2 (7.69%) Traefik
5 1 (3.85%) Apache
5 1 (3.85%) Mattermost
Applications
1 5 (19.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (3.85%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 15 (57.69%) Azure
2 13 (50.00%) Entra ID
3 8 (30.77%) AWS
4 6 (23.08%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (19.23%) GCP
5 5 (19.23%) SaaS
6 2 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (7.69%) AWS Fargate
6 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (7.69%) OneDrive
6 2 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Service Fabric
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Storage
7 1 (3.85%) PaaS
7 1 (3.85%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 7 (26.92%) DNS
2 5 (19.23%) Network Security
2 5 (19.23%) NGFW
2 5 (19.23%) SSL
3 4 (15.38%) Firewall
4 3 (11.54%) TCP/IP
5 2 (7.69%) DHCP
6 1 (3.85%) LAN
6 1 (3.85%) Skype
6 1 (3.85%) SMTP
6 1 (3.85%) VSAN
6 1 (3.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) SQL Server
2 2 (7.69%) MongoDB
2 2 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (19.23%) JIRA
2 4 (15.38%) GitLab
3 3 (11.54%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (19.23%) Public Sector
1 5 (19.23%) Social Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Finance
2 4 (15.38%) Military
3 2 (7.69%) Publishing
4 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (38.46%) Architect
2 7 (26.92%) Security Architect
3 4 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Analyst
4 3 (11.54%) Azure Architect
4 3 (11.54%) Data Analyst
4 3 (11.54%) Senior
5 2 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Microsoft 365 Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Technical Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Wintel Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Wintel Technical Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Active Directory Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Active Directory Support
6 1 (3.85%) Active Directory Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (26.92%) SAML
2 2 (7.69%) ARM Templates
2 2 (7.69%) cloud-init
2 2 (7.69%) Kafka
2 2 (7.69%) Keycloak
3 1 (3.85%) .NET
3 1 (3.85%) Entity Framework
3 1 (3.85%) LDAP
3 1 (3.85%) ModSecurity
3 1 (3.85%) OAuth
3 1 (3.85%) SailPoint
3 1 (3.85%) SOAP
3 1 (3.85%) XML
3 1 (3.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) PKI
2 4 (15.38%) Data Centre
2 4 (15.38%) Security Posture
3 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (7.69%) Management Information System
3 2 (7.69%) Operational Technology
3 2 (7.69%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.85%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (50.00%) Windows
2 8 (30.77%) Windows Server
3 7 (26.92%) Linux
4 5 (19.23%) Mac OS
5 4 (15.38%) Windows 10
5 4 (15.38%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (15.38%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (7.69%) Android
6 2 (7.69%) Apple iOS
6 2 (7.69%) CentOS
6 2 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (7.69%) Unix
7 1 (3.85%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (34.62%) Agile
1 9 (34.62%) DevOps
1 9 (34.62%) Migration
2 6 (23.08%) CI/CD
2 6 (23.08%) Identity Management
2 6 (23.08%) Microservices
2 6 (23.08%) Root Cause Analysis
3 5 (19.23%) Application Security
3 5 (19.23%) Data Security
3 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (19.23%) ITIL
3 5 (19.23%) Network Load Balancing
3 5 (19.23%) RBAC
3 5 (19.23%) Security Architecture
3 5 (19.23%) SIEM
3 5 (19.23%) TOGAF
4 4 (15.38%) Cloud Security
4 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (15.38%) Task Automation
4 4 (15.38%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 6 (23.08%) PowerShell
2 4 (15.38%) Bash
2 4 (15.38%) Python
3 3 (11.54%) C#
3 3 (11.54%) VB
3 3 (11.54%) VBScript
4 2 (7.69%) Go
4 2 (7.69%) JavaScript
4 2 (7.69%) SQL
5 1 (3.85%) Bicep
5 1 (3.85%) Java
Qualifications
1 16 (61.54%) Security Cleared
2 15 (57.69%) SC Cleared
3 6 (23.08%) CISM
3 6 (23.08%) CISSP
4 4 (15.38%) Azure Certification
4 4 (15.38%) Degree
4 4 (15.38%) DV Cleared
5 2 (7.69%) AWS Certification
5 2 (7.69%) MCP
5 2 (7.69%) MCSA
5 2 (7.69%) MCSE
5 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (7.69%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (3.85%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (3.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (19.23%) NCSC
2 1 (3.85%) GDPR
2 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.85%) NIST
2 1 (3.85%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (76.92%) Active Directory
2 7 (26.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (15.38%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (11.54%) Hyper-V
5 2 (7.69%) BitLocker
5 2 (7.69%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (3.85%) Docker
6 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (3.85%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (3.85%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (3.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (26.92%) Terraform
2 6 (23.08%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (15.38%) Kubernetes
3 4 (15.38%) SCCM
4 3 (11.54%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (11.54%) Prometheus
4 3 (11.54%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (7.69%) Consul
5 2 (7.69%) Grafana
5 2 (7.69%) HAProxy
5 2 (7.69%) Istio
5 2 (7.69%) linkerd
5 2 (7.69%) Packer
5 2 (7.69%) Rancher
5 2 (7.69%) SCOM
5 2 (7.69%) ZABBIX
6 1 (3.85%) Nagios
6 1 (3.85%) OPNET
6 1 (3.85%) Puppet
6 1 (3.85%) WSUS
Vendors
1 22 (84.62%) Microsoft
2 9 (34.62%) VMware
3 3 (11.54%) Apple
3 3 (11.54%) ESET
3 3 (11.54%) Splunk
4 2 (7.69%) Atlassian
4 2 (7.69%) McAfee
4 2 (7.69%) Okta
4 2 (7.69%) Symantec
5 1 (3.85%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (3.85%) Commvault
5 1 (3.85%) CyberArk
5 1 (3.85%) Oracle
5 1 (3.85%) Remedy
5 1 (3.85%) SolarWinds