Active Directory Federation Services Job Trends in England

Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Active Directory Federation Services skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 704 598 659
Rank change year-on-year -106 +61 -41
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services 33 51 108
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.035% 0.12% 0.15%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.62% 1.01% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 23 44 77
10th Percentile £33,000 £42,500 £39,287
25th Percentile £42,000 £53,375 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £70,000 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +23.84% -2.12%
75th Percentile £123,750 £78,750 £69,500
90th Percentile £125,000 £87,500 £76,750
UK median annual salary £58,750 £70,000 £56,525
% change year-on-year -16.07% +23.84% -2.12%

All Systems Management Skills
England

Active Directory Federation Services falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,307 5,026 6,509
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.58% 11.47% 9.02%
Number of salaries quoted 3,909 3,066 4,628
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,000 £46,975
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.26%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £86,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,001 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -0.54%

Active Directory Federation Services
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Active Directory Federation Services relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Active Directory Federation Services job vacancy trend in England

Active Directory Federation Services
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Active Directory Federation Services.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Active Directory Federation Services

Active Directory Federation Services
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services in England over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Active Directory Federation Services in England

Active Directory Federation Services
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services within the England region over the 6 months to 18 August 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -52 16 £120,000 +71.43% 1
South West -61 8 £54,498 -36.81% 4
South East -28 5 £32,500 -61.76% 3
East of England -34 2 £57,500 -10.16%
North West -2 1 - - 1
North of England -41 1 - - 2
West Midlands - 1 £51,500 -
Midlands - 1 £51,500 -
Active Directory Federation Services
UK

Active Directory Federation Services
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 (21.21%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (21.21%) nginx
2 5 (15.15%) Apache
2 5 (15.15%) JBoss
3 4 (12.12%) SharePoint
4 2 (6.06%) Confluence
5 1 (3.03%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 29 (87.88%) Azure
2 13 (39.39%) AWS
3 12 (36.36%) Entra ID
4 9 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (15.15%) Datadog
5 5 (15.15%) SaaS
6 4 (12.12%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (12.12%) Google Workspace
7 2 (6.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (6.06%) Amazon ECR
7 2 (6.06%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (6.06%) Route 53
7 2 (6.06%) Serverless
7 2 (6.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (3.03%) OneDrive
8 1 (3.03%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (33.33%) DNS
2 10 (30.30%) DHCP
2 10 (30.30%) TCP/IP
3 8 (24.24%) Firewall
4 5 (15.15%) LAN
4 5 (15.15%) SSL
4 5 (15.15%) WAN
4 5 (15.15%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (12.12%) VoIP
6 2 (6.06%) Network Security
7 1 (3.03%) LTE
7 1 (3.03%) NetScaler
7 1 (3.03%) SD-WAN
7 1 (3.03%) Skype
7 1 (3.03%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.15%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.06%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.03%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (21.21%) Bitbucket
1 7 (21.21%) Git
2 5 (15.15%) Jenkins
3 4 (12.12%) Subversion
4 2 (6.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (6.06%) git-flow
4 2 (6.06%) GitLab
4 2 (6.06%) JIRA
5 1 (3.03%) Robot Framework
5 1 (3.03%) Selenium
5 1 (3.03%) TeamCity
General
1 17 (51.52%) Social Skills
2 10 (30.30%) Finance
3 5 (15.15%) Banking
3 5 (15.15%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Fire and Rescue
4 1 (3.03%) Police
4 1 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (24.24%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (21.21%) Senior
3 6 (18.18%) IT Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) 2nd Line Support
4 4 (12.12%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Applications Developer
4 4 (12.12%) Cloud Developer
4 4 (12.12%) Developer
4 4 (12.12%) IT Support
4 4 (12.12%) IT Support Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Senior DevOps
4 4 (12.12%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Support Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) IT Technician
5 3 (9.09%) Lead
6 2 (6.06%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.21%) OAuth
1 7 (21.21%) OAuth2
1 7 (21.21%) OpenID
2 5 (15.15%) CSS
2 5 (15.15%) CSS3
2 5 (15.15%) HTML
2 5 (15.15%) HTML5
2 5 (15.15%) Keycloak
2 5 (15.15%) React
3 4 (12.12%) ADO
4 2 (6.06%) AWS CDK
4 2 (6.06%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (30.30%) Data Centre
2 5 (15.15%) Private Cloud
2 5 (15.15%) Social Media
3 3 (9.09%) Replication
4 2 (6.06%) Cloud Native
4 2 (6.06%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (6.06%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.03%) BYOD
5 1 (3.03%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 24 (72.73%) Windows
2 18 (54.55%) Windows Server
3 6 (18.18%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (15.15%) Linux
5 4 (12.12%) Mac OS
5 4 (12.12%) Windows 10
5 4 (12.12%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (12.12%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (3.03%) Android
6 1 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (45.45%) Continuous Improvement
2 11 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 11 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (24.24%) DevOps
4 8 (24.24%) ITIL
4 8 (24.24%) Root Cause Analysis
5 7 (21.21%) Agile
5 7 (21.21%) Project Delivery
5 7 (21.21%) Technical Leadership
6 6 (18.18%) Change Management
6 6 (18.18%) Identity Management
6 6 (18.18%) Roadmaps
7 5 (15.15%) BDD
7 5 (15.15%) CI/CD
7 5 (15.15%) Data Protection
7 5 (15.15%) High Availability
7 5 (15.15%) Incident Management
7 5 (15.15%) Open Source
7 5 (15.15%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (27.27%) PowerShell
1 9 (27.27%) Python
2 5 (15.15%) Bash
2 5 (15.15%) JavaScript
3 2 (6.06%) Go
3 2 (6.06%) Java
4 1 (3.03%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.03%) SQL
4 1 (3.03%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (24.24%) Security Cleared
2 5 (15.15%) DV Cleared
3 4 (12.12%) Azure Certification
3 4 (12.12%) SC Cleared
4 3 (9.09%) AWS Certification
4 3 (9.09%) Degree
4 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (6.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (6.06%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) NCSC
1 2 (6.06%) NIST
1 2 (6.06%) SLA
2 1 (3.03%) Accessibility
System Software
1 26 (78.79%) Active Directory
2 7 (21.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (18.18%) Hyper-V
3 6 (18.18%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (15.15%) Docker
5 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (9.09%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (6.06%) UAG
6 2 (6.06%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 13 (39.39%) Single Sign-On
2 7 (21.21%) Kubernetes
2 7 (21.21%) Nagios
2 7 (21.21%) Terraform
3 5 (15.15%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (12.12%) SCCM
5 3 (9.09%) Ansible
5 3 (9.09%) Puppet
6 2 (6.06%) Kibana
6 2 (6.06%) Prometheus
6 2 (6.06%) vCenter Server
7 1 (3.03%) DatAdvantage
7 1 (3.03%) Forefront Identity Manager
7 1 (3.03%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (3.03%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (3.03%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 25 (75.76%) Microsoft
2 9 (27.27%) VMware
3 7 (21.21%) Atlassian
3 7 (21.21%) Red Hat
3 7 (21.21%) Splunk
4 5 (15.15%) New Relic
5 4 (12.12%) Google
5 4 (12.12%) Okta
5 4 (12.12%) OneLogin
5 4 (12.12%) Varonis
6 2 (6.06%) Becrypt
6 2 (6.06%) Cisco
6 2 (6.06%) Commvault
6 2 (6.06%) Veeam
7 1 (3.03%) Citrix
7 1 (3.03%) Oracle
7 1 (3.03%) Samsung