Active Directory Federation Services Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Active Directory Federation Services skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 614 535 588
Rank change year-on-year -79 +53 -36
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services 19 24 78
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.025% 0.070% 0.13%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.54% 0.70% 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 6 20 55
10th Percentile £47,375 £51,500 £38,691
25th Percentile £50,693 £60,563 £43,239
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,999 £81,250 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.08% +50.46% +5.88%
75th Percentile £84,063 £87,500 £59,263
90th Percentile £92,500 - £69,500
UK median annual salary £58,750 £70,000 £57,013
% change year-on-year -16.07% +22.78% -1.70%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 3,500 3,452 4,716
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.67% 10.05% 7.87%
Number of salaries quoted 2,706 1,788 3,094
10th Percentile £31,550 £31,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £42,215 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £64,618 £65,000 £63,750
% change year-on-year -0.59% +1.96% -4.85%

Active Directory Federation Services
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Active Directory Federation Services job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Active Directory Federation Services
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Active Directory Federation Services.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Active Directory Federation Services

Active Directory Federation Services
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Active Directory Federation Services in the UK excluding London

Active Directory Federation Services
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
South West -60 8 £54,498 -36.81% 5
Scotland - 4 - -
East of England -28 2 £57,500 -10.16% 1
South East -34 2 £85,000 - 1
North of England -41 2 £50,000 +11.11% 2
North West -6 1 - - 2
Yorkshire -36 1 £50,000 +11.11% 1
Midlands - 1 £51,500 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £51,500 - 1
Active Directory Federation Services
UK

Active Directory Federation Services
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (26.32%) nginx
2 4 (21.05%) Apache
2 4 (21.05%) JBoss
3 1 (5.26%) Confluence
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 13 (68.42%) Azure
2 8 (42.11%) Entra ID
3 5 (26.32%) AWS
3 5 (26.32%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (21.05%) Datadog
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon ECR
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.26%) IaaS
5 1 (5.26%) OpenShift
5 1 (5.26%) PaaS
5 1 (5.26%) Route 53
5 1 (5.26%) Serverless
5 1 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (26.32%) DNS
1 5 (26.32%) Firewall
2 4 (21.05%) DHCP
2 4 (21.05%) SSL
2 4 (21.05%) VSAN
3 2 (10.53%) LAN
3 2 (10.53%) Network Security
3 2 (10.53%) SD-WAN
3 2 (10.53%) TCP/IP
3 2 (10.53%) WAN
4 1 (5.26%) Asterisk PBX
4 1 (5.26%) BGP
4 1 (5.26%) LTE
4 1 (5.26%) MPLS
4 1 (5.26%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (5.26%) VLAN
4 1 (5.26%) VoIP
4 1 (5.26%) VPLS
4 1 (5.26%) VPN
4 1 (5.26%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.26%) RDBMS
2 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Bitbucket
1 5 (26.32%) Git
2 3 (15.79%) Subversion
3 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (5.26%) git-flow
4 1 (5.26%) GitLab
4 1 (5.26%) JIRA
4 1 (5.26%) Robot Framework
4 1 (5.26%) Selenium
4 1 (5.26%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Finance
4 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Fire and Rescue
4 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.26%) Police
4 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Senior
2 4 (21.05%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Server Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Applications Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Cloud Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Lead
3 3 (15.79%) Senior Server Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (10.53%) IT Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) VMware Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (5.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Cloud Administrator
5 1 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (31.58%) OAuth
1 6 (31.58%) OAuth2
1 6 (31.58%) OpenID
2 4 (21.05%) CSS
2 4 (21.05%) CSS3
2 4 (21.05%) HTML
2 4 (21.05%) HTML5
2 4 (21.05%) Keycloak
2 4 (21.05%) React
3 2 (10.53%) SAML
4 1 (5.26%) AWS CDK
4 1 (5.26%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 8 (42.11%) Data Centre
2 4 (21.05%) Clustering
2 4 (21.05%) Enterprise Storage
2 4 (21.05%) Private Cloud
2 4 (21.05%) Social Media
3 2 (10.53%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (10.53%) Replication
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.26%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
4 1 (5.26%) PKI
4 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 14 (73.68%) Windows
2 9 (47.37%) Windows Server
3 5 (26.32%) Linux
4 2 (10.53%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (5.26%) Android
5 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (5.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) High Availability
2 7 (36.84%) ITIL
3 5 (26.32%) Agile
3 5 (26.32%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (26.32%) Identity Access Management
3 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (26.32%) Service Management
4 4 (21.05%) API Development
4 4 (21.05%) API Integration
4 4 (21.05%) Asynchronous Programming
4 4 (21.05%) BDD
4 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (21.05%) ITSM
4 4 (21.05%) Open Source
4 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (21.05%) Project Delivery
4 4 (21.05%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (21.05%) Time Management
5 3 (15.79%) Mentoring
5 3 (15.79%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) PowerShell
2 5 (26.32%) Python
3 4 (21.05%) JavaScript
4 2 (10.53%) Bash
5 1 (5.26%) Java
5 1 (5.26%) PL/SQL
5 1 (5.26%) SQL
5 1 (5.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (36.84%) Security Cleared
2 5 (26.32%) DV Cleared
3 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
5 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (5.26%) CCNA
5 1 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (5.26%) Degree
5 1 (5.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (5.26%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) NCSC
1 2 (10.53%) NIST
1 2 (10.53%) SLA
2 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
System Software
1 15 (78.95%) Active Directory
2 10 (52.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (21.05%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (15.79%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (10.53%) Docker
5 2 (10.53%) UAG
5 2 (10.53%) VMware NSX
5 2 (10.53%) vSphere
6 1 (5.26%) Hyper-V
6 1 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (57.89%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (21.05%) Nagios
3 3 (15.79%) Ansible
3 3 (15.79%) vCenter Server
4 2 (10.53%) Puppet
4 2 (10.53%) Terraform
5 1 (5.26%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (5.26%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (5.26%) Progress Chef
5 1 (5.26%) SCCM
5 1 (5.26%) SolarWinds Orion
5 1 (5.26%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (57.89%) Microsoft
2 10 (52.63%) VMware
3 5 (26.32%) Atlassian
3 5 (26.32%) Red Hat
3 5 (26.32%) Splunk
4 4 (21.05%) EMC
4 4 (21.05%) New Relic
5 2 (10.53%) Becrypt
5 2 (10.53%) Cisco
6 1 (5.26%) Oracle
6 1 (5.26%) Samsung
6 1 (5.26%) SolarWinds
6 1 (5.26%) Veeam