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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 507 549 494
Rank change year-on-year +42 -55 +147
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services 10 31 57
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.024% 0.083% 0.19%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.42% 0.95% 1.35%
Number of salaries quoted 4 17 48
10th Percentile £65,875 £37,500 £39,825
25th Percentile £70,938 £47,231 £45,479
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 £50,000 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year +67.50% -11.54% +8.63%
75th Percentile £91,875 £64,250 £59,000
90th Percentile £95,250 £67,968 £74,250
UK median annual salary £77,500 £62,783 £58,500
% change year-on-year +23.44% +7.32% +6.36%

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 2,363 3,273 4,219
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.63% 8.78% 13.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1,640 1,891 3,384
10th Percentile £30,450 £34,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,978 £42,052
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +2.68% -2.61%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,253 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.09% +4.62% -3.70%

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 1 January 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 1 January 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
East of England +21 4 - - 4
South West +11 4 £86,250 +81.58% 2
North West +24 1 £65,000 +3.53% 5
North of England +16 1 £65,000 +5.69% 8
Scotland +8 1 £90,000 +45.74% 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 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (10.00%) Apache
2 1 (10.00%) JBoss
2 1 (10.00%) nginx
2 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) AWS
3 3 (30.00%) Entra ID
3 3 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Stack
5 1 (10.00%) Datadog
5 1 (10.00%) OneDrive
5 1 (10.00%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) SAN
2 2 (20.00%) LTE
2 2 (20.00%) SMTP
3 1 (10.00%) SSL
3 1 (10.00%) Unified Communications
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) Subversion
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Manager
1 4 (40.00%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
1 4 (40.00%) Technical Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Applications Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365 Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) OAuth
1 3 (30.00%) OAuth2
1 3 (30.00%) OpenID
2 2 (20.00%) SAML
3 1 (10.00%) CSS
3 1 (10.00%) CSS3
3 1 (10.00%) HTML
3 1 (10.00%) HTML5
3 1 (10.00%) Keycloak
3 1 (10.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (40.00%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (40.00%) Enterprise Storage
2 4 (40.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Windows
1 7 (70.00%) Windows Server
2 4 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (50.00%) Data Centre Operations
2 5 (50.00%) High Availability
2 5 (50.00%) ITIL
2 5 (50.00%) ITSM
2 5 (50.00%) Service Management
3 4 (40.00%) AI
3 4 (40.00%) Asset Management
3 4 (40.00%) Business Continuity
3 4 (40.00%) Change Management
3 4 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 4 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (40.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 4 (40.00%) Information Security
3 4 (40.00%) IT Governance
3 4 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (40.00%) Process Improvement
3 4 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (50.00%) Degree
3 4 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 4 (40.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (90.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (40.00%) Hyper-V
2 4 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (40.00%) vSphere
3 1 (10.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (10.00%) Forefront Identity Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (40.00%) CrowdStrike
2 4 (40.00%) Dell
2 4 (40.00%) Fortinet
2 4 (40.00%) Palo Alto
2 4 (40.00%) Veeam
2 4 (40.00%) VMware
3 1 (10.00%) Atlassian
3 1 (10.00%) New Relic
3 1 (10.00%) Proofpoint
3 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (10.00%) Splunk