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 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 651 544 569
Rank change year-on-year -107 +25 -87
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services 25 8 54
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.029% 0.023% 0.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.74% 0.25% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 12 2 27
10th Percentile £31,250 £75,625 £37,500
25th Percentile £34,813 £78,438 £47,314
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,600 £86,250 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year -37.86% +52.59% +2.77%
75th Percentile £58,750 £93,438 £67,968
90th Percentile £89,125 £95,875 £68,600
UK median annual salary £57,200 £77,500 £62,783
% change year-on-year -26.19% +23.44% +11.07%

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 3,382 3,201 3,490
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.90% 9.27% 6.84%
Number of salaries quoted 2,456 1,566 1,918
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £35,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £49,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.68% -10.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,063 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% -

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 11 October 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 11 October 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 -62 12 £53,600 -37.86% 7
South East -43 6 £35,250 - 2
Scotland - 4 - -
East of England -44 2 £57,500 - 2
North of England - 1 - - 3
North West - 1 - - 3
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 6 (24.00%) nginx
2 4 (16.00%) Apache
2 4 (16.00%) JBoss
3 3 (12.00%) SharePoint
4 2 (8.00%) Confluence
4 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (4.00%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 20 (80.00%) Azure
2 13 (52.00%) Entra ID
3 11 (44.00%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (24.00%) AWS
5 4 (16.00%) Datadog
6 2 (8.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (8.00%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (8.00%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (8.00%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (8.00%) Route 53
6 2 (8.00%) Serverless
6 2 (8.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (4.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 9 (36.00%) DNS
1 9 (36.00%) Firewall
2 6 (24.00%) DHCP
3 4 (16.00%) NAS
3 4 (16.00%) SAN
3 4 (16.00%) SSL
3 4 (16.00%) VSAN
4 2 (8.00%) TCP/IP
5 1 (4.00%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 7 (28.00%) Git
2 6 (24.00%) Bitbucket
3 3 (12.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (12.00%) Subversion
4 2 (8.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (8.00%) git-flow
4 2 (8.00%) JIRA
5 1 (4.00%) Robot Framework
5 1 (4.00%) Selenium
5 1 (4.00%) TeamCity
General
1 14 (56.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Finance
4 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (24.00%) Senior
3 5 (20.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Server Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Applications Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Cloud Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Developer
5 3 (12.00%) IT Technician
5 3 (12.00%) Senior Server Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Architect
6 2 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
6 2 (8.00%) IT Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Senior IT Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Technical Architect
6 2 (8.00%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (8.00%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (28.00%) OAuth
1 7 (28.00%) OAuth2
1 7 (28.00%) OpenID
2 4 (16.00%) CSS
2 4 (16.00%) CSS3
2 4 (16.00%) HTML
2 4 (16.00%) HTML5
2 4 (16.00%) Keycloak
2 4 (16.00%) React
2 4 (16.00%) Terraform
3 3 (12.00%) SAML
4 2 (8.00%) AWS CDK
5 1 (4.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Enterprise Storage
2 6 (24.00%) Data Centre
2 6 (24.00%) Replication
3 4 (16.00%) Clustering
3 4 (16.00%) Private Cloud
3 4 (16.00%) Social Media
4 3 (12.00%) Driving Licence
4 3 (12.00%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (8.00%) Cloud Native
5 2 (8.00%) Management Information System
6 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
6 1 (4.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 21 (84.00%) Windows
2 17 (68.00%) Windows Server
3 4 (16.00%) Linux
4 2 (8.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 10 (40.00%) ITIL
2 9 (36.00%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (36.00%) Service Management
3 8 (32.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 8 (32.00%) High Availability
4 7 (28.00%) Business Continuity
4 7 (28.00%) Identity Access Management
5 6 (24.00%) Agile
6 5 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (20.00%) Data Protection
6 5 (20.00%) ITSM
7 4 (16.00%) Asynchronous Programming
7 4 (16.00%) BDD
7 4 (16.00%) Load Balancing
7 4 (16.00%) Mentoring
7 4 (16.00%) Migration
7 4 (16.00%) Open Source
7 4 (16.00%) Task Automation
7 4 (16.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (56.00%) PowerShell
2 7 (28.00%) Python
3 4 (16.00%) Bash
3 4 (16.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (8.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 12 (48.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (28.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (24.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (24.00%) SC Cleared
4 4 (16.00%) Azure Certification
4 4 (16.00%) DV Cleared
4 4 (16.00%) MCSA
5 2 (8.00%) AWS Certification
5 2 (8.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) NIST
2 2 (8.00%) NCSC
2 2 (8.00%) SLA
3 1 (4.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 21 (84.00%) Active Directory
2 11 (44.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (24.00%) Hyper-V
4 4 (16.00%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (12.00%) Docker
5 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (12.00%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (8.00%) UAG
6 2 (8.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 13 (52.00%) Single Sign-On
2 7 (28.00%) SCCM
3 4 (16.00%) Ansible
3 4 (16.00%) Nagios
4 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (12.00%) Puppet
4 3 (12.00%) SCVMM
5 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
5 2 (8.00%) vCenter Server
6 1 (4.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 19 (76.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (44.00%) VMware
3 6 (24.00%) Atlassian
3 6 (24.00%) Cisco
3 6 (24.00%) Red Hat
4 4 (16.00%) EMC
4 4 (16.00%) New Relic
4 4 (16.00%) SolarWinds
4 4 (16.00%) Splunk
5 2 (8.00%) Becrypt
5 2 (8.00%) Veeam