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 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 603 521 619
Rank change year-on-year -82 +98 -45
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services 17 26 89
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.023% 0.077% 0.13%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.51% 0.76% 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 7 23 68
10th Percentile £45,000 £44,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,375 £59,125 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,498 £85,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -35.89% +57.41% +5.88%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £59,000
90th Percentile £92,500 - £69,500
UK median annual salary £54,498 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -22.15% +27.27% -3.53%

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 3,315 3,434 5,333
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.56% 10.14% 7.99%
Number of salaries quoted 2,594 1,768 3,614
10th Percentile £31,325 £31,000 £30,750
25th Percentile £42,215 £38,855 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,221 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% +4.04% -8.33%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £70,188
90th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £64,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.54% +4.00% -7.41%

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 23 July 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 23 July 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 -56 5 £54,498 -36.81% 5
Scotland - 4 - -
North of England -33 3 £50,000 +11.11% 2
East of England -11 2 - - 1
Yorkshire -30 2 £50,000 +11.11%
South East -32 2 £85,000 - 1
North West -3 1 £65,000 +13.04% 2
Midlands - 1 £51,500 -
West Midlands - 1 £51,500 -
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 2 (11.76%) Apache
1 2 (11.76%) JBoss
1 2 (11.76%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 10 (58.82%) Azure
2 8 (47.06%) Entra ID
3 5 (29.41%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (11.76%) AWS
4 2 (11.76%) Datadog
4 2 (11.76%) IaaS
4 2 (11.76%) PaaS
5 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (41.18%) DNS
2 6 (35.29%) DHCP
3 5 (29.41%) Firewall
4 4 (23.53%) VSAN
5 3 (17.65%) LAN
5 3 (17.65%) SD-WAN
5 3 (17.65%) WAN
6 2 (11.76%) Asterisk PBX
6 2 (11.76%) BGP
6 2 (11.76%) MPLS
6 2 (11.76%) Network Security
6 2 (11.76%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (11.76%) SSL
6 2 (11.76%) TCP/IP
6 2 (11.76%) VLAN
6 2 (11.76%) VoIP
6 2 (11.76%) VPLS
6 2 (11.76%) VPN
7 1 (5.88%) Unified Communications
7 1 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.88%) RDBMS
2 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Bitbucket
1 2 (11.76%) Git
1 2 (11.76%) GitLab
2 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.88%) Robot Framework
2 1 (5.88%) Selenium
2 1 (5.88%) Subversion
2 1 (5.88%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.88%) Fire and Rescue
4 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Police
4 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (23.53%) Server Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Lead
2 3 (17.65%) Senior
2 3 (17.65%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Senior Server Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Consultant
3 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Consultant
3 2 (11.76%) IT Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) IT Support
3 2 (11.76%) IT Support Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Support Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Administrator
4 1 (5.88%) Applications Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (5.88%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) OAuth
1 4 (23.53%) OAuth2
1 4 (23.53%) OpenID
2 2 (11.76%) CSS
2 2 (11.76%) CSS3
2 2 (11.76%) HTML
2 2 (11.76%) HTML5
2 2 (11.76%) Keycloak
2 2 (11.76%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (11.76%) React
2 2 (11.76%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Data Centre
2 4 (23.53%) Clustering
2 4 (23.53%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (11.76%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (11.76%) PKI
4 1 (5.88%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
4 1 (5.88%) Private Cloud
4 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
4 1 (5.88%) Replication
4 1 (5.88%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 14 (82.35%) Windows
2 9 (52.94%) Windows Server
3 6 (35.29%) Linux
4 3 (17.65%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (11.76%) VMS
6 1 (5.88%) Android
6 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) ITIL
2 6 (35.29%) High Availability
3 5 (29.41%) Proactive Maintenance
3 5 (29.41%) Project Delivery
3 5 (29.41%) Root Cause Analysis
3 5 (29.41%) Service Management
4 4 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (23.53%) Runbook
5 3 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (17.65%) ITSM
5 3 (17.65%) Mentoring
5 3 (17.65%) Proactive Monitoring
5 3 (17.65%) Problem Management
5 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (17.65%) Service Delivery
5 3 (17.65%) Task Automation
5 3 (17.65%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (11.76%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) PowerShell
2 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
2 2 (11.76%) Python
3 1 (5.88%) Bash
3 1 (5.88%) PL/SQL
3 1 (5.88%) SQL
3 1 (5.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) Security Cleared
2 6 (35.29%) DV Cleared
3 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Certification
4 2 (11.76%) CCNA
4 2 (11.76%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (11.76%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (5.88%) Degree
5 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) NCSC
1 2 (11.76%) NIST
1 2 (11.76%) SLA
2 1 (5.88%) Accessibility
System Software
1 15 (88.24%) Active Directory
2 11 (64.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (23.53%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (23.53%) vSphere
4 3 (17.65%) VMware NSX
5 2 (11.76%) UAG
5 2 (11.76%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (11.76%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (47.06%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (23.53%) vCenter Server
3 3 (17.65%) Ansible
4 2 (11.76%) Nagios
4 2 (11.76%) SolarWinds Orion
4 2 (11.76%) WSUS
5 1 (5.88%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
5 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (5.88%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (5.88%) Progress Chef
5 1 (5.88%) Puppet
5 1 (5.88%) SCCM
5 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (64.71%) Microsoft
1 11 (64.71%) VMware
2 4 (23.53%) EMC
2 4 (23.53%) Splunk
3 2 (11.76%) Atlassian
3 2 (11.76%) Becrypt
3 2 (11.76%) Cisco
3 2 (11.76%) New Relic
3 2 (11.76%) Red Hat
3 2 (11.76%) SolarWinds
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle
4 1 (5.88%) Samsung