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 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 520 503 589
Rank change year-on-year -17 +86 +92
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services 19 30 78
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.037% 0.10% 0.15%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.79% 1.04% 1.46%
Number of salaries quoted 10 21 66
10th Percentile £32,750 £42,500 £36,298
25th Percentile £35,813 £47,231 £43,679
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £61,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.70% +13.89% +8.00%
75th Percentile £64,375 £87,500 £59,000
90th Percentile £69,750 - £72,500
UK median annual salary £42,000 £61,500 £59,000
% change year-on-year -31.71% +4.24% +7.27%

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 2,416 2,873 5,340
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.71% 9.73% 9.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,680 1,734 4,167
10th Percentile £30,750 £36,250 £29,440
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +10.09% -3.54%
75th Percentile £71,063 £76,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £92,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -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 5 March 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 5 March 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
North of England -24 9 £50,000 -18.70% 1
Yorkshire -34 7 £50,000 -18.70%
South West -15 5 - - 1
East of England +6 4 - -
North West -11 2 £65,000 - 1
Scotland -11 1 £90,000 +85.54%
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 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (10.53%) Apache
2 2 (10.53%) JBoss
2 2 (10.53%) nginx
3 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (52.63%) Azure
2 5 (26.32%) AWS
2 5 (26.32%) Entra ID
3 4 (21.05%) IaaS
3 4 (21.05%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (21.05%) PaaS
4 3 (15.79%) Google Workspace
5 2 (10.53%) Datadog
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Stack
6 1 (5.26%) OneDrive
6 1 (5.26%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 12 (63.16%) DNS
2 11 (57.89%) DHCP
3 7 (36.84%) LAN
3 7 (36.84%) VoIP
3 7 (36.84%) WAN
4 6 (31.58%) Firewall
5 4 (21.05%) Asterisk PBX
5 4 (21.05%) BGP
5 4 (21.05%) MPLS
5 4 (21.05%) SD-WAN
5 4 (21.05%) Software-Defined Networking
5 4 (21.05%) TCP/IP
5 4 (21.05%) VLAN
5 4 (21.05%) VPLS
5 4 (21.05%) VPN
6 3 (15.79%) LTE
6 3 (15.79%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (10.53%) SSL
8 1 (5.26%) Network Security
8 1 (5.26%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) GitLab
2 2 (10.53%) Bitbucket
2 2 (10.53%) Git
2 2 (10.53%) Subversion
General
1 9 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 5 (26.32%) Finance
3 4 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (21.05%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (21.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) IT Engineer
1 7 (36.84%) IT Support
1 7 (36.84%) IT Support Engineer
1 7 (36.84%) Support Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Consultant
2 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure Consultant
3 3 (15.79%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) 2nd Line Support
3 3 (15.79%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Architect
3 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Applications Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Cloud Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365 Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Technical Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (31.58%) OAuth
1 6 (31.58%) OAuth2
1 6 (31.58%) OpenID
2 4 (21.05%) OpenTelemetry
2 4 (21.05%) SAML
3 2 (10.53%) CSS
3 2 (10.53%) CSS3
3 2 (10.53%) HTML
3 2 (10.53%) HTML5
3 2 (10.53%) Keycloak
3 2 (10.53%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Greenfield Project
1 4 (21.05%) PKI
2 2 (10.53%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 17 (89.47%) Windows
2 13 (68.42%) Windows Server
3 7 (36.84%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (26.32%) Linux
5 4 (21.05%) VMS
6 3 (15.79%) Mac OS
6 3 (15.79%) Windows 10
6 3 (15.79%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (15.79%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Proactive Maintenance
1 8 (42.11%) Root Cause Analysis
2 7 (36.84%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (31.58%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (26.32%) ITIL
5 4 (21.05%) AI
5 4 (21.05%) Change Management
5 4 (21.05%) Cloud Security
5 4 (21.05%) Cost Management
5 4 (21.05%) Observability
5 4 (21.05%) Proactive Monitoring
5 4 (21.05%) Project Delivery
5 4 (21.05%) RBAC
5 4 (21.05%) Runbook
5 4 (21.05%) Security Monitoring
5 4 (21.05%) Service Delivery
5 4 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (21.05%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 13 (68.42%) PowerShell
2 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
2 2 (10.53%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (47.37%) Security Cleared
2 8 (42.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (31.58%) DV Cleared
4 4 (21.05%) Azure Certification
4 4 (21.05%) CCNA
4 4 (21.05%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (21.05%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (5.26%) Degree
5 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) Accessibility
System Software
1 17 (89.47%) Active Directory
2 9 (47.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (42.11%) vSphere
4 5 (26.32%) VMware NSX
5 4 (21.05%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (21.05%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (15.79%) Hyper-V
7 2 (10.53%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (31.58%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (21.05%) Ansible
2 4 (21.05%) SolarWinds Orion
2 4 (21.05%) vCenter Server
2 4 (21.05%) WSUS
3 2 (10.53%) Nagios
4 1 (5.26%) Forefront Identity Manager
Vendors
1 12 (63.16%) Microsoft
2 9 (47.37%) VMware
3 6 (31.58%) Splunk
4 4 (21.05%) SolarWinds
5 3 (15.79%) Google
6 2 (10.53%) Atlassian
6 2 (10.53%) New Relic
6 2 (10.53%) Red Hat
7 1 (5.26%) Proofpoint
7 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow