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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 605 519 617
Rank change year-on-year -86 +98 -51
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services 21 24 79
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.028% 0.070% 0.13%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.61% 0.70% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 8 21 57
10th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £39,287
25th Percentile £48,563 £62,000 £43,239
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,999 £85,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -34.12% +57.41% +5.88%
75th Percentile £73,750 £87,500 £59,000
90th Percentile £92,500 - £69,500
UK median annual salary £58,750 £70,000 £56,525
% change year-on-year -16.07% +23.84% -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 3,449 3,436 4,959
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.65% 10.06% 7.93%
Number of salaries quoted 2,676 1,773 3,301
10th Percentile £31,500 £31,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,215 £37,750 £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 £70,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -6.72%

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 30 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 30 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 -59 8 £54,498 -36.81% 3
North of England -36 4 £50,000 +11.11% 1
Scotland - 4 - -
North West -3 2 £65,000 +13.04% 1
Yorkshire -29 2 £50,000 +11.11%
East of England -32 2 £57,500 -10.16% 1
South East -41 2 £85,000 - 1
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 6 (28.57%) nginx
2 5 (23.81%) Apache
2 5 (23.81%) JBoss
3 1 (4.76%) Confluence
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 14 (66.67%) Azure
2 8 (38.10%) Entra ID
3 6 (28.57%) AWS
4 5 (23.81%) Datadog
4 5 (23.81%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon ECR
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.76%) IaaS
5 1 (4.76%) OpenShift
5 1 (4.76%) PaaS
5 1 (4.76%) Route 53
5 1 (4.76%) Serverless
5 1 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (28.57%) DNS
2 5 (23.81%) DHCP
2 5 (23.81%) Firewall
2 5 (23.81%) SSL
3 4 (19.05%) VSAN
4 3 (14.29%) LAN
4 3 (14.29%) SD-WAN
4 3 (14.29%) WAN
5 2 (9.52%) Asterisk PBX
5 2 (9.52%) BGP
5 2 (9.52%) MPLS
5 2 (9.52%) Network Security
5 2 (9.52%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (9.52%) TCP/IP
5 2 (9.52%) VoIP
5 2 (9.52%) VPLS
5 2 (9.52%) VPN
6 1 (4.76%) LTE
6 1 (4.76%) Unified Communications
6 1 (4.76%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.76%) RDBMS
2 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (28.57%) Bitbucket
1 6 (28.57%) Git
2 4 (19.05%) Subversion
3 2 (9.52%) GitLab
3 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (4.76%) git-flow
4 1 (4.76%) JIRA
4 1 (4.76%) Robot Framework
4 1 (4.76%) Selenium
4 1 (4.76%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Finance
4 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Fire and Rescue
4 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.76%) Police
4 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Applications Developer
2 4 (19.05%) Cloud Developer
2 4 (19.05%) Developer
2 4 (19.05%) Senior
2 4 (19.05%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Server Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) IT Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Lead
3 3 (14.29%) Senior Server Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (9.52%) IT Support
4 2 (9.52%) IT Support Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Support Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) VMware Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Administrator
5 1 (4.76%) Applications Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (33.33%) OAuth
1 7 (33.33%) OAuth2
1 7 (33.33%) OpenID
2 5 (23.81%) CSS
2 5 (23.81%) CSS3
2 5 (23.81%) HTML
2 5 (23.81%) HTML5
2 5 (23.81%) Keycloak
2 5 (23.81%) React
3 2 (9.52%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (9.52%) SAML
4 1 (4.76%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 8 (38.10%) Data Centre
2 4 (19.05%) Clustering
2 4 (19.05%) Enterprise Storage
2 4 (19.05%) Private Cloud
2 4 (19.05%) Social Media
3 2 (9.52%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (9.52%) PKI
3 2 (9.52%) Replication
4 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.76%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 15 (71.43%) Windows
2 9 (42.86%) Windows Server
3 6 (28.57%) Linux
4 2 (9.52%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (4.76%) Android
5 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (4.76%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) High Availability
2 7 (33.33%) ITIL
3 6 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
4 5 (23.81%) Agile
4 5 (23.81%) API Development
4 5 (23.81%) API Integration
4 5 (23.81%) Asynchronous Programming
4 5 (23.81%) BDD
4 5 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (23.81%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (23.81%) Service Management
5 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (19.05%) ITSM
5 4 (19.05%) Open Source
5 4 (19.05%) Proactive Maintenance
5 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (19.05%) Project Delivery
5 4 (19.05%) Time Management
6 3 (14.29%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 10 (47.62%) PowerShell
2 6 (28.57%) Python
3 5 (23.81%) JavaScript
4 2 (9.52%) Bash
5 1 (4.76%) Java
5 1 (4.76%) PL/SQL
5 1 (4.76%) SQL
5 1 (4.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (38.10%) Security Cleared
2 6 (28.57%) DV Cleared
3 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (9.52%) CCNA
4 2 (9.52%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
5 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (4.76%) Degree
5 1 (4.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (4.76%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) NCSC
1 2 (9.52%) NIST
1 2 (9.52%) SLA
2 1 (4.76%) Accessibility
System Software
1 16 (76.19%) Active Directory
2 11 (52.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (23.81%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (19.05%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (14.29%) VMware NSX
5 3 (14.29%) vSphere
6 2 (9.52%) Docker
6 2 (9.52%) UAG
7 1 (4.76%) Hyper-V
7 1 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (57.14%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (23.81%) Nagios
3 4 (19.05%) Ansible
4 3 (14.29%) vCenter Server
5 2 (9.52%) Puppet
5 2 (9.52%) Terraform
5 2 (9.52%) WSUS
6 1 (4.76%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
6 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (4.76%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (4.76%) Progress Chef
6 1 (4.76%) SCCM
6 1 (4.76%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 11 (52.38%) Microsoft
1 11 (52.38%) VMware
2 7 (33.33%) Splunk
3 6 (28.57%) Atlassian
3 6 (28.57%) Red Hat
4 5 (23.81%) New Relic
5 4 (19.05%) EMC
6 2 (9.52%) Becrypt
6 2 (9.52%) Cisco
7 1 (4.76%) Oracle
7 1 (4.76%) Samsung
7 1 (4.76%) SolarWinds
7 1 (4.76%) Veeam