Active Directory Federation Services Job Trends

Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Active Directory Federation Services skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 660 600 764
Rank change year-on-year -60 +164 +8
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services 55 54 129
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.060% 0.12% 0.13%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.19% 1.03% 1.35%
Number of salaries quoted 43 49 115
10th Percentile £37,400 £42,000 £37,350
25th Percentile £42,000 £46,250 £47,314
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £64,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.88% +8.47% +7.27%
75th Percentile £115,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £125,000 £87,500 £76,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,750 £64,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -20.70% +18.52% +8.19%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,626 5,241 9,571
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.07% 11.98% 9.91%
Number of salaries quoted 3,237 3,247 7,085
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +11.57% -10.37%
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £112,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -5.17%

Active Directory Federation Services
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Active Directory Federation Services relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Active Directory Federation Services job vacancy trend in the UK

Active Directory Federation Services
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Active Directory Federation Services.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Active Directory Federation Services

Active Directory Federation Services
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Active Directory Federation Services in the UK

Active Directory Federation Services
Top 13 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 16 May 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
England -52 52 £50,000 -21.88% 11
London -7 29 £42,000 -35.38% 3
UK excluding London -55 26 £50,750 -20.70% 10
Work from Home +29 21 £42,000 -32.80% 2
North of England -22 9 £50,000 +11.11% 2
South West -45 7 £54,498 +15.95%
Yorkshire -48 7 £50,000 +11.11%
East of England -14 4 - - 2
Scotland - 3 £90,000 - 1
North West +4 2 £65,000 +13.04% 2
South East -32 2 £85,000 - 5
Midlands -23 1 £51,500 -6.36%
West Midlands -37 1 £51,500 -6.36%

Active Directory Federation Services
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 16 (29.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (5.45%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.64%) Apache
3 2 (3.64%) JBoss
3 2 (3.64%) nginx
Applications
1 13 (23.64%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 43 (78.18%) Azure
2 22 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (36.36%) AWS
4 17 (30.91%) Entra ID
5 16 (29.09%) Google Workspace
6 6 (10.91%) SaaS
7 4 (7.27%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (7.27%) IaaS
7 4 (7.27%) PaaS
8 2 (3.64%) Datadog
8 2 (3.64%) Mimecast
8 2 (3.64%) Rubrik
9 1 (1.82%) Azure Stack
9 1 (1.82%) OneDrive
9 1 (1.82%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 33 (60.00%) DNS
2 32 (58.18%) DHCP
3 21 (38.18%) LAN
3 21 (38.18%) TCP/IP
3 21 (38.18%) WAN
4 19 (34.55%) VoIP
5 17 (30.91%) Wi-Fi
6 11 (20.00%) Firewall
7 5 (9.09%) SD-WAN
8 4 (7.27%) Asterisk PBX
8 4 (7.27%) BGP
8 4 (7.27%) LTE
8 4 (7.27%) MPLS
8 4 (7.27%) Software-Defined Networking
8 4 (7.27%) VLAN
8 4 (7.27%) VPLS
8 4 (7.27%) VPN
9 2 (3.64%) Network Security
9 2 (3.64%) SSL
9 2 (3.64%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.73%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.27%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.82%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.82%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (10.91%) GitLab
2 2 (3.64%) Bitbucket
2 2 (3.64%) Git
2 2 (3.64%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.64%) Subversion
General
1 19 (34.55%) Social Skills
2 15 (27.27%) Finance
3 6 (10.91%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.27%) Banking
4 4 (7.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.82%) Fire and Rescue
6 1 (1.82%) Police
6 1 (1.82%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 20 (36.36%) Support Engineer
2 19 (34.55%) IT Engineer
2 19 (34.55%) IT Support
2 19 (34.55%) IT Support Engineer
3 16 (29.09%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 16 (29.09%) 2nd Line Support
3 16 (29.09%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 9 (16.36%) Senior
5 8 (14.55%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (10.91%) Senior DevOps
6 6 (10.91%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 5 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (7.27%) Consultant
8 4 (7.27%) Infrastructure Consultant
8 4 (7.27%) Lead
9 3 (5.45%) Architect
9 3 (5.45%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 3 (5.45%) Azure Engineer
10 2 (3.64%) IAM Specialist
10 2 (3.64%) Junior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.73%) OAuth
1 7 (12.73%) OAuth2
1 7 (12.73%) OpenID
2 5 (9.09%) SAML
3 4 (7.27%) ADO
3 4 (7.27%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (3.64%) CSS
4 2 (3.64%) CSS3
4 2 (3.64%) HTML
4 2 (3.64%) HTML5
4 2 (3.64%) Keycloak
4 2 (3.64%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.73%) Data Centre
2 5 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (7.27%) PKI
4 2 (3.64%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.64%) Clustering
4 2 (3.64%) Educational Technology
4 2 (3.64%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (3.64%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.82%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.82%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.82%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.82%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 48 (87.27%) Windows
2 41 (74.55%) Windows Server
3 23 (41.82%) Windows Server 2016
4 16 (29.09%) Windows 10
4 16 (29.09%) Windows Server 2012
5 15 (27.27%) Mac OS
5 15 (27.27%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (16.36%) Linux
7 4 (7.27%) VMS
8 1 (1.82%) Android
8 1 (1.82%) Mac OS X
8 1 (1.82%) Windows 7
8 1 (1.82%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
3 17 (30.91%) Infrastructure as Code
3 17 (30.91%) Root Cause Analysis
4 14 (25.45%) ITIL
5 11 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
5 11 (20.00%) Project Delivery
6 9 (16.36%) Proactive Maintenance
7 8 (14.55%) Change Management
7 8 (14.55%) DevOps
7 8 (14.55%) Identity Access Management
7 8 (14.55%) Identity Management
8 7 (12.73%) Problem Management
8 7 (12.73%) Service Delivery
8 7 (12.73%) Technical Leadership
9 6 (10.91%) Analytics
9 6 (10.91%) Collaborative Working
9 6 (10.91%) Privileged Access Management
9 6 (10.91%) Runbook
9 6 (10.91%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (7.27%) Python
3 2 (3.64%) Bash
3 2 (3.64%) Bicep
3 2 (3.64%) Go
3 2 (3.64%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.82%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.82%) SQL
4 1 (1.82%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (25.45%) Security Cleared
2 10 (18.18%) DV Cleared
3 9 (16.36%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (14.55%) Azure Certification
5 6 (10.91%) Degree
6 4 (7.27%) CCNA
6 4 (7.27%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (7.27%) Network+ Certification
7 3 (5.45%) SC Cleared
8 1 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.27%) Accessibility
2 3 (5.45%) SLA
3 2 (3.64%) NCSC
3 2 (3.64%) NIST
System Software
1 51 (92.73%) Active Directory
2 16 (29.09%) Hyper-V
3 15 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (14.55%) vSphere
5 6 (10.91%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (9.09%) VMware NSX
7 4 (7.27%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (3.64%) Docker
8 2 (3.64%) UAG
8 2 (3.64%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 15 (27.27%) Single Sign-On
2 8 (14.55%) Kubernetes
3 6 (10.91%) Terraform
3 6 (10.91%) vCenter Server
4 5 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (9.09%) SCCM
5 4 (7.27%) Ansible
5 4 (7.27%) Nagios
5 4 (7.27%) Prometheus
5 4 (7.27%) SolarWinds Orion
5 4 (7.27%) WSUS
6 2 (3.64%) DatAdvantage
6 2 (3.64%) Grafana
6 2 (3.64%) Kibana
7 1 (1.82%) Forefront Identity Manager
7 1 (1.82%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (1.82%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 46 (83.64%) Microsoft
2 19 (34.55%) VMware
3 15 (27.27%) Google
4 8 (14.55%) Splunk
5 6 (10.91%) Okta
5 6 (10.91%) OneLogin
5 6 (10.91%) Varonis
6 4 (7.27%) SolarWinds
7 2 (3.64%) Atlassian
7 2 (3.64%) Becrypt
7 2 (3.64%) Cisco
7 2 (3.64%) Commvault
7 2 (3.64%) EMC
7 2 (3.64%) New Relic
7 2 (3.64%) Red Hat
7 2 (3.64%) Zscaler
8 1 (1.82%) Oracle
8 1 (1.82%) Proofpoint
8 1 (1.82%) Samsung
8 1 (1.82%) ServiceNow