Hybrid/Remote Active Directory Federation Services Job Trends

Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Active Directory Federation Services skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 415 446 449
Rank change year-on-year +31 +3 +271
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services 6 49 73
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.037% 0.21% 0.30%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.32% 1.86% 1.86%
Number of salaries quoted 5 26 65
10th Percentile £46,000 £41,750 £46,306
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £52,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,525 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.15% -2.54% +3.57%
75th Percentile £81,250 £67,968 £74,250
90th Percentile £91,000 £68,359 -
UK median annual salary £77,500 £60,891 £56,525
% change year-on-year +27.28% +7.72% +2.77%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,860 2,628 3,921
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.41% 11.21% 15.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,022 1,612 3,398
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,025 £42,382
25th Percentile £47,125 £48,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,500 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% -4.24% -0.79%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,375 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -3.70%

Active Directory Federation Services
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Active Directory Federation Services as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Active Directory Federation Services trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Active Directory Federation Services
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Active Directory Federation Services.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Active Directory Federation Services

Active Directory Federation Services
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Active Directory Federation Services over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Active Directory Federation Services salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Active Directory Federation Services
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) Entra ID
3 3 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (33.33%) AWS
4 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (16.67%) GCP
5 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) SMTP
2 1 (16.67%) DHCP
2 1 (16.67%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) HTTP
2 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (16.67%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) GitLab
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) Fiddler
General
1 2 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Electronics
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
2 1 (16.67%) Marketing
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Junior
2 1 (16.67%) Junior DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Junior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) SAML
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (16.67%) OAuth
2 1 (16.67%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 2 (33.33%) PKI
2 1 (16.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps
1 2 (33.33%) Identity Management
1 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
2 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (16.67%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
2 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
2 1 (16.67%) Patch Management
2 1 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Privileged Identity Management
2 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
2 1 (16.67%) Programme Management
2 1 (16.67%) Resource Management
2 1 (16.67%) Security Hardening
2 1 (16.67%) Server Hardening
2 1 (16.67%) SIEM
2 1 (16.67%) Threat Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Bash
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 2 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Go
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) CEH
3 1 (16.67%) MCSA
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kibana
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (33.33%) Nagios
1 2 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 2 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Commvault
2 2 (33.33%) Splunk
2 2 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) Google
3 1 (16.67%) SAP