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 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 438 407 451
Rank change year-on-year -31 +44 +56
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services 16 12 67
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.073% 0.073% 0.25%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.86% 0.61% 2.30%
Number of salaries quoted 15 10 45
10th Percentile £40,800 £40,000 £44,050
25th Percentile - £41,438 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% -13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £92,500 £68,750 £67,968
90th Percentile £125,000 £82,875 £76,250
UK median annual salary £58,750 £70,000 £56,525
% change year-on-year -16.07% +23.84% -1.70%

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 1,870 1,980 2,911
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.49% 12.03% 10.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,385 1,130 2,111
10th Percentile £37,000 £35,675 £36,500
25th Percentile £47,930 £48,165 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £78,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,000 £102,410 £102,500
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 for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Active Directory Federation Services and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Active Directory Federation Services job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Active Directory Federation Services
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

Active Directory Federation Services
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Active Directory Federation Services over the 6 months to 30 July 2026.

Active Directory Federation Services salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Active Directory Federation Services
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 (37.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (56.25%) AWS
3 8 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (37.50%) Google Workspace
5 3 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (18.75%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 11 (68.75%) TCP/IP
2 10 (62.50%) DHCP
2 10 (62.50%) DNS
3 7 (43.75%) LAN
3 7 (43.75%) WAN
3 7 (43.75%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (37.50%) Firewall
5 5 (31.25%) VoIP
6 2 (12.50%) Network Security
7 1 (6.25%) SD-WAN
7 1 (6.25%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.25%) RDBMS
2 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) GitLab
1 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 9 (56.25%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Banking
2 4 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Fire and Rescue
4 1 (6.25%) Police
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (37.50%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 6 (37.50%) 2nd Line Support
2 6 (37.50%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 6 (37.50%) IT Engineer
2 6 (37.50%) Support Engineer
3 5 (31.25%) IT Support
3 5 (31.25%) IT Support Engineer
3 5 (31.25%) Senior
4 4 (25.00%) Senior DevOps
4 4 (25.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 3 (18.75%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 3 (18.75%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (12.50%) Junior
6 2 (12.50%) Junior DevOps
6 2 (12.50%) Junior DevOps Engineer
7 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (6.25%) Senior IT Engineer
7 1 (6.25%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (12.50%) Replication
3 1 (6.25%) Augmented Reality
3 1 (6.25%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) iPad
3 1 (6.25%) iPhone
3 1 (6.25%) Mobile App
3 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.25%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 14 (87.50%) Windows
1 14 (87.50%) Windows Server
2 9 (56.25%) Windows Server 2016
3 6 (37.50%) Mac OS
3 6 (37.50%) Windows 10
3 6 (37.50%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (31.25%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (18.75%) Linux
6 1 (6.25%) Android
6 1 (6.25%) Apple iOS
6 1 (6.25%) Mac OS X
6 1 (6.25%) Windows 7
6 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (43.75%) Continuous Improvement
2 7 (43.75%) DevOps
3 6 (37.50%) Technical Leadership
4 5 (31.25%) Incident Management
4 5 (31.25%) Project Delivery
4 5 (31.25%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (25.00%) Analytics
5 4 (25.00%) Application Packaging
5 4 (25.00%) Change Management
5 4 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
5 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
5 4 (25.00%) Roadmaps
6 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
7 2 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
7 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
8 1 (6.25%) Business Continuity
8 1 (6.25%) Disaster Recovery
8 1 (6.25%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) Bash
1 4 (25.00%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) Go
3 1 (6.25%) PL/SQL
3 1 (6.25%) SQL
3 1 (6.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) DV Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.25%) Degree
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (81.25%) Active Directory
2 7 (43.75%) Hyper-V
3 3 (18.75%) Docker
4 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) Kubernetes
2 4 (25.00%) Terraform
3 3 (18.75%) Kibana
3 3 (18.75%) Nagios
3 3 (18.75%) Prometheus
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (6.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 15 (93.75%) Microsoft
2 6 (37.50%) Google
3 4 (25.00%) Okta
3 4 (25.00%) OneLogin
3 4 (25.00%) VMware
4 3 (18.75%) Commvault
4 3 (18.75%) Splunk
5 1 (6.25%) Apple
5 1 (6.25%) Oracle
5 1 (6.25%) Veeam