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 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 414 423 431
Rank change year-on-year +9 +8 +248
Permanent jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services 5 43 67
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.030% 0.22% 0.30%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.28% 1.78% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 5 20 62
10th Percentile £39,400 £47,500 £46,306
25th Percentile £40,000 £49,607 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,675 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.03% -3.88% +2.13%
75th Percentile £81,250 £67,968 £74,250
90th Percentile £91,000 £69,250 £76,125
UK median annual salary £77,500 £63,891 £56,525
% change year-on-year +21.30% +13.03% +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 1,818 2,420 3,679
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.09% 12.12% 16.37%
Number of salaries quoted 991 1,395 3,170
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% - -3.57%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £84,056
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,250 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.78% +3.85% -3.70%

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 31 October 2025.

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 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (60.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (40.00%) AWS
4 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (20.00%) Google Workspace
5 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DHCP
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) SMTP
1 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (20.00%) HTTP
2 1 (20.00%) LAN
2 1 (20.00%) VoIP
2 1 (20.00%) WAN
2 1 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (20.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Fiddler
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Electronics
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (20.00%) Marketing
2 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Junior
2 1 (20.00%) Junior DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Junior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Graph
1 1 (20.00%) OAuth
1 1 (20.00%) OpenID
1 1 (20.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (20.00%) PKI
1 1 (20.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
1 3 (60.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Mac OS
3 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) B2B
2 1 (20.00%) B2C
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (20.00%) Privileged Identity Management
2 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Programme Management
2 1 (20.00%) RBAC
2 1 (20.00%) Resource Management
2 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) Go
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kibana
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Nagios
1 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Commvault
2 1 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) VMware