Active Directory Federation Services Contracts in England

Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Active Directory Federation Services skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Active Directory Federation Services over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 460 454 568
Rank change year-on-year -6 +114 -96
Contract jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services 77 204 208
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.21% 0.42% 0.30%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.76% 2.73% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 156 163
10th Percentile £367 £363 £363
25th Percentile £463 £425 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +21.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £585 £575
90th Percentile £663 £731 £660
UK median daily rate £600 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +20.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £58.33
25th Percentile - - £61.44
Median hourly rate £23.80 - £67.25
75th Percentile - - £72.44
90th Percentile - - £75.18
UK median hourly rate £23.80 - £57.50
% change year-on-year - - -6.50%

All Systems Management Skills
England

Active Directory Federation Services is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,372 7,479 11,204
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.02% 15.52% 15.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,202 5,432 8,204
10th Percentile £258 £350 £356
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.35% - +12.20%
75th Percentile £625 £682 £675
90th Percentile £700 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £514 £561 £565
% change year-on-year -8.38% -0.71% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 176 155
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.25 £13.30
25th Percentile £17.72 £23.13 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £52.32 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.75% +143.33% -11.89%
75th Percentile £48.75 £70.56 £41.51
90th Percentile £71.25 £82.75 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £55.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -53.15% +144.44% -43.75%

Active Directory Federation Services
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Active Directory Federation Services as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory Federation Services in England

Active Directory Federation Services
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services in England.

Daily rate trend for Active Directory Federation Services in England

Active Directory Federation Services
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory Federation Services in England

Active Directory Federation Services
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services in England.

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory Federation Services in England

Active Directory Federation Services
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +48 41 £475 -5.00% 3
South East +10 24 £605 +34.44% 5
South West -9 8 £675 +22.73% 3
North of England +19 4 £450 -18.18% 2
North West +11 2 £420 -23.64% 2
Yorkshire +14 1 - -
North East - 1 £500 -
Active Directory Federation Services
UK

Active Directory Federation Services
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 27 (35.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (10.39%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.60%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (2.60%) Exchange Server 2013
3 2 (2.60%) IIS
4 1 (1.30%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 3 (3.90%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (2.60%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 51 (66.23%) Azure
2 43 (55.84%) Entra ID
3 39 (50.65%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (22.08%) Azure Monitor
4 17 (22.08%) Azure Storage
5 7 (9.09%) AWS
6 5 (6.49%) Mimecast
7 4 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.90%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (3.90%) IaaS
8 3 (3.90%) Nutanix
8 3 (3.90%) OneDrive
9 2 (2.60%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (2.60%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.60%) GitHub
9 2 (2.60%) Rubrik
10 1 (1.30%) Azure Service Fabric
10 1 (1.30%) Azure Stack
10 1 (1.30%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.30%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 36 (46.75%) DNS
2 29 (37.66%) DHCP
3 22 (28.57%) Firewall
4 7 (9.09%) SAN
5 6 (7.79%) NAS
6 5 (6.49%) LAN
7 4 (5.19%) DKIM
7 4 (5.19%) DMARC
7 4 (5.19%) Skype
8 3 (3.90%) SMTP
8 3 (3.90%) TCP/IP
8 3 (3.90%) WAN
9 2 (2.60%) Extranet
9 2 (2.60%) Internet
9 2 (2.60%) VPN
9 2 (2.60%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (2.60%) Wireless
10 1 (1.30%) Fibre Channel
10 1 (1.30%) Intranet
10 1 (1.30%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.19%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (5.19%) MySQL
2 4 (5.19%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (5.19%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.90%) GitLab
3 1 (1.30%) Git
3 1 (1.30%) Visual Studio
General
1 22 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 19 (24.68%) Public Sector
3 9 (11.69%) Finance
4 3 (3.90%) Military
5 2 (2.60%) German Language
5 2 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (2.60%) Marketing
5 2 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.30%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 17 (22.08%) Active Directory Support
3 15 (19.48%) Azure Specialist
4 14 (18.18%) Active Directory Specialist
4 14 (18.18%) Support Specialist
5 10 (12.99%) Wintel Engineer
6 8 (10.39%) Azure Engineer
6 8 (10.39%) Consultant
7 7 (9.09%) Active Directory Engineer
7 7 (9.09%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (7.79%) Support Engineer
9 5 (6.49%) Active Directory Consultant
10 4 (5.19%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 4 (5.19%) 3rd Line Support
10 4 (5.19%) DevOps Engineer
11 3 (3.90%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
11 3 (3.90%) Active Directory Administrator
11 3 (3.90%) Active Directory Support Engineer
11 3 (3.90%) Administrator
11 3 (3.90%) Service Desk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (23.38%) ARM Templates
2 3 (3.90%) .NET
2 3 (3.90%) LDAP
3 2 (2.60%) SAML
3 2 (2.60%) Software Packaging
4 1 (1.30%) Entity Framework
4 1 (1.30%) OAuth
4 1 (1.30%) OpenID
4 1 (1.30%) SailPoint
4 1 (1.30%) Web Services
4 1 (1.30%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (38.96%) PKI
2 21 (27.27%) Replication
3 18 (23.38%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (7.79%) Fat Client
4 6 (7.79%) Thin Client
5 4 (5.19%) Data Centre
6 3 (3.90%) Virtual Team
7 2 (2.60%) IoT
7 2 (2.60%) Social Media
8 1 (1.30%) Client/Server
8 1 (1.30%) Clustering
8 1 (1.30%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 55 (71.43%) Windows
2 45 (58.44%) Windows Server
3 40 (51.95%) Windows Server 2016
4 39 (50.65%) Windows Server 2019
5 24 (31.17%) Linux
6 4 (5.19%) Ubuntu
7 3 (3.90%) Windows 10
8 2 (2.60%) Unix
9 1 (1.30%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (1.30%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (40.26%) Migration
2 26 (33.77%) DevOps
2 26 (33.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 25 (32.47%) Agile
4 23 (29.87%) ITIL
5 21 (27.27%) CI/CD
6 20 (25.97%) Identity Management
6 20 (25.97%) Infrastructure as Code
6 20 (25.97%) Service Management
7 19 (24.68%) Analytics
8 18 (23.38%) Privileged Identity Management
8 18 (23.38%) RBAC
8 18 (23.38%) Release Management
9 17 (22.08%) Log Analytics
9 17 (22.08%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 11 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (12.99%) Disaster Recovery
12 6 (7.79%) Root Cause Analysis
13 5 (6.49%) Mentoring
13 5 (6.49%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 40 (51.95%) PowerShell
2 18 (23.38%) C#
3 17 (22.08%) Bicep
3 17 (22.08%) VB
3 17 (22.08%) VBScript
4 5 (6.49%) Python
4 5 (6.49%) SQL
5 2 (2.60%) Bash
6 1 (1.30%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 47 (61.04%) Security Cleared
2 38 (49.35%) DV Cleared
3 28 (36.36%) SC Cleared
4 22 (28.57%) Degree
5 17 (22.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (3.90%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.79%) SLA
2 1 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.30%) QA
System Software
1 72 (93.51%) Active Directory
2 20 (25.97%) Virtual Desktop
3 17 (22.08%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (12.99%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (5.19%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 3 (3.90%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (2.60%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 2 (2.60%) BitLocker
7 2 (2.60%) Docker
7 2 (2.60%) Hyper-V
7 2 (2.60%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (1.30%) UAG
8 1 (1.30%) VMware NSX
8 1 (1.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (33.77%) SCCM
2 23 (29.87%) Microsoft Intune
2 23 (29.87%) SCOM
2 23 (29.87%) WSUS
3 20 (25.97%) Kubernetes
4 6 (7.79%) Ansible
5 4 (5.19%) Nessus
5 4 (5.19%) Red Hat Satellite
5 4 (5.19%) vCenter Server
5 4 (5.19%) ZABBIX
6 3 (3.90%) OPNET
6 3 (3.90%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (3.90%) Terraform
6 3 (3.90%) VxRail
7 2 (2.60%) Kibana
7 2 (2.60%) McAfee ePO
7 2 (2.60%) Nagios
7 2 (2.60%) NetBackup
7 2 (2.60%) Prometheus
7 2 (2.60%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 47 (61.04%) Microsoft
2 21 (27.27%) Veeam
3 15 (19.48%) VMware
4 6 (7.79%) SolarWinds
5 4 (5.19%) Commvault
5 4 (5.19%) Oracle
5 4 (5.19%) Red Hat
6 3 (3.90%) Dell
6 3 (3.90%) EMC
6 3 (3.90%) Proofpoint
6 3 (3.90%) Remedy
7 2 (2.60%) Brocade
7 2 (2.60%) F5
7 2 (2.60%) Facebook
7 2 (2.60%) Forcepoint
7 2 (2.60%) McAfee
7 2 (2.60%) Mitel
7 2 (2.60%) MobileIron
7 2 (2.60%) Splunk
7 2 (2.60%) Twitter