Active Directory Federation Services Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 343 336 412
Rank change year-on-year -7 +76 -56
Contract jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services 51 114 97
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.50% 0.32%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.19% 3.29% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 93 82
10th Percentile £405 £400 £313
25th Percentile £534 £425 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £543 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.52% +14.21% +5.56%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £574
90th Percentile £688 £731 £658
UK median daily rate £600 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +20.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £58.33
25th Percentile - - £61.44
Median hourly rate - - £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
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,325 3,468 4,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.46% 15.07% 13.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,718 2,529 2,955
10th Percentile £213 £286 £248
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £514 £561 £565
% change year-on-year -8.38% -0.71% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 129 114
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.50 £12.65
25th Percentile £17.00 £20.00 £14.44
Median hourly rate £28.75 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.35% +112.50% -11.62%
75th Percentile £48.75 £65.00 £27.75
90th Percentile £70.93 £75.10 £51.25
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Active Directory Federation Services as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory Federation Services in the UK excluding London

Active Directory Federation Services
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Active Directory Federation Services in the UK excluding London

Active Directory Federation Services
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory Federation Services in the UK excluding London

Active Directory Federation Services
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory Federation Services in the UK excluding London

Active Directory Federation Services
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
South East +10 24 £605 +34.44% 6
Scotland +35 13 £588 +9.30% 1
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
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
Yorkshire +14 1 - -
North East - 1 £500 -
Active Directory Federation Services
UK

Active Directory Federation Services
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 32 (62.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (17.65%) Confluence
3 7 (13.73%) SharePoint
4 2 (3.92%) Skype for Business
5 1 (1.96%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.96%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 30 (58.82%) Azure
2 29 (56.86%) Entra ID
3 25 (49.02%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
4 17 (33.33%) Azure Storage
5 4 (7.84%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (7.84%) IaaS
6 2 (3.92%) AWS
6 2 (3.92%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.96%) Azure Stack
7 1 (1.96%) GitHub
7 1 (1.96%) Nutanix
7 1 (1.96%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 33 (64.71%) DNS
2 23 (45.10%) DHCP
3 21 (41.18%) Firewall
4 6 (11.76%) TCP/IP
5 5 (9.80%) SAN
5 5 (9.80%) Skype
6 4 (7.84%) NAS
7 2 (3.92%) HTTP
7 2 (3.92%) LAN
7 2 (3.92%) SMTP
7 2 (3.92%) VLAN
7 2 (3.92%) VSAN
7 2 (3.92%) WAN
8 1 (1.96%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (1.96%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.84%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (7.84%) MySQL
1 4 (7.84%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (7.84%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (19.61%) JIRA
2 1 (1.96%) GitLab
General
1 19 (37.25%) Social Skills
2 9 (17.65%) Public Sector
3 3 (5.88%) Finance
4 2 (3.92%) Electronics
4 2 (3.92%) Manufacturing
4 2 (3.92%) Marketing
4 2 (3.92%) Military
4 2 (3.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (33.33%) Active Directory Support
2 15 (29.41%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (27.45%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (27.45%) Support Specialist
4 9 (17.65%) Exchange Engineer
5 8 (15.69%) Azure Engineer
5 8 (15.69%) Support Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) Active Directory Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) 3rd Line Support
7 4 (7.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) Active Directory Administrator
8 3 (5.88%) Active Directory Support Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) Administrator
9 2 (3.92%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (3.92%) Azure Administrator
9 2 (3.92%) Senior
9 2 (3.92%) Senior Exchange Engineer
9 2 (3.92%) Service Desk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (33.33%) ARM Templates
2 2 (3.92%) CSS
2 2 (3.92%) XML
3 1 (1.96%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 24 (47.06%) PKI
2 17 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (7.84%) Fat Client
3 4 (7.84%) Replication
3 4 (7.84%) Thin Client
4 2 (3.92%) IoT
5 1 (1.96%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.96%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.96%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 38 (74.51%) Windows
2 27 (52.94%) Windows Server
3 23 (45.10%) Linux
3 23 (45.10%) Windows Server 2016
4 22 (43.14%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (7.84%) Ubuntu
6 3 (5.88%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (3.92%) Windows 10
8 1 (1.96%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (52.94%) Agile
2 26 (50.98%) Identity Management
3 20 (39.22%) ITIL
4 19 (37.25%) Analytics
4 19 (37.25%) DevOps
4 19 (37.25%) Service Management
5 18 (35.29%) Release Management
6 17 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 17 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 17 (33.33%) Log Analytics
6 17 (33.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 17 (33.33%) Privileged Identity Management
6 17 (33.33%) RBAC
7 9 (17.65%) Problem Management
8 8 (15.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 8 (15.69%) Roadmaps
9 7 (13.73%) Disaster Recovery
10 5 (9.80%) Mentoring
11 4 (7.84%) High Availability
11 4 (7.84%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 38 (74.51%) PowerShell
2 17 (33.33%) Bicep
2 17 (33.33%) C#
2 17 (33.33%) VB
2 17 (33.33%) VBScript
3 2 (3.92%) JavaScript
3 2 (3.92%) SQL
4 1 (1.96%) Python
Qualifications
1 36 (70.59%) Security Cleared
2 32 (62.75%) SC Cleared
3 31 (60.78%) Degree
4 19 (37.25%) DV Cleared
5 17 (33.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 4 (7.84%) Azure Certification
7 2 (3.92%) MCSD
7 2 (3.92%) MCSE
7 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.84%) SLA
2 1 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 50 (98.04%) Active Directory
2 19 (37.25%) Virtual Desktop
3 17 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (13.73%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (11.76%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 2 (3.92%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (3.92%) VMware NSX
7 1 (1.96%) UAG
7 1 (1.96%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (45.10%) WSUS
2 21 (41.18%) SCCM
3 20 (39.22%) SCOM
4 19 (37.25%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (33.33%) Kubernetes
6 5 (9.80%) Ansible
7 4 (7.84%) Nessus
7 4 (7.84%) Red Hat Satellite
7 4 (7.84%) vCenter Server
7 4 (7.84%) ZABBIX
8 2 (3.92%) OPNET
8 2 (3.92%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (3.92%) Terraform
9 1 (1.96%) vRealize
9 1 (1.96%) VxRail
Vendors
1 32 (62.75%) Microsoft
2 11 (21.57%) VMware
3 9 (17.65%) Atlassian
4 4 (7.84%) Oracle
4 4 (7.84%) Red Hat
4 4 (7.84%) Veeam
5 3 (5.88%) SolarWinds
6 2 (3.92%) Remedy
6 2 (3.92%) SAP
7 1 (1.96%) Dell
7 1 (1.96%) EMC
7 1 (1.96%) NetIQ
7 1 (1.96%) Proofpoint
7 1 (1.96%) Sophos