Active Directory Federation Services Contracts

Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 477 442 598
Rank change year-on-year -35 +156 -131
Contract jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services 96 273 263
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.48% 0.30%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.89% 2.99% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 210 205
10th Percentile £391 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £430 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £597 £585
90th Percentile £685 £725 £669
UK excluding London median daily rate £605 £543 £475
% change year-on-year +11.52% +14.21% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - £52.25
25th Percentile - - £53.75
Median hourly rate £23.80 - £57.50
75th Percentile - - £67.88
90th Percentile - - £73.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £67.25
% change year-on-year - - +12.08%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,079 9,138 13,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.94% 16.00% 15.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,654 6,565 10,050
10th Percentile £263 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £560 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.13% -0.88% +13.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.86% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 200 180
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.25 £13.82
25th Percentile £17.72 £22.67 £15.75
Median hourly rate £25.77 £55.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -53.15% +144.44% -43.75%
75th Percentile £50.06 £70.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £71.25 £83.08 £62.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.75 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -32.35% +112.50% -12.74%

Active Directory Federation Services
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory Federation Services in the UK

Active Directory Federation Services
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Active Directory Federation Services in the UK

Active Directory Federation Services
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory Federation Services in the UK

Active Directory Federation Services
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory Federation Services in the UK

Active Directory Federation Services
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 15 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
England -27 77 £605 +21.00% 21
UK excluding London -13 51 £605 +11.52% 15
London +49 41 £475 -5.00% 5
Work from Home +9 32 £605 +13.08% 12
South East +17 24 £605 +34.44% 6
Scotland +47 13 £588 +9.30%
South West -1 8 £675 +22.73% 3
North of England +14 4 £450 -18.18% 3
North West +11 2 £420 -23.64% 2
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
Yorkshire +20 1 - - 1
North East - 1 £500 -

Active Directory Federation Services
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 39 (40.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (12.50%) SharePoint
3 9 (9.38%) Confluence
4 2 (2.08%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (2.08%) Exchange Server 2013
4 2 (2.08%) IIS
4 2 (2.08%) Skype for Business
5 1 (1.04%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.04%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 3 (3.13%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 55 (57.29%) Azure
2 47 (48.96%) Entra ID
3 42 (43.75%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (17.71%) Azure Monitor
4 17 (17.71%) Azure Storage
5 8 (8.33%) AWS
6 5 (5.21%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (5.21%) Azure Sentinel
6 5 (5.21%) IaaS
6 5 (5.21%) Mimecast
7 3 (3.13%) Nutanix
7 3 (3.13%) OneDrive
8 2 (2.08%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (2.08%) Azure Service Fabric
8 2 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (2.08%) GitHub
8 2 (2.08%) PaaS
8 2 (2.08%) Rubrik
9 1 (1.04%) Azure Stack
9 1 (1.04%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 43 (44.79%) DNS
2 30 (31.25%) DHCP
3 24 (25.00%) Firewall
4 7 (7.29%) SAN
4 7 (7.29%) TCP/IP
5 6 (6.25%) NAS
5 6 (6.25%) Skype
6 5 (5.21%) LAN
7 4 (4.17%) DKIM
7 4 (4.17%) DMARC
8 3 (3.13%) SMTP
8 3 (3.13%) WAN
9 2 (2.08%) Extranet
9 2 (2.08%) HTTP
9 2 (2.08%) Internet
9 2 (2.08%) VLAN
9 2 (2.08%) VPN
9 2 (2.08%) VSAN
9 2 (2.08%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (2.08%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (22.92%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (4.17%) MySQL
2 4 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (10.42%) JIRA
2 4 (4.17%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.13%) GitLab
4 2 (2.08%) Git
5 1 (1.04%) Visual Studio
General
1 28 (29.17%) Public Sector
2 22 (22.92%) Social Skills
3 11 (11.46%) Finance
4 4 (4.17%) Marketing
5 3 (3.13%) Military
6 2 (2.08%) Electronics
6 2 (2.08%) German Language
6 2 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.08%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.08%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.04%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.04%) French Language
Job Titles
1 24 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 17 (17.71%) Active Directory Support
3 15 (15.63%) Azure Specialist
4 14 (14.58%) Active Directory Specialist
4 14 (14.58%) Support Specialist
5 11 (11.46%) Azure Engineer
6 10 (10.42%) Wintel Engineer
7 9 (9.38%) Exchange Engineer
8 8 (8.33%) Consultant
8 8 (8.33%) Support Engineer
9 7 (7.29%) Active Directory Engineer
9 7 (7.29%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (5.21%) Active Directory Consultant
10 5 (5.21%) Administrator
10 5 (5.21%) DevOps Engineer
11 4 (4.17%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 4 (4.17%) 3rd Line Support
11 4 (4.17%) Active Directory Administrator
11 4 (4.17%) Architect
12 3 (3.13%) Active Directory Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (19.79%) ARM Templates
2 3 (3.13%) .NET
2 3 (3.13%) LDAP
3 2 (2.08%) CSS
3 2 (2.08%) Entity Framework
3 2 (2.08%) SailPoint
3 2 (2.08%) SAML
3 2 (2.08%) Software Packaging
3 2 (2.08%) XML
3 2 (2.08%) YAML
4 1 (1.04%) OAuth
4 1 (1.04%) OpenID
4 1 (1.04%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 31 (32.29%) PKI
2 21 (21.88%) Replication
3 18 (18.75%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (6.25%) Fat Client
4 6 (6.25%) Thin Client
5 4 (4.17%) Data Centre
6 3 (3.13%) Virtual Team
7 2 (2.08%) IoT
7 2 (2.08%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.08%) Social Media
8 1 (1.04%) Client/Server
8 1 (1.04%) Clustering
8 1 (1.04%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.04%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 63 (65.63%) Windows
2 48 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 41 (42.71%) Windows Server 2016
4 39 (40.63%) Windows Server 2019
5 25 (26.04%) Linux
6 4 (4.17%) Ubuntu
6 4 (4.17%) Windows 10
7 3 (3.13%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (2.08%) Unix
9 1 (1.04%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (34.38%) Migration
2 32 (33.33%) Agile
3 29 (30.21%) Identity Management
4 28 (29.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 27 (28.13%) DevOps
6 23 (23.96%) ITIL
7 22 (22.92%) CI/CD
8 21 (21.88%) Infrastructure as Code
9 20 (20.83%) Service Management
10 19 (19.79%) Analytics
11 18 (18.75%) Privileged Identity Management
11 18 (18.75%) RBAC
11 18 (18.75%) Release Management
12 17 (17.71%) Log Analytics
12 17 (17.71%) Multi-Factor Authentication
13 11 (11.46%) Problem-Solving
14 10 (10.42%) Disaster Recovery
15 9 (9.38%) Problem Management
16 8 (8.33%) Roadmaps
17 7 (7.29%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 52 (54.17%) PowerShell
2 18 (18.75%) C#
3 17 (17.71%) Bicep
3 17 (17.71%) VB
3 17 (17.71%) VBScript
4 6 (6.25%) SQL
5 5 (5.21%) Python
6 3 (3.13%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.08%) Bash
8 1 (1.04%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 59 (61.46%) Security Cleared
2 39 (40.63%) DV Cleared
3 37 (38.54%) SC Cleared
4 33 (34.38%) Degree
5 17 (17.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 5 (5.21%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.08%) MCSD
7 2 (2.08%) MCSE
7 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.29%) SLA
2 1 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.04%) QA
System Software
1 90 (93.75%) Active Directory
2 20 (20.83%) Virtual Desktop
3 17 (17.71%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (11.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 3 (3.13%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (2.08%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 2 (2.08%) BitLocker
7 2 (2.08%) Docker
7 2 (2.08%) Hyper-V
7 2 (2.08%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (2.08%) VMware NSX
8 1 (1.04%) UAG
8 1 (1.04%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (28.13%) SCCM
2 24 (25.00%) SCOM
3 23 (23.96%) Microsoft Intune
3 23 (23.96%) WSUS
4 20 (20.83%) Kubernetes
5 6 (6.25%) Ansible
6 4 (4.17%) Nessus
6 4 (4.17%) Red Hat Satellite
6 4 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (4.17%) vCenter Server
6 4 (4.17%) ZABBIX
7 3 (3.13%) OPNET
7 3 (3.13%) Terraform
7 3 (3.13%) VxRail
8 2 (2.08%) Kibana
8 2 (2.08%) McAfee ePO
8 2 (2.08%) Nagios
8 2 (2.08%) NetBackup
8 2 (2.08%) Prometheus
8 2 (2.08%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 54 (56.25%) Microsoft
2 21 (21.88%) Veeam
3 17 (17.71%) VMware
4 9 (9.38%) Atlassian
5 6 (6.25%) SolarWinds
6 4 (4.17%) Commvault
6 4 (4.17%) Oracle
6 4 (4.17%) Red Hat
7 3 (3.13%) Dell
7 3 (3.13%) EMC
7 3 (3.13%) Proofpoint
7 3 (3.13%) Remedy
8 2 (2.08%) Dell Compellent
8 2 (2.08%) Equitrac
8 2 (2.08%) F5
8 2 (2.08%) Facebook
8 2 (2.08%) McAfee
8 2 (2.08%) MobileIron
8 2 (2.08%) Splunk
8 2 (2.08%) Twitter