Identity Access Management Contracts in England

Identity and Access Management (IDAM)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Identity Access Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Identity Access Management over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 201 215 304
Rank change year-on-year +14 +89 -4
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 430 603 645
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.17% 1.23% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 1.36% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 311 405 434
10th Percentile £400 £475 £449
25th Percentile £500 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £589
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +6.16% +12.14%
75th Percentile £708 £733 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £774
UK median daily rate £615 £625 £588
% change year-on-year -1.60% +6.38% +11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 4
10th Percentile - - £41.50
25th Percentile - £61.50 £43.75
Median hourly rate £23.80 £66.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -63.94% +22.22% -
75th Percentile - - £67.38
90th Percentile - £81.10 £72.55
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £66.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year -63.94% +22.22% +8.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Identity Access Management is in the Processes and Methodologies 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 process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,821 44,233 63,555
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.48% 90.18% 90.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,850 31,044 45,163
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,250 1,565 1,721
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.68 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% +52.24% +4.26%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.25
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

Identity Access Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Identity Access Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Identity Access Management in England

Identity Access Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Identity Access Management in England.

Daily rate trend for Identity Access Management in England

Identity Access Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Identity Access Management in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Identity Access Management in England

Identity Access Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Identity Access Management in England.

Hourly rate trend for Identity Access Management in England

Identity Access Management
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 Identity Access Management within the England region over the 6 months to 9 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 +3 230 £575 -11.54% 62
North of England +13 51 £612 +16.57% 11
South East +4 51 £575 - 40
South West +24 46 £700 +4.87% 9
Midlands +42 29 £645 +12.91% 12
North West +11 26 £650 +31.85% 8
Yorkshire +7 24 £575 - 3
West Midlands +22 17 £650 +6.12% 6
East Midlands +30 10 £622 +24.40% 6
East of England +3 4 £605 -12.00% 12
North East +13 1 £600 -14.29%
Identity Access Management
UK

Identity Access Management
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 23 (5.35%) SharePoint
2 16 (3.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (2.33%) Confluence
4 5 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.70%) IIS
6 2 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.47%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 1 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (0.23%) nginx
7 1 (0.23%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 20 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.09%) MS Visio
3 8 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (2.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.40%) NEC Housing
3 5 (1.16%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (1.16%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.23%) Aareon QL
4 1 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.23%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.23%) OPENHousing
4 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.23%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 138 (32.09%) Azure
2 83 (19.30%) Entra ID
3 82 (19.07%) AWS
4 47 (10.93%) GCP
5 27 (6.28%) Microsoft 365
6 21 (4.88%) Power Platform
7 18 (4.19%) GitHub
7 18 (4.19%) PaaS
8 17 (3.95%) Dynamics 365
9 16 (3.72%) SaaS
10 15 (3.49%) Serverless
11 14 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (3.26%) GitHub Actions
12 13 (3.02%) IaaS
13 12 (2.79%) Google Compute Engine
13 12 (2.79%) Power Automate
14 10 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (2.33%) Vertex AI
15 8 (1.86%) Amazon S3
15 8 (1.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 43 (10.00%) Firewall
1 43 (10.00%) Network Security
2 20 (4.65%) DNS
3 18 (4.19%) WAN
4 15 (3.49%) VPN
5 13 (3.02%) SD-WAN
6 11 (2.56%) HTTPS
7 10 (2.33%) LAN
8 8 (1.86%) TCP/IP
9 6 (1.40%) SSL
10 5 (1.16%) Kerberos
11 4 (0.93%) HTTP
11 4 (0.93%) Intrusion Detection
11 4 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
12 3 (0.70%) BIG-IP
12 3 (0.70%) DHCP
12 3 (0.70%) Multicast
12 3 (0.70%) NAS
12 3 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
12 3 (0.70%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.19%) BigQuery
2 15 (3.49%) Data Lake
2 15 (3.49%) Power BI
3 10 (2.33%) SQL Server
4 8 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (1.16%) Metadata
5 5 (1.16%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.16%) OLAP
5 5 (1.16%) OLTP
5 5 (1.16%) Oracle Database
5 5 (1.16%) Oracle OLAP
6 4 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (0.93%) MySQL
7 3 (0.70%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.47%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.47%) Data Mart
8 2 (0.47%) Delta Lake
8 2 (0.47%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (4.88%) JIRA
2 8 (1.86%) Git
3 7 (1.63%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.63%) Sonatype Nexus
4 6 (1.40%) Robot Framework
5 4 (0.93%) Maven
6 3 (0.70%) GitLab
6 3 (0.70%) gulp
6 3 (0.70%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.23%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.23%) Katalon Studio
7 1 (0.23%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 109 (25.35%) Social Skills
2 105 (24.42%) Finance
3 42 (9.77%) Banking
4 40 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (7.21%) Public Sector
6 11 (2.56%) Retail
7 9 (2.09%) Financial Institution
7 9 (2.09%) Legal
7 9 (2.09%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.40%) Investment Banking
10 4 (0.93%) Law
10 4 (0.93%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.70%) Wholesale Banking
12 2 (0.47%) Back Office
12 2 (0.47%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.47%) Marketing
13 1 (0.23%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 123 (28.60%) Architect
2 61 (14.19%) Consultant
3 48 (11.16%) Lead
4 42 (9.77%) Analyst
5 33 (7.67%) Senior
6 30 (6.98%) Security Architect
7 28 (6.51%) Lead Architect
8 26 (6.05%) Security Consultant
9 24 (5.58%) Security Engineer
10 20 (4.65%) Cloud Engineer
10 20 (4.65%) Project Manager
11 18 (4.19%) Security Analyst
12 16 (3.72%) IAM Consultant
13 14 (3.26%) Business Analyst
13 14 (3.26%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 13 (3.02%) Developer
15 12 (2.79%) Cybersecurity Consultant
15 12 (2.79%) ForgeRock Architect
16 11 (2.56%) Cybersecurity Architect
17 10 (2.33%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (14.88%) SailPoint
2 54 (12.56%) OAuth
3 44 (10.23%) SAML
4 39 (9.07%) OpenID
5 26 (6.05%) LDAP
6 16 (3.72%) .NET
7 15 (3.49%) RESTful
8 14 (3.26%) OAuth2
9 10 (2.33%) SOAP
10 9 (2.09%) JSON
10 9 (2.09%) React
10 9 (2.09%) REST
10 9 (2.09%) Web Services
11 8 (1.86%) Node.js
12 7 (1.63%) Kafka
13 6 (1.40%) .NET Core
13 6 (1.40%) Middleware
13 6 (1.40%) XML
14 5 (1.16%) J2EE
14 5 (1.16%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 35 (8.14%) Management Information System
2 31 (7.21%) PKI
3 16 (3.72%) Cloud Native
3 16 (3.72%) Data Centre
4 15 (3.49%) Security Posture
5 13 (3.02%) Onboarding
6 12 (2.79%) Product Ownership
7 11 (2.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 7 (1.63%) Mobile App
8 7 (1.63%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.40%) Hedge funds
9 6 (1.40%) Security Operations Centre
10 5 (1.16%) Cyber Defence
10 5 (1.16%) DataPower
10 5 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.16%) Operational Technology
11 4 (0.93%) CMDB
11 4 (0.93%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (0.93%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 41 (9.53%) Windows
2 18 (4.19%) Windows Server
3 17 (3.95%) Linux
4 11 (2.56%) Windows Server 2019
5 9 (2.09%) Unix
6 7 (1.63%) Windows 10
7 5 (1.16%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (0.93%) Android
8 4 (0.93%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.23%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.23%) OpenVMS
11 1 (0.23%) VMS
11 1 (0.23%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (26.05%) Cybersecurity
2 71 (16.51%) Information Security
3 70 (16.28%) Stakeholder Management
4 67 (15.58%) DevOps
4 67 (15.58%) Privileged Access Management
5 65 (15.12%) Agile
6 55 (12.79%) Risk Management
7 52 (12.09%) Cloud Security
7 52 (12.09%) Project Management
8 47 (10.93%) Migration
9 46 (10.70%) Identity Management
10 44 (10.23%) Problem-Solving
11 41 (9.53%) Application Security
12 31 (7.21%) DevSecOps
12 31 (7.21%) SIEM
13 30 (6.98%) CI/CD
14 28 (6.51%) Digital Identity
14 28 (6.51%) Infrastructure as Code
14 28 (6.51%) ITIL
15 27 (6.28%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 56 (13.02%) Python
2 32 (7.44%) PowerShell
3 25 (5.81%) SQL
4 22 (5.12%) Java
5 13 (3.02%) Bash
6 12 (2.79%) JavaScript
7 9 (2.09%) Kusto Query Language
8 8 (1.86%) C#
9 3 (0.70%) Go
9 3 (0.70%) PHP
9 3 (0.70%) Ruby
10 2 (0.47%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.47%) Perl
11 1 (0.23%) ABAP
11 1 (0.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 85 (19.77%) Security Cleared
2 60 (13.95%) SC Cleared
3 47 (10.93%) Degree
4 38 (8.84%) CISSP
5 22 (5.12%) CISM
6 19 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (3.72%) DV Cleared
8 12 (2.79%) Azure Certification
9 11 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (2.33%) PMI Certification
11 8 (1.86%) PMP
12 7 (1.63%) AWS Certification
12 7 (1.63%) CISA
12 7 (1.63%) ISACA
13 6 (1.40%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 5 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
15 3 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
15 3 (0.70%) CompTIA Security+
16 2 (0.47%) CCSP
16 2 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (10.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 44 (10.23%) NIST
3 27 (6.28%) QA
4 25 (5.81%) JSP 440
5 22 (5.12%) GDPR
6 16 (3.72%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 15 (3.49%) COBIT
7 15 (3.49%) GRC
8 9 (2.09%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.93%) SLA
10 3 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.70%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.70%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.47%) ISA99
11 2 (0.47%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.23%) GxP
12 1 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 100 (23.26%) Active Directory
2 18 (4.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (3.02%) Docker
4 8 (1.86%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.93%) Shibboleth
7 3 (0.70%) BitLocker
7 3 (0.70%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.70%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.47%) XenApp
9 1 (0.23%) Terminal Server
9 1 (0.23%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 57 (13.26%) Single Sign-On
2 44 (10.23%) Terraform
3 17 (3.95%) Ansible
3 17 (3.95%) Kubernetes
4 14 (3.26%) PingFederate
5 7 (1.63%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (1.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (1.16%) NetIQ Identity Manager
7 4 (0.93%) Oracle Identity Management
8 3 (0.70%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 3 (0.70%) Nessus
8 3 (0.70%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.47%) Network Intrusion Detection System
9 2 (0.47%) Puppet
9 2 (0.47%) SCCM
9 2 (0.47%) SCOM
9 2 (0.47%) SCVMM
9 2 (0.47%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.47%) VxRail
10 1 (0.23%) WSUS
Vendors
1 116 (26.98%) Microsoft
2 46 (10.70%) CyberArk
3 27 (6.28%) Oracle
4 23 (5.35%) VMware
5 21 (4.88%) ForgeRock
6 20 (4.65%) Google
6 20 (4.65%) Ping Identity
7 13 (3.02%) ServiceNow
8 11 (2.56%) Cisco
8 11 (2.56%) Okta
9 10 (2.33%) NetIQ
10 9 (2.09%) F5
10 9 (2.09%) IBM
11 8 (1.86%) BeyondTrust
11 8 (1.86%) WALLIX
12 6 (1.40%) NEC
13 5 (1.16%) CA
13 5 (1.16%) CheckPoint
13 5 (1.16%) Citrix
13 5 (1.16%) SAP