Digital Identity Contracts

Digital Identity
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Digital Identity skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Digital Identity over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 567 691 823
Rank change year-on-year +124 +132 -144
Contract jobs citing Digital Identity 31 28 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.072% 0.047% 0.029%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.083% 0.052% 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 17 20
10th Percentile - £210 £496
25th Percentile £625 £410 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% +41.18%
75th Percentile £688 £588 £700
90th Percentile £695 £635 £964
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% +41.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Digital Identity 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Digital Identity
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Digital Identity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Digital Identity in the UK

Digital Identity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Digital Identity.

Daily rate trend for Digital Identity in the UK

Digital Identity
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Digital Identity within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +139 29 £650 +26.83% 8
UK excluding London +75 28 £650 +18.18% 7
South West +45 26 £650 +13.04%
Work from Home +117 2 - - 4
London +100 2 - -
Scotland +31 2 - - 1

Digital Identity
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (12.90%) AWS
1 4 (12.90%) Azure
2 2 (6.45%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 2 (6.45%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (3.23%) Entra ID
General
1 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
2 1 (3.23%) Banking
2 1 (3.23%) Finance
2 1 (3.23%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (87.10%) Architect
2 25 (80.65%) Lead
2 25 (80.65%) Lead Architect
3 2 (6.45%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 2 (6.45%) Security Manager
4 1 (3.23%) Active Directory Architect
4 1 (3.23%) Active Directory Engineer
4 1 (3.23%) Backend Developer
4 1 (3.23%) Consultant
4 1 (3.23%) Developer
4 1 (3.23%) IAM Consultant
4 1 (3.23%) Identity Management Architect
4 1 (3.23%) Ruby Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.23%) OpenID
1 1 (3.23%) Ruby on Rails
1 1 (3.23%) SailPoint
1 1 (3.23%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.45%) Security Posture
2 1 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.23%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (90.32%) Identity Access Management
2 25 (80.65%) Project Management
2 25 (80.65%) Stakeholder Management
3 24 (77.42%) Strategic Thinking
4 3 (9.68%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (9.68%) Data Security
4 3 (9.68%) Privileged Access Management
4 3 (9.68%) Roadmaps
5 2 (6.45%) Agile
5 2 (6.45%) Cloud Security
5 2 (6.45%) Cyber Resilience
5 2 (6.45%) Incident Response
5 2 (6.45%) Programme Delivery
5 2 (6.45%) SDLC
5 2 (6.45%) Security Operations
5 2 (6.45%) Technology Roadmap
5 2 (6.45%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 2 (6.45%) Vulnerability Management
6 1 (3.23%) Sprint Planning
6 1 (3.23%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.23%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 25 (80.65%) Security Cleared
2 24 (77.42%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.45%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (80.65%) JSP 440
2 2 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (6.45%) NCSC
3 1 (3.23%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (9.68%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.23%) CyberArk
2 1 (3.23%) ForgeRock
2 1 (3.23%) Ping Identity