Identity Access Management Contracts

Identity and Access Management (IDAM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 189 208 303
Rank change year-on-year +19 +95 -17
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 540 781 802
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.25% 1.31% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.44% 1.46% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 383 489 530
10th Percentile £414 £462 £437
25th Percentile £500 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £618 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.20% +8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £725 £725 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £757
UK excluding London median daily rate £635 £575 £525
% change year-on-year +10.43% +9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 4
10th Percentile - £61.50 £41.50
25th Percentile - £63.75 £43.75
Median hourly rate £23.80 £66.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -63.94% +22.22% +8.00%
75th Percentile - - £67.38
90th Percentile - - £72.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £66.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year - -10.81% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,383 53,667 80,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.90% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,097 37,244 56,431
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 2,426 1,746 1,925
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.13% +80.00% -8.51%

Identity Access Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Identity Access Management in the UK

Identity Access Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Identity Access Management in the UK

Identity Access Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Identity Access Management over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Identity Access Management in the UK

Identity Access Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Identity Access Management in the UK

Identity Access Management
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 28 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 +20 424 £600 -4.00% 128
UK excluding London +50 224 £635 +10.43% 68
London +12 219 £569 -12.50% 61
Work from Home -23 180 £615 -1.60% 54
North of England +23 53 £615 +9.33% 5
South East -1 49 £575 - 41
South West +24 48 £700 +6.06% 6
Scotland +44 32 £650 +45.74% 5
Midlands +34 31 £635 +10.43% 7
North West +27 28 £650 +18.18%
Yorkshire +10 24 £575 +4.55% 5
West Midlands +30 19 £650 +6.12% 3
East Midlands +26 10 £622 +24.40% 4
Northern Ireland +12 5 £650 -
Wales +11 5 £700 +21.74%
East of England +2 4 £605 -21.94% 5
North East +21 1 £600 -14.29%

Identity Access Management
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 28 (5.19%) SharePoint
2 21 (3.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (2.96%) Confluence
4 5 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.93%) IIS
4 5 (0.93%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.37%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 1 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.19%) nginx
6 1 (0.19%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.19%) WebSphere
Applications
1 28 (5.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.85%) MS Visio
3 9 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.30%) NEC Housing
3 5 (0.93%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.93%) Temenos T24
4 4 (0.74%) Oracle Assets
4 4 (0.74%) Oracle Cash Management
4 4 (0.74%) Oracle General Ledger
4 4 (0.74%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (0.74%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.19%) Aareon QL
5 1 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.19%) MIS ActiveH
5 1 (0.19%) OPENHousing
5 1 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 166 (30.74%) Azure
2 110 (20.37%) Entra ID
3 99 (18.33%) AWS
4 42 (7.78%) GCP
5 32 (5.93%) Microsoft 365
6 24 (4.44%) Power Platform
7 20 (3.70%) GitHub
8 19 (3.52%) PaaS
9 17 (3.15%) SaaS
9 17 (3.15%) Serverless
10 16 (2.96%) Dynamics 365
11 15 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
12 14 (2.59%) Azure Sentinel
12 14 (2.59%) IaaS
13 13 (2.41%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (2.22%) Power Automate
15 11 (2.04%) Amazon S3
15 11 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
15 11 (2.04%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 60 (11.11%) Firewall
2 57 (10.56%) Network Security
3 28 (5.19%) DNS
4 21 (3.89%) WAN
5 19 (3.52%) VPN
6 13 (2.41%) SD-WAN
7 11 (2.04%) LAN
8 10 (1.85%) DHCP
8 10 (1.85%) Intrusion Detection
8 10 (1.85%) Kerberos
9 8 (1.48%) TCP/IP
10 7 (1.30%) HTTPS
10 7 (1.30%) SSL
10 7 (1.30%) Wireless
11 6 (1.11%) HTTP
11 6 (1.11%) SMTP
12 4 (0.74%) Cisco ISE
12 4 (0.74%) Reverse Proxy
12 4 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
13 3 (0.56%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (3.33%) Power BI
2 17 (3.15%) BigQuery
3 15 (2.78%) Data Lake
4 11 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (1.85%) SQL Server
6 8 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (0.93%) Metadata
7 5 (0.93%) MongoDB
7 5 (0.93%) NoSQL
7 5 (0.93%) OLAP
7 5 (0.93%) OLTP
7 5 (0.93%) Oracle Database
7 5 (0.93%) Oracle OLAP
8 4 (0.74%) MySQL
9 3 (0.56%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.37%) Data Mart
10 2 (0.37%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.37%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 29 (5.37%) JIRA
2 9 (1.67%) Jenkins
3 6 (1.11%) Maven
3 6 (1.11%) Robot Framework
3 6 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (0.93%) Git
5 4 (0.74%) GitLab
6 3 (0.56%) gulp
7 2 (0.37%) JUnit
7 2 (0.37%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.19%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.19%) Katalon Studio
8 1 (0.19%) Selenium
General
1 147 (27.22%) Social Skills
2 108 (20.00%) Finance
3 61 (11.30%) Public Sector
4 55 (10.19%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (8.70%) Banking
6 11 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
6 11 (2.04%) Retail
7 8 (1.48%) Financial Institution
7 8 (1.48%) Legal
8 7 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (1.30%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.11%) Telecoms
10 5 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (0.74%) Law
12 3 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.56%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.56%) Marketing
12 3 (0.56%) Wholesale Banking
13 2 (0.37%) Back Office
14 1 (0.19%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 151 (27.96%) Architect
2 69 (12.78%) Consultant
3 51 (9.44%) Analyst
3 51 (9.44%) Lead
4 40 (7.41%) Security Architect
5 35 (6.48%) Senior
6 30 (5.56%) Lead Architect
7 28 (5.19%) Security Consultant
8 26 (4.81%) Project Manager
9 23 (4.26%) Security Analyst
10 22 (4.07%) Developer
10 22 (4.07%) IAM Consultant
10 22 (4.07%) Solutions Architect
11 21 (3.89%) Security Engineer
12 19 (3.52%) Cloud Engineer
13 18 (3.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 15 (2.78%) Business Analyst
15 14 (2.59%) Cloud Architect
15 14 (2.59%) Cybersecurity Architect
16 13 (2.41%) Identity and Access Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (15.74%) OAuth
2 80 (14.81%) SailPoint
3 72 (13.33%) SAML
4 68 (12.59%) OpenID
5 35 (6.48%) LDAP
6 19 (3.52%) RESTful
7 18 (3.33%) .NET
8 16 (2.96%) OAuth2
9 15 (2.78%) SOAP
10 14 (2.59%) REST
11 9 (1.67%) JSON
11 9 (1.67%) Oracle Fusion
11 9 (1.67%) React
11 9 (1.67%) Web Services
12 8 (1.48%) Node.js
13 7 (1.30%) .NET Core
13 7 (1.30%) Kafka
13 7 (1.30%) Spring
14 6 (1.11%) Spring Boot
14 6 (1.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 54 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 39 (7.22%) PKI
3 26 (4.81%) Security Posture
4 19 (3.52%) Data Centre
5 16 (2.96%) Cloud Native
5 16 (2.96%) Security Operations Centre
6 15 (2.78%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 13 (2.41%) Onboarding
7 13 (2.41%) Product Ownership
8 9 (1.67%) Operational Technology
9 8 (1.48%) Clustering
10 7 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.30%) Mobile App
11 6 (1.11%) Private Cloud
11 6 (1.11%) Public Cloud
12 5 (0.93%) Cyber Defence
12 5 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (0.93%) Hedge funds
12 5 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 54 (10.00%) Windows
2 25 (4.63%) Windows Server
3 17 (3.15%) Linux
4 14 (2.59%) Windows Server 2019
5 8 (1.48%) Unix
6 7 (1.30%) Windows 10
6 7 (1.30%) Windows Server 2012
7 6 (1.11%) Android
7 6 (1.11%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.74%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.19%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.19%) OpenVMS
11 1 (0.19%) VMS
11 1 (0.19%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (25.37%) Cybersecurity
2 90 (16.67%) DevOps
3 81 (15.00%) Information Security
4 80 (14.81%) Agile
5 72 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
6 69 (12.78%) Stakeholder Management
7 68 (12.59%) Privileged Access Management
8 64 (11.85%) Cloud Security
9 59 (10.93%) Identity Management
10 58 (10.74%) Risk Management
11 57 (10.56%) Project Management
12 53 (9.81%) Migration
13 44 (8.15%) SIEM
14 41 (7.59%) Application Security
14 41 (7.59%) Roadmaps
15 40 (7.41%) Computer Science
16 35 (6.48%) CI/CD
16 35 (6.48%) Incident Response
16 35 (6.48%) Infrastructure as Code
17 34 (6.30%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 58 (10.74%) Python
2 41 (7.59%) PowerShell
3 31 (5.74%) SQL
4 24 (4.44%) Java
5 19 (3.52%) Kusto Query Language
6 15 (2.78%) JavaScript
7 13 (2.41%) Bash
8 7 (1.30%) C#
9 3 (0.56%) Perl
10 2 (0.37%) Go
10 2 (0.37%) PHP
10 2 (0.37%) Ruby
11 1 (0.19%) ABAP
11 1 (0.19%) Bicep
11 1 (0.19%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 122 (22.59%) Security Cleared
2 97 (17.96%) SC Cleared
3 62 (11.48%) Degree
4 53 (9.81%) CISSP
5 32 (5.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (4.81%) CISM
7 24 (4.44%) Microsoft Certification
8 22 (4.07%) Azure Certification
9 17 (3.15%) DV Cleared
10 13 (2.41%) CompTIA Security+
11 9 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
11 9 (1.67%) PMI Certification
12 8 (1.48%) AWS Certification
12 8 (1.48%) ISACA
12 8 (1.48%) PMP
13 7 (1.30%) CISA
14 6 (1.11%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 6 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
15 5 (0.93%) APMP
16 4 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (7.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 43 (7.96%) NIST
2 32 (5.93%) QA
3 25 (4.63%) GDPR
3 25 (4.63%) JSP 440
4 16 (2.96%) COBIT
4 16 (2.96%) GRC
4 16 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 9 (1.67%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.30%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (0.74%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.74%) SLA
8 3 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.56%) NCSC
9 2 (0.37%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.37%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.19%) ISA99
10 1 (0.19%) PMO
10 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 115 (21.30%) Active Directory
2 19 (3.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (2.59%) Docker
4 13 (2.41%) Hyper-V
5 8 (1.48%) BitLocker
5 8 (1.48%) Microsoft App-V
5 8 (1.48%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (1.11%) Terminal Services
7 4 (0.74%) Shibboleth
7 4 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.56%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.37%) XenApp
10 1 (0.19%) OpenIDM
10 1 (0.19%) Terminal Server
10 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 56 (10.37%) Single Sign-On
2 50 (9.26%) Terraform
3 20 (3.70%) Ansible
4 18 (3.33%) PingFederate
5 15 (2.78%) Kubernetes
6 9 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (1.48%) vCenter Server
8 6 (1.11%) vMotion
9 5 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.93%) SCCM
10 4 (0.74%) Oracle Identity Management
10 4 (0.74%) SCOM
11 3 (0.56%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 3 (0.56%) Nessus
11 3 (0.56%) NetBackup
11 3 (0.56%) SCVMM
12 2 (0.37%) Grafana
12 2 (0.37%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 2 (0.37%) Puppet
12 2 (0.37%) VxRail
Vendors
1 165 (30.56%) Microsoft
2 57 (10.56%) CyberArk
3 31 (5.74%) Oracle
4 29 (5.37%) VMware
5 26 (4.81%) Ping Identity
6 23 (4.26%) ForgeRock
7 20 (3.70%) Google
8 17 (3.15%) ServiceNow
9 16 (2.96%) Okta
10 13 (2.41%) Cisco
11 10 (1.85%) Citrix
12 9 (1.67%) IBM
13 8 (1.48%) BeyondTrust
13 8 (1.48%) NetIQ
13 8 (1.48%) WALLIX
14 7 (1.30%) CheckPoint
14 7 (1.30%) NEC
15 6 (1.11%) F5
15 6 (1.11%) Infoblox
16 5 (0.93%) TSYS