Identity Access Management Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Identity and Access Management (IDAM)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Identity Access Management skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 63 67
Rank change year-on-year +2 +4 +11
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 4 4 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.67% 0.56% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 0.68% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £533 - £380
25th Percentile £545 £663 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £577 £675 £425
Median % change year-on-year -14.59% +58.82% -20.93%
75th Percentile £596 £688 £463
90th Percentile £600 - £470
West Midlands median daily rate £550 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Identity Access Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 525 592 721
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 88.53% 82.45% 83.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 347 397 469
10th Percentile £194 £200 £263
25th Percentile £363 £388 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £555 £638 £606
90th Percentile £639 £750 £726
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -3.66% +3.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 10 28
10th Percentile - £21.18 £13.34
25th Percentile £12.62 £29.30 £15.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £50.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -62.26% +81.82% +52.78%
75th Percentile £22.08 £55.19 £49.06
90th Percentile £26.51 £57.53 £67.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.34 £22.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +8.18% -18.18% +57.14%

Identity Access Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Identity Access Management in Birmingham

Identity Access Management
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Identity Access Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Identity Access Management

Identity Access Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (25.00%) OCI
2 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Architect
2 1 (25.00%) IT Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (25.00%) OAuth
1 1 (25.00%) OpenID
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (25.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (25.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) Key Management
2 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) OCP
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
1 1 (25.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (25.00%) Commvault
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (25.00%) Veeam