Identity Access Management Contracts in the City of London

Identity and Access Management (IDAM)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Identity Access Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Identity Access Management over the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 76 128
Rank change year-on-year -20 +52 +31
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 24 48 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.37% 2.21% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.47% 2.44% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 37 37
10th Percentile £368 £340 £510
25th Percentile £528 £500 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £625 £700
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -10.71% +12.00%
75th Percentile £669 £750 £750
90th Percentile £750 £850 £788
Central London median daily rate £620 £625 £700
% change year-on-year -0.80% -10.71% +9.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,630 1,968 3,305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.25% 90.57% 91.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,032 1,396 2,228
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £569 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.10% -5.21% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £813 £825
Central London median daily rate £574 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.32% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 26
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.13
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £17.08
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -13.58%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Identity Access Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Identity Access Management in the City of London

Identity Access Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Identity Access Management in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Identity Access Management in the City of London

Identity Access Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Identity Access Management in the City of London over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Identity Access Management in the City of London

Identity Access Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Identity Access Management in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Identity Access Management in the City of London

Identity Access Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 2 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (45.83%) Azure
2 7 (29.17%) AWS
2 7 (29.17%) Entra ID
3 6 (25.00%) GCP
4 3 (12.50%) OCI
5 2 (8.33%) Azure AKS
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Event Grid
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (8.33%) IaaS
5 2 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (8.33%) PaaS
5 2 (8.33%) SaaS
5 2 (8.33%) Serverless
6 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (4.17%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) NAS
2 1 (4.17%) DHCP
2 1 (4.17%) DNS
2 1 (4.17%) HTTP
2 1 (4.17%) HTTPS
2 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Git
1 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (54.17%) Finance
2 6 (25.00%) Banking
2 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.17%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Architect
2 5 (20.83%) Analyst
2 5 (20.83%) Senior
3 4 (16.67%) Security Architect
4 3 (12.50%) IT Security Officer
4 3 (12.50%) Security Officer
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Business Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (8.33%) CyberArk Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Identity and Access Management Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) Identity Management Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) Microsoft 365 Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Cloud Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Active Directory Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Junior
6 1 (4.17%) Junior Banking Business Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Lead
6 1 (4.17%) SailPoint Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (29.17%) OAuth
1 7 (29.17%) SAML
2 5 (20.83%) SailPoint
3 4 (16.67%) LDAP
4 3 (12.50%) OpenID
5 2 (8.33%) ARM Templates
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Blueprints
5 2 (8.33%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (4.17%) JWT
6 1 (4.17%) REST
6 1 (4.17%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Management Information System
2 3 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 2 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (8.33%) Insider Threat
3 2 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (8.33%) Reinsurance
3 2 (8.33%) Security Posture
3 2 (8.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Windows
2 3 (12.50%) Linux
3 2 (8.33%) Windows Server
4 1 (4.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (45.83%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (20.83%) DevOps
2 5 (20.83%) RBAC
3 4 (16.67%) Cloud Security
3 4 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 4 (16.67%) Privileged Access Management
4 3 (12.50%) Agile
4 3 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (12.50%) ITIL
4 3 (12.50%) Mentoring
4 3 (12.50%) Project Management
4 3 (12.50%) Security Management
4 3 (12.50%) Zero Trust
5 2 (8.33%) Data Protection
5 2 (8.33%) High Availability
5 2 (8.33%) Identity Management
5 2 (8.33%) Incident Response
5 2 (8.33%) Integration Patterns
5 2 (8.33%) Migration
5 2 (8.33%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 10 (41.67%) PowerShell
2 7 (29.17%) Python
3 4 (16.67%) Java
4 2 (8.33%) Bicep
4 2 (8.33%) SQL
5 1 (4.17%) Bash
5 1 (4.17%) Groovy
5 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Degree
1 4 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.50%) CISM
2 3 (12.50%) CISSP
2 3 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (12.50%) OCP
2 3 (12.50%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (25.00%) NIST
2 4 (16.67%) GDPR
2 4 (16.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (8.33%) SOC 2
5 1 (4.17%) HIPAA
5 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (4.17%) OpenAM
3 1 (4.17%) OpenDJ
3 1 (4.17%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
1 3 (12.50%) Terraform
2 1 (4.17%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 9 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.67%) CyberArk
3 3 (12.50%) Oracle
4 2 (8.33%) ForgeRock
4 2 (8.33%) Ping Identity
4 2 (8.33%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.17%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (4.17%) Google
5 1 (4.17%) Okta
5 1 (4.17%) Snow
5 1 (4.17%) Zscaler