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 8 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 98 112
Rank change year-on-year -10 +14 +61
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 18 30 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.96% 1.45% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 1.59% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 22 40
10th Percentile £404 £440 £496
25th Percentile £528 £503 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £633 £598 £700
Median % change year-on-year +5.94% -14.64% +17.40%
75th Percentile £736 £697 £760
90th Percentile £751 £770 £825
Central London median daily rate £633 £595 £700
% change year-on-year +6.39% -15.00% +17.40%

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 1,759 1,891 2,997
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.27% 91.66% 91.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,154 1,279 2,055
10th Percentile £330 £375 £361
25th Percentile £425 £473 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £770 £788 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 17 16
10th Percentile £17.08 £15.20 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £15.00
Median hourly rate £28.50 £27.00 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -13.60% -31.12%
75th Percentile £56.75 £78.75 £52.63
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £61.25
Central London median hourly rate £30.04 £27.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +11.24% -22.86% -18.36%

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 8 August 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 (11.11%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.56%) CMS
2 1 (5.56%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) AWS
2 5 (27.78%) Azure
3 3 (16.67%) GCP
3 3 (16.67%) OCI
4 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 2 (11.11%) Serverless
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.56%) Azure AKS
5 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (5.56%) IaaS
5 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.56%) PaaS
5 1 (5.56%) SaaS
5 1 (5.56%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (5.56%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) NAS
2 1 (5.56%) DHCP
2 1 (5.56%) DNS
2 1 (5.56%) HTTP
2 1 (5.56%) HTTPS
2 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (5.56%) DynamoDB
1 1 (5.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) Bitbucket
2 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (44.44%) Finance
2 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 2 (11.11%) Banking
4 2 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Architect
2 4 (22.22%) Analyst
2 4 (22.22%) Security Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Identity and Access Management Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Identity Management Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Senior
3 2 (11.11%) Senior Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Active Directory Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (5.56%) CyberArk Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Designer
4 1 (5.56%) IAM Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) IT Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) IT Support
4 1 (5.56%) Lead
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365 Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Product Owner
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (33.33%) OAuth
2 5 (27.78%) OpenID
2 5 (27.78%) SAML
3 4 (22.22%) SailPoint
4 2 (11.11%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (5.56%) ADO
5 1 (5.56%) ARM Templates
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Blueprints
5 1 (5.56%) JWT
5 1 (5.56%) LDAP
5 1 (5.56%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (5.56%) OAuth2
5 1 (5.56%) REST
5 1 (5.56%) SOAP
5 1 (5.56%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Management Information System
2 2 (11.11%) Security Posture
2 2 (11.11%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Insider Threat
3 1 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.56%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Windows
2 1 (5.56%) Linux
2 1 (5.56%) Windows 10
2 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (27.78%) DevOps
3 4 (22.22%) Computer Science
3 4 (22.22%) Mentoring
3 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (16.67%) Agile
4 3 (16.67%) Analytics
4 3 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 3 (16.67%) Project Management
5 2 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (11.11%) Data Management
5 2 (11.11%) Integration Patterns
5 2 (11.11%) Key Management
5 2 (11.11%) Migration
5 2 (11.11%) Privileged Access Management
5 2 (11.11%) Risk Assessment
5 2 (11.11%) Roadmaps
5 2 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (11.11%) Zero Trust
6 1 (5.56%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) Python
2 4 (22.22%) Java
2 4 (22.22%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.56%) Bash
3 1 (5.56%) Bicep
3 1 (5.56%) Groovy
3 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) SC Cleared
1 5 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 4 (22.22%) Degree
3 3 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (16.67%) OCP
3 3 (16.67%) Oracle Certification
4 2 (11.11%) CISM
4 2 (11.11%) CISSP
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
5 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (22.22%) NIST
2 3 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 3 (16.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.56%) GDPR
3 1 (5.56%) SLA
3 1 (5.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.56%) OpenAM
2 1 (5.56%) OpenDJ
2 1 (5.56%) OpenIDM
2 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Terraform
2 1 (5.56%) PingFederate
2 1 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 3 (16.67%) Okta
2 3 (16.67%) Oracle
2 3 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 2 (11.11%) CyberArk
3 2 (11.11%) ForgeRock
3 2 (11.11%) Ping Identity
4 1 (5.56%) Google
4 1 (5.56%) IBM
4 1 (5.56%) Salesforce
4 1 (5.56%) SAP
4 1 (5.56%) Snow
4 1 (5.56%) Zscaler