Identity Access Management Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Identity and Access Management (IDAM)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Identity Access Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 49 55
Rank change year-on-year -23 +6 -1
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 13 22 10
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.03% 2.87% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 3.37% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 19 9
10th Percentile £402 £366 £597
25th Percentile £494 £375 £620
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £402 £622
Median % change year-on-year +58.58% -35.37% +23.17%
75th Percentile £670 £435 -
90th Percentile £675 £478 £645
England median daily rate £565 £550 £595
% change year-on-year +2.73% -7.56% -0.83%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 942 653 611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 74.70% 85.25% 81.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 454 408
10th Percentile £235 £227 £263
25th Percentile £400 £333 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £410 £455
Median % change year-on-year +18.29% -9.89% -9.00%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £575
90th Percentile £650 £626 £625
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 147 57 35
10th Percentile £12.83 £15.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £13.81 £17.87 £14.83
Median hourly rate £17.87 £18.87 £18.32
Median % change year-on-year -5.30% +3.00% -36.28%
75th Percentile £26.95 £25.15 £46.13
90th Percentile £36.99 - £50.43
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%

Identity Access Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Identity Access Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Identity Access Management job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Identity Access Management
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Identity Access Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Identity Access Management

Identity Access Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Identity Access Management in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 29 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Identity Access Management in the East Midlands

Identity Access Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Identity Access Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Identity Access Management

Identity Access Management
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 August 2026. 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
Nottinghamshire - 8 £648 - 5
Derbyshire -6 2 £538 -
Northamptonshire -6 2 £401 -0.25% 3
Identity Access Management
England

Identity Access Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 5 (38.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (7.69%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) Entra ID
1 4 (30.77%) SuccessFactors
2 3 (23.08%) Azure
3 1 (7.69%) AWS
3 1 (7.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (7.69%) GCP
3 1 (7.69%) IaaS
3 1 (7.69%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) Network Security
2 1 (7.69%) DNS
2 1 (7.69%) Firewall
2 1 (7.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) MongoDB
1 2 (15.38%) NoSQL
General
1 4 (30.77%) Public Sector
2 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Manufacturing
4 1 (7.69%) Aerospace
4 1 (7.69%) Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Finance
4 1 (7.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Lead
2 3 (23.08%) Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Java Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Lead Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Lead Java Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) CyberArk Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Digital Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Digital Transformation Architect
4 1 (7.69%) IAM Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) IAM Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Identity and Access Management Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Identity and Access Management Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Identity Management Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Identity Management Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) SailPoint Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Workday Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Workstream Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Kafka
1 2 (15.38%) OAuth
1 2 (15.38%) OAuth2
1 2 (15.38%) OpenID
1 2 (15.38%) REST
1 2 (15.38%) SAML
1 2 (15.38%) Spring
1 2 (15.38%) Spring Boot
2 1 (7.69%) ARM Templates
2 1 (7.69%) MACH
2 1 (7.69%) RESTful
2 1 (7.69%) SailPoint
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Public Cloud
2 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 2 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
3 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 1 (7.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (38.46%) Analytics
2 5 (38.46%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (38.46%) Vulnerability Management
3 4 (30.77%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 4 (30.77%) Programme Governance
3 4 (30.77%) Security Operations
3 4 (30.77%) Validation
3 4 (30.77%) Workshop Facilitation
4 3 (23.08%) Event-Driven
4 3 (23.08%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 3 (23.08%) Microservices
4 3 (23.08%) Roadmaps
4 3 (23.08%) System Integration Testing
4 3 (23.08%) Test Scripting
4 3 (23.08%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (15.38%) Business Strategy
5 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
5 2 (15.38%) DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) Java
2 1 (7.69%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
1 1 (7.69%) CEH
1 1 (7.69%) CISM
1 1 (7.69%) CISSP
1 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) QA
2 3 (23.08%) GRC
3 1 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (7.69%) GDPR
3 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (7.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) Active Directory
2 2 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) SAP
2 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) CyberArk
3 1 (7.69%) DocuSign
3 1 (7.69%) Okta
3 1 (7.69%) Ping Identity
3 1 (7.69%) Workday