Identity Access Management Contracts in Edinburgh

Identity and Access Management (IDAM)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 68 100
Rank change year-on-year +8 +32 +11
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 4 9 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.63% 1.02% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 1.20% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 7
10th Percentile £465 £516 £415
25th Percentile £469 - £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +13.41%
75th Percentile £530 £703 £694
90th Percentile £532 £744 £775
Scotland median daily rate £535 £600 £523
% change year-on-year -10.92% +14.83% +4.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 604 753 1,126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.12% 85.18% 92.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 421 776
10th Percentile £228 £213 £225
25th Percentile £400 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.89% -5.26% -1.04%
75th Percentile £534 £550 £538
90th Percentile £600 £650 £600
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.83% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 30 6
10th Percentile - £13.25 £17.21
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.31 £21.36
Median hourly rate £18.33 £21.68 £32.09
Median % change year-on-year -15.42% -32.45% +69.76%
75th Percentile £41.44 £59.94 £51.25
90th Percentile £63.50 £60.75 £58.13
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £24.18 £15.25
% change year-on-year -17.29% +58.61% -59.27%

Identity Access Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Identity Access Management in Edinburgh

Identity Access Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Identity Access Management in Edinburgh

Identity Access Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Run
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (25.00%) Google Compute Engine
2 1 (25.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (25.00%) IaaS
2 1 (25.00%) PaaS
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
2 1 (25.00%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Java Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) IAM Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Java Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Java Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) PKI
1 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Operations
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) Information Security
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Proactive Maintenance
3 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (25.00%) Remediation Plan
3 1 (25.00%) Runbook
3 1 (25.00%) Service-Level Objective
3 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Groovy
1 2 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (25.00%) Ansible
3 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) ForgeRock
2 1 (25.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk