Identity Access Management Contracts in England

Identity and Access Management (IDAM)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 171 200 223
Rank change year-on-year +29 +23 +69
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 392 430 603
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.61% 1.16% 1.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.77% 1.34% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 292 309 404
10th Percentile £410 £400 £475
25th Percentile £510 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £691 £703 £730
90th Percentile £751 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £600 £614 £625
% change year-on-year -2.20% -1.84% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.50
Median hourly rate - £23.80 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - -63.94% +22.22%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £81.10
UK median hourly rate - £23.80 £66.00
% change year-on-year - -63.94% +22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Identity Access Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Identity Access Management in England

Identity Access Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Identity Access Management in England

Identity Access Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Identity Access Management in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Identity Access Management in England

Identity Access Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Identity Access Management in England.

Hourly rate trend for Identity Access Management in England

Identity Access Management
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London +22 212 £625 +9.17% 246
South East +50 53 £650 +13.04% 193
North of England +10 44 £520 -15.24% 151
Midlands +19 28 £588 -7.48% 122
South West +24 26 £550 -21.43% 82
West Midlands +20 25 £602 -7.46% 63
North West +14 25 £525 -19.23% 70
Yorkshire +2 18 £450 -21.74% 63
East of England +34 8 £650 +7.44% 94
East Midlands +3 3 £500 -19.61% 51
North East 0 1 £430 -28.33% 18
Identity Access Management
UK

Identity Access Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 16 (4.08%) SharePoint
2 12 (3.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.53%) Confluence
4 2 (0.51%) SharePoint Server
4 2 (0.51%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.26%) Camunda
Applications
1 10 (2.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (1.79%) MS Visio
3 6 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.26%) Notion
Business Applications
1 10 (2.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.79%) SAP GRC
3 4 (1.02%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.77%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.26%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 141 (35.97%) Azure
2 101 (25.77%) Entra ID
3 69 (17.60%) AWS
4 38 (9.69%) Microsoft 365
5 28 (7.14%) GCP
6 13 (3.32%) Power Platform
7 12 (3.06%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (3.06%) SaaS
7 12 (3.06%) Serverless
8 11 (2.81%) Azure Logic Apps
9 10 (2.55%) Azure Sentinel
9 10 (2.55%) IaaS
9 10 (2.55%) PaaS
10 9 (2.30%) OCI
11 8 (2.04%) Azure AKS
11 8 (2.04%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (2.04%) GitHub
11 8 (2.04%) Microsoft Purview
12 7 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (1.79%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 26 (6.63%) Network Security
2 19 (4.85%) Firewall
3 12 (3.06%) VPN
4 8 (2.04%) DNS
4 8 (2.04%) HTTPS
5 4 (1.02%) Kerberos
5 4 (1.02%) NAS
5 4 (1.02%) SSL
6 3 (0.77%) DHCP
6 3 (0.77%) Internet
7 2 (0.51%) DKIM
7 2 (0.51%) DMARC
7 2 (0.51%) Extranet
7 2 (0.51%) HTTP
7 2 (0.51%) Radio Access Network
7 2 (0.51%) Skype
7 2 (0.51%) SMTP
7 2 (0.51%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.26%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.26%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.55%) Power BI
2 7 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (1.28%) Oracle Database
4 3 (0.77%) NoSQL
4 3 (0.77%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.26%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.26%) MySQL
6 1 (0.26%) Parquet
6 1 (0.26%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.26%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (2.30%) JIRA
2 8 (2.04%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.28%) Git
4 4 (1.02%) GitLab
5 3 (0.77%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.26%) JMeter
6 1 (0.26%) Postman
6 1 (0.26%) Selenium
6 1 (0.26%) Snyk
6 1 (0.26%) Terragrunt
General
1 121 (30.87%) Social Skills
2 100 (25.51%) Finance
3 56 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 47 (11.99%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (8.93%) Banking
6 22 (5.61%) Telecoms
7 21 (5.36%) Electronics
7 21 (5.36%) Manufacturing
7 21 (5.36%) Marketing
8 11 (2.81%) Legal
9 9 (2.30%) Financial Institution
9 9 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.79%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.28%) Aviation
12 5 (1.28%) French Language
13 4 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.77%) Police
14 3 (0.77%) Retail
Job Titles
1 143 (36.48%) Architect
2 47 (11.99%) Security Architect
3 46 (11.73%) Senior
4 34 (8.67%) Analyst
5 30 (7.65%) Consultant
6 26 (6.63%) Active Directory Architect
7 19 (4.85%) Solutions Architect
8 17 (4.34%) Security Consultant
8 17 (4.34%) Security Engineer
9 16 (4.08%) Senior Architect
10 15 (3.83%) Business Analyst
10 15 (3.83%) Cloud Architect
10 15 (3.83%) Cloud Engineer
11 14 (3.57%) IAM Specialist
11 14 (3.57%) Lead
12 13 (3.32%) Developer
13 12 (3.06%) Azure Engineer
13 12 (3.06%) Project Manager
14 11 (2.81%) Enterprise Architect
15 10 (2.55%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (14.54%) OAuth
2 54 (13.78%) SailPoint
3 51 (13.01%) SAML
4 47 (11.99%) OpenID
5 23 (5.87%) LDAP
6 16 (4.08%) OAuth2
7 9 (2.30%) SAP Fiori
7 9 (2.30%) SOAP
8 8 (2.04%) ARM Templates
9 7 (1.79%) Kafka
9 7 (1.79%) REST
10 6 (1.53%) CSS
10 6 (1.53%) FIDO
10 6 (1.53%) HTML
10 6 (1.53%) JDBC
10 6 (1.53%) Node.js
10 6 (1.53%) Oracle Fusion
10 6 (1.53%) XACML
11 5 (1.28%) Angular 2
11 5 (1.28%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 28 (7.14%) Management Information System
2 26 (6.63%) Security Posture
3 23 (5.87%) Hybrid Cloud
4 20 (5.10%) Onboarding
4 20 (5.10%) PKI
5 16 (4.08%) Data Centre
6 15 (3.83%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (3.32%) Cloud Native
7 13 (3.32%) Product Ownership
8 12 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (2.30%) Public Cloud
10 7 (1.79%) Taxonomies
11 4 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (0.77%) BYOD
12 3 (0.77%) Cyber Threat
12 3 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.77%) Enterprise Storage
12 3 (0.77%) Private Cloud
12 3 (0.77%) Reinsurance
12 3 (0.77%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 66 (16.84%) Windows
2 20 (5.10%) Linux
3 17 (4.34%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.28%) Windows 10
5 4 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.77%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.77%) Unix
7 2 (0.51%) Android
7 2 (0.51%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.51%) VMS
7 2 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (23.98%) Problem-Solving
2 68 (17.35%) Cloud Security
3 67 (17.09%) RBAC
4 66 (16.84%) Agile
5 62 (15.82%) Identity Management
6 53 (13.52%) Cybersecurity
7 48 (12.24%) Migration
8 45 (11.48%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 41 (10.46%) Privileged Access Management
10 36 (9.18%) DevOps
11 33 (8.42%) Stakeholder Management
12 32 (8.16%) Security Architecture
13 30 (7.65%) Business Intelligence
14 29 (7.40%) CI/CD
14 29 (7.40%) Roadmaps
15 28 (7.14%) Test Automation
16 27 (6.89%) Information Security
16 27 (6.89%) Project Management
17 26 (6.63%) Computer Science
17 26 (6.63%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 93 (23.72%) PowerShell
2 47 (11.99%) Python
3 31 (7.91%) Java
4 22 (5.61%) SQL
5 15 (3.83%) JavaScript
6 10 (2.55%) Bicep
7 6 (1.53%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.02%) BeanShell
9 3 (0.77%) Bash
9 3 (0.77%) VBA
9 3 (0.77%) VBScript
10 2 (0.51%) C#
10 2 (0.51%) Groovy
10 2 (0.51%) VB
11 1 (0.26%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.26%) C
11 1 (0.26%) PHP
Qualifications
1 109 (27.81%) Security Cleared
2 58 (14.80%) SC Cleared
3 43 (10.97%) DV Cleared
4 39 (9.95%) CISSP
5 37 (9.44%) Degree
6 20 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (4.85%) Azure Certification
7 19 (4.85%) CISM
7 19 (4.85%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (3.06%) AWS Certification
9 7 (1.79%) OCP
9 7 (1.79%) Oracle Certification
10 6 (1.53%) CISA
10 6 (1.53%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.53%) PMI Certification
10 6 (1.53%) PMP
11 5 (1.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 5 (1.28%) CCSP
11 5 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (1.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (12.76%) NIST
2 49 (12.50%) GDPR
3 43 (10.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 41 (10.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 16 (4.08%) HIPAA
6 13 (3.32%) GRC
7 9 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 9 (2.30%) SOC 2
8 8 (2.04%) PCI DSS
9 5 (1.28%) NCSC
10 4 (1.02%) COBIT
10 4 (1.02%) SLA
11 2 (0.51%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.51%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.51%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.26%) ITGC
12 1 (0.26%) QA
System Software
1 138 (35.20%) Active Directory
2 11 (2.81%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (2.04%) Docker
4 6 (1.53%) OpenAM
5 4 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.77%) IAG
6 3 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.51%) BitLocker
7 2 (0.51%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (0.51%) OpenDJ
7 2 (0.51%) OpenIDM
8 1 (0.26%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.26%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 49 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
2 28 (7.14%) Terraform
3 21 (5.36%) Kubernetes
4 19 (4.85%) Ansible
5 11 (2.81%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (1.79%) SCCM
7 5 (1.28%) OPNET
8 4 (1.02%) CASB
8 4 (1.02%) FortiGate
8 4 (1.02%) Grafana
8 4 (1.02%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (1.02%) Puppet
8 4 (1.02%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 3 (0.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.77%) AirWatch
9 3 (0.77%) Automic
10 2 (0.51%) Nessus
10 2 (0.51%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.26%) QRadar
11 1 (0.26%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 116 (29.59%) Microsoft
2 41 (10.46%) SAP
3 31 (7.91%) CyberArk
4 29 (7.40%) Okta
5 22 (5.61%) Ping Identity
5 22 (5.61%) ServiceNow
6 20 (5.10%) Oracle
7 19 (4.85%) Google
8 17 (4.34%) ForgeRock
9 9 (2.30%) BeyondTrust
10 6 (1.53%) VMware
10 6 (1.53%) Zscaler
11 4 (1.02%) Cisco
12 3 (0.77%) Apple
12 3 (0.77%) Fortinet
12 3 (0.77%) IBM
12 3 (0.77%) Palo Alto
12 3 (0.77%) Proofpoint
12 3 (0.77%) Qualys
12 3 (0.77%) Tenable