Identity Access Management Contracts in England

Identity and Access Management (IDAM)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Identity Access Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Identity Access Management over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 204 224 292
Rank change year-on-year +20 +68 +7
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 424 603 674
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.15% 1.19% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 1.32% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 404 455
10th Percentile £402 £475 £440
25th Percentile £500 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £703 £730 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £769
UK median daily rate £618 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -1.20% +8.70% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 4
10th Percentile - - £41.50
25th Percentile - £61.50 £43.75
Median hourly rate £23.80 £66.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -63.94% +22.22% -
75th Percentile - - £67.38
90th Percentile - £81.10 £72.55
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £66.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year -63.94% +22.22% +8.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Identity Access Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,992 45,544 64,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.24% 90.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,975 31,977 45,770
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,229 1,592 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +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 28 April 2024.

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 28 April 2024. 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 +12 219 £569 -12.50% 60
North of England +23 53 £615 +9.33% 5
South East -1 49 £575 - 37
South West +24 48 £700 +6.06% 6
Midlands +34 31 £635 +10.43% 7
North West +27 28 £650 +18.18%
Yorkshire +10 24 £575 +4.55% 5
West Midlands +30 19 £650 +6.12% 3
East Midlands +26 10 £622 +24.40% 4
East of England +2 4 £605 -21.94% 4
North East +21 1 £600 -14.29%
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 23 (5.42%) SharePoint
2 16 (3.77%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (2.36%) Confluence
4 5 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.71%) IIS
6 2 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.47%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 1 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (0.24%) nginx
7 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
Applications
1 21 (4.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.12%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.12%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (2.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.42%) NEC Housing
3 5 (1.18%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (1.18%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.24%) Aareon QL
4 1 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.24%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.24%) OPENHousing
4 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 137 (32.31%) Azure
2 81 (19.10%) AWS
3 80 (18.87%) Entra ID
4 41 (9.67%) GCP
5 29 (6.84%) Microsoft 365
6 21 (4.95%) Power Platform
7 18 (4.25%) GitHub
7 18 (4.25%) PaaS
8 17 (4.01%) SaaS
9 16 (3.77%) Dynamics 365
10 15 (3.54%) Serverless
11 14 (3.30%) GitHub Actions
12 13 (3.07%) IaaS
13 12 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
14 11 (2.59%) Amazon EC2
14 11 (2.59%) Google Compute Engine
14 11 (2.59%) Power Automate
15 10 (2.36%) Vertex AI
16 9 (2.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 9 (2.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 44 (10.38%) Network Security
2 40 (9.43%) Firewall
3 20 (4.72%) DNS
4 18 (4.25%) WAN
5 14 (3.30%) VPN
6 13 (3.07%) SD-WAN
7 10 (2.36%) LAN
8 8 (1.89%) TCP/IP
9 7 (1.65%) HTTPS
9 7 (1.65%) SSL
10 5 (1.18%) Intrusion Detection
10 5 (1.18%) Kerberos
11 4 (0.94%) HTTP
11 4 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
12 3 (0.71%) DHCP
12 3 (0.71%) Multicast
12 3 (0.71%) NAS
12 3 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
12 3 (0.71%) SAN
12 3 (0.71%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.01%) BigQuery
2 15 (3.54%) Data Lake
2 15 (3.54%) Power BI
3 9 (2.12%) SQL Server
4 8 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (1.18%) Metadata
5 5 (1.18%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.18%) OLAP
5 5 (1.18%) OLTP
5 5 (1.18%) Oracle Database
5 5 (1.18%) Oracle OLAP
6 4 (0.94%) MySQL
7 3 (0.71%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.47%) Data Mart
8 2 (0.47%) Delta Lake
8 2 (0.47%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.47%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 20 (4.72%) JIRA
2 6 (1.42%) Jenkins
2 6 (1.42%) Robot Framework
2 6 (1.42%) Sonatype Nexus
3 5 (1.18%) Git
4 4 (0.94%) Maven
5 3 (0.71%) GitLab
5 3 (0.71%) gulp
6 2 (0.47%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.24%) Katalon Studio
7 1 (0.24%) Selenium
General
1 108 (25.47%) Social Skills
2 101 (23.82%) Finance
3 41 (9.67%) Banking
4 38 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (7.31%) Public Sector
6 11 (2.59%) Retail
7 8 (1.89%) Financial Institution
7 8 (1.89%) Legal
7 8 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (1.65%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.18%) Telecoms
10 4 (0.94%) Law
11 3 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.71%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.71%) Marketing
11 3 (0.71%) Wholesale Banking
12 2 (0.47%) Back Office
13 1 (0.24%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 128 (30.19%) Architect
2 59 (13.92%) Consultant
3 48 (11.32%) Lead
4 43 (10.14%) Analyst
5 33 (7.78%) Security Architect
6 31 (7.31%) Senior
7 28 (6.60%) Lead Architect
8 25 (5.90%) Security Consultant
9 21 (4.95%) Security Engineer
10 19 (4.48%) Project Manager
11 18 (4.25%) Cloud Engineer
11 18 (4.25%) Security Analyst
12 16 (3.77%) IAM Consultant
13 14 (3.30%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 13 (3.07%) Business Analyst
14 13 (3.07%) Cybersecurity Architect
15 12 (2.83%) Developer
15 12 (2.83%) ForgeRock Architect
16 11 (2.59%) Cybersecurity Consultant
17 10 (2.36%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (15.33%) SailPoint
2 55 (12.97%) OAuth
3 43 (10.14%) SAML
4 40 (9.43%) OpenID
5 26 (6.13%) LDAP
6 15 (3.54%) RESTful
7 14 (3.30%) .NET
7 14 (3.30%) OAuth2
8 10 (2.36%) SOAP
9 9 (2.12%) JSON
10 8 (1.89%) React
10 8 (1.89%) REST
10 8 (1.89%) Web Services
11 7 (1.65%) Kafka
11 7 (1.65%) Node.js
12 6 (1.42%) .NET Core
12 6 (1.42%) Middleware
12 6 (1.42%) XML
13 5 (1.18%) J2EE
13 5 (1.18%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 39 (9.20%) Management Information System
2 31 (7.31%) PKI
3 17 (4.01%) Data Centre
3 17 (4.01%) Security Posture
4 15 (3.54%) Cloud Native
5 13 (3.07%) Onboarding
5 13 (3.07%) Product Ownership
6 11 (2.59%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 8 (1.89%) Security Operations Centre
8 7 (1.65%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.42%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.18%) Cyber Defence
10 5 (1.18%) DataPower
10 5 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.18%) Hedge funds
10 5 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (0.94%) CMDB
11 4 (0.94%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (0.94%) Private Cloud
11 4 (0.94%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 44 (10.38%) Windows
2 18 (4.25%) Windows Server
3 16 (3.77%) Linux
4 11 (2.59%) Windows Server 2019
5 8 (1.89%) Unix
6 7 (1.65%) Windows 10
7 6 (1.42%) Android
7 6 (1.42%) Apple iOS
8 5 (1.18%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.24%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.24%) OpenVMS
11 1 (0.24%) VMS
11 1 (0.24%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (26.42%) Cybersecurity
2 72 (16.98%) Information Security
3 69 (16.27%) Stakeholder Management
4 64 (15.09%) Agile
5 63 (14.86%) DevOps
6 62 (14.62%) Privileged Access Management
7 57 (13.44%) Risk Management
8 51 (12.03%) Project Management
9 50 (11.79%) Cloud Security
10 46 (10.85%) Identity Management
10 46 (10.85%) Migration
10 46 (10.85%) Problem-Solving
11 37 (8.73%) Application Security
12 31 (7.31%) SIEM
13 29 (6.84%) CI/CD
13 29 (6.84%) Computer Science
13 29 (6.84%) ITIL
14 28 (6.60%) Digital Identity
15 27 (6.37%) Roadmaps
15 27 (6.37%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 52 (12.26%) Python
2 31 (7.31%) PowerShell
3 24 (5.66%) SQL
4 20 (4.72%) Java
5 13 (3.07%) Bash
6 12 (2.83%) JavaScript
7 11 (2.59%) Kusto Query Language
8 6 (1.42%) C#
9 2 (0.47%) Go
9 2 (0.47%) Perl
9 2 (0.47%) PHP
9 2 (0.47%) Ruby
10 1 (0.24%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 83 (19.58%) Security Cleared
2 63 (14.86%) SC Cleared
3 48 (11.32%) Degree
4 42 (9.91%) CISSP
5 25 (5.90%) CISM
6 22 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (3.07%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (2.83%) Azure Certification
8 12 (2.83%) DV Cleared
9 9 (2.12%) PMI Certification
10 8 (1.89%) AWS Certification
10 8 (1.89%) ISACA
10 8 (1.89%) PMP
11 7 (1.65%) CISA
12 6 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (1.42%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 5 (1.18%) CompTIA Security+
14 4 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
15 2 (0.47%) CCNP
15 2 (0.47%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (10.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 43 (10.14%) NIST
2 27 (6.37%) QA
3 25 (5.90%) JSP 440
4 24 (5.66%) GDPR
5 16 (3.77%) COBIT
5 16 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 14 (3.30%) GRC
7 9 (2.12%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.94%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.94%) SLA
9 3 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.47%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.47%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.24%) GxP
11 1 (0.24%) ISA99
11 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 97 (22.88%) Active Directory
2 17 (4.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (2.83%) Docker
4 7 (1.65%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.94%) Shibboleth
5 4 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.71%) BitLocker
6 3 (0.71%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.71%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.47%) XenApp
8 1 (0.24%) Terminal Server
8 1 (0.24%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 53 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
2 43 (10.14%) Terraform
3 17 (4.01%) Ansible
4 15 (3.54%) Kubernetes
5 13 (3.07%) PingFederate
6 9 (2.12%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (1.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.94%) Oracle Identity Management
9 3 (0.71%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 3 (0.71%) Nessus
9 3 (0.71%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.47%) Network Intrusion Detection System
10 2 (0.47%) Puppet
10 2 (0.47%) SCCM
10 2 (0.47%) SCOM
10 2 (0.47%) SCVMM
10 2 (0.47%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.47%) VxRail
11 1 (0.24%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.24%) WSUS
Vendors
1 120 (28.30%) Microsoft
2 45 (10.61%) CyberArk
3 25 (5.90%) Oracle
4 22 (5.19%) VMware
5 20 (4.72%) ForgeRock
5 20 (4.72%) Ping Identity
6 19 (4.48%) Google
7 13 (3.07%) ServiceNow
8 10 (2.36%) Cisco
8 10 (2.36%) Okta
9 9 (2.12%) IBM
10 8 (1.89%) BeyondTrust
10 8 (1.89%) NetIQ
10 8 (1.89%) WALLIX
11 6 (1.42%) F5
11 6 (1.42%) NEC
12 5 (1.18%) CA
12 5 (1.18%) Citrix
12 5 (1.18%) SAP
12 5 (1.18%) TSYS