Identity Management Contracts in England

Identity Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Identity Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Identity Management over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 303 359 391
Rank change year-on-year +56 +32 +100
Contract jobs citing Identity Management 186 184 295
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.76% 0.50% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 0.57% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 145 202
10th Percentile £400 £423 £463
25th Percentile £471 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £605 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.96% +2.98% +11.90%
75th Percentile £700 £684 £700
90th Percentile £750 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £575 £615 £564
% change year-on-year -6.50% +9.09% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £63.75
90th Percentile - - £67.50
UK median hourly rate - - £62.50
% change year-on-year - - +3.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Identity 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 22,247 32,161 45,385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.13% 86.56% 90.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,550 21,078 31,861
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £444
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 £768
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 916 2,252 1,585
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.93 £10.91
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

Identity Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Identity Management in England

Identity Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Identity Management in England

Identity Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Identity Management in England over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Identity Management in England

Identity Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Identity Management in England

Identity 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 Management within the England region over the 6 months to 2 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 +77 101 £575 -8.00% 92
North of England +31 31 £484 -22.02% 52
South East +40 22 £650 +7.44% 68
Yorkshire +22 20 £600 +100.00% 20
Midlands +12 13 £556 -11.00% 33
West Midlands +19 12 £588 -6.00% 17
North West +5 9 £463 -25.40% 13
South West +30 7 £563 -14.77% 20
North East - 2 £750 - 21
East Midlands +5 1 £400 -35.69% 14
Identity Management
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Identity 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 25 (13.44%) Microsoft Exchange
1 25 (13.44%) SharePoint
2 12 (6.45%) nginx
2 12 (6.45%) Traefik
3 6 (3.23%) Confluence
4 5 (2.69%) SharePoint 2010
5 4 (2.15%) IIS
6 3 (1.61%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.54%) CMS
7 1 (0.54%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.54%) Gunicorn
Applications
1 5 (2.69%) InfoPath
2 4 (2.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (2.15%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.54%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 103 (55.38%) Azure
2 96 (51.61%) Entra ID
3 50 (26.88%) AWS
4 46 (24.73%) Microsoft 365
5 23 (12.37%) OneDrive
6 15 (8.06%) AWS CloudFormation
6 15 (8.06%) Azure Monitor
7 14 (7.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 14 (7.53%) Amazon ECS
7 14 (7.53%) AWS Fargate
7 14 (7.53%) SaaS
7 14 (7.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 13 (6.99%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (5.91%) GCP
9 11 (5.91%) Power Platform
10 8 (4.30%) Mimecast
10 8 (4.30%) Power Automate
11 7 (3.76%) Azure API Management
12 6 (3.23%) Azure Functions
12 6 (3.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 21 (11.29%) DNS
2 19 (10.22%) Firewall
3 15 (8.06%) TCP/IP
4 11 (5.91%) Network Security
5 6 (3.23%) HTTPS
5 6 (3.23%) Kerberos
6 5 (2.69%) VPN
7 4 (2.15%) DHCP
7 4 (2.15%) WAN
8 3 (1.61%) Skype
9 2 (1.08%) DMZ
9 2 (1.08%) HTTP
9 2 (1.08%) Internet
9 2 (1.08%) SD-WAN
9 2 (1.08%) SSL
9 2 (1.08%) VoIP
9 2 (1.08%) Wireless
9 2 (1.08%) X.509
10 1 (0.54%) IP Telephony
10 1 (0.54%) Softphone
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.06%) MongoDB
2 6 (3.23%) Power BI
3 5 (2.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (2.69%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (2.15%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.61%) SSDT
6 2 (1.08%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.08%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.08%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.08%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (1.08%) Power Query
7 1 (0.54%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.54%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.54%) MySQL
7 1 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.54%) Redis
7 1 (0.54%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.54%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 17 (9.14%) GitLab
1 17 (9.14%) Jenkins
2 8 (4.30%) JIRA
3 1 (0.54%) Git
3 1 (0.54%) Katalon Studio
3 1 (0.54%) Poetry
General
1 50 (26.88%) Social Skills
2 29 (15.59%) Finance
3 22 (11.83%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (6.45%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (2.69%) Military
7 4 (2.15%) Banking
7 4 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.61%) Law
8 3 (1.61%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.54%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.54%) Legal
9 1 (0.54%) Local Government
9 1 (0.54%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 45 (24.19%) Architect
2 25 (13.44%) Senior
3 18 (9.68%) DevOps Engineer
4 16 (8.60%) Analyst
5 14 (7.53%) Solutions Architect
6 13 (6.99%) Lead
6 13 (6.99%) Senior DevOps
7 12 (6.45%) Azure Engineer
7 12 (6.45%) Consultant
8 11 (5.91%) Security Architect
9 9 (4.84%) IAM Specialist
9 9 (4.84%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 8 (4.30%) Azure Architect
10 8 (4.30%) Business Analyst
11 7 (3.76%) AWS Specialist
11 7 (3.76%) Infrastructure Architect
11 7 (3.76%) Microsoft 365 Architect
12 6 (3.23%) Developer
12 6 (3.23%) ForgeRock Engineer
12 6 (3.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (15.59%) OAuth
2 25 (13.44%) OpenID
3 21 (11.29%) SAML
4 17 (9.14%) SailPoint
5 16 (8.60%) Kafka
6 15 (8.06%) Keycloak
7 14 (7.53%) cloud-init
8 10 (5.38%) OAuth2
9 6 (3.23%) JDBC
9 6 (3.23%) SOAP
10 5 (2.69%) .NET
10 5 (2.69%) Microsoft Graph
11 4 (2.15%) Middleware
12 3 (1.61%) .NET Core
12 3 (1.61%) ARM Templates
12 3 (1.61%) JWT
12 3 (1.61%) LDAP
12 3 (1.61%) YAML
13 2 (1.08%) REST
13 2 (1.08%) WebAuthn
Miscellaneous
1 25 (13.44%) PKI
2 13 (6.99%) Onboarding
3 12 (6.45%) Management Information System
4 11 (5.91%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (3.76%) Security Posture
5 7 (3.76%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (3.76%) Taxonomies
6 6 (3.23%) Private Cloud
6 6 (3.23%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.69%) Data Centre
8 4 (2.15%) BYOD
8 4 (2.15%) Replication
9 3 (1.61%) CMDB
9 3 (1.61%) NHS
10 2 (1.08%) Blackberry
10 2 (1.08%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.08%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.54%) Cloud Native
11 1 (0.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 36 (19.35%) Windows
2 24 (12.90%) Linux
3 18 (9.68%) Unix
4 14 (7.53%) CentOS
4 14 (7.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (6.99%) Windows Server
6 5 (2.69%) Android
6 5 (2.69%) Apple iOS
7 4 (2.15%) Windows 10
8 2 (1.08%) Mac OS
8 2 (1.08%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.54%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 44 (23.66%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (19.35%) CI/CD
3 36 (19.35%) Cloud Security
3 36 (19.35%) Migration
4 35 (18.82%) DevOps
5 33 (17.74%) Agile
5 33 (17.74%) RBAC
6 30 (16.13%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 24 (12.90%) Infrastructure as Code
8 21 (11.29%) ITIL
9 19 (10.22%) Privileged Identity Management
10 18 (9.68%) Roadmaps
11 17 (9.14%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
11 17 (9.14%) Static Application Security Testing
12 16 (8.60%) Continuous Integration
12 16 (8.60%) Observability
12 16 (8.60%) Secrets Management
13 15 (8.06%) B2C
13 15 (8.06%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 47 (25.27%) PowerShell
2 34 (18.28%) Python
3 18 (9.68%) Bash
4 16 (8.60%) Java
5 14 (7.53%) Go
6 8 (4.30%) JavaScript
6 8 (4.30%) SQL
7 7 (3.76%) Bicep
8 6 (3.23%) C#
9 2 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.54%) C
10 1 (0.54%) Scala
10 1 (0.54%) VB
10 1 (0.54%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 42 (22.58%) Security Cleared
2 37 (19.89%) SC Cleared
3 17 (9.14%) Degree
4 14 (7.53%) AWS Certification
5 12 (6.45%) Azure Certification
6 9 (4.84%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (3.23%) CISSP
8 6 (3.23%) DV Cleared
9 5 (2.69%) CISM
10 3 (1.61%) CEH
10 3 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.61%) Master's Degree
11 2 (1.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (1.08%) CCSP
11 2 (1.08%) CISA
11 2 (1.08%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (1.08%) PMI Certification
11 2 (1.08%) PMP
12 1 (0.54%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.68%) GDPR
2 14 (7.53%) NCSC
3 11 (5.91%) HIPAA
4 10 (5.38%) NIST
4 10 (5.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 7 (3.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.61%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.54%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.54%) QA
System Software
1 68 (36.56%) Active Directory
2 8 (4.30%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (3.23%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.61%) Docker
4 3 (1.61%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.08%) XenDesktop
6 1 (0.54%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.54%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.54%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (19.35%) Single Sign-On
2 31 (16.67%) Terraform
3 25 (13.44%) Kubernetes
4 20 (10.75%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (9.68%) Prometheus
6 17 (9.14%) Grafana
7 14 (7.53%) Consul
7 14 (7.53%) Istio
7 14 (7.53%) Jamf Pro
7 14 (7.53%) linkerd
7 14 (7.53%) Packer
7 14 (7.53%) Rancher
7 14 (7.53%) ZABBIX
8 12 (6.45%) HAProxy
9 9 (4.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 8 (4.30%) SCCM
11 4 (2.15%) Ansible
12 3 (1.61%) Automic
12 3 (1.61%) Forefront Identity Manager
12 3 (1.61%) Puppet
Vendors
1 65 (34.95%) Microsoft
2 30 (16.13%) Okta
3 16 (8.60%) Splunk
4 14 (7.53%) Ping Identity
5 13 (6.99%) Apple
6 12 (6.45%) ESET
7 11 (5.91%) ForgeRock
8 10 (5.38%) VMware
9 6 (3.23%) Google
9 6 (3.23%) Oracle
10 5 (2.69%) Cisco
10 5 (2.69%) CyberArk
11 4 (2.15%) Proofpoint
12 3 (1.61%) Citrix
12 3 (1.61%) Fortinet
12 3 (1.61%) NetApp
12 3 (1.61%) UiPath
12 3 (1.61%) Zscaler
13 2 (1.08%) Palo Alto
13 2 (1.08%) Pure Storage