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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 295 357 364
Rank change year-on-year +62 +7 +119
Contract jobs citing Identity Management 173 188 298
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.72% 0.52% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 0.60% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 151 200
10th Percentile £400 £400 £474
25th Percentile £464 £517 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £605 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.93% +2.98% +6.82%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £739
UK median daily rate £550 £605 £575
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.22% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
UK median hourly rate - - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +16.18%

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 21,900 31,359 43,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.28% 86.26% 90.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,297 20,563 30,348
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £767
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 932 2,244 1,528
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.92 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.47 £16.00 £16.02
Median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.77
Median % change year-on-year -21.23% -0.73% +47.08%
75th Percentile £61.69 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.27 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.81% +0.76% +40.19%

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 22 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 22 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 +67 100 £566 -5.63% 146
South East +43 24 £628 +3.72% 185
North of England +16 20 £484 -22.02% 144
Yorkshire +17 11 £535 +78.17% 64
Midlands +4 11 £525 -16.00% 130
West Midlands +14 10 £556 -11.00% 64
North West +2 9 £484 -22.33% 64
South West +22 6 £575 -14.18% 72
East of England +8 1 £550 -7.56% 94
East Midlands -4 1 £400 -35.69% 59
Identity Management
UK

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 20 (11.56%) Microsoft Exchange
1 20 (11.56%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.47%) Confluence
3 5 (2.89%) SharePoint 2010
4 4 (2.31%) IIS
5 3 (1.73%) nginx
5 3 (1.73%) Traefik
6 1 (0.58%) Gunicorn
Applications
1 6 (3.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.89%) InfoPath
3 4 (2.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (2.31%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.58%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 100 (57.80%) Azure
2 83 (47.98%) Entra ID
3 43 (24.86%) Microsoft 365
4 38 (21.97%) AWS
5 18 (10.40%) OneDrive
6 16 (9.25%) Azure Monitor
7 15 (8.67%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (8.67%) SaaS
8 12 (6.94%) GCP
8 12 (6.94%) Power Platform
9 9 (5.20%) Power Automate
10 7 (4.05%) Azure API Management
10 7 (4.05%) Mimecast
11 6 (3.47%) Asana
11 6 (3.47%) Azure Functions
11 6 (3.47%) Serverless
12 5 (2.89%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (2.89%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (2.89%) IaaS
12 5 (2.89%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.51%) Firewall
2 11 (6.36%) DNS
2 11 (6.36%) Network Security
3 6 (3.47%) HTTPS
3 6 (3.47%) Kerberos
4 5 (2.89%) TCP/IP
4 5 (2.89%) VPN
5 4 (2.31%) DHCP
5 4 (2.31%) WAN
6 2 (1.16%) DMZ
6 2 (1.16%) HTTP
6 2 (1.16%) Internet
6 2 (1.16%) SD-WAN
6 2 (1.16%) SSL
6 2 (1.16%) X.509
7 1 (0.58%) Cisco IPT
7 1 (0.58%) MPLS
7 1 (0.58%) VLAN
7 1 (0.58%) VSAN
7 1 (0.58%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.05%) Power BI
2 6 (3.47%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (2.89%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (2.89%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.31%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.73%) SSDT
6 2 (1.16%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.16%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.16%) Power Query
7 1 (0.58%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.58%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.58%) MySQL
7 1 (0.58%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.58%) Redis
7 1 (0.58%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.58%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 10 (5.78%) JIRA
2 7 (4.05%) GitLab
2 7 (4.05%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.58%) Git
3 1 (0.58%) Poetry
General
1 49 (28.32%) Social Skills
2 21 (12.14%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (12.14%) Finance
3 10 (5.78%) Public Sector
4 5 (2.89%) Legal
5 3 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (1.73%) Law
5 3 (1.73%) Military
6 2 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.16%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.58%) Digital Health
7 1 (0.58%) Local Government
7 1 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.58%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (22.54%) Architect
2 16 (9.25%) Analyst
3 14 (8.09%) Consultant
3 14 (8.09%) Senior
4 13 (7.51%) DevOps Engineer
5 12 (6.94%) Azure Engineer
6 11 (6.36%) Lead
7 10 (5.78%) Solutions Architect
8 9 (5.20%) IAM Specialist
8 9 (5.20%) Security Architect
9 8 (4.62%) Azure Architect
9 8 (4.62%) Business Analyst
9 8 (4.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (4.05%) AWS Specialist
10 7 (4.05%) Developer
10 7 (4.05%) ForgeRock Engineer
10 7 (4.05%) Infrastructure Architect
10 7 (4.05%) Project Manager
11 6 (3.47%) Microsoft 365 Architect
12 5 (2.89%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (17.34%) OAuth
2 26 (15.03%) OpenID
3 21 (12.14%) SAML
4 15 (8.67%) SailPoint
5 11 (6.36%) OAuth2
6 6 (3.47%) .NET
6 6 (3.47%) JDBC
6 6 (3.47%) Kafka
6 6 (3.47%) SOAP
7 5 (2.89%) Keycloak
7 5 (2.89%) Microsoft Graph
8 4 (2.31%) .NET Core
8 4 (2.31%) ARM Templates
8 4 (2.31%) cloud-init
8 4 (2.31%) LDAP
8 4 (2.31%) Middleware
9 3 (1.73%) ADO
9 3 (1.73%) JWT
9 3 (1.73%) YAML
10 2 (1.16%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.25%) PKI
2 12 (6.94%) Enterprise Software
2 12 (6.94%) Onboarding
3 9 (5.20%) Management Information System
4 8 (4.62%) Security Posture
5 7 (4.05%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (4.05%) Taxonomies
6 6 (3.47%) Private Cloud
6 6 (3.47%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.89%) NHS
7 5 (2.89%) Replication
8 4 (2.31%) CMDB
8 4 (2.31%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.16%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.16%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.16%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.58%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 32 (18.50%) Windows
2 15 (8.67%) Windows Server
3 14 (8.09%) Linux
4 6 (3.47%) Unix
5 4 (2.31%) Android
5 4 (2.31%) Apple iOS
5 4 (2.31%) CentOS
5 4 (2.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.73%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.16%) Mac OS
7 2 (1.16%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.16%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (34.10%) Identity Access Management
2 43 (24.86%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (18.50%) Migration
3 32 (18.50%) RBAC
4 28 (16.18%) Agile
5 27 (15.61%) DevOps
6 26 (15.03%) CI/CD
7 25 (14.45%) Cloud Security
7 25 (14.45%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 20 (11.56%) ITIL
8 20 (11.56%) Roadmaps
9 19 (10.98%) Privileged Identity Management
10 16 (9.25%) Task Automation
11 15 (8.67%) Infrastructure as Code
12 14 (8.09%) Cybersecurity
13 13 (7.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 13 (7.51%) Service Management
13 13 (7.51%) Zero Trust
14 12 (6.94%) B2C
14 12 (6.94%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (26.01%) PowerShell
2 25 (14.45%) Python
3 17 (9.83%) Java
4 9 (5.20%) Bash
4 9 (5.20%) JavaScript
4 9 (5.20%) SQL
5 8 (4.62%) Bicep
6 7 (4.05%) C#
7 4 (2.31%) Go
8 2 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.58%) C
9 1 (0.58%) Groovy
9 1 (0.58%) Scala
9 1 (0.58%) VB
9 1 (0.58%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 35 (20.23%) Security Cleared
2 31 (17.92%) SC Cleared
3 15 (8.67%) Degree
4 13 (7.51%) Azure Certification
5 10 (5.78%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (3.47%) DV Cleared
8 5 (2.89%) CISM
9 4 (2.31%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.73%) CEH
10 3 (1.73%) CISSP
11 2 (1.16%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (1.16%) PMI Certification
11 2 (1.16%) PMP
12 1 (0.58%) CISA
12 1 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.58%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.58%) MCSE
12 1 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.40%) GDPR
2 11 (6.36%) HIPAA
2 11 (6.36%) NIST
3 9 (5.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 7 (4.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (3.47%) NCSC
6 3 (1.73%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.58%) QA
System Software
1 66 (38.15%) Active Directory
2 10 (5.78%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (5.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (4.62%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (1.73%) Docker
5 3 (1.73%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.58%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.58%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.58%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.58%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 39 (22.54%) Single Sign-On
2 23 (13.29%) Terraform
3 15 (8.67%) Kubernetes
3 15 (8.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (5.20%) Prometheus
5 8 (4.62%) Grafana
6 6 (3.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (2.89%) Ansible
7 5 (2.89%) SCCM
8 4 (2.31%) Consul
8 4 (2.31%) Istio
8 4 (2.31%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (2.31%) linkerd
8 4 (2.31%) Packer
8 4 (2.31%) Rancher
8 4 (2.31%) ZABBIX
9 3 (1.73%) Automic
9 3 (1.73%) HAProxy
9 3 (1.73%) Puppet
9 3 (1.73%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 62 (35.84%) Microsoft
2 20 (11.56%) Okta
3 16 (9.25%) Ping Identity
4 12 (6.94%) ForgeRock
5 11 (6.36%) VMware
6 6 (3.47%) Google
7 5 (2.89%) Citrix
7 5 (2.89%) CyberArk
7 5 (2.89%) Splunk
8 4 (2.31%) Proofpoint
9 3 (1.73%) Apple
9 3 (1.73%) Cisco
9 3 (1.73%) ESET
9 3 (1.73%) Oracle
9 3 (1.73%) UiPath
9 3 (1.73%) Zscaler
10 2 (1.16%) NetApp
10 2 (1.16%) Pure Storage
10 2 (1.16%) SAP
10 2 (1.16%) Veritas