Identity Access Management Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Identity and Access Management (IDAM)
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Identity Access Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 39 62
Rank change year-on-year -18 +23 -3
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 7 6 4
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 1.05% 1.55% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 1.78% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 4
10th Percentile £442 - £241
25th Percentile £477 £475 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -1.09% -8.00% -19.35%
75th Percentile £677 £681 £703
90th Percentile £721 £738 £754
East of England median daily rate £575 £575 £575
% change year-on-year - - -21.23%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 581 338 594
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 87.50% 87.34% 87.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 136 306
10th Percentile £194 £263 £293
25th Percentile £413 £353 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.19% -2.95% -9.09%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £650
90th Percentile £713 £675 £756
East of England median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 83 154
10th Percentile £16.53 £16.38 £33.32
25th Percentile £18.50 £45.00 £49.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.85% - -
75th Percentile £67.25 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £20.69 £35.00 £21.73
% change year-on-year -40.89% +61.07% -2.34%

Identity Access Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Identity Access Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Identity Access Management job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Identity Access Management
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Identity Access Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Identity Access Management

Identity Access Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Identity Access Management in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 2 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Identity Access Management in Hertfordshire

Identity Access Management
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 2 January 2026. 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
Stevenage - 4 £700 - 9
Hatfield -22 3 £438 -12.50% 1
Identity Access Management
East of England

Identity Access Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
1 3 (42.86%) Entra ID
2 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DHCP
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
1 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) GitLab
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 1 (14.29%) Aerospace
1 1 (14.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) IAM Project Manager
1 4 (57.14%) Project Manager
2 3 (42.86%) Identity Management Manager
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared Project Manager
3 2 (28.57%) Senior
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Consultant
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Manager
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Onboarding
2 2 (28.57%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) Linux
2 2 (28.57%) VMS
2 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Agile
1 4 (57.14%) RBAC
1 4 (57.14%) Waterfall
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Task Automation
2 2 (28.57%) Zero Trust
3 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (14.29%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
3 1 (14.29%) Technology Roadmap
3 1 (14.29%) User Experience
3 1 (14.29%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
1 2 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Active Directory
2 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (42.86%) PingFederate
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (28.57%) Terraform
3 2 (28.57%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Citrix
2 2 (28.57%) Google
2 2 (28.57%) VMware
2 2 (28.57%) Wyse