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 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 38 68
Rank change year-on-year -25 +30 -12
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 4 7 2
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 0.52% 1.90% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 2.22% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 2
10th Percentile - - £684
25th Percentile £419 £475 £697
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £650 £725
Median % change year-on-year -32.69% -10.34% -6.45%
75th Percentile £456 - £759
90th Percentile - - £776
East of England median daily rate £500 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -23.08% -3.70% -12.34%

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 613 315 700
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 80.13% 85.37% 89.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 152 310
10th Percentile £288 £306 £257
25th Percentile £413 £413 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +21.11% -16.28%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £624
90th Percentile £713 £686 £725
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 91 245
10th Percentile £16.46 £17.61 £38.12
25th Percentile £18.50 £47.50 £39.55
Median hourly rate £22.66 £66.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -65.67% +10.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £67.63 £76.25 £69.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £85.00
East of England median hourly rate £21.80 £53.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year -58.87% +39.03% +15.87%

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
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 17 March 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
Hatfield -24 3 £438 -12.50% 1
Stevenage - 1 - - 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 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DHCP
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) PKI
2 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) VMS
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Task Automation
1 2 (50.00%) Zero Trust
2 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) User Experience
2 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) RMADS
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
1 2 (50.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Citrix
2 2 (50.00%) Google
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Wyse