Identity Management Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Identity Management Engineer
England > London

The median Identity Management Engineer daily rate in London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 376 355 389
Rank change year-on-year -21 +34 +148
Contract jobs requiring an Identity Management Engineer 5 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.034% 0.022% 0.016%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.037% 0.024% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £540 - -
25th Percentile £563 - £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £750 £625
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +20.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £713 - £681
90th Percentile £780 - £693
England median daily rate £600 £750 £700
% change year-on-year -20.00% +7.14% +7.69%

All Contract IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 13,669 12,721 17,328
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.61% 93.64% 93.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,081 8,104 12,532
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £444 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.78%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 210 139 337
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.95 £15.98
25th Percentile £23.81 £24.66 £19.00
Median hourly rate £32.98 £35.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% +22.81% -16.18%
75th Percentile £63.10 £53.75 £49.08
90th Percentile £76.58 £79.15 £65.30
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -14.29% - -

Identity Management Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Identity Management Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Identity Management Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Identity Management Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Identity Management Engineer job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Identity Management Engineer job vacancies in London

Identity Management Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Identity Management Engineer in London over the 6 months to 3 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Identity Management Engineer in London

Identity Management Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 3 February 2026, Identity Management Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Identity Management Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Entra ID
2 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) Identity Access Management
2 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (60.00%) Zero Trust
4 2 (40.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (40.00%) API Integration
4 2 (40.00%) CISSP
4 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
4 2 (40.00%) Identity Management
4 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (40.00%) NCSC
4 2 (40.00%) Privileged Access Management
4 2 (40.00%) RBAC
4 2 (40.00%) Runbook
4 2 (40.00%) SaaS
4 2 (40.00%) SailPoint
4 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (40.00%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (20.00%) Ansible
5 1 (20.00%) Artifactory
5 1 (20.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (20.00%) CISA
5 1 (20.00%) CISM
5 1 (20.00%) Cloud Operations

Identity Management Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Entra ID
2 4 (80.00%) Azure
3 2 (40.00%) SaaS
4 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (20.00%) OneDrive
4 1 (20.00%) ShareGate
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (20.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Local Government
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) SailPoint
2 1 (20.00%) Keycloak
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (60.00%) Zero Trust
3 2 (40.00%) API Integration
3 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (40.00%) Identity Management
3 2 (40.00%) Privileged Access Management
3 2 (40.00%) RBAC
3 2 (40.00%) Runbook
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Operations
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Information Security
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (20.00%) Migration
4 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Service Migration
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (20.00%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) CISSP
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) CISA
2 1 (20.00%) CISM
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (40.00%) NCSC
3 1 (20.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 2 (40.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Okta