Identity Access Management Contracts in the Midlands

Identity and Access Management (IDAM)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Identity Access Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Identity Access Management over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 107 136
Rank change year-on-year +26 +29 +27
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 36 28 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.82% 1.04% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.06% 1.27% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 24 18
10th Percentile £383 £617 £371
25th Percentile £429 £622 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £648 £559
Median % change year-on-year -16.99% +15.88% +11.64%
75th Percentile £615 £675 £647
90th Percentile £651 £688 £738
England median daily rate £585 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -2.50% -4.00% +5.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,749 2,203 2,852
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 88.29% 81.87% 87.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,148 1,485 2,002
10th Percentile £200 £233 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £468 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.60% -6.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £551 £595 £597
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 170 101
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.06 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.60 £15.00
Median hourly rate £18.75 £18.00 £22.41
Median % change year-on-year +4.18% -19.68% +28.06%
75th Percentile £25.15 £32.53 £40.25
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.00 £57.50
England median hourly rate £28.08 £36.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% -2.67% +50.00%

Identity Access Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Identity Access Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Identity Access Management in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Identity Access Management in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Identity Access Management in the Midlands

Identity Access Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Identity Access Management in the Midlands over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Identity Access Management in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Identity Access Management in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Identity Access Management in the Midlands

Identity Access Management
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 23 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
West Midlands +20 23 £588 -9.62% 80
East Midlands +14 13 £440 -29.34% 72
Identity Access Management
England

Identity Access Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 22 (61.11%) Azure
2 13 (36.11%) AWS
3 12 (33.33%) Entra ID
4 8 (22.22%) GCP
5 6 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (11.11%) Power Platform
6 4 (11.11%) SuccessFactors
7 2 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.78%) OCI
8 1 (2.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.89%) Firewall
2 2 (5.56%) Network Security
3 1 (2.78%) Internet
3 1 (2.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.11%) Oracle Database
1 4 (11.11%) Power BI
2 2 (5.56%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (2.78%) Git
2 1 (2.78%) GitLab
General
1 24 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 16 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (13.89%) Finance
4 4 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.78%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (22.22%) Architect
2 5 (13.89%) Analyst
3 4 (11.11%) Business Analyst
3 4 (11.11%) Consultant
3 4 (11.11%) Lead
3 4 (11.11%) Security Engineer
4 2 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (5.56%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 2 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 2 (5.56%) Product Owner
4 2 (5.56%) Security Architect
4 2 (5.56%) Senior
5 1 (2.78%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (2.78%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (2.78%) CyberArk Consultant
5 1 (2.78%) CyberArk Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 1 (2.78%) Information Security Architect
5 1 (2.78%) Security Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (38.89%) LDAP
2 5 (13.89%) SailPoint
3 4 (11.11%) OAuth
3 4 (11.11%) OpenID
3 4 (11.11%) SAML
4 3 (8.33%) Hibernate
4 3 (8.33%) REST
4 3 (8.33%) Spring
5 2 (5.56%) FIDO
6 1 (2.78%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.22%) Security Posture
2 5 (13.89%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 4 (11.11%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.56%) Algorithms
4 2 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (5.56%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.78%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.78%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.78%) PKI
5 1 (2.78%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.89%) Windows
2 4 (11.11%) Linux
3 1 (2.78%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (2.78%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 10 (27.78%) Agile
3 10 (27.78%) Cybersecurity
3 10 (27.78%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 9 (25.00%) Migration
5 8 (22.22%) RBAC
6 7 (19.44%) Digital Identity
6 7 (19.44%) ITSM
6 7 (19.44%) Privileged Access Management
6 7 (19.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (13.89%) Biometrics
7 5 (13.89%) Compliance Management
7 5 (13.89%) Identity Management
7 5 (13.89%) Scrum
7 5 (13.89%) Zero Trust
8 4 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (11.11%) Password Management
8 4 (11.11%) Project Management
9 3 (8.33%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 9 (25.00%) SQL
2 8 (22.22%) Java
3 3 (8.33%) Python
4 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (19.44%) Security Cleared
2 6 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.78%) Degree
4 1 (2.78%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.78%) OCP
4 1 (2.78%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (16.67%) NIST
2 5 (13.89%) GDPR
3 3 (8.33%) HIPAA
3 3 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (8.33%) QA
4 2 (5.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (5.56%) NIST 800
5 1 (2.78%) GRC
5 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (2.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 20 (55.56%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (22.22%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (11.11%) Terraform
3 3 (8.33%) AirWatch
3 3 (8.33%) Ansible
3 3 (8.33%) Jamf Pro
3 3 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (8.33%) SCCM
3 3 (8.33%) Tivoli Identity Manager
4 1 (2.78%) CASB
4 1 (2.78%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 11 (30.56%) Microsoft
2 8 (22.22%) ServiceNow
3 5 (13.89%) CyberArk
3 5 (13.89%) Oracle
4 4 (11.11%) SAP
5 3 (8.33%) IBM
5 3 (8.33%) Ping Identity
6 2 (5.56%) ForgeRock
6 2 (5.56%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.78%) Cisco
7 1 (2.78%) Juniper
7 1 (2.78%) Okta
7 1 (2.78%) Palo Alto