Identity Access Management Contract Job Trends in Preston

Identity and Access Management (IDAM)
Lancashire > Preston

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Preston requiring Identity Access Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 18 19
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 -
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 4 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in Preston 3.48% 4.05% 1.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.17% 4.55% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile - £423 -
25th Percentile £525 £456 £963
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £975
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -46.15% -
75th Percentile £613 £606 £988
90th Percentile £635 £648 -
Lancashire median daily rate £550 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -15.38% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Preston

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 Preston.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 96 66 64
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston 83.48% 89.19% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 42 22
10th Percentile £225 £150 £216
25th Percentile £466 £401 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £592 £493 £600
Median % change year-on-year +20.02% -17.72% +37.03%
75th Percentile £712 £600 £649
90th Percentile £825 £655 £953
Lancashire median daily rate £575 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% +2.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 11 35
10th Percentile £35.74 - £13.49
25th Percentile £38.96 £26.88 -
Median hourly rate £66.55 £28.75 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +131.46% +79.02% -61.18%
75th Percentile £71.50 £47.12 £27.48
90th Percentile £74.26 £59.30 £46.18
Lancashire median hourly rate £64.09 £28.75 £35.36
% change year-on-year +122.92% -18.69% -14.53%

Identity Access Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

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

Identity Access Management job vacancy trend in Preston

Identity Access Management
Daily Rate Trend in Preston

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

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

Identity Access Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Preston 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
2 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
General
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Legal
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) SailPoint
2 2 (50.00%) OAuth
2 2 (50.00%) OpenID
2 2 (50.00%) SAML
3 1 (25.00%) JDBC
3 1 (25.00%) REST
3 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (25.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) RBAC
2 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (50.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Application Security
3 1 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (25.00%) Data Security
3 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (25.00%) Information Security
3 1 (25.00%) ITSM
3 1 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) SIEM
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (75.00%) NIST
2 1 (25.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) CyberArk
2 2 (50.00%) BeyondTrust
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Thycotic