Identity Access Management Contract Job Trends in Reading

Identity and Access Management (IDAM)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Identity Access Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 64 73
Rank change year-on-year +2 +9 +13
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 3 29 14
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.50% 2.66% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 3.07% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 19 5
10th Percentile £582 £598 £390
25th Percentile £606 £613 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £666 £650 £480
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +35.42% -24.71%
75th Percentile £731 £700 £525
90th Percentile £757 - £675
Berkshire median daily rate £583 £650 £500
% change year-on-year -10.38% +30.00% -25.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 546 944 978
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 91.30% 86.45% 88.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 347 518 655
10th Percentile £346 £347 £274
25th Percentile £450 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £578 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.00% +10.00%
75th Percentile £609 £650 £638
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 25 17
10th Percentile - £14.50 £35.90
25th Percentile £14.75 £42.50 £57.50
Median hourly rate £28.50 £60.60 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.97% -8.18% +24.53%
75th Percentile £58.00 £64.73 £74.00
90th Percentile £66.60 £87.46 £75.10
Berkshire median hourly rate £37.28 £60.83 £60.63
% change year-on-year -38.71% +0.34% +21.25%

Identity Access Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Identity Access Management job vacancy trend in Reading

Identity Access Management
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

Identity Access Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Identity Access Management in Reading over the 6 months to 4 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Identity Access Management in Reading

Identity Access Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (33.33%) OneDrive
3 1 (33.33%) Power Automate
3 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (33.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Security Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security Posture
1 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (66.67%) Public Cloud
1 2 (66.67%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Application Security
2 2 (66.67%) Architectural Design
2 2 (66.67%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) Compliance Management
2 2 (66.67%) Data Loss Prevention
2 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
2 2 (66.67%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (66.67%) SDLC
2 2 (66.67%) Secrets Management
2 2 (66.67%) Secure Coding
2 2 (66.67%) Static Application Security Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (66.67%) Strategic Thinking
2 2 (66.67%) Threat Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Certification
1 2 (66.67%) CCSP
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (66.67%) CISSP
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
1 2 (66.67%) PCI DSS
1 2 (66.67%) PSD2
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft