Identity Access Management Contracts in Scotland

Identity and Access Management (IDAM)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 98 141
Rank change year-on-year +5 +43 +11
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 23 31 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.42% 1.40% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 1.58% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 18 13
10th Percentile £446 £472 £383
25th Percentile £469 £578 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £446
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +45.74% -7.56%
75th Percentile £559 £738 £525
90th Percentile £628 £750 £536
UK median daily rate £600 £614 £625
% change year-on-year -2.20% -1.84% +8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Identity Access Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Identity Access Management in Scotland

Identity Access Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Identity Access Management in Scotland

Identity Access Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Identity Access Management in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Identity Access Management in Scotland

Identity Access Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Identity Access Management in Scotland

Identity Access Management
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 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
Glasgow +8 10 £477 -23.06% 10
Edinburgh -4 8 £592 -8.92% 6
Lanarkshire - 3 £525 - 2
Identity Access Management
UK

Identity Access Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 7 (30.43%) Azure
1 7 (30.43%) Entra ID
2 4 (17.39%) AWS
2 4 (17.39%) GitHub
3 3 (13.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (13.04%) Amazon Cognito
3 3 (13.04%) Amazon S3
3 3 (13.04%) AWS CloudTrail
3 3 (13.04%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (13.04%) Serverless
4 2 (8.70%) IaaS
4 2 (8.70%) PaaS
4 2 (8.70%) SaaS
5 1 (4.35%) Apigee
5 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.35%) GCP
5 1 (4.35%) Google Compute Engine
5 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.35%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 4 (17.39%) Network Security
2 1 (4.35%) DHCP
2 1 (4.35%) DNS
2 1 (4.35%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) Amazon Athena
1 3 (13.04%) DynamoDB
1 3 (13.04%) Parquet
2 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) GitLab
1 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (39.13%) Finance
2 8 (34.78%) Social Skills
3 7 (30.43%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (13.04%) Banking
4 3 (13.04%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (8.70%) Financial Institution
5 2 (8.70%) Games
6 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Analyst
2 5 (21.74%) Senior
3 4 (17.39%) Developer
3 4 (17.39%) Technical Analyst
4 3 (13.04%) AWS Developer
4 3 (13.04%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Cloud Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Consultant
4 3 (13.04%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Senior Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Business Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) IAM Consultant
5 2 (8.70%) Identity and Access Management Consultant
5 2 (8.70%) Identity Management Consultant
5 2 (8.70%) Management Consultant
5 2 (8.70%) Programme Manager
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 2 (8.70%) Software Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Identity Management Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) AWS CDK
1 3 (13.04%) JSON
2 1 (4.35%) OAuth
2 1 (4.35%) OpenID
2 1 (4.35%) RESTful
2 1 (4.35%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Cloud Native
1 3 (13.04%) PKI
1 3 (13.04%) Security Posture
1 3 (13.04%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (8.70%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.35%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (17.39%) Unix
2 1 (4.35%) Linux
2 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (4.35%) Windows
2 1 (4.35%) Windows 10
2 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
2 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (26.09%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (21.74%) Application Security
3 5 (21.74%) CI/CD
3 5 (21.74%) Information Security
4 4 (17.39%) Cloud Security
4 4 (17.39%) Cost Optimisation
4 4 (17.39%) DevOps
4 4 (17.39%) Incident Response
5 3 (13.04%) Agile
5 3 (13.04%) Cryptography
5 3 (13.04%) Data Loss Prevention
5 3 (13.04%) Data Security
5 3 (13.04%) Event-Driven
5 3 (13.04%) Identity Management
5 3 (13.04%) Impact Assessments
5 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (13.04%) Release Management
5 3 (13.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (17.39%) Python
1 4 (17.39%) SQL
2 3 (13.04%) Java
3 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) Degree
2 3 (13.04%) AWS Certification
2 3 (13.04%) CISM
3 2 (8.70%) CISSP
3 2 (8.70%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
4 1 (4.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (4.35%) CCSP
4 1 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.35%) CompTIA CySA+
4 1 (4.35%) CRISC
4 1 (4.35%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.35%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (4.35%) SANS
4 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.35%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.35%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (17.39%) Docker
2 3 (13.04%) Active Directory
3 2 (8.70%) RACF
4 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (4.35%) Xen
Systems Management
1 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.35%) Ansible
2 1 (4.35%) CASB
2 1 (4.35%) Istio
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) CyberArk
2 2 (8.70%) ForgeRock
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.70%) Ping Identity
3 1 (4.35%) Aruba
3 1 (4.35%) Cisco
3 1 (4.35%) Citrix
3 1 (4.35%) Dynatrace
3 1 (4.35%) F5
3 1 (4.35%) Forcepoint
3 1 (4.35%) Google
3 1 (4.35%) HP
3 1 (4.35%) Okta
3 1 (4.35%) Palo Alto
3 1 (4.35%) Splunk
3 1 (4.35%) VMware