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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 94 151
Rank change year-on-year -4 +57 +7
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 19 28 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.16% 1.31% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 1.48% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 15 9
10th Percentile £434 £463 £386
25th Percentile £475 £553 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £463
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +29.73% -5.61%
75th Percentile £581 £750 £530
90th Percentile £634 - £539
UK median daily rate £588 £620 £625
% change year-on-year -5.24% -0.80% +6.38%

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 1,536 1,887 2,493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.72% 88.10% 92.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 880 1,158 1,767
10th Percentile £263 £219 £260
25th Percentile £375 £369 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +1.06%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £550
90th Percentile £600 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 92 55
10th Percentile £15.95 £12.30 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.18 £15.92 £11.25
Median hourly rate £19.90 £19.50 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.05% +21.88% -57.25%
75th Percentile £24.66 £42.71 £50.74
90th Percentile £50.06 £60.75 £67.13
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £35.65
% change year-on-year -22.32% +1.11% +38.82%

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 18 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 18 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 0 9 £479 -17.41% 7
Edinburgh -8 5 £650 - 5
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (31.58%) Azure
2 5 (26.32%) Entra ID
3 4 (21.05%) AWS
3 4 (21.05%) GitHub
4 3 (15.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (15.79%) Amazon Cognito
4 3 (15.79%) Amazon S3
4 3 (15.79%) AWS CloudTrail
4 3 (15.79%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (15.79%) Serverless
5 2 (10.53%) IaaS
5 2 (10.53%) PaaS
5 2 (10.53%) SaaS
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (5.26%) Cloud Run
6 1 (5.26%) GCP
6 1 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.26%) Google Compute Engine
6 1 (5.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (5.26%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) Amazon Athena
1 3 (15.79%) DynamoDB
1 3 (15.79%) Parquet
2 2 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) GitLab
1 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (42.11%) Finance
2 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
3 5 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (15.79%) Banking
5 2 (10.53%) Financial Institution
5 2 (10.53%) Games
5 2 (10.53%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Analyst
1 5 (26.32%) Senior
2 4 (21.05%) Technical Analyst
3 3 (15.79%) AWS Developer
3 3 (15.79%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Cloud Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Senior Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Business Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Consultant
4 2 (10.53%) Programme Manager
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 2 (10.53%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Cybersecurity Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Identity and Access Management Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Identity Management Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Management Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) AWS CDK
1 3 (15.79%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Cloud Native
1 3 (15.79%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (10.53%) Mobile App
2 2 (10.53%) PKI
2 2 (10.53%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (26.32%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (21.05%) CI/CD
3 4 (21.05%) Cost Optimisation
3 4 (21.05%) Information Security
4 3 (15.79%) Agile
4 3 (15.79%) Application Security
4 3 (15.79%) Cloud Security
4 3 (15.79%) Customer Requirements
4 3 (15.79%) DevOps
4 3 (15.79%) Event-Driven
4 3 (15.79%) Impact Assessments
4 3 (15.79%) Incident Response
4 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (15.79%) Release Management
4 3 (15.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (10.53%) Cryptography
5 2 (10.53%) Penetration Testing
5 2 (10.53%) Process Improvement
5 2 (10.53%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) Python
2 3 (15.79%) SQL
3 2 (10.53%) Java
4 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) AWS Certification
2 2 (10.53%) CISM
2 2 (10.53%) Degree
3 1 (5.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (5.26%) CCSP
3 1 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.26%) CISSP
3 1 (5.26%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (5.26%) CRISC
3 1 (5.26%) SANS
3 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (5.26%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Docker
2 2 (10.53%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.53%) RACF
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Ansible
1 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) CyberArk
2 2 (10.53%) ForgeRock
2 2 (10.53%) Ping Identity
3 1 (5.26%) Dynatrace
3 1 (5.26%) F5
3 1 (5.26%) Google
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) Splunk