Identity Access Management Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Identity and Access Management (IDAM)
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Identity Access Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 43 43
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 +9
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 1 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 0.28% 0.83% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.96% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - £610 £495
25th Percentile - £663 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £750 £700
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% +86.67%
75th Percentile - - £725
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median daily rate £700 £750 £700
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% +75.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 286 314 321
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 80.34% 86.50% 89.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 182 244
10th Percentile £206 £167 £165
25th Percentile £289 £214 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £413 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.21% -8.33% -5.26%
75th Percentile £502 £550 £588
90th Percentile £606 £686 £650
Wales median daily rate £410 £425 £425
% change year-on-year -3.53% - -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 42 24
10th Percentile £13.08 - £17.30
25th Percentile £15.11 £20.12 £21.32
Median hourly rate £19.19 £25.36 £26.58
Median % change year-on-year -24.33% -4.60% +33.21%
75th Percentile £25.53 £40.00 £52.81
90th Percentile £85.00 £48.75 £55.25
Wales median hourly rate £18.59 £25.36 £26.58
% change year-on-year -26.70% -4.60% +33.51%

Identity Access Management
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Identity Access Management job vacancy trend in South Wales

Identity Access Management
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

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

Identity Access Management
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 South Wales region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Cardiff -1 1 £700 -6.67% 3
Identity Access Management
Wales

Identity Access Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft