Identity Access Management Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Identity and Access Management (IDAM)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Identity Access Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 87 123
Rank change year-on-year -21 +36 +17
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 18 35 23
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.86% 1.73% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 1.95% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 26 12
10th Percentile £458 £569 £408
25th Percentile £494 £613 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £563
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +15.56% -4.26%
75th Percentile £638 £694 £650
90th Percentile £750 £700 -
South East median daily rate £583 £651 £595
% change year-on-year -10.45% +9.33% +9.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,830 1,798 2,255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.56% 89.01% 91.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,195 1,054 1,449
10th Percentile £267 £283 £213
25th Percentile £400 £409 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £638 £613
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £523
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.44% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 55 102
10th Percentile £15.01 £18.97 £18.95
25th Percentile £17.63 £30.50 £25.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £56.75 £49.87
Median % change year-on-year -55.68% +13.80% +137.45%
75th Percentile £57.25 £63.22 £64.20
90th Percentile £89.63 £68.81 £72.33
South East median hourly rate £22.27 £50.00 £53.94
% change year-on-year -55.47% -7.31% +43.85%

Identity Access Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Identity Access Management job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Identity Access Management
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Identity Access Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Identity Access Management

Identity Access Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Identity Access Management in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Identity Access Management in the Thames Valley

Identity Access Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Identity Access Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Identity Access Management

Identity Access Management
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 17 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
Berkshire -29 9 £625 -3.85% 3
Oxfordshire -9 6 £600 -7.69% 1
Buckinghamshire +10 3 £465 - 2
Identity Access Management
South East

Identity Access Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 14 (77.78%) Azure
2 11 (61.11%) Entra ID
3 5 (27.78%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (22.22%) AWS
4 4 (22.22%) GCP
5 3 (16.67%) Azure Functions
5 3 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (16.67%) SaaS
5 3 (16.67%) Serverless
6 2 (11.11%) Azure API Management
6 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (11.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (11.11%) GitHub
6 2 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (5.56%) IaaS
7 1 (5.56%) Lucidchart
7 1 (5.56%) OneDrive
7 1 (5.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) Firewall
1 3 (16.67%) Network Security
2 2 (11.11%) SSL
2 2 (11.11%) VPN
3 1 (5.56%) HTTP
3 1 (5.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Data Lake
1 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (5.56%) Metadata
1 1 (5.56%) Power BI
1 1 (5.56%) Semantic Layer
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.56%) Fiddler
General
1 7 (38.89%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Finance
4 2 (11.11%) Legal
5 1 (5.56%) Billing
5 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Architect
2 3 (16.67%) Security Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Active Directory Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Migration Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (5.56%) IAM Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365 Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Active Directory Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (5.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) OAuth
2 4 (22.22%) OAuth2
2 4 (22.22%) OpenID
2 4 (22.22%) SAML
3 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Graph
3 3 (16.67%) REST
4 2 (11.11%) .NET
4 2 (11.11%) .NET Core
4 2 (11.11%) .NET Framework
4 2 (11.11%) ARM Templates
4 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET
4 2 (11.11%) GraphQL
4 2 (11.11%) SailPoint
5 1 (5.56%) Middleware
5 1 (5.56%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 3 (16.67%) Cloud Security Posture
1 3 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (16.67%) Public Cloud
1 3 (16.67%) Security Posture
2 2 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (5.56%) Data Fabric
3 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.56%) IoT
3 1 (5.56%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.56%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.56%) PKI
3 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
1 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) CI/CD
1 7 (38.89%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 6 (33.33%) SIEM
3 5 (27.78%) Cloud Security
3 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (27.78%) RBAC
3 5 (27.78%) Roadmaps
3 5 (27.78%) Test Automation
4 4 (22.22%) Analytics
4 4 (22.22%) Architectural Patterns
4 4 (22.22%) Data Loss Prevention
4 4 (22.22%) Data Protection
4 4 (22.22%) TOGAF
5 3 (16.67%) AI
5 3 (16.67%) Configuration Management
5 3 (16.67%) Data Security
5 3 (16.67%) Identity Management
5 3 (16.67%) Information Security
5 3 (16.67%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) PowerShell
2 3 (16.67%) Python
3 2 (11.11%) Bash
3 2 (11.11%) C#
3 2 (11.11%) Java
3 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 2 (11.11%) PHP
4 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Azure Certification
1 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 3 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 3 (16.67%) CCSP
2 3 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (16.67%) CISSP
2 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) Degree
3 1 (5.56%) HND
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (44.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (33.33%) NIST
3 5 (27.78%) GDPR
4 4 (22.22%) PCI DSS
5 3 (16.67%) PSD2
6 2 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (11.11%) Data Quality
7 1 (5.56%) GRC
System Software
1 9 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Kubernetes
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (11.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) BeyondTrust
2 2 (11.11%) Cisco
2 2 (11.11%) CyberArk
2 2 (11.11%) Sophos
3 1 (5.56%) Databricks
3 1 (5.56%) OpenAI
3 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.56%) Splunk
3 1 (5.56%) Workday