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 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 102 85 108
Rank change year-on-year -17 +23 +57
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 18 35 37
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 1.06% 1.62% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% 1.89% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 22 14
10th Percentile £416 £544 £383
25th Percentile £458 £613 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £591 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.04% +30.00% -21.57%
75th Percentile £613 £694 £650
90th Percentile £688 £700 £685
South East median daily rate £500 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -25.93% +3.85% +20.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.50
Median hourly rate - - £63.00
75th Percentile - - £64.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - - £63.00

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 1,547 1,853 2,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 90.73% 85.51% 90.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 954 1,046 1,642
10th Percentile £267 £294 £263
25th Percentile £400 £413 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.48% -2.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £680 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 79 87
10th Percentile £14.75 £18.66 £16.40
25th Percentile £15.83 £28.88 £25.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £58.38 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -56.92% +11.19% +165.82%
75th Percentile £44.68 £64.73 £67.75
90th Percentile £79.50 £77.54 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £22.19 £58.38 £54.37
% change year-on-year -61.99% +7.37% +74.54%

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 4 October 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 4 October 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 -7 11 £583 -10.38% 6
Oxfordshire -7 4 £600 -7.69% 1
Buckinghamshire +5 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 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (61.11%) Azure
2 10 (55.56%) Entra ID
3 6 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (22.22%) AWS
4 4 (22.22%) GCP
5 3 (16.67%) SaaS
6 2 (11.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (5.56%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (5.56%) IaaS
7 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (5.56%) OneDrive
7 1 (5.56%) PaaS
7 1 (5.56%) Power Automate
7 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
7 1 (5.56%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) Firewall
2 3 (16.67%) Network Security
3 2 (11.11%) HTTP
3 2 (11.11%) LAN
3 2 (11.11%) VPN
3 2 (11.11%) Wireshark
4 1 (5.56%) NAS
4 1 (5.56%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.56%) Power BI
2 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Fiddler
2 1 (5.56%) Git
General
1 6 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Finance
3 3 (16.67%) Legal
4 1 (5.56%) Automotive
4 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Architect
2 3 (16.67%) Security Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Migration Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Support Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Technical Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Technical Support
3 2 (11.11%) Technical Support Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Lead
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365 Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Graph
1 2 (11.11%) OAuth
1 2 (11.11%) SailPoint
2 1 (5.56%) Middleware
2 1 (5.56%) REST
2 1 (5.56%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 3 (16.67%) Cloud Security Posture
1 3 (16.67%) Data Centre
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 Protection Act
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%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Linux
1 3 (16.67%) Windows
1 3 (16.67%) Windows Server
2 1 (5.56%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
2 5 (27.78%) Data Protection
2 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (27.78%) SIEM
3 4 (22.22%) Architectural Design
3 4 (22.22%) Cloud Security
3 4 (22.22%) Data Loss Prevention
3 4 (22.22%) Migration
3 4 (22.22%) Runbook
3 4 (22.22%) Test Automation
4 3 (16.67%) Application Security
4 3 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
4 3 (16.67%) DevSecOps
4 3 (16.67%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 3 (16.67%) Secrets Management
4 3 (16.67%) Static Application Security Testing
4 3 (16.67%) Strategic Roadmap
4 3 (16.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.56%) Bash
2 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 3 (16.67%) AWS Certification
1 3 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 3 (16.67%) CCSP
1 3 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (16.67%) CISSP
2 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (27.78%) GDPR
2 5 (27.78%) PCI DSS
3 4 (22.22%) NIST
4 3 (16.67%) PSD2
5 2 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (5.56%) AUTOSAR
6 1 (5.56%) HIPAA
System Software
1 7 (38.89%) Active Directory
2 5 (27.78%) Docker
3 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Kubernetes
2 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (11.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (5.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 2 (11.11%) Cisco
3 2 (11.11%) Sophos
3 2 (11.11%) Zscaler
4 1 (5.56%) OpenAI
4 1 (5.56%) QNX
4 1 (5.56%) VMware
4 1 (5.56%) Workday