Digital Identity Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Digital Identity
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Digital Identity skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 368 361 413
Rank change year-on-year -7 +52 +87
Contract jobs citing Digital Identity 17 8 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.045% 0.055%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.054% 0.063%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 5 9
10th Percentile £375 - £461
25th Percentile £388 £380 £560
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £570
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -18.86% -5.00%
75th Percentile £508 £738 £588
90th Percentile £591 £760 £640
UK median daily rate £484 £750 £566
% change year-on-year -35.53% +32.45% -3.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £11.63
Median hourly rate - - £11.75
75th Percentile - - £11.88
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £11.75

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Digital Identity 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,934 14,763 19,121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.25% 83.34% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,380 8,361 12,601
10th Percentile £230 £239 £260
25th Percentile £363 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £667 £688 £690
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,503 1,136 1,272
10th Percentile £14.13 £14.84 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.27 £18.16 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.50 £43.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.67% +1.18% +80.85%
75th Percentile £41.70 £66.15 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £74.22 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +47.06%

Digital Identity
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Digital Identity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Digital Identity in the UK excluding London

Digital Identity
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Digital Identity.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Digital Identity

Digital Identity
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Identity in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Identity in the UK excluding London

Digital Identity
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Digital Identity within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 September 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
East Midlands - 9 £400 -
Midlands - 9 £400 - 2
North of England - 4 £585 - 6
Yorkshire - 3 £599 -
South East +24 2 - - 13
South West +20 2 £487 -35.13% 6
Scotland -3 1 £523 -11.92% 2
North West - 1 £450 - 6
Digital Identity
UK

Digital Identity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 13 (76.47%) AWS
1 13 (76.47%) Azure
2 6 (35.29%) GCP
3 2 (11.76%) AWS KMS
3 2 (11.76%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (11.76%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.88%) GitHub
4 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) Firewall
1 2 (11.76%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.88%) Looker
2 1 (5.88%) Power BI
2 1 (5.88%) Tableau
General
1 13 (76.47%) Social Skills
2 7 (41.18%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (35.29%) Finance
4 1 (5.88%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Analyst
1 4 (23.53%) Architect
2 3 (17.65%) Business Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) Product Owner
2 3 (17.65%) Programme Director
3 1 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Data Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Digital Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) ForgeRock Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Programme Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Senior
3 1 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Services Director
3 1 (5.88%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) LDAP
2 4 (23.53%) REST
3 3 (17.65%) FIDO
3 3 (17.65%) Web Services
4 2 (11.76%) RESTful
5 1 (5.88%) AWS CDK
5 1 (5.88%) NestJS
5 1 (5.88%) Node.js
5 1 (5.88%) OAuth
5 1 (5.88%) OAuth2
5 1 (5.88%) OpenID
5 1 (5.88%) SailPoint
5 1 (5.88%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Product Ownership
2 2 (11.76%) Algorithms
2 2 (11.76%) PKI
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (58.82%) Identity Access Management
3 9 (52.94%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 8 (47.06%) Agile
4 8 (47.06%) Scrum
5 7 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (35.29%) Biometrics
6 6 (35.29%) Cloud Security
6 6 (35.29%) Risk Management
6 6 (35.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (29.41%) Visualisation
8 4 (23.53%) Decision-Making
8 4 (23.53%) Facial Recognition
8 4 (23.53%) Project Management
8 4 (23.53%) SDLC
8 4 (23.53%) Sprint Planning
9 3 (17.65%) Fraud Detection
9 3 (17.65%) Microservices
9 3 (17.65%) Programme Governance
9 3 (17.65%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) SQL
2 4 (23.53%) Python
3 2 (11.76%) Java
3 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (11.76%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (47.06%) NIST
2 6 (35.29%) GDPR
2 6 (35.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (23.53%) QA
4 3 (17.65%) NIST 800
5 2 (11.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (5.88%) PSD2
6 1 (5.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (5.88%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (41.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) ForgeRock
2 2 (11.76%) Ping Identity
2 2 (11.76%) Thales
3 1 (5.88%) Micro Focus
3 1 (5.88%) NetIQ
3 1 (5.88%) Okta