Identity Access Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Identity and Access Management (IDAM)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 176 190 239
Rank change year-on-year +14 +49 +76
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 177 222 221
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.39% 1.10% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.53% 1.30% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 152 149
10th Percentile £406 £437 £438
25th Percentile £480 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £652 £750 £700
90th Percentile £700 - £775
UK median daily rate £585 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -2.50% -4.00% +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.50
Median hourly rate - - £66.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £23.80 £66.00
% change year-on-year - -63.94% +22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,541 17,047 20,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.66% 84.14% 89.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,211 10,194 14,065
10th Percentile £231 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +3.73%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 817 2,072 1,252
10th Percentile £14.09 £12.34 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.25 £15.29 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +8.57% +75.00%
75th Percentile £62.24 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.05 £37.00
% change year-on-year -23.71% -2.58% +44.08%

Identity Access Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Identity Access Management in the UK excluding London

Identity Access Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Identity Access Management in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Identity Access Management in the UK excluding London

Identity Access Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Identity Access Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Identity Access Management in the UK excluding London

Identity Access Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Identity Access Management in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Identity Access Management in the UK excluding London

Identity Access Management
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 Identity Access Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 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
South East +46 52 £650 +4.00% 265
North of England +4 43 £525 -15.32% 191
Midlands +26 36 £538 -16.99% 158
South West +23 30 £550 -21.43% 106
North West +6 27 £525 -21.05% 87
West Midlands +20 23 £588 -9.62% 79
Yorkshire +6 15 £535 -7.04% 83
East Midlands +14 13 £440 -29.34% 69
Scotland -11 10 £534 -11.00% 49
East of England +36 8 £650 +31.98% 113
North East 0 1 £430 -28.33% 21
Wales -6 1 £600 -14.29% 22
Identity Access Management
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Identity Access Management
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (2.82%) Confluence
1 5 (2.82%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (2.82%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.13%) SharePoint Server
2 2 (1.13%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 8 (4.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.69%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (3.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.69%) SAP ERP
2 3 (1.69%) SAP GRC
2 3 (1.69%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.56%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 46 (25.99%) Azure
2 39 (22.03%) AWS
3 27 (15.25%) Entra ID
4 17 (9.60%) GCP
5 15 (8.47%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (6.21%) GitHub
7 6 (3.39%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (3.39%) Power Platform
8 5 (2.82%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (2.82%) Serverless
9 4 (2.26%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.26%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (2.26%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (2.26%) IaaS
9 4 (2.26%) PaaS
9 4 (2.26%) SaaS
9 4 (2.26%) SuccessFactors
10 3 (1.69%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.69%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 15 (8.47%) Network Security
2 11 (6.21%) Firewall
3 5 (2.82%) DNS
4 4 (2.26%) Kerberos
4 4 (2.26%) VPN
5 3 (1.69%) HTTPS
5 3 (1.69%) Internet
5 3 (1.69%) SSL
6 2 (1.13%) DHCP
6 2 (1.13%) LAN
6 2 (1.13%) Skype
6 2 (1.13%) SMTP
7 1 (0.56%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.39%) Power BI
2 4 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (2.26%) Oracle Database
2 4 (2.26%) Parquet
3 3 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (1.69%) DynamoDB
3 3 (1.69%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.13%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.13%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (3.95%) JIRA
2 4 (2.26%) GitLab
3 3 (1.69%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.69%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (1.13%) Git
General
1 75 (42.37%) Social Skills
2 45 (25.42%) Finance
3 36 (20.34%) Public Sector
4 30 (16.95%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (11.86%) Electronics
5 21 (11.86%) Manufacturing
5 21 (11.86%) Marketing
5 21 (11.86%) Telecoms
6 11 (6.21%) Legal
7 10 (5.65%) Banking
8 6 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.82%) Aviation
9 5 (2.82%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.13%) Fire and Rescue
10 2 (1.13%) Police
10 2 (1.13%) Publishing
10 2 (1.13%) Retail
10 2 (1.13%) Swedish Language
11 1 (0.56%) Automotive
11 1 (0.56%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 69 (38.98%) Architect
2 26 (14.69%) Active Directory Architect
3 20 (11.30%) Analyst
3 20 (11.30%) Senior
4 18 (10.17%) Consultant
5 12 (6.78%) Security Consultant
5 12 (6.78%) Security Engineer
6 10 (5.65%) Cloud Engineer
7 8 (4.52%) Business Analyst
7 8 (4.52%) Software Engineer
7 8 (4.52%) Solutions Architect
8 7 (3.95%) SAP Consultant
8 7 (3.95%) SAP Security Consultant
8 7 (3.95%) Security Architect
9 6 (3.39%) Senior Architect
9 6 (3.39%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
10 5 (2.82%) Enterprise Architect
10 5 (2.82%) Lead
10 5 (2.82%) Technical Architect
11 4 (2.26%) Cloud Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (10.73%) LDAP
1 19 (10.73%) OAuth
2 17 (9.60%) OpenID
2 17 (9.60%) SAML
3 9 (5.08%) SailPoint
4 8 (4.52%) OAuth2
5 7 (3.95%) REST
5 7 (3.95%) SAP Fiori
6 5 (2.82%) Kafka
6 5 (2.82%) Node.js
7 4 (2.26%) Angular 2
7 4 (2.26%) AngularJS
7 4 (2.26%) AWS CDK
7 4 (2.26%) CSS
7 4 (2.26%) HTML
7 4 (2.26%) HTML5
7 4 (2.26%) JSON
7 4 (2.26%) SOAP
8 3 (1.69%) RESTful
8 3 (1.69%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.78%) PKI
1 12 (6.78%) Security Posture
2 11 (6.21%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (5.08%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.52%) Data Centre
4 8 (4.52%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.52%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (3.95%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.39%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.82%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.69%) Enterprise Storage
8 3 (1.69%) Taxonomies
9 2 (1.13%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.13%) CMDB
9 2 (1.13%) Robotics
9 2 (1.13%) Video Conferencing
10 1 (0.56%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.56%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.56%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 46 (25.99%) Windows
2 11 (6.21%) Linux
3 9 (5.08%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.26%) Windows 10
4 4 (2.26%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (2.26%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (1.69%) Android
6 2 (1.13%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.13%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.13%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.56%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (27.68%) Agile
2 47 (26.55%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (21.47%) Cybersecurity
4 33 (18.64%) Cloud Security
5 27 (15.25%) Business Intelligence
5 27 (15.25%) Test Automation
6 23 (12.99%) RBAC
7 22 (12.43%) Migration
8 21 (11.86%) Digital Marketing
8 21 (11.86%) Programme Management
9 20 (11.30%) CI/CD
9 20 (11.30%) Identity Management
10 17 (9.60%) Privileged Access Management
10 17 (9.60%) Stakeholder Management
11 16 (9.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 15 (8.47%) Data Security
12 15 (8.47%) DevOps
12 15 (8.47%) Multi-Factor Authentication
13 14 (7.91%) Analytics
13 14 (7.91%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 37 (20.90%) PowerShell
2 17 (9.60%) Python
3 16 (9.04%) SQL
4 15 (8.47%) Java
5 8 (4.52%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.82%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.69%) VBA
8 2 (1.13%) Bicep
8 2 (1.13%) VB
8 2 (1.13%) VBScript
9 1 (0.56%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.56%) Bash
9 1 (0.56%) C#
9 1 (0.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 68 (38.42%) Security Cleared
2 36 (20.34%) DV Cleared
3 28 (15.82%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.52%) CISSP
5 7 (3.95%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (3.39%) CISM
6 6 (3.39%) Degree
7 5 (2.82%) AWS Certification
8 4 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.26%) MCSA
8 4 (2.26%) MCSE
9 3 (1.69%) SANS
10 2 (1.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (1.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (1.13%) CCSP
10 2 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.13%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (1.13%) MCP
11 1 (0.56%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.17%) NIST
2 13 (7.34%) GDPR
3 11 (6.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (4.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 6 (3.39%) GRC
6 5 (2.82%) PCI DSS
7 4 (2.26%) NCSC
7 4 (2.26%) NIST 800
7 4 (2.26%) SOC 2
8 3 (1.69%) HIPAA
8 3 (1.69%) QA
9 2 (1.13%) Accessibility
9 2 (1.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.56%) AUTOSAR
10 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.56%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.56%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 70 (39.55%) Active Directory
2 11 (6.21%) Docker
3 3 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.13%) BitLocker
4 2 (1.13%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (1.13%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (12.43%) Single Sign-On
2 14 (7.91%) Terraform
3 12 (6.78%) Kubernetes
4 10 (5.65%) Ansible
5 9 (5.08%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (3.95%) SCCM
7 5 (2.82%) OPNET
8 3 (1.69%) AirWatch
8 3 (1.69%) Automic
8 3 (1.69%) FortiGate
8 3 (1.69%) Grafana
8 3 (1.69%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (1.69%) Puppet
8 3 (1.69%) Tivoli Identity Manager
9 2 (1.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (1.13%) CASB
10 1 (0.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 37 (20.90%) Microsoft
2 32 (18.08%) SAP
3 11 (6.21%) ServiceNow
4 9 (5.08%) Ping Identity
5 8 (4.52%) Google
6 7 (3.95%) CyberArk
7 5 (2.82%) ForgeRock
7 5 (2.82%) Oracle
7 5 (2.82%) VMware
8 3 (1.69%) F5
8 3 (1.69%) IBM
8 3 (1.69%) Okta
8 3 (1.69%) Zscaler
9 2 (1.13%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.13%) McAfee
9 2 (1.13%) Qualys
9 2 (1.13%) Ribbon
9 2 (1.13%) Symantec
9 2 (1.13%) Tenable
10 1 (0.56%) Juniper