Identity Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Identity Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Identity Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Identity Management over the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 277 270 269
Rank change year-on-year -7 -1 +87
Contract jobs citing Identity Management 62 126 179
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.48% 0.62% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.74% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 103 136
10th Percentile £410 £500 £463
25th Percentile £475 £550 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £605 £569
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +6.37% +13.75%
75th Percentile £641 £675 £650
90th Percentile £715 £735 £725
UK median daily rate £550 £605 £575
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.22% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
UK median hourly rate - - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +16.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Identity 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 11,714 17,075 20,684
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.67% 84.25% 89.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,292 10,208 14,243
10th Percentile £234 £250 £258
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £651 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 858 2,062 1,260
10th Percentile £14.10 £12.34 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.08 £15.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +8.57% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.71
UK median hourly rate £27.64 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -24.27% +1.39% +40.19%

Identity Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Identity Management in the UK excluding London

Identity Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Identity Management in the UK excluding London

Identity Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Identity Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Identity Management in the UK excluding London

Identity Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Identity Management in the UK excluding London

Identity 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 Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 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 +39 24 £628 +3.72% 33
North of England +19 20 £484 -22.02% 22
Yorkshire +22 11 £535 +78.17% 11
Midlands +6 10 £506 -19.00% 16
West Midlands +11 9 £525 -16.00% 7
North West -1 9 £484 -22.33% 10
South West +26 6 £575 -14.18% 13
Scotland -6 3 £606 +5.43% 8
East of England +9 1 £550 -7.56% 9
East Midlands +2 1 £400 -35.69% 9
Wales -6 1 - - 3
Identity Management
UK

Identity 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 (8.06%) Confluence
2 4 (6.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.23%) nginx
3 2 (3.23%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.61%) Apache
4 1 (1.61%) Gunicorn
4 1 (1.61%) JBoss
4 1 (1.61%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.61%) Traefik
4 1 (1.61%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.61%) WebLogic Portal
4 1 (1.61%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.61%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 4 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (6.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (6.45%) MS Visio
2 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 33 (53.23%) Azure
2 24 (38.71%) Entra ID
3 11 (17.74%) AWS
3 11 (17.74%) Azure Monitor
4 8 (12.90%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (12.90%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (8.06%) Azure API Management
5 5 (8.06%) Power Platform
6 4 (6.45%) Azure AKS
6 4 (6.45%) Azure Storage
6 4 (6.45%) Lucidchart
6 4 (6.45%) SaaS
7 3 (4.84%) Azure Table
7 3 (4.84%) GCP
7 3 (4.84%) Power Automate
8 2 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (3.23%) Asana
8 2 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (3.23%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.68%) Kerberos
2 5 (8.06%) DNS
2 5 (8.06%) Network Security
3 4 (6.45%) Firewall
4 3 (4.84%) HTTPS
4 3 (4.84%) SSL
5 2 (3.23%) DHCP
5 2 (3.23%) HTTP
5 2 (3.23%) TCP/IP
5 2 (3.23%) X.509
6 1 (1.61%) Cisco IPT
6 1 (1.61%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.06%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (8.06%) Power BI
2 4 (6.45%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (4.84%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.84%) SSDT
4 2 (3.23%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.23%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.23%) Power Query
5 1 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.61%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.61%) Redis
5 1 (1.61%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.61%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 8 (12.90%) JIRA
2 4 (6.45%) GitLab
2 4 (6.45%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.61%) Poetry
General
1 19 (30.65%) Social Skills
2 10 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (4.84%) Legal
3 3 (4.84%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.23%) Finance
4 2 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (3.23%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.61%) Banking
5 1 (1.61%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (19.35%) Analyst
2 10 (16.13%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (12.90%) Azure Engineer
4 7 (11.29%) Architect
5 5 (8.06%) Business Analyst
6 4 (6.45%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) Consultant
6 4 (6.45%) ForgeRock Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) Systems Analyst
7 3 (4.84%) Lead
7 3 (4.84%) Project Manager
7 3 (4.84%) Security Analyst
7 3 (4.84%) Security Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Site Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Software Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Technical Analyst
8 2 (3.23%) Cloud Security Engineer
8 2 (3.23%) Senior
8 2 (3.23%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (22.58%) OAuth
2 8 (12.90%) OpenID
3 7 (11.29%) SAML
4 4 (6.45%) .NET
4 4 (6.45%) .NET Core
4 4 (6.45%) ARM Templates
5 3 (4.84%) ADO
5 3 (4.84%) JDBC
5 3 (4.84%) JWT
5 3 (4.84%) Keycloak
5 3 (4.84%) LDAP
5 3 (4.84%) Middleware
5 3 (4.84%) OAuth2
5 3 (4.84%) SOAP
5 3 (4.84%) YAML
6 2 (3.23%) cloud-init
6 2 (3.23%) Kafka
6 2 (3.23%) Web Services
7 1 (1.61%) Flask
7 1 (1.61%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.52%) PKI
2 5 (8.06%) Onboarding
3 4 (6.45%) Replication
4 3 (4.84%) Taxonomies
5 2 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.23%) NHS
6 1 (1.61%) CMDB
6 1 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.61%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.61%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.61%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.61%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (14.52%) Linux
1 9 (14.52%) Windows
2 4 (6.45%) Unix
2 4 (6.45%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.23%) CentOS
3 2 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (3.23%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (3.23%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (1.61%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (37.10%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (30.65%) Identity Access Management
3 17 (27.42%) DevOps
4 16 (25.81%) CI/CD
5 15 (24.19%) RBAC
6 11 (17.74%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (17.74%) Migration
7 10 (16.13%) Agile
8 9 (14.52%) Containerisation
9 8 (12.90%) ITIL
10 7 (11.29%) Cybersecurity
10 7 (11.29%) Privileged Access Management
11 6 (9.68%) Cloud Security
11 6 (9.68%) Performance Optimisation
11 6 (9.68%) Release Management
11 6 (9.68%) Service Management
11 6 (9.68%) Task Automation
12 5 (8.06%) Business Intelligence
12 5 (8.06%) ETL
12 5 (8.06%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 14 (22.58%) PowerShell
2 9 (14.52%) Python
3 7 (11.29%) Java
4 5 (8.06%) Bash
4 5 (8.06%) Bicep
4 5 (8.06%) C#
4 5 (8.06%) SQL
5 3 (4.84%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (3.23%) Go
7 1 (1.61%) VB
7 1 (1.61%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 13 (20.97%) Security Cleared
2 9 (14.52%) SC Cleared
3 8 (12.90%) Azure Certification
4 5 (8.06%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (6.45%) DV Cleared
6 2 (3.23%) AWS Certification
6 2 (3.23%) Degree
7 1 (1.61%) CEH
7 1 (1.61%) CISA
7 1 (1.61%) CISM
7 1 (1.61%) CISSP
7 1 (1.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.61%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.45%) GDPR
2 3 (4.84%) NIST
3 2 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.23%) NCSC
4 1 (1.61%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.61%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.61%) QA
4 1 (1.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.61%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (27.42%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.45%) Docker
3 3 (4.84%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (4.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.61%) LXC
4 1 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (24.19%) Single Sign-On
2 12 (19.35%) Kubernetes
2 12 (19.35%) Terraform
3 6 (9.68%) Prometheus
4 5 (8.06%) Grafana
5 4 (6.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (6.45%) Ansible
6 3 (4.84%) Automic
6 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (4.84%) Puppet
7 2 (3.23%) Consul
7 2 (3.23%) Istio
7 2 (3.23%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (3.23%) linkerd
7 2 (3.23%) Packer
7 2 (3.23%) Rancher
7 2 (3.23%) ZABBIX
8 1 (1.61%) Control-M
8 1 (1.61%) HAProxy
8 1 (1.61%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 17 (27.42%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.06%) ForgeRock
3 3 (4.84%) Okta
3 3 (4.84%) Ping Identity
3 3 (4.84%) Splunk
3 3 (4.84%) UiPath
3 3 (4.84%) VMware
4 2 (3.23%) Citrix
4 2 (3.23%) CyberArk
4 2 (3.23%) Oracle
4 2 (3.23%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.61%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.61%) Apple
5 1 (1.61%) AVEVA
5 1 (1.61%) BMC
5 1 (1.61%) Commvault
5 1 (1.61%) IBM
5 1 (1.61%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.61%) SAP
5 1 (1.61%) Workday