Digital Identity Contracts

Digital Identity
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Digital Identity skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Digital Identity over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 509 551 690
Rank change year-on-year +42 +139 +140
Contract jobs citing Digital Identity 11 31 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.038% 0.071% 0.047%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.041% 0.082% 0.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 17
10th Percentile £489 - £210
25th Percentile - £625 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £539 £688 £588
90th Percentile £667 £695 £635
UK excluding London median daily rate - £650 £550
% change year-on-year - +18.18% -8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Digital Identity
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Digital Identity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Digital Identity in the UK

Digital Identity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Digital Identity.

Daily rate trend for Digital Identity in the UK

Digital Identity
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Identity over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Identity in the UK

Digital Identity
Top 5 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 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
England +35 7 £555 -14.62% 63
Work from Home +43 4 £500 - 45
London +40 4 £555 - 43
UK excluding London +38 3 - - 31
South East - 3 - - 11

Digital Identity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) AWS KMS
2 4 (36.36%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) SSL
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) JIRA
General
1 5 (45.45%) Public Sector
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Law
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Architect
2 4 (36.36%) Product Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Business Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Fraud Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Fraud Business Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) PKI
2 1 (9.09%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (9.09%) Mobile Wallet
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Acceptance Criteria
1 5 (45.45%) Agile
1 5 (45.45%) Roadmaps
1 5 (45.45%) Strategic Roadmap
1 5 (45.45%) User Stories
2 4 (36.36%) Backlog Management
2 4 (36.36%) Cryptography
2 4 (36.36%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (36.36%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 4 (36.36%) Key Management
2 4 (36.36%) Performance Metrics
2 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (36.36%) Product Backlog
2 4 (36.36%) Product Management
2 4 (36.36%) Product Vision
2 4 (36.36%) Sprint Planning
2 4 (36.36%) Sprint Retrospective
2 4 (36.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 4 (36.36%) User Research
3 2 (18.18%) Incident Response
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 4 (36.36%) Degree
2 4 (36.36%) DV Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Thales
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Apple
3 1 (9.09%) Google