Identity Access Management Contract Job Trends

Identity and Access Management (IDAM)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Identity Access Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 188 187
Rank change year-on-year +21 -1 +84
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 673 437 566
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.68% 1.41% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.94% 1.58% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 302 383
10th Percentile £372 £413 £410
25th Percentile £463 £511 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £635
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -5.51% +4.10%
75th Percentile £650 £693 £725
90th Percentile £725 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £74.26 - -
Median hourly rate £80.88 - £75.00
75th Percentile £92.81 - -
90th Percentile £94.13 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.26 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +7.14%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 34,716 27,671 39,074
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.89% 89.53% 87.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,993 16,979 25,588
10th Percentile £310 £306 £300
25th Percentile £409 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £721 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -3.43% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,102 844 2,136
10th Percentile £14.55 £15.62 £13.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £33.28
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -2.35% -1.12%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £60.29
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.27
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £30.45 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.41% -13.00% +7.69%

Identity Access Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Identity Access Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Identity Access Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Identity Access Management
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Identity Access Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Identity Access Management

Identity Access Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Identity Access Management over the 6 months to 15 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Identity Access Management in the UK

Identity Access Management
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Identity Access Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Identity Access Management

Identity Access Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Identity Access Management over the 6 months to 15 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Identity Access Management in the UK

Identity Access Management
Top 15 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 15 February 2026. 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 +36 620 £550 -8.33% 140
UK excluding London +19 331 £550 -8.33% 102
London +36 280 £575 -8.00% 48
Work from Home +4 197 £531 -7.65% 80
North of England +9 141 £519 -2.99% 19
Yorkshire -6 92 £509 -15.21% 3
Midlands -12 70 £550 -6.38% 21
West Midlands -11 59 £550 -6.73% 17
South East -16 54 £566 -12.88% 45
South West +6 52 £675 +17.39% 7
North West -8 44 £550 +4.76% 15
Scotland -10 12 £800 +52.38% 2
East Midlands -17 10 £550 +10.00% 5
East of England -25 8 £575 -11.54% 12
North East -8 6 £491 -9.17% 1

Identity Access Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 43 (6.39%) Confluence
2 34 (5.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 27 (4.01%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.19%) Apache
5 6 (0.89%) IIS
5 6 (0.89%) iPlanet
5 6 (0.89%) JBoss
5 6 (0.89%) WebSphere
5 6 (0.89%) WebSphere Application Server
6 2 (0.30%) Apache Superset
6 2 (0.30%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.30%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.15%) CMS
7 1 (0.15%) Mendix
7 1 (0.15%) nginx
7 1 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.15%) Traefik
Applications
1 17 (2.53%) MS Visio
2 13 (1.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (1.19%) Maximo
2 3 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.30%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.15%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 280 (41.60%) Azure
2 206 (30.61%) Entra ID
3 138 (20.51%) AWS
4 92 (13.67%) GCP
5 63 (9.36%) Microsoft 365
6 36 (5.35%) SaaS
7 34 (5.05%) GitHub
8 33 (4.90%) Azure Sentinel
9 31 (4.61%) Azure DevOps
10 26 (3.86%) OpenShift
11 22 (3.27%) Serverless
12 21 (3.12%) Azure AKS
12 21 (3.12%) IaaS
13 20 (2.97%) Azure Monitor
14 19 (2.82%) PaaS
15 18 (2.67%) Amazon EKS
15 18 (2.67%) Microsoft Purview
16 17 (2.53%) Power Platform
17 15 (2.23%) OneDrive
18 14 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 68 (10.10%) Firewall
2 57 (8.47%) Network Security
3 54 (8.02%) DNS
4 35 (5.20%) Kerberos
5 32 (4.75%) VPN
6 25 (3.71%) DHCP
6 25 (3.71%) SSL
7 10 (1.49%) TCP/IP
8 9 (1.34%) WebEx
9 7 (1.04%) Internet
10 6 (0.89%) BGP
10 6 (0.89%) OSPF
10 6 (0.89%) Software-Defined Networking
10 6 (0.89%) WAN
11 5 (0.74%) HTTP
11 5 (0.74%) Intrusion Detection
11 5 (0.74%) LAN
11 5 (0.74%) Wireshark
12 4 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
13 3 (0.45%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (2.23%) SQL Server
2 12 (1.78%) NoSQL
2 12 (1.78%) Power BI
3 11 (1.63%) MongoDB
4 10 (1.49%) DocumentDB
4 10 (1.49%) Oracle Database
5 6 (0.89%) Tableau
6 5 (0.74%) BigQuery
6 5 (0.74%) MySQL
7 4 (0.59%) Neo4j
7 4 (0.59%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.45%) Redis
9 2 (0.30%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.30%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.30%) Metadata
9 2 (0.30%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.30%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 63 (9.36%) JIRA
2 40 (5.94%) Jenkins
3 32 (4.75%) Git
4 25 (3.71%) GitLab
5 15 (2.23%) Postman
5 15 (2.23%) Selenium
6 10 (1.49%) Cucumber
6 10 (1.49%) REST Assured
7 8 (1.19%) Jaeger
8 6 (0.89%) Bitbucket Server
8 6 (0.89%) CA Release Automation
8 6 (0.89%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (0.89%) TestRail
9 4 (0.59%) Gatling
9 4 (0.59%) JMeter
9 4 (0.59%) LoadRunner
9 4 (0.59%) NeoLoad
9 4 (0.59%) WebDriver
10 3 (0.45%) Maven
10 3 (0.45%) MSI
General
1 193 (28.68%) Social Skills
2 137 (20.36%) Finance
3 76 (11.29%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (10.70%) Public Sector
5 54 (8.02%) Banking
6 28 (4.16%) Documentation Skills
7 23 (3.42%) Legal
8 17 (2.53%) Financial Institution
9 16 (2.38%) Investment Banking
10 13 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.19%) Telecoms
13 6 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (0.89%) Manufacturing
13 6 (0.89%) Military
14 5 (0.74%) Electronics
14 5 (0.74%) Marketing
14 5 (0.74%) Police
15 4 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
16 3 (0.45%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 210 (31.20%) Architect
2 77 (11.44%) Analyst
2 77 (11.44%) Solutions Architect
3 53 (7.88%) Senior
4 52 (7.73%) Lead
5 49 (7.28%) Security Architect
6 39 (5.79%) Business Analyst
6 39 (5.79%) Consultant
7 28 (4.16%) Security Engineer
8 22 (3.27%) Azure Architect
8 22 (3.27%) Developer
8 22 (3.27%) DevOps Engineer
9 21 (3.12%) Azure Engineer
10 20 (2.97%) Cloud Architect
11 19 (2.82%) Project Manager
12 17 (2.53%) Identity Management Architect
13 16 (2.38%) Cloud Engineer
14 15 (2.23%) Identity and Access Management Analyst
14 15 (2.23%) Identity Management Analyst
14 15 (2.23%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (12.93%) SailPoint
2 86 (12.78%) SAML
3 83 (12.33%) OAuth
4 65 (9.66%) OpenID
5 58 (8.62%) LDAP
6 40 (5.94%) REST
7 26 (3.86%) ARM Templates
8 25 (3.71%) OAuth2
9 23 (3.42%) .NET
9 23 (3.42%) Kafka
10 19 (2.82%) Spring Boot
11 17 (2.53%) Node.js
12 15 (2.23%) Middleware
13 12 (1.78%) RESTful
13 12 (1.78%) Spring
14 11 (1.63%) Microsoft Graph
15 10 (1.49%) HTML
15 10 (1.49%) Playwright
16 9 (1.34%) XMPP
17 8 (1.19%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 55 (8.17%) Onboarding
2 43 (6.39%) Management Information System
3 38 (5.65%) Cloud Native
4 36 (5.35%) PKI
5 29 (4.31%) Security Posture
6 27 (4.01%) Enterprise Software
7 24 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
8 18 (2.67%) Product Ownership
9 17 (2.53%) Replication
10 14 (2.08%) Data Centre
11 11 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
12 10 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
13 9 (1.34%) Public Cloud
14 8 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
15 6 (0.89%) Cloud Security Posture
16 5 (0.74%) BYOD
16 5 (0.74%) Cyber Threat
16 5 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
16 5 (0.74%) NHS
16 5 (0.74%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 89 (13.22%) Windows
2 50 (7.43%) Windows Server
3 49 (7.28%) Linux
4 12 (1.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.49%) Mac OS
5 10 (1.49%) Unix
6 8 (1.19%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.74%) VMS
8 4 (0.59%) Android
9 3 (0.45%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.30%) CentOS
10 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.15%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.15%) Rocky
11 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (22.44%) Cybersecurity
2 136 (20.21%) RBAC
3 126 (18.72%) CI/CD
4 117 (17.38%) DevOps
5 115 (17.09%) Cloud Security
6 98 (14.56%) Stakeholder Management
7 97 (14.41%) Privileged Access Management
8 93 (13.82%) Agile
9 90 (13.37%) Infrastructure as Code
10 89 (13.22%) Problem-Solving
11 88 (13.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 79 (11.74%) Identity Management
13 74 (11.00%) Zero Trust
14 68 (10.10%) Data Protection
15 62 (9.21%) Roadmaps
16 61 (9.06%) Incident Response
17 59 (8.77%) SIEM
18 55 (8.17%) Migration
18 55 (8.17%) Test Automation
19 51 (7.58%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 127 (18.87%) PowerShell
2 80 (11.89%) Python
3 57 (8.47%) Java
4 48 (7.13%) SQL
5 35 (5.20%) JavaScript
6 27 (4.01%) Bicep
7 25 (3.71%) Bash
8 16 (2.38%) TypeScript
9 11 (1.63%) C#
10 9 (1.34%) Groovy
10 9 (1.34%) Rust
10 9 (1.34%) Scala
11 8 (1.19%) PHP
12 7 (1.04%) Perl
12 7 (1.04%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.74%) Go
14 4 (0.59%) Cypher
15 3 (0.45%) BeanShell
15 3 (0.45%) C++
15 3 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 215 (31.95%) Security Cleared
2 167 (24.81%) SC Cleared
3 83 (12.33%) CISSP
4 66 (9.81%) CISM
5 50 (7.43%) DV Cleared
6 45 (6.69%) Degree
7 43 (6.39%) Microsoft Certification
8 36 (5.35%) Azure Certification
9 20 (2.97%) Cisco Certification
10 18 (2.67%) TOGAF Certification
11 17 (2.53%) AWS Certification
12 15 (2.23%) Master's Degree
13 13 (1.93%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 11 (1.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 11 (1.63%) PMI Certification
15 10 (1.49%) CCSP
15 10 (1.49%) PhD
16 9 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
16 9 (1.34%) PMP
17 8 (1.19%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (12.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 75 (11.14%) GDPR
3 71 (10.55%) NIST
4 32 (4.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 21 (3.12%) PCI DSS
6 19 (2.82%) GRC
7 17 (2.53%) QA
8 14 (2.08%) Accessibility
9 13 (1.93%) NCSC
10 10 (1.49%) HIPAA
11 8 (1.19%) COBIT
11 8 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (1.19%) NIST 800
12 7 (1.04%) Data Quality
12 7 (1.04%) SOC 2
13 6 (0.89%) ITGC
13 6 (0.89%) SOX 404
14 5 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.74%) SLA
15 3 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 200 (29.72%) Active Directory
2 63 (9.36%) Docker
3 20 (2.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.49%) VMware NSX
5 9 (1.34%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (1.04%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 6 (0.89%) Tivoli Directory Server
8 5 (0.74%) vSphere
9 3 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.30%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.30%) OpenAM
10 2 (0.30%) OpenDJ
10 2 (0.30%) OpenIDM
11 1 (0.15%) IAG
11 1 (0.15%) Lustre
11 1 (0.15%) NDS
11 1 (0.15%) NetIQ eDirectory
11 1 (0.15%) NFS
11 1 (0.15%) RACF
11 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 97 (14.41%) Single Sign-On
2 96 (14.26%) Terraform
3 77 (11.44%) Kubernetes
4 49 (7.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 25 (3.71%) Microsoft Intune
6 23 (3.42%) Ansible
7 14 (2.08%) Grafana
8 11 (1.63%) Prometheus
8 11 (1.63%) SCCM
9 9 (1.34%) CA Single Sign-On
10 8 (1.19%) Kiali
11 7 (1.04%) Progress Chef
12 6 (0.89%) CA Wily
12 6 (0.89%) Forefront Identity Manager
12 6 (0.89%) NetIQ Identity Manager
12 6 (0.89%) Tivoli
13 5 (0.74%) Istio
13 5 (0.74%) QRadar
14 3 (0.45%) Icinga
14 3 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 227 (33.73%) Microsoft
2 64 (9.51%) CyberArk
3 56 (8.32%) Google
4 50 (7.43%) Okta
5 34 (5.05%) ServiceNow
5 34 (5.05%) Splunk
6 32 (4.75%) Oracle
7 28 (4.16%) VMware
8 19 (2.82%) SAP
9 18 (2.67%) Cisco
10 17 (2.53%) Citrix
10 17 (2.53%) Red Hat
11 16 (2.38%) BiZZdesign
12 15 (2.23%) Centrify
12 15 (2.23%) IBM
12 15 (2.23%) Zscaler
13 14 (2.08%) BeyondTrust
14 9 (1.34%) CrowdStrike
14 9 (1.34%) Databricks
14 9 (1.34%) NetIQ