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 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 177 191
Rank change year-on-year +16 +14 +47
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 731 448 570
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.73% 1.51% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.01% 1.67% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 466 319 396
10th Percentile £389 £412 £407
25th Percentile £466 £504 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £616
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -2.64% -1.40%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £725
90th Percentile £725 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £588 £650
% change year-on-year -6.38% -9.62% +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 1
10th Percentile £71.02 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £74.26 - £75.00
75th Percentile £92.50 - -
90th Percentile £93.63 - -
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 36,399 26,862 38,734
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.19% 90.27% 86.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,113 17,118 25,178
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £612 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £491 £500
% change year-on-year -2.04% -1.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,154 913 2,346
10th Percentile £14.64 £15.52 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £29.00 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.77% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.52 £57.50
90th Percentile £74.26 £76.25 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.77 £31.76 £31.50
% change year-on-year -18.86% +0.83% -10.00%

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 9 March 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 9 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Identity Access Management in the UK

Identity Access Management
Top 16 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 9 March 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 +27 669 £550 -10.46% 130
UK excluding London +23 365 £550 -6.38% 96
London +30 293 £568 -9.20% 60
Work from Home +3 215 £540 -6.09% 61
North of England +31 145 £528 +0.48% 16
Yorkshire +12 93 £519 -2.85% 3
Midlands -18 79 £550 -6.38% 12
South East -19 77 £583 -10.38% 49
West Midlands -21 64 £550 -7.71% 5
South West -2 50 £675 +17.39% 7
North West -1 47 £550 +4.76% 13
East Midlands -22 14 £619 +23.75% 7
Scotland -5 13 £550 +4.76% 3
North East -7 6 £491 -9.17%
East of England -38 6 £500 -23.08% 7
Wales -8 1 £250 -66.67% 3

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 47 (6.43%) Confluence
2 38 (5.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 33 (4.51%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.55%) Apache
5 3 (0.41%) Apache Superset
5 3 (0.41%) IIS
5 3 (0.41%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.27%) iPlanet
6 2 (0.27%) JBoss
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle Coherence
6 2 (0.27%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.14%) CMS
7 1 (0.14%) Mendix
7 1 (0.14%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.14%) nginx
7 1 (0.14%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 18 (2.46%) MS Visio
2 12 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.14%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 7 (0.96%) Maximo
2 6 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.41%) SAP GRC
3 3 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.27%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 316 (43.23%) Azure
2 235 (32.15%) Entra ID
3 141 (19.29%) AWS
4 91 (12.45%) GCP
5 72 (9.85%) Microsoft 365
6 38 (5.20%) GitHub
7 36 (4.92%) SaaS
8 35 (4.79%) Azure DevOps
9 34 (4.65%) Azure AKS
9 34 (4.65%) Azure Sentinel
10 27 (3.69%) Power Platform
11 26 (3.56%) Azure Monitor
12 24 (3.28%) PaaS
12 24 (3.28%) Serverless
13 22 (3.01%) IaaS
14 20 (2.74%) Microsoft Purview
15 19 (2.60%) OneDrive
15 19 (2.60%) OpenShift
16 18 (2.46%) GitHub Actions
17 17 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 83 (11.35%) Firewall
2 72 (9.85%) DNS
3 63 (8.62%) Network Security
4 41 (5.61%) DHCP
5 30 (4.10%) Kerberos
5 30 (4.10%) VPN
6 24 (3.28%) WAN
7 22 (3.01%) SSL
8 21 (2.87%) LAN
9 19 (2.60%) BGP
9 19 (2.60%) OSPF
10 18 (2.46%) BIG-IP
10 18 (2.46%) Ethernet VPN
10 18 (2.46%) Junos
10 18 (2.46%) VXLAN
11 14 (1.92%) Cisco ISE
12 11 (1.50%) WebEx
13 9 (1.23%) Internet
14 7 (0.96%) TCP/IP
15 6 (0.82%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (2.19%) Power BI
2 15 (2.05%) SQL Server
3 13 (1.78%) NoSQL
4 11 (1.50%) MongoDB
5 10 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
5 10 (1.37%) DocumentDB
6 8 (1.09%) Tableau
7 6 (0.82%) Oracle Database
8 5 (0.68%) BigQuery
8 5 (0.68%) MySQL
9 4 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.55%) Neo4j
9 4 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.41%) Oracle Exadata
10 3 (0.41%) Redis
11 2 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (0.27%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.27%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 72 (9.85%) JIRA
2 39 (5.34%) Jenkins
3 32 (4.38%) Git
4 27 (3.69%) GitLab
5 17 (2.33%) Postman
6 15 (2.05%) Selenium
7 10 (1.37%) Cucumber
7 10 (1.37%) REST Assured
8 8 (1.09%) Jaeger
9 6 (0.82%) TestRail
10 4 (0.55%) Gatling
10 4 (0.55%) JMeter
10 4 (0.55%) LoadRunner
10 4 (0.55%) NeoLoad
10 4 (0.55%) WebDriver
11 3 (0.41%) JUnit
11 3 (0.41%) Maven
11 3 (0.41%) MSI
12 2 (0.27%) Fiddler
12 2 (0.27%) Metasploit
General
1 203 (27.77%) Social Skills
2 135 (18.47%) Finance
3 90 (12.31%) Public Sector
4 80 (10.94%) Analytical Skills
5 57 (7.80%) Banking
6 28 (3.83%) Documentation Skills
6 28 (3.83%) Legal
7 17 (2.33%) Investment Banking
8 14 (1.92%) Financial Institution
9 13 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (1.09%) Military
11 6 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (0.82%) Manufacturing
12 5 (0.68%) Police
12 5 (0.68%) Retail
12 5 (0.68%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.41%) Local Government
14 3 (0.41%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 225 (30.78%) Architect
2 86 (11.76%) Analyst
3 75 (10.26%) Solutions Architect
4 66 (9.03%) Senior
5 62 (8.48%) Lead
6 56 (7.66%) Security Architect
7 42 (5.75%) Business Analyst
8 32 (4.38%) Consultant
9 30 (4.10%) Developer
10 28 (3.83%) Security Engineer
11 23 (3.15%) DevOps Engineer
12 22 (3.01%) Azure Architect
12 22 (3.01%) Lead Architect
13 21 (2.87%) Azure Engineer
13 21 (2.87%) Cloud Architect
14 20 (2.74%) Project Manager
15 18 (2.46%) Identity Management Architect
16 17 (2.33%) Technical Architect
17 16 (2.19%) Cloud Engineer
18 15 (2.05%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (11.35%) OAuth
2 82 (11.22%) SAML
3 80 (10.94%) SailPoint
4 62 (8.48%) OpenID
5 53 (7.25%) LDAP
6 45 (6.16%) REST
7 28 (3.83%) ARM Templates
8 27 (3.69%) OAuth2
9 26 (3.56%) .NET
10 23 (3.15%) Kafka
11 22 (3.01%) Spring Boot
12 19 (2.60%) 802.1X
12 19 (2.60%) Middleware
13 17 (2.33%) Node.js
14 15 (2.05%) Spring
15 14 (1.92%) RESTful
16 11 (1.50%) Microsoft Graph
16 11 (1.50%) XMPP
17 10 (1.37%) HTML
17 10 (1.37%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 60 (8.21%) Onboarding
2 52 (7.11%) PKI
3 43 (5.88%) Cloud Native
4 38 (5.20%) Management Information System
5 33 (4.51%) Security Posture
6 28 (3.83%) Data Centre
7 27 (3.69%) Enterprise Software
8 23 (3.15%) Hybrid Cloud
9 20 (2.74%) Product Ownership
10 18 (2.46%) Clustering
11 17 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
11 17 (2.33%) Replication
12 15 (2.05%) Public Cloud
13 12 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
14 9 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
15 6 (0.82%) BYOD
15 6 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
16 5 (0.68%) Fat Client
16 5 (0.68%) Security Operations Centre
16 5 (0.68%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 100 (13.68%) Windows
2 46 (6.29%) Windows Server
3 36 (4.92%) Linux
4 11 (1.50%) Mac OS
5 10 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.09%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.82%) VMS
8 5 (0.68%) Android
8 5 (0.68%) Unix
9 4 (0.55%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.14%) CentOS
10 1 (0.14%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.14%) Rocky
10 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (22.57%) Cybersecurity
2 139 (19.02%) RBAC
3 134 (18.33%) CI/CD
4 127 (17.37%) DevOps
5 117 (16.01%) Cloud Security
6 113 (15.46%) Problem-Solving
7 106 (14.50%) Stakeholder Management
8 105 (14.36%) Agile
9 96 (13.13%) Infrastructure as Code
10 93 (12.72%) Privileged Access Management
11 92 (12.59%) Identity Management
12 91 (12.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 80 (10.94%) Zero Trust
14 73 (9.99%) Data Protection
15 69 (9.44%) Migration
16 63 (8.62%) Roadmaps
17 60 (8.21%) Incident Response
18 59 (8.07%) Observability
19 58 (7.93%) SIEM
19 58 (7.93%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 132 (18.06%) PowerShell
2 80 (10.94%) Python
3 66 (9.03%) Java
4 55 (7.52%) SQL
5 35 (4.79%) JavaScript
6 32 (4.38%) Bicep
7 24 (3.28%) Bash
8 15 (2.05%) TypeScript
9 11 (1.50%) C#
10 9 (1.23%) Rust
10 9 (1.23%) Scala
11 8 (1.09%) PHP
12 7 (0.96%) Perl
13 6 (0.82%) Groovy
14 4 (0.55%) Cypher
15 3 (0.41%) C++
15 3 (0.41%) Go
15 3 (0.41%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.27%) BeanShell
16 2 (0.27%) C
Qualifications
1 243 (33.24%) Security Cleared
2 174 (23.80%) SC Cleared
3 87 (11.90%) CISSP
4 69 (9.44%) CISM
5 60 (8.21%) DV Cleared
6 53 (7.25%) Degree
7 44 (6.02%) Microsoft Certification
8 42 (5.75%) Azure Certification
9 34 (4.65%) Cisco Certification
10 18 (2.46%) TOGAF Certification
11 15 (2.05%) AWS Certification
12 14 (1.92%) Master's Degree
13 13 (1.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 13 (1.78%) PMI Certification
14 12 (1.64%) CCSP
14 12 (1.64%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 11 (1.50%) PMP
16 10 (1.37%) PhD
17 9 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
18 7 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (10.26%) GDPR
2 74 (10.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 65 (8.89%) NIST
4 34 (4.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 23 (3.15%) GRC
6 20 (2.74%) PCI DSS
7 18 (2.46%) NCSC
7 18 (2.46%) QA
8 12 (1.64%) Accessibility
9 11 (1.50%) COBIT
10 8 (1.09%) Data Quality
10 8 (1.09%) HIPAA
11 7 (0.96%) NIST 800
12 6 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.82%) ITGC
12 6 (0.82%) SOC 2
12 6 (0.82%) SOX 404
13 5 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.68%) PMO
13 5 (0.68%) SLA
System Software
1 213 (29.14%) Active Directory
2 60 (8.21%) Docker
3 23 (3.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.50%) VMware NSX
5 9 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.96%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 6 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.55%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.55%) vSphere
9 3 (0.41%) IAG
10 2 (0.27%) OpenAM
10 2 (0.27%) OpenDJ
10 2 (0.27%) OpenIDM
10 2 (0.27%) RACF
10 2 (0.27%) Tivoli Directory Server
11 1 (0.14%) GPFS
11 1 (0.14%) Lustre
11 1 (0.14%) NetIQ eDirectory
11 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 104 (14.23%) Terraform
2 94 (12.86%) Single Sign-On
3 88 (12.04%) Kubernetes
4 49 (6.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 26 (3.56%) Ansible
5 26 (3.56%) Microsoft Intune
6 19 (2.60%) FortiGate
7 15 (2.05%) Grafana
8 11 (1.50%) Prometheus
8 11 (1.50%) SCCM
9 8 (1.09%) Kiali
10 7 (0.96%) Forefront Identity Manager
10 7 (0.96%) NetIQ Identity Manager
11 5 (0.68%) CA Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.68%) Jamf Pro
11 5 (0.68%) QRadar
12 4 (0.55%) Istio
13 3 (0.41%) CASB
13 3 (0.41%) Icinga
13 3 (0.41%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 243 (33.24%) Microsoft
2 64 (8.76%) CyberArk
3 62 (8.48%) Okta
4 55 (7.52%) Google
5 45 (6.16%) Splunk
6 37 (5.06%) ServiceNow
7 35 (4.79%) Cisco
8 31 (4.24%) Oracle
9 29 (3.97%) VMware
10 25 (3.42%) SAP
11 19 (2.60%) Citrix
11 19 (2.60%) F5
11 19 (2.60%) Juniper
12 18 (2.46%) SolarWinds
13 16 (2.19%) BiZZdesign
13 16 (2.19%) Extreme Networks
13 16 (2.19%) ForgeRock
14 15 (2.05%) BeyondTrust
14 15 (2.05%) Centrify
14 15 (2.05%) Red Hat