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 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 174 193
Rank change year-on-year +36 +19 -1
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 1,081 538 502
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.01% 1.63% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.38% 1.80% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 798 365 336
10th Percentile £413 £375 £425
25th Percentile £475 £458 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £643 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £540 £525 £624
% change year-on-year +2.86% -15.80% +13.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 4 5
10th Percentile £16.94 £50.50 -
25th Percentile £52.38 £55.00 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £77.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -29.03% +225.63% -63.94%
75th Percentile £84.34 £96.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £87.88 £98.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £82.46 £82.50 -
% change year-on-year -0.05% - -

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 45,455 29,807 32,988
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.58% 90.45% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,783 18,569 20,737
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,905 1,767 1,609
10th Percentile £14.10 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.75 £17.30 £18.89
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -40.82% +3.56%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.31 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.25 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.56 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +92.49% -47.37% +14.67%

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 31 August 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 31 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Identity Access Management in the UK

Identity Access Management
Top 17 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 31 August 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 +17 881 £564 +2.50% 375
UK excluding London +46 516 £540 +2.86% 204
London +22 420 £575 -1.71% 208
Work from Home +36 347 £550 +4.76% 174
North of England +20 183 £515 +8.42% 57
South East +1 132 £585 -6.40% 70
Yorkshire +32 113 £538 +14.61% 23
Scotland +33 66 £478 -20.33% 11
North West -18 58 £515 +6.51% 28
South West -17 55 £588 +14.63% 34
Midlands -45 51 £580 +17.89% 19
West Midlands -30 39 £505 -8.18% 11
East of England +3 31 £555 -14.62% 8
North East -29 11 £500 -9.09% 7
East Midlands -25 10 £619 +53.92% 8
Wales -6 9 £475 -32.14% 2
Channel Islands - 1 £575 -

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 36 (3.33%) SharePoint
2 34 (3.15%) Confluence
3 31 (2.87%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.83%) Apache
5 5 (0.46%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.46%) Apache Superset
6 4 (0.37%) IIS
7 3 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2010
7 3 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2013
7 3 (0.28%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.28%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.19%) Ethereum
8 2 (0.19%) Hyperledger
9 1 (0.093%) Drupal
9 1 (0.093%) nginx
9 1 (0.093%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 9 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (0.46%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.093%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.46%) SAP GRC
3 2 (0.19%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.19%) R3 Corda
3 2 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.19%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.093%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.093%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.093%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.093%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 462 (42.74%) Azure
2 320 (29.60%) Entra ID
3 257 (23.77%) AWS
4 144 (13.32%) GCP
5 86 (7.96%) Microsoft 365
6 67 (6.20%) GitHub
7 56 (5.18%) Azure DevOps
8 51 (4.72%) Power Platform
8 51 (4.72%) SaaS
9 50 (4.63%) GitHub Actions
10 42 (3.89%) Serverless
11 40 (3.70%) Azure AKS
11 40 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
12 35 (3.24%) Azure Sentinel
13 32 (2.96%) OCI
14 27 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
14 27 (2.50%) Microsoft Purview
15 26 (2.41%) IaaS
15 26 (2.41%) PaaS
16 25 (2.31%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 93 (8.60%) Network Security
2 88 (8.14%) Firewall
3 68 (6.29%) DNS
4 38 (3.52%) VPN
5 33 (3.05%) WAN
6 25 (2.31%) DHCP
7 18 (1.67%) SD-WAN
8 12 (1.11%) LAN
9 11 (1.02%) SSL
10 10 (0.93%) Kerberos
11 9 (0.83%) BGP
11 9 (0.83%) Internet
11 9 (0.83%) IPsec
11 9 (0.83%) TCP/IP
12 8 (0.74%) OSPF
13 7 (0.65%) BIG-IP
13 7 (0.65%) Ethernet VPN
13 7 (0.65%) HTTPS
13 7 (0.65%) Junos
13 7 (0.65%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (4.07%) SQL Server
2 25 (2.31%) Power BI
3 24 (2.22%) Metadata
4 17 (1.57%) Relational Database
5 12 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
5 12 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (0.93%) Data Lake
6 10 (0.93%) Neo4j
7 7 (0.65%) NoSQL
8 6 (0.56%) MongoDB
9 5 (0.46%) Big Data
9 5 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (0.37%) Oracle Database
10 4 (0.37%) Oracle Exadata
10 4 (0.37%) Spark SQL
10 4 (0.37%) Tableau
11 3 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.28%) Delta Lake
11 3 (0.28%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 51 (4.72%) JIRA
2 42 (3.89%) Git
3 39 (3.61%) Jenkins
4 20 (1.85%) GitLab
5 12 (1.11%) Gatling
6 11 (1.02%) Selenium
7 8 (0.74%) JMeter
8 7 (0.65%) NeoLoad
9 5 (0.46%) LoadRunner
9 5 (0.46%) Zephyr
10 4 (0.37%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.28%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.28%) MSBuild
11 3 (0.28%) Postman
11 3 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.28%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.19%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.19%) Claude Code
12 2 (0.19%) Maven
General
1 307 (28.40%) Social Skills
2 224 (20.72%) Finance
3 137 (12.67%) Public Sector
4 112 (10.36%) Analytical Skills
5 73 (6.75%) Banking
6 62 (5.74%) Retail
7 56 (5.18%) Documentation Skills
8 28 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
9 20 (1.85%) Legal
10 18 (1.67%) Manufacturing
11 16 (1.48%) Aerospace
12 13 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 8 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (0.65%) Local Government
15 6 (0.56%) Law
15 6 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (0.56%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.46%) Financial Institution
16 5 (0.46%) Military
17 4 (0.37%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 276 (25.53%) Architect
2 112 (10.36%) Lead
3 93 (8.60%) Security Architect
4 89 (8.23%) Analyst
5 73 (6.75%) Senior
6 69 (6.38%) Developer
7 51 (4.72%) Consultant
8 50 (4.63%) Business Analyst
9 49 (4.53%) Solutions Architect
10 47 (4.35%) Support Engineer
11 46 (4.26%) Project Manager
12 44 (4.07%) Technical Architect
13 43 (3.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 40 (3.70%) Java Developer
15 36 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
16 34 (3.15%) Security Engineer
16 34 (3.15%) Service Manager
16 34 (3.15%) Service Transition Manager
16 34 (3.15%) Transition Manager
17 32 (2.96%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (15.63%) Terraform
2 100 (9.25%) OAuth
3 88 (8.14%) OpenID
3 88 (8.14%) SailPoint
4 79 (7.31%) SAML
5 58 (5.37%) LDAP
6 55 (5.09%) REST
7 34 (3.15%) OAuth2
8 29 (2.68%) .NET
9 25 (2.31%) ARM Templates
10 20 (1.85%) React
11 18 (1.67%) Kafka
12 16 (1.48%) JSON
12 16 (1.48%) Node.js
13 15 (1.39%) .NET Framework
14 14 (1.30%) Web Services
15 13 (1.20%) Middleware
15 13 (1.20%) XML
16 12 (1.11%) Spring
17 11 (1.02%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 122 (11.29%) Onboarding
2 107 (9.90%) Cloud Native
3 95 (8.79%) PKI
4 48 (4.44%) Security Posture
5 44 (4.07%) Enterprise Software
6 40 (3.70%) Management Information System
7 34 (3.15%) Product Ownership
8 30 (2.78%) Operational Technology
9 29 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
10 27 (2.50%) Data Centre
11 26 (2.41%) Hybrid Cloud
12 25 (2.31%) Public Cloud
13 22 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
14 21 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
15 20 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
16 19 (1.76%) Enterprise Cloud
17 15 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
18 14 (1.30%) IoT
19 13 (1.20%) CMDB
20 12 (1.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 117 (10.82%) Windows
2 83 (7.68%) Linux
3 49 (4.53%) Windows Server
4 10 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (0.93%) Unix
5 9 (0.83%) Ubuntu
5 9 (0.83%) VMS
6 6 (0.56%) Debian
7 5 (0.46%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.46%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.37%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.37%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.28%) OpenVMS
10 2 (0.19%) Android
10 2 (0.19%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.093%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 266 (24.61%) Cybersecurity
2 230 (21.28%) Stakeholder Management
3 214 (19.80%) DevOps
4 213 (19.70%) CI/CD
5 199 (18.41%) Agile
6 175 (16.19%) Infrastructure as Code
7 170 (15.73%) RBAC
8 164 (15.17%) Cloud Security
9 160 (14.80%) Zero Trust
10 158 (14.62%) Continuous Improvement
11 144 (13.32%) Security Architecture
12 138 (12.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 137 (12.67%) Privileged Access Management
14 135 (12.49%) Roadmaps
15 134 (12.40%) Problem-Solving
16 117 (10.82%) Migration
17 113 (10.45%) Technical Leadership
18 112 (10.36%) AI
18 112 (10.36%) Identity Management
19 104 (9.62%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 178 (16.47%) PowerShell
2 158 (14.62%) Python
3 83 (7.68%) Java
4 80 (7.40%) SQL
5 65 (6.01%) Bash
6 55 (5.09%) Bicep
7 24 (2.22%) C#
8 14 (1.30%) Rust
9 12 (1.11%) Go
10 9 (0.83%) Scala
11 7 (0.65%) TypeScript
12 6 (0.56%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (0.46%) JavaScript
14 4 (0.37%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.28%) Cypher
15 3 (0.28%) Groovy
15 3 (0.28%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.19%) DAML
16 2 (0.19%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 321 (29.69%) Security Cleared
2 241 (22.29%) SC Cleared
3 92 (8.51%) CISSP
4 61 (5.64%) Azure Certification
5 60 (5.55%) DV Cleared
6 56 (5.18%) Degree
7 55 (5.09%) CISM
8 41 (3.79%) Microsoft Certification
9 40 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
10 32 (2.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 31 (2.87%) BPSS Clearance
12 27 (2.50%) CCSP
13 26 (2.41%) AWS Certification
14 20 (1.85%) PMP
15 15 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
15 15 (1.39%) PMI Certification
16 13 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
17 10 (0.93%) FFIEC
18 9 (0.83%) CISA
19 8 (0.74%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (11.38%) NIST
2 115 (10.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 70 (6.48%) GDPR
4 48 (4.44%) NCSC
5 37 (3.42%) GRC
6 21 (1.94%) Data Quality
6 21 (1.94%) QA
7 20 (1.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 16 (1.48%) PCI DSS
8 16 (1.48%) SLA
9 13 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
10 12 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 10 (0.93%) COBIT
12 9 (0.83%) Accessibility
13 8 (0.74%) HIPAA
13 8 (0.74%) SOC 2
14 7 (0.65%) ITGC
14 7 (0.65%) PMO
15 6 (0.56%) JSP 440
15 6 (0.56%) NIST 800
System Software
1 274 (25.35%) Active Directory
2 88 (8.14%) Docker
3 35 (3.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (2.04%) Virtual Desktop
5 19 (1.76%) Hyper-V
6 13 (1.20%) VMware NSX
7 11 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.37%) vSphere
9 2 (0.19%) KVM
9 2 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.19%) RACF
9 2 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.19%) VMware Workstation
9 2 (0.19%) zsh
10 1 (0.093%) IAG
10 1 (0.093%) Sendmail
10 1 (0.093%) Squid
10 1 (0.093%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 115 (10.64%) Kubernetes
2 108 (9.99%) Single Sign-On
3 64 (5.92%) Ansible
4 35 (3.24%) Microsoft Intune
5 30 (2.78%) Grafana
6 15 (1.39%) Argo
6 15 (1.39%) Prometheus
7 9 (0.83%) FortiGate
8 8 (0.74%) Jamf Pro
8 8 (0.74%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.65%) Istio
10 6 (0.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 6 (0.56%) Forefront Identity Manager
10 6 (0.56%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.46%) HAProxy
11 5 (0.46%) Podman
12 4 (0.37%) NetIQ Identity Manager
12 4 (0.37%) Puppet
13 3 (0.28%) NetBackup
13 3 (0.28%) WMI
Vendors
1 363 (33.58%) Microsoft
2 97 (8.97%) Okta
3 80 (7.40%) CyberArk
4 67 (6.20%) Google
5 54 (5.00%) VMware
6 52 (4.81%) ServiceNow
7 48 (4.44%) Oracle
8 44 (4.07%) BeyondTrust
9 32 (2.96%) SAP
10 30 (2.78%) Zscaler
11 25 (2.31%) Splunk
12 23 (2.13%) Cisco
13 21 (1.94%) ForgeRock
13 21 (1.94%) Workday
14 15 (1.39%) Databricks
14 15 (1.39%) Ping Identity
15 14 (1.30%) CrowdStrike
16 11 (1.02%) Palo Alto
16 11 (1.02%) Red Hat
17 10 (0.93%) F5