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 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 164 189
Rank change year-on-year +13 +25 +2
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 863 495 543
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.70% 1.64% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% 1.80% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 589 359 373
10th Percentile £415 £400 £413
25th Percentile £500 £492 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £582 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.27% -3.08% -2.04%
75th Percentile £650 £686 £700
90th Percentile £761 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £650
% change year-on-year - -15.38% +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 3 3
10th Percentile £51.35 £49.50 -
25th Percentile - £52.50 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +173.11% -63.94%
75th Percentile £85.00 £86.25 -
90th Percentile £87.96 £94.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.26 £82.50 -
% change year-on-year -9.99% - -

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 43,238 27,425 37,092
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.97% 91.06% 85.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,959 17,371 23,647
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.78% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,600 1,291 2,584
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.65
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.70 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +7.14%
75th Percentile £68.00 £54.88 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £71.25 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.04 £38.12
% change year-on-year +79.73% -34.32% +17.29%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 25 June 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 +1 735 £575 -1.42% 159
UK excluding London +24 419 £550 - 121
London +3 341 £575 -4.64% 74
Work from Home +19 292 £560 +1.82% 81
North of England +13 135 £550 +4.76% 32
South East -6 116 £575 -11.54% 40
Yorkshire +16 87 £543 +15.78% 12
Midlands -38 66 £550 +10.89% 11
South West -18 58 £600 +9.09% 13
West Midlands -26 54 £538 -8.51% 5
North West -16 48 £575 +9.52% 14
Scotland +14 40 £515 -3.70% 14
East Midlands -28 10 £638 +54.55% 6
East of England -29 10 £540 -16.92% 3
Wales - 7 £468 - 6
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 30 (3.48%) SharePoint
2 24 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (1.97%) Confluence
4 7 (0.81%) Apache
5 6 (0.70%) Apache Superset
6 4 (0.46%) IIS
7 3 (0.35%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.35%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.35%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.12%) Mendix
9 1 (0.12%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.12%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 8 (0.93%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.23%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.12%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 10 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.58%) Maximo
2 5 (0.58%) SAP GRC
3 2 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 412 (47.74%) Azure
2 268 (31.05%) Entra ID
3 187 (21.67%) AWS
4 115 (13.33%) GCP
5 75 (8.69%) Microsoft 365
6 49 (5.68%) Azure AKS
7 47 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
7 47 (5.45%) Power Platform
8 46 (5.33%) GitHub
9 40 (4.63%) Azure Sentinel
10 35 (4.06%) SaaS
11 32 (3.71%) GitHub Actions
12 30 (3.48%) Azure Monitor
13 28 (3.24%) Serverless
14 25 (2.90%) IaaS
14 25 (2.90%) PaaS
15 19 (2.20%) Microsoft Copilot
15 19 (2.20%) Power Automate
15 19 (2.20%) PowerApps
16 18 (2.09%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 83 (9.62%) DNS
2 82 (9.50%) Network Security
3 76 (8.81%) Firewall
4 49 (5.68%) DHCP
5 46 (5.33%) WAN
6 32 (3.71%) VPN
7 27 (3.13%) BGP
7 27 (3.13%) LAN
8 26 (3.01%) OSPF
9 24 (2.78%) BIG-IP
9 24 (2.78%) Ethernet VPN
9 24 (2.78%) Junos
9 24 (2.78%) VXLAN
10 20 (2.32%) Kerberos
11 19 (2.20%) Cisco ISE
12 18 (2.09%) SD-WAN
13 13 (1.51%) SSL
14 9 (1.04%) Internet
15 6 (0.70%) Intrusion Detection
15 6 (0.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (2.20%) Power BI
2 16 (1.85%) SQL Server
3 10 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (1.04%) Neo4j
4 9 (1.04%) Tableau
5 8 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (0.58%) MongoDB
6 5 (0.58%) NoSQL
7 4 (0.46%) Big Data
7 4 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (0.46%) Metadata
8 3 (0.35%) BigQuery
8 3 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.35%) Oracle Exadata
8 3 (0.35%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (0.35%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.23%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.23%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.12%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.12%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 56 (6.49%) JIRA
2 46 (5.33%) Jenkins
3 30 (3.48%) Git
4 22 (2.55%) GitLab
5 11 (1.27%) Postman
6 9 (1.04%) Gatling
7 5 (0.58%) Jaeger
7 5 (0.58%) Selenium
8 4 (0.46%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.46%) JMeter
8 4 (0.46%) LoadRunner
8 4 (0.46%) NeoLoad
8 4 (0.46%) REST Assured
8 4 (0.46%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.23%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.23%) Maven
9 2 (0.23%) Snyk
10 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.12%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.12%) Zephyr
General
1 215 (24.91%) Social Skills
2 166 (19.24%) Finance
3 113 (13.09%) Public Sector
4 70 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
5 54 (6.26%) Banking
6 39 (4.52%) Documentation Skills
7 29 (3.36%) Retail
8 25 (2.90%) Legal
9 11 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (1.16%) Investment Banking
10 10 (1.16%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.04%) Financial Institution
12 8 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (0.81%) Police
14 6 (0.70%) Aerospace
14 6 (0.70%) Military
15 5 (0.58%) Local Government
16 4 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 3 (0.35%) Aviation
17 3 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 233 (27.00%) Architect
2 78 (9.04%) Senior
3 77 (8.92%) Analyst
4 69 (8.00%) Lead
5 67 (7.76%) Security Architect
6 65 (7.53%) Developer
7 40 (4.63%) Solutions Architect
8 38 (4.40%) Consultant
8 38 (4.40%) Java Developer
9 34 (3.94%) Project Manager
10 30 (3.48%) Business Analyst
10 30 (3.48%) DevOps Engineer
11 27 (3.13%) Security Engineer
12 26 (3.01%) Technical Architect
13 25 (2.90%) Azure Engineer
14 23 (2.67%) Cloud Engineer
14 23 (2.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 21 (2.43%) Cloud Architect
15 21 (2.43%) Identity and Access Management Analyst
15 21 (2.43%) Identity Management Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (11.36%) SailPoint
2 81 (9.39%) SAML
3 80 (9.27%) OAuth
4 66 (7.65%) OpenID
5 59 (6.84%) LDAP
6 44 (5.10%) REST
7 28 (3.24%) OAuth2
8 26 (3.01%) 802.1X
9 23 (2.67%) ARM Templates
10 21 (2.43%) Middleware
11 18 (2.09%) Kafka
12 17 (1.97%) Spring Boot
13 16 (1.85%) Node.js
14 15 (1.74%) Playwright
15 12 (1.39%) JSON
15 12 (1.39%) Spring
16 11 (1.27%) .NET
16 11 (1.27%) React
16 11 (1.27%) SOAP
16 11 (1.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 86 (9.97%) Onboarding
2 80 (9.27%) PKI
3 69 (8.00%) Cloud Native
4 43 (4.98%) Data Centre
5 34 (3.94%) Security Posture
6 31 (3.59%) Management Information System
7 27 (3.13%) Public Cloud
8 25 (2.90%) Product Ownership
9 24 (2.78%) Clustering
9 24 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
10 23 (2.67%) Operational Technology
11 21 (2.43%) Hybrid Cloud
12 18 (2.09%) Replication
13 15 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
13 15 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
13 15 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
14 13 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
15 10 (1.16%) Enterprise Cloud
16 9 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
17 8 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 116 (13.44%) Windows
2 66 (7.65%) Linux
3 40 (4.63%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (1.16%) Unix
5 7 (0.81%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.70%) Debian
7 5 (0.58%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.58%) VMS
8 4 (0.46%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.46%) Android
8 4 (0.46%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.23%) CentOS
9 2 (0.23%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.12%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.12%) Rocky
10 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (21.78%) DevOps
2 184 (21.32%) Cybersecurity
3 151 (17.50%) Agile
4 149 (17.27%) CI/CD
5 139 (16.11%) RBAC
6 132 (15.30%) Zero Trust
7 122 (14.14%) Stakeholder Management
8 119 (13.79%) Cloud Security
9 116 (13.44%) Problem-Solving
10 109 (12.63%) Infrastructure as Code
11 101 (11.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 91 (10.54%) Security Architecture
13 88 (10.20%) AI
13 88 (10.20%) Continuous Improvement
13 88 (10.20%) Identity Management
14 79 (9.15%) Migration
14 79 (9.15%) Privileged Access Management
15 77 (8.92%) Roadmaps
16 74 (8.57%) Technical Leadership
17 72 (8.34%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 136 (15.76%) PowerShell
2 111 (12.86%) Python
3 87 (10.08%) Java
4 61 (7.07%) SQL
5 42 (4.87%) Bicep
6 21 (2.43%) Bash
7 17 (1.97%) Rust
8 14 (1.62%) Scala
9 13 (1.51%) Go
10 10 (1.16%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.70%) C#
12 5 (0.58%) JavaScript
13 4 (0.46%) Cypher
13 4 (0.46%) Groovy
13 4 (0.46%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.35%) C++
14 3 (0.35%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.35%) R
15 2 (0.23%) C
15 2 (0.23%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 272 (31.52%) Security Cleared
2 198 (22.94%) SC Cleared
3 75 (8.69%) CISSP
4 67 (7.76%) DV Cleared
5 50 (5.79%) Cisco Certification
6 45 (5.21%) Degree
7 44 (5.10%) CISM
8 39 (4.52%) Azure Certification
9 30 (3.48%) Microsoft Certification
10 29 (3.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 25 (2.90%) CCSP
12 22 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
13 14 (1.62%) AWS Certification
14 12 (1.39%) PMP
15 11 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
15 11 (1.27%) PMI Certification
16 7 (0.81%) CISA
16 7 (0.81%) JNCIA
16 7 (0.81%) JNCIP
16 7 (0.81%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (10.54%) NIST
2 89 (10.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 69 (8.00%) GDPR
4 35 (4.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 32 (3.71%) NCSC
6 28 (3.24%) GRC
7 17 (1.97%) QA
8 14 (1.62%) PCI DSS
9 12 (1.39%) SLA
10 11 (1.27%) Accessibility
10 11 (1.27%) SOC 2
11 10 (1.16%) NIST 800
12 9 (1.04%) HIPAA
13 8 (0.93%) PMO
14 6 (0.70%) COBIT
15 5 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
16 4 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 4 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
17 3 (0.35%) Government Security Classifications
17 3 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 235 (27.23%) Active Directory
2 63 (7.30%) Docker
3 24 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.97%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (1.74%) VMware NSX
6 11 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (1.16%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.46%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 3 (0.35%) IAG
10 2 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.23%) RACF
10 2 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.23%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.12%) GPFS
11 1 (0.12%) KVM
11 1 (0.12%) Lustre
11 1 (0.12%) Sendmail
11 1 (0.12%) Squid
11 1 (0.12%) vSphere
11 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 121 (14.02%) Terraform
2 107 (12.40%) Single Sign-On
3 103 (11.94%) Kubernetes
4 51 (5.91%) Ansible
5 27 (3.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 24 (2.78%) FortiGate
7 22 (2.55%) Microsoft Intune
8 16 (1.85%) Grafana
9 12 (1.39%) Prometheus
10 9 (1.04%) Jamf Pro
11 8 (0.93%) Kustomize
12 7 (0.81%) Forefront Identity Manager
13 6 (0.70%) NetIQ Identity Manager
14 5 (0.58%) HAProxy
14 5 (0.58%) Istio
14 5 (0.58%) Kiali
15 4 (0.46%) Argo
15 4 (0.46%) Podman
15 4 (0.46%) Puppet
15 4 (0.46%) SCCM
Vendors
1 259 (30.01%) Microsoft
2 101 (11.70%) Okta
3 58 (6.72%) Google
4 45 (5.21%) ServiceNow
4 45 (5.21%) Splunk
5 44 (5.10%) CyberArk
6 34 (3.94%) Cisco
7 32 (3.71%) VMware
8 30 (3.48%) ForgeRock
9 29 (3.36%) SAP
10 28 (3.24%) Oracle
11 26 (3.01%) F5
12 24 (2.78%) Juniper
12 24 (2.78%) SolarWinds
13 22 (2.55%) Extreme Networks
13 22 (2.55%) Zscaler
14 21 (2.43%) BeyondTrust
15 20 (2.32%) Workday
16 14 (1.62%) CrowdStrike
17 13 (1.51%) Ping Identity