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 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 169 189
Rank change year-on-year +3 +20 +19
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 753 473 540
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.60% 1.62% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.89% 1.79% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 504 340 383
10th Percentile £400 £412 £414
25th Percentile £475 £508 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £600 £618
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -2.83% -1.20%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £725
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £575 £635
% change year-on-year -4.35% -9.45% +10.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 0 2
10th Percentile £51.40 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £23.80
75th Percentile £74.26 - -
90th Percentile £81.56 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.26 - -

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 39,818 26,498 37,391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.58% 90.82% 86.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,090 17,105 24,099
10th Percentile £319 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +0.52% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,400 1,069 2,428
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.82 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £40.66 £29.07 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.87% -16.94% -6.17%
75th Percentile £65.88 £62.24 £59.44
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.25 £28.00 £36.02
% change year-on-year +50.89% -22.27% +0.06%

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 29 April 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 29 April 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 29 April 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 +17 664 £575 -4.17% 133
UK excluding London +20 375 £550 -4.35% 92
London -14 281 £575 -8.00% 61
Work from Home +5 252 £550 -1.35% 66
North of England +8 134 £550 +5.77% 14
South East -18 97 £600 -7.69% 39
Yorkshire +6 86 £521 +15.83% 5
Midlands -17 79 £550 -6.38% 12
West Midlands -21 66 £550 -8.33% 6
South West -1 58 £675 +22.73% 13
North West -11 46 £575 +9.52% 8
Scotland -5 16 £450 -14.29% 1
East Midlands -30 11 £638 +27.50% 4
East of England -41 3 £718 +10.38% 15
Wales -11 2 £363 -39.58% 3
North East -14 2 £433 +0.70% 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 28 (3.72%) Confluence
2 23 (3.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 22 (2.92%) SharePoint
4 6 (0.80%) Apache Superset
5 5 (0.66%) Apache
6 3 (0.40%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (0.27%) IIS
7 2 (0.27%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.27%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.13%) Mendix
8 1 (0.13%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.13%) nginx
Applications
1 13 (1.73%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.13%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.80%) Maximo
3 4 (0.53%) SAP GRC
4 3 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 353 (46.88%) Azure
2 235 (31.21%) Entra ID
3 162 (21.51%) AWS
4 90 (11.95%) GCP
5 68 (9.03%) Microsoft 365
6 45 (5.98%) Azure AKS
7 44 (5.84%) GitHub
8 43 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
9 38 (5.05%) Power Platform
10 35 (4.65%) Azure Sentinel
11 31 (4.12%) SaaS
12 27 (3.59%) Azure Monitor
12 27 (3.59%) PaaS
13 25 (3.32%) IaaS
14 22 (2.92%) Serverless
15 21 (2.79%) GitHub Actions
16 19 (2.52%) Microsoft Purview
17 16 (2.12%) Amazon EKS
17 16 (2.12%) OCI
17 16 (2.12%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 78 (10.36%) Firewall
2 77 (10.23%) DNS
3 64 (8.50%) Network Security
4 45 (5.98%) DHCP
5 38 (5.05%) WAN
6 31 (4.12%) VPN
7 28 (3.72%) LAN
8 26 (3.45%) BGP
8 26 (3.45%) OSPF
9 24 (3.19%) BIG-IP
9 24 (3.19%) Ethernet VPN
9 24 (3.19%) Junos
9 24 (3.19%) VXLAN
10 21 (2.79%) Kerberos
10 21 (2.79%) SSL
11 19 (2.52%) Cisco ISE
12 12 (1.59%) SD-WAN
13 5 (0.66%) Internet
13 5 (0.66%) WebEx
14 4 (0.53%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (2.52%) SQL Server
2 18 (2.39%) Power BI
3 13 (1.73%) NoSQL
4 12 (1.59%) MongoDB
5 11 (1.46%) Azure SQL Database
5 11 (1.46%) Tableau
6 10 (1.33%) DocumentDB
7 8 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (0.66%) BigQuery
8 5 (0.66%) MySQL
9 4 (0.53%) Neo4j
9 4 (0.53%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.40%) Big Data
10 3 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.40%) Oracle Exadata
10 3 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (0.40%) Redis
11 2 (0.27%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.27%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 65 (8.63%) JIRA
2 52 (6.91%) Jenkins
3 30 (3.98%) Git
4 25 (3.32%) GitLab
5 17 (2.26%) Postman
6 15 (1.99%) Selenium
7 10 (1.33%) Cucumber
7 10 (1.33%) REST Assured
8 9 (1.20%) Gatling
9 8 (1.06%) Jaeger
10 5 (0.66%) Maven
10 5 (0.66%) TestRail
11 4 (0.53%) JMeter
11 4 (0.53%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.53%) NeoLoad
11 4 (0.53%) WebDriver
12 3 (0.40%) JUnit
12 3 (0.40%) MSI
13 2 (0.27%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.27%) git-flow
General
1 172 (22.84%) Social Skills
2 117 (15.54%) Finance
3 92 (12.22%) Public Sector
4 60 (7.97%) Analytical Skills
5 59 (7.84%) Banking
6 28 (3.72%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (3.45%) Legal
8 16 (2.12%) Investment Banking
9 12 (1.59%) Financial Institution
10 8 (1.06%) Military
10 8 (1.06%) Retail
11 7 (0.93%) Police
12 6 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.53%) Local Government
14 4 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.40%) Aviation
15 3 (0.40%) Manufacturing
16 2 (0.27%) Aeronautics
16 2 (0.27%) Law
Job Titles
1 220 (29.22%) Architect
2 72 (9.56%) Analyst
3 70 (9.30%) Senior
4 67 (8.90%) Lead
5 52 (6.91%) Developer
5 52 (6.91%) Security Architect
6 44 (5.84%) Solutions Architect
7 31 (4.12%) Business Analyst
8 28 (3.72%) Consultant
9 27 (3.59%) Project Manager
10 26 (3.45%) Java Developer
10 26 (3.45%) Security Engineer
11 25 (3.32%) DevOps Engineer
12 24 (3.19%) Azure Engineer
13 20 (2.66%) Cloud Architect
13 20 (2.66%) Technical Architect
14 19 (2.52%) Cloud Engineer
15 18 (2.39%) Azure Architect
15 18 (2.39%) Lead Architect
16 17 (2.26%) Identity and Access Management Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (11.02%) SailPoint
2 74 (9.83%) SAML
3 70 (9.30%) OAuth
4 62 (8.23%) OpenID
5 60 (7.97%) LDAP
6 47 (6.24%) REST
7 26 (3.45%) 802.1X
7 26 (3.45%) ARM Templates
8 25 (3.32%) Spring Boot
9 23 (3.05%) Kafka
10 22 (2.92%) OAuth2
11 20 (2.66%) .NET
12 18 (2.39%) Middleware
12 18 (2.39%) Spring
13 16 (2.12%) Node.js
14 15 (1.99%) Playwright
15 13 (1.73%) RESTful
16 10 (1.33%) HTML
17 9 (1.20%) J2EE
18 8 (1.06%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 65 (8.63%) Onboarding
2 56 (7.44%) PKI
3 44 (5.84%) Cloud Native
4 37 (4.91%) Data Centre
5 29 (3.85%) Management Information System
6 27 (3.59%) Enterprise Software
7 24 (3.19%) Clustering
7 24 (3.19%) Security Posture
8 21 (2.79%) Public Cloud
9 17 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
9 17 (2.26%) Replication
10 16 (2.12%) Product Ownership
11 15 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
13 8 (1.06%) Operational Technology
14 7 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
14 7 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
15 5 (0.66%) Enterprise Cloud
15 5 (0.66%) Fat Client
15 5 (0.66%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 99 (13.15%) Windows
2 35 (4.65%) Linux
3 33 (4.38%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.20%) Unix
5 8 (1.06%) Mac OS
6 7 (0.93%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.53%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.40%) Android
9 3 (0.40%) VMS
10 2 (0.27%) Debian
10 2 (0.27%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.13%) CentOS
11 1 (0.13%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.13%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (21.25%) DevOps
2 158 (20.98%) Cybersecurity
3 143 (18.99%) RBAC
4 141 (18.73%) CI/CD
5 128 (17.00%) Agile
6 110 (14.61%) Cloud Security
7 98 (13.01%) Stakeholder Management
8 97 (12.88%) Zero Trust
9 96 (12.75%) Problem-Solving
10 93 (12.35%) Infrastructure as Code
11 82 (10.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 78 (10.36%) Identity Management
13 73 (9.69%) Privileged Access Management
14 69 (9.16%) Migration
14 69 (9.16%) Observability
15 68 (9.03%) High Availability
16 66 (8.76%) Analytics
17 65 (8.63%) Security Architecture
18 64 (8.50%) Data Protection
18 64 (8.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 114 (15.14%) PowerShell
2 88 (11.69%) Java
3 87 (11.55%) Python
4 68 (9.03%) SQL
5 37 (4.91%) Bicep
6 27 (3.59%) JavaScript
7 14 (1.86%) Bash
7 14 (1.86%) Scala
8 13 (1.73%) TypeScript
9 9 (1.20%) Rust
10 7 (0.93%) C#
11 6 (0.80%) PHP
12 5 (0.66%) Groovy
13 4 (0.53%) Cypher
13 4 (0.53%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.40%) C++
14 3 (0.40%) Go
14 3 (0.40%) R
15 2 (0.27%) C
15 2 (0.27%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 272 (36.12%) Security Cleared
2 193 (25.63%) SC Cleared
3 70 (9.30%) CISSP
3 70 (9.30%) DV Cleared
4 47 (6.24%) CISM
5 44 (5.84%) Cisco Certification
6 39 (5.18%) Azure Certification
7 38 (5.05%) Degree
8 29 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
9 23 (3.05%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 21 (2.79%) CCSP
11 17 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
11 17 (2.26%) PMI Certification
12 15 (1.99%) PMP
13 13 (1.73%) AWS Certification
14 9 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
15 7 (0.93%) JNCIA
15 7 (0.93%) JNCIP
15 7 (0.93%) JNCIS
16 6 (0.80%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (10.62%) GDPR
2 77 (10.23%) NIST
3 73 (9.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 38 (5.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 27 (3.59%) GRC
6 23 (3.05%) NCSC
7 19 (2.52%) QA
8 15 (1.99%) PCI DSS
9 10 (1.33%) Accessibility
10 9 (1.20%) NIST 800
11 8 (1.06%) HIPAA
11 8 (1.06%) SOC 2
12 7 (0.93%) Data Quality
12 7 (0.93%) PMO
12 7 (0.93%) SLA
13 5 (0.66%) COBIT
14 3 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.40%) GxP
15 2 (0.27%) ITGC
16 1 (0.13%) PSD2
System Software
1 204 (27.09%) Active Directory
2 61 (8.10%) Docker
3 25 (3.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.73%) VMware NSX
5 11 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (1.06%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.93%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 3 (0.40%) IAG
9 3 (0.40%) RACF
10 2 (0.27%) OpenAM
10 2 (0.27%) OpenDJ
10 2 (0.27%) OpenIDM
10 2 (0.27%) vSphere
11 1 (0.13%) GPFS
11 1 (0.13%) Lustre
11 1 (0.13%) Sendmail
11 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.13%) Squid
11 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 105 (13.94%) Terraform
2 104 (13.81%) Kubernetes
3 82 (10.89%) Single Sign-On
4 33 (4.38%) Ansible
5 32 (4.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 24 (3.19%) FortiGate
7 16 (2.12%) Grafana
8 14 (1.86%) Microsoft Intune
9 11 (1.46%) Prometheus
10 10 (1.33%) Forefront Identity Manager
10 10 (1.33%) NetIQ Identity Manager
11 8 (1.06%) Kiali
12 7 (0.93%) SCCM
13 5 (0.66%) HAProxy
14 4 (0.53%) Istio
15 3 (0.40%) Icinga
15 3 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
15 3 (0.40%) Kustomize
15 3 (0.40%) Oracle Identity Management
15 3 (0.40%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 232 (30.81%) Microsoft
2 64 (8.50%) Okta
3 48 (6.37%) CyberArk
3 48 (6.37%) Google
3 48 (6.37%) Splunk
4 44 (5.84%) ServiceNow
5 32 (4.25%) Cisco
6 29 (3.85%) VMware
7 27 (3.59%) Oracle
8 26 (3.45%) F5
9 25 (3.32%) ForgeRock
10 24 (3.19%) Juniper
10 24 (3.19%) SolarWinds
11 22 (2.92%) Extreme Networks
12 21 (2.79%) SAP
13 19 (2.52%) BeyondTrust
14 15 (1.99%) Workday
15 12 (1.59%) Citrix
15 12 (1.59%) NetIQ
16 11 (1.46%) Zscaler