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

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 170 190
Rank change year-on-year +1 +20 +4
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 748 475 546
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.60% 1.62% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.89% 1.78% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 495 341 387
10th Percentile £400 £413 £416
25th Percentile £475 £509 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £620
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -3.23% -0.80%
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 39,620 26,668 37,608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.62% 90.81% 86.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,999 17,238 24,242
10th Percentile £319 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £631 £638
90th Percentile £725 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £485 £500
% change year-on-year - -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,377 1,068 2,435
10th Percentile £14.94 £14.84 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £40.54 £29.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.07% -16.71% -5.41%
75th Percentile £65.88 £62.24 £59.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.00 £28.00 £36.27
% change year-on-year +50.00% -22.81% +3.64%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 +8 664 £575 -4.17% 126
UK excluding London +25 374 £550 -4.35% 100
London -12 280 £575 -8.00% 53
Work from Home +5 245 £550 -2.65% 73
North of England +14 134 £550 +5.77% 14
South East -19 99 £600 -7.69% 45
Yorkshire 0 85 £518 +15.00% 6
Midlands -10 80 £550 -6.38% 13
West Midlands -20 66 £550 -8.33% 8
South West -1 55 £675 +22.73% 9
North West -14 47 £563 +7.14% 6
Scotland -3 14 £450 -14.29% 7
East Midlands -29 11 £638 +27.50% 3
East of England -37 4 £718 +10.38% 18
Wales -7 2 £363 -39.58% 2
North East -17 2 £433 +0.70% 2

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 27 (3.61%) Confluence
2 23 (3.07%) Microsoft Exchange
3 22 (2.94%) SharePoint
4 6 (0.80%) Apache Superset
5 5 (0.67%) 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 (1.74%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (0.67%) 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 (1.07%) 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
1 351 (46.93%) Azure
2 233 (31.15%) Entra ID
3 161 (21.52%) AWS
4 90 (12.03%) GCP
5 68 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
6 46 (6.15%) Azure DevOps
6 46 (6.15%) GitHub
7 43 (5.75%) Azure AKS
8 38 (5.08%) Power Platform
9 35 (4.68%) Azure Sentinel
10 32 (4.28%) SaaS
11 29 (3.88%) Azure Monitor
12 27 (3.61%) PaaS
13 25 (3.34%) IaaS
14 24 (3.21%) Serverless
15 23 (3.07%) GitHub Actions
16 19 (2.54%) Microsoft Purview
17 17 (2.27%) OCI
18 16 (2.14%) Amazon EKS
19 15 (2.01%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 80 (10.70%) Firewall
2 79 (10.56%) DNS
3 64 (8.56%) Network Security
4 46 (6.15%) DHCP
5 38 (5.08%) WAN
6 31 (4.14%) VPN
7 28 (3.74%) LAN
8 26 (3.48%) BGP
8 26 (3.48%) OSPF
9 24 (3.21%) BIG-IP
9 24 (3.21%) Ethernet VPN
9 24 (3.21%) Junos
9 24 (3.21%) VXLAN
10 23 (3.07%) SSL
11 21 (2.81%) Kerberos
12 19 (2.54%) Cisco ISE
13 12 (1.60%) SD-WAN
14 5 (0.67%) Internet
14 5 (0.67%) TCP/IP
14 5 (0.67%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (2.67%) SQL Server
2 18 (2.41%) Power BI
3 13 (1.74%) NoSQL
4 12 (1.60%) MongoDB
5 11 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
5 11 (1.47%) Tableau
6 10 (1.34%) DocumentDB
7 8 (1.07%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (0.67%) BigQuery
8 5 (0.67%) 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 63 (8.42%) JIRA
2 48 (6.42%) Jenkins
3 29 (3.88%) Git
4 26 (3.48%) GitLab
5 17 (2.27%) Postman
6 15 (2.01%) Selenium
7 10 (1.34%) Cucumber
7 10 (1.34%) REST Assured
8 9 (1.20%) Gatling
9 8 (1.07%) Jaeger
10 5 (0.67%) Maven
10 5 (0.67%) 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
1 178 (23.80%) Social Skills
2 116 (15.51%) Finance
3 91 (12.17%) Public Sector
4 62 (8.29%) Analytical Skills
5 59 (7.89%) Banking
6 29 (3.88%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (3.48%) Legal
8 16 (2.14%) Investment Banking
9 12 (1.60%) Financial Institution
10 8 (1.07%) Military
10 8 (1.07%) Retail
11 6 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (0.80%) Police
12 5 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.53%) Local Government
13 4 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.40%) Aviation
14 3 (0.40%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.27%) Law
15 2 (0.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 220 (29.41%) Architect
2 72 (9.63%) Analyst
3 70 (9.36%) Senior
4 66 (8.82%) Lead
5 51 (6.82%) Security Architect
6 47 (6.28%) Solutions Architect
7 45 (6.02%) Developer
8 31 (4.14%) Business Analyst
9 28 (3.74%) Consultant
10 27 (3.61%) Project Manager
11 26 (3.48%) Azure Engineer
11 26 (3.48%) DevOps Engineer
11 26 (3.48%) Security Engineer
12 21 (2.81%) Technical Architect
13 20 (2.67%) Cloud Architect
13 20 (2.67%) Java Developer
14 19 (2.54%) Cloud Engineer
15 18 (2.41%) Azure Architect
15 18 (2.41%) Lead Architect
16 17 (2.27%) Identity and Access Management Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (10.83%) SailPoint
2 77 (10.29%) SAML
3 73 (9.76%) OAuth
4 65 (8.69%) OpenID
5 60 (8.02%) LDAP
6 50 (6.68%) REST
7 28 (3.74%) ARM Templates
8 26 (3.48%) 802.1X
9 25 (3.34%) OAuth2
10 24 (3.21%) Spring Boot
11 23 (3.07%) Kafka
12 22 (2.94%) .NET
13 18 (2.41%) Middleware
14 17 (2.27%) Spring
15 15 (2.01%) Node.js
15 15 (2.01%) Playwright
16 13 (1.74%) RESTful
17 10 (1.34%) HTML
18 9 (1.20%) J2EE
19 8 (1.07%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 64 (8.56%) Onboarding
2 56 (7.49%) PKI
3 43 (5.75%) Cloud Native
4 37 (4.95%) Data Centre
5 29 (3.88%) Management Information System
6 27 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
7 24 (3.21%) Clustering
7 24 (3.21%) Security Posture
8 21 (2.81%) Public Cloud
9 17 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
10 16 (2.14%) Product Ownership
10 16 (2.14%) Replication
11 15 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
13 9 (1.20%) Operational Technology
14 7 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
14 7 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
15 5 (0.67%) AI Agents
15 5 (0.67%) SCADA
15 5 (0.67%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 101 (13.50%) Windows
2 36 (4.81%) Linux
3 35 (4.68%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.20%) Unix
5 8 (1.07%) Mac OS
6 7 (0.94%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.53%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.53%) VMS
9 3 (0.40%) Android
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
1 157 (20.99%) DevOps
2 156 (20.86%) Cybersecurity
3 144 (19.25%) RBAC
4 141 (18.85%) CI/CD
5 121 (16.18%) Agile
6 111 (14.84%) Cloud Security
7 101 (13.50%) Stakeholder Management
8 100 (13.37%) Problem-Solving
9 99 (13.24%) Zero Trust
10 96 (12.83%) Infrastructure as Code
11 84 (11.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 81 (10.83%) Identity Management
13 71 (9.49%) Observability
13 71 (9.49%) Privileged Access Management
14 69 (9.22%) Analytics
14 69 (9.22%) Migration
15 68 (9.09%) High Availability
16 65 (8.69%) Security Architecture
17 64 (8.56%) Data Protection
18 63 (8.42%) AI
Programming Languages
1 119 (15.91%) PowerShell
2 89 (11.90%) Python
3 84 (11.23%) Java
4 68 (9.09%) SQL
5 37 (4.95%) Bicep
6 29 (3.88%) JavaScript
7 16 (2.14%) Bash
8 14 (1.87%) Scala
9 13 (1.74%) TypeScript
10 9 (1.20%) C#
10 9 (1.20%) Rust
11 8 (1.07%) PHP
12 4 (0.53%) Cypher
12 4 (0.53%) Groovy
12 4 (0.53%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.40%) C++
13 3 (0.40%) Go
13 3 (0.40%) R
14 2 (0.27%) C
14 2 (0.27%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 270 (36.10%) Security Cleared
2 190 (25.40%) SC Cleared
3 71 (9.49%) DV Cleared
4 69 (9.22%) CISSP
5 46 (6.15%) CISM
6 43 (5.75%) Cisco Certification
7 39 (5.21%) Azure Certification
8 38 (5.08%) Degree
9 30 (4.01%) Microsoft Certification
10 22 (2.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 20 (2.67%) CCSP
12 17 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
12 17 (2.27%) PMI Certification
13 15 (2.01%) PMP
14 13 (1.74%) AWS Certification
15 9 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
16 7 (0.94%) JNCIA
16 7 (0.94%) JNCIP
16 7 (0.94%) JNCIS
17 6 (0.80%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (10.56%) GDPR
2 75 (10.03%) NIST
3 72 (9.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 37 (4.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 25 (3.34%) GRC
6 22 (2.94%) NCSC
7 19 (2.54%) QA
8 15 (2.01%) PCI DSS
9 9 (1.20%) Accessibility
9 9 (1.20%) Data Quality
9 9 (1.20%) NIST 800
10 8 (1.07%) HIPAA
10 8 (1.07%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.80%) PMO
11 6 (0.80%) SLA
12 5 (0.67%) COBIT
13 3 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.40%) GxP
14 1 (0.13%) COSO
14 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 207 (27.67%) Active Directory
2 60 (8.02%) Docker
3 27 (3.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.87%) VMware NSX
5 11 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (1.07%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.94%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 3 (0.40%) IAG
9 3 (0.40%) RACF
9 3 (0.40%) vSphere
10 2 (0.27%) OpenAM
10 2 (0.27%) OpenDJ
10 2 (0.27%) OpenIDM
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
1 107 (14.30%) Terraform
2 101 (13.50%) Kubernetes
3 82 (10.96%) Single Sign-On
4 33 (4.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 32 (4.28%) Ansible
6 24 (3.21%) FortiGate
7 15 (2.01%) Grafana
7 15 (2.01%) Microsoft Intune
8 11 (1.47%) Prometheus
9 10 (1.34%) Forefront Identity Manager
9 10 (1.34%) NetIQ Identity Manager
10 8 (1.07%) Kiali
11 7 (0.94%) SCCM
12 5 (0.67%) HAProxy
13 4 (0.53%) Istio
14 3 (0.40%) Icinga
14 3 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
14 3 (0.40%) Oracle Identity Management
14 3 (0.40%) Oracle Identity Manager
15 2 (0.27%) Puppet
Vendors
1 234 (31.28%) Microsoft
2 58 (7.75%) Okta
3 49 (6.55%) Google
4 48 (6.42%) Splunk
5 46 (6.15%) CyberArk
6 44 (5.88%) ServiceNow
7 32 (4.28%) Cisco
8 31 (4.14%) VMware
9 27 (3.61%) Oracle
10 26 (3.48%) F5
11 24 (3.21%) Juniper
11 24 (3.21%) SolarWinds
12 22 (2.94%) Extreme Networks
13 21 (2.81%) ForgeRock
13 21 (2.81%) SAP
14 18 (2.41%) BeyondTrust
15 14 (1.87%) Workday
16 13 (1.74%) Citrix
17 12 (1.60%) NetIQ
18 11 (1.47%) Zscaler