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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 172 191
Rank change year-on-year +36 +19 -8
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 1,068 534 506
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.99% 1.63% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.35% 1.80% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 789 370 338
10th Percentile £413 £375 £425
25th Percentile £481 £459 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £551 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% -8.17% -
75th Percentile £650 £673 £675
90th Percentile £750 £731 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £540 £525 £622
% change year-on-year +2.86% -15.59% +9.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 4 5
10th Percentile £19.03 £50.50 -
25th Percentile £53.25 £55.00 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £77.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -29.03% +225.63% -63.94%
75th Percentile £83.68 £96.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £87.80 £98.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £79.91 £82.50 -
% change year-on-year -3.14% - -

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 45,365 29,616 33,160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.57% 90.47% 85.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,789 18,444 20,998
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 2,884 1,758 1,700
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £13.87
25th Percentile £18.00 £17.30 £18.13
Median hourly rate £41.56 £25.15 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +65.23% -38.57% -3.67%
75th Percentile £67.99 £47.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £22.63 £42.50
% change year-on-year +94.26% -46.75% +6.25%

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 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 25 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 25 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 +18 867 £568 +3.18% 216
UK excluding London +42 504 £540 +2.86% 171
London +21 418 £575 -1.71% 74
Work from Home +36 343 £555 +5.71% 103
North of England +23 172 £517 +9.42% 49
South East -5 130 £588 -6.00% 56
Yorkshire +31 105 £544 +15.94% 19
Scotland +36 63 £478 -20.33% 6
North West -9 55 £517 +11.78% 26
South West -14 55 £575 +15.00% 36
Midlands -56 54 £626 +27.18% 15
West Midlands -32 38 £500 -9.09% 8
East of England -2 30 £553 -15.00% 8
East Midlands -27 14 £638 +57.02% 7
North East -32 11 £500 -9.09% 5
Wales -5 10 £471 -32.68% 1
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 35 (3.28%) Confluence
2 31 (2.90%) SharePoint
3 27 (2.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.84%) Apache
5 5 (0.47%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.47%) 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 (0.094%) Drupal
9 1 (0.094%) nginx
9 1 (0.094%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 9 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (0.47%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.094%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.094%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 17 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.56%) SAP GRC
3 3 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.19%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.19%) R3 Corda
4 2 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.094%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.094%) Oracle Retail
5 1 (0.094%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.094%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 461 (43.16%) Azure
2 321 (30.06%) Entra ID
3 241 (22.57%) AWS
4 139 (13.01%) GCP
5 79 (7.40%) Microsoft 365
6 64 (5.99%) GitHub
7 55 (5.15%) Azure DevOps
8 51 (4.78%) SaaS
9 48 (4.49%) GitHub Actions
9 48 (4.49%) Power Platform
10 46 (4.31%) Azure AKS
11 40 (3.75%) Azure Monitor
12 37 (3.46%) Serverless
13 34 (3.18%) Azure Sentinel
14 31 (2.90%) OCI
15 28 (2.62%) PaaS
16 27 (2.53%) IaaS
17 25 (2.34%) Microsoft Purview
18 24 (2.25%) Amazon EKS
18 24 (2.25%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 95 (8.90%) Network Security
2 89 (8.33%) Firewall
3 71 (6.65%) DNS
4 37 (3.46%) VPN
4 37 (3.46%) WAN
5 27 (2.53%) DHCP
6 19 (1.78%) SD-WAN
7 15 (1.40%) LAN
8 12 (1.12%) BGP
9 11 (1.03%) OSPF
9 11 (1.03%) SSL
10 10 (0.94%) BIG-IP
10 10 (0.94%) Ethernet VPN
10 10 (0.94%) Junos
10 10 (0.94%) Kerberos
10 10 (0.94%) VXLAN
11 9 (0.84%) TCP/IP
12 8 (0.75%) Cisco ISE
12 8 (0.75%) Internet
12 8 (0.75%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (4.12%) SQL Server
2 20 (1.87%) Power BI
3 15 (1.40%) Metadata
4 13 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
4 13 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (1.12%) Relational Database
6 10 (0.94%) Data Lake
7 9 (0.84%) Neo4j
8 7 (0.66%) NoSQL
9 6 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (0.56%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.47%) Big Data
10 5 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (0.47%) Oracle Exadata
11 4 (0.37%) Oracle Database
11 4 (0.37%) Tableau
12 3 (0.28%) Delta Lake
12 3 (0.28%) Oracle Reports
12 3 (0.28%) Spark SQL
13 2 (0.19%) Trino
Development Applications
1 58 (5.43%) JIRA
2 43 (4.03%) Jenkins
3 39 (3.65%) Git
4 21 (1.97%) GitLab
5 12 (1.12%) Gatling
6 8 (0.75%) JMeter
7 7 (0.66%) NeoLoad
8 6 (0.56%) Selenium
9 5 (0.47%) LoadRunner
9 5 (0.47%) Zephyr
10 4 (0.37%) Postman
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%) 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
1 287 (26.87%) Social Skills
2 220 (20.60%) Finance
3 137 (12.83%) Public Sector
4 107 (10.02%) Analytical Skills
5 71 (6.65%) Banking
6 62 (5.81%) Retail
7 55 (5.15%) Documentation Skills
8 27 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
9 21 (1.97%) Legal
10 18 (1.69%) Manufacturing
11 16 (1.50%) Aerospace
12 13 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (0.66%) Local Government
13 7 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.47%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.47%) Law
15 5 (0.47%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.37%) Automotive
16 4 (0.37%) Military
Job Titles
1 271 (25.37%) Architect
2 113 (10.58%) Lead
3 92 (8.61%) Security Architect
4 89 (8.33%) Analyst
5 76 (7.12%) Developer
5 76 (7.12%) Senior
6 51 (4.78%) Business Analyst
7 49 (4.59%) Consultant
8 47 (4.40%) Java Developer
8 47 (4.40%) Solutions Architect
8 47 (4.40%) Support Engineer
9 42 (3.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 42 (3.93%) Technical Architect
10 41 (3.84%) Project Manager
11 36 (3.37%) Cloud Engineer
12 34 (3.18%) Service Manager
12 34 (3.18%) Service Transition Manager
12 34 (3.18%) Transition Manager
13 32 (3.00%) DevOps Engineer
13 32 (3.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (15.45%) Terraform
2 96 (8.99%) OAuth
3 87 (8.15%) SailPoint
4 85 (7.96%) OpenID
5 77 (7.21%) SAML
6 58 (5.43%) LDAP
7 56 (5.24%) REST
8 33 (3.09%) OAuth2
9 30 (2.81%) .NET
10 24 (2.25%) ARM Templates
11 18 (1.69%) React
12 17 (1.59%) Kafka
13 16 (1.50%) Node.js
14 15 (1.40%) .NET Framework
14 15 (1.40%) JSON
14 15 (1.40%) Middleware
15 14 (1.31%) Spring
15 14 (1.31%) Web Services
16 13 (1.22%) 802.1X
16 13 (1.22%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 120 (11.24%) Onboarding
2 104 (9.74%) Cloud Native
3 97 (9.08%) PKI
4 47 (4.40%) Security Posture
5 40 (3.75%) Enterprise Software
6 37 (3.46%) Management Information System
7 33 (3.09%) Product Ownership
8 31 (2.90%) Operational Technology
9 30 (2.81%) Data Centre
10 29 (2.72%) Distributed Systems
10 29 (2.72%) Public Cloud
11 25 (2.34%) Hybrid Cloud
12 22 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
13 21 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
14 20 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
15 19 (1.78%) Enterprise Cloud
16 15 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
17 14 (1.31%) IoT
18 12 (1.12%) Virtual Team
19 11 (1.03%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 118 (11.05%) Windows
2 83 (7.77%) Linux
3 47 (4.40%) Windows Server
4 10 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (0.94%) Unix
5 9 (0.84%) Ubuntu
5 9 (0.84%) VMS
6 6 (0.56%) Debian
7 5 (0.47%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.47%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (0.47%) 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 (0.094%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 259 (24.25%) Cybersecurity
2 217 (20.32%) Stakeholder Management
3 215 (20.13%) DevOps
4 209 (19.57%) CI/CD
5 194 (18.16%) Agile
6 168 (15.73%) Infrastructure as Code
6 168 (15.73%) RBAC
7 161 (15.07%) Cloud Security
8 159 (14.89%) Zero Trust
9 151 (14.14%) Continuous Improvement
10 139 (13.01%) Security Architecture
11 137 (12.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 133 (12.45%) Problem-Solving
13 132 (12.36%) Privileged Access Management
14 129 (12.08%) Roadmaps
15 114 (10.67%) Identity Management
15 114 (10.67%) Technical Leadership
16 112 (10.49%) Migration
17 103 (9.64%) AI
18 98 (9.18%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 174 (16.29%) PowerShell
2 150 (14.04%) Python
3 89 (8.33%) Java
4 77 (7.21%) SQL
5 62 (5.81%) Bash
6 55 (5.15%) Bicep
7 24 (2.25%) C#
8 14 (1.31%) Rust
9 12 (1.12%) Go
10 9 (0.84%) Scala
11 6 (0.56%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.47%) JavaScript
12 5 (0.47%) TypeScript
13 4 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.37%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.28%) Cypher
14 3 (0.28%) Groovy
14 3 (0.28%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.19%) DAML
15 2 (0.19%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 317 (29.68%) Security Cleared
2 237 (22.19%) SC Cleared
3 88 (8.24%) CISSP
4 58 (5.43%) Azure Certification
5 57 (5.34%) Degree
5 57 (5.34%) DV Cleared
6 52 (4.87%) CISM
7 40 (3.75%) Cisco Certification
8 37 (3.46%) Microsoft Certification
9 31 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
10 29 (2.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 25 (2.34%) CCSP
12 22 (2.06%) AWS Certification
13 17 (1.59%) PMP
14 14 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
15 13 (1.22%) PMI Certification
16 12 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
17 11 (1.03%) FFIEC
18 8 (0.75%) CISA
19 7 (0.66%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (11.24%) NIST
2 113 (10.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 68 (6.37%) GDPR
4 47 (4.40%) NCSC
5 39 (3.65%) GRC
6 24 (2.25%) QA
7 20 (1.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 16 (1.50%) SLA
9 15 (1.40%) Data Quality
9 15 (1.40%) PCI DSS
10 13 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials
11 12 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 10 (0.94%) COBIT
12 10 (0.94%) SOC 2
13 9 (0.84%) Accessibility
14 8 (0.75%) HIPAA
15 7 (0.66%) PMO
16 6 (0.56%) ITGC
16 6 (0.56%) JSP 440
17 5 (0.47%) NIST 800
System Software
1 278 (26.03%) Active Directory
2 83 (7.77%) Docker
3 36 (3.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (2.06%) Virtual Desktop
5 19 (1.78%) Hyper-V
6 14 (1.31%) VMware NSX
7 11 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.37%) vSphere
9 2 (0.19%) IAG
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 (0.094%) Sendmail
10 1 (0.094%) Squid
10 1 (0.094%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 117 (10.96%) Kubernetes
2 106 (9.93%) Single Sign-On
3 65 (6.09%) Ansible
4 33 (3.09%) Microsoft Intune
5 29 (2.72%) Grafana
6 15 (1.40%) Prometheus
7 14 (1.31%) Argo
8 12 (1.12%) FortiGate
9 8 (0.75%) Jamf Pro
10 7 (0.66%) Istio
10 7 (0.66%) Kustomize
11 6 (0.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.56%) Forefront Identity Manager
11 6 (0.56%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.47%) HAProxy
13 4 (0.37%) NetIQ Identity Manager
13 4 (0.37%) Podman
13 4 (0.37%) Puppet
14 3 (0.28%) NetBackup
14 3 (0.28%) WMI
Vendors
1 352 (32.96%) Microsoft
2 102 (9.55%) Okta
3 78 (7.30%) CyberArk
4 64 (5.99%) Google
5 55 (5.15%) VMware
6 50 (4.68%) ServiceNow
7 47 (4.40%) Oracle
8 45 (4.21%) BeyondTrust
9 37 (3.46%) SAP
10 29 (2.72%) Zscaler
11 28 (2.62%) ForgeRock
12 26 (2.43%) Cisco
13 25 (2.34%) Splunk
14 20 (1.87%) Workday
15 15 (1.40%) Databricks
16 14 (1.31%) Ping Identity
17 13 (1.22%) F5
18 12 (1.12%) CrowdStrike
19 11 (1.03%) Juniper
19 11 (1.03%) Palo Alto