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 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 177 188 192
Rank change year-on-year +11 +4 +107
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 541 501 646
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.63% 1.33% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.80% 1.55% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 354 331 414
10th Percentile £367 £425 £425
25th Percentile £438 £488 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £600 £594
Median % change year-on-year -10.50% +1.05% -1.04%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £688
90th Percentile £715 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £635 £563
% change year-on-year -21.26% +12.89% +3.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 10
10th Percentile £52.50 - £61.50
25th Percentile £63.44 - £66.00
Median hourly rate £88.75 £23.80 £70.50
Median % change year-on-year +272.90% -66.24% +2.92%
75th Percentile £95.00 £75.00 £88.75
90th Percentile £97.50 - £93.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £82.50 - £87.50
% change year-on-year - - +20.69%

All Process and 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 30,120 32,351 42,343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.53% 86.01% 88.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,720 19,487 28,729
10th Percentile £296 £308 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -2.18%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,911 1,239 1,585
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.12 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -10.11% +36.92%
75th Percentile £42.79 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.27 £40.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -44.34% -8.88% +65.99%

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 16 October 2025.

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 16 October 2025.

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 16 October 2025. 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 +23 484 £530 -11.67% 139
UK excluding London +1 248 £500 -21.26% 116
London +13 237 £575 -1.71% 58
Work from Home +29 166 £520 -13.33% 83
North of England +23 92 £492 -18.00% 27
Midlands +7 58 £517 -18.58% 15
Yorkshire 0 57 £500 -14.89% 14
South East -32 40 £500 -25.93% 43
West Midlands -9 33 £550 -13.39% 14
North West -3 29 £453 -37.52% 11
East Midlands - 25 £410 - 2
South West +5 24 £500 +17.65% 21
East of England +9 16 £600 +12.15% 1
Scotland -3 16 £540 -16.92% 10
North East -3 6 £515 -20.77% 2
Wales +4 1 £700 -6.67% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £625 -

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 32 (5.91%) Confluence
2 26 (4.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 20 (3.70%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.66%) Apache
4 9 (1.66%) WebSphere
4 9 (1.66%) WebSphere Application Server
5 8 (1.48%) IIS
5 8 (1.48%) iPlanet
5 8 (1.48%) JBoss
6 6 (1.11%) CMS
7 5 (0.92%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.37%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.18%) CICS
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.18%) Traefik
Applications
1 13 (2.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.66%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.37%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.37%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.18%) Maximo
3 1 (0.18%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 222 (41.04%) Azure
2 137 (25.32%) AWS
3 133 (24.58%) Entra ID
4 77 (14.23%) GCP
5 56 (10.35%) Microsoft 365
6 28 (5.18%) SaaS
7 22 (4.07%) Microsoft Purview
8 21 (3.88%) Azure Sentinel
9 20 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
10 19 (3.51%) OpenShift
11 16 (2.96%) GitHub
12 15 (2.77%) PaaS
13 14 (2.59%) IaaS
13 14 (2.59%) OneDrive
13 14 (2.59%) Serverless
14 12 (2.22%) Azure Monitor
15 11 (2.03%) Azure Key Vault
15 11 (2.03%) GitHub Actions
16 10 (1.85%) Amazon EKS
16 10 (1.85%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 54 (9.98%) Network Security
2 45 (8.32%) Firewall
3 21 (3.88%) DNS
4 20 (3.70%) Kerberos
5 15 (2.77%) VPN
6 10 (1.85%) TCP/IP
7 9 (1.66%) DHCP
8 8 (1.48%) SSH
9 7 (1.29%) SSL
10 6 (1.11%) HTTP
10 6 (1.11%) Internet
10 6 (1.11%) Intrusion Detection
10 6 (1.11%) Wireshark
11 5 (0.92%) LAN
11 5 (0.92%) NAS
11 5 (0.92%) SAN
12 4 (0.74%) WAN
13 3 (0.55%) BGP
13 3 (0.55%) OSPF
13 3 (0.55%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.48%) Oracle Database
1 8 (1.48%) Power BI
1 8 (1.48%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (0.92%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (0.92%) DynamoDB
4 4 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (0.74%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.55%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.55%) Tableau
6 2 (0.37%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (0.37%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.37%) Big Data
6 2 (0.37%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.37%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.37%) Metadata
6 2 (0.37%) MySQL
6 2 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.18%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 52 (9.61%) JIRA
2 23 (4.25%) Jenkins
3 22 (4.07%) Git
4 10 (1.85%) Postman
4 10 (1.85%) SoapUI
5 9 (1.66%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (1.48%) Bitbucket Server
6 8 (1.48%) CA Release Automation
6 8 (1.48%) GitLab
7 3 (0.55%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.55%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.55%) Fiddler
8 2 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.18%) Gatling
9 1 (0.18%) JMeter
9 1 (0.18%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.18%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.18%) ScriptRunner
9 1 (0.18%) TestRail
General
1 187 (34.57%) Social Skills
2 144 (26.62%) Finance
3 80 (14.79%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (8.69%) Public Sector
5 46 (8.50%) Banking
6 15 (2.77%) Legal
7 14 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (2.40%) Financial Institution
8 13 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.66%) Telecoms
11 8 (1.48%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.29%) Aerospace
13 6 (1.11%) Electronics
13 6 (1.11%) Investment Banking
13 6 (1.11%) Law
13 6 (1.11%) Marketing
14 5 (0.92%) Retail
15 4 (0.74%) French Language
Job Titles
1 148 (27.36%) Architect
2 73 (13.49%) Analyst
3 60 (11.09%) Security Architect
4 45 (8.32%) Consultant
5 44 (8.13%) Senior
6 39 (7.21%) Solutions Architect
7 35 (6.47%) Business Analyst
8 21 (3.88%) Security Engineer
9 20 (3.70%) Enterprise Architect
10 19 (3.51%) Lead
11 18 (3.33%) Project Manager
12 16 (2.96%) DevOps Engineer
13 14 (2.59%) Azure Architect
13 14 (2.59%) Developer
13 14 (2.59%) Security Consultant
14 13 (2.40%) Cloud Architect
14 13 (2.40%) Senior Architect
14 13 (2.40%) Test Analyst
15 12 (2.22%) Azure Engineer
15 12 (2.22%) Security Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (14.60%) OAuth
2 75 (13.86%) SailPoint
3 73 (13.49%) SAML
4 61 (11.28%) OpenID
5 48 (8.87%) LDAP
6 26 (4.81%) OAuth2
7 18 (3.33%) REST
8 13 (2.40%) ADO
8 13 (2.40%) ARM Templates
9 9 (1.66%) Hibernate
9 9 (1.66%) Oracle Fusion
9 9 (1.66%) Spring
10 8 (1.48%) FIDO
11 7 (1.29%) Microsoft Graph
12 6 (1.11%) .NET
12 6 (1.11%) Keycloak
12 6 (1.11%) SOAP
12 6 (1.11%) YAML
13 4 (0.74%) Middleware
13 4 (0.74%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 33 (6.10%) Onboarding
2 32 (5.91%) Management Information System
3 29 (5.36%) Enterprise Software
4 26 (4.81%) Cloud Native
5 21 (3.88%) Security Posture
6 19 (3.51%) Product Ownership
7 18 (3.33%) PKI
8 13 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
9 11 (2.03%) Data Centre
10 10 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
11 9 (1.66%) Enterprise Cloud
12 8 (1.48%) Cloud Security Posture
12 8 (1.48%) Public Cloud
13 7 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (1.29%) Cyber Threat
13 7 (1.29%) Security Operations Centre
14 5 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
14 5 (0.92%) NHS
15 4 (0.74%) CMDB
15 4 (0.74%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 81 (14.97%) Windows
2 48 (8.87%) Linux
3 26 (4.81%) Windows Server
4 18 (3.33%) Unix
5 10 (1.85%) VMS
6 8 (1.48%) Mac OS
7 6 (1.11%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.55%) Android
9 3 (0.55%) CentOS
9 3 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.18%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.18%) MVS
11 1 (0.18%) Solaris
11 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.18%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (27.36%) Cybersecurity
2 103 (19.04%) Problem-Solving
3 97 (17.93%) Cloud Security
4 94 (17.38%) Agile
5 93 (17.19%) CI/CD
6 90 (16.64%) Privileged Access Management
7 77 (14.23%) Stakeholder Management
8 74 (13.68%) RBAC
9 72 (13.31%) DevOps
9 72 (13.31%) Identity Management
10 67 (12.38%) Roadmaps
10 67 (12.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 65 (12.01%) Zero Trust
12 60 (11.09%) Infrastructure as Code
13 57 (10.54%) DevSecOps
14 54 (9.98%) Migration
15 52 (9.61%) Continuous Improvement
15 52 (9.61%) Risk Management
16 50 (9.24%) Incident Response
16 50 (9.24%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 97 (17.93%) PowerShell
2 62 (11.46%) Python
3 39 (7.21%) Java
4 38 (7.02%) Bash
5 30 (5.55%) SQL
6 17 (3.14%) Bicep
7 14 (2.59%) JavaScript
8 13 (2.40%) Groovy
9 11 (2.03%) Shell Script
10 6 (1.11%) C#
10 6 (1.11%) Go
11 4 (0.74%) BeanShell
11 4 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (0.74%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.37%) VBScript
13 1 (0.18%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 109 (20.15%) Security Cleared
2 95 (17.56%) SC Cleared
3 83 (15.34%) CISSP
4 67 (12.38%) CISM
5 45 (8.32%) Degree
6 29 (5.36%) Microsoft Certification
7 28 (5.18%) Azure Certification
8 25 (4.62%) AWS Certification
9 14 (2.59%) TOGAF Certification
10 13 (2.40%) Master's Degree
11 11 (2.03%) Cisco Certification
11 11 (2.03%) DV Cleared
12 8 (1.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 8 (1.48%) ISTQB
13 7 (1.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 7 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
13 7 (1.29%) CCSP
13 7 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
13 7 (1.29%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 7 (1.29%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (17.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 91 (16.82%) GDPR
3 86 (15.90%) NIST
4 32 (5.91%) HIPAA
5 26 (4.81%) PCI DSS
5 26 (4.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 17 (3.14%) QA
7 13 (2.40%) GRC
7 13 (2.40%) SOC 2
8 11 (2.03%) Accessibility
9 8 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (1.29%) ITGC
10 7 (1.29%) NCSC
11 6 (1.11%) NIST 800
12 5 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.92%) COBIT
12 5 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 5 (0.92%) SOX 404
13 3 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 3 (0.55%) SLA
System Software
1 149 (27.54%) Active Directory
2 40 (7.39%) Docker
3 16 (2.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.48%) Tivoli Directory Server
5 6 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.92%) OpenAM
7 2 (0.37%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.37%) NFS
7 2 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.37%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.18%) NDS
8 1 (0.18%) NetIQ eDirectory
8 1 (0.18%) OpenDJ
8 1 (0.18%) OpenIDM
8 1 (0.18%) SRDF
8 1 (0.18%) UAG
8 1 (0.18%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (0.18%) vSphere
8 1 (0.18%) Xen
Systems Management
1 80 (14.79%) Single Sign-On
2 57 (10.54%) Terraform
3 47 (8.69%) Kubernetes
4 28 (5.18%) Microsoft Intune
5 24 (4.44%) Ansible
6 12 (2.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 12 (2.22%) SCCM
7 10 (1.85%) CA Single Sign-On
8 9 (1.66%) Tivoli Identity Manager
9 8 (1.48%) CA Wily
9 8 (1.48%) Progress Chef
9 8 (1.48%) Tivoli
10 6 (1.11%) Prometheus
11 5 (0.92%) Grafana
11 5 (0.92%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 4 (0.74%) Istio
13 3 (0.55%) Argo
13 3 (0.55%) PingFederate
14 2 (0.37%) Consul
14 2 (0.37%) QRadar
Vendors
1 184 (34.01%) Microsoft
2 73 (13.49%) CyberArk
3 41 (7.58%) Okta
4 39 (7.21%) Oracle
5 35 (6.47%) Google
6 27 (4.99%) SAP
7 23 (4.25%) ServiceNow
8 21 (3.88%) ForgeRock
8 21 (3.88%) Splunk
8 21 (3.88%) VMware
9 20 (3.70%) BeyondTrust
9 20 (3.70%) IBM
9 20 (3.70%) Ping Identity
10 16 (2.96%) BiZZdesign
11 15 (2.77%) Thycotic
12 14 (2.59%) Cisco
13 12 (2.22%) Workday
14 11 (2.03%) Centrify
14 11 (2.03%) Zscaler
15 8 (1.48%) Broadcom