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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 175 187
Rank change year-on-year +25 +12 0
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 946 524 553
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.80% 1.60% 1.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.11% 1.77% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 661 383 385
10th Percentile £425 £400 £425
25th Percentile £488 £481 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £582 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.27% -3.08% -
75th Percentile £650 £680 £688
90th Percentile £750 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £545 £630
% change year-on-year +0.92% -13.49% +9.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 3 4
10th Percentile £51.30 £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 £78.31 £86.25 £36.60
90th Percentile £87.16 £94.50 £59.64
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 44,845 29,559 36,499
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.12% 90.45% 85.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,888 18,632 23,279
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £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 2,665 1,513 2,446
10th Percentile £14.90 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.61 £16.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -4.70%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.66 £38.12
% change year-on-year +82.48% -35.31% +0.51%

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 13 July 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 13 July 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 13 July 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 +14 796 £575 -1.12% 261
UK excluding London +36 457 £550 +0.92% 204
London +10 371 £575 -6.50% 135
Work from Home +31 320 £560 +1.82% 127
North of England +13 145 £550 +17.15% 48
South East -10 122 £575 -9.80% 59
Yorkshire +13 92 £539 +24.93% 22
Midlands -24 72 £550 +10.00% 16
South West -5 58 £588 +6.82% 31
West Midlands -33 57 £550 -4.56% 6
North West -22 52 £575 +16.87% 25
Scotland +13 46 £491 -8.05% 30
East of England -15 19 £560 -13.85% 5
East Midlands -22 13 £638 +54.55% 10
Wales - 8 £471 - 9
North East -35 2 £600 +20.91% 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 32 (3.38%) SharePoint
2 27 (2.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 25 (2.64%) Confluence
4 9 (0.95%) Apache
5 7 (0.74%) Apache Superset
6 4 (0.42%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.42%) IIS
7 3 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2010
7 3 (0.32%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.32%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.11%) Mendix
8 1 (0.11%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.11%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 8 (0.85%) MS Visio
2 7 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.21%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.11%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 12 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.53%) SAP GRC
3 2 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 441 (46.62%) Azure
2 292 (30.87%) Entra ID
3 213 (22.52%) AWS
4 129 (13.64%) GCP
5 78 (8.25%) Microsoft 365
6 59 (6.24%) GitHub
7 48 (5.07%) Power Platform
8 47 (4.97%) Azure DevOps
9 44 (4.65%) Azure AKS
10 42 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
11 41 (4.33%) SaaS
12 36 (3.81%) Azure Sentinel
13 30 (3.17%) Azure Monitor
13 30 (3.17%) OCI
14 29 (3.07%) Serverless
15 27 (2.85%) PaaS
16 26 (2.75%) IaaS
17 20 (2.11%) Microsoft Copilot
17 20 (2.11%) Power Automate
17 20 (2.11%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 90 (9.51%) DNS
2 89 (9.41%) Network Security
3 83 (8.77%) Firewall
4 51 (5.39%) DHCP
5 46 (4.86%) WAN
6 34 (3.59%) VPN
7 27 (2.85%) BGP
7 27 (2.85%) LAN
8 26 (2.75%) OSPF
9 24 (2.54%) BIG-IP
9 24 (2.54%) Ethernet VPN
9 24 (2.54%) Junos
9 24 (2.54%) VXLAN
10 22 (2.33%) Kerberos
11 19 (2.01%) Cisco ISE
12 18 (1.90%) SD-WAN
13 13 (1.37%) SSL
14 9 (0.95%) Internet
15 8 (0.85%) TCP/IP
16 6 (0.63%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (2.85%) SQL Server
2 19 (2.01%) Power BI
3 11 (1.16%) Neo4j
3 11 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (0.74%) Relational Database
5 7 (0.74%) Tableau
6 6 (0.63%) MongoDB
6 6 (0.63%) Oracle Exadata
7 5 (0.53%) Big Data
7 5 (0.53%) Metadata
7 5 (0.53%) NoSQL
8 4 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (0.32%) BigQuery
9 3 (0.32%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.32%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.32%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.21%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.21%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 59 (6.24%) JIRA
2 51 (5.39%) Jenkins
3 37 (3.91%) Git
4 23 (2.43%) GitLab
5 11 (1.16%) Gatling
5 11 (1.16%) Postman
6 6 (0.63%) JMeter
6 6 (0.63%) NeoLoad
7 4 (0.42%) LoadRunner
7 4 (0.42%) Selenium
7 4 (0.42%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.32%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.32%) MSBuild
8 3 (0.32%) REST Assured
8 3 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.32%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.32%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.21%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.21%) Maven
9 2 (0.21%) Snyk
General
1 239 (25.26%) Social Skills
2 190 (20.08%) Finance
3 130 (13.74%) Public Sector
4 87 (9.20%) Analytical Skills
5 66 (6.98%) Banking
6 47 (4.97%) Documentation Skills
7 42 (4.44%) Retail
8 25 (2.64%) Legal
9 15 (1.59%) Manufacturing
10 14 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (0.95%) Aerospace
11 9 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (0.85%) Financial Institution
12 8 (0.85%) Investment Banking
13 7 (0.74%) Military
13 7 (0.74%) Police
14 5 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 4 (0.42%) Law
15 4 (0.42%) Local Government
15 4 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 255 (26.96%) Architect
2 82 (8.67%) Analyst
3 79 (8.35%) Lead
4 78 (8.25%) Senior
5 70 (7.40%) Developer
5 70 (7.40%) Security Architect
6 45 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
7 44 (4.65%) Java Developer
8 40 (4.23%) Consultant
9 36 (3.81%) Project Manager
10 35 (3.70%) Technical Architect
11 32 (3.38%) Business Analyst
12 28 (2.96%) Cloud Engineer
12 28 (2.96%) DevOps Engineer
12 28 (2.96%) Security Engineer
13 27 (2.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 27 (2.85%) Support Engineer
14 25 (2.64%) Cloud Architect
14 25 (2.64%) IAM Developer
15 22 (2.33%) Service Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (10.78%) SailPoint
2 91 (9.62%) OAuth
3 81 (8.56%) SAML
4 76 (8.03%) OpenID
5 60 (6.34%) LDAP
6 49 (5.18%) REST
7 28 (2.96%) OAuth2
8 26 (2.75%) 802.1X
9 19 (2.01%) ARM Templates
9 19 (2.01%) Middleware
10 18 (1.90%) .NET
11 17 (1.80%) Node.js
12 15 (1.59%) Kafka
12 15 (1.59%) Playwright
12 15 (1.59%) Spring
13 14 (1.48%) Spring Boot
14 13 (1.37%) JSON
14 13 (1.37%) Web Services
15 11 (1.16%) SOAP
15 11 (1.16%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 102 (10.78%) Onboarding
2 88 (9.30%) PKI
3 77 (8.14%) Cloud Native
4 44 (4.65%) Data Centre
5 33 (3.49%) Security Posture
6 30 (3.17%) Management Information System
7 29 (3.07%) Public Cloud
8 28 (2.96%) Product Ownership
9 25 (2.64%) Operational Technology
10 24 (2.54%) Clustering
11 23 (2.43%) Enterprise Software
12 20 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
13 18 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
13 18 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
14 17 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
14 17 (1.80%) Replication
15 15 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
16 14 (1.48%) Enterprise Cloud
17 11 (1.16%) Virtual Team
18 9 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 125 (13.21%) Windows
2 68 (7.19%) Linux
3 43 (4.55%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.95%) Ubuntu
4 9 (0.95%) Unix
5 8 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.63%) Debian
6 6 (0.63%) VMS
7 5 (0.53%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.53%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.53%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.42%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.42%) Android
9 2 (0.21%) CentOS
9 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.11%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.11%) Rocky
10 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (21.25%) DevOps
2 198 (20.93%) Cybersecurity
3 171 (18.08%) CI/CD
4 168 (17.76%) Agile
5 145 (15.33%) RBAC
6 138 (14.59%) Zero Trust
7 136 (14.38%) Stakeholder Management
8 135 (14.27%) Problem-Solving
9 134 (14.16%) Infrastructure as Code
10 128 (13.53%) Cloud Security
11 115 (12.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 100 (10.57%) Continuous Improvement
13 99 (10.47%) Security Architecture
14 98 (10.36%) Identity Management
15 96 (10.15%) Privileged Access Management
16 93 (9.83%) Migration
17 90 (9.51%) AI
18 88 (9.30%) Roadmaps
19 87 (9.20%) Technical Leadership
20 76 (8.03%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 150 (15.86%) PowerShell
2 130 (13.74%) Python
3 89 (9.41%) Java
4 67 (7.08%) SQL
5 41 (4.33%) Bicep
6 37 (3.91%) Bash
7 14 (1.48%) Rust
8 13 (1.37%) Go
9 12 (1.27%) Scala
10 11 (1.16%) TypeScript
11 10 (1.06%) C#
12 6 (0.63%) Cypher
13 5 (0.53%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.42%) Groovy
14 4 (0.42%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.32%) C++
15 3 (0.32%) JavaScript
15 3 (0.32%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.32%) R
16 2 (0.21%) C
Qualifications
1 297 (31.40%) Security Cleared
2 215 (22.73%) SC Cleared
3 75 (7.93%) CISSP
4 68 (7.19%) DV Cleared
5 51 (5.39%) Cisco Certification
6 47 (4.97%) Degree
7 41 (4.33%) CISM
8 40 (4.23%) Azure Certification
9 30 (3.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 29 (3.07%) BPSS Clearance
10 29 (3.07%) Microsoft Certification
11 25 (2.64%) CCSP
12 16 (1.69%) AWS Certification
13 15 (1.59%) PMP
14 14 (1.48%) PMI Certification
15 13 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
16 7 (0.74%) CISA
16 7 (0.74%) JNCIA
16 7 (0.74%) JNCIP
16 7 (0.74%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (9.51%) NIST
2 87 (9.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 68 (7.19%) GDPR
4 36 (3.81%) NCSC
4 36 (3.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 27 (2.85%) GRC
6 19 (2.01%) QA
7 15 (1.59%) PCI DSS
8 13 (1.37%) SLA
9 11 (1.16%) Accessibility
9 11 (1.16%) SOC 2
10 9 (0.95%) HIPAA
11 8 (0.85%) PMO
12 7 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.63%) COBIT
13 6 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.63%) Data Quality
14 5 (0.53%) Disclosure Scotland
14 5 (0.53%) ITGC
14 5 (0.53%) NIST 800
System Software
1 261 (27.59%) Active Directory
2 75 (7.93%) Docker
3 28 (2.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.80%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (1.69%) VMware NSX
6 12 (1.27%) Hyper-V
6 12 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.42%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 3 (0.32%) IAG
9 2 (0.21%) KVM
9 2 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.21%) RACF
9 2 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.21%) VMware Workstation
9 2 (0.21%) vSphere
10 1 (0.11%) GPFS
10 1 (0.11%) Lustre
10 1 (0.11%) Sendmail
10 1 (0.11%) Squid
10 1 (0.11%) zsh
Systems Management
1 138 (14.59%) Terraform
2 114 (12.05%) Single Sign-On
3 108 (11.42%) Kubernetes
4 58 (6.13%) Ansible
5 26 (2.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 24 (2.54%) FortiGate
6 24 (2.54%) Microsoft Intune
7 23 (2.43%) Grafana
8 12 (1.27%) Argo
9 11 (1.16%) Prometheus
10 9 (0.95%) Jamf Pro
11 8 (0.85%) Kustomize
12 7 (0.74%) Forefront Identity Manager
13 5 (0.53%) HAProxy
13 5 (0.53%) Istio
13 5 (0.53%) NetIQ Identity Manager
14 4 (0.42%) Podman
14 4 (0.42%) Puppet
14 4 (0.42%) SCCM
15 3 (0.32%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 290 (30.66%) Microsoft
2 106 (11.21%) Okta
3 64 (6.77%) Google
4 62 (6.55%) CyberArk
5 49 (5.18%) ServiceNow
6 44 (4.65%) Splunk
7 41 (4.33%) Oracle
8 40 (4.23%) VMware
9 36 (3.81%) Cisco
10 31 (3.28%) SAP
11 30 (3.17%) BeyondTrust
11 30 (3.17%) ForgeRock
12 26 (2.75%) F5
13 24 (2.54%) Juniper
13 24 (2.54%) SolarWinds
14 22 (2.33%) Extreme Networks
14 22 (2.33%) Zscaler
15 20 (2.11%) Workday
16 15 (1.59%) CrowdStrike
17 14 (1.48%) Ping Identity