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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 175 185
Rank change year-on-year +16 +10 +27
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 744 462 550
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.66% 1.59% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.94% 1.76% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 488 332 398
10th Percentile £398 £413 £417
25th Percentile £473 £508 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £600 £622
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -3.54% +1.55%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £725
90th Percentile £725 £761 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £588 £635
% change year-on-year -6.38% -7.48% +10.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 0
10th Percentile £70.67 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £74.26 - -
75th Percentile £83.38 - -
90th Percentile £92.50 - -
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 38,381 26,317 38,146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.55% 90.50% 86.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,335 17,078 24,751
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £635 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.51% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,256 968 2,345
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.00 £12.77
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.12 £15.89
Median hourly rate £35.77 £31.76 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.61% -2.28% -10.41%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.25 £70.39
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £30.62 £31.50
% change year-on-year +14.32% -2.81% -12.50%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 +21 675 £563 -8.42% 157
UK excluding London +9 370 £550 -6.38% 109
London +4 288 £575 -8.00% 70
Work from Home -4 233 £555 -3.48% 80
North of England +18 140 £550 +4.76% 21
South East -15 91 £600 -7.69% 45
Yorkshire -1 82 £525 +14.25% 3
Midlands -23 78 £550 -7.07% 10
West Midlands -32 64 £550 -8.33% 6
South West +1 55 £675 +17.39% 9
North West -12 55 £550 +4.76% 17
East Midlands -21 12 £638 +27.50% 4
Scotland -11 8 £675 +28.57% 2
East of England -40 6 £650 - 19
North East -10 4 £508 +18.14% 1
Wales -11 1 £250 -66.67% 6

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 37 (4.97%) Confluence
2 33 (4.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 31 (4.17%) SharePoint
4 6 (0.81%) Apache Superset
5 4 (0.54%) Apache
6 2 (0.27%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (0.13%) IIS
7 1 (0.13%) Mendix
7 1 (0.13%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.13%) nginx
7 1 (0.13%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (1.75%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.13%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.94%) Maximo
3 3 (0.40%) SAP GRC
3 3 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.27%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 340 (45.70%) Azure
2 245 (32.93%) Entra ID
3 155 (20.83%) AWS
4 90 (12.10%) GCP
5 71 (9.54%) Microsoft 365
6 48 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
7 45 (6.05%) GitHub
8 39 (5.24%) Azure AKS
9 38 (5.11%) Power Platform
10 35 (4.70%) Azure Monitor
11 34 (4.57%) SaaS
12 33 (4.44%) Azure Sentinel
13 28 (3.76%) PaaS
14 26 (3.49%) IaaS
15 25 (3.36%) Serverless
16 22 (2.96%) GitHub Actions
17 19 (2.55%) OneDrive
18 18 (2.42%) Microsoft Purview
19 16 (2.15%) Amazon EKS
19 16 (2.15%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 90 (12.10%) Firewall
2 85 (11.42%) DNS
3 64 (8.60%) Network Security
4 47 (6.32%) DHCP
5 36 (4.84%) VPN
5 36 (4.84%) WAN
6 26 (3.49%) LAN
7 24 (3.23%) BGP
7 24 (3.23%) OSPF
8 23 (3.09%) SSL
9 22 (2.96%) BIG-IP
9 22 (2.96%) Ethernet VPN
9 22 (2.96%) Junos
9 22 (2.96%) VXLAN
10 21 (2.82%) Kerberos
11 17 (2.28%) Cisco ISE
12 13 (1.75%) SD-WAN
13 11 (1.48%) WebEx
14 6 (0.81%) Internet
15 5 (0.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (2.42%) Power BI
2 14 (1.88%) SQL Server
3 13 (1.75%) NoSQL
4 12 (1.61%) MongoDB
5 11 (1.48%) Azure SQL Database
5 11 (1.48%) Tableau
6 10 (1.34%) DocumentDB
7 5 (0.67%) BigQuery
7 5 (0.67%) MySQL
8 4 (0.54%) Neo4j
8 4 (0.54%) Oracle Database
8 4 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.40%) Oracle Exadata
9 3 (0.40%) Redis
10 2 (0.27%) Big Data
10 2 (0.27%) Metadata
10 2 (0.27%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.27%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 70 (9.41%) JIRA
2 39 (5.24%) Jenkins
3 29 (3.90%) Git
4 27 (3.63%) GitLab
5 17 (2.28%) Postman
6 15 (2.02%) Selenium
7 10 (1.34%) Cucumber
7 10 (1.34%) REST Assured
8 8 (1.08%) Jaeger
9 5 (0.67%) Gatling
9 5 (0.67%) TestRail
10 4 (0.54%) JMeter
10 4 (0.54%) LoadRunner
10 4 (0.54%) NeoLoad
10 4 (0.54%) WebDriver
11 3 (0.40%) JUnit
11 3 (0.40%) Maven
11 3 (0.40%) MSI
12 2 (0.27%) git-flow
12 2 (0.27%) Snyk
General
1 188 (25.27%) Social Skills
2 123 (16.53%) Finance
3 89 (11.96%) Public Sector
4 66 (8.87%) Analytical Skills
5 57 (7.66%) Banking
6 31 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
6 31 (4.17%) Legal
7 16 (2.15%) Investment Banking
8 12 (1.61%) Financial Institution
9 8 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (1.08%) Military
9 8 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (0.81%) Retail
11 5 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (0.67%) Police
12 4 (0.54%) Local Government
12 4 (0.54%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.40%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.27%) Front Office
14 2 (0.27%) Law
Job Titles
1 221 (29.70%) Architect
2 72 (9.68%) Senior
3 71 (9.54%) Analyst
4 70 (9.41%) Lead
5 63 (8.47%) Solutions Architect
6 51 (6.85%) Security Architect
7 33 (4.44%) Business Analyst
8 30 (4.03%) Developer
9 28 (3.76%) Azure Engineer
9 28 (3.76%) Consultant
10 26 (3.49%) Security Engineer
11 25 (3.36%) Project Manager
12 24 (3.23%) DevOps Engineer
13 22 (2.96%) Cloud Architect
14 21 (2.82%) Lead Architect
15 20 (2.69%) Technical Architect
16 19 (2.55%) Azure Architect
16 19 (2.55%) Cloud Engineer
17 18 (2.42%) Identity Management Architect
17 18 (2.42%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (10.75%) SailPoint
2 74 (9.95%) SAML
3 72 (9.68%) OAuth
4 62 (8.33%) OpenID
5 52 (6.99%) LDAP
6 51 (6.85%) REST
7 31 (4.17%) ARM Templates
8 27 (3.63%) OAuth2
9 24 (3.23%) 802.1X
9 24 (3.23%) Spring Boot
10 23 (3.09%) .NET
10 23 (3.09%) Kafka
11 19 (2.55%) Middleware
12 17 (2.28%) Spring
13 15 (2.02%) Node.js
14 14 (1.88%) RESTful
15 11 (1.48%) Playwright
15 11 (1.48%) XMPP
16 10 (1.34%) HTML
17 9 (1.21%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 66 (8.87%) Onboarding
2 57 (7.66%) PKI
3 45 (6.05%) Cloud Native
4 32 (4.30%) Enterprise Software
5 31 (4.17%) Data Centre
6 29 (3.90%) Management Information System
7 27 (3.63%) Security Posture
8 22 (2.96%) Clustering
8 22 (2.96%) Hybrid Cloud
9 21 (2.82%) Product Ownership
10 20 (2.69%) Public Cloud
11 15 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
11 15 (2.02%) Replication
12 12 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
13 8 (1.08%) Operational Technology
14 6 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
14 6 (0.81%) Enterprise Cloud
15 5 (0.67%) Fat Client
15 5 (0.67%) Thin Client
15 5 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 112 (15.05%) Windows
2 46 (6.18%) Windows Server
3 39 (5.24%) Linux
4 10 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (1.21%) Mac OS
6 7 (0.94%) Unix
6 7 (0.94%) VMS
6 7 (0.94%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.67%) Android
7 5 (0.67%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.27%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.13%) CentOS
9 1 (0.13%) Debian
9 1 (0.13%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.13%) Rocky
9 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (20.70%) Cybersecurity
2 153 (20.56%) DevOps
3 151 (20.30%) RBAC
4 142 (19.09%) CI/CD
5 114 (15.32%) Agile
6 113 (15.19%) Cloud Security
7 109 (14.65%) Problem-Solving
8 103 (13.84%) Stakeholder Management
9 101 (13.58%) Infrastructure as Code
10 91 (12.23%) Zero Trust
11 89 (11.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 83 (11.16%) Identity Management
13 81 (10.89%) Privileged Access Management
14 70 (9.41%) Migration
14 70 (9.41%) Observability
15 68 (9.14%) Analytics
16 67 (9.01%) High Availability
17 66 (8.87%) Data Protection
18 60 (8.06%) Test Automation
19 59 (7.93%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 131 (17.61%) PowerShell
2 83 (11.16%) Python
3 69 (9.27%) Java
4 64 (8.60%) SQL
5 40 (5.38%) Bicep
6 31 (4.17%) JavaScript
7 23 (3.09%) Bash
8 13 (1.75%) TypeScript
9 10 (1.34%) C#
9 10 (1.34%) Scala
10 9 (1.21%) Rust
11 8 (1.08%) PHP
12 7 (0.94%) Perl
13 4 (0.54%) Cypher
13 4 (0.54%) Groovy
13 4 (0.54%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.40%) BeanShell
14 3 (0.40%) C++
14 3 (0.40%) Go
14 3 (0.40%) R
Qualifications
1 262 (35.22%) Security Cleared
2 184 (24.73%) SC Cleared
3 72 (9.68%) DV Cleared
4 71 (9.54%) CISSP
5 54 (7.26%) CISM
6 43 (5.78%) Azure Certification
7 42 (5.65%) Degree
8 41 (5.51%) Microsoft Certification
9 38 (5.11%) Cisco Certification
10 15 (2.02%) PMI Certification
11 13 (1.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 13 (1.75%) PMP
12 12 (1.61%) AWS Certification
12 12 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
13 11 (1.48%) CCSP
14 10 (1.34%) TOGAF Certification
15 9 (1.21%) Master's Degree
16 8 (1.08%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 8 (1.08%) JNCIA
17 7 (0.94%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (9.81%) GDPR
2 72 (9.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 72 (9.68%) NIST
3 38 (5.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 22 (2.96%) GRC
5 20 (2.69%) NCSC
6 18 (2.42%) QA
7 17 (2.28%) PCI DSS
8 11 (1.48%) COBIT
9 10 (1.34%) NIST 800
10 9 (1.21%) Accessibility
11 8 (1.08%) Data Quality
11 8 (1.08%) SOC 2
12 6 (0.81%) HIPAA
12 6 (0.81%) ITGC
12 6 (0.81%) PMO
12 6 (0.81%) SOX 404
13 5 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
14 4 (0.54%) SLA
15 3 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 225 (30.24%) Active Directory
2 57 (7.66%) Docker
3 31 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.88%) VMware NSX
5 12 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (1.21%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (1.08%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.94%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 4 (0.54%) vSphere
10 3 (0.40%) IAG
10 3 (0.40%) RACF
11 2 (0.27%) OpenAM
11 2 (0.27%) OpenDJ
11 2 (0.27%) OpenIDM
12 1 (0.13%) GPFS
12 1 (0.13%) Lustre
12 1 (0.13%) Sendmail
12 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 111 (14.92%) Terraform
2 93 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 92 (12.37%) Single Sign-On
4 45 (6.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 30 (4.03%) Ansible
6 22 (2.96%) FortiGate
7 18 (2.42%) Microsoft Intune
8 15 (2.02%) Grafana
9 11 (1.48%) Prometheus
10 10 (1.34%) Forefront Identity Manager
10 10 (1.34%) NetIQ Identity Manager
11 8 (1.08%) Kiali
11 8 (1.08%) SCCM
12 4 (0.54%) Istio
13 3 (0.40%) CA Single Sign-On
13 3 (0.40%) CASB
13 3 (0.40%) Icinga
13 3 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (0.40%) QRadar
14 2 (0.27%) Puppet
Vendors
1 247 (33.20%) Microsoft
2 58 (7.80%) CyberArk
2 58 (7.80%) Okta
3 51 (6.85%) Google
4 46 (6.18%) Splunk
5 43 (5.78%) ServiceNow
6 39 (5.24%) VMware
7 38 (5.11%) Cisco
8 29 (3.90%) Oracle
9 25 (3.36%) SAP
10 24 (3.23%) F5
11 23 (3.09%) Juniper
12 22 (2.96%) SolarWinds
13 20 (2.69%) Extreme Networks
14 19 (2.55%) BeyondTrust
14 19 (2.55%) Citrix
15 18 (2.42%) ForgeRock
16 15 (2.02%) Red Hat
17 12 (1.61%) NetIQ
17 12 (1.61%) Zscaler