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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 178 193
Rank change year-on-year +25 +15 -5
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 918 511 549
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.76% 1.60% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.07% 1.76% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 374 382
10th Percentile £425 £400 £413
25th Percentile £500 £476 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% -0.41%
75th Percentile £650 £679 £700
90th Percentile £750 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £635
% change year-on-year - -13.39% +10.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 3 3
10th Percentile £51.33 £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 £83.02 £86.25 -
90th Percentile £87.72 £94.50 -
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 44,398 28,953 36,844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.10% 90.63% 85.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,615 18,257 23,517
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.28% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £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 2,640 1,439 2,494
10th Percentile £14.80 £14.20 £12.74
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.70 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -6.25%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £24.66 £38.12
% change year-on-year +80.45% -35.31% +1.65%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 +16 775 £575 -0.52% 235
UK excluding London +36 449 £550 - 190
London +2 356 £589 -1.88% 111
Work from Home +31 313 £563 +2.27% 163
North of England +12 147 £550 +16.40% 43
South East -3 119 £581 -10.62% 65
Yorkshire +23 94 £540 +20.00% 18
Midlands -34 69 £550 +10.89% 16
South West -9 57 £600 +9.09% 16
West Midlands -26 55 £538 -8.51% 7
North West -18 52 £575 +16.87% 23
Scotland +14 44 £491 -8.14% 30
East of England -20 18 £558 -14.23% 8
East Midlands -22 12 £638 +54.55% 9
Wales - 8 £471 - 9
North East -38 2 £600 +20.91% 2
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 29 (3.16%) SharePoint
2 25 (2.72%) Confluence
3 24 (2.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.98%) Apache
5 7 (0.76%) Apache Superset
6 4 (0.44%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.44%) IIS
7 3 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2010
7 3 (0.33%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.33%) 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 (0.87%) MS Visio
2 7 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.22%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.11%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 11 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.54%) SAP GRC
3 2 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 430 (46.84%) Azure
2 280 (30.50%) Entra ID
3 207 (22.55%) AWS
4 127 (13.83%) GCP
5 75 (8.17%) Microsoft 365
6 58 (6.32%) GitHub
7 49 (5.34%) Power Platform
8 46 (5.01%) Azure DevOps
9 45 (4.90%) Azure AKS
10 41 (4.47%) GitHub Actions
11 39 (4.25%) SaaS
12 36 (3.92%) Azure Sentinel
13 29 (3.16%) Azure Monitor
13 29 (3.16%) Serverless
14 28 (3.05%) OCI
15 27 (2.94%) PaaS
16 26 (2.83%) IaaS
17 20 (2.18%) Microsoft Copilot
17 20 (2.18%) Power Automate
17 20 (2.18%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 88 (9.59%) Network Security
2 87 (9.48%) DNS
3 77 (8.39%) Firewall
4 49 (5.34%) DHCP
5 46 (5.01%) WAN
6 32 (3.49%) VPN
7 27 (2.94%) BGP
7 27 (2.94%) LAN
8 26 (2.83%) OSPF
9 24 (2.61%) BIG-IP
9 24 (2.61%) Ethernet VPN
9 24 (2.61%) Junos
9 24 (2.61%) VXLAN
10 23 (2.51%) Kerberos
11 19 (2.07%) Cisco ISE
12 18 (1.96%) SD-WAN
13 13 (1.42%) SSL
14 9 (0.98%) Internet
15 6 (0.65%) Intrusion Detection
15 6 (0.65%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (2.51%) SQL Server
2 20 (2.18%) Power BI
3 11 (1.20%) Neo4j
3 11 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (0.87%) Tableau
6 6 (0.65%) MongoDB
6 6 (0.65%) Relational Database
7 5 (0.54%) Big Data
7 5 (0.54%) NoSQL
7 5 (0.54%) Oracle Exadata
8 4 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (0.44%) Metadata
9 3 (0.33%) BigQuery
9 3 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.33%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.22%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.22%) MySQL
10 2 (0.22%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.22%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 60 (6.54%) JIRA
2 51 (5.56%) Jenkins
3 34 (3.70%) Git
4 24 (2.61%) GitLab
5 12 (1.31%) Postman
6 11 (1.20%) Gatling
7 6 (0.65%) JMeter
7 6 (0.65%) NeoLoad
8 5 (0.54%) Selenium
9 4 (0.44%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.44%) LoadRunner
9 4 (0.44%) REST Assured
9 4 (0.44%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.33%) Jaeger
10 3 (0.33%) MSBuild
10 3 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.33%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.33%) Zephyr
11 2 (0.22%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.22%) Maven
General
1 233 (25.38%) Social Skills
2 178 (19.39%) Finance
3 125 (13.62%) Public Sector
4 80 (8.71%) Analytical Skills
5 60 (6.54%) Banking
6 42 (4.58%) Documentation Skills
7 36 (3.92%) Retail
8 25 (2.72%) Legal
9 14 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
10 13 (1.42%) Manufacturing
11 9 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (0.87%) Investment Banking
13 7 (0.76%) Aerospace
13 7 (0.76%) Financial Institution
13 7 (0.76%) Police
14 6 (0.65%) Military
15 5 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 5 (0.54%) Local Government
16 4 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
17 3 (0.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 250 (27.23%) Architect
2 80 (8.71%) Analyst
3 78 (8.50%) Lead
4 77 (8.39%) Senior
5 69 (7.52%) Developer
5 69 (7.52%) Security Architect
6 44 (4.79%) Solutions Architect
7 43 (4.68%) Java Developer
8 39 (4.25%) Consultant
9 35 (3.81%) Technical Architect
10 34 (3.70%) Project Manager
11 30 (3.27%) Business Analyst
12 29 (3.16%) DevOps Engineer
13 27 (2.94%) Security Engineer
14 26 (2.83%) Cloud Engineer
14 26 (2.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 25 (2.72%) Support Engineer
16 24 (2.61%) Cloud Architect
16 24 (2.61%) IAM Developer
17 22 (2.40%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (11.33%) SailPoint
2 89 (9.69%) OAuth
3 82 (8.93%) SAML
4 76 (8.28%) OpenID
5 62 (6.75%) LDAP
6 48 (5.23%) REST
7 28 (3.05%) OAuth2
8 26 (2.83%) 802.1X
9 20 (2.18%) ARM Templates
9 20 (2.18%) Middleware
10 18 (1.96%) .NET
11 16 (1.74%) Kafka
11 16 (1.74%) Node.js
11 16 (1.74%) Playwright
12 15 (1.63%) Spring Boot
13 13 (1.42%) JSON
13 13 (1.42%) Web Services
14 12 (1.31%) Spring
15 11 (1.20%) React
15 11 (1.20%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 96 (10.46%) Onboarding
2 84 (9.15%) PKI
3 74 (8.06%) Cloud Native
4 43 (4.68%) Data Centre
5 35 (3.81%) Security Posture
6 29 (3.16%) Management Information System
6 29 (3.16%) Public Cloud
7 26 (2.83%) Product Ownership
8 25 (2.72%) Operational Technology
9 24 (2.61%) Clustering
10 22 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
11 18 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
11 18 (1.96%) Replication
11 18 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
12 17 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
12 17 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
13 14 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
14 13 (1.42%) Enterprise Cloud
15 10 (1.09%) Virtual Team
16 9 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 119 (12.96%) Windows
2 63 (6.86%) Linux
3 40 (4.36%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (0.98%) Unix
5 7 (0.76%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.65%) Debian
6 6 (0.65%) VMS
7 5 (0.54%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.54%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.44%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.44%) Android
8 4 (0.44%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.22%) CentOS
9 2 (0.22%) 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
1 199 (21.68%) DevOps
2 190 (20.70%) Cybersecurity
3 167 (18.19%) CI/CD
4 162 (17.65%) Agile
5 146 (15.90%) RBAC
6 136 (14.81%) Zero Trust
7 134 (14.60%) Stakeholder Management
8 130 (14.16%) Infrastructure as Code
9 127 (13.83%) Problem-Solving
10 124 (13.51%) Cloud Security
11 112 (12.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 97 (10.57%) Identity Management
12 97 (10.57%) Security Architecture
13 96 (10.46%) Continuous Improvement
14 89 (9.69%) AI
15 86 (9.37%) Migration
16 85 (9.26%) Privileged Access Management
16 85 (9.26%) Roadmaps
17 83 (9.04%) Technical Leadership
18 77 (8.39%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 144 (15.69%) PowerShell
2 125 (13.62%) Python
3 88 (9.59%) Java
4 68 (7.41%) SQL
5 43 (4.68%) Bicep
6 30 (3.27%) Bash
7 15 (1.63%) Rust
8 13 (1.42%) Go
8 13 (1.42%) Scala
9 11 (1.20%) TypeScript
10 10 (1.09%) C#
11 6 (0.65%) Cypher
12 5 (0.54%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.44%) Groovy
13 4 (0.44%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.33%) C++
14 3 (0.33%) JavaScript
14 3 (0.33%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.33%) R
15 2 (0.22%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 290 (31.59%) Security Cleared
2 211 (22.98%) SC Cleared
3 73 (7.95%) CISSP
4 65 (7.08%) DV Cleared
5 50 (5.45%) Cisco Certification
6 46 (5.01%) Degree
7 39 (4.25%) Azure Certification
7 39 (4.25%) CISM
8 29 (3.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 28 (3.05%) BPSS Clearance
9 28 (3.05%) Microsoft Certification
10 25 (2.72%) CCSP
11 16 (1.74%) AWS Certification
12 13 (1.42%) PMP
13 12 (1.31%) PMI Certification
14 11 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
15 7 (0.76%) CISA
15 7 (0.76%) JNCIA
15 7 (0.76%) JNCIP
15 7 (0.76%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (9.59%) NIST
2 85 (9.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 69 (7.52%) GDPR
4 35 (3.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 34 (3.70%) NCSC
6 28 (3.05%) GRC
7 19 (2.07%) QA
8 15 (1.63%) PCI DSS
9 13 (1.42%) SLA
10 11 (1.20%) Accessibility
10 11 (1.20%) SOC 2
11 9 (0.98%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.87%) PMO
13 6 (0.65%) COBIT
14 5 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.54%) Disclosure Scotland
14 5 (0.54%) NIST 800
15 4 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 4 (0.44%) Data Quality
16 3 (0.33%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 248 (27.02%) Active Directory
2 71 (7.73%) Docker
3 25 (2.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.74%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (1.63%) VMware NSX
6 12 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (1.09%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.44%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 3 (0.33%) IAG
10 2 (0.22%) KVM
10 2 (0.22%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.22%) RACF
10 2 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.22%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.11%) GPFS
11 1 (0.11%) Sendmail
11 1 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.11%) Squid
11 1 (0.11%) vSphere
11 1 (0.11%) zsh
Systems Management
1 135 (14.71%) Terraform
2 113 (12.31%) Single Sign-On
3 102 (11.11%) Kubernetes
4 55 (5.99%) Ansible
5 27 (2.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 24 (2.61%) FortiGate
7 23 (2.51%) Grafana
7 23 (2.51%) Microsoft Intune
8 11 (1.20%) Argo
8 11 (1.20%) Prometheus
9 9 (0.98%) Jamf Pro
10 8 (0.87%) Forefront Identity Manager
10 8 (0.87%) Kustomize
11 6 (0.65%) NetIQ Identity Manager
12 5 (0.54%) HAProxy
12 5 (0.54%) Istio
13 4 (0.44%) Podman
13 4 (0.44%) Puppet
13 4 (0.44%) SCCM
14 3 (0.33%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 278 (30.28%) Microsoft
2 106 (11.55%) Okta
3 63 (6.86%) Google
4 53 (5.77%) CyberArk
5 49 (5.34%) ServiceNow
6 43 (4.68%) Splunk
7 37 (4.03%) Oracle
8 34 (3.70%) Cisco
9 33 (3.59%) VMware
10 30 (3.27%) ForgeRock
10 30 (3.27%) SAP
11 26 (2.83%) F5
12 24 (2.61%) BeyondTrust
12 24 (2.61%) Juniper
12 24 (2.61%) SolarWinds
13 22 (2.40%) Extreme Networks
13 22 (2.40%) Zscaler
14 20 (2.18%) Workday
15 14 (1.53%) CrowdStrike
15 14 (1.53%) Ping Identity