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 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 167 187 190
Rank change year-on-year +20 +3 +97
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 589 494 621
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.68% 1.36% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.87% 1.58% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 387 333 395
10th Percentile £368 £425 £425
25th Percentile £434 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £600 £595
Median % change year-on-year -10.50% +0.84% -0.83%
75th Percentile £641 £700 £688
90th Percentile £714 £780 £760
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -16.80% +8.70% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 7
10th Percentile £55.50 £34.04 £66.00
25th Percentile - £49.40 £70.50
Median hourly rate £74.26 £75.00 £87.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -14.29% +25.00%
75th Percentile £95.00 - £91.25
90th Percentile £96.00 - £93.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.26 - £87.50
% change year-on-year - - +25.00%

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 31,532 31,312 41,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.80% 86.28% 88.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,731 18,831 28,017
10th Percentile £299 £310 £308
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,089 1,101 1,605
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.10 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.12 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -20.16% +25.24%
75th Percentile £44.77 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.05 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £33.93 £43.95
% change year-on-year -33.30% -22.80% +48.98%

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 17 November 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 17 November 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 17 November 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 +9 533 £534 -11.08% 227
UK excluding London +18 287 £520 -16.80% 129
London +15 245 £575 -4.17% 120
Work from Home +5 175 £520 -13.33% 102
North of England +27 113 £508 -7.73% 22
Yorkshire +2 64 £518 -3.27% 8
Midlands -4 63 £523 -12.92% 17
South East -21 44 £508 -24.81% 53
North West +1 41 £496 -9.82% 13
West Midlands -23 40 £550 -9.41% 16
South West +6 32 £600 +37.14% 22
East Midlands - 22 £406 - 1
East of England -2 18 £600 -7.69% 5
Scotland -7 16 £540 -15.63% 9
North East +1 9 £533 -18.08% 1
Wales +1 1 £700 -6.67%
Northern Ireland - 1 £625 - 1

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 (6.28%) Confluence
2 36 (6.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 27 (4.58%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.53%) Apache
4 9 (1.53%) WebSphere
4 9 (1.53%) WebSphere Application Server
5 8 (1.36%) IIS
5 8 (1.36%) iPlanet
5 8 (1.36%) JBoss
6 6 (1.02%) CMS
7 5 (0.85%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.34%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.17%) CICS
9 1 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.17%) Traefik
Applications
1 13 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.87%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (1.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.51%) Maximo
3 2 (0.34%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.34%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 238 (40.41%) Azure
2 155 (26.32%) Entra ID
3 136 (23.09%) AWS
4 76 (12.90%) GCP
5 59 (10.02%) Microsoft 365
6 30 (5.09%) SaaS
7 25 (4.24%) Microsoft Purview
8 24 (4.07%) Azure Sentinel
9 21 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
9 21 (3.57%) GitHub
9 21 (3.57%) OpenShift
10 17 (2.89%) Azure Monitor
10 17 (2.89%) OneDrive
11 16 (2.72%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (2.55%) Serverless
13 14 (2.38%) PaaS
14 13 (2.21%) IaaS
15 10 (1.70%) Amazon EKS
15 10 (1.70%) Amazon S3
15 10 (1.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 59 (10.02%) Network Security
2 57 (9.68%) Firewall
3 32 (5.43%) DNS
4 19 (3.23%) Kerberos
5 16 (2.72%) VPN
6 12 (2.04%) TCP/IP
7 10 (1.70%) DHCP
8 9 (1.53%) SSL
9 8 (1.36%) SSH
9 8 (1.36%) WebEx
10 7 (1.19%) Internet
11 6 (1.02%) Intrusion Detection
11 6 (1.02%) Wireshark
12 5 (0.85%) HTTP
12 5 (0.85%) NAS
12 5 (0.85%) SAN
13 4 (0.68%) WAN
14 3 (0.51%) BGP
14 3 (0.51%) LAN
14 3 (0.51%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (1.53%) Oracle Database
1 9 (1.53%) Power BI
1 9 (1.53%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (0.85%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (0.85%) DynamoDB
3 5 (0.85%) Tableau
4 4 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (0.68%) BigQuery
4 4 (0.68%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (0.51%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.34%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (0.34%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.34%) Big Data
6 2 (0.34%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.34%) MySQL
7 1 (0.17%) Hasura
7 1 (0.17%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 58 (9.85%) JIRA
2 22 (3.74%) Git
2 22 (3.74%) Jenkins
3 10 (1.70%) GitLab
3 10 (1.70%) Postman
3 10 (1.70%) SoapUI
4 9 (1.53%) Sonatype Nexus
5 8 (1.36%) Bitbucket Server
5 8 (1.36%) CA Release Automation
6 3 (0.51%) Artifactory
6 3 (0.51%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.51%) Fiddler
6 3 (0.51%) MSI
7 2 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.34%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.17%) Gatling
8 1 (0.17%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.17%) Metasploit
8 1 (0.17%) ScriptRunner
8 1 (0.17%) TestRail
General
1 211 (35.82%) Social Skills
2 147 (24.96%) Finance
3 89 (15.11%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (9.51%) Public Sector
5 53 (9.00%) Banking
6 21 (3.57%) Legal
7 19 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (1.70%) Financial Institution
10 10 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (1.36%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.36%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.19%) Aerospace
12 7 (1.19%) Investment Banking
12 7 (1.19%) Law
13 6 (1.02%) Electronics
13 6 (1.02%) Marketing
13 6 (1.02%) Retail
14 5 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 160 (27.16%) Architect
2 79 (13.41%) Analyst
3 58 (9.85%) Security Architect
4 56 (9.51%) Solutions Architect
5 49 (8.32%) Consultant
6 41 (6.96%) Senior
7 39 (6.62%) Business Analyst
8 26 (4.41%) Lead
9 23 (3.90%) Security Engineer
10 20 (3.40%) DevOps Engineer
11 19 (3.23%) Project Manager
12 16 (2.72%) Azure Engineer
12 16 (2.72%) Platform Engineer
13 15 (2.55%) Cloud Architect
13 15 (2.55%) Security Consultant
14 14 (2.38%) Azure Architect
15 13 (2.21%) Security Solutions Architect
15 13 (2.21%) Test Analyst
16 12 (2.04%) Developer
16 12 (2.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (13.75%) OAuth
2 76 (12.90%) SAML
3 73 (12.39%) SailPoint
4 62 (10.53%) OpenID
5 45 (7.64%) LDAP
6 33 (5.60%) OAuth2
7 23 (3.90%) REST
8 18 (3.06%) ARM Templates
9 14 (2.38%) ADO
10 10 (1.70%) Oracle Fusion
11 9 (1.53%) Microsoft Graph
12 8 (1.36%) .NET
12 8 (1.36%) XMPP
13 7 (1.19%) React
14 6 (1.02%) Hibernate
14 6 (1.02%) Keycloak
14 6 (1.02%) Spring
14 6 (1.02%) YAML
15 5 (0.85%) .NET Framework
16 4 (0.68%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 37 (6.28%) Onboarding
2 34 (5.77%) Enterprise Software
3 33 (5.60%) Management Information System
4 31 (5.26%) Security Posture
5 30 (5.09%) Cloud Native
6 23 (3.90%) Product Ownership
7 18 (3.06%) PKI
8 14 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
9 13 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
10 11 (1.87%) Cloud Security Posture
10 11 (1.87%) Public Cloud
11 10 (1.70%) Data Centre
12 9 (1.53%) Security Operations Centre
13 8 (1.36%) Enterprise Cloud
14 7 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
15 6 (1.02%) Cyber Threat
16 5 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
16 5 (0.85%) NHS
17 4 (0.68%) Cyber Defence
17 4 (0.68%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 96 (16.30%) Windows
2 57 (9.68%) Linux
3 40 (6.79%) Windows Server
4 18 (3.06%) Unix
5 11 (1.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (1.53%) VMS
7 8 (1.36%) Mac OS
8 6 (1.02%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.51%) Android
9 3 (0.51%) CentOS
9 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.17%) MVS
11 1 (0.17%) Solaris
11 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (26.15%) Cybersecurity
2 119 (20.20%) Problem-Solving
3 107 (18.17%) Privileged Access Management
4 104 (17.66%) Cloud Security
5 99 (16.81%) Agile
6 98 (16.64%) CI/CD
7 91 (15.45%) RBAC
7 91 (15.45%) Stakeholder Management
8 82 (13.92%) Identity Management
9 77 (13.07%) Infrastructure as Code
9 77 (13.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 76 (12.90%) DevOps
11 72 (12.22%) Roadmaps
12 68 (11.54%) Zero Trust
13 60 (10.19%) Incident Response
13 60 (10.19%) SIEM
14 55 (9.34%) DevSecOps
15 54 (9.17%) Data Protection
15 54 (9.17%) Vulnerability Management
16 52 (8.83%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 123 (20.88%) PowerShell
2 75 (12.73%) Python
3 45 (7.64%) Bash
4 35 (5.94%) Java
5 27 (4.58%) SQL
6 22 (3.74%) Bicep
7 16 (2.72%) JavaScript
8 12 (2.04%) Shell Script
9 11 (1.87%) Groovy
10 8 (1.36%) C#
11 7 (1.19%) TypeScript
12 6 (1.02%) Go
12 6 (1.02%) Perl
13 5 (0.85%) BeanShell
14 2 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.34%) PHP
14 2 (0.34%) VBScript
15 1 (0.17%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 144 (24.45%) Security Cleared
2 124 (21.05%) SC Cleared
3 94 (15.96%) CISSP
4 76 (12.90%) CISM
5 50 (8.49%) Degree
6 42 (7.13%) Microsoft Certification
7 34 (5.77%) Azure Certification
8 29 (4.92%) AWS Certification
9 19 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
10 17 (2.89%) DV Cleared
11 16 (2.72%) TOGAF Certification
12 15 (2.55%) Master's Degree
13 9 (1.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 9 (1.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 9 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (1.53%) CCSP
13 9 (1.53%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 9 (1.53%) PhD
14 8 (1.36%) CCNP
14 8 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (17.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 88 (14.94%) GDPR
3 87 (14.77%) NIST
4 28 (4.75%) HIPAA
5 27 (4.58%) PCI DSS
6 24 (4.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 16 (2.72%) QA
8 11 (1.87%) Accessibility
8 11 (1.87%) GRC
8 11 (1.87%) SOC 2
9 9 (1.53%) NCSC
10 8 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (1.36%) ITGC
10 8 (1.36%) NIST 800
11 6 (1.02%) COBIT
11 6 (1.02%) Data Quality
11 6 (1.02%) SOX 404
12 5 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 5 (0.85%) PSD2
System Software
1 172 (29.20%) Active Directory
2 40 (6.79%) Docker
3 23 (3.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.36%) Tivoli Directory Server
5 6 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.02%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.85%) vSphere
7 2 (0.34%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.34%) NFS
7 2 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.17%) KVM
8 1 (0.17%) NDS
8 1 (0.17%) NetIQ eDirectory
8 1 (0.17%) RACF
8 1 (0.17%) SRDF
8 1 (0.17%) UAG
8 1 (0.17%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 85 (14.43%) Single Sign-On
2 74 (12.56%) Terraform
3 52 (8.83%) Kubernetes
4 28 (4.75%) Microsoft Intune
5 25 (4.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 23 (3.90%) Ansible
7 12 (2.04%) SCCM
8 10 (1.70%) CA Single Sign-On
9 8 (1.36%) CA Wily
9 8 (1.36%) Grafana
9 8 (1.36%) Progress Chef
9 8 (1.36%) Tivoli
10 6 (1.02%) Prometheus
10 6 (1.02%) Tivoli Identity Manager
11 4 (0.68%) Istio
11 4 (0.68%) QRadar
12 3 (0.51%) Argo
12 3 (0.51%) PingFederate
13 2 (0.34%) Consul
13 2 (0.34%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 203 (34.47%) Microsoft
2 84 (14.26%) CyberArk
3 40 (6.79%) Okta
4 39 (6.62%) Oracle
5 37 (6.28%) Google
6 33 (5.60%) VMware
7 27 (4.58%) Splunk
8 25 (4.24%) SAP
9 24 (4.07%) BeyondTrust
10 22 (3.74%) Cisco
10 22 (3.74%) ServiceNow
11 20 (3.40%) IBM
12 18 (3.06%) BiZZdesign
12 18 (3.06%) ForgeRock
13 16 (2.72%) Citrix
13 16 (2.72%) Red Hat
14 15 (2.55%) Thycotic
15 14 (2.38%) Centrify
15 14 (2.38%) Workday
16 12 (2.04%) Ping Identity