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 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 172 192 190
Rank change year-on-year +20 -2 +93
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 609 471 609
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.66% 1.38% 1.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.88% 1.56% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 401 322 395
10th Percentile £364 £425 £425
25th Percentile £450 £475 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.50% - -2.04%
75th Percentile £645 £697 £700
90th Percentile £715 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 7
10th Percentile £63.56 - £66.00
25th Percentile - - £70.50
Median hourly rate £74.26 £75.00 £87.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -14.29% +25.00%
75th Percentile £94.38 - £91.25
90th Percentile £95.00 - £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 32,337 30,122 39,072
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.38% 88.11% 88.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,351 18,405 26,081
10th Percentile £300 £306 £308
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £723 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £477 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,080 985 1,517
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.50 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.33
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -24.99% +23.80%
75th Percentile £49.75 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.50 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.69% -26.97% +39.06%

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 18 December 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 18 December 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 18 December 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 +30 551 £537 -10.50% 414
UK excluding London +17 294 £525 -12.50% 427
London +26 253 £568 -5.42% 64
Work from Home 0 186 £525 -10.64% 136
North of England +27 125 £488 -10.14% 87
Yorkshire +9 80 £492 -8.04% 43
Midlands -8 59 £538 -9.19% 84
South East -27 48 £583 -10.45% 102
West Midlands -15 44 £550 -7.07% 40
South West +5 38 £675 +54.29% 47
North West +3 37 £464 -12.96% 39
East Midlands - 14 £436 - 38
Scotland -14 12 £540 -14.29% 36
East of England -14 12 £575 - 56
North East +2 9 £515 -20.77% 7
Wales +5 1 £700 -6.67% 21
Northern Ireland - 1 £625 - 8

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 42 (6.90%) Confluence
2 33 (5.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 24 (3.94%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.48%) Apache
4 9 (1.48%) WebSphere
4 9 (1.48%) WebSphere Application Server
5 8 (1.31%) IIS
5 8 (1.31%) iPlanet
5 8 (1.31%) JBoss
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.16%) CICS
7 1 (0.16%) CMS
7 1 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (0.16%) nginx
7 1 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.16%) Traefik
Applications
1 14 (2.30%) MS Visio
2 13 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (1.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.49%) Maximo
2 3 (0.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.33%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.33%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 246 (40.39%) Azure
2 177 (29.06%) Entra ID
3 139 (22.82%) AWS
4 81 (13.30%) GCP
5 55 (9.03%) Microsoft 365
6 37 (6.08%) SaaS
7 33 (5.42%) GitHub
8 24 (3.94%) OpenShift
9 22 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (3.61%) Azure Sentinel
10 19 (3.12%) Microsoft Purview
11 17 (2.79%) Amazon EKS
11 17 (2.79%) PaaS
12 16 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
12 16 (2.63%) IaaS
12 16 (2.63%) Serverless
13 13 (2.13%) Azure Monitor
13 13 (2.13%) OneDrive
14 10 (1.64%) Azure AKS
15 8 (1.31%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 59 (9.69%) Firewall
2 54 (8.87%) Network Security
3 36 (5.91%) DNS
4 23 (3.78%) SSL
5 22 (3.61%) VPN
6 20 (3.28%) Kerberos
7 11 (1.81%) DHCP
7 11 (1.81%) TCP/IP
8 8 (1.31%) SSH
8 8 (1.31%) WebEx
9 7 (1.15%) Internet
9 7 (1.15%) Intrusion Detection
10 5 (0.82%) HTTP
10 5 (0.82%) WAN
10 5 (0.82%) Wireshark
11 4 (0.66%) LAN
12 3 (0.49%) BGP
12 3 (0.49%) NAS
12 3 (0.49%) OSPF
12 3 (0.49%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.13%) SQL Server
2 12 (1.97%) Oracle Database
3 11 (1.81%) NoSQL
4 10 (1.64%) MongoDB
5 9 (1.48%) DocumentDB
6 7 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (1.15%) MySQL
7 6 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (0.99%) Power BI
8 4 (0.66%) Tableau
9 3 (0.49%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (0.49%) BigQuery
9 3 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (0.49%) Redis
9 3 (0.49%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.33%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.33%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 67 (11.00%) JIRA
2 31 (5.09%) Jenkins
3 28 (4.60%) Git
4 18 (2.96%) GitLab
5 16 (2.63%) Postman
6 11 (1.81%) SoapUI
7 10 (1.64%) Selenium
8 9 (1.48%) Sonatype Nexus
9 8 (1.31%) Bitbucket Server
9 8 (1.31%) CA Release Automation
10 6 (0.99%) Cucumber
10 6 (0.99%) REST Assured
10 6 (0.99%) TestRail
11 4 (0.66%) WebDriver
12 3 (0.49%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.49%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.49%) JUnit
12 3 (0.49%) Maven
12 3 (0.49%) MSI
13 2 (0.33%) Oracle Forms
General
1 198 (32.51%) Social Skills
2 132 (21.67%) Finance
3 82 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (9.20%) Public Sector
5 49 (8.05%) Banking
6 22 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (2.96%) Legal
8 14 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
9 13 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
10 12 (1.97%) Investment Banking
11 11 (1.81%) Financial Institution
12 8 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (1.31%) Manufacturing
12 8 (1.31%) Telecoms
13 6 (0.99%) Aerospace
13 6 (0.99%) Electronics
13 6 (0.99%) Marketing
14 5 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.66%) Retail
16 2 (0.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 161 (26.44%) Architect
2 79 (12.97%) Analyst
3 69 (11.33%) Solutions Architect
4 49 (8.05%) Security Architect
5 47 (7.72%) Consultant
6 42 (6.90%) Lead
7 40 (6.57%) Business Analyst
7 40 (6.57%) Senior
8 26 (4.27%) Security Engineer
9 21 (3.45%) Developer
10 19 (3.12%) DevOps Engineer
11 18 (2.96%) Platform Engineer
12 14 (2.30%) Azure Architect
12 14 (2.30%) Azure Engineer
12 14 (2.30%) Project Manager
12 14 (2.30%) Security Consultant
12 14 (2.30%) Security Solutions Architect
13 13 (2.13%) Identity and Access Management Analyst
13 13 (2.13%) Identity Management Analyst
13 13 (2.13%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (13.30%) SailPoint
2 71 (11.66%) SAML
3 70 (11.49%) OAuth
4 55 (9.03%) OpenID
5 40 (6.57%) LDAP
6 29 (4.76%) REST
7 22 (3.61%) OAuth2
8 17 (2.79%) .NET
9 16 (2.63%) ARM Templates
9 16 (2.63%) Node.js
10 15 (2.46%) Kafka
11 14 (2.30%) Spring
12 12 (1.97%) Spring Boot
13 11 (1.81%) RESTful
14 10 (1.64%) Microsoft Graph
15 9 (1.48%) ADO
15 9 (1.48%) HTML
16 8 (1.31%) Oracle Fusion
16 8 (1.31%) React
16 8 (1.31%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 43 (7.06%) Onboarding
2 38 (6.24%) Management Information System
3 32 (5.25%) Enterprise Software
4 30 (4.93%) Security Posture
5 29 (4.76%) Cloud Native
6 23 (3.78%) PKI
7 17 (2.79%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (2.79%) Product Ownership
8 11 (1.81%) Cloud Security Posture
9 10 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
9 10 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (1.64%) Public Cloud
10 9 (1.48%) Data Centre
11 6 (0.99%) Cyber Threat
11 6 (0.99%) Replication
11 6 (0.99%) Security Operations Centre
12 5 (0.82%) Cyber Defence
12 5 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (0.66%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 91 (14.94%) Windows
2 54 (8.87%) Linux
3 37 (6.08%) Windows Server
4 19 (3.12%) Unix
5 13 (2.13%) Mac OS
6 12 (1.97%) Windows 10
7 10 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (1.48%) VMS
9 3 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.33%) Android
10 2 (0.33%) CentOS
10 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.16%) MVS
11 1 (0.16%) Solaris
11 1 (0.16%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (24.47%) Cybersecurity
2 117 (19.21%) CI/CD
3 114 (18.72%) Cloud Security
3 114 (18.72%) RBAC
4 113 (18.56%) Privileged Access Management
5 102 (16.75%) Problem-Solving
6 99 (16.26%) Agile
7 97 (15.93%) Stakeholder Management
8 90 (14.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 88 (14.45%) DevOps
10 81 (13.30%) Identity Management
10 81 (13.30%) Infrastructure as Code
11 72 (11.82%) Roadmaps
12 71 (11.66%) Zero Trust
13 61 (10.02%) Data Protection
14 60 (9.85%) Incident Response
14 60 (9.85%) Migration
15 59 (9.69%) SIEM
16 53 (8.70%) Vulnerability Management
17 52 (8.54%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 122 (20.03%) PowerShell
2 76 (12.48%) Python
3 43 (7.06%) Bash
4 41 (6.73%) Java
5 34 (5.58%) SQL
6 33 (5.42%) JavaScript
7 20 (3.28%) Bicep
8 12 (1.97%) Shell Script
9 11 (1.81%) Groovy
10 8 (1.31%) C#
10 8 (1.31%) PHP
11 7 (1.15%) Perl
11 7 (1.15%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.82%) BeanShell
13 4 (0.66%) Go
14 3 (0.49%) Rust
15 2 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
16 1 (0.16%) Apex Code
16 1 (0.16%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.16%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 180 (29.56%) Security Cleared
2 148 (24.30%) SC Cleared
3 97 (15.93%) CISSP
4 80 (13.14%) CISM
5 52 (8.54%) Degree
6 44 (7.22%) Microsoft Certification
7 38 (6.24%) Azure Certification
8 31 (5.09%) DV Cleared
9 25 (4.11%) AWS Certification
10 19 (3.12%) Cisco Certification
11 17 (2.79%) TOGAF Certification
12 16 (2.63%) Master's Degree
13 10 (1.64%) PhD
14 9 (1.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 9 (1.48%) CCSP
14 9 (1.48%) ISTQB
14 9 (1.48%) PMI Certification
15 8 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 8 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
15 8 (1.31%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (16.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 82 (13.46%) NIST
3 79 (12.97%) GDPR
4 27 (4.43%) PCI DSS
5 23 (3.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 19 (3.12%) QA
7 17 (2.79%) HIPAA
8 14 (2.30%) GRC
9 12 (1.97%) Accessibility
10 10 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (1.64%) NCSC
11 8 (1.31%) ITGC
12 7 (1.15%) COBIT
12 7 (1.15%) Data Quality
12 7 (1.15%) SOC 2
13 6 (0.99%) SOX 404
14 5 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 5 (0.82%) PSD2
15 4 (0.66%) NIST 800
System Software
1 173 (28.41%) Active Directory
2 51 (8.37%) Docker
3 26 (4.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.31%) Tivoli Directory Server
5 6 (0.99%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.82%) vSphere
7 4 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.49%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 2 (0.33%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.33%) NFS
9 2 (0.33%) OpenAM
9 2 (0.33%) OpenDJ
9 2 (0.33%) OpenIDM
9 2 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.16%) NDS
10 1 (0.16%) NetIQ eDirectory
10 1 (0.16%) RACF
10 1 (0.16%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.16%) Xen
Systems Management
1 80 (13.14%) Terraform
2 77 (12.64%) Single Sign-On
3 61 (10.02%) Kubernetes
4 30 (4.93%) Microsoft Intune
5 29 (4.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 27 (4.43%) Ansible
7 15 (2.46%) SCCM
8 11 (1.81%) Grafana
9 10 (1.64%) CA Single Sign-On
10 8 (1.31%) CA Wily
10 8 (1.31%) Progress Chef
10 8 (1.31%) Prometheus
10 8 (1.31%) Tivoli
11 4 (0.66%) Istio
11 4 (0.66%) Puppet
11 4 (0.66%) QRadar
12 3 (0.49%) Forefront Identity Manager
12 3 (0.49%) Icinga
12 3 (0.49%) NetIQ Identity Manager
12 3 (0.49%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 204 (33.50%) Microsoft
2 89 (14.61%) CyberArk
3 41 (6.73%) Google
4 39 (6.40%) Oracle
5 36 (5.91%) Okta
5 36 (5.91%) VMware
6 28 (4.60%) Splunk
7 26 (4.27%) SAP
8 24 (3.94%) ServiceNow
9 23 (3.78%) BeyondTrust
10 21 (3.45%) Citrix
11 20 (3.28%) Cisco
12 19 (3.12%) BiZZdesign
13 16 (2.63%) IBM
14 15 (2.46%) Centrify
14 15 (2.46%) Thycotic
15 14 (2.30%) Red Hat
16 13 (2.13%) Workday
17 12 (1.97%) Zscaler
18 10 (1.64%) ForgeRock