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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 179 189
Rank change year-on-year +46 +10 -1
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 1,118 532 502
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.05% 1.61% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.42% 1.78% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 814 362 334
10th Percentile £408 £375 £425
25th Percentile £475 £450 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £750 £730 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £500 £625
% change year-on-year +7.50% -20.00% +12.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 4 5
10th Percentile £14.85 £50.50 -
25th Percentile £51.38 £55.00 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £77.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -29.03% +225.63% -63.94%
75th Percentile £83.68 £96.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £87.80 £98.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £79.91 £82.50 -
% change year-on-year -3.14% - -

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 46,202 29,871 32,996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.62% 90.47% 85.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,118 18,549 20,447
10th Percentile £325 £300 £311
25th Percentile £425 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,059 1,786 1,512
10th Percentile £13.85 £14.23 £14.71
25th Percentile £17.36 £17.30 £20.09
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +3.61%
75th Percentile £67.50 £45.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +76.76% -47.37% +8.72%

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 11 September 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 11 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Identity Access Management in the UK

Identity Access Management
Top 18 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 11 September 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 +28 909 £563 +2.27% 490
UK excluding London +53 538 £538 +7.50% 276
London +19 429 £575 -1.71% 268
Work from Home +31 353 £550 +4.76% 418
North of England +15 189 £515 +9.57% 64
South East +20 138 £575 -4.17% 97
Yorkshire +26 116 £538 +16.85% 18
Scotland +40 71 £478 -20.33% 21
North West -12 60 £515 +9.34% 39
South West -23 55 £588 +14.63% 32
Midlands -45 51 £505 +1.00% 28
West Midlands -34 40 £500 -9.09% 16
East of England -10 35 £550 -15.38% 25
North East -38 12 £500 -9.09% 7
Wales -6 9 £475 -32.14% 6
East Midlands -25 9 £600 +49.25% 12
Northern Ireland +2 1 - - 6
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 38 (3.40%) SharePoint
2 34 (3.04%) Confluence
2 34 (3.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (0.72%) Apache
4 5 (0.45%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.45%) Apache Superset
5 3 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2010
5 3 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2013
5 3 (0.27%) IIS
6 2 (0.18%) Ethereum
6 2 (0.18%) Hyperledger
6 2 (0.18%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.089%) Drupal
7 1 (0.089%) nginx
7 1 (0.089%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 9 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (0.45%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.45%) SAP GRC
3 2 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.18%) R3 Corda
3 2 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.18%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.089%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.089%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.089%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.089%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 469 (41.95%) Azure
2 330 (29.52%) Entra ID
3 277 (24.78%) AWS
4 150 (13.42%) GCP
5 88 (7.87%) Microsoft 365
6 68 (6.08%) GitHub
7 55 (4.92%) Azure DevOps
8 52 (4.65%) SaaS
9 50 (4.47%) GitHub Actions
10 49 (4.38%) Power Platform
11 41 (3.67%) Serverless
12 35 (3.13%) Azure AKS
12 35 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
12 35 (3.13%) Azure Sentinel
13 32 (2.86%) OCI
14 28 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
14 28 (2.50%) Microsoft Purview
15 25 (2.24%) IaaS
15 25 (2.24%) PaaS
16 24 (2.15%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 93 (8.32%) Network Security
2 87 (7.78%) Firewall
3 62 (5.55%) DNS
4 35 (3.13%) VPN
5 30 (2.68%) WAN
6 23 (2.06%) DHCP
7 17 (1.52%) SD-WAN
8 12 (1.07%) Kerberos
9 11 (0.98%) SSL
10 10 (0.89%) LAN
11 9 (0.81%) IPsec
11 9 (0.81%) TCP/IP
12 7 (0.63%) BGP
12 7 (0.63%) HTTPS
12 7 (0.63%) Internet
13 6 (0.54%) OSPF
13 6 (0.54%) VLAN
14 5 (0.45%) BIG-IP
14 5 (0.45%) Intrusion Detection
14 5 (0.45%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (4.20%) SQL Server
2 27 (2.42%) Metadata
3 26 (2.33%) Relational Database
4 22 (1.97%) Power BI
5 12 (1.07%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (0.98%) Neo4j
7 10 (0.89%) Data Lake
8 7 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (0.63%) MongoDB
8 7 (0.63%) NoSQL
9 5 (0.45%) Big Data
9 5 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.36%) Metadata Repository
10 4 (0.36%) Oracle Database
10 4 (0.36%) Oracle Exadata
10 4 (0.36%) Spark SQL
11 3 (0.27%) Delta Lake
11 3 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
11 3 (0.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 52 (4.65%) Git
1 52 (4.65%) JIRA
2 39 (3.49%) Jenkins
3 21 (1.88%) GitLab
4 20 (1.79%) Selenium
5 12 (1.07%) Gatling
6 8 (0.72%) JMeter
7 7 (0.63%) NeoLoad
8 5 (0.45%) LoadRunner
8 5 (0.45%) Zephyr
9 4 (0.36%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.27%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.27%) MSBuild
10 3 (0.27%) Postman
10 3 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.27%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.18%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.18%) Claude Code
11 2 (0.18%) Maven
General
1 330 (29.52%) Social Skills
2 235 (21.02%) Finance
3 142 (12.70%) Public Sector
4 121 (10.82%) Analytical Skills
5 78 (6.98%) Banking
6 61 (5.46%) Retail
7 58 (5.19%) Documentation Skills
8 29 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
9 21 (1.88%) Legal
10 19 (1.70%) Manufacturing
11 16 (1.43%) Aerospace
12 14 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 9 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (0.72%) Local Government
15 7 (0.63%) Military
16 6 (0.54%) Law
16 6 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
16 6 (0.54%) Telecoms
17 5 (0.45%) Automotive
18 4 (0.36%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 279 (24.96%) Architect
2 105 (9.39%) Lead
3 96 (8.59%) Security Architect
4 91 (8.14%) Analyst
5 75 (6.71%) Senior
6 70 (6.26%) Developer
7 52 (4.65%) Consultant
8 50 (4.47%) Solutions Architect
9 47 (4.20%) Business Analyst
9 47 (4.20%) Project Manager
9 47 (4.20%) Support Engineer
10 43 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 42 (3.76%) Java Developer
11 42 (3.76%) Security Engineer
12 39 (3.49%) Technical Architect
13 38 (3.40%) Cloud Engineer
14 34 (3.04%) Service Manager
14 34 (3.04%) Service Transition Manager
14 34 (3.04%) Transition Manager
15 33 (2.95%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (15.12%) Terraform
2 106 (9.48%) OAuth
3 95 (8.50%) OpenID
4 90 (8.05%) SailPoint
5 81 (7.25%) SAML
6 62 (5.55%) LDAP
7 61 (5.46%) REST
8 40 (3.58%) OAuth2
9 31 (2.77%) .NET
10 25 (2.24%) ARM Templates
11 20 (1.79%) React
12 19 (1.70%) Kafka
13 17 (1.52%) JSON
14 16 (1.43%) Node.js
15 15 (1.34%) .NET Framework
15 15 (1.34%) Web Services
15 15 (1.34%) XML
16 12 (1.07%) Keycloak
16 12 (1.07%) Middleware
16 12 (1.07%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 126 (11.27%) Onboarding
2 111 (9.93%) Cloud Native
3 94 (8.41%) PKI
4 55 (4.92%) Security Posture
5 45 (4.03%) Enterprise Software
6 43 (3.85%) Management Information System
7 36 (3.22%) Product Ownership
8 33 (2.95%) Distributed Systems
9 31 (2.77%) Operational Technology
10 26 (2.33%) Data Centre
10 26 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
11 22 (1.97%) Public Cloud
12 21 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
12 21 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
12 21 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
13 19 (1.70%) Enterprise Cloud
14 15 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
14 15 (1.34%) CMDB
14 15 (1.34%) IoT
15 12 (1.07%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 121 (10.82%) Windows
2 89 (7.96%) Linux
3 52 (4.65%) Windows Server
4 12 (1.07%) Unix
5 10 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.72%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.63%) VMS
8 6 (0.54%) Debian
8 6 (0.54%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.45%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.45%) Windows 10
9 5 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.36%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.27%) OpenVMS
12 2 (0.18%) Android
12 2 (0.18%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.089%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 275 (24.60%) Cybersecurity
2 240 (21.47%) Stakeholder Management
3 227 (20.30%) CI/CD
4 214 (19.14%) DevOps
5 212 (18.96%) Agile
6 184 (16.46%) Infrastructure as Code
7 176 (15.74%) Continuous Improvement
8 173 (15.47%) RBAC
9 165 (14.76%) Zero Trust
10 164 (14.67%) Cloud Security
11 154 (13.77%) Security Architecture
12 149 (13.33%) Privileged Access Management
13 142 (12.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 139 (12.43%) Problem-Solving
14 139 (12.43%) Roadmaps
15 123 (11.00%) Migration
16 119 (10.64%) Identity Management
17 118 (10.55%) AI
18 115 (10.29%) Technical Leadership
19 110 (9.84%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 182 (16.28%) PowerShell
2 176 (15.74%) Python
3 87 (7.78%) Java
4 83 (7.42%) SQL
5 67 (5.99%) Bash
6 50 (4.47%) Bicep
7 26 (2.33%) C#
8 14 (1.25%) Go
8 14 (1.25%) Rust
9 9 (0.81%) Scala
10 7 (0.63%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.54%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (0.45%) JavaScript
13 4 (0.36%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.27%) Cypher
14 3 (0.27%) Groovy
14 3 (0.27%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.18%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.18%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 328 (29.34%) Security Cleared
2 241 (21.56%) SC Cleared
3 98 (8.77%) CISSP
4 67 (5.99%) DV Cleared
5 60 (5.37%) Azure Certification
6 59 (5.28%) CISM
6 59 (5.28%) Degree
7 45 (4.03%) Microsoft Certification
8 40 (3.58%) Cisco Certification
9 34 (3.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 33 (2.95%) BPSS Clearance
11 29 (2.59%) CCSP
12 28 (2.50%) AWS Certification
13 20 (1.79%) PMP
14 16 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
15 14 (1.25%) PMI Certification
16 13 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
17 11 (0.98%) CISA
18 10 (0.89%) CRISC
18 10 (0.89%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (11.63%) NIST
2 122 (10.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 67 (5.99%) GDPR
4 45 (4.03%) NCSC
5 40 (3.58%) GRC
6 23 (2.06%) Data Quality
7 22 (1.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 19 (1.70%) QA
9 17 (1.52%) SLA
10 16 (1.43%) PCI DSS
11 14 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
12 13 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 9 (0.81%) Accessibility
13 9 (0.81%) COBIT
13 9 (0.81%) ITGC
14 8 (0.72%) HIPAA
14 8 (0.72%) SOC 2
15 7 (0.63%) PMO
16 6 (0.54%) JSP 440
16 6 (0.54%) NIST 800
System Software
1 282 (25.22%) Active Directory
2 92 (8.23%) Docker
3 33 (2.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (1.97%) Virtual Desktop
5 18 (1.61%) Hyper-V
6 12 (1.07%) VMware NSX
7 10 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.36%) vSphere
9 2 (0.18%) KVM
9 2 (0.18%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.18%) VMware Workstation
9 2 (0.18%) zsh
10 1 (0.089%) IAG
10 1 (0.089%) RACF
10 1 (0.089%) Sendmail
10 1 (0.089%) Squid
10 1 (0.089%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 124 (11.09%) Kubernetes
2 116 (10.38%) Single Sign-On
3 62 (5.55%) Ansible
4 37 (3.31%) Microsoft Intune
5 29 (2.59%) Grafana
6 15 (1.34%) Argo
7 14 (1.25%) Prometheus
8 9 (0.81%) Jamf Pro
8 9 (0.81%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.63%) FortiGate
9 7 (0.63%) Istio
9 7 (0.63%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.45%) Forefront Identity Manager
11 5 (0.45%) HAProxy
11 5 (0.45%) Podman
12 4 (0.36%) Puppet
13 3 (0.27%) NetIQ Identity Manager
13 3 (0.27%) Oracle Identity Management
13 3 (0.27%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 377 (33.72%) Microsoft
2 99 (8.86%) Okta
3 88 (7.87%) CyberArk
4 67 (5.99%) Google
5 57 (5.10%) ServiceNow
6 52 (4.65%) VMware
7 50 (4.47%) Oracle
8 49 (4.38%) BeyondTrust
9 32 (2.86%) Zscaler
10 31 (2.77%) SAP
11 22 (1.97%) ForgeRock
11 22 (1.97%) Splunk
12 21 (1.88%) Cisco
12 21 (1.88%) Workday
13 15 (1.34%) CrowdStrike
13 15 (1.34%) Databricks
13 15 (1.34%) Ping Identity
14 12 (1.07%) Red Hat
15 11 (0.98%) Palo Alto
16 9 (0.81%) WALLIX